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Monday, October 2, 2023 at 9:00AM Can you guess the movie from its first and last shot?
Party music is blasting. No, it's not a Spider-Man movie despite the upside down cityscape. The next cut, once fireworks go off, turns the image right-side up.
And a shot of an FBI building. The movie is from 2023. The answer is after the jump...
Damian Szifron, first and last Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 10:00AM Can you guess the movie from its first and last shot?
This one recently got a sequel and the answer is after the jump once you scroll down...
first and last, sequels Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 10:00AM Can you guess the movie from its first and last shot? The answer is after the jump when you scroll down...
first and last Friday, September 29, 2023 at 9:30PM 
As if dipped in ink, the screen is a void, shadows so thick they seem to swallow the light. Gravity-pulling like a black hole, this emptiness must be broken. So, it is with water leading the way, that eternal life-giver, life-taker. And even before we see its tide, we feel an ocean calling. It emerges in white lines, foam on cresting waves, their back-and-forth movement an Atlantic embrace. No character has invoked her yet, but we already sense the immensity of Mami Wata, the mother-like water deity that appears across African myth and the diaspora. In a feat of miraculous cinema, Nigerian director C.J. 'Fiery' Obasi has used his third feature to summon the spirit, inviting us to commune with her.
That's not to say Mami Wata – now in theaters – is a film aiming solely at religious ecstasy. If possible, it has even greater ambitions. Its tale is the story of a matriarchal society threatened by patriarchy and treacherous progress, of a sisterhood trying to resolve ancient contradictions while preserving the old ways into a changing world…
Friday, September 29, 2023 at 1:00PM by Nathaniel R
As you read this yours truly is in Italy (visiting with Elisa probably!) but before I hopped on the plane I updated the Best International Feature Film Submission Charts and Prediction/ Overflowing Stats Chart. As of yesterday 74 films have been announced as intended submissions from their home countries. The list usually tops out at 93 films (about 19 to go!) and there's usually one unexpected switcheroo or omission from what was previously announced so we'll see. But here are a handful of highlights from recent announcements...
