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SXSW 2025 Review: THE SURRENDER, A Mother Attempts to Save Her Husband From Death Through Black Magic
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Megan returns home after a long time away to support her mother, Barbara, as her father enters his dying days in writer/director Julia Max’s black magic horror film, The Surrender. Barbara’s (Kate Burton) husband has been ill for a very...
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SXSW 2025 Review: FUCKTOYS, A Filth-filled Odyssey Though A Punk Rock Wonderland
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
A sometime sex worker longs for love in director/writer/star Annapurna Sriram’s chaotic debut feature film, Fucktoys. We meet AP (Sriram) mid-tarot reading, sitting in the middle of a swamp, listening to the wisdom of a psychic played by iconic rapper,...
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SXSW Film Festival 2025: Are We Good?, I’m Carl Lewis!, Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
On three profile docs from SXSW on Marc Maron, Carl Lewis, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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SXSW Film Festival 2025: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Fantasy Life, Brother Verses Brother
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Three of the more purely enjoyable films of this year's SXSW are highlighted.
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THE FIFTH SHOT OF LA JETÉE
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
(The Museum of Moving Image’s First Look Festival runs March 12-16. Chrck out Jonathan Marlow’s movie review of The Fifth Shot of La Jetée. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “We’re entertaining ghosts now.” One year to...
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I’M CARL LEWIS!
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
(The 2025 SXSW Film & TV conference, runs March 7-15, and HtN has you covered with great movie reviews like Chris Reed’s look at the doc I’m Carl Lewis. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The...
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7 Films To Watch at MoMI’s First Look ’25
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
The Museum of Moving Image’s First Look Festival returns for its 12th edition. Showcasing some of this year’s exciting new voices in American and international cinema, this year’s edition will introduce New York audiences to eclectic, innovative works from around...
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MISERICORDIA New Teaser: Ari Aster, Claire Denis, Payal Kapadia, and More Praise Alain Guiraudie’s Queer Noir
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
Writer-director Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake) explores desire and mercy in his newest queer noir, Misericordia. Translating to Mercy, the film follows Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) who returns to his Saint-Martial home for his late boss’s funeral. He soon becomes...
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A Conversation with Catherine Gund (MEANWHILE)
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
Films can often be described as “poetic.” Dialogue can be prose-like, editing can be lyrical, but very few films are narrated as an actual original poem, or organized in stanzas like Emmy-nominated documentarian Catherine Gund’s latest “docu-poem,” Meanwhile. Gund catches...
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Duke Johnson on Charlie Kaufman’s Advice and the Philosophies of Identity That Guide The Actor
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
After co-directing 2015’s Anomalisa with Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson’s solo follow-up is an adaptation of the Donald E. Westlake’s novel Memory. Paul Cole (André Holland) is the eponymous actor––or so people tell him is his occupation after he wakes up...
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