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via girish: Critic Dennis Lim's Top Ten List from Cannes 2015
On Facebook, Dennis Lim put up this personal list....
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A Love Story Without Love: Hou Hsiao-hsien Discusses "The Assassin" on Notebook
Hou Hsiao-hsien. Photo by Yao Hung-I.The Assassin, Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien's first film in eight years, was one of the most sublime revelations at the Cannes
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HORSE MONEY (trailer)
The trailer for Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa's new movie, HORSE MONEY.
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Haunting 'Phoenix' expertly blends mourning and melodrama
German director Christian Petzold has come up with a splendid work of mourning and melodrama in “Phoenix.” Nina Hoss, Petzold’s favorite actress — and for good reason — plays Nelly, a mutilated sur...
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Turbo kid: jouer le superhéros
Devenir un superhéros tient-il seulement du domaine du rêve? Pas du tout! Parfois, il suffit de prendre des risques dans la vie et de cultiver les bonnes vieilles valeurs humaines, nous disent les comédiens de Turbo Kid.
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NSFW Le Mirage : Bande-annonce officielle
Official Trailer for Quebec movie "Le Mirage". In French.
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Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre : Bande-annonce officielle
Official trailer for Philippe Falardeau's (Monsieur Lazhar, The Good Lie) next movie "Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre". In French
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The Movies of My Youth
There were years when I went to the movies almost every day, around the time of my adolescence. Those were years in which cinema was my world. By Italo Calvino.
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[French] Ville-Marie (2015) - Trailer (with English subs). With a personal review.
An actress mother and her estranged gay son's lives intersect with those of two medical professionals after an unexpected tragedy, forcing secrets to be revealed and personal demons to be dealt with.
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L'aventure royale de Michel Marc Bouchard
Il y a quelques jours, Michel Marc Bouchard savourait chaque moment de son séjour dans la capitale. Le célèbre dramaturge officie comme juré de la compétition des courts métrages au Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec (FCVQ). Ce qui le ravit, mais pas autant que de représenter The Girl King, film en compétition qu'il a scénarisé. Une aventure qui a pris bien du temps à se concrétiser, mais qui a fini par prendre différentes formes.
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Night Mail
(1936)
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‘Pan’s Labyrinth’: A Richly Imagined, Dreamlike Voyage of Self-Discovery and Character Formation
The 2001 gothic horror film was set in Spain, in 1939, and the picture, which del Toro allegedly considers his most personal film ever, is an exceptionally crafty and compelling portrayal of that specific dark period of European and world history.
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“In search of our better selves”
‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ as Totem Transfer Narrative. By Dallas Hunt.
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Werner Herzog Is Ready for the End of the World
The director on what it's like to be unplugged from the internet and why he would make an excellent survivalist.
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How Wile E. Coyote Explains The World
A joke has structure. It has a central rule. Setup, punchline. The setup produces a tensed, expectant state; the punchline resolves the tension with a surprise. If the elements of the joke are not arranged into a setup and a punchline, it is not a joke. It is just a statement. By Albert Burneko.
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Hong Kong’s popular, lucrative horror movie about Beijing has disappeared from theaters
Despite selling more tickets on fewer screens than Star Wars. By Heather Timmons.
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Sita Sings the Blues (2008)
The greatest break-up story ever told. By Nina Paley.
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William Friedkin’s ‘Sorcerer’
Cautionary Tales Have Rarely Taken Such an Amazing Artistic Form
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Why Is Everyone in China Flipping Out Over This Rom-Com About a Mermaid?
What is it about Stephen Chow’s ‘The Mermaid’ that makes it the highest-earning film of all time in China? By Anelise Chen.
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Thailand’s Genial Nightmares
Descriptions of Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s work slide inexorably into paradox: it is sincere and ironical, improvisational and elaborately structured, earthy and uncanny at the same time. His new film Cemetery of Splendor, in which a group of Thai soldiers have fallen mysteriously and, it seems, permanently asleep, the most nakedly political film of Weerasethakul’s career, is a gentle, open-hearted story of human connection, underlain at every moment by rage and dread.
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