Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl explores everything from the tragicomedy of survival to the Black feminist refusals ...

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Inside out: this year’s edition was suffused with an uneasy mood, expressed by many of the standout selections, including ...

Ben Rivers’s latest Bogancloch—a continuation of the British filmmaker’s collaboration with a hermit—is notable for its ...

At that performance, director Robert Rossen was impressed, and later cast Hackman in a small role in LILITH with Warren Beatty. Three years later, Beatty remembered Hackman and cast him in BONNIE AND ...

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Materializing in the spring of 1933, based on a novel by British politician Thomas F. Tweed that was anonymously published in the U.S. the same month that Hitler came to power in Germany, Gabriel Over ...

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An example: a brilliant Brazilian director and friend, João Jardim, made a beautiful documentary in 2001 called Window of the Soul that he brought to me for the mix. The first scene is a close-up of a ...

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