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Nickel Boys | Review

No Country for Black Men: Ross Reforms the Cinema with Distinctive Adaptation In many ways, Nickel Boys, the narrative debut from director RaMell Ross,...

Harvest | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review

Sheep, Sheep, Sheep: Tsangari’s Monotonous Treatise on Modernization Adapted from a novel by Jim Croce, Harvest is Greek auteur Athina Rachel Tsangari's third feature narrative,...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: RaMell Ross’ The Nickel Boys

Definitely the type of film that could end up jockeying for a position at a fall film festival later in the year instead, RaMell...

Outsmoked: Athina Rachel Tsangari Moving Towards Summer Shoot for “Harvest”

The backdrop of Oban, Scotland and Germany will be the lieu of location for Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari's next feature film. Production is...

Gunda | Review

That’ll Do, Pig: Animal Farm IRL Viktor Kossakovsky brings us an astonishing triptych of pigs, cows and chickens in Gunda, his poignant evocation of life...

Wool in Sheep’s Clothing: Athina Rachel Tsangari Sets “Harvest” As Next Feature

If you think the folks in Days if Heaven had it rough...think again. Athina Rachel Tsangari is setting her sights on the book to...

In Between Dying | 2020 Venice Film Festival Review

In the Mood for Love: Baydarov Searches for a Real Love in Enigmatic Road Trip All you need is love, if you can find it,...

Video Interview: Nadine Labaki – Capernaum

There is a sequence in Nadine Labaki's Capernaum where Zain (who now belongs to the Antoine Doinel film canon) proactively attempts to save the...

Zama | Review

Mortal Transfer: Martel Returns with Lush, Dark Comedy on Colonial Maneuvering Unfairly disposed to doomed distribution prospects and perhaps unfortunate dismissal during its initial reception...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Yance Ford’s Strong Island

There is nothing new in the subject matters covered in Yance Ford's debut. Gun violence. Authorities taking a blind eye approach. A family and...

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Sirat | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

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