Faya Dayi Review: Stylish Documentary Immerses Us in the Khat Leaf s Intoxicating Aura Faya Dayi Review: Stylish Documentary Immerses Us in the Khat Leaf s Intoxicating Aura
Jessica Beshir s debut feature eschews anthropological detail for enveloping clouds of atmosphere in this study of Ethopia s top cash crop.
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Khat is Ethiopia’s biggest cash crop, making serious business from a spiritual high: When chewed, the leaves of the flowering green plant act as a stimulant, believed in certain corners of Sufism to aid prayer and enable transcendence. Others make less lofty demands of it, simply chewing the leaves to mellow out, making days of drudgery pass a little more softly including those who work gruelingly in the khat trade.
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Currently Reading We re All Going to the World s Fair Review: Provocative But Sensitive Drama Lets Us Into a Teen s Online World We re All Going to the World s Fair Review: Provocative But Sensitive Drama Lets Us Into a Teen s Online World
Jane Schoenbrun s first narrative feature builds on the internet-age awareness and technical resourcefulness of their nonfiction work.
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The St. Patrick’s Day season brings with it two movies featuring Irish actors – one an established veteran and the other a versatile up and comer. First, there’s the always-busy Ciaran Hinds in McCanick. The crime flick features David Morse as the title character, a detective driven to the brink of insanity during his pursuit of an ex-con just released from prison. Belfast-born Hinds plays the harried chief of police trying to keep his detectives on the right side of the law. There is a tinge of real-life sadness in McCanick. The mysterious ex-con is played by Cory Monteith, the young star of the television show Glee who died from a drug overdose last year. Look for McCanick in theaters at the end of March. Hinds, who has appeared in a slew of movies ranging from Munich to several Harry Potter flicks, also recently lent his vocal talents to the March animated release Mr. Peabody and Sherman.
Sundance 2021: Genre films that stood out, from A Glitch in the Matrix to Prisoners of the Ghostland Starry studio projects and A-list auteurs aren t the lifeblood of a breakout festival like Sundance. Recent years have proven one of the best ways to break out at the festival is through genre filmmaking. Prahlad Srihari February 04, 2021 08:12:45 IST
As it s the first major film festival in the calendar, Sundance functions as a barometer of emerging trends and outliers. 2020 was a genre-busting production. It was a sci-fi movie that got all too real. It was a horror movie about isolation. Mostly, it was a disaster movie that even Roland Emmerich could not have imagined. The way the pandemic irrevocably reshaped our lives was reflected in many of the films in this year s line-up.
Anna Cobb as Casey. (Image: Love In Winter LLC/Marvel)
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If you’ve been following the coverage of this year’s all-digital Sundance film festival, there’s a very good chance that by the time you read this review, you’ll have already seen some version of the image above from Jane Schoenbrun’s
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair.