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About Endlessness offers crucifixions, a Hitler cameo… and a moving coda for a master director Charles Bramesco on a digital screener  from home. Before making the decision to see it—or any other film—in a movie theater, please consider the health risks involved. Here’s  As previously posited by Lars von Trier in Melancholia, depressive personalities spending their days racked with despair tend to assume a preternatural calm in the face of an oblivion provoking panic ...

Advertisement As previously posited by Lars von Trier in Melancholia, depressive personalities spending their days racked with despair tend to assume a preternatural calm in the face of an oblivion provoking panic in the generally even-keeled. In About Endlessness, the latest film from Sweden’s greatest living director, Roy Andersson—another maximalist Euro-auteur with an ardent following of patient, morose-minded cinephiles—this principle envelops the text instead of coming from within...

13 Films to See in April April 1, 2021 With glimmers of theatrical exhibition starting to find renewed life after a full year of dormancy in New York and Los Angeles, this April brings a handful of films worth seeking out––some premiering exclusively in cinemas while others will also be getting a digital release. From fascinating documentaries to long-awaited releases from renowned auteurs to acclaimed indies, check out our picks to see this April below. 13. Tiny Tim: King for a Day (Johan...

Photo: RLJE Films Roe Vs. Wade (select and virtual theaters 4/2), a.k.a. the anti-abortion movie so controversially odious that Kevin Sorbo dropped out of it, is finally here to preach to its choir. Those seeking some corporate schadenfreude should queue up the start-up meltdown documentary WeWork: Or The Making And Breaking Of A $47 Million Unicorn (Hulu 4/2). Katherine Waterston is among the cast of Amundsen (virtual theaters and VOD 4/2), a biodrama about the supposed first man to reach th...

Posted on Saturday, March 13th, 2021 by Christopher Stipp Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week, we catch up with a master of the mundane, start a movement for meaningf...

A British coming-of-age drama about inner-city schoolgirls leads the lack of nominations and four female directors are shortlisted, meaning whatever Bafta has done behind the scenes has worked

You know the drill, its Friday which means the  Movie Squad are back in the RTRFM studio for another week of cinematic exploration. This week  Simon Miruado treats us to his thoughts on  About Endlessness, the latest film from Swedish auteur Roy Andersson. It takes surrealist, comic and existentialism into its sights. Plus,  I Care A Lot. It stars Golden Globe award-winner  Rosamund Pike and is based on a New York Times investigation into financial abuse of elderly citizens. As always, you...

Kazuo Ishiguro, author, former Nobel prize winner, on his book, Klara 26 Feb, 2021 05:00 PM 9 minutes to read Writer Kazuo Ishiguro: I grew up with a naive assumption that there was progress all the time. The Times By: Brian Appleyard Kazuo Ishiguro has written his first novel since winning the Nobel prize, a poignant tale of a solar-powered robot called Klara. But artificial intelligence is a dangerously seductive tool, he warns. Klara believes in the goodness of the Sun. He...

Salomé Jashi explains more about the film. Cineuropa: and how did you ed with your camera? Salomé Jashi: Much of the transplantation work was either happening in public spaces or was visible from a public space. So, in some cases, we would just show up at a place where the uprooting was happening and start filming without asking for official permission. But mainly, we built up a network of contacts in many different locations, establishing a more personal level of trust and connections w...

The 2020 Jim Ridley Film Poll Dedicated to late Scene editor and critic Jim Ridley, our poll asks critics, cinephiles and industry insiders about 2020 in film Tweet First Cow Given the chaos and enervating travails of 2020, it was going to be a challenge to find the right assortment of folks to get at the heart of this unpredictable year in cinema. An international assemblage of critics, filmmakers, podcasters, teachers, actors, exhibitors, publicists, festival programm...