After British filmmaker Molly Manning Walker last year, Leïla Bekhti will serve as President of the Un Certain Regard Jury at the 79th Festival de Cannes. She and her four jury members, Senegal’s producer Angèle Diabang, Lebanon’s composer Khaled Mouzanar,...
Plus: 'Erupcja,' 'Marama,' 'Mile End Kicks,' 'Amrun,' 'Ballistic,' 'Mother Mary,' 'Mad Bills to Pay,' ''The Whistler,' 'Blue Heron.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Its mix of compassion and clarity allows it to avoid the easy sentimentality of similar tales. The post ‘I Swear’ Review: Kirk Jones’s Compassionate Look at a Man’s Life with Tourette’s appeared first on Slant Magazine.
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Anthology Film ArchivesFilms by Philippe Garrel, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Pierre Clémenti show in a tribute to Tina Aumont. Film ForumA Terry Zwigoff retrospective begins; a 4K restoration of No Picnic...
The poster for this Quebec observational documentary on early childhood, through the titular jardin d'enfants (kindergarden), has at its centre a whimsical, but dense, illustration from France's Jean Millard. His work in watercolor and gouache (a water-based, opaque paint known for its...
We’re thrilled to announce that Stubborn Beast, a new feature directed by film critics and video essayists Scout Tafoya and Tucker Johnson, will begin production this month in Savannah, GA. The film, about a family of step-siblings and divorcees trying to get through a...
About twenty-five years ago, Japan's special kind of horror suddenly spread over the world like a virus. This horror had none of the fun exuberance of slashers, none of the tongue-in-cheek references to popular culture, and none of the gorefests...
Despite a brand-new era for Walt Disney Studios, with newly installed CEO Josh D’Amaro replacing Bob Iger just this past March, little was made of the transition during their CinemaCon 2026 presentation. It makes sense, of course, as a clear...