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Pain and Glory, now at the New York Film Festival, marks the eighth time Pedro Almodovar and Antonio Banderas have worked together, in a long collaboration that began in the 1980s, at the beginning of both their careers. That relationship informs Pain and Glory‘s narrative, as Banderas creates […]
Celine Sciamma’s gorgeous Portrait of a Lady on Fire meticulously constructs the relationship of Marianne (Noemie Merlant), a portrait painter, and Heloise (Adele Haenel), her initially reluctant subject. Marianne is hired by the Countess (Valerie Golino) to paint Heloise’s portrait, in an effort to secure her marriage to […]
Not Wanted is something of an outlier in director Ida Lupino’s oeuvre because she was actually brought in to finish the film when original director Elmer Clifton became dangerously ill. How much of the film Lupino directed is therefore up for debate, but she also holds writing credit […]
Human Capital, which premiered at TIFF this week, is the fifth film from director Marc Meyers, responsible for the well-received My Friend Dahmer that made the festival rounds several years ago. Human Capital is a remake of an Italian movie, loosely based on a Stephen Amidon novel, and […]
In 2006, a massive eruption of hot mud in Sidoarjo, Indonesia buried 16 villages and drove more than 60,000 people out to escape the sudden, unstoppable flow. The eruption was caused by Lapindo, a natural gas company, who had been drilling deep in the earth and struck a […]
In the two years since It was unleashed on the world, enthusiasm for the second half of the story has been high. The bar was set and many wondered if director Andy Muschietti could recapture the same magic he had elicited from his child stars with their adult counterparts? […]
*In response to this post via First Showing: An Open Letter About the Harmfulness of Embargoes at Film Festivals It’s hard being a white male film critic. Your skin color and gender have become a mark of privilege, even though you, obviously, have none. I mean, what do […]
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