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NYCC : The Electric State / Q&A with Actress Millie Bobby Brown, Actor Chris Pratt and Directors Russo Brothers

©Courtesy of Netflix The Electric State is a spectacular adventure from the directors of Avengers: Endgame set in an alternate, retro-futuristic version of the 1990s. Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things, Enola Holmes, Damsel) stars as Michelle, an orphaned teenager navigating life in a society where sentient robots resembling cartoons and mascots, who once served peacefully among humans, now…

2024 Chicago Japanese Film Collective Full Lineup Announced!

    2024 Chicago Japan Film Collective Full Lineup Announced! Greetings from beautiful Chicago, where fall is in full bloom! We are delighted to announce the full lineup for the 2024 Chicago Japan Film Collective (CJFC). This year’s festival, centered around the theme of ‘Co-existence,’ will feature 11 films, including 2 theater screenings and 9…

‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’: A Touching Tale of Growth and Survival

©Blue fox Entertainment  It’s no secret that some of the most awesome animated films on the planet have emerged from post-WWII Japan. While Kensuke’s Kingdom is not a Japanese production per se, it is based on a novel by a British-born author who includes the story of a soldier from Nagasaki in his engaging narrative….

NYFF : Emilia Pérez / Q&A with Director Jacques Audiard 

©Courtesy of Netflix Emilia Pérez : From renegade auteur Jacques Audiard comes Emilia Pérez, an audacious fever dream that defies genres and expectations. Through liberating song and dance and bold visuals, this odyssey follows the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness. The fearsome cartel leader Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón)…

NYFF / Hard Truth : Q&A With Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Actor Tuwaine Barrett and Director Mike Leigh

Hard Truth : Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman wracked by fear, tormented…

Mediha : Exclusive Interview with Director Hasan Oswald on DOC NYC’s Winning Film

©Courtesy of Together films. Mediha : Mediha and her younger brothers, Ghazwan and Adnan, were kidnapped in August 2014 when ISIS invaded their village of Sinjar in Northern Iraq. After years of enslavement by different ISIS families, they were rescued and returned to the IDP camps in Northern Iraq. Their parents and youngest brother are…

NYFF: ‘Emilia Pérez’ Delivers Drama, Musical and Outstanding Performances

@Courtesy of Netflix The ability of Jacques Audiard consists of working inside the genre and at the same time trying to give his interpretation of it. Depending on the film, he decides to follow its rules or surprise the audience with a slightly different tone. His last Emilia Pérez belongs to the latter case: awarded…

Teacup: Robert McCammon’s Creepy Novel Comes to Peacock

In “Mending Wall,” Robert Frost wrote: “good fences make good neighbors,” but it is unclear whether the poet laureate truly agreed with the sentiment. For the Chenoweth Family and their neighbors, the border a gasmask-clad man draws around and through their properties represents a deadly sinister invisible barrier. The mystery man certainly looks creepy—presumably that…

International Film Festival Manhattan Announces the Line-up!

International Film Festival Manhattan  This year in terms of THEME: International Film Festival Manhattan is seeking short films 15 mins and below that are in the themes of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals: 1) No Poverty 2) Zero Hunger 3) Good Health and Well – Being 4) Quality Education 5) Gender Equality 6) Clean…

NYFF: ‘The Room Next Door’ Video Review: Almodóvar Teams with Moore and Swinton for English Feature Debut

Pedro Almodóvar is back at the 62nd New York Film Festival with his first English-language feature film, The Room Next Door, adapted from the novel by Sigrid Nunez, who also wrote the book on which The Friend is based. (You can watch my review of the movie adapting that other book, which also played NYFF,…