Jean-Paul Belmondo: 1933-2021
When Film Forum ran a retrospective of Mikio Naruse films in 2005, there was a trailer for a 1960 Claude Sautet movie called “Classe Tous Risques” that ran before each…
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Telluride Film Festival 2021: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, The Velvet Underground, Bernstein’s Wall
Telluride has commonly centered documentaries that celebrate artists, and three of their most high-profile non-fiction films of this unusual year detailed the lives of incredibly influential musicians. I went into…
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Venice Film Festival 2021: Back To School (The Biennale College, That Is)
Because of COVID restrictions—and boy, sentences starting with that phrase never get old, do they—the Venice Film Festival is only seating at 50 percent capacity in its venues. The seats…
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Truth Through Character: Riz Ahmed and Bassam Tariq on Mogul Mowgli
Riz Ahmed stars in Bassam Tariq’s “Mogul Mowgli” as a Pakistani-British rapper named Zed, who is just about to make it big. He’s been working at this career for decades,…
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Venice Film Festival 2021: Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, Illusions perdues, The Promises
Even when you’re at one of the most prestigious and venerated film festivals in the world, there’s no guarantee that you won’t see a bad movie. And yet as my…
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Telluride Film Festival 2021: Red Rocket, C’mon C’mon, Cyrano
A stylistically diverse trio of perceptive films, all charged by searching male leads, made for an unusual thematic group in this year’s Telluride Film Festival. The first of them is…
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Telluride Film Festival 2021: Procession
Robert Greene has long been interested in what can be learned by shifting reality through performance in films like “Kate Plays Christine” and “Bisbee ’17.” His latest, “Procession,” which just…
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Venice Film Festival 2021: Last Night in Soho, Inferno Rosso
Edgar Wright is a genre filmmaker who believes that more is more, and after the Venice premiere of his new horror picture “Last Night in Soho,” I heard from more…
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Telluride Film Festival Announces Full 2021 Program Lineup
The Telluride Film Festival, presented by the National Film Preserve, has announced its official program selections for its 48th edition in Telluride, Colorado, which will take place from Thursday, September…
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