Exclusive Interview with Flow (2024) Director Gints Zilbalodis
With many notable wins on the festival circuit complimenting a Best International Feature nomination, Flow has quickly become one of the...
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Nov 235 min read
Interview with Andrea Calao
Something I really appreciate about the Austin Film Festival is how many different types of movies one can encounter while attending....
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michaelzendejas72
Nov 195 min read
Small Things Like These (2024) Review
Claire Keegan’s transcendent novelette feels like one of those books that’d pose serious challenges for adaptation. While its...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 306 min read
Austin Film Festival: Interview with John August
Twenty-five years ago, John August’s first script was made into a film. Directed and shot by Doug Liman, Go is a wild ride following a...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 254 min read
Dahomey (2024) Review
In A Dying Colonialism , Frantz Fanon details the cultural and political changes that emerged from the Algerians’ rejection of French...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 145 min read
Interview with Union Producer Mars Verrone
When Amazon's first labor union was established, workers around not just the US, but the world were given a spark of hope in times when...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 104 min read
All We Imagine as Light (2024) Review
I became very excited to see Payal Kapadia’s newest offering after it gained so much acclaim at Cannes, where it became the first Indian...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 75 min read
Exclusive Interview with Direct Action Co-Director Ben Russell
I was excited about this French documentary the second I read its synopsis, so I couldn’t be more excited to speak with one of its...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 65 min read
In Defense of Megalopolis (2024)
It’s been a week since I’ve seen Francis Ford Coppola’s latest epic sci-fi drama, and I’m still debating whether it was a masterpiece or...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 54 min read
In the Summers (2024) Review
Right before Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio’s Sundance darling begins, a title card lets viewers know the portions in Spanish were...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 38 min read
My October Watchlist
Normally, this list would consist of 31 movie recommendations based on movies I’ve already seen, but instead I thought it’d be more...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 28 min read
Exclusive Interview with The Sealed Soil Restorationist Jillian Borders
New York Film Festival is not only where some of the best films to release this year are screened, but is also a great place to see some...
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michaelzendejas72
Oct 15 min read
The Wild Robot (2024) Review
It’s funny to think how little thought has historically been paid to animated movies, especially those made for children. This seems to...
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michaelzendejas72
Sep 273 min read
By the Stream (2024) Review
Readers of this blog will know I’m a huge fan of Hong Sang-soo; so, I couldn’t have been more excited to learn the Korean auteur was...
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michaelzendejas72
Sep 264 min read
The Substance (2024) Review
What first drew me to Coralie Fargeat’s sophomore feature is the mythology surrounding it: gruesome tales of people passing out in the...
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michaelzendejas72
Sep 253 min read
New York Film Festival: Anora (2024) Review
The return of Sean Baker is not to be taken lightly. After thrilling us with 2021’s Red Rocket , this newest offering continues to build...
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michaelzendejas72
Sep 237 min read
New York Film Festival: Exclusive Interview with Director Nicolás Pereda
Nicolás Pereda’s latest offering, Lázaro at Night , deals with three actors in a love triangle struggling with the line between their...
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michaelzendejas72
Sep 214 min read
New York Film Festival: Happyend (2024) Review
For millions of people, the end of high school represents a kind of apocalypse where the frivolities of childhood are replaced with...
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michaelzendejas72
Sep 205 min read
New York Film Festival: The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) Review
Mohammad Rasoulof made a big splash at Cannes with this latest offering, having to sneak out of Iran and travel by road for almost a...
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michaelzendejas72
Sep 194 min read
New York Film Festival: The Brutalist (2024) Review
Don’t let the most recent wave of hype fool you: Brady Corbet