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In a year marked by a recovering box office and distributors experimenting with a wide variety of types of releases, what does an overlooked film constitute?

Fort Worth Weekly The first shot of Slalom is of a teenage girl’s ass. This French movie which played at last year’s virtual Cannes Film Festival has been the subject of controversy in Europe, less because of its careful marking of the underage protagonist’s body as she trains to be a high-level athlete and more because of its delineation of her relationship with her adult coach as it turns sexual. This movie represents something necessary in a country where the film establishment still gives awards to Roman Polanski and filmmakers — female filmmakers! — ...

CONCRETE COWBOY (Netflix) In Northern Philadelphia, the sight of Black men and women on  horseback, actual urban cowboys, is a common sight. They follow the more than a century old tradition of ending to and riding the animals within the city. Co-writer (with Dan Walser) and director Ricky Staub based his film on “Ghetto Cowboy,” a novel by Greg Nero. Cowboys in Philadelphia’s horse riding culture, the Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club, run into trouble with law enforcement and city officials, who favor Philadelphia continuing on the path of gentrification. Into this strange...

Writer/director Charlène Favier and star Jérémie Renier on making a movie about the psychology of abuse & athletics