Best Director, Winner: Mohammad Rasoulof for THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG #LAFCA

The Seed of the Sacred Fig Director Mohammad Rasoulof on Filming in Secret and the Repression of the Iranian Republic In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini was killed by authorities. She was arrested for alleged non-compliance with the country’s mandatory hijab laws, subsequently collapsing...

The Seed of the Sacred Fig is one of this year's best.

I spoke with director Mohammad Rasoulof about filming in secret and the repression of the Iranian government from which he escaped for @thefilmstage.bsky.social

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“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” Is a Shattering Epic of Reproach In Mohammad Rasoulof’s searing film, contemporary social unrest threatens to tear an Iranian family apart.

Broken harvest: on the slow-burning — and then furiously accelerating — family tragedy of Mohammad Rasoulof's remarkable new drama, THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG. In select U.S. theatres Nov. 27: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

It's not.

denzel washington carried the film. paul was... fine.

‘All We Imagine as Light’ Review: Tender Comrades In Payal Kapadia’s extraordinary drama, three women in Mumbai search for connections amid the city’s vibrant and darkly alienating churn.

Hello friends, if you live in New York or Los Angeles, please see this beautiful movie - it’s one of the best of the year. Promise!

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/m... (it will expand to other cities soon - more theater information here: allweimagineaslight.com)

this is a perfectly stated embodiment of how so many filmmakers have come to see the artifice of film as something to hide and in doing so paradoxically makes their movies look and feel incredibly artificial

good for a horror movie.

flop.

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Dir: William Wyler

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Dir: Joan Micklin Silver

The Sound of Music (1965)
Dir: Robert Wise

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Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cloud (2024)
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we can tell...

Forbidden Games (1952)
Dir: René Clément

so let me get this right:
Gladiator 2 cut a gay Denzel kiss and all the scenes of palestinian-egyptian actress May Calamawy? pathetic beyond belief. decreased any interest in the movie i had massively.

and i won’t be watching gladiator... cutting may calamawy out just screams anti-palestinian sentiment.

Egyptian-Palestinian actress May Calamawy being announced in Gladiator II when casting was being announced and then being silently replaced with Israeli actress Yuval Gonen in the finished film. fuck Hollywood. fuck Ridley Scott.

When my Mike Nichols biography came out in 2021, one of the questions I was asked most often was "Why can't I stream Silkwood?" Due to absurd rights issues, it's been devilishly hard to find. I'm happy to say it's now on Hulu. And it's essential. One of his best, and unlike anything else he made.

Paths of Glory (1957)
Dir: Stanley Kubrick

Want something to do that will help you get away from the world but also think about it? Jesse Eisenberg's movie A Real Pain opens wider on Friday. I saw it a month ago and it's grown and grown for me. Witty, sorrowful, well-calibrated, beautifully played and written--it will take you on a journey.

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Dir: Jules Dassin

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The Brutalist, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, I'm Still Here,

My feelings on Gladiator II are about the same as the first: it’s fine

Much better fight choreo + action, offset by Paul Mescal simply not being able to carry a film like this the way Russell Crowe did so effortlessly 20 years ago

Denzel is levels above the rest

“Gladiator II” Movie Review – A Frustrating Mixed Bag Sir Ridley Scott has had quite the eclectic career over nearly half a century. He appears to have the ability to tackle a variety of genres and has many highly acclaimed films under his belt like A…

"GLADIATOR II may be bigger than its predecessor, but ultimately it loses what made the original so effective."

My review for Ridley Scott's long-awaited sequel to his Best Picture-winning epic, in theaters next Friday.

#GladiatorII

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A ★★ review of Gladiator II (2024) “Gladiator II” is incredibly confused. For one, it’s two different movies. There’s the flat psychological revenge plot centering a sauceless Paul Mescal as former heir turned laconic soldier turned Gl...

I wrote out my full thoughts on GLADIATOR II.

JESSE EISENBERG People on the street say mean things to me. INTERVIEWER Like what? JESSE EISENBERG I get called Napoleon Dynamite because I have curly hair. I live in New York City and I ride a bicycle. I always bike down 9th Avenue and there’s this kid who goes to school there named Abraham. Every time I pass him, he calls me Napoleon Dynamite. He screams it out and his friends laugh. That was a fine movie but I wasn’t in it. INTERVIEWER What do you say back? JESSE EISENBERG I say, “Please Abraham, I’m not that man.”

In honor of A REAL PAIN hitting theaters, one of my favorite Jesse Eisenberg anecdotes