In Silent Friend, characters from three eras interact with the fauna around them. In 1908, Grete (Luna Wedler) tries to study medicine at a time when women were not allowed in college, and photography helps her uncover patterns in nature. In the 1970s, a geranium fascinates Hannes (Enzo Brumm) in ways that change his life. […]
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“Provocation” has become watered-down in recent times. All it takes to provoke someone is tossing off a bunch of half-assed offensive statements or aiming your cannon at every divisive mainstream issue on a quest to push people’s buttons. Getting a reaction out of people is easy; actually making them consider things is another matter entirely. […]
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Yes, of course, we love the glitzy red-carpet premieres and breathlessly staked-out hot takes on whatever premiere peppers the competition line-up, but Cannes’ highest batting average, bar none, is in its Classics section. This year’s repertory programming boasts Akira Kurosawa’s still-underseen debut Sanshiro Sugata, Visconti’s The Innocent, Orson Welles’ The Stranger, and—perhaps most notably—Ken Russell’s […]
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We average about one Whit Stillman movie every ten years, which makes the path from 2016’s Love & Friendship to today’s news right on the money. Variety reports that Adam Brody (of the aforementioned, plus Stillman’s Amazon pilot The Cosmopolitans) and Laura Carmichael will lead A Night at Claridge’s, which adapts Patrick Hamilton’s 1947 novel […]
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After two-and-a-half years of Israeli genocide rendering an endless stream of unconscionable images, any record of Gaza’s past has become all the more invaluable. It would be easy to grade Kamal Aljafari’s With Hasan in Gaza on such a curve—for capturing the region in 2001 amidst a comparatively easier time, it offers an outright ghostly […]
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After crafting one of the highlights of 2026 with the thrilling, hilarious Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, Matt Johnson is back with his next feature. The Canadian director proved his chops in finding a unique way into a true story with BlackBerry, and now his next subject is the early life of the […]
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We’re now just over two months away from Christopher Nolan’s long-awaited adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, which has been marketed more heavily in the year leading up to release than most other films could ever dream of. Nolan has now stopped by one of Stephen Colbert’s final shows for an extended chat and to reveal the […]
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Three things are likely true: 1) you’re excited for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden, which premieres at Cannes this month; 2) you’re not going to Cannes this month; 3) you’ve not seen his 2013 mini-feature Touching the Skin of Eeriness, which finds Hamaguchi embracing the unnerving qualities of Japanese horror cinema, and particularly of […]
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Reteaming with National Geographic Documentary Films after her Oscar-nominated documentary Fire of Life, Sara Dosa returned to Sundance Film Festival with Time and Water. Now set for a global theatrical release beginning May 29, followed by a release on National Geographic and Disney+ later this year, the first trailer has arrived. Here’s the synopsis: “In TIME […]
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Before Our Land (Nuestra Tierra), there is a solemn parade of quiet production logos. This is often the case with films of political and historical importance. The stories that are the most vital are often the most difficult to tell and almost always arrive at a delay. In 2018, a local landowner named Dario Amin […]
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