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Oscar-Nominated ‘Timbuktu’ Director Abderrahmane Sissako on Being ‘Free to Dream’ in Berlin Competition Romantic Drama ‘Black Tea’ - variety.com - France - China - Ivory Coast - Berlin - city Guangzhou - Mali
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19.02.2024

Oscar-Nominated ‘Timbuktu’ Director Abderrahmane Sissako on Being ‘Free to Dream’ in Berlin Competition Romantic Drama ‘Black Tea’

Christopher Vourlias Oscar nominee Abderrahmane Sissako (“Timbuktu”) returns to the screen for the first time in nearly a decade with his latest feature, “Black Tea,” a lushly lensed romantic drama about a love spanning cultural divides that world premieres Feb. 21 in competition at the Berlin Film Festival.

Locarno’s Heritage Monday Panelists Argue for Marketing Old Classics Like Current Films: ‘There Is a New Generation Coming to Cinema Now’ - variety.com - Paris - Italy - Switzerland
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08.08.2023

Locarno’s Heritage Monday Panelists Argue for Marketing Old Classics Like Current Films: ‘There Is a New Generation Coming to Cinema Now’

Marta Balaga You can approach old classics just like new films, argued participants during Locarno’s Heritage Monday panel. “I talked to an exhibitor in Paris and they don’t consider repertory cinema to be different from contemporary cinema. They are collapsing both models into one and it’s very interesting,” said K.J.

The History of the Famed Hollywood Hyphenate: Writer-Directors - variety.com - France - Hollywood - Japan - county Story - Malta
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03.03.2023

The History of the Famed Hollywood Hyphenate: Writer-Directors

Tim Gray Senior Vice President This year, all the Oscar-contending directors are nominated for original screenplay: the Daniels (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert), Todd Field, Martin McDonagh, Ruben Östlund and Steven Spielberg (writing with Tony Kushner). This is the first time it’s happened in AMPAS history.  The only year that came close was 2017, when all five helmers had written or co-written their scripts, though they didn’t all get writing noms. So here’s Film History 101. In Hollywood lore, Preston Sturges is often credited as the first scribe to become a hyphenate, as writer-director of the 1940 “The Great McGinty.” But as with all Hollywood “facts,” there is only an element of truth here.

‘Ida Red’ Review: A Tulsa Crime Family Wants Mama Out of Prison - variety.com - Oklahoma
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13.08.2021

‘Ida Red’ Review: A Tulsa Crime Family Wants Mama Out of Prison

Jay Weissberg Mama’s in the slammer but she’s running the show in “Ida Red,” a proficiently made crime family drama that sees director John Swab return to his Oklahoma roots.

‘Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash’ Review: Retro ’80s Action Homage Uses Sexual impotence as Social Critique - variety.com
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11.08.2021

‘Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash’ Review: Retro ’80s Action Homage Uses Sexual impotence as Social Critique

Jay Weissberg Festival regular Edwin delivers a withering critique of masculinity with the enjoyably gritty if over-obvious “Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash.” Usually when films deal with impotence, they tend to be coy or jokey, but there’s no beating around the bush here: Erectile dysfunction is the theme, with all the implications of disempowerment and emasculation the issue implies.As metaphor, impotence is used to make a broader critique of a toxic culture that puts so much emphasis

‘Petite Solange’ Review: No Surprise That Divorce Is Hard on Teens in French Drama - variety.com - France
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06.08.2021

‘Petite Solange’ Review: No Surprise That Divorce Is Hard on Teens in French Drama

Jay Weissberg French director Axelle Ropert makes an unwise shift from sprightly comedy (“Miss and the Doctors,” “The Apple of My Eye”) to faux-naive artificiality with “Petite Solange,” a tiresome divorce drama seen through the eyes of an adolescent girl.

‘Marx Can Wait’ Review: Marco Bellocchio’s Doc Concludes That Politics Should Never Come Before Family - variety.com
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16.07.2021

‘Marx Can Wait’ Review: Marco Bellocchio’s Doc Concludes That Politics Should Never Come Before Family

Jay Weissberg “Fists in the Pocket” director Marco Bellocchio has long woven elements of autobiography into his work, threading personal themes of siblings, madness and suicide through his most intimate films. Far less apparent until now was how the maestro sublimated himself behind the fiction, using cinema to address such elements on screen so as to avoid processing them on a consciously verbal level.

‘Natural Light’ Review: Fixed Stoicism Shields From the Ravages of War - variety.com
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02.03.2021

‘Natural Light’ Review: Fixed Stoicism Shields From the Ravages of War

Jay Weissberg Having imbibed the visual qualities of Andrei Tarkovsky and Sharunas Bartas, “Natural Light” director Dénes Nagy delivers exactly the sort of forest-bound World War II movie one might imagine from a first-time helmer smitten by such masters.

‘The Furnace’ Review: Oz Western Delivers Racial Sensitivity and Good Old-Fashioned Storytelling - variety.com - Australia - Afghanistan
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16.09.2020

‘The Furnace’ Review: Oz Western Delivers Racial Sensitivity and Good Old-Fashioned Storytelling

Jay Weissberg The producers and funding bodies behind “The Furnace” took quite a chance when they agreed to back Roderick MacKay in his debut feature, yet clearly the young writer-director knows how to sell his vision just as well as he knows how to make a movie.

‘Assandira’ Review: Salvatore Mereu’s Riskiest Film to Date - variety.com
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10.09.2020

‘Assandira’ Review: Salvatore Mereu’s Riskiest Film to Date

Jay Weissberg When many directors make movies in rural settings, one invariably senses they’re depictions by an outsider, someone who imagines a way of life that ultimately remains beyond their grasp. Instead, throughout Salvatore Mereu’s career directing stories from the Sardinian countryside, the feeling is always that he’s a part of that world.

‘The Disciple’ Review: A Nuanced Look at a Determined Hindustani Musician, Exec Produced by Alfonso Cuarón - variety.com - India - city Venice
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04.09.2020

‘The Disciple’ Review: A Nuanced Look at a Determined Hindustani Musician, Exec Produced by Alfonso Cuarón

Jay Weissberg When Chaitanya Tamhane’s extraordinary debut “Court” premiered in Venice’s Horizons section in 2014, it heralded the arrival of a bright talent willing to take risks with a cerebral kind of independent cinema.

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