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2027 Oscars: ‘Everytime’, ‘Coward’ & ‘Possible Loves’ Enter International Feature Oscar Race
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The International Feature Film category is only beginning to heat up and we’ve already got some banger titles. Earlier this morning we had Belgium and South Korea advance the names of Lukas Dhont ‘s Cannes winner and Lee Chang-Dong‘s Venice-TIFF...
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Park Ji-Min Joins Théodore Pellerin in Philippe Lesage’s ‘I Just Want a Great Love Story’
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Production has begun on Philippe Lesage‘s highly anticipated I Just Want a Great Love Story, with a key change to the film’s original quartet. Théodore Pellerin, Charles Berling, Félix Kysyl will now be sparing with Return to Seoul (read review)...
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2026 Venice: Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor’s Secret Docu ‘NAZA’ Added to the Golden Lion Competition
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“Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, NAZA reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.” The mystery film for the upcoming Venice’s Golden Lion competition has been revealed and it’ll...
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s ‘Yorgun Güneş’ – Everything We Know So Far …
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A seven-time Cannes competition filmmaker and Palme d’Or winner for 2014’s Winter Sleep, Turkish master auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan has settled into a remarkably consistent rhythm, unveiling a new feature roughly every four years. Defined by his meticulous compositions, natural...
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How to Divorce During the War | Review
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Invisible Missiles: Blaževičius Offers Chilly Portrayal of a Couple & Country in Crisis Given its title, Andrius Blaževičius’ third outing, How to Divorce During the War, invites expectations of a very different kind of film than the one the filmmaker...
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Hindsight is 2026…Midway Mark: Nine U.S. Dramatic Titles Have Found Homes!…Now What?
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Over half a year has passed since the Sundance Film Festival U.S Dramatic Competition titles played at the final Park City edition of the festival. Our last check in over four months ago saw only four titles that had secured...
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Lisandro Alonso’s ‘The Scent of the Pitanga’ – Everything We Know So Far …
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Seven films in and all features have premiered in Cannes, Buenos Aires born filmmaker Lisandro Alonso has alongside the likes of Lucrecia Martel and Pablo Trapero been at the forefront of the New Argentine Cinema movement. Known for minimalist “slow...
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2027 Oscars: Austria Backs Hüller as ‘Rose’ in the Best Intl. Feature Film Category
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Austria were in a bit of a pickle situation with three potential frontrunners for the 2027 Oscar race. They had Cannes competition item Gentle Monster (backed by Netflix), Un Certain Regard winner Everytime (1-2 Special) and then we have Berlinale...
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2026 NYFF: Carlos Reygadas’ ‘Heil Jupiter!’ to World Premiere in Currents
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At long last we found a home (the New York Film Fest’s Currents section) for Carlos Reygadas‘ latest work (formerly titled Wake of Umbra) has arrived. Clocking in at precisely two and a half hours, Heil Jupiter! was perhaps so...
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Train to Busan | Review
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Here Comes the Train Again: Sang-ho’s Live Action Debut Heavy on Tropes Zombie contagion sweeps over South Korea while a random band of survivors struggle to remain on a train racing from Seoul to Busan as the undead take over,...
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