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      Charles Bramesco
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      Rodrigo Perez
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      ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3 To Begin Airing On Disney+ In February 2023

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      May 26, 2022 3:53 pm
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      Charles Barfield
      May 5, 2022 11:30 am
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      ‘Night Sky’: Holden Miller & Daniel C. Connolly Talk About Character-Driven Sci-Fi, Working with J.K. Simmons & Sissy Spacek [Bingeworthy Podcast]

      Mike DeAngelo
      May 23, 2022 3:30 pm
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      ‘Men’: Jessie Buckley & Rory Kinnear On “The Inescapable Nature Of Trauma” In Their New A24 Horror [Interview]

      Jamie Rogers
      May 21, 2022 6:01 pm
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      ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’: Steven Moffat & David Nutter Talk Time Travel, ‘Sherlock,’ & More [Bingeworthy Podcast]

      Mike DeAngelo
      May 19, 2022 12:22 pm
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      Will Poulter Talks His Upcoming ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3,’ Role & Wants To “Go On A Journey” As Adam Warlock

      Ned Booth
      May 19, 2022 10:44 am
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      May 24, 2022 9:39 am
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      May 27, 2022 11:03 am
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      ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Review: Perhaps It’s Too Big A Burden For The Jedi Master To Be Our Only Hope

      Rodrigo Perez
      May 27, 2022 11:00 am
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      ‘Close’ Is A Exquisite Tale Of Childhood Heartbreak [Cannes Review]

      Gregory Ellwood
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      May 12, 2022 12:40 pm
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      Summer Movie Preview 2022: ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ ‘Thor: Love & Thunder,’ ‘Nope’ & More [The Playlist Podcast]

      Charles Barfield
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      Fun With Nuns: ‘Sister Act’ at 30, ‘Benedetta’ and ‘The Nun’ [Be Reel Podcast]

      Chance Solem-Pfeifer
      May 27, 2022 2:00 pm
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      ‘Night Sky’: Holden Miller & Daniel C. Connolly Talk About Character-Driven Sci-Fi, Working with J.K. Simmons & Sissy Spacek [Bingeworthy Podcast]

      Mike DeAngelo
      May 23, 2022 3:30 pm
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      Mike DeAngelo
      May 19, 2022 12:22 pm
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      Michael Waldron On Kevin Feige’s Lucasfilm Movie & Says A Good ‘Star Wars’ Movie “At Its Core Is About Family”

      Ned Booth
      May 18, 2022 3:11 pm
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      Charles Barfield
      May 18, 2022 1:30 pm
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      ‘Willow’ Teaser Trailer: A New Fantasy Adventure Awaits On Disney+ November 30

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      Molly Cottee Tantum
      May 26, 2022 2:37 pm
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      ‘Devotion’ Trailer: J.D. Dillard’s Korean War-Set Drama With Jonathan Majors & Glen Powell Flies In The Fall

      Rosa Martinez
      May 26, 2022 2:14 pm
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      ‘Abandoned’ Trailer: Emma Roberts Stars As A Fragile Mom In A Haunted House On June 17

      Ned Booth
      May 26, 2022 12:06 pm
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      ‘Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song’: Leonard Cohen’s Most Enduring Song Gets The Doc Treatment

      Molly Cottee Tantum
      May 25, 2022 7:54 pm
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      Molly Cottee Tantum
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      Gina Gammell & Riley Keough’s ‘War Pony’ Is Admirable But Overstuffed [Cannes Review]

      Gregory Ellwood
      May 22, 2022 9:16 am
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      Cristian Mungiu Demonstrates That Racism & Xenophobia Are Universal In ‘R.M.N.’ [Cannes Review]

      Gregory Ellwood
      May 22, 2022 7:26 am
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      Tilda Swinton & George Miller’s Five-Year Journey To ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ [Cannes]

      Gregory Ellwood
      May 21, 2022 2:20 pm
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      Anne Hathaway & James Gray Define The ‘Armageddon’ In ‘Armageddon Time’ [Cannes]

