"Never confuse shit with chocolate. They may look the same, but they taste very different" -me explaining the difference between an actual prestige film and desperate overblown Oscar bait
John: You gotta admit that John is funny. Like, come on. I know all the bad stuff about him. But you've gotta admit he was funny. We cannot have a productive dialogue if you won't meet me halfway on this. All the zoomer boys with haircuts like broccoli taking shots at him on TikTok can't touch how funny he is singing Two Of Us with Paul through clenched teeth. John has always been my favorite Beatle. Ever since I was…
wow, i cried though soooo much of this. i have not (consciously) lived in a world without venus and serena as legends, so it’s always been kind of lost to me just how much of a breakthrough they were in the tennis world. until watching this i also didn’t really realize i had never seen a sports movie about black girls. the realization came to me over and over as i watched this and i started crying every time, which…
Benedetta, Paul Verhoeven's long-awaited period drama about lesbian nuns in Renaissance Italy, finally opens in theaters tomorrow. Critic Andrew Wyatt has a review:
As his remake of West Side Story is about to be released in theaters, LaCinetek is delighted to welcome nine Steven Spielberg films in its catalog! (Re)discover the man who, with George Lucas at the dawn of the 1970s, invented the blockbuster and initiated a new era in Hollywood cinema.
Halloween has come and gone, but, if you’re like us, that doesn’t mean we stop watching horror films. Put those costumes away (until next year) and join us for the first Horrorville Holidays!
Throughout his career–from Incendies (2010) to Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and now Dune–Villeneuve has remained steadfastly loyal to the independent filmmaking frame of mind. His career loyalty, Villeneuve says, is to story–not to the studios paying to make his movies. Said the director: “My loyalty is to cinema. I have a sacred relationship with cinema; it is like a kind of religion.”
Something is afoot at ARROW HQ. A mysterious presence and the A.I. of the streaming service are determined to turn what should be a big night in ARROW history - our first live stream - into a chilling bloodbath that puts the ARROW team and an array of special guests on the chopping block.
After the screening of our Queer Lens program at the 25th Arab Film Festival, our director of film programming, Yasmina Tawil, sat down with two of the participating filmmakers, Reem Jubran and Saleh Saadi, to discuss their work and the representation of LBGTQ+ stories on screen.
The genre of film noir got underway at the beginning of the forties, inspired as it was by the dark perspectives brought on by World War II. Twentieth Century-Fox joined every other studio in capitalizing on their popularity almost immediately with the release of their first entry, I Wake Up Screaming in 1941. Talking about film noir tends to bring our minds to popular Warner Bros. classics like The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep, tales of Los Angeles detectives and double-crossing blondes, but Fox had its own spin…
Presenting Histories, Confronting Fascism screens at the VIFF Centre from November 26 to December 5, 2021. For more more information and tickets, visit https://goviff.org/radu-jude .
Celebrating the 21st-century Indigenous filmmakers taking on the world.
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