Candid camera: this year's festival offered an array of welcome surprises, including highlights like Mike Leigh's Hard Truths ...
The Substance seems inescapably in thrall to the seductive, glossy surfaces of Hollywood beauty standards that it is ...
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Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist ends in Venice, at the 1980 Biennale Architettura, where the film’s fictional protagonist, László Tóth (Adrien Brody), is being honored for his lifetime achievements in ...
Call it Stranger in the Village. After being away for many years, Jérémie (Félix Kysyl) returns to the village where he grew up, in southwestern France, on the occasion of a funeral. A zigzag game of ...
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There are several varieties of films maudits—films over which hang some dread curse, whether of state censorship, producer’s interference, distributor indif­ference, or plain bad luck. Sometimes part ...
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My workweek at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in the Hudson Valley of New York State leaves me no time to relax in front of the television—except at the end of the day as I begin to nod off to ...