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Nicholas Bell's review in Cannes .... "Francis Ford Coppola’s long-gestating, wholly self-financed Megalopolis is an unfortunate dud rife with archaic tendencies and stillborn ideas." #MEGALOPOLIS

Today Mubi release THE SUBSTANCE ! "Fargeat starts out in slow, familiar territory before slamming into fever pitch for a Grand Guignol bloodbath which might just be the best bit of straight faced body horror since Cronenberg’s clutch of 1980s titles solidified its merits as a veritable sub-genre." 4 Stars!

One of the projects at the Sundance Institute’s 2017 Screenwriters Lab was a film called 'Omni Loop Blues.' Bernardo Britto's OMNI LOOP gets its theatrical release today via the Magnolia Pictures folks. Here is our interview (after the Labs in '17!)

She moves behind the director's chair about every 3 years...so Kelly Reichardt is back with Josh O’Connor in THE MASTERMIND !!! Shooting begins next month. Venice 2025?

WHIPLASH receives a 10th Anniversary re-release - reissued with a new 4K DCP via Sony Pictures Classics and coming directly from a showcase at the 2024 Toronto Intl. Film Festival. We interviewed Damien Chazelle at Sundance back in 2014. Check out the lo-fi vid!

We have a clip for tender drama by 🇮🇸 Elfar Adalsteins' SUMMERLIGHT… AND THEN COMES THE NIGHT (his sophomore feature).

10th-year anniversary release for The Babadook (IFC Films) - "A metaphor for the havoc wreaked when one cannot lay one’s demons to rest, Kent wields a commanding, and graciously moving parable into a film that deserves a long-winded legacy long after it fades from box office profit conversations."

A Constance Debré book-to-film project 🇫🇷 Anna Cazenave Cambet Begins Production on LOVE ME TENDER (her #2nd feature) with Vicky Krieps, Antoine Reinartz, Monia Chokri & Ji-Min Park (Return to Seoul).

A24 have concluded their Venice+TIFF shopping (The Brutalist, Queer, Friendship) and now we are back to business w/ A DIFFERENT MAN (Sundance-Berlinale) "the film, like its main character, also avoids an in-depth exploration of emotional interiority."

Late last year, we got to chat with the great 🇦🇷 Lisandro Alonso for EUREKA - to be released this weekend via the @Film_Movement folks at the lovely @Metrograph theatre.