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Infinity Pool | Review

The Dualists: Cronenberg Doubles Down on Class Cliches “Sorrow is concealed in gilded places, and there’s no escaping it,” wrote Fyodor Dostoevsky in his...

Video Interview: Adam Leon – Italian Studies

NYC-based auteur Adam Leon brings high-profile talent and understated storytelling to Tribeca FF 2021 with Italian Studies, his third feature film. The indelible Vanessa...

Italian Studies | Review

Pieces of a Woman: Leon’s Latest Gets Lost in Own Identity Crisis Somewhere along the various perambulations of its conflicted protagonist, Adam Leon’s Italian Studies...

All Cooped Up: Haley Bennett Reteams with Producer Mollye Asher on Jackie Polzin’s “Brood”

Some folks get into getting a dog bricklaying practice the idea of family before making kids and painting fences. But what if chickens became...

2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nikyata Jusu’s Nanny

If you bump into Leonean-American filmmaker Nikyata Jusu make sure to ask for lottery numbers. The filmmaker has been riding on a wave of...

The Climb [Video Review]

Such Great Heights: Covino & Marvin Mine the Nexus of Toxic Friendships Friendships between heterosexual men are already an anomaly in cinema, and representations are...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tim Travers Hawkins’ XY Chelsea

We have screen treatments of Frank Serpico, Mark Felt, and Karen Silkwood, and in early 2018 we could have another (anti)hero on the silver...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Debra Granik’s My Abandonment

We likened her to Kelly Reichardt with a cinema that should sprout internationally and so we were genuinely surprised when she didn't drop into...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.