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Early in Shadow, a woman looks at her male companion and says, “Your zither needs tuning.” It’s one big understatement, and it’s not just about music.…
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Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan is a dream, sometimes a literal dream with a character who dreams, but the rest of the time, the…
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Mary Harron’s Charlie Says centers on three of the women from the Manson gang in prison in California, long after they’ve committed those horrendous…
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The press notes for Matteo Garrone’s Dogman place the movie in a seaside village near a city. But it’s certainly not the seaside village you have in your…
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It seems that just about any person, place or thing you can think of may already be the subject of a documentary. In other words, there are too many…
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A few weeks ago, I did a report for NPR on a film that came and went in these parts in just a week. It’s an astonishing movie from the Chinese director…
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British director Mike Leigh builds his movies more than he writes them. He starts with one or two actors doing improvisations, and then works outward to…
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Good food movies leave you hungry — and sometimes a lot more than that. Back in 1987, when the press screening of Babette’s Feast at Cannes let out at…
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Agnès Varda died just two months shy of 91 years old. Her long career changed the cinema. She made her first film in 1954, and she herself appeared this…
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In the abstract, much of Hotel Mumbai looks like the end of a James Bond picture, when all the bad guys in the lair of the villain are gunned down. But…