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2024 Cannes’ La Résidence: Molly Manning Walker Among Half Dozen Selected
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The huge winner of the last Un Certain Regard section in Molly Manning Walker (watch the award’s ceremony below for the craziest ever acceptance below) is among the half dozen participants for what is essentially an incubator of sorts (and...
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Limbo | Review
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Desert Fury: Sen Gets Bleak in the Heat of a Cold Case Mystery Despite it being the title of innumerable films from around the world, Limbo happens to feel like the most felicitous description for Indigenous Australian filmmaker Ivan Sen’s...
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2024 Berlinale: Festival Review Listing Recap
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Before we put our focus on the upcoming edition of the Cannes Film Festival, we look back at our coverage of the Berlinale – a competition that many would agree was subpar and sidebar selections that did indeed offer some...
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The Shadowless Tower | Review
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The Polite Stuff: Lu Searches for Redemption Through the Walking & Talking Cure In the strangely alluring The Shadowless Tower, (Bai Ta Zhi Guang) the fourteenth feature from Korean-Chinese filmmaker Zhang Lü, a handful of characters search for a more...
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Club Zero | Review
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The Prime of Miss Jean Foodie: Hausner Satirizes Cult Behavior Through Caloric Deficit Expanding on the genre sentiments which guided her past titles Hotel (2004) and Little Joe (2018), Austrian director Jessica Hausner‘s latest playfully examines how a toxic mixture...
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Interview: Zar Amir Ebrahimi – Holy Spider / Shayda / Tatami
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Ali Abbasi brought her on as a casting director and as fate would have it Zar Amir Ebrahimi would go onto land the role that was originally not meant for her (as a journalist trying to solve serial murders of...
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Comme le feu (Who by Fire) | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
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Into the Woods: Lesage Explores Wounded Masculinities In Vincent Sherman’s 1943 Bette Davis-led melodrama Old Acquaintance, the complex relationship between a pair of female frenemies becomes increasingly complicated throughout their lifetime. Resignedly, they rely on a metaphorical phrase to explain...
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2024 New Directors/New Films: Gábor Reisz, Selman Nacar, Laura Ferrés, Aaron Schimberg & India Donaldson In Line-Up
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We’ve got films dating back to the last edition of Cannes, threaded in there are items from Locarno, Venice and more recent items from Sundance and even a Berlinale winner in Cu Li Never Cries by Pham Ngoc Lân. The...
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2024 REGARD – Saguenay Intl. Short Film Festival: 205 Shorts & 35 Programs
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Just a little bit of time following the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand, the next major film festival dedicated to the short form is the REGARD – Saguenay Intl. Short Film Festival. Today they unveiled a stacked edition – a 35 program schedule...
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Silver Haze | Review
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Keeper of the Flame: Polak Reckons with Reconciliation vs. Retribution in Conventional Drama Dutch director Sacha Polak continues to explore the difficulties of acceptance and reclamation in her fourth feature, Silver Haze, another pseudo-sordid kitchen sink melodrama focused on wounded...
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