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Make Me Lose My Breath: Linklater Meddles in Manicured Homage It’s unclear what the exact purpose of Nouvelle Vague is meant to serve, other than paying irreverent homage to Jean-Luc Godard and the making of his iconic debut feature, “...

Embracing Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Fin de Partie creates a hall of mirrors exploring finitude and dependency. It presents a world of looming farewells and inevitable “endgame,” where characters in various duos are trapped between dependency and autonomy. To add to...

I participated in a virtual roundtable for the film this past weekend just before yesterday’s Gothams nominations announcement where Bugonia (read our Venice review) was nominated for Best Feature category yet omitted Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons for Outstanding Lead...

In a cinematic landscape increasingly dominated by gargantuan, risk-averse budgets, the upcoming Gotham Awards have set the stage for a compelling David vs. Goliath narrative. The gorilla in the room is Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, a behemoth...

There is a chaotic violence at the core of Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Bugonia and so when the filmmaker re-teamed with Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness composer Jerskin Fendrix the goal might have been to strum up something to the tune...

After premiering at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival and completing its long film festival run, Sofia Bohdanowicz‘s Measures for a Funeral is now launching its domestic theatrical release this November and we’ve got the exclusive first look at the...

Quebec’s SODEC (the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles) have opened the coffers backing the next wave of projects that will shoot next year and we learn that Philippe Lesage, Annie St-Pierre and Charlotte Le Bon are among those moving...

Hollywood is in the midst of a biopic boom, with living music icons taking center stage and now we might get some CBGB flavoring as the platinum-haired frontwoman of Blondie has let it slip that Aftersun‘s Charlotte Wells will be...

When Will They Ever Learn?: Lanthimos Turns to Eco-Horror Yorgos Lanthimos embarks on his first remake with Bugonia, a loose adaptation of the 2003 Korean film Save the Green Planet!. The acerbic mixture of environmental conspiracy theory, grotesque violence and...

Party Time: Nia DaCosta Throws A Forgettable Rager If you’ve been looking for a jazzy, ‘50s version of Saltburn, get ready to pull out your cocktail shaker. For better, and definitely for worse, writer/director Nia DaCosta’s Hedda, her totally gnarly...