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Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio uses Vivaldi’s ‘The Four Seasons’ as one of its musical motifs. Cesare (Tommaso Ragno) the patriarch of the large Catholic Grazaidei family spends his money on phonograph rec…
“I’ve been on the Razzle Dazzle for so long,” says Pamela Anderson’s Vegas showgirl Shelly. ‘Le Razzle Dazzle’ is a Paris Lido style revue – rhinestones, feathers, posing, and glitter G-strings. Part…
“Together our future is bright.” Acclaimed political documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer segueing into fiction filmmaking via a post apocalyptic musical isn’t as strange a proposition as it might first…
Roone Arledge: “I know it might not feel like it, but you did a hell of a job.” Geoffrey Mason: “It was a catastrophe.” Tim Fehlbaum’s newsroom drama of underprepared ABC sports reporters at the 197…
In Green Border, director Agnieszka Holland turns a devastating lens on the European refugee crisis, crafting a grim and necessary experience that challenges not only our empathy but our understanding…
“Based on a True(ish) story.” Caroline Lindy’s Your Monster is a sweet trilled high note curdling into a scream of feminine rage. As anyone who has read or seen a fairytale know, appearances can be d…
Aotearoa-New Zealand is on fire recently with brilliant genre films and debut feature director Sasha Rainbow’s body horror satire Grafted is no exception. Skimping neither on gore, giggles, and righte…
With the documentary Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger, David Hinton is the ostensible director of Martin Scorsese’s intimate and authoritative survey of cinematic titans who for we…
In the first part of this series, I highlighted the parallel histories of Shakespeare on screen and the Academy Awards, two institutions that emerged early twentieth century to legitimize the medium.…
Ridley Scott’s 2000 Roman Empire swords and sandals epic Gladiator netted five Academy Awards including best picture and best actor for the then mostly untested Russell Crowe. For years Scott has been…
In a dazzling collision of fantasy and reality, Anora unfolds the whirlwind romance between an erotic dancer and the son of a Russian oligarch, crafting a hilariously subversive adventure that is as p…
Karim Aïnouz’s adaptation of Elizabeth Freemantle’s novel about Katherine Parr The Queen’s Gambit begins with an unattributed quote: “History tells us a few things. Largely about men and war. For the…