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In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: Gore Verbinski’s music videos. Gore Verbinski has had an erratic career, going from big blockbusters to weird passion projects. With genres that run the gamut from comedy, to horror, to swashbuckler, even dipping his stylistic toes into animation. Still, there are many visual and thematic throughlines in his oeuvre, some of which also showed up in his music video days. By looking at three music videos, I want to highlight three different Verbinski-isms. Over the course of his career several images return. One of those is creepy crawlies, like pill bugs (Rango) or crabs (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End) or mice (Mouse Hunt) carrying…

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Regional film festivals are the unsung heroes of the film circuit. They bring smaller titles to a local audience that might not otherwise get to see them, and they can also bring the larger films with their stars, directors, and producers, to help shine a light on the industry. It gives audiences a chance to engage with films large and small, fiction and non-fiction, live action and animated, as well as the people who make them. SCAD Savannah Film Festival has been doing that for nearly 30 years, in its beautiful corner of Georgia. Being a university-run festival means that there is a focus on education and enlightenment as much as entertainment. And the festival teams have outdone themselves this year, with a range of…

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Amir has a dark secret that he’s keeping from everyone close to him. He wants to get rid of one of his legs. The left one specifically. Amir has body dysmorphic disorder, a disorder that leaves him convinced that one of his legs is rotting away and he’ll be much happier if he were to cut it off, Above The Knee as the title suggests. So Amir sets a date and begins to plan how he’ll remove the decaying appendage.    The Norwegian thriller from writer and director Viljar Bøe, with one of his leads Freddy Singh joining him as co-writer, is at its core a domestic thriller. The difference here is that the pair use body image dysphoria (clinically called Body Dysmorphic Disorder) as…

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Jia finally makes a silent movie star out of Zhao Tao.

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Seven years ago, Dutch filmmaker Thijs Meuwese co-directed the science fiction film Molly a film overflowing with ingenuity, a no-budget post-apocalyptic superhero epic. You can read my review here… That film had an incredibly impressive finale, and it marked its directors and lead actress Julia Batelaan as people to keep track of. And there is good news on that front: Thijs and Julia reunited and made a thriller with a strong science-fiction slant called Psychonaut. Even better news: it has secured itself a World Première at the Brooklyn Horror festival this month. Senior programmer Joseph Hernandez describes the film as follows: A futuristic healing machine capable of piercing into one’s memories is Maxime’s only hope to save her dying girlfriend. Along with the help of…

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