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Short Fuse Podcast #45: Lynne Sachs’s “Film About a Father Who”

October 12, 2021
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A conversation with acclaimed filmmaker, poet, and educator Lynne Sachs about her work, particularly 2020’s Film About a Father Who.

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Film Review: Pedro Almodovar’s “Parallel Mothers” — Let It Bear You Away

October 11, 2021
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Pedro Almodovar’s latest, Parallel Mothers, sets up a dialectic between women’s regenerative powers and the blood-soaked history of pre-WWII Spain.

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Film Review: “Prayers for the Stolen,” A Microcosm of Mexico, Makes US Premiere at the NY Film Festival

October 6, 2021
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Let’s see if Prayers for the Stolen is selected as Mexico’s Academy Award nominee. It’s a long shot, given that this is a film that tells so much of the truth.

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Film Review: “Titane” — Born in Flames

October 5, 2021
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For all its skin-tearing brutality, Titane is uncharacteristically tender underneath its heavy metal shell.

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Film Review: “Five Years North” — A Heart-Wrenching Look at Our Nation’s Twisted Immigration System

October 4, 2021
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Told with just the right amount of empathy, Five Years North offers an illuminating, and much needed, look at immigration in America.

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Film Review: “No Time to Die” — A Miraculous Bond Redux

October 3, 2021
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No Time to Die could only be a product of the Trump era.

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Film Review: “Algren” – (First-rate writer from the Second City)

September 30, 2021
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Once celebrated, but now largely forgotten, novelist and short story writer Nelson Algren deserves the attention given to him in a wide-ranging documentary.

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Film Review: “The Guilty” — A Danish Thriller, Just as Relentless in English

September 28, 2021
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Director Anton Fuqua forgoes his usual action milieu with an unrelentingly tense, highly emotional English language remake of Den skyldige.

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Film Review: “Cry Macho” — Not So Mucho Macho

September 27, 2021
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Cry Macho is little more than nostalgia for the Old West of Hollywood.

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Film Reviews: Documentaries at the Toronto International Film Festival — Cops and Kenny G

September 25, 2021
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Docs at the Toronto International Film Festival ranged from the topical to the historical to the cultural. Here are a few that you should try to see.

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