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All posts by Anna Tatarska
“Child 44”
A child gets brutally murdered, but the case will never be looked into. It was a fatal train accident, you see. The dead and the living - everybody knows, but no one will tell. Why? Because "there can be no murder in paradise.” It's the early 1950s in the USSR...
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Berlinale: “45 Years”
"Less is more" could serve as a motto for Andrew Haigh's latest film, 45 Years, screening in the Main Competition at the 65. Berlinale. Starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay, and based on David Constantine's short story In Another Country, the film tel...
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“Ballet 422” Jody Lee Lipes Interview
In advance of the release of the new documentary Ballet 422 from Magnolia Pictures, our interviewer Anna Tatarska recently sat down with its director, Jody Lee Lipes, to discuss his methods, cinematography, and working with Judd Apatow on his new film.
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‘Regarding Susan Sontag’
Having read Andre Gide's journals as a teen, Susan Sontag ran a school paper with editorial notes more complex that many editors twice her age could put together. The same year she graduated high school, then she got married at 17, had a kid at 19, and was ann...
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“Wild”
After the laurels his latest effort, Dallas Buyers Club, gathered, Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallée was in a perfect position to aim higher. And, ambitious as he is, this is what he did, choosing a potentially appealing but equally risky one-protagonist-agai...
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American Psyche: The Best of Frederick Wiseman
Recently awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 71st Venice International Film Festival, 84-year old Frederick Wiseman has been directing (and producing) his films for more than half a decade, incessantly turning his perceptive gaze towards - pr...
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“The Theory of Everything”
Simplicity is the key in explaining the most complex occurrences. James Marsh' The Theory of Everything is yet another proof - and a perfect example - of this statement. The Oscar-winning documentarian paints a portrait of one of the most outstanding minds of ...
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“Coldwater”: Impressively Executed, Until It’s Not
In Coldwater, indie visual sensitivity and genre intuition unexpectedly meet. The effect is, surprisingly, a rather classic, but skillfully – and tastefully, despite the graphic content - executed drama that tracks the painful blossoming of maturity during a c...
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“The Expendables 3” A Smooth, Predictable Remix of Past Action Films
"We're like children with arthritis,” Sylvester Stallone joked during a press conference in Cannes earlier this May. No offense to the youth, but not many of us “kids” would not be able to do half of what the kick-ass grandpas are doing in The Expendables 3, t...
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History of Film: “The Graduate”
"Hello darkness, my old friend"... Rewatching The Graduate is a true time travel. Not only because it's been almost half a century since Mike Nichols' cult piece has seen the daylight, during which period fashion and music have changed drastically and Dustin H...
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