Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World) is a force to be reckoned with in Armand. The psychological thriller marks the directorial debut of Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, the grandson of Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman. It had its world […]

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One of the most breathtaking debuts to come out of this year is writer-director Phạm Thiên Ân’s Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell. An expressive, meditative tale, it follows a young man (Le Phong Vu) who returns home to the Vietnamese […]

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(You can read the other War Pony cast interview at this link…) Hammer To Nail: Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me. I am wondering how each of you got involved in the project?  For […]

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One of the most acclaimed films to hit the festival circuit in the last few years is Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s feature debut, War Pony. The film, set in the Oglala Lakota nation, had its world premiere at the […]

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Croatian writer/director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović feature debut, Murina, is a coming-of-age tale that follows a teenage girl trying to break free of her domineering family life as she finds hope in the form of an attraction to a much older […]

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In “Land and Shade,” a family struggles to hold on to their own.

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Whether this theatrical restoration introduces or re-introduces you to John Hanson and Rob Nilsson’s landmark American independent drama from 1978, the fact remains that it is a very welcome development.

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Beasts of the Southern Wild is spirituality on celluloid.

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Written, directed, and photographed by Warwick Thornton on 35mm, this exhilarating feature-length debut isn’t just an assured, touching, and original tale of young love in the Central Australian desert. It’s a very precious reminder of the transportive power of cinema. Samson & Delilah will make you fall in love with movies all over again.

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