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2024 Film Independent Spirit Award Nominees Led by American Fiction, May December and Past Lives
Film Independent announced today the 2024 Spirit Award nominees in all the film and TV categories. Only American productions with budgets of less than $30 million were eligible for consideration in the film races. Winners will be revealed at a televised ceremony on Sunday, February 25th, 2024. Three of the Best Picture nominees earned five…
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Colman Domingo to Receive the Spotlight Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival
The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Colman Domingo will be the recipient of the Spotlight Award, Actor for his performance in George C. Wolfe‘s “Rustin.” The awards ceremony will be sponsored by Entertainment Tonight and IHG Hotels & Resorts, and take place on Thursday, January 4th, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running through Monday, January…
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Short Films in Focus: Big Touch
Christopher Tenzis’ “Big Touch” is a wordless film about the healing power of physical contact. Some will read more into it, but that is one of the remarkable things about Tenzis’ three-minute piece. It’s meditative, multi-layered and somehow also gets the job done quickly. Many reviews I looked at on Letterboxd commented that they weren’t…
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How Martin Scorsese Uses Music to Enhance His Visions
With a career that has prospered for over half a century—including his most recent, incisive work “Killers of the Flower Moon”—we can not only trace how Scorsese has developed as an auteur but one with a profound musical affinity. “I know that without music, I would be lost. Very often it is uniquely on hearing…
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Leave the World Behind
“Leave the World Behind,” writer/director and “Mr. Robot” creator Sam Esmail’s suspenseful, psychological thriller, understands the general mechanics of the post-apocalyptic genre. There is the pretentious family caught in world-altering circumstances. “I f*cking hate people,” says Amanda Sandford (Julia Roberts), as she stares jadedly from the window of her luxe Brooklyn apartment. And so Amanda…
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What It Takes to Save the Axolotl
On the outskirts of Mexico City, biologists are working to reintroduce a treasured amphibian to the wild. But first they must revive an ancient method of farming.
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Bordeaux Wine Snobs Have a Point, According to This Computer Model
With machine learning, scientists are trying to chemically define the murky concept of terroir. The models might be useful for detecting wine fraud.
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Restaurant Review: April Bloomfield’s Sailor in Brooklyn
At Sailor, in Brooklyn, the Spotted Pig’s former chef is doing the best cooking of her career.
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Sacramento Restaurants Worth Exploring
Soaring Bay Area housing prices, a highly diverse community and some of the world’s best produce have been catalysts for the dining scene in California’s capital.
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Woman sentenced to fast-food job after hurling Chipotle bowl at worker
Rosemary Hayne told police she threw a burrito bowl at Emily Russell. A judge offered reduced jail time if Hayne agreed to spend 20 hours a week in an employee’s shoes.