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2023 VENICE FILM FESTIVAL AWARD WINNERS: “Poor Things” Wins The Golden Lion

M.J. O'Toole — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 18:55:31 +0000

After 10 days of standing ovations and exciting new titles making their world premieres, the 80th annual Venice Film Festival concluded today with its awards ceremony, which sets the stage for Awards Season. The Damien Chazelle-headed jury awarded the Golden […]

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2023 Venice Film Festival Lineup: New Films From Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Ava DuVernay, Pablo Larrain, & More

M.J. O'Toole — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 12:33:05 +0000

Fresh off yesterday’s announcement of the TIFF lineup, the Venice Film Festival has announced the new slate of films making their world premieres on the Lido for their 80th edition. Among the robust slate of filmmakers premiering their new films […]

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BABYLON Uncensored Trailer: Damien Chazelle Returns with a Mad 1920s Hollywood Tale

M.J. O'Toole — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 15:23:07 +0000

Six years after La La Land, Oscar winner Damien Chazelle returns with another Hollywood fairytale, although this one seems to be more ambitious and unhinged. Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie take center stage in Babylon, which is set in the […]

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APOLLO 11

Christopher Reed — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 18:38:03 +0000

And pure it is, masterfully constructed from period archival footage, captured on the ground, here on earth – much of it shot in a high-resolution, wide-format 70mm film gauge – as well as in space by the astronauts, themselves.

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Matthew Delman’s TIFF 2018 Wrap-Up

Matt Delman — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 18:12:07 +0000

This year’s Toronto International Film Festival was a treasure trove for the arthouse film lover. The buzziest titles among critics were Alfonso Cuaron’s deliberately paced, black-and-white, Spanish-language drama about a Mexican housemaid, and a brutally brilliant Claire Denis space odyssey. […]

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ANAHEIM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Film Festivals and Taco Trucks

The Editorial Staff — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:21:18 +0000

Over the past month my films have screened in a variety of circumstances—the kind of variety that is more demoralizing than exhilarating, the kind of variety that makes one wonder if there’s such a thing as an ideal screening. It’s […]

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GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH

Brandon Harris — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:54:49 +0000

Sneakily ambitious, nearly without narrative, unable to contain its joie de vivre, old school/aware of its influences and yet unlike anything you've ever seen before, this is the type of picture that can give you faith in the creative vision of privileged twenty-somethings yet again.

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Brandon’s 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Recap

Brandon Harris — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:51:04 +0000

In the case of the Tribeca Film Festival, less is most certainly more. Slimmed down considerably from its mid-decade girth, it’s a much easier to navigate experience than in the days when it might take three subway connections or an […]

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