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From The Ashes: The Collaboration of Director and Actress in “Phoenix”
Phoenix, Christian Petzold’s latest film, finds the German filmmaker working with many of his usual cast and crew, including cinematographer Hans Fromm and editor Bettina Böhler. The most significant of his recurring collaborations, however, is with star Nina ...
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The Politically Misunderstood Films of Sean Baker
Regardless of his eventual standing next year, one man has handily filled 2015’s entertainment quota: Donald Trump. In announcing his candidacy for President of the United States (again), he gave the following thoughts on illegal immigration: “When Mexico send...
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“Burying the Ex”
Relationships are hard, especially when one partner is undead and wants to kill the other so that they’ll be together—forever. Burying the Ex is closer to Gremlins (1984) than The Howling (1981) when it comes to the Joe Dante scale of horror. In fact, other th...
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Mezzanine Essentials: “The Trial”
“It has been said that the logic of this story is the logic of a dream, or a nightmare,” says Orson Welles in the opening narration of his 1962 adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Trial. He seems to be talking specifically about a brief parable he’s just related f...
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“Hungry Hearts”
It used to be that filmmakers served up witchcraft, mutant babies, and the Devil himself as allegories for the anxieties of new parenthood. In Saverio Costanzo’s Hungry Hearts, we get something both blander and possibly more frightening: the 21st-century obses...
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On The Formal and Narrative Style of Nathan Silver
Across Nathan Silver’s three latest features—Exit Elena, Soft in the Head, and Uncertain Terms, exempting the just-premiered Stinking Heaven—one can immediately see a handful of formal and narrative similarities. Each opens with an ambiguous pre-title sequence...
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Cannes Review: “Tale of Tales”
One has to admire Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales for its sheer audacity. It’s an ambitious attempt to bring the fairy tales of Giambattista Basile to life; stories which are among the oldest fairy tales on record, dating back to 1634. The earnestness that driv...
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Hot Docs 2015: Roundtable, Part 2
It’s no secret that filmmakers love making movies about making movies. For some, that self-reflexivity is a sign of cultural and artistic myopia. For others, though, turning the camera back on the process of filmmaking illuminates the bonds between art and hum...
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Being in Time: Aging Onscreen
Anders Bergstrom is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, in Waterloo, ON. In 2011 he contributed an introduction to the second volume of Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema. In 2013, his ess...
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Acting Out: On the Reflexivity of Actors in Crisis
Some actors treat their profession simply like a job. When asked about acting, Spencer Tracy famously offered the following: “Come to work on time, know your lines and don’t bump into the other actors.” But Tracy’s workmanlike approach is certainly not the onl...
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