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Russian Playwright and Theater Director Are Convicted of ‘Justifying Terrorism’
A theater director and playwright were sentenced to prison, a stark indication of the increasing suppression of free speech since Russia’s attack on Ukraine, their lawyers and critics say.
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Middle East Crisis: Statements From Netanyahu and Hamas Narrow Hopes for a Truce in Gaza
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would not agree to a permanent cease-fire, and Hamas said that the continued fighting risked returning “the negotiating process to point zero.”
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France Learns a New Word: Ungovernable
Far from producing a “clarification,” President Emmanuel Macron’s snap election has yielded a muddle that could take months to sort out.
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Russian Strike Destroys Children’s Hospital in Kyiv
President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia launched at least 40 missiles at targets across Ukraine, including the country’s largest children’s hospital.
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France Has No Majority After the Elections. What Happens Next?
No party got an absolute majority in the National Assembly. Here are some of the ways the country could escape political gridlock. None are easy.
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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid Ride Again with Criterion’s 50th Anniversary Release
Sam Peckinpah’s “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” has about it an air of abeyance, of incompletion spurred by decades of mythology and rumor about its troubled production, contentious post-production, and the personal demons plaguing a director whose prickliness and battles with addiction have troubled considerations of his work and artistic legacy. Not helping is…
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Time to Bloom: KiKi Layne on Dandelion
In “Dandelion,” a struggling Cincinnati singer-songwriter (KiKi Layne, “If Beale Street Could Talk”) is looking for a way to make music for a living when, while performing at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota, she meets Casey (Thomas Doherty), a guitarist who long ago gave up on his dreams. Falling in with a nomadic band…
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KVIFF 2024: Wrap-up and Awards
I love film festivals. It’s as simple as that. You go, usually to a far-flung location, a place on a map that appears unreal at first, to see movies before anyone else. Some are big titles starring glitzy names made by legendary or up-and-coming auteurs that will sometimes dominate the public moviegoing consciousness. Seeing those…
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KVIFF: A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things, Stranger, Rude to Love
No matter how many films I see at a festival, I almost always miss the big prize winner. It’s almost as if the jury is purposefully picking the one film I either haven’t seen or had never heard until their name was announced at the awards ceremony. This time, at the Karlovy Vary International Film…
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The Secret Art of Human Flight
Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer) is not okay. His wife and artistic collaborator Sarah (Reina Hardesty) died suddenly, leaving him in a state of shock. He forgets to eat, he forgets to sleep. Stuck in a neverending stupor, he forgets to take care of himself. When his concerned sister Gloria (Lucy DeVito) and her husband Tom (Nican…