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Call Jane | Review

It Could Happen To You: Nagy Recuperates the Resiliency of Women in Sophisticated Melodrama Camille Paglia, with her signature dramatic panache, might be among those...

2022 Sundance Film Festival: Phyllis Nagy, Lena Dunham, Jesse Eisenberg, John Patton Ford & Hazanavicius Fill Premieres Section

In the Premieres section you'll usually find a mix of studio unveilings and high profile acquisitions titles and in the almost equal split between...

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Phyllis Nagy’s Call Jane

Finishing just a tad too late for entry into the 2021 autumn film fest schedule, Protagonist Pictures will gift Call Jane at some major...

Man Down | Review

Little Drummer Boy: Montiel’s Misguided and Manipulative PTSD Allegory Since his autobiographical 2006 debut A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, director Dito Montiel has been...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tali Shalom-Ezer’s Mercy

The chances of seeing Israeli filmmaker Tali Shalom Ezer's Mercy premiere at Sundance are next to nil and that's not because it wouldn't be...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Megan Leavey

The only commonality found in Sundance buzz issue doc film Blackfish and Gabriela Cowperthwaite's fiction debut might be the move from big fish to...

The Martian| Review

Stranger in a Bland Land: Scott’s Toilsome Return to Space Ridley Scott, who is on the same annual cinematic trajectory as Woody Allen when it...

Transcendence | Review

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes: Pfister’s Debut Oversteps Limited Reach Hopes were perhaps set a bit too high for the directorial debut of Wally Pfister,...

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2026 Cannes: Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard Selected for Cannes Premiere (!?)

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2026 Cannes: Mysius, Kreutzer, Harari, Grisebach, Herry, Bourgeois-Taquet Among New Faces in the Palme d’Or Comp

A competition section of (currently) twenty-one features with, according...

2026 Cannes: Nicolas Winding Refn, Quentin Dupieux & Bertrand Mandico on the Croisette

The Out of Competition, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Premiere and...