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End of Year MOVIE JOURNAL

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Not in NYC this season but still hope to get caught up on the year's most admired movies though I had to send off my...

BACURAU (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles 2019)

Humans hunting humans for sport in a rural northern Brazilian town stands for the brutality of the current right wing regime, American...

KLEBER MENDOÇA FILHO, JULIANO DORNELLES: BACURAU (2019)

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SONIA BRAGA (CENTER) IN BACURAU

Not just another Cannes mistake?

This is a bold film...

New York Film Critics' Circle announces
2019 awards, THE IRISHMAN top film; AFI picks their ten best features of the year, led by 1917


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ALMA HAR'EL: HONEY BOY (2019)

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NOAH JUPE WITH SHIA LABOEUF IN HONEY BOY

Movie life

Thirty-three-year-old Shia Laboeuf's autobiographical screenplay...

KIM LONGINOTTO: SHOOTING THE MAFIA (2019)

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YOUNG MAFIOSI SHOOT BY LETIZIA BATTAGLIA 1977

Scattershot

In this vivid but frustrating little documentary...

MICHAEL APTED: 63 UP (2019)

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Life studies, cumulative

The British documentary "Up" series is an epic survey of human lives many of us have watched...

RIAN JOHNSON: KNIVES OUT (2019)

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DANIEL CRAIG AND LAKEITH STANFIELD IN KNIVES OUT

New wine in old bottles

Rian Johnson's new movie is an all-star...

ORDINARY HAPPINESS/MOMENTI DI TRASCURABILE FELICITA (Daniele Luchetti 2019)

A dead man gets a short reprieve from heaven, and in the film's run time revisits and appreciates his life as a Palermo...

THE VICE OF HOPE/ IL VIZIO DELLA SPERANZA (Edoardo De Angelis 2018)

A woman involved in trafficking surrogate mothers, now pregnant herself, decides to run away.

Cinema Italian Style 2019,...

VOLARE/TUTTO IL MIO FOLLE AMORE (Gabriele Salvatores 2019)

From the director of I'M NOT AFRAID, a road/buddy picture about the surprise bonding of a wild but sweet 16-year-old autistic boy and...

[Found also in Filmleaf's Festival Coverage section for the 2019 NYFF]

MARTIN SCORSESE: THE IRISHMAN (2019)

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AL PACINO AND ROBERT DE NIRO IN THE...

[Found also in Filmleaf's Festival Coverage section for the 2019 NYFF]

MARTIN SCORSESE: THE IRISHMAN (2019)

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AL PACINO AND ROBERT DE NIRO IN THE...

DANIELE LUCHETTI: ORDINARY HAPPINESS/MOMENTI DI TRASCURABILE FELICITÀ (2019)

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PIF (LEFT) IN ORDINARY HAPPINESS

A plea for mindfulness

I...

EDOARDO DE ANGELIS: THE VICE OF HOPE/IL VIZIO DELLA SPERANZA (2018)

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PINA TURCO IN THE VICE OF HOPE

[PREVIEW]

The Vice of Hope
Il vizio della...

GABRIELE SALVATORES: VOLARE/TUTTO IL MIO FOLLE AMORE (2019)

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GIULIO PRANNO AND CLAUDIO SANTAMARIA IN VOLARE/TUTTO IL MIO FOLLE AMORE

Man child and...

VIVERE (Francesca Archibugi 2019)

The doings of a dysfunctional family on the outskirts of Rome when an Isish au pair girl comes.

Vogue Theater 3 pm Sat. Nov. 23.

FRANCESCA ARCHIBUGI: VIVERE (2019)

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ADRIANI GIANNINI, ALISA MICCOLI, ANDREA CALIGARI

Family loyalty, Roman style

There is not a lot to add to the...

GIUSEPPE MORDINI: THE INVISIBLE WITNESS/IL TESTIMONE INVISIBLE (2018)

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MIRIAM LEONE, RICARDO SCAMARCIO IN /IL TESTIMONE INVISIBLE

No spoilers

A man...

MARCO BELLOCCHIO: THE TRAITOR/IL TRADITORE (2019)

[Originally published for the New York Film Festival.]

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PIERFRANCESCO FAVINO AS TOMMASO BUSCETTA IN...

THE INVISIBLE WITNESS/IL TESTIMONE INVISIBLE (Giuseppe Mordini 2018)

In this twisty crime thriller, a man accused of killing his mistress spills the beans to an ace woman defense attorney. With...

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La prima edizione di Cinema Italian Style SF

Luce Cinecitta and The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco present
The 1st edition of
CINEMA ITALIAN STYLE
November 22 - 24, 2019
At the...

Luce Cinecitta and The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco are presenting the 1st edition of
CINEMA ITALIAN STYLE
November 22 - 24, 2019
At the Vogue Theatre in San Francisco

FESTIVAL...

JESSICA HAUSNER: LITTLE JOE (2019)

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EMILY BEECHAM AND BEN WHISHAW IN LITTLE JOE

Withered

Though not fun watches, the Austrian director Jessica...