Daisy Ridley in Sometimes I Think About Dying.
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Fran (Daisy Ridley) has a complex and creative inner world that she escapes into in order to feel real.
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The film leans too heavily on the tabloids’ damaging visual narrative instead of venturing to create its own.
Clara Bow appeared in 58 films in just over a decade.
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The star of the 1920s silver screen who appears on Taylor Swift’s new album abruptly left Hollywood at the height of her success – a middle finger to the men whom she had made rich and powerful.
Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator (1984).
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POV shots can be extremely effective, presenting an entirely new way of looking at a character, or their motivations.
Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse.
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While Back to Black succeeds in avoiding harmful representations of addiction, viewers don’t get a deep insight into its realities and complexities.
Hideko Takamine as Carmen in Carmen Comes Home (1951).
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One hundred years after her birth, Hideko Takamine’s films deserve to be more widely seen outside Japan
Godzilla and Kong in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
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The MonsterVerse is a slick, well-defined giant monster mythos that has further globalised Godzilla – and King Kong along with him.
Jake Gyllenhaal in Road House.
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If you like action films, and you have your tongue firmly in your cheek, then you’ll probably like this.
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I have spent the last two years researching the cultures and practices of cinema-going. Here’s what people tell me.
(L-R) Margaret Qualley, Benedict Wong, Zine Tseng and Geraldine Viswanathan.
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Our top picks of the best films, TV shows and exhibitions to see this week.
Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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This quirky, nebulous, joyous then rueful story is not for those who like their love stories simple.
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For its many strengths, the film may divide audiences with its chaotic, surreal final act.
Oscar wins through the years: 1. Hattie McDaniel, best supporting actress with Fay Bainter, 1940. 2. Whoopi Goldberg, best supporting actress, 1991. 3. Halle Berry, best actress, 2002. 4. Jennifer Hudson, best supporting actress, 2007. 5. Mo'Nique, best supporting actress, 2010. 6. Lupita Nyong’o, best actress, 2014. 7. Octavia Spencer, best supporting actress, 2012. 8.Viola Davis, best supporting actress, 2017 9. Da'Vine Joy Randolph, best supporting actress, 2024.
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It’s been nine years since #OscarsSoWhite called out a lack of diversity at the Oscars. Has anything changed? Prof. Naila Keleta-Mae and actress Mariah Inger unpack the progress.
The Artdocfest president Vitaliy Manski (back left) and the jury (L-R): Polish historian and journalist Adam Michnik, Latvian theatre director Viesturs Kairišs and Russian actress Chulpan Khamatova.
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Artdocfest 2024 was a showcase for films that show the reality of the war in Ukraine, and the spread of Russian politics to neighbouring countries.
Christopher Nolan accepts the award for Best Director for ‘Oppenheimer’ during the Oscars on March 10, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, Calif.
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The success of ‘Oppenheimer’ at the Academy Awards presents an opportunity to think about critical criteria for viewing historical film — and what we are owed by historical filmmakers.
Emma Stone as the irrepressible Bella Baxter in Poor Things.
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Composer Jerskin Fendrix’s first-time film score is a hoot.
Pyper Braun as Alice with Chauncey the bear.
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Some children have companions that are disobedient or even mean.
The composer’s expressionism is often compared to paintings of his friend and fellow expressionist, Wassily Kandinsky. Kandinsky’s 1925 painting ‘Yellow-Red-Blue.’
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Though composers after Schoenberg used his technique to create atmospheric music in film, Schoenberg’s own ‘Accompaniment to a Film Scene’ was written for concert performance.
The score of ‘Poor Things,’ by composer Jerskin Fendrix, is one of several Oscar-nominated scores by a composer with solid credentials in popular music.
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Using a variety of instruments and playing live music on the film set are all part of how composer Jerskin Fendrix generated brilliant sonic accompaniment for ‘Poor Things.’
Even in films where religion isn’t front and center, Martin Scorsese’s attention to ritual and devotion comes through.
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Though only a few of Scorsese’s films focus on religious stories, deeper questions about faith, doubt and living in a violent world tend to haunt his movies.