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The B-Side – Martin Scorsese (with Jake Kring-Schreifels)
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Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. 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 one of the...
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The Film Stage Show Ep. 539 – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (with Sam Cohen)
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Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Sam Cohen to discuss George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and...
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2024 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Competition [Video]
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The jury of Greta Gerwig, filmmakers J. A. Bayona, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nadine Labaki, acting folks Eva Green, Omar Sy, Lily Gladstone and Pierfrancesco Favino with the all-in-one Ebru Ceylan chose Sean Baker’s Anora as the film worthy of the Palme...
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ALL THAT BREATHES Blu-ray Review: Sitting Gently With the End of the World
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One of the great, tragic flaws of the human race is locked up in our inability to think beyond our familiar scale of time; like the slow blades that slip the shields in Dune, gradual problems -- even if ultimately...
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Cannes 2024 Review: BLOCK PASS Sees Friendship and Masculinity Under the Microscope
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Antoine Chevrollier's debut feature film navigates the emotional landscape of teenage life, exploring themes of masculinity, parenthood, identity, and the societal pressures of a small-town upbringing. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Cannes 2024: Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, Eephus, To A Land Unknown
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One of the major stories out of Cannes this year is the world premiere of two new films by Omnes Films, an experimental LA-based collective whose micro-budget features, including Tyler Taormina’s “Ham on Rye” and Jonathan Davies’ “Topology of Sirens,''...
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Cannes 2024 Review: THE SUBSTANCE, One of the Year’s Best Genre Movies
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Without much expectation – because Revenge, director Coralie Fargeat's debut film, wasn’t as thrilling to me as to most genre cinema specialists – I went to a night screening of The Substance at the Cannes International Film Festival. The decision...
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It’s Time for SF DocFest, 2024 Edition
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Can one lone entry stand-in for all others in a festival faux-preview (aka “curtain-raiser”)? If the documentary-in-question is Film is Dead. Long Live Film!—tracing the pathway of otherwise-lost or forgotten works saved from obscurity or obsolescence thanks to the dedication...
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Cannes 2024 Review: THE STORY OF SOULEMYANE Depicts Immigrant Experience as Intense Social Thriller
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French director Boris Lojkine navigates the harsh realities of undocumented life in Paris, blending social realism with the tension of a high-stakes thriller. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Cannes Review: Black Dog is a Supremely Intelligent and Heartfelt Story of Human-Animal Friendship
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In the derelict, scraggly city in northwest China where Guan Hu’s Black Dog is set, human life has all but disappeared and canines have replaced their masters. The year is 2008, a few weeks before the kick-off to the Beijing...
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