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Andrea Arnold sits in an exciting but complicated position in British film; her small filmography has significantly influenced the next generation of independent British filmmakers (predominantly female directors), but her work is not readily financed and, it turns out, difficult to produce. It may explain why it’s taken eight
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It's been just over a year since Bleeker Street picked up the rights to Fackham Hall during the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. The movie, a spoof of Downton Abbey and other hit period dramas, arrived at the festival market with four cast members attached to star: Hero
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It took a good decade, but the fantasy genre craze finally reached a natural endpoint. Much like the precipitous drop in moviegoers seeing superhero films, there's a point when too many streaming services have too many fantasy adaptations of novels, and audiences start gravitating to what they haven&
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Many films cast great actors in positions of power, conflating their dramatic prestige with a tangible and confident sense of statesmanship. It’s rare for a main cast to consist entirely of leaders of sovereign nations, but a film like Rumours can’t lampoon the po-faced affirmations of progress
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The 2024 American Film Market in Las Vegas begins November 5, when everyone's attention will be focused elsewhere, but that doesn't mean the deals that ensure next year's movie productions can start filming aren't going to be struggling to find investors. This
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Recent high-profile films set in rural Ireland have showcased contrasting tones and genres: the guns-blazing, Liam Neeson-starring In the Land of Saints and Sinners was a Clint Eastwood thriller transposed to coastal Donegal (complete with a noticeably more lively Neeson), while Martin McDonagh’s Oscar-nominated The
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One of the significant problems that the Academy Awards continues to struggle with is that most years, they're awarding films no one has seen. This is due to a variety of factors, from Art House movies being traditionally challenging to market to those in the movie industry who
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We Live in Time, a throwback blend of awards-friendly sentimentality with bursts of 90s-era Richard Curtis comedy has likeability on its mind. It stars two British actors, Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, who never fail to exude charm and selective enough in their projects that a new one
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Brady Corbet's The Brutalist was first announced in September 2020, just as the pandemic settled in for the long haul, with the optimistic filming schedule listed as beginning in January 2021, which, as most of us know, did not happen, as Lockdown 2 was declared in the U.
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Longing, survival, and the thin line between destructiveness and compassion course through Steve McQueen’s Blitz, a displaced family drama that compromises on the British filmmaker’s stark and arresting style for a film that’s too eager to win you over and lacking what makes his films unique. Set
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In the words of the weird sisters: A drum, a drum! Macbeth doth come. Fans of great theater, William Shakespeare, David Tennant (Rivals), and Cush Jumbo (Criminal Record), can all breathe a sigh of relief: Macbeth will screen in select cinemas across the U.S., the U.K., and Australia
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Since its debut at Cannes, Santosh has received rave reviews (there are only a handful of reviews so far, but Rotten Tomatoes currently rates it as 100% Fresh). The Hindi language movie is the debut fictional feature-length film from director Sandhya Suri. It is the story of a widow