Filmmakers have dreamed about visiting the moon from the earliest days of cinema. French stage magician-turned-director George Méliès was the…
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“I can’t act and I can’t compose and I can’t do visual effects, so I guess that’s why I’m producing.”…
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It is increasingly rare to find films in love with actors’ faces, and even rarer to find directors who know…
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Sam Peckinpah’s “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” has about it an air of abeyance, of incompletion spurred by decades…
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In “Dandelion,” a struggling Cincinnati singer-songwriter (KiKi Layne, “If Beale Street Could Talk”) is looking for a way to make…
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I love film festivals. It’s as simple as that. You go, usually to a far-flung location, a place on a…
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No matter how many films I see at a festival, I almost always miss the big prize winner. It’s almost…
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Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer) is not okay. His wife and artistic collaborator Sarah (Reina Hardesty) died suddenly, leaving him in a…
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Writer-director Monia Chokri’s “The Nature of Love,” is a two-hour foray into longing, self-searching, and passion. Sophia (a magnetic Magalie…
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Mia Goth and Ti West took the world of arthouse horror by storm in 2022 with the one-two punch of…
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