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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Johanna Pyykkö’s Ebba
November 10, 2023After not shoring up at Cannes or Venice this year, we are now leaning towards the...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Will Joines & Karrie Crouse’s Dust
November 10, 2023A project that due to the pandemic saw the lead shifting from Claire Foy to Sarah...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls
November 10, 2023When Focus Features moved Ethan Coen‘s Drive-Away Dolls from the fall festival slate to it’s current...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala’s The Devil’s Bath
November 9, 2023It’s entirely possible that Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala would have waited it out...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nicole Riegel’s Dandelion
November 9, 2023Selected for SXSW in 2020 but unfortunately that was the last minute canceled edition, Nicole Riegel‘s...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo
November 9, 2023Kind of feel that Tilman Singer‘s sophomore feature has been dangling like a carrot in front...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alonso Ruizpalacios’ La Cocina
November 9, 2023We were a bit surprised that Alonso Ruizpalacios‘ La Cocina didn’t shore up at a major...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Cutter Hodierne’s Cold Wallet
November 9, 2023It’ll be just under a decade since Cutter Hodierne premiered (he won the Directing Award in...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Garland’s Civil War
November 8, 2023What better lieu to deliver a possible critical text on regional and political differences that have...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
November 8, 2023Ham on Rye (2019) and Happer’s Comet (2022) filmmaker Tyler Taormina went into festive mode for...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Logan George & Celine Held’s Caddo Lake
November 8, 2023We thought what is now known as Caddo Lake (shortened from Vanishings At Caddo Lake) might...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christopher Andrews’ Bring Them Down
November 8, 2023When a pair of exceptionally talented actors initially commit to a project and then part ways,...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples
November 8, 2023With not one, but two feature films waiting in the gates for a 2024 launch, Nathan...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Back to Black
November 7, 2023Of all our Sundance predictions this item might be our Hail Mary prediction we find Back...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Pamela Adlon’s Babes
November 7, 2023Demonstrating our ability to achieve new levels of greatness in our “later” years, it would be...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Flying Lotus’ Ash
November 7, 2023The headlines for when his debut film dropped in Park City were the numerous walkouts (less...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Piero Messina’s Another End
November 7, 2023It’s been a long eight years between projects – but it might be worth the “wait”...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kobi Libii’s The American Society of Magical Negroes
November 7, 2023A small indie film flying low on our radar, production on Kobi Libii‘s feature debut would...
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FYC
2023 European Film Awards: The Zone of Interest, Fallen Leaves & Anatomy of a Fall Grab Most Noms
November 7, 2023The European Film Academy revealed the nominees for the main categories of the 36th European Film...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Duke Johnson’s The Actor
November 6, 2023This is one of those titles that could fit a bit anywhere in terms of major...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain
November 6, 2023After launching When You Finish Saving the World (which we called “while neither revolutionary nor rudimentary,...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Christine Jeffs’ A Mistake
November 6, 2023Having completed production in the summer of the previous year, Christine Jeffs is now well-prepared to...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Calvin Lee Reeder’s The A-Frame
November 6, 2023Back in June of this year we were happy to report that Calvin Lee Reeder dusted...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man
November 6, 2023We begin our predictions list with what is one of about a half dozen or so...
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Festival Predictions
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: An Introduction – 70 Titles!
November 6, 2023Having weathered two previous editions lost to the pandemic in 2021 and 2022, along with what...
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Foreign Film News
Your Room or Mine?: Neon Books Flight with Audrey Diwan’s “Emmanuelle”
November 3, 2023Yesterday we read the Neon folks were “circling” and that morphed into “buying” the North American...
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Film Festivals
2023 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival: Youssef Chebbi, Khadar Ayderus Ahmed, Erige Sehiri Projects in Atlas Workshops
November 3, 2023The Marrakech International Film Festival folks have revealed 25 projects chosen for the sixth edition of...
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American Indie Films News
Neon Escorts Sean Baker’s “Anora” in 2024
November 2, 2023In what appears to be some pre-Cannes (and pre-Venice) shopping, while the early morning buzz had...
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Film Festivals
2023 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival: Linklater’s Hit Man, Franco’s Memory, El Moudir’s The Mother of All Lies
November 2, 2023As predicted, the 20th edition of the Marrakech Intl. Film Festival (November 24th to December 2nd)...
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Foreign Film News
Melancholy in Marseille: Mouglalis & Grégoire Colin Join Saïd Hamich Benlarbi’s “La mer au loin”
October 30, 2023After landing in Cannes with outstanding French-Moroccan cinema items in the Un Certain Regard selected Kamal...
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American Indie Films News
An Autumn Shade of Pale: Ketchup Entertainment Lands Michel Franco’s “Memory”
October 27, 2023Finally it wasn’t Bleecker, NEON, Focus or the A24 folks, but little known Ketchup Entertainment that...
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Reviews
The Killer | Review
October 27, 2023Assassin’s Creed: Fincher Sculpts More Murder Into Art There’s simply no room for error in some...
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Film Festivals
2023 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival: Joanna Hogg, Dee Rees & Alexander Skarsgård Among Jury Duty Members
October 27, 2023The Marrakech International Film Festival head juror Jessica Chastain will be joined by fellow thesps in...
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Reviews
Four Daughters (Les filles d’Olfa) | Review
October 27, 2023Leave Them to Heaven: Ben Hania Experiments with Form in Anguishing Roleplay For her sixth feature,...
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Reviews
Priscilla | Review
October 26, 2023La Belle Captive: Coppola Pays Homage to America’s Archetypal Child-Bride Priscilla Beaulieu Presley published her memoir...
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Reviews
Fingernails | Review
October 26, 2023Science Can’t Contain True Love In Nikou’s Charming & Romantic English Language Debut Big Data and...
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American Indie Films News
Sex and the City: Mikey Madison Toplines Sean Baker’s “Anora”
October 25, 2023As we eagerly await the 2024 edition of the Cannes Film Festival with at least one...
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Foreign Film News
Young Guns: Fanny Liatard & Jérémy Trouilh Prepping “Les Yeux Verts”
October 25, 2023The filmmaking duo, whose debut film Gagarine earned the Cannes Label in 2020 and found its...
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Film Festivals
2023 American Film Festival (AFF): “Dream Scenario” & “Memory” Bookend Fest / Adele Romanski & Alex Ross Perry Honored
October 24, 2023The American Film Festival (AFF) in Wrocław have unveiled the line-up for their upcoming 14th edition...
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Film Festivals
2023 Gotham Awards: All of Us Strangers Leads Noms, but it’s a “Past Lives” vs. “A Thousand and One” Event
October 24, 2023In what is an increasingly convoluted ceremony (remember that each category is determined by a mere...
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Interviews
Interview: Léa Drucker – Last Summer (L’été dernier)
October 23, 2023She was pulled from obscurity (or non-retirement since her last feature was 2013’s Abuse of Weakness)...
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Interviews
Interview: Sophie Letourneur – Voyages en Italie
October 22, 2023Obviously it was always going to be Italy. Not Spain. Misadventures that take place in real...
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Interviews
Interview: Ariane Louis-Seize – Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
October 20, 2023After being feted on the Lido (winner of the Director’s Award in the Giornate degli Autori...
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Interviews
Interview: Monia Chokri & Magalie Lépine Blondeau – Simple comme Sylvain
October 19, 2023In a creative output that saw her add a harvest of three feature films in the...
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Reviews
Killers of the Flower Moon | Review
October 19, 2023The Moon in the Gutter: Scorsese Tackles the Osage Nation Murders Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated adaption...