No fun: boredom predominates in Bong Joon Ho‘s Mickey 17, for the characters and the audience alike ...

Locally sourced: this year’s edition of the True/False Film Festival was a haven for principled cinephilia, with highlights ...

Vincent (Jean-Baptiste Durand): Martine’s hot-tempered son and a childhood friend of Jérémie’s. Walter (David Ayala): A village farmer, currently unemployed and rather shabby. The Priest: Possesses ...

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I didn’t want to feel like the woman director. I wanted to feel like one of many women directors. If Silver’s films don’t fit neatly into a broader movement or ethos, it may be because their ...

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One imagines James Baldwin would have had none of that. In his most sustained commentary on cinema, the 1976 book-length essay The Devil Finds Work, he gives voice to the suspicion and anger that many ...

At that performance, director Robert Rossen was impressed, and later cast Hackman in a small role in LILITH with Warren Beatty. Three years later, Beatty remembered Hackman and cast him in BONNIE AND ...

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