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Tuesday - film - Review Celestial Embodiment Of Death

September 5th, 2023

TELLURIDE – At a festival full of gutsy films Daina O. Pusić’s directorial feature debut, "Tuesday," may be the most visionary of them all. No small feat when you’re premiering opposite works from Yorgos Lanthimos, Pablo Larrain, Jonathan Glazer and Emerald Ferrell, among others. Then again, it’s not that surprising when one of the movie’s central characters is the eternal harbinger of doom embodied in the physical manifestation of a white-eyed macaw bird. Oh yes, Pusić and her anti-hero are ...

You Need to Watch the Most Ambitious Sci-Fi Flop on Netflix ASAP

May 7th, 2023

In space, no one can smell your fear. Except in the 2013 film After Earth, where the entire premise rests on the idea that a specific race of aliens can sense human fear, and thus dominate us unless we suppress our emotions. In 2013, the Will Smith-led sci-fi movie, which was directed by M. Night Shyamalan and just hit Netflix, opened to reviews that threw "worst sci-fi movie" ever made around a lot. With a meager 12 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, is After Earth worth your time? Yes! 10 y...

The Bride Wore Black

April 29th, 2023

The Bride Wore Black (La Mariée était en noir) is a 1968 crime drama by Francois Truffaut.The Story: after witnessing the love of her life murdered on her wedding day, the bride (Jeanne Moreau) overcomes her depression and vows bloody revenge. One by one she attempts to track down and kill a group of men responsible for the death of her groom.The Bride Wore Black has quite a reputation. Possibly because it counts among Truffauts more accessible, more pop endeavours and presents an aesthetic a...

Dril Is Everyone - More Specifically a Guy Named Paul

April 13th, 2023

Ringer illustration Paul Dochney posted his way into the halls of internet lore. After 15 years of anonymity, can he emerge without compromising his act? "Man is a double being and can take, now the god’s-eye view of things, now the brute’s eye view." —Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means, 1937 "the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: ‘theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron’" —Dril, Twitter, 2014 Dril is a real perso...

Tomu Uchida | 警察官 (Keisatsukan) (Police Officer, aka Policeman)

February 16th, 2023

Tomu Uchida | 警察官 (Keisatsukan) (Police Officer, aka Policeman)SourceURL: http://internationalcinemareview.blogspot.com/2023/02/tomu-uchida-keisatsukan-police-officer.html looking homeward by Douglas Messerli Eizo Yamauchi (screenplay, based on a story by Toshihiko Takeda), Tomu Uchida (director) 警察官 (Keisatsukan) (Police Officer, aka Policeman) / 1933 Only this film of the several of the several Tomu Uchida made in pre-war Japan has survived intact. But Keisatsukan...

White Noise - the original from 1995

February 9th, 2023

White Noise Reviewed by: Martin Gray Architect Jonathan Rivers is proving unable to rebuild his life after his novelist second wife Anna disappears. He mopes, he neglects his weekend son Mike, he moves into a truly soulless apartment (typical architect). He hangs on to the hope that her story isn't ove...

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49th PARALLEL

February 6th, 2023

49th PARALLEL (11)By: Joshua Glenn February 6, 2023 University of Toronto philosopher Mark Kingwell and HILOBROW‘s Josh Glenn are coauthors of The Idler’s Glossary (2008), The Wage Slave’s Glossary (2011), and The Adventurer’s Glossary (2021). While researching and writing their respective sections of the latter book, they engaged in an epistolary exchange about real-world and fictional adventures. (As intended, passages from this exchange appear verbatim in the book.) Via the series 49th PA...

War Trilogy – Three Films by Andrzej Wajda

February 1st, 2023

Watching these harrowing films in rapid succession allows us to watch a great director’s confidence develop at close hand; though 1955’s A Generation (Pokolenie) is an impressive debut for a 27-year old director, both Kanał (1957) and 1958’s Ashes and Diamonds (Popiół i diament) really show Wajda’s technique taking flight. The three films are thematically linked but don’t share any characters, tracing life in Nazi-occupied Poland from 1942 until the end of the Eur...

1917 - the film

January 20th, 2023

FQ -1917SourceURL: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/new-trailer-1917-shows-world-war-i-youve-never-seen-70671 Task and Purpose Security, Watch it here.  It looks like World War I is finally getting the major motion picture treatment it deserves, and it's about damn time. The new trailer for 1917 just dropped, and it's two minutes of chaos, fear, and confusion as we follow soldiers on the Western Front through trenches, underground tunnels,...

The Pale Blue Eye review - telltale hearts. Film review by Nick Hasted - The Arts Desk

January 17th, 2023

Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) is the prototype for the Rue Morgue murders’ deducer, Auguste Dupin. He’s a legendary, retired police detective, asked to solve a death at the West Point military academy in wintry upstate New York. The suicide verdict of Dr Marquis (Toby Jones) is swiftly altered to ritual murder then followed by a second, with hearts carved out of hanged bodies. Landor enlists cadet Poe (Harry Melling) to infiltrate the academy’s Bullingdon Club-like elite of entitled, bully...

Pale Blue Eye review - telltale hearts

January 17th, 2023

Film review by Nick Hasted - The Arts DeskAugustus Landor (Christian Bale) is the prototype for the Rue Morgue murders’ deducer, Auguste Dupin. He’s a legendary, retired police detective, asked to solve a death at the West Point military academy in wintry upstate New York. The suicide verdict of Dr Marquis (Toby Jones) is swiftly altered to ritual murder then followed by a second, with hearts carved out of hanged bodies. Landor enlists cadet Poe (Harry Melling) to infiltrate the academy’s Bul...

Skinamarink

January 14th, 2023

SkinamarinkSourceURL: https://reverseshot.org/archive/entry/3029/Skinamarink Inner Sanctum By Natalie Marlin Skinamarink Dir. Kyle Edward Ball, Canada, IFC Midnight The first sound to pierce the night is a father slamming a door. He’s just found his son Kevin (Lucas Paul) injured, crying, having fallen down a flight of stairs in the night. A daughter, Kaylee (Dali Rose Tetreault), covertly watching cartoons in her bedroom, reflexively turns the television off when she hears h...

Best Episodes of Abbott Elementary so far

January 13th, 2023

Is it too soon to pick the best episodes of "Abbott Elementary," which has been on the air for just over a year? It wasn’t too soon to put it on every end of year list IndieWire put together, so we say no. On December 7, 2021, ABC premiered the pilot of Quinta Brunson’s elementary school mockumentary, about a spirited and underfunded Philadelphia public school. Brunson stars as second-grade teacher Janine Teagues, a second-year teacher yet to be worn down by the administration. Her optimis...

C.J. Prince’s Top 10 Films of 2022 by C.J. Prince

January 10th, 2023

C.J. Prince’s Top 10 Films of 2022 by C.J. Princehttps://thefilmstage.com/c-j-prince-top-10-films-of-2022/De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena ParavelC.J. Prince’s Top 10 Films of 2022SourceURL: https://thefilmstage.com/c-j-prince-top-10-films-of-2022/ Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2022, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. From a broader point of view, 2021 was a tough year for c...

Shut In (2022) Movie Ending Explained – What do the Apples Symbolize?

January 6th, 2023

Share this Article D.J. Caruso’s latest film, "Shut In (2022)" is a survival thriller that stars Rainey Qualley, Jake Horowitz, and Vincent Gallo. While it does not do anything different compared to other films of this genre, its inventive handling of dread and anxiety makes it perfectly watchable.The film is about a single mother locked inside her house’s pantry by her meth head ex-boyfriend and his friend. Now what she does here on, while being locked inside the room with her young kid...

Identification of a Woman

January 6th, 2023

The Criterion Collection Home Search Cart Account Menu Michelangelo Antonioni Identification of a Woman Michelangelo Antonioni’s Identification of a Woman is a body- and soul-baring voyage into one man’s artistic and erotic consciousness. After his wife leaves him, a film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two enigmatic women: at the same time, he searches for the right subject and actress for his next film. This spellbinding antirom...

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Pale Blue Eye Review

December 22nd, 2022

The Pale Blue Eye is one of those movie titles that’s evocative yet teasingly vague — it makes the film sound like a Western based on a song by Lou Reed. Actually, the movie is based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel, which uses an 1830s military setting and murder mystery to frame a kind of origin myth of Edgar Allan Poe. At West Point, which in the early 19th century is basically a fort in the woods overlooking the Hudson River, a cadet suffers a violent death. He is cut down from a noose hangin...

The Best Modern Noir Movies, Ranked

December 21st, 2022

HomeMovie ListsThe Best Modern Noir Movies, RankedThe Best Modern Noir Movies, RankedBy Rudransh BundelaPublished 2 days agoFrom moody visuals, to somber narratives, here are some of the best modern noir films, ranked. Paramount PicturesFilm noir is a sub-genre of filmmaking that predominantly focuses on stylistic visual elements like the interplay of shadow lighting along with black and white motifs. Film historians believe that noir films have their roots in German expressionist cinematogr...

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Sight and Sound top film picks for 2022 - BFI

December 21st, 2022

What did the cinema of 2022 bring us? A little bit of everything. In our top 50 list below, voted for by 93 Sight and Sound contributors (both UK and international), are bombastic, big-budget action movies, formally audacious genre films and arthouse provocations. Fiction, documentary, live action and animation are all present, as are films from every continent. Debut filmmakers have made immediate impressions, and masters of the craft have cemented their status. With some films ...

Fabelmans - The

December 20th, 2022

https://www.filmfreakcentral.net/.a/6a0168ea36d6b2970c02af1c912468200d-pi*½/****starring Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogan, Gabriel LaBellewritten by Steven Spielberg & Tony Kushnerdirected by Steven Spielbergby Walter Chaw Sammy (Gabriel LaBelle) loves making movies. He loves it so much there's a chance he'll destroy his family because of it--showing things that aren't for public consumption, mishandling the power of the medium, underestimating the magnitude of his gift. We know t...

Family Plot - The

December 20th, 2022

This article appeared in the December 1, 2022 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here.The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg, 2022)The most fearsome hauntings tend to come from those whom we know intimately. Suspended in spectral purgatory, the spirits of our forebears invoke a shared yet inaccessible past that destabilizes our present. In The Eternal Daughter, Joanna Hogg teases out the inherently go...

Films About Poets

December 14th, 2022

HomeMovie ListsBest Films About Poets, Ranked Best Films About Poets, Ranked By Erik Nielsen Published 5 days ago The life of a poet is not inherently cinematic, but these ten films find beauty in lives lived between the pages, and make them worthwhile. Amazon Studios Artistic pursuits confined to the page are never an easy or inherently cinematic activity to portray on screen. Given the difficult task of portraying the solitary act of writing, films about poetry lend th...

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Alam - on the Fleeting Nature of Symbols and Memory set in Israel-occupied Palestine

December 13th, 2022

Share this Article What does a flag symbolize? Who decides the meaning conferred upon a flag as a nation’s symbol? Is its meaning confined to the meaning given to the colors or symbols that characterize it? Does its meaning alter based on where a flag is flown? Alam (2022), which translates to flag, does not raise these questions directly but stimulates its viewers to formulate questions of similar nature on what and what not constitutes the underlying meaning and value of similar nation...

Fabelmans - The

December 10th, 2022

...wants to reckon in a meaningful way with the idea that cinema – like any art form – can be powerful and revealing and magical... but also can be just as dishonest as it is honest. We discussed this and our favorite Spielberg 'Easter Eggs' sprinkled throughout on Filmspotting #900. You can also check out that full review on YouTube.