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A Coffee in Berlin
Like a lost relic from the French New Wave, A Coffee in Berlin dazzles with its melancholic black-and-white imagery and a jazzy soundtrack in line with Woody Allen’s New York ballads, following law school dropout Niko Fischer (Tom Schilling) as he...
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21st Century Discoveries: In The City of Sylvia
21st Century Discoveries is a feature dedicated to exploring great, underseen and/or underappreciated films released since 2000. The goal is to help readers discover new, challenging and exciting films from around the world worth seeking out. For our inaugural...
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Andrew Rossi On ‘Ivory Tower’, the Future of Higher Education
In Ivory Tower, director Andrew Rossi investigates the soaring costs of tuition and other problematic changes in the American higher education system. Students have been increasingly drowned in student loan debt over the past few decades, and with some of...
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Norte, the End of History
First thing’s first: Lav Diaz’s epic Norte, the End of History is 250 minutes in length, a relatively short running time for the Philippine director (2008’s Melancholia runs 450 minutes, while 2004’s Evolution of a Filipino Family is a...
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LAFF 2014: They Came Together
Those who understand and appreciate the humor of David Wain and Michael Showalter have no doubt been anticipating They Came Together, the first film the duo has worked on together since Wet Hot American Summer, their TV endeavors aside....
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LAFF 2014: Libertador: The Liberator
As a vast majority of the world tuned in to the World Cup Sunday, I was treated to an equally lively South American production. Libertador, or The Liberator, is a large-scale saga portraying the early years and successful liberation campaign...
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LAFF 2014: The Two Faces of January
The Los Angeles Film Festival continued its Gala screenings Tuesday with The Two Faces of January. First time director Hossein Amini has proven he understands the art of calculated and slow-building periodic drama as the screenwriter of subdued gems The Wings of...
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NXNE 2014: Boyhood
Shot periodically over a 12 year period, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood chronicles the life of Mason (Ellar Coltrane) between the ages of 6 and 18. That kind of scale for one project isn’t exactly unheard of (Linklater’s Before trilogy takes...
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Criterion September 2014 Releases Announced
The Criterion Collection announced their September 2014 releases today, highlighted by David Lynch’s masterpiece Eraserhead and films from auteurs Roman Polanski and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Eraserhead David Lynch – Available September 16 If there was one film not previously released by the...
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Jillian Bell & Anders Holm From ‘Workaholics’ To Star In P.T. Anderson’s ‘Inherent Vice’
From pop-up cameos and supporting roles in recent comedy hits Neighbors and 22 Jump Street, the cast of Comedy Central sleeper hit Workaholics have been crossing over to the big screen with great success. According to First Showing, two of the show’s stars, Jillian...
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Miss Lovely
At its debut at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Ashim Ahluwalia’s chameleonic Miss Lovely was declared a new type of anti-Bollywood cinema aimed squarely at providing an antidote to the mass-produced, broadly-appealing entertainment that is such a lucrative and...
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LAFF 2014: Trouble Dolls
A cross between the millennial musings of Lena Dunham and the dimwittedness of Romy and Michele, Trouble Dolls is a female buddy comedy for today’s self-aware art hipsters, or more specifically those looking to poke fun at them. Written and...
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LAFF 2014: Eat With Me
Sunday at the Los Angeles Film Festival was a gorgeous day, so it’s fortunate that this year’s LA Muse category at the festival has afforded viewers a way to enjoy the city despite being inside a theater all day....
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LAFF 2014: The Last Time You Had Fun
A night-on-the-town movie for the pre-middle age crowd, The Last Time You Had Fun is out to show that divorce, kids, and growing disillusionment doesn’t mean life can’t still be lively. Mo Perkins’ comedy follows four adults, each in the...
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