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Oct 19, 2018 — Here’s a taste of what the critics have been saying about the nominees.
Sep 13, 2018 — The imitation of nature becomes a devotional act in Terrence Malick’s cinema, which reaches sublime heights in this exploration of childhood, memory, and grief.
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Aug 17, 2018 — Also, a personal remembrance of cinematographer Masaki Tamura.
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Jul 26, 2018 — The creator of Hamilton has lined up his directorial debut, a TV series, a book . . . the list goes on.
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Jul 2, 2018 — Josef von Sternberg may have been one of cinema’s original micromanagers, but his films are testaments to longstanding collaborations with brilliant artists and technicians.
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Jun 20, 2018 — A Motion Selfie is a wryly comic silent film made by a crew of one.
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Apr 5, 2018 — “Isao Takahata, who co-founded Studio Ghibli with Hayao Miyazaki in 1985, has died at eighty-two, according to Yahoo! Japan.” Michael Nordine for IndieWire: “Takahata was a revered director in his own right, helming such animated classics as Grave of the...
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Jan 25, 2018 — “I don’t scare easily,” begins A. A. Dowd at the A.V. Club. “So it’s a special kind of awful, a rare treat of sorts, when something comes along that actually gets past my defenses, that does more than make me...
Jan 19, 2018 — “With issues of women’s equality, sexual misconduct, and political turmoil heavy on the movie world’s mind, Sundance Film Festival Director John Cooper said he wanted to start the 2018 edition with a movie that’s ‘fun to the point of sassy,’”...
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Jan 14, 2018 — Let’s begin with a round of interviews. In his latest “Streaming” column in the New York Times, Glenn Kenny talks with John Pierson about Split Screen, the television program that debuted on IFC back in 1997 and is now streaming...