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Interview: Sarah Friedland – Familiar Touch (Work in Progress)
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The folks at Music Box Films are releasing Sarah Friedland‘s award-winning Familiar Touch this Friday at the Film Forum in New York and then expand the following week. We had the chance to speak to the filmmaker while the film...
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Arthur Harari’s ‘L’inconnue’ – Everything We Know So Far…
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For Arthur Harari, cinema is a family affair. His grandfather was an actor in French films, and his partner? She’s a Palme d’Or winner. Though he occasionally steps in front of the camera, Harari is first and foremost a filmmaker—a...
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Early Sainthood: Bertrand Bonello’s Next Might be “Santo Subito”
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Coming off what many consider his career best to date in The Beast (read our rare perfect ★★★★★ review), Bertrand Bonello recently spoke to Variety and mentioned that he has three scripts in the works but failed to mention that...
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Drive This Car: Dougray Scott, Diego Calva, Aoi Yamada, Shioli Kutsuna & Hidetoshi Nishijima Added to ‘Her Private Hell’
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Nicolas Winding Refn is going for a film that’ll have a truly international identity — Deadline reports that Sophie Thatcher, Charles Melton, Kristine Froseth, and Havana Rose Liu will cross paths with Dougray Scott, Diego Calva, Aoi Yamada, Shioli Kutsuna...
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A Ring to Herself: Lila Pinell Begins Filming on ‘Shana’ with Eva Huault and Noémie Lvovsky
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It’s a debut solo feature debut film we’ve been tracking after French filmmaker Lila Pinell claimed the Grand Prix prize at the Prix du Scénario 2025 back in February, and managed to snag producers in Ecce Films’ Emmanuel Chaumet and...
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Moscow Drool: Alison Oliver & Yura Borisov Top Emily Mortimer’s Directing Debut ‘Dennis’
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After three decades of performing for the camera, actress Emily Mortimer is getting into the director’s chair for a project mounted with the cool kids at A24 and Fruit Tree prod. company. Alison Oliver and Yura Borisov (clearly Anora helped...
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Giacomo Abbruzzese’s ‘Disorder’ – Everything We Know So Far…
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After cutting his teeth on the short form for the decade prior it was a long process for Giacomo Abbruzzese to push out his feature debut. Among the standout Golden Bear competition films at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival (it...
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Pillion | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
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Sit & Deliver: Lighton Assumes Positions in Titillating Debut There’s a melancholic seductiveness to Pillion, the directorial debut of Harry Lighton, based on the 2020 novella Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones. Contemporizing the 1970s set bildungsroman to modern day, it...
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Francisca Alegría Goes Fishing for Sophomore Project “Nacimiento”
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Chilean filmmaker Francisca Alegría (of The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future fame – a 2022 Sundance Film Festival winner) flirted with an Indiewood project called “Alba,” set to star Margot Robbie, but finally she’ll be returning to...
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Hafsia Herzi, Benoît Magimel & Bastien Bouillon to Blow Out Bday Candles in Léa Mysius’ “Histoires De La Nuit”
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Lassoing the likes of Hafsia Herzi (fresh from showcasing The Little Sister in competition in Cannes), Benoît Magimel, Bastien Bouillon plus Monica Bellucci and Paul Hamy (The Ornithologist), Léa Mysius has locked in an impressive quintet for her rural drama...
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