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“Moscow Never Sleeps”: A Conversation with Director Johnny O’Reilly
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By Laura Blum “Moscow is a prison, but we love it. To leave, you must pay a bribe to the prison guards,” cracks a Russian entrepreneur in Moscow Never Sleeps. In dialogue and detail, Johnny O’Reilly’s follow-up to his debut feature The Weather Station vividly captures the Mu ...
- 6.99 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Tribeca Spotlight: Pappi Corsicato Frames “Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait”
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By Laura Blum “Everyone knows about his pajamas, his lifestyle, his art, his movies, but not many people know about his sensitivity and vulnerability,” Italian director Pappi Corsicato recently told thalo.com. As you may have guessed, unless you’ve missed four decades of art world ...
- 7.07 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Tribeca Spotlight: Director Shady Srour Breathes \"Holy Air\"
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By Laura Blum “Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?” wondered Christ disciple Nathaneal in the Gospel of John. Reframing that question in the context of present-day Israel, Nazarene writer-director-star Shady Srour has retained biblical skeptism in his debut feature Holy Air. Bu ...
- 7.09 years ago - By Laura Blum
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“Shadowman” Lures Artist Richard Hambleton into the Light: Interview with Filmmaker Oren Jacoby
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By Laura Blum “Who is the Shadowman?” asked 80s headlines about the black, phantom-like figures haunting the New York landscape. Now along comes an impressive answer in the documentary Shadowman, about their creator. Given that he is the elusive street art pioneer Richard Hambleton, mys ...
- 7.09 years ago - By Laura Blum
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ReelAbilities Spotlight: Len Collin’s “Sanctuary” Stars Actors with Intellectual Disability
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By Laura Blum “Nobody thinks of people with intellectual disabilities as being sexual creatures,” says Len Collin, “but they clearly are.” Collin is the director of Sanctuary, an Irish comedy about a group of adults with cognitive impairment who visit Galway, where two of th ...
- 7.22 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Spotlight:“Nocturama”: Auteurism Meets Terrorism
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By Laura Blum Paris is burning. It’s been set ablaze by a dozen disaffected millennials in Bertrand Bonello’s new film Nocturama. As the City of Light succumbs to dark acts, we’re left to wonder: Who are these young terrorists? How did they come together? What are they fighting fo ...
- 7.24 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Cinematographer John Schwartzman on Shooting “The Founder”
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By Laura Blum Textured, bittersweet and laced with irony, John Lee Hancock’s unvarnished chronicle of the Ray Kroc legend is hardly a hagiography. But its very ambivalence about the McDonald’s brand builder gives The Founder ethical shadings that lift it beyond facile biopic and into th ...
- 7.34 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Cate Blanchett Embraces Change in “Manifesto”
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By Laura Blum Pity the poor manifesto, long dismissed as a lesser literary genre shouted from soap boxes and pamphlets. Finally, with Julian Rosefeldt’s “Manifesto” installation at the Park Avenue Armory, the snubbed art form gets some overdue love. It took star power to do so. A ...
- 7.4 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Cinematographer Greig Fraser Captures “Lion”
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By Laura Blum As a young boy coming up in rural India, Saroo Brierley often helped his big brother Guddu scavenge for food and money on trains. One evening in 1986 the brothers got separated. Five-year-old Saroo accidentally wound up a thousand miles from home, after boarding what turned out to be ...
- 7.44 years ago - By Laura Blum
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