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Critics Choice Awards Nominations

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BEST PICTURE
A Complete Unknown
Anora
The Brutalist
Conclave
Dune: Part Two

Film Comment's ten best of 2024

This is the result of a poll of film critics, as is IndieWire's. 115 writers contributed. Each film gets a comment from a different writer. There is a podcast...

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GEM DEGER, MATTHÉO CAPELLI, AND FRÉDÉRIKA MILANO IN ENDLESS SUMMER SYNDROME

KAVEH DANESHAND: THE ENDLESS SUMMER SYNDROME (2023)

Another...

Richard Brody's list from The New Yorker

Omitting Brody's lengthy opening discussion of the current situation for independent cinema, etc. Omitting also his interesting comments on each film. You...

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ANORA, THE BRUTALIST, and FLOW reign in the Golden Globes nominations announced today, Dec. 9. The Pamela Anderson Best Actress nom is the first I've...

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Numerous sets of critics' awards were announced this week. Right now ANORA is leading for best picture, with SING SING and THE BRUTALIST CLOSE...

Allison Willmore of Vuilture includes JUROR #2 in her ten best of 2024 (at #6) with the following comment - it seems rather cynical and overstated, but that fits in well enough with the film noir...

And now for something completely different. . . But go to Vulture and read all his comments and reasons for listing these - then you'll uinderstand why inn Waters' distinctive vision they become...

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NICHOLAS HOULT IN JUROR #2 [/i]

CLINT EASTWOOD: JUROR #2 (2024)

A juror who thinks he may be guilty of the crime on trial

This is a very good...

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Calendar of pre-Oscars Awards Events
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ADRIEN BRODY INTHE BRUTALIST

The New York Film Critics Circle
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Smaller group than the National Film Critics Circle, but it includes 45 of the...

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AFI Motion PIctures of the Year
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Foreign or international films are usually considered "ineligible" for this list, but EMILIA PEREZ is obviously...

2024 Awards season and the Oscars

Awards season is on us, with the NBR (see below), with the National Film Critics Circle, the Film Independent Spirit Awards, the AFI awards and the Gotham Awards...

New York Times best lists

QUEER ( Luca Guadagnino 2024)

This just out five days ago on VULTURE from Ira Silverberg, summarizes a Zoom interview with Guadagnino by this longtime friend and associate of William Burroughs...

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AUSTIN BUTLER IN THE BIKERIDERS

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FEATURE FILMS
All We Imagine as Light (Payal...

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Harris Dickinson photographed by David Vintiner for the Observer, London, October 2022.

THE FACES OF HARRIS DICKINSON

"Dickinson has a pale...

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ALEXANDRA SWARENS AND MAKAELA SHEALY IN THE HOLIDAY CLUB

AKEXANDRA SWARENS: THE HOLIDAY CLUB (2024)

When Harriet met Sally

Next door...

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Cairo 2024: The Awards
The Cairo jury gave their main prize to Romanian director Bogdan Muresanu’s tragicomic Cold War period piece 'The New Year That...

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HARRIS DICKINSON WITH THE LATE CHARLBI DEAN IN TRIANGLE OF SADNESS

RECONSIDERING 'TRIANGLE OF SADNESS' (Ruben Östlund 2022)

I've watched TRIANGLE...

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Discussions at CIFF

Putting an end to stereotypes in Africa's cinema
The Cairo Industry Days' dynamic panel about African cinema urged filmmakers to...

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WITNESS (SHAHID)

A new Iranian film at CIFF

WITNESS
Directed by Nader Saeivar
(Link to NOv. 19 VERDICT review by Stephen Dalton)
Iranian...

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THE BLUE LAKE

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THE BLUE LAKE/LE LAC BLEU
Directed by Daoud Aoulad-Syad
VERDICT: A captivating story, at once simple and...

EMILIA PÉREZ (Jacques Audiard 2024).

US theatrical release from Nov. 1 and now (Nov. 18) showing throughout the country Available on Netflix from Nov. 13.

On rewatching later (November 18),...

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MANUAL FOR A DIVORCE

More from Cairo Film Festival

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ABU ZABAL 89
Directed by Bassam Mortada
“…Bassam Mortada's 'Abo Zaabal 89' is a...