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  • Bisbee ’17

    by - Sep 5, 2018
    “Bisbee 17” is a film about a 1917 labor strike against Phelps Dodge, a copper mining company based in Bisbee, Arizona, a town seven miles from the Mexican border. The labor action was cut short when roughly 2000 strikebreakers and sheriff’s...
  • Venice Film Festival 2018: Vox Lux, Dragged Across Concrete, At Eternity’s Gate

    by - Sep 5, 2018
    The 21st century isn’t even old enough to drink and they’re already making movies about what a catastrophe it is. “Vox Lux,” the second feature from Brady Corbet, debuting in competition at the Venice Film Festival...
  • The 20 Most Exciting World Premieres of TIFF 2018

    by - Sep 4, 2018
    For a few years now, there’s been a creeping sense that the Toronto International Film Festival was losing a bit of its luster due to major films premiering the week before in Venice and Telluride. For...
  • Short Films in Focus: Mr. Death

    by - Sep 4, 2018
    In “Mr. Death,” Trond Espen Seim plays a modern day grim reaper who drives around all day waiting for people to die. There might be others in his line of work. Obviously, he cannot be everywhere...
  • The Unloved, Part 57: The Monster Squad

    by - Sep 3, 2018
    One of the biggest bummers about superhero movies and an increasingly slim group of tentpole blockbusters taking over theatre spaces is that the number of interesting mainstream releases tend to get overinflated long before they’re released....
  • Mayans M.C. Invites Fans of Sons of Anarchy to Ride Again

    by - Sep 3, 2018
    Four years after the end of Kurt Sutter’s ridiculously popular yet critically underrated FX motorcycle drama “Sons of Anarchy” rode off into the sunset, the TV creator returns to its world with the spin-off “Mayans M.C.”...
  • Venice Film Festival 2018: The Sisters Brothers, La Quietud

    by - Sep 3, 2018
    I’ve been trying to figure out why “The Sisters Brothers,” the first English-language movie from the acclaimed director Jacques Audiard (“The Beat My Heart Skipped,” “A Prophet,” “Rust and Bone”) got the most warm and sustained...
  • Venice Film Festival 2018: Table of Contents

    by - Sep 3, 2018
    The following table of contents contains Glenn Kenny’s written dispatches from the 75th Venice Film Festival.  Venice Film Festival 2018: The Mountain, Roma Venice Film Festival 2018: A Star is Born, The Other Side of the Wind Venice Film Festival...
  • Venice Film Festival 2018: Suspiria, Peterloo, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Non-Fiction

    by - Sep 2, 2018
    In the future, if there is one, film historians chronicling the death of auteurist cinema will cite Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” as the point where this mode of moviemaking definitively entered its decadent stage. This empty, overstuffed,...
  • Venice Film Festival 2018: A Star is Born, The Other Side of the Wind

    by - Sep 1, 2018
    As the end credits of Bradley Cooper’s “A Star is Born” were unspooling at this morning’s screening at the Venice Film Festival, a German gentleman who was sitting with some friends near me stood up, and...