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SORRY WE MISSED YOU

Matt Delman — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:34:55 +0000

Despite the film’s Kafkaesque qualities, Loach finds time to paint a multi-dimensional portrait of a loving family, which makes it all the more devastating when it all falls apart.

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ON THE FRINGE, PART TEN: TANGERINE (2015)

Wed, 23 May 2018 17:26:46 +0000

“There is a class of people in this world who have fallen into the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, and who are deprived not only of all social consideration but also, in everybody’s opinion, of the specific human […]

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I, DANIEL BLAKE

Christopher Reed — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 19:00:44 +0000

Still, as an exposé of the systematic degradation of the human spirit, it is a powerful condemnation of the perils of a capitalism that jettisons the weak. Take heed, for we are all potential Daniel Blakes.

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Nelson Kim and John Magary’s 2016 New York Film Festival Wrap-Up (Part 1 of 2)

Nelson Kim — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:31:21 +0000

(The 54th New York Film Festival, with its carefully curated selection of standout new works of international cinema, has come and gone. Longtime HTN contributors, film-school buddies, and fellow struggling NYC indie filmmakers Nelson Kim and John Magary conducted an […]

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