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Thursday, September 5, 2024 at 8:00AM by Nathaniel R
THREE KILOMETRES TO THE END OF THE WORLD © Vlad Dumitrescu
It's that time of year when countries are regularly announcing their Oscar submission. We started the week with 15 contenders but now we're at 18 and we have three new finalist lists, as well...
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 at 5:57PM by Elisa Giudici
Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in QUEER (photo: Yannis Drakoulidis)
Luca Guadagnino's 2024 double feature, early release Challengers and the new premiere Queer, explore the intricate and slow process of calibrating love. In both,love is a delicate balancing act where one person loves intensely, perhaps even desperately, while the other remains more passive, content to be loved without being deeply invested in the relationship. The fundamental difference between the two lies in how they resolve this imbalance...
Monday, September 2, 2024 at 9:00AM by Elisa Giudici
KILL THE JOCKEY © Rei Pictures, El Despacho, Infinity Hill, Warner Music Entertainment)
KILL THE JOCKEY by Luis Ortega
There is a certain aesthetic in the self-destruction of genius. In El Jockey (or Kill the Jockey), this is encapsulated in a visually seductive scene where Nahuel Pérez Biscayart prepares his signature cocktail: a base of horse medicine in a glass of whiskey, drowned in a cloud of cigarette smoke. He downs it in one gulp and then mounts his horse for a race that ends sooner than expected.
Kill the Jockey has an explosive first half-hour...
John Lennon, Reviews, Venice, Yoko Ono, documentaries Sunday, September 1, 2024 at 5:27PM by Nathaniel R
Though I know I've been absent from writing, I have been updating the International Feature Film Oscar charts to track the submissions. So far 15 countries have announced their submissions, some of which are available to US viewers. After the jump, the list so far, impending decisions from Israel and South Korea, and general observations...
Sunday, September 1, 2024 at 1:10PM by Elisa Giudici
MARIA © Pablo Larraín
MARIA by Pablo Larrain
In Pablo Larraín’s unofficial trilogy of melancholic 20th-century female icons, Maria finds itself positioned somewhere in the middle. Maria is better than Spencer but falls short of Jackie's excellence...
