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CANNES 2025 AWARD WINNERS: Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just An Accident’ Wins the Palme d’Or (Full List)

M.J. O'Toole — Sat, 24 May 2025 19:49:47 +0000

NEON has done it again. After 10 days of highly buzzed new cinema and hot acquisitions, the 78th Cannes Film Festival concluded with the Palme d’Or being awarded to Jafar Panahi’s revenge thriller, It Was Just An Accident. After acquiring […]

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ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT Trailer: Raven Jackson’s Captivating Debut Explores Family, Nature, & Time

M.J. O'Toole — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 13:55:06 +0000

One of the most captivating, artistically groundbreaking films to come out of Sundance this year is writer-director Raven Jackson’s All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt. Heavily inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky, Carlos Reygadas, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and Julie Dash, the A24 drama […]

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HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES

Mike S. Ryan — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:00:27 +0000

In Hide Your Smiling Faces, despite the existence of several potentially explosive plot elements, nature and its omnipresence remain front and center throughout.

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POST TENEBRAS LUX

Tom Hall — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:00:28 +0000

Carlos Reygadas’ Post Tenebras Lux is a landscape of possibility, vibrantly alert to the tensions of class, family and desire, pulsating with life.

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PORFIRIO

Michael Tully — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 02:37:04 +0000

Porfirio is one of the most startlingly fresh films of recent memory.

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Cannes 2012 Dispatch #10: Love, Actually

Sun, 27 May 2012 19:59:07 +0000

Back in my Polish flat mere hours before the closing ceremony of this year’s festival—my elbows still sore from fighting my way into press screenings—I duly watched the verdict unravel upon my Twitter feed, hitting the ‘refresh’ button incessantly as […]

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A Conversation With Bela Tarr (THE TURIN HORSE)

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:02:01 +0000

“Just remember,” grins Béla Tarr, on a hot November day in Los Angeles, “outside the sun is shining.” He’s pitying, comforting, and mocking his audience as they settle in for an AFI Fest screening of his final and most uncompromising […]

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DVD RELEASES 2009/9/8

Michael Tully — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:36:08 +0000

For those of you who don’t live near a biggish city and don’t play the all-region DVD game, this week’s most notable release is a movie that you’ve almost certainly been hearing about for a few years now. Even on […]

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2009 SPIRIT AWARDS PREVIEW

Michael Tully — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:22:18 +0000

Well, folks, the time has come yet again for the annual one-two punch of the Spirit Awards and the Oscars, a weekend that is no doubt certain to restore one’s faith in humankind and remind everyone what truly matters in […]

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SILENT LIGHT in New York City

Michael Tully — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:33:42 +0000

In the calm before the Park City storm, before you pack up your bags and thermals and snow boots, why not set the bar impossibly high for 2009? Just head over to the Film Forum to experience the year’s first […]

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