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They Shoot Agents, Don’t They?: McDonagh Morosely Reflects a Pernicious Empire Americans can’t quite seem to directly engage with their ills of the present by connecting them with misdeeds of the past, for a myriad of reasons, but this translates...

Sisters Doing It For Themselves: Herzog Returns with Theater of the Bizarre Until quite recently, it was a foregone conclusion legendary director Werner Herzog would not be able to make his long gestating feature Bucking Fastard, detailed amongst several other...

Working with themes of migration, loneliness, abandonment and the need for connection, among the feature debuts programmed in this year’s Orizzonti competition line-up we find House of the Wind (La maison du vent) by Cameroon born / French filmmaker Auguste...

The Sun Also Rises: Boyle Explores the Origins of Media Sensationalism If, as Alan Moore posits, “It is the job of the artists to give the audience what they need,” how, then, is it not the responsibility of the journalist...

Coupins D’abord: Marazzi Documents Love in Times of Capa Dually exploring the construction of an image and of a brand, the story of Gerda Taro is inseparable from the creation of “Robert Capa,” the Americanized persona adopted by Hungarian photographer...

Only four features into her career, Justine Triet has already emerged as one of the defining voices of contemporary French cinema. Winning the Palme d’Or certainly accelerated that ascent, but her reputation rests on films that probe the elusiveness of...

Known for her discomfort and absurdity brand of comedy, we thought that Janicza Bravo might be moving into the kitchen for the Martha Stewart biopic title Good One, but in another juicy tidbit of future American indie project news via...

Last week we learned that Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic was finally moving onto her next project landing a series scheduled for next year, however, if this Production Weekly listing proves to be right (via the World of Reel folks) she’ll have...

Telefilm Canada have put some sizeable coin towards a quartet of projects and among them we find Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person filmmaker Ariane Louis-Seize is now moving into her sophomore feature. Titled Cherry Blossoms, and filmed in the...

Canada submits Berlinale winner Nina Roza by Geneviève Dulude-de Celles, Chile submits Un Certain Regard selected The Meltdown (to be launched by Kino Lorber), Mexico submitted Venice winning On the Road by David Pablos, and Thailand submits Director’s Fortnight selected...