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Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation | Review
August 14, 2023Death in the Garden: Chebbi Debuts Eerie, Nuanced Murder Mystery In a supremely frightening sense, the...
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Film Festivals
2023 TIFF: Radu Jude, Denis Côté, Kleber Mendonça Filho & Phạm Thiên An Cement Wavelengths
August 11, 2023And now we can officially state that the TIFF selections are now complete with the Wavelengths...
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Reviews
Love Life | Review
August 11, 2023Love the One You’re With: Fukada Explores Love and Death as Unhappy Accidents The instability of...
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Reviews
Stepne | 2023 Locarno Film Festival Review
August 10, 2023The Land That Time Forgot: Vroda Mines Eroding Memories in Speculative Debut Thomas Wolfe meant You...
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Foreign Film News
2023 TIFF: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ilker Çatak, Monia Chokri & Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir Selected
August 10, 2023Last year the Contemporary World Cinema had plenty of Cannes Film Festival gems in Aftersun, Falcon...
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Film Festivals
2023 TIFF: Mackenzie Davis, Yann Demange, Ana Cristina Barragán & Cannes Winners Fill Short Cuts Programme
August 9, 2023With only the Contemporary World Cinema and Wavelengths left on the scorecard, TIFF has now dropped...
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Film Festivals
2023 World Cinema Fund (WCF): Lucía Garibaldi, Nara Normande + Tião & Abinash Bikram Shah Receive Coin
August 8, 2023Uruguayan filmmaker Lucía Garibaldi (who premiered The Sharks at Sundance in 2019), Abinash Bikram Shah (short...
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Film Festivals
2023 NYFF: Haigh, Hamaguchi, Lanthimos, Triet, Glazer and Annie Baker in Main Slate
August 8, 2023We were scratching our heads on where films such as Andrew Haigh‘s (retitled) All of Us...
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Foreign Film News
Always on the Run: Karim Aïnouz Checks into “Motel Destino”
August 7, 2023Before moving on to his next weighty film project in Rosebushpruning (set for Spring 2024), Karim...
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FYC
2024 Oscars: Carmen Jaquier’s “Thunder” is Switzerland’s Nomination for Best International Film
August 4, 2023Switzerland is the first country out of the gate to select the film that will represent...
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Reviews
Animal | 2023 Locarno Film Festival Review
August 3, 2023Boogie Nights: Exarchou Doses Summertime Sadness in Achy Melodrama For anyone who’s ever wondered what life...
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Film Festivals
2023 TIFF: Larry Charles, Harmony Korine, Finn Wolfhard + Billy Bryk Lock Up Midnight Madness Slots
August 3, 2023A bit of Cannes (Weston Razooli‘s Riddle of Fire and Jason Yu‘s Sleep), one significant title...
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Film Festivals
2023 TIFF: Patricia Arquette, Mehdi Fikri, Ninna Pálmadóttir & Molly Manning Walker Line Up Discovery Programme
August 3, 2023With the exception of a trio of titles including the big Un Certain Regard winner in...
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Film Festivals
2023 San Sebastián: Lila Avilés, Felipe Galvez, David Zonana & Carolina Markowicz Fill Horizontes Latinos Section
August 3, 2023A dozen film titles with items dating back to this year’s Sundance (David Zonana‘s Heroic), Berlinale...
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Film Festivals
2023 TIFF: Tarsem Singh, Kristoffer Borgli, Nora El Hourch & Héléna Klotz Among 10 Platform Selections
August 2, 2023We now know the identity of the Platform programme — what we still consider the premium...
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Foreign Film News
Exclusive Poster: Falling for Laura Luchetti’s “The Beautiful Summer”
August 1, 2023Earlier this week Variety premiered the official trailer and leading up to 2023 Locarno Film Festival...
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American Indie Films News
Yellow Brick Road: Mubi Lands Ross Bros.’ “Gasoline Rainbow”
August 1, 2023A surprise selection for Venice (only because it was off our radar), the debut fiction feature...
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American Indie Films News
Dusty Roads: Max Walker-Silverman Builds Towards Sophomore Feature
July 31, 2023A Love Song(the much traveled and critically acclaimed Sundance 2022 title) filmmaker Max Walker-Silverman is back...
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American Indie Films News
Punk Not Dead: Gina Rodriguez To Topline Carlos López-Estrada “Kill Yr Idols”
July 31, 2023Currently mounting Didi as a producer, if lady luck is on his Blindspotting filmmaker Carlos López-Estrada‘s...
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Film Festivals
2023 Deauville: Celine Song, Marian Mathias, John Trengove, Hannah Peterson & Babak Jalali in Comp
July 28, 2023One of the top three strictly American indie film festivals outside of the US, France’s Deauville...
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Film Festivals
2023 Giornate degli Autori: Élise Girard, Delphine Girard, Chong Keat Aun, Céline Sciamma & Teona Strugar Mitevska Populate Sidebar
July 27, 2023The Giornate degli Autori folks will be celebrating the twentieth edition of the section and a...
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Foreign Film News
Think Big: After “Yannick” and “Daaaaaali!”, Quentin Dupieux Looking to Film Next Feature in English
July 26, 2023A small end of interview snip-it from the Troiscouleurs folks informs us that Quentin Dupieux is...
