Tuttle discusses directing Kieron Moore and Reed Birney, the film’s rich subtext, and more.
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Blue Film is a scrappy and profoundly unsettling chamber drama.
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The film makes it abundantly clear from the get-go that the people are the problem.
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Martel discusses her first nonfiction work, the controversy around its subtitling, and more.
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The series has the distinction of being the first Man on Fire adaptation to lack its own identity.
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The film has the aspartame fake-sweetness and zero-calorie comfort of its predecessor.
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McCarthy discusses working with a bigger budget, crafting scares, and more.
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The slower it moves, the more obvious the film’s deficiencies become.
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The film functions as a meditation on McCarthy’s own perspective as a storyteller.
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Two Pianos only flirts with questions about the sacrifices made for art.
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