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VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2025 LINEUP: New Titles From Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-Wook, Kathryn Bigelow, and More

M.J. O'Toole — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:20:04 +0000

The Venice Film Festival is heading back to the Lido for its 82nd edition. Taking place August 27 – September 6, the in-competition lineup features exciting new titles from an array of auteurs, including Park Chan-wook, Jim Jarmusch, Noah Baumbach, […]

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TIFF Announces New Additions To Its 2025 Lineup

M.J. O'Toole — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:59:46 +0000

The Toronto International Film Festival returns to mark its 50th edition this fall. It will take place September 4 – 14, featuring both world premieres and North American/Canadian premieres for titles that have premiered at other festivals such as Sundance, […]

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A Conversation with Joel Potrykus & Joshua Burge (VULCANIZADORA)

M.J. O'Toole — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:31:24 +0000

With a working relationship spanning over a decade, Michigan-based guerilla filmmaker Joel Potrykus and actor Joshua Burge have collaborated on five feature films. Such films that solidified their craft in the “metal slackerism” genre include Buzzard and Relaxer. Their most […]

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GASOLINE RAINBOW Trailer: The Ross Brothers Hit the Pacific Coast in Verité-Like Road Trip Saga

M.J. O'Toole — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:31:49 +0000

Documentary filmmaking duo Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross know how to capture up close and personal the lives of youth in modern rural America. Following a fruitful festival run that took them from Venice to SXSW to the brand […]

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Jessica Baxter’s 2018 Seattle International Film Festival Wrap-Up

Jessica Baxter — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:35:14 +0000

The 2018 Seattle International Film Festival ran from May 17th to June 10th. That’s 25 solid days of movie madness. It kicked off with the premiere of Isabel Coixet’s The Bookshop, starring Emily Mortimer as a widow who uses her […]

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ON THE FRINGE, PART EIGHT: WENDY AND LUCY (2008)

Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:03:47 +0000

There is an astonishing, heart-rending scene toward the middle of Kelly Reichardt’s pitch-perfect, Wendy and Lucy, an ascetic touching-without-being-cloying chronicle of a nomadic young girl (Michelle Williams), her dog Lucy and her broken-down car stuck outside of Portland, Oregon on her star-cross’d way […]

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ON THE FRINGE, PART SIX: GAS, FOOD LODGING (1992)

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:20:22 +0000

Allison Anders’ sophomore feature Gas, Food Lodging is an aspirational film about fantasy. It is in many ways an antithesis of the kind of movies I’ve been chronicling and will continue to discuss with my “On the Fringe” series. Gas, Food Lodging is in fact an […]

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DARK NIGHT

Christopher Reed — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 19:47:54 +0000

An elliptical narrative shot, in part, like a documentary, using non-actors, Dark Night journeys into the tormented mind of a killer...

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Violet

Fri, 27 Mar 2015 20:29:01 +0000

Shades of Van Sant percolate through this moody drama centering on big mistakes

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A Conversation With Gregory Kohn, David Call and Eléonore Hendricks (NORTHEAST)

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:06:55 +0000

(Distributed by Tribeca Film, Northeast gets a long overdue week-long theatrical run at the reRun Gastropub from February 22-28, 2013, where Kohn, Call, and Hendricks are expected at various post-screening Q&A’s. For full details on dates and times, and to […]

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