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Memorable mayhem saves Garland's patchy picture of America at war with itself

It's a little surprising that Civil War is only Alex Garland's fourth...

MAX LUGAVERE, CHRIS NEWHARD: LITTLE EMPTY BOXES (2024)

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MAX AND KATHY LUGAVERE IN LITTLE EMPTY BOXES

A son helps his mother with a fatal disease and...

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The 2024 Directors’ Fortnight lineup
http://www.chrisknipp.com/images/%20qrs.jpg The old symbol for the series used the word "réalizateurs" for...

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The whole Cannes 2024 lineup

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SEE "THE OSCAR EXPERT" INTROS TO SOME OF THE MAIN FILMS

CANNES 2024 - first overview.
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The 77th edition runs May 15-25, 2024
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ENA SERDIJAREVIĆ : SWEET DREAMS (2023)

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MUHAMMAD KHAN AND LISA ZWEERMAN IN SWEET DREAMS

Noble rot

Ena Sendijarević's second feature is a...

MONKEY MAN BOX OFFICE AFTER FIRST WEEK IS GOOD BUT 'MUTED'

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HAO ARE YOU (Dieu Hao Do 2023)

Those interested in the diaspora of Vietnam's Chinese minority after the communists took over South Vietnam in 1975 will find this exploration of his family by the...

SOPHIA, DEATH AND ME (Charly Hübner 2023)

A high concept, dry humor piece about a man who'is visited by Death and stalls for time, going on a road trip to see his estranged seven-year-od son with...

INGEBORG BACHMAN: JOURNEY INTO THE DESERT (Margarethe von Trotta 2023)

Portrait of one of Germany's most prominent poets, intellectuals, and teachers, had a great influence though she died at only...

SONNE UND BETON/SUN AND CONCRETE (David Wnendt 2023)

Boys in the hood Berliner style. It's called Gropiusstadt, and the film follows four of them one hot summer early in the 2000's. Drugs,...

DIEU HAO DO: HAO ARE YOU (2023)

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DIEU HAO DO (CENTER) TALKING TO RELATIVES, LOOKING AT FAMILY PHOTO, ETC. IN HAO ARE YOU

Chasing a diaspora

In...

ON THE ADAMANT: Now Playing in Select Theaters

Opens April 19 in Los Angeles

CHARLY HÜBNER: SOPHIA, DEATH AND ME/SOPHIA, DER TOD UND ICH (2023)

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DIMITRI SCHAAD, MARC HOSEMANN, AND ANNA MARIA MüHE IN SOPHIA, DEATH AND ME[/U] ...

DEV PATEL: MONKEY MAN (2024)

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DEV PATEL IN MONKEY MAN

Patel's directorial debut is violent and beautiful abstract cinematic art

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MARGARETHE VON TROTTA: INGEBORG BACHMAN: JOURNEY INTO THE DESERT (2023)

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VICKY KRIEPS AND RONALD ZEHRFELD IN INGEBORG BACHMAN: JOURNEY INTO THE...

DAVID WNENDT: SONNE UND BETON/SUN AND CONCRETE (2023)

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WEEKEND REBELS (Marc Mothemund 2023)

Based on a true story and a German bestseller about how a man and his ten-year-old autistic son, who has Asperger's, bond making a tour of top-level soccer...

MARC ROTHEMUND: WEEKEND REBELS (2023)

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FLORIAN DAVID FITZ, CECILIO ANDRESON IN WEEKEND REBELS

A special bonding story

Movies and TV surrounding...

KAVERY KAUL: ONE HAND DON'T CLAP (1988) - 4K restoration

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CALYPSO ROSE POSING FOR AN ALBUM COVER IN ONE HAND DON'T CLAP

The world of Calypso music...

OF LIVING WITHOUT ILLUSION (Katharina Lüdin 2023)


Of Living without Illusion explores a dry, neurotic world. Viewers, especially German-speaking ones, may relate to the neuroticism (and the...

A GOOD PLACE/EIN SCHÖNER ORT (Katharina Huber 2023)

A vaguely apocalyptic sci-fi film. Fans of German cinematic oddity may be interested.

A Good Place/Ein schöner ort,, 108 mins., in German,...

GRACE (Ilya Povolotsky 2023)

A father and daughter travel around almost wordlessly over vast prts of remote Russia in a road picture that has echoes of Tarkovsky.

Grace/Blazh, 119 mins.,...

THE DAY I MET YOU (André Novais Oliveira 2023)

The filmmaker's penchant for the everyday triumphs in this study of two ordinary educational employees, a librarian and a schoolteacher,who bond on...

ALL, OR NOTHING AT ALL (Jiajun "Oscar" Zhang 20223)


Chinese director Zhang and his Korean collaborator writer Pyun join are reunited for this feature debut following a widely admired short...