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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with director Haifa al-Mansour about her film, The Perfect Candidate, about how a Saudi doctor ends up being the first female candidate in local municipal elections.
Cruella (Photo: Disney), Chris Rock in Spiral: From The Book Of Saw (Photo: Lionsgate), Angelina Jolie in Those Who Wish Me Dead (Photo: Warner Bros.), Emily Blunt in A Quiet Place Part II (Photo: Paramount), and Dave Bautista in Army Of The Dead (Photo: Netflix) Graphic: Natalie Peeples May is usually the month that kicks off the summer movie season. For obvious reasons, that wasn’t the case last year, and it’s not quite the case this year either—the blockbusters don’t start arriving in earnest until June, which Hollywood is banking on as basically the earliest time they can unl...
’ Alice), by writer/director Chloé Mazlo, is a semi-autobiographical blending of the personal and political, centered on the impact of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) on one family. It is a poetic, imaginative and colorful work that uses stop-motion animation and surrealistic drama to make its point about the irrationality of war and internecine, ethnic conflict. In the 1950s, a young Swiss woman disconnects from her tight-knit family—dramatized in claymation—to move to Beirut. Once in Lebanon, Alice (Alba Rohrwacher), now turned into a human, falls in love with Joseph (Wajdi Mouawa...
June 18, 2020 "If you're ever making any piece of art, you've gotta be challenging while you're doing it and making sure that it's not something anyone's seen before, otherwise you're wasting everyone's time." One of my favorite films from the 2019 Venice Film Festival was Babyteeth, an exquisite Australian coming-of-age dramedy marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Shannon Murphy. Before she got into filmmaking, she was a theater director - starting her career on stage in Australia. She then moved over to television and has been directing episodes of shows like "Offspring", "S...
"Valley Of Souls" After getting cancelled thanks to last year’s coronavirus lockdowns, the San Francisco International Film Festival (hereafter SFFILM) returns this year with its 2021 edition. Running from April 9-18, 2021, this year’s SFFILM mixes together online streaming and live events at the Fort Mason Center drive-in. This year’s program presents 103 films from 41 different countries. 13 of these films are World Premieres. One of these World Premieres takes Opening Night honors at the Fort Mason Center venue. Chase Palmer’s crime drama “Naked Singularity” stars John ...