My pleasure; I hope you do see it as you must if you're a Baz booster, and hope you'll report. "Whimsical and Wispy" are true descriptions; and yes, though I didn't stress it, the movie's a bit...
Type: Posts; User: Chris Knipp
My pleasure; I hope you do see it as you must if you're a Baz booster, and hope you'll report. "Whimsical and Wispy" are true descriptions; and yes, though I didn't stress it, the movie's a bit...
JIGME TRINLEY: ONE AND FOUR 一个和四个 (China [Tibet] 2021)
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BLURB: A tense and frigid thriller about a park ranger whose remote hut is visited by three...
LI GEN: BEFORE NEXT SPRING / 如果有一天我将会离开你 (2021)
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XIE CHENGZE AND QIU TIAN IN BEFORE NEXT SPRING
BLURB: A cross-border drama, in which Chinese...
NY ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL July 15-28, 2022
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FORUM THREAD
Before Next Spring 如果有一天我将会离开你 (Li Gen, China, 2021)
One and Four
一个和四个 (Jigme Trinley,...
BAZ LUHRMANN: ELVIS (2022)
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AUSTIN BUTLER IN ELVIS
TRAILER
Glitz, glory, and confusion in Luhrmann's uneven new movie with a hot new star
Austin...
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BEFORE NEXT SPRING (LI GEN)
New York Asian Film Festival 2022 preview
New York, NY (June 16, 2022) – On July 15, 2022, the New York Asian Film...
New York Asian Film Festival's 21th Edition Includes 60+ new and classic titles all presented in person
FESTIVAL COVERAGE THREAD
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER PAGE
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Trintignant was also in Jacques Audiard's first film as a director, SEE HOW THEY FALL (1994), which is not easy to get hold of Stateside. Looking for it now. . .
A GUARDIAN gallery of lifetime photos of Jean-Louis Trintignant
MOHAMMAD RASOULOF: A MAN OF INTEGRITY (2017)
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REZA AKHLAGHIRAD IN A MAN OF INTEGRITY (ACTUAL ASPECT RATIO OF THE FILM)
TRAILER
Beautiful...
EMELIE MAHDAVIAN: BITTERBRUSH (2021)
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HOLLYN PATTERSON, COLLIE MOLINE IN BITTERBRUSH
Two modern cowgirls and their chatter
This documentary follows...
JEAN-LOUIS TRINTIGNANT, 1930-2022
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The prolific actor who starred in Éric Rohmer's most important film, MY NIGHT AT MAUD'S
He was one of the greatest...
PHIL TIPPETT: MAD GOD (2021)
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STILL FROM MAD GOD
TRAILER
A stop motion trip through hell from the special effects mastermind behind 'Robocop,'...
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THE "MASTER" AT WORK: BENEDETTA
CHECKLIST OF CANNES 2021 COMPETITION FILMS.
My personal viewer's comments on those of these that I've caught up with:...
LEONORA ADDIO (Paolo Taviani 2022)
For obvious reasons the most touching film of the series and the most deeply connected to Italian cultural and cinematic traditions. It is two segments, an...
THE LEGIONNAIRE/IL LEGIONARIO (Hleb Papou 2021)
Two brothers born in Italy of black African parents have chosen lives that make them into enemies. Whatever its faults this is an intense, exiting...
THE INNER CAGE/ARIAFERMA (Federico di Costanzo 2021)
The director has a way with confining spaces and slow burns and this, his best yet, focuses on a nearly empty prison in Sardinia where a few...
ON OUR WATCH/E NOI COME STRONZI RIMANEMMO A GUARDARE (Pif 2021)
A satire on our subservience to tech giants who, it says, are making all mankind slaves to algorithms. My problem is that there's...
PAOLO TAVIANI: LEONORA ADDIO (2022)
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FABRIZIO FERRACANE (CENTER) IN LEONORA ADDIO
A valedictory film from the remaining Taviani
An Italian review...
LEONARDO DI COSTANZO: THE INNER CAGE/ARIAFERMA (2021)
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SILVIO ORLANDO AND TONI SERVILLO IN THE INNER CAGE
Di Constanzo again finds sweetness, this time...
HLEB PAPOU: THE LEGIONNAIRE/IL LEGIONARIO (2021)
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GERMANO GENTILE IN LEGIONARIO
Uneven but significant film vividly depicts the new multicultural Italy...
PIERFRANCESCO DILIBERTO (PIF): ON OUR WATCH/E NOI COME STRONZI RIMEMMO A GUARDARE
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FABIO DI LUIGI, ILENIA PASTORELLI IN ON OUR WATCH
Pif's new satire...
SWING RIDE/CALCINCULO (Chiara Bellosi 2022)
Despite a prize-winning screenplay, this story of an overweight teen and the trans person she bonds with at a fair fails to soar, even on the crucial...
CHIARA BELLOSI: SWING RIDE/CALCINCULO (2022)
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GAIA DI PIETRO, ANDREA CARPENZANO IN SWING RIDE
The zoftig girl is not happy so she runs away with a fair...
CRAIG ROBERTS: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN (2021)
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MARK RYLANCE ET AL. IN THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN
Humor is in the eye of the beholder
Audiences go to a...