With his videogame adaptation #Exit8, director Genki Kawamura expands the premise into a representation of how routines can trap us in cycles of bad behaviors.
Read @cjprince.bsky.social's review as the film opens in theaters: thefilmstage.com/tiff-review-...
With ND/NF kicking off today, I wrote about three features playing at this year's festival: Chronovisor (fun!), Erupcja (fine!), and Agon (less fun!)
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I give up
Everyone's pro-labour until they hear an anecdote about flagrant health and safety violations on a movie set 30 years ago that resulted in a cool scene
Film festival reaction tweets
"Split the diopter" -King Solomon the Cinephile
If you like Geneva conventions
And getting tried at the Hague
The Oscars highlighted how many greats in the industry are now a permanent part of the past while awkwardly chuckling their way around Hollywood's bleak, dwindling future. A room full of people who make pretend for a living can't even feign that things are going well for a few hours.
7 years ago today, Jacques Audiard's Emilia Perez premiered at the Academy Awards
Received a 14 day suspension from Letterboxd because I kept referring to DCPs as "Film+"
Don't tell me what you're passionate about, it will only make me want to confidently state wrong things about it to piss you off.
The peace president is asking other countries to help start World War III
how you'd find me in the criterion closet
bad dreams in the night
Do you ever look at a director and think they're probably bad with money
Hollywood has taught me the power of being annoying and persistent
This story includes the insane detail that Kaouther Ben Hania was awarded at this event alongside the subject of that Road Between Us documentary that played at TIFF after it was initially rejected.
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The arbitrary distinctions that embarrassing statement used to justify its hypocritical stance are, of course, from a place of privilege. And those distinctions have nothing supporting them in the face of daily examples of innocent people becoming victims of political violence.
Just wondering, based off of the Berlinale's recent statement, if Hamdan Ballal and his family fall under the small "p" or capital "P"
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I wrote a little bit about the Montreal Critics' Week and how smaller, regional festivals can create spaces for engaging with new films in ways that major festivals don't.
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cinematic parallels
4 Non Blondes -
I would like my favourite filmmakers to stop dying on or around my birthday.
Films from Jim Jarmusch, Christian Petzold, and Alexandre Koberidze are among @cjprince.bsky.social’s top 10 films of 2025.
The Voice of Hind Rajab is a film noble in its intentions but filled with questionable choices around its execution.
Read @cjprince.bsky.social's review as the Venice winner opens in theaters:
DRACULA (2025, dir. Radu Jude)
My sleep paralysis demon is Ella McKay what do I do
presidential pardon from director jail
This is what happens when trains dream