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Film Festivals
2023 TIFF: Asmae El Moudir, Roger Ross Williams, Errol Morris, Raoul Peck & Wiseman Load Up TIFF Docs
July 26, 2023TIFF Docs programming team announced some big guns in their line-up comprised of some high value...
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Foreign Film News
Rodrigo Santoro Finds “Outro Lado do Céu” Deep in the Amazon
July 26, 2023We saw that Brazilian filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro was hard at work on a new fourth feature,...
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Film Festivals
2023 Venice: Mika Gustafson, Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, Normande+Tiao, Nattiv+Ebrahimi & Ross Bros. in Orizzonti Program
July 25, 2023Eighteen is the exact number of films selected last year, and will probably be the case...
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Film Festivals
2023 Venice: Ava DuVernay, David Fincher, Agnieszka Holland, Malgorzata Szumowska & Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Comp Surprises!
July 25, 2023We have twenty-three competition entries and all the America films that were tipped to compete for...
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Film Festivals
2023 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Competition [Video]
July 24, 2023Ruben Östlund, Maryam Touzani, Denis Ménochet, Rungano Nyoni, Brie Larson, Paul Dano, Atiq Rahimi, Damián Szifron...
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Film Festivals
2023 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Un Certain Regard [Video]
July 24, 2023This year’s Un Certain Regard selection was a pretty sturdy class and the jury comprised of...
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Foreign Film News
2023 TIFF: Rustin, The Holdovers, Memory, The Beast, NYAD, Fingernails, Hit Man & The Royal Hotel Get Confirmed Itineraries
July 24, 2023With one announcement we got confirmations for films that will either exclusively play in Toronto or...
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Film Festivals
2023 Venice Critics’ Week: Luna Carmoon, Lee Hong-Chi, Moin Hussain & Adrien Beau in Competition Lineup
July 24, 2023Commencing the loaded week of Venice Film Festival announcements (Golden Lion hopefuls are being released tomorrow...
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Foreign Film News
Guslagie Malanda Boards Joachim Lafosse’s “Les petits voleurs”
July 23, 2023Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been reporting on a new Joachim Lafosse project. With...
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Film Festivals
2023 Venice: J.A. Bayona’s Dish Served Cold “Society of the Snow” to Close Festival
July 22, 2023As we eagerly await for the major announcements next Tuesday and now that we cleared up...
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Reviews
Oppenheimer | Review
July 21, 2023Bombs Away: How Christopher Nolan Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb For his highly anticipated twelfth...
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Film Festivals
2023 Venice: Challengers Out, Comandante In as Venice Film Festival Opener
July 21, 2023While there are plenty of fall film festival subtractions behind the scenes, just this hour we...
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Reviews
Return to Dust | Review
July 21, 2023The Good Earth: Ruijun Crafts Poignant Portrait of Transformative Love Director Li Ruijun returns to familiar...
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Reviews
The Beanie Bubble [Video Review]
July 20, 2023Producers: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Karen Lunder Executive Producers: Zach Galifianakis, Douglas S. Jones Directors: Kristin...
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Film Festivals
2023 NYFF: Army Brat to Graceland – Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” is Centerpiece Selection
July 20, 2023Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla has been identified as New York Film Festival’s Centerpiece Selection and receives the...
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American Indie Films News
Fremont Flirt: Sean Wang Begins Production on Sundance-Labbed “Dìdi”
July 19, 2023A relatively new filmmaker on the scene having premiered his pre-feature work at Sundance and SXSW,...
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Film Festivals
2023 TIFF: Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils to World Preem in Toronto
July 19, 2023Shot in February-March range this year, Atom Egoyan‘s Seven Veils will have quickly jettisoned into a...
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Foreign Film News
Chicano Trouble: Fernando Eimbcke Taps into Youth Portrait with “Olmo”
July 18, 2023Duck Season (2004), Lake Tahoe (2008) and Club Sandwich (2013) Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke is set...
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Foreign Film News
San Francisco Treat: Michel Franco Dreams of the West Coast with “Dos Lados”
July 18, 2023Location, Location, Location. After the affluent neighbourhood somewhere in Mexico with New Order, the wasteland of...
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Foreign Film News
Barbie World: Sophie Fillières’ “Ma vie ma gueule” Ready for 2024
July 18, 2023The Cineuropa folks confirm that production on Sophie Fillières‘ seventh feature film is now complete (production...
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Foreign Film News
For the Cause: César Díaz Takes to the Streets for “Mexico 1986” with Bérénice Bejo
July 17, 2023Belgian-Guatemalan Camera d’Or winning filmmaker César Díaz is finally moving into production on his sophomore film...
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Foreign Film News
Now in Production: Carlos Reygadas Currently Filming “Estela de sombra”
July 17, 2023Carlos Reygadas is currently in production on his sixth feature film, Estela de sombra. We suspect...
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Foreign Film News
Breast the Wave: Charlène Favier Prepping “Oxana”
July 17, 2023Slalom (Cannes 2020 Label) and La fille qu’on appelle a television film (that we mislabeled) to...