I have a soft spot for Ulrich Köhler, who made one of the best titled films ever (MONTAG KOMMEN DIE FENSTER). At #NYFF, I saw his latest, GAVAGAI, which took root in the embarrassment he felt in the course of making SLEEPING SICKNESS and its 2011 Berlinale premiere. It's complicated. t.co/WGao9LZDg2

Sean Baker's Rollercoaster to Oscar Glory | Deep Dive Sean Baker's career from hardscrabble indie director to Oscar winner has been anything but easy: we have the deep dive on Anora's unlikely success.

Three years ago, when studying at CCNY, I wrote a profile on Sean Baker for a creative nonfiction writing class.
This year, I was given the chance to rework it and am happy that my 7500-word primer on the filmmaker now finally sees the light of day.
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Wenig überraschend liefert Hong bei der diesjährigen #Berlinale mit WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU einen meiner Favoriten. In großer Offenheit kündigt sich hier eine Zukunftsaussicht nach der anderen an, nur um diese schließlich allesamt zum Bersten zu bringen.
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Zum deutschen Kinostart von PFAU - BIN ICH ECHT? präsentieren wir euch ein Feature zu Hauptdarsteller Albrecht Schuch, der nicht nur den Schnurrbart immer wieder mit Würde zu tragen versteht: tinyurl.com/bdh676ta

Cannesversations - Our Top Ten of 2024 - Part 1 | RSS.com For the first episode of Cannesversations this year, Eliana and Patrick are joined by critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu and Lawrence Garcia for the second year to look back at their favorite films of 2024.Follow Öykü & Lawrence on Twitter/X or LetterboxdOur Part 1 Top 10 Films discussion begins with#10 - 33:35#9 - 43:00#8 - 59:12#7 - 1:17:18#6 - 1:19:50#5 - 1:28:24ÖyküThe Periphery of the Base | Zhou TaoLes Reines du Drames | Alexis LangloisBy the Stream | Hong Sang SooMiséricorde | Alain Guiraudie100,000,000,000 (Cent mille milliards) | Virgil VernierEat the Night | Caroline Poggi, Jonathan VinelLawrencePresence | Steven SoderberghHard Truths | Mike LeighBy the StreamChime | Kiyoshi KurosawaThe Other Way Around | Jonás TruebaPatrickMiséricordeIsrael Palestina on Swedish TV 1958-1989 | Göran OlssonYouth (Homecoming) | Wang BingWe are Inside | Farah KassemLos delincuentes | Rodrigo MorenoElianaThe Room Next Door | Pedro AlmodovárIsrael Palestina on Swedish TV 1958-1989Dahomey | Mati DiopCastration Movie Anthology i. Traps | Louise WeardBluish | Lilith Kraxner, Milena Czernovsky & All We Imagine as Light | Payal KapadiaTú me abrasas | Matías PiñeiroPart two of our top 10 films of 2024 will be coming soon! We wish all of you a happy 2025

With Sundance ongoing and the Berlinale ahead, we were thinkink of the most anticyclical thing to put out and came up with our Top 10 episode of 2024, joined, as last year, by our friends LAWRENCE GARCIA & @feridemercury.com
Here is episode 1/2, in which we count down from 10-6.
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Lars Eidinger, ab heute mit STERBEN im Kino, ist der wohl polarisierendste deutsche Schauspieler unserer Zeit. Was genau es ist, woran sich das Publikum in der Causa Eidinger scheidet, ist indes nicht leicht auszumachen.

Patrick Fey versucht es dennoch: tinyurl.com/mvhpb736

After a long and unintended hiatus, Cannesversations is back with a discussion on Marcel Carné's LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS, a film that grew on me with every datum I learned about its historical backdrop and production context.

For the last episodes of last year's CANNESVERSATIONS, we were very happy to have our critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu and Lawrence Garcia join us to discuss our favorite movies of 2023.
Expectedly, this took a bit longer, so it became a two-parter.

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Mit Jakob Jurisch habe ich im Moviebreak-Podcast über unsere Lieblingsfilme des Jahres gesprochen. Wenig davon hat es bisher auf die regulären Deutschen Kinoleinwände geschafft, aber was nicht ist, kann ja noch werden.
Wie jedes Jahr gilt jedenfalls: Es war ein gutes Kinojahr!
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This week on CANNESVERSATIONS, we delve into Lizzie Borden's WORKING GIRLS. A milieu to this day avoided like the plague in American cinema, Borden's depiction of sex work bespeaks refreshing mundanity and virtuously circumvents the common tropes of glamorization or precarization. bit.ly/400rYzr