Radu Jude is a writer and director hailing from Romania. He attended the Media University of Bucharest. Soon after graduating, Radu worked as an assistant director on the 2002 film Amen and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu. From there Radu […]

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One film that made an unexpected splash on the fall festival circuit, which made it one of the most anticipated films of the year, is Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World. His newest […]

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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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The nominations for the 2022 Gotham Awards have been revealed. The nominations in 12 categories recognize independent/arthouse films and breakout TV from this year. The ceremony will be held at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan on Monday, November 28. Angelica […]

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From the early to mid-2000s, writer-director Todd Field delivered two incredible dramas set in American suburbia, In The Bedroom and Little Children. For about a decade and a half since then, no one has heard anything new from the Oscar-nominated […]

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I met with German director Ina Weisse (The Architect) on Monday, September 9, 2019, at the Toronto International Film Festival, to discuss her new film, The Audition (which I also reviewed). Joining us was her lead actress Nina Hoss (Phoenix), […]

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...they form an engaging ensemble in Weisse’s emotionally fraught narrative, which offers surprising truths about the wages of artistic ambition, whether for oneself or for others.

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Christian Petzold’s Phoenix has been garnering serious buzz for some time now. After reading this excellent review, you can check the film out on Netflix. It will also be dropping on Criterion this spring

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