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Oscar 2025 Winner Predictions: Short (Animated)
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Almost by default, this feels down to the most esoteric nominee of the bunch and the simplest. The post Oscar 2025 Winner Predictions: Short (Animated) appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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A Conversation with Flora Lau (LUZ)
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Premiering in the World Dramatic Competition at Sundance 2025, Luz is an ambitious exploration of reality, connection and redemption from director Flora Lau (Bends). Set across Chongqing, Hong Kong and Paris, the film follows Wei (Xiao Dong Guo), a reformed...
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Rotterdam 2025 Interview: YASUKO, SONGS OF DAY PAST Director Negishi Kichitaro Talks Taisho Entanglements, Roman Porno, Creating Chemistry
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A legendary director of Roman Porno and period dramas discusses his IFFR-premiering return to the director's chair. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Exclusive Clip: How We Create Images Questioned in Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay’s “Hysteria”
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After premiering his debut feature Oray at the Berlinale in 2019 with Oray (winner of the best first feature award), German-based filmmaker Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay returns with his sophomore feature titled Hysteria. A suspense conspiracy thriller using the meta world...
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“Anora,” “Shōgun” Win Big with Critics Choice Awards
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A report from this year's CCA and a list of winners.
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Museum of the Moving Image’s 2025 First Look Lineup Features Bonjour Tristesse, Zodiac Killer Project & More
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A yearly highlight of New York programming (and North American options at large), the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look returns on March 12 with an opening-night, US-premiere screening of Durga Chew Bose’s Bonjour Tristesse, closes March 16 with...
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Sundance 2025 Review: REBUILDING, Loss, Grief, and Rediscovering Family
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Despite the contrarian, anti-science protestations of some on the right, climate change is real. The effects thereof have been and will be felt in the years to come, including extreme weather events, such as the recent devastating wildfires that tore...
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Sundance 2025 Review: LOVE, BROOKLYN, Performance-Led Romantic Triangle Engages, Enthralls, Entertains
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A catch-all phrase popularized over a decade ago by Meta (formerly Facebook), “It’s complicated,” meant to describe romantic relationships that didn’t fall into one particular category or another, finds its clearest, nearest, and obviously it’s most recent application in director...
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In Praise of Excess: Queer Maximalism in the Films of Joel Schumacher
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Making a case for the need for Joel Schumacher's particular brand of stylistic indulgence in an increasingly sterile film world.
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‘Rounding’ Review: The Horror Doesn’t Stick in Alex Thompson’s Hospital-Set Drama
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Would that Rounding’s story were as memorable as its sense of detail. The post ‘Rounding’ Review: The Horror Doesn’t Stick in Alex Thompson’s Hospital-Set Drama appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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