Waikiki may be the first feature written and directed by a Native Hawaiian filmmaker. He is Christopher Kahunahana, a Sundance Lab alumnus who says his screenplay comes straight from personal...
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Waikiki may be the first feature written and directed by a Native Hawaiian filmmaker. He is Christopher Kahunahana, a Sundance Lab alumnus who says his screenplay comes straight from personal...
Gloom as high art and profound philosophy
Where Andersson, ever painterly in his reference points, claims the influence of the New Objectivity art movement, with its angular clarity, elsewhere in...
DANNY MADDEN: BEAST BEAST (2020)
The young people today, oh my
American teen life has long had alcohol, drugs, petty crime, sex, heartbreak, clothes and laziness as distractions. Now there's...
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STILL FROM maɬni - TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE
Opened yesterday, April 2, 2021 at Metrograph in New York
Two meditative interviews with...
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STILL FROM maɬni - TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE
Opened yesterday, April 2, 2021 at Metrograph in New York
Two meditative interviews with...
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ND/NF 2021: Descriptions of the films
Aleph ( Iva Radivojevic) Structured as a labyrinth-like game and inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph is a...
There are also shorts:
Beyond Is the Day dir. Damian Kocur
Binh dir. Ostin Fam
Heaven Reaches Down to Earth dir. Tebogo Malebogo
Hola, abuelo dir. Manuela Eguía
I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face...
It starts later this year due to the pandemic; the 2020 series was delayed till Dec. This is the 50th anniversary of ND/NF, so there is a retrospective series of selections from early years,...
Seen or not, Mank is the obvious cinephile's choice. I'm rarely as well prepared as I am this time, having not only seen but written reviews of all eight Best Picture noms. I also rarey feel as...
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Minari trailer
Admittedly, I can't watch this without tearing up.
Peter Bradshaw's enthusiastic review appears in the Guardian today (April 1,...
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ALAN S. KIM AND STEVEN YEUN IN MINARI
Johann:
Mank is the logical cinephile's choice, a celebration of cinematic complexity recreating a memorable,...
CLAIRE DENIS: L'INTRUS (THE INTRUDER) (2004)
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MICHEL BUTOR IN L'INTRUS
Terminal odyssey
Before L'Intrus ("The Intruder") I'd seen other Denis...
Leading the nominations at last Fri. Mar. 12's César Awards with 13 nominations, Emmanuel Mouret's "Les choses qu'on dit, les choses qu'on fait' ("Love Affair(s)") "only" received the trophy for best...
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THE OSCARS 2021
Full list of nominations
Source: Screen Daily
Best Picture
THE OSCARS 2021
Full list of nominations
Source: Screen Daily
Best Picture
The Father
Judas And The Black Messiah
Mank
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Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2021: some comments.
Like the New York Film Festival and New Directors series for...
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SUMMER OF 85/ÉTÉ 85 (François Ozon 2020)
Ozon has finally adapted a tragic gay romance he may haver wanted to film when he started out: he read the YA novel as a teen. Outstanding performances...
The state of French cinema. Ozon comments. (His SUMMER OF '85 will be the final review in this year's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema coverage.)
FINAL SET/CINQUIEME SET (Quentin Reynaud 2020)
A French pro tennis player whose promise vanished early makes one last move at 37 to get into the French Opens at Roland-Garros. A movie that...
MANDIBLES/MANDIBULES (Quentin Dupieux 2020)
An oddball buddy picture this time about two illegal goofals who find a giant fly, for a change Dupieux has made a movie that's fun to watch and talk...
A L'ABORDAGE (Guillaume Brac 2020)
Another vacation trip with Brac, this time a particularly accepting, multi-racial one.
The Césars, Paris March 12, 2021
We're in the final four films of Filmleaf's ongoing coverage of the 2021 New York Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. Here are the results of today's César awards,...
LOVERS/AMANTS (Nicole Garcia 2020)
A brood noirish love triangle with a well known cast, Pierre Niney, Stacy Martin, and Benoît Magimel. But it never quite gets off the ground, starting with a...
IBRAHIM (Samir Guesmi 2020)
Strong feature directorial debut by longtime actor Guesmi is a Bressonian tale with hints of Italian neorealism of a naive teenage boy from the banlieue with a...