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Sound And Vision: The Big Joseph Kahn Interview, Part Two
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(Click here for Part One!) In the second part of our two-article interview juggernaut with music video and film director Joseph Kahn we talk post-irony, Spielberg, Scorsese, the philosophy of laughter and how having children changes your vision on life....
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Short Films in Focus: David and Sam Cutler-Kreutz on “A Lien”
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A chat with the filmmakers behind the Oscar-nominated live-action short.
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SXSW 2025 Review: CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD, A Lackluster YA Slasher For Gen Z
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After the death of his wife, doctor Glenn Maybrook (Aaron Abrams) moves out to the rural factory town of Kettle Springs his teenage daughter Quinn (Katie Douglas) in an attempt to give them both a fresh start. However, when an...
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Philippe Lesage on Who by Fire, the Importance of Imperfection, and What TV Can Never Steal From Cinema
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Back at New Directors/New Films in 2019, I was struck by Philippe Lesage’s deeply moving, boldly structured coming-of-age tale Genesis, ultimately naming it one of my top 10 films of its respective year. Half-a-decade later the Quebecois filmmaker has finally...
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SXSW 2025 Review: GOOD BOY, A Furry Ghost Hunter Leads This Haunted House Chiller
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We have this aluminum shed in our backyard. It’s leftover from the previous tenants. It is filled with potting soil, various broken garden tools, and at least a decade’s worth of random detritus that we’ve just been too lazy to...
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SXSW 2025 Review: MY UNCLE JENS, Torn By Tension, Comic and Otherwise
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Brwa Vahabpour's surprising feature debut stars Peiman Azizpour, Hamza Agoshi, and Sarah Francesca Brænne. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Interview: Philippe Lesage on ‘Who By Fire’ and Intergenerational Insecurity
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Lesage discusses the struggles faced by more than just youth across his films. The post Interview: Philippe Lesage on ‘Who By Fire’ and Intergenerational Insecurity appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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‘Drop’ Review: Christopher Landon’s Crafty and White-Knuckle-Tense Tech Thriller
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The film knows that when the stakes are sky high, the emotions need to be firmly grounded. The post ‘Drop’ Review: Christopher Landon’s Crafty and White-Knuckle-Tense Tech Thriller appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Leonardo DiCaprio Will Lead Martin Scorsese’s Home; Apple and Todd Field to Produce
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While it’s been very difficult of late to figure out what Martin Scorsese will follow Killers of the Flower Moon (already a couple years out from its Cannes premiere), today brings some of the closest confirmation of where he’ll head...
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SXSW 2025 Review: DROP, A Terrifically Taut Techno-Thriller From Christopher Landon
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Young widow Violet (Meghann Hahy) is finally ready to get back into the dating game, but while out with hunky photographer Henry (Brandon Sklenar), she is targeted with a series of increasingly frightening anonymous drops to her phone. When the...
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