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Rotterdam 2025 Review: ACTS OF LOVE Attempts to Unearth the Repressed Past
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Jeppe Rønde's family drama tackles memory, trauma, and transgression in a small New Age Christian community. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Rotterdam 2025 Interview: YASUKO, SONGS OF DAY PAST Director Negishi Kichitaro Talks Taisho Entanglements, Roman Porno, Creating Chemistry
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A legendary director of Roman Porno and period dramas discusses his IFFR-premiering return to the director's chair. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Sundance 2025 Review: REBUILDING, Loss, Grief, and Rediscovering Family
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Despite the contrarian, anti-science protestations of some on the right, climate change is real. The effects thereof have been and will be felt in the years to come, including extreme weather events, such as the recent devastating wildfires that tore...
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Sundance 2025 Review: LOVE, BROOKLYN, Performance-Led Romantic Triangle Engages, Enthralls, Entertains
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A catch-all phrase popularized over a decade ago by Meta (formerly Facebook), “It’s complicated,” meant to describe romantic relationships that didn’t fall into one particular category or another, finds its clearest, nearest, and obviously it’s most recent application in director...
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Sound And Vision: Amanda Kramer
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In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: Amanda Kramer's music videos for Magdalena Bay. Amanda Kramer's films never clicked for me. They should be right up my alley,...
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Rotterdam 2025 Review: TRANSCENDING DIMENSIONS sees Toshiaki Toyoda play the hits
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In the Q&A after Transcending Dimensions, Toyoda mentioned that this might be his last feature film, as he felt like he transcended himself with this film. What does a transcendent Toyoda-film look like? As usually loud, violent and surreal, with...
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Rotterdam 2025 Reviews: THE TREE OF AUTHENTICITY And THE GREAT HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY, From Congo And Mexico
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The IFFR Tiger Competition has a long tradition of narrative and also more experimental films. The following two films belong to the latter category. The Congolese film The Tree of Authenticity (L'Arbre de l'authenticité) from 2025 and the Mexican The...
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Rotterdam 2025 Review: Joseph Kahn’s ICK puts the fear in aging
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Joseph Kahn always had his pulse on the zeitgeist. No, scrap that, he made the zeitgeist what it is. If you look at his music videos in the late nineties and early aughts, he together with Dave Meyers, Hype Williams,...
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THE MONKEY New Poster: Want to know Why Osgood Perkins Made it?
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Anticipation is building for Osgood Perkins' latest horror flick, The Monkey. With each teaser and trailer that has come out our excitement grows, eager to be at the theaters on opening night, February 21st.    When twin brothers find a...
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Now Streaming: THE ÅRE MURDERS Get Chilly, COMMON SIDE EFFECTS Get Weird
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Plus: 'Invincible' returns, 'The Eastern Gate' opens, 'Love You to Death' mocks. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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