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4 days ago · Watch an exclusive clip above. Italy’s Oscar entry Vermiglio, about the trials and tribulations of a family living in a small mountain community during wartime, is one of the most starkly beautiful films of the year.Lucia Ahrensdorf said in her AFI Fest review, “Vermiglio is set in the eponymous alpine village during the waning days of WWII. . …
The Film Stage’s Top 50 Films of 2024
Dec 12, 2024 · For our most comprehensive year-end feature, we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2024. We’ve asked contributors to compile ten-best lists with five honorable mentions––many of those personal selections will be shared in coming weeks in separate features––and from tallied votes has this top 50 been assembled. Without further ado,
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The Friend Directors Scott McGehee & David Siegel on Finding the ...
Oct 11, 2024 · Writer-director duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel have been working together for 30 years, since their debut thrilled Suture in 1994.Since then, they’ve only made seven films, with their latest being The Friend, a comedy-drama adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s award-winning novel.Starring Naomi Watts and a Great Dane named Bing, the film follows a woman grieving the suicide of her friend ...
The Brutalist Trailer: Brady Corbet Builds an Epic Charting the ...
Oct 22, 2024 · As one can tell from our feature wrapping up the best premieres on the fall circuit, no film has earned more discussion these last few months than Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist.Led by Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Isaach De Bankolé, and Alessandro Nivola, the drama of epic proportions is 215 minutes long, with a 15-minute intermission ...
Allen Sunshine Review: A Tranquil Debut Feature with a World of …
Nov 12, 2024 · Directed with a sense of tranquil serenity and grounded maturity one might be accustomed to finding in the work of a seasoned director, Allen Sunshine is, quite remarkably, the debut feature of 25-year-old Harley Chamandy. The Montreal-born, New York-based filmmaker received the 2024 Werner Herzog Film Prize for his feature following its Munich Film Festival
Metrograph Launches Print Publication with Inaugural Issue …
Nov 1, 2024 · In an era where print magazines continue to shutter (most recently Cinema Scope and Total Film), it's always a breath of fresh air for the industry of film journalism when a new one enters the game. Metrograph has now unveiled The Metrograph, a new biannual print publication designed by Matt Willey at Pentagram. Featuring exclusive cover artwork by
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An Expanded Edition of Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love with Never-Before-Seen Footage Sets China Premiere
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Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Christopher Nolan, Spike Lee, Chantal Akerman, Theo Angelopoulos, Lynne Ramsay, Tsai Ming-liang, Michael Haneke, Lee Chang-dong, Terence Dav...
Jean-Luc Godard: Reckoning with the Cinematic Corpus of a …
Dec 15, 2023 · How common a narrative reduction! I wonder what would have happened if, in truly attempting to convey the limitations of a Maoist film practice while broadening the possibilities for a woman’s autonomy inside dogmatic images, Leuthy’s film had taken Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group to task for Letter to Jane (1972). An expertly-argued hit-piece of leftist-ish essay film, the piece asks ...