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TOP 100 MOST ANTICIPATED FOREIGN FILMS OF 2021: #52 The Way of the Wind. Terrence Malick turns to Jesus for what will stand as his tenth narrative feature The Way of the Wind (which was the recently announced new title of the project formerly known as The Last Planet). Malick has reunited with Hidden Life DP Jorg Widmer and his cast consists of Geza Rohrig, Matthias Schoenaerts, Mark Rylance, Aidan Turner, Joseph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, TOP 100 MOST ANTICIPATED FOREIGN FILMS OF 2021: #76 Mektoub My Love: Canto Due Abdellatif Kechiche’s 2019 Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo which premiered in comp at Cannes to divisive responses and widespread critical consternation (and again, found the director at troubling odds due to the treatment of his female lead, which Kechiche cites as a conspiracy smear campaign). Nevertheless, asthe title of his
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Lensed by Oleg Lukichev (who has worked as cinematographer for Aleksey German Jr. and Kirill Serebrennikov), The North Wind is a visual splendor, an increasingly rare experience in cinematic vibrancy. Litvinova delivery resides on the same level as Frantisek Vlacil’s black and white wonder, Marketa Lazarova (1967).MA BELLE, MY BEAUTY
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Category is The Realness: Lessovitz Isn’t Strictly Ballroom in Star Crossed Romance To acknowledge the formidable, everlasting impact of Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary Paris is Burning, itself a successor to the recently restored 1968 doc The Queen, part of the conversation must include acknowledgement of appropriation. The privilege of the cultural gatekeeper, as in whoHERE TODAY
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Category is The Realness: Lessovitz Isn’t Strictly Ballroom in Star Crossed Romance To acknowledge the formidable, everlasting impact of Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary Paris is Burning, itself a successor to the recently restored 1968 doc The Queen, part of the conversation must include acknowledgement of appropriation. The privilege of the cultural gatekeeper, as in whoHERE TODAY
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Lover Come Back: Hill’s Debut a Refreshing Portrait of Intimacy and Attraction Three may not actually be a crowd, but it certainly heightens complications in the refreshingly welcome debut from Marion Hill, Ma Belle, My Beauty. Straddling continents, cultures and conceptions of what a successful relationship is supposed to look like, it’s perhaps the mostSEANCE
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Papa Does Preach: Hazeldine Adapts Heavy-handed Religious Melodrama For his sophomore directorial effort, Stuart Hazeldine helms The Shack, an adaptation of the successful novel by William P. Young, becoming one of the latest in an increasing string of studio financed religious themed films created to feed the growing revivalist trend across the US comprised of BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN Stand & Deliver: Jude Doubles Up on the Viral in Kangaroo Court. Leave it to Radu Jude to take a sad song and make it better, an auteur who also cares little about if he goes down in history as a political shit-stirrer. His latest concoction continues his gleeful experimentation with experimental reenactments, this time with a makeshift tribunal in the zanily titled Bad Luck Banging or LoonyPorn.
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Category is The Realness: Lessovitz Isn’t Strictly Ballroom in Star Crossed Romance To acknowledge the formidable, everlasting impact of Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary Paris is Burning, itself a successor to the recently restored 1968 doc The Queen, part of the conversation must include acknowledgement of appropriation. The privilege of the cultural gatekeeper, as in who CASTLE IN THE GROUND Castle in the Ground recalls contemporary elements from films like Requiem for a Dream (2000) in its apartment-based connectivity and even 2014’s Heaven Knows What (itself a rehash of 1971’s The Panic in Needle Park) of youthful codependency in the navigation of familial grief. Unfortunately, Castle doesn’t rise to the same heights as BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN Stand & Deliver: Jude Doubles Up on the Viral in Kangaroo Court. Leave it to Radu Jude to take a sad song and make it better, an auteur who also cares little about if he goes down in history as a political shit-stirrer. His latest concoction continues his gleeful experimentation with experimental reenactments, this time with a makeshift tribunal in the zanily titled Bad Luck Banging or LoonyPorn.
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Papa Does Preach: Hazeldine Adapts Heavy-handed Religious Melodrama For his sophomore directorial effort, Stuart Hazeldine helms The Shack, an adaptation of the successful novel by William P. Young, becoming one of the latest in an increasing string of studio financed religious themed films created to feed the growing revivalist trend across the US comprised of PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN More uncomfortable in tone for its blending of aesthetics usually partitioned off into high and low brow genre formatting, it’s both a timeless grappling with the heteropatriarchy as it is a pertinent contemporary conversation piece about rape culture and trenchant victimization. YouTube. IONCINEMA. Subscribe. Promising Young Woman -Movie
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Massimiliano Rossi, who was the self-serving father in Indivisible, pops up as the only bright spot of humanity, a sympathetic boat captain whom Maria designates as the child’s godfather. Meaningful without ever transcending into something extraordinary, The Vice of Hope favors victims of circumstance, but the ticking time bomb that isMaria
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Lensed by Oleg Lukichev (who has worked as cinematographer for Aleksey German Jr. and Kirill Serebrennikov), The North Wind is a visual splendor, an increasingly rare experience in cinematic vibrancy. Litvinova delivery resides on the same level as Frantisek Vlacil’s black and white wonder, Marketa Lazarova (1967).THE SHACK | REVIEW
Papa Does Preach: Hazeldine Adapts Heavy-handed Religious Melodrama For his sophomore directorial effort, Stuart Hazeldine helms The Shack, an adaptation of the successful novel by William P. Young, becoming one of the latest in an increasing string of studio financed religious themed films created to feed the growing revivalist trend across the US comprised of PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN More uncomfortable in tone for its blending of aesthetics usually partitioned off into high and low brow genre formatting, it’s both a timeless grappling with the heteropatriarchy as it is a pertinent contemporary conversation piece about rape culture and trenchant victimization. YouTube. IONCINEMA. Subscribe. Promising Young Woman -Movie
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0shares SHARE TWEET EMAIL PRINT Through a Glass Starkly: Schrader Delivers a Master Study on Despair and Extremism Priests, and their psychic struggle with obligation to the cloth, have always held a certain fascination in auteur cinema, thanks to the likes of Bresson, Bunuel, Hitchcock, et al. We can add Paul Schrader to a shortlistSIBYL | REVIEW
Doctor Strange: Triet Gets Tricky with Autofiction Affair Reuniting with Virginie Efira, the lead from her 2016 sophomore breakout Victoria (aka In Bed with Victoria), director Justine Triet presents a woman with significant boundary issues in her pursuit for professional fulfillment with Sibyl. Blurred lines are part and parcel here in an oddly toned comedy/dramaKAJILLIONAIRE
Money Monsters: July Returns with Poignant Puzzle of Curious Criminals Con artists come in all shapes and sizes, but nowhere are they as decidedly low yield in their grift game than the trio of shambolic criminals in Kajillionaire, the long awaited third film from the singular artist Miranda July. While best remembered for her SundanceA GIRL MISSING
Guilt by Dissociation: Fukada Explores the Burden of Others in Exemplary Melodrama Director Kôji Fukada presents a melodrama hung on absurdity for his fourth feature, A Girl Missing, another Dostoevskyian tale collapsing the lines between crime and punishment into a complex grey area of juxtaposing social norms and self-servingdesires.
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Massimiliano Rossi, who was the self-serving father in Indivisible, pops up as the only bright spot of humanity, a sympathetic boat captain whom Maria designates as the child’s godfather. Meaningful without ever transcending into something extraordinary, The Vice of Hope favors victims of circumstance, but the ticking time bomb that isMaria
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