Lav Diaz is one of cinema’s most uncompromising voices, crafting epic meditations on Filipino history, trauma, and identity that routinely stretch past the four, six, or even eight-hour mark. His films, including Melancholia (2008), Norte, the End of History (2013), […]

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After an extensive festival tour that went from Cannes, TIFF, and to NYFF, Lav Diaz’s hypnotic new epic, Magellan, is finally set for a stateside release. It stars Gael Garcia Bernal as the eponymous Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan as he […]

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The Berlin International Film Festival has unveiled a very exciting lineup for its 2024 edition in the International Competition and Encounters sections. Many of these films come with star power, such as A24’s A Different Man with Sebastian Stan, Alonso […]

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Oscar-winning documentarian Roger Ross Williams (Life, Animated) has been on a roll this year with a Donna Summer doc as well as his upcoming TIFF selection Stamped From The Beginning. But he certainly made quite the impression back at Sundance […]

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With well over 100 feature films in this year’s program—close to a third of which are by first-time feature directors–this year’s Sundance Film Festival promises a slate full of a great variety both international and domestic (and that’s not counting […]

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A gorgeously shot tale of seduction and psychological pain, Ema is a major achievement of Chilean cinema.

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Though the film disturbs, its portrait of an unsettling midlife crisis forces us to examine our own relationship to art and profundity, asking what we would be prepared to do to safeguard a little precious beauty.

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...the film uses the theft of Mayan art from Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology as a metaphor for the larger sins of genocide and cultural appropriation.

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