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We’re now just about a month away from the U.S. release of Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language The Room Next Door, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. The feature took Venice Film Festival by storm, picking up the festival’s top honors with the Golden Lion, and now ahead of its December 20 release from Sony Pictures Classics, […]

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With it now being three years since Killers of the Flower Moon wrapped and one year since its release, Martin Scorsese has been away from a proper film set for some time. As the director prepares for his 82nd birthday this weekend, he has once again confirmed plans for his next features. In an interview […]

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Pamela Anderson receives the role of a lifetime in Gia Coppola’s new feature The Last Showgirl, playing a glamorous showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. Picked up by Roadside Attractions after its TIFF premiere for an awards-qualifying run beginning on December 13, followed by a […]

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In a mere two features, writer-director Payal Kapadia has emerged as one of India’s, if not the world’s, most significant filmmakers. Partly because of her remarkably assured voice. And partly because those two features couldn’t be less alike, Kapadia proving her artistry not through mastery of a particular style but of affecting cinematic language in […]

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While Martin Scorsese has pushed back plans for most of his upcoming projects, he’s still lending his hands to others. He’s produced Beatles ’64, helmed by long-time collaborator director David Tedeschi, and capturing the electrifying moment of The Beatles’ first visit to America. Featuring never-before-seen footage, the first trailer has now arrived ahead of Disney+ release […]

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One of my favorite films from this year’s New York Film Festival was Rungano Nyoni’s I Am Not a Witch follow-up On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes 2024 in its Un Certain Regard section, shared with Roberto Minervini’s The Damned, I’ve been waiting to see if A24’s original […]

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Seven years since You Were Never Really Here debuted at Cannes and with many false starts in-between, Lynne Ramsay is finally set to return. The Martin Scorsese-produced Die, My Love began shooting in recent months with Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, and LaKeith Stanfield, and today first stills of Lawrence and Pattinson have been revealed. An […]

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Now that they’ve set the year’s best film for a December 10 debut, the Criterion Channel have unveiled the rest of next month’s selection. John Waters’ films are inseparable from John Waters’ presence, making fitting Criterion’s decision to pair an eight-film retrospective (Multiple Maniacs to Cecil B. Demented) with his own “Adventures in Moviegoing” wherein […]

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In Andrea Arnold’s Bird, Irish actor Barry Keoghan plays a father of two teenagers. In the film, he had both children when he, too, was a teenager. He’s brash with tattoos everywhere, completely focused on an upcoming wedding with his three-month girlfriend. It’s a stellar performance from him, imbued with his own recent experiences of […]

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This fall, Walter Salles finally returned with his first feature in 12 twelve years, the moving political/family drama I’m Still Here. Led by a powerhouse performance by Fernanda Torres alongside Selton Mello and Fernanda Montenegro, Sony Classics will give Brazil’s Oscar entry a qualifying run beginning next week in LA before opening on January 17. […]

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