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London Film Festival, Dispatch #1: Burning Youth

October 11, 2023
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The first of three review round-ups from this year’s London Film Festival’s excellent slate of films.

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Book Review: Sofia Coppola’s “Archive” — An Invaluable Exploration of Feminine Creativity

October 11, 2023
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“Archive” sprung from Sofia Coppola’s desire to record what her mind’s organized chaos says about her and her films.

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New York Film Festival 2023: The Arrival of a Master — Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall”

October 9, 2023
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This is a Strindbergian dance to the death between a powerful, accomplished woman and a husband tormented by his own sense of failure.

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Book Review: Filmmaker Werner Herzog’s Memoir — The Profound Voice of a Master

October 7, 2023
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Werner Herzog likes the odds in “Every Man for Himself and God Against All.”

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Doc Talk: Two at CineFest Latino Boston — Totaled Recall

September 27, 2023
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What happens when, through unwillingness or incapacity, memory is lost or forsaken? Two documentaries at the CineFest Latino Boston explore some answers.

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Film Review: “Cassandro” — The Exótico as Champion

September 26, 2023
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Watching Cassandro become the “Liberace of Luchadors” is enthralling in itself, but we are also given the drama of seeing the protagonist wrestle with his own personal demons.

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Film Review: “Fair Play” — All’s Fowl in Love and Business

September 25, 2023
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The unpleasantness of the film’s first sex scene turns out to be a foreshadowing of a refreshingly curdled vision of insecurity in the 21st century.

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Film Review: “My Animal” — The Beast Within

September 22, 2023
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In her debut feature, music video director Jacqueline Castel supplies a moody and explicitly queer spin on the metaphor of monster as a maligned queer subject.

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Film Festival Reviews: TIFF 2023 — Human Remains in the North and More from Finland

September 22, 2023
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Four reviews of films about existence — past and present — for the marginalized in Scandinavia.

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Film Festival Reviews: TIFF 2023 — In School, On the Streets, and In the Woods

September 19, 2023
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Reviews of three dark films that probe the crisis of authority, immigration, and feminism in Europe

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