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Update your browser or Flash plugin While it remains to be seen what this years COVID-19-impacted Academy Awards ceremony will look like, my guess is that there will be an Oscar winner for best international feature, the category that until recently was known as best foreign-language film. I havent come close to seeing the 93 films that have been accepted — a record for the Academy — but Im happy to recommend two of them, both dramatic thrillers that demonstrate the power and persistenc...

toggle caption Magnolia Pictures Martine Chevallier and Barbara Sukowa play a lesbian couple facing a health crisis in the French film Two of Us. Magnolia Pictures While it remains to be seen what this years COVID-19-impacted Academy Awards ceremony will look like, my guess is that there will be an Oscar winner for best international feature, the category that until recently was known as best foreign-language film. I havent come close to seeing the 93 films that have been a...

Heres whats playing — Feb. 5-11 — on virtual cinemas in the Berkshires and environs. Where films have been reviewed, the capsules include the name of film critic and the day the full review was posted on berkshireeagle.com. All reviews are by Associated Press critics. 76 DAYS On January 23rd, 2020, China locked down Wuhan, a city of 11 million, to combat the emerging COVID-19 outbreak. Set deep inside the frontlines of the crisis, this documentary tells indelible human stories at the ...

“Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time” – Get ready [MOVIE REVIEW] SHARE Natasa Stork as Márta in "Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time." Photo courtesy of Natasa Stork as Márta in “Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time.” Photo courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment. by Neely Swanson “Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time,” directed and written by Lili Horvát, is an adventure into the trick...

The hook for Hungarian writer/director Lili Horvát's second feature doesn't lack intrigue. Following a doctor who returns back home to Budapest after a chan

What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend Including the New Zealand indie Baby Done, the festival hit The Climb and the Fantasia retro splatter comedy Psycho Goreman By Norman Wilner and Glenn Sumi Jan 22, 2021 Courtesy of Pacific Northwest Pictures Left to right: Emily Barclay, Rose Matafeo and Matthew Lewis consider their future in Baby Done. NOW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of January 22. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms. Bab...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. The first of this year’s Envelope roundtables dropped this week, with Jen Yamato talking to “Da 5 Bloods’” Delroy Lindo, “Sound of Metal’s” Riz Ahmed, “Minari’s” Steven Yeun, “The Midnight Sky’s” George Clooney and “Mank’s” Gary Oldman. It’s an invigorating conversation to take in, either on the page or on video. Take Oldman’s response to a comment by Ahme...

Heres whats playing — Jan. 22-28 — at movie theaters and on virtual cinemas in the Berkshires and environs. Where films have been reviewed, the capsules include the name of film critic and the day the full review was posted on berkshireeagle.com. All reviews are by Associated Press critics. ACASA, MY HOME For two decades, the Enache family — nine kids and their parents — lived in a shack in the wilderness of Bucharest Delta: an abandoned water reservoir, one of the biggest u...

“Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time,” a wonderfully mysterious new film from the Hungarian writer-director Lili Horvát, is about a number of different things. At first glance, it appears to be a strange, noirish tale of love and misunderstanding, in which a missed connection and an unrequited attraction threaten to spiral into a full-blown obsession. That the would-be lovers are both neurosurgeons offers an early insight into one of the story’s other subjects: the ...

Review: Hungarys Preparations to Be Together … brilliantly turns noir inside out Justin Chang © (Greenwich Entertainment) Natasa Stork in the movie "Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time." (Greenwich Entertainment) “Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time,” a wonderfully mysterious new film from Hungarian writer-director Lili Horvát, is about a number of different things. At first glance, it appears to be a strange, noirish tale o...