4K Review: Kenji Mizoguchi’s Masterpiece, UGETSU
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Our friends at the Criterion Collection continue to be champions of world cinema and film preservation. They recently released the new 4K/Blu-ray combo pack for Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 masterpiece, Ugetsu. I reviewed Ugetsu the last time around in 2017, back...
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VULCANIZADORA: Official Trailer And Poster For Joel Potrykus’s
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Two friends trudge through a Michigan forest with the intention of following through on a disturbing pact. Once their plan goes shockingly awry, the haunting consequences of their failure can't stay hidden for long. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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FEAR BELOW Trailer Exclusive: Horror Thriller in Select Theaters, Digital And VOD on May 2nd
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When a gang of ruthless criminals loses their stolen gold in a river, they turn to a team of desperate, down-on-their-luck divers to retrieve it. What begins as a high-stakes recovery mission quickly spirals when the divers soon find themselves...
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THANKS FOR THE ROOM Trailer Exclusive: New Psychological Drama From The Butler Brothers Premieres in May
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We have your first look at the trailer for Jason and Brett Butler's psychological drama, Thanks For The Room. The Canadian film is going to have its world premiere at the Ridgefield Independent Film Festival in Conneticut, USA, next month. ...
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Friday One Sheet: EDDINGTON
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Disturbing imagery is carrying much of the load for Ari Aster's latest film, a neo-western called Eddington. This grey-ish design from LA outfit, grandson, is a festival teaser poster for its upcoming Cannes bow.  The black buffalo charging off a cliff (the odd...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Macbeth, Michael Snow, Female Perversions & More
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMBard-bred films by Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Béla Tarr, and Luchino Visconti screen in Macbeth(s). Anthology Film ArchivesEssential Cinema brings Michael Snow’s Wavelength and Back and Forth screen on 16...
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“I See Palestine as the Wound That the Whole World is Bleeding Out of Right Now”: Director Farah Nabulsi on The Teacher
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“To your people, your son is worth 1,000 of mine.” This striking line from Oscar-nominated director Farah Nabulsi’s feature debut The Teacher draws inspiration from the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange, in which one Israeli soldier was released in exchange...
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One to One: John & Yoko Review: A Riveting, Soul-Rattling Time Capsule
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If there’s one thing you absolutely cannot miss in Kevin Macdonald’s electrifying ’70s-set New York City music documentary One to One: John & Yoko, it is, unsurprisingly, the music. Thanks to son Sean Ono Lennon’s supervision, the remastering of the...
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The B-Side Ep. 160 – The Coen Brothers (with Stephen Sajdak)
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Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we talk about two American icons: Joel and Ethan Coen....
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Screen Scholars Assemble in Chicago Despite Culture Warfighters Defunding Universities
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A report from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies event that took place in the shadow of protests in Chicago last weekend.
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