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Tribeca Film Festival 2024, Part Two — Absurdism Kazakh-style and British Masters

June 21, 2024
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Two standouts at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival: “Bikechess” and “Made in England: The Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger”.

Actor Remembrance: Donald Sutherland — 10 Films to Watch, in Love and Awe

June 21, 2024
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Here are films I’ve most loved watching the late Donald Sutherland in over the years.

Film Review: “The Bikeriders” – Born to be Riled

June 21, 2024
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A 1968 book of photos and interviews on a motorcycle club makes a fictionalized transition to the screen.

Film Reviews: Tribeca Film Festival 2024, Part One

June 17, 2024
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The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival was predictably celebrity-heavy and substance-light. Yet between the cracks, there were things well worth seeing.  

Doc Talk: From Revolution to De-evolution at the Nantucket Film Festival

June 17, 2024
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The documentaries “War Game” and “Devo” take up the topic of insurrection, political and cultural.

Doc Talk: Movies on Loss and Recovery at the Provincetown International Film Festival

June 11, 2024
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A trio of films in which certainty and security have been disrupted and people must make the best of what remains.

Book Review: A Deep Dive into the Complex World of Ingmar Bergman

June 7, 2024
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Film historian Peter Cowie’s writing is always intelligent, if somewhat dry, and normally correct in its evaluations of Ingmar Bergman’s films.

Film Review: “Lumberjack the Monster” — A Petrified Forest

June 5, 2024
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Director Takashi Miike’s latest is a killjoy of a film: it doesn’t want to have fun with its material, but it’s impossible to take it seriously. 

Film Review: “Lost Soulz” — An Engaging Hip-Hop Road Trip

June 4, 2024
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The enthusiastic spirit of “Lost Soulz” is appealing enough to make what feels like two different types of movies sutured together dramatically satisfying.

Film Review: “Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara” — Taken by Order of the Pope

May 31, 2024
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There is no denying that “Kidnapped”‘s warning about political authority abusing religion for its own accumulative ends resonates powerfully at this moment.

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