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Memoria

‘Memoria’ Trailer: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Beautiful Drama Will Only Ever Be Seen In Theaters Starting In April

Charles Barfield
March 10, 2022 1:48 pm
News, Trailers
Apichatpong Weerasethakul doesn’t create blockbuster films. He doesn’t even really create what you might consider typical narrative features. His films are challenging, beautiful pieces of art. They are cinema...
Memoria

‘Memoria’: Apichatpong Weerasethakul & Tilda Swinton Discuss Their Dreamy New Film [Interview]

Charles Bramesco
December 22, 2021 12:34 pm
Features, Interviews, News
Few performers boast a resume of such wide breadth as the intrepid, versatile Tilda Swinton, whose eclectic array of roles and collaborators run the full gamut of what acting can be. As confident popping into ...
Memoria

NEON Will Keep ‘Memoria’ In Theaters Forever As Film Will Never Get A VOD, Streaming Or Physical Release

Charles Barfield
October 6, 2021 12:06 pm
Box Office, News
If you’ve been following the box office news and the film industry over the past couple of years, you know the big discussion surrounds the idea of an exclusive theatrical window for films. It’s important for ...
Memoria

‘Memoria’: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Meditates on Ecology & Time With Tilda Swinton In A Slow Burn Dream [Cannes Review]

Caroline Tsai
July 16, 2021 8:12 am
Features, Festivals, News, Reviews
In one scene of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Memoria,” Jessica (Tilda Swinton) and a friend browse refrigerated cabinets designed to preserve flowers. “In here, time stops,” the saleswoman says proudly, gestur...
Year Of The Everlasting Storm

‘Year Of The Everlasting Storm’: Neon’s Anthology Film Features Auteurs Jafar Panahi, Laura Poitras, David Lowery & More [Cannes Review]

Charles Bramesco
July 15, 2021 9:24 am
Festivals, News, Reviews
The Robert Bresson quote that opens the anthology film “Year of the Everlasting Storm” — “you don’t create by adding, but by taking away” — makes a tidy adage of the time-honored idea that deprivation breeds i...
Memoria

‘Memoria’ Trailer: Tilda Swinton Stars In Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Surreal New Cannes Provocation

Edward Davis
July 12, 2021 11:11 am
News, Trailers
"As a kid, I was drawn to jungles, animals, and mountains," Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul says in the press notes to his surreal new Cannes Film Festival provocation, "Memoria." A film ...
The Year Of The Everlasting Storm

‘The Year Of The Everlasting Storm’ Trailer: Cannes-Bound Anthology Features 7 Stories Told By Jafar Panahi, David Lowery, Apichatpong Weerasethakul & More

Edward Davis
June 3, 2021 2:09 pm
News, Trailers
Another Cannes Film Festival line-up announcement, another new round of trailers. Now, we've got the first look at Neon's "The Year of the Everlasting Storm," an anthology feature featuring seven stories told ...
NEON The Year of the Everlasting Storm

David Lowery, Apichatpong Weerasethakul & More Directing Segments Of NEON’s Upcoming Pandemic-Inspired Film

Charles Barfield
May 21, 2021 2:03 pm
News
There have been a surprising number of pandemic films that have been released over the last year. In a world where people were on lockdown with very little to do outside of their homes, it seems as if some fil...
Cannes Paul Thomas Anderson Sean Penn Jane Campion

Cannes 2021: New Films From Paul Thomas Anderson, Paul Schrader, Jane Campion, Sean Penn & More Could Premiere

Charles Barfield
April 26, 2021 10:51 am
Festivals, News
With the lack of a Cannes (and a regular film festival circuit) in 2020 due to the pandemic, there were multiple reports that a lot of filmmakers were going to hold their work back until there could be a semi-...
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Qumra

Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul Imagines The Post-Quarantine Future Of Cinema In Powerful Essay

Rafael Motamayor
May 2, 2020 4:18 pm
Essays
With movie theaters across the globe closed, many of us are missing the theatrical moviegoing experience. Not all of us express our emotions through heartfelt essays, however, as Thai slow cinema luminary Apic...
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