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Over a close-up of a turtle, ominous sound design builds at such a deep frequency that the walls of a press-screening room in Beverly Hills began rattling. Once the shaking stopped and it’s realized this was not the third Los Angeles earthquake in as many weeks, the setup of Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut Blink Twice […]
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A world premiere at DOC NYC and selection at Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival and many more festivals, Emily Packer’s Holding Back the Tide takes a poetic, queer perspective of New York’s oysters and their transformations in the face of an uncertain future. Picked up by Grasshopper Film, the documentary will open on Friday, Sept. 6th […]
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At long last, we are only about a month away from the release of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, set to arrive in North America from Lionsgate Studios and Utopia on September 27 in theaters and IMAX. Ahead of that debut, the new trailer and poster have arrived. Starring Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, […]
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There’s something electrifying about watching a filmmaker break free from well-worn formulas and push themselves into new, uncharted territory. The Sparrow in the Chimney, Ramon Zürcher’s third feature, is the final installment in a trilogy of highly flammable chamber dramas. Anyone familiar with the previous two, 2013’s The Strange Little Cat and 2021’s The Girl […]
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After sold-out showings of Godard and Rohmer (plus, well, Rohmer) my screening series Amnesiascope closes out this summer with a personal 2020s favorite that still demands proper place and consideration. On Wednesday, August 28––that’s eight days from now––the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research will present Slow Machine with filmmakers Paul Felten and Joe DeNardo in […]
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After making his feature writing debut with Brigsby Bear, Kyle Mooney has now made his directorial debut with Y2K, a disaster comedy which brings together Rachel Zegler, Jaeden Martell, and Julian Dennison. Set on the last night of 1999, the SXSW premiere follows two high school juniors who crash a New Years Eve party, only […]
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We’re now just a short time away from the world premiere of Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature at Venice Film Festival. The Room Next Door, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, will then head to Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival followed by a December 20 release from Sony Pictures Classics. Ahead of […]
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Emerging from a long haze, Bahrām Beyzaie’s The Stranger and the Fog caught the right people’s eye when it appeared at last year’s New York Film Festival through a restoration overseen by the Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with the director himself. (Plus funding from none other than George Lucas.) […]
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Cheap Thrills and Small Crimes director E.L. Katz director returned earlier this year, premiering his new action-horror feature Azrael, scripted by Simon Barrett (You’re Next, The Guest), at the 2024 South by Southwest Film Festival. Led by Samara Weaving, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Vic Carmen Sonne, IFC Films and Shudder picked it up for a theatrical release […]
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Indiewire having encouraged us to reminisce about the 2000s through its recent Best of the Decade list, there’s the reminder of one key thread defining that era: the prominence of digital video and the prescient idea that it would alter filmmaking on all budget levels going forward. Still, films shot on standard-definition DV, often with […]
The post Locarno Review: Foul Evil Deeds Is a Very British Anthology of Wrongdoing first appeared on The Film Stage.
