Dry Leaf, Rose of Nevada, and Levers present us with surfaces so textured and tactile that they have the physicality of a ...

One of the few working Hollywood directors who might qualify for a degree in American Studies, Anderson has made some ...

Class canceled: are the binders empty in Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt because the professors are full of shit, or is it ...

(Darren Aronofsky, U.S., 2010)Early in Black Swan, artistic director Thomas Leroy concludes his personal synopsis of Swan Lake with the declaration that only in death does its troubled heroine find ...

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Fire fights: highlights of this year’s festival, like Below the Clouds, Dead Man’s Wire, and Sacrifice reflected the anxious ...

There’s something strangely sedating about being at the Venice Film Festival. The annual Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica takes place not in Venice proper, but on a tiny island called Lido ...

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There’s nobody on this set who’s got a bigger dick than he does. Whatever he wants, he gets. —a Milagro production assistant. Even in this remote location, Robert Redford can’t escape the glare of the ...

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(Bruce McDonald, Canada, 2008)Early on a frigid Valentine’s morning in some desolate village within the Ontario hinterland, talk radio DJ Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) is assailed by an unidentified ...

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