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Sundance Review: “World of Tomorrow”
In Don Hertzfeldt's World of Tomorrow, robots programmed to fear death stride endlessly across the surface of the moon. The dead bodies of people jettisoned into the upper atmosphere fall back to Earth as beautiful shooting stars. A woman falls in love with a ...
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“Cake”
In Daniel Barnz’s Cake, rom-com queen Jennifer Aniston is given the chance to stretch her acting muscles beyond the fluffy fodder for which she’s well-known. Aniston plays Claire Bennett, a woman suffering from constant physical and emotional pain, and the for...
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“Mortdecai”
There’s just never enough ham on the buffet for Johnny Depp these days. Unfathomable as it seems for anyone who grew up watching him in the ’90s—with his indelible performances in Cry-Baby, Ed Wood, Dead Man, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas—Hollywood’s once...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “Tongues Untied”
However one interprets Kodak’s co-option of gay black dads Kordale Anthony and Kaleb Lewis for a recent advertising campaign, it’s nonetheless heartening to see open, honest depictions of black male homosexuality explored in a prominent space. This subject mat...
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“Mommy”
Xavier Dolan has a message for his detractors: “Eat my shorts.”
Literally, it’s right there in the opening frame of the 25-year-old French-Canadian’s new film, Mommy: a close-up on a teenage boy’s shiny pair of boxers, hanging in the breeze on a suburban Qu...
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Euro-Sleazy A: An Interview with Peter Strickland
The Duke of Burgundy, which has become a bit of a film-festival darling in the last several months, follows the ups and downs of a relationship between two women, Cynthia (Sidse Knudsen) and Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna), who practice sadomasochism in their sprawling...
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The Diet Coke of Gay: An Interview with Desiree Akhavan
Desiree Akhavan’s Appropriate Behavior, the break-out film for the New York-based director/writer/actress, is a delightful and honest depiction of what it means to be young, Iranian-American and bisexual. The protagonist Shirin, played by the director and loos...
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5 Directors Who Got Snubbed While Their Films Got Nominated
It’s that time of year again, yes, Oscar season. And much love was bestowed on white people and more specifically idiosyncratic white men. But so be it. The Director category looks fairly game this year, if not completely surprising, with nominations going to ...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “Dark Days”
“I’m in the food business now,” Dark Days director Marc Singer told an interviewer in 2011. “I have a company that sells very nice garnishes—garlic, cherries, onions, anything that you’d find in an alcoholic drink.” Aside from the rather hair-raising suggestio...
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To Half and Half Not: The Films to Remember from 2010 – 2014
The end of the year is, undoubtedly, a time of reflection: what we’ve experienced, what we’ve learned, how many resolutions we broke and what we’re going to do to rectify that, etc. It is also the time of lists. Lists, lists, lists. The internet in mid to late...
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