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Film Review: “Terra Femme” — Only Connect…

November 3, 2021
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Collectively, Terra Femme’s footage provides a window — or really, a suite of windows — that allows us to view a bygone world through the eyes of silent female gazers.

Film Review: Chronicle of a Movie Never Made – “Speer Goes to Hollywood”

November 2, 2021
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Albert Speer’s reputation as a “good Nazi” was this architect’s postwar monument. He spent as much time burnishing that brand after prison as he did when he was rising through the Nazi ranks.

WATCH CLOSELY: “Nox” is a Riveting French Crime Thriller

November 1, 2021
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The overlapping worlds of ancient Paris architecture, entrenched police corruption, and the criminality of underground internet culture generate some suspenseful plot twists and white-knuckle scenes of terror.

Film Review: “Joy Ride” – (Double the fun)

November 1, 2021
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Bobcat Goldthwait and Dana Gould almost died for their comedy; then they hit the road to get laughs about it.

WATCH CLOSELY: Spooky Season Has Barely Begun

October 29, 2021
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Here are some wonderful offerings to get you through the gloomy months ahead, including under-sung and under-seen horror baubles that you may have missed.

Film Reviews: The English Dispatch, Part 2 — The London Film Festival

October 26, 2021
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The selection of foreign films on offer at the BFI London Film Festival was of a very high quality.

Film Review: “Red Rocket” — A Dog’s Life

October 26, 2021
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No woman, I’m willing to bet, could have filmed the sex scenes in Red Rocket. She would have cracked up laughing or thrown up.

Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Film (Part Four)

October 25, 2021
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More homages to 1971’s magnificent bursts of cinematic iconoclasm, from McCabe & Mrs. Miller to The Music Lovers and Walkabout.

Film Review: “The French Dispatch” — A Fantastical Magazine

October 23, 2021
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Fans will be pleased that time around director Wes Anderson has shot off everything in his stylistic quiver.

Film Review: “Becoming Cousteau” – (To live on the land we must learn from the sea)

October 22, 2021
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Jacques Cousteau’s journey, from wannabe pilot to protector of the seas, is chronicled in a new documentary.

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