Typography is no stranger to the design of Brady Corbet’s “Monumental” new film, The Brutalist. The credits in both the film, and its recent trailer, do interesting things. This carries into this iconic poster, with the Statue of Liberty upside down, and framed in a spiral of type, from the one word pull-quote to the title, cast, and above the line credits. 2024 is shaping up to be the year where poster designers stop putting the full traditional credit bocks in their key art….
Masahiro Shinoda’s 1979 folk-horror apocalypse enters the Criterion Collection.
For a moment, think back to the worst experience in your entire life thus far. Perhaps, for far too many, that experience was an assault. Further, imagine writing a book about that devastating occurrence and its aftermath. Then, after the […]
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Just one year after his documentary Silver Dollar Road, director Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro, Exterminate All the Brutes) returned to the fall festival circuit this year with Ernest Cole: Lost and Found. Featuring narration by LaKeith Stanfield, the film tells the story of one of the first Black freelance photographers in South […]
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If you hike or bike in city, state, or federal parks regularly, you’re likely familiar with a simple, potentially life-saving rule: Always, and we do mean always, leave information behind as to where you’re hiking or biking and when you’re expected back. That way, at least, your loved ones and/or whoever comes looking for you (i.e., a co-worker when you stop showing up for work) knows where to look and how long you’ve been missing. And if you didn’t know that rule, you know it now. In Adam Schindler and Brian Netto’s backwoods thriller, Don’t Move, Iris (Kelsey Asbille, Wind River), a grieving mother and wife, disregards that rule, awakening one morning, her brain fogged by the loss of her preteen son (seen via photo…
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Daaaaaalí! (Quentin Dupieux) At the time of year where every other film is a biopic chasing prestige respectability, we are lucky to have Quentin Dupieux, the prolific, serious-minded, silly […]
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Premiering in the Un Certain Regard section at this year’s Cannes Film Festival to wide acclaim, writer-director Sandhya Suri makes her feature debut with a new kind of police procedural. Santosh follows the titular protagonist (played by Shahana Goswami), a […]
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The 21st edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival is set to run from November 29th to December 7th and a highlight of the event is the Atlas Workshops, which, in just seven years, has evolved into a vital platform for fostering the next generation of Moroccan, Arab, and African filmmakers, many of whom have since premiered at A-list film fests such as Berlin, Cannes and Venice. This year, filmmaker Jeff Nichols from Little Rock, Arkansas, takes on the role of patron, sharing his expertise and career trajectory experiences with participants. Of the 27 selected projects selected this year we have a split of 17 projects in development and 10 films in production or post-production from 13 countries across the African continent and the Arab world.… Read the rest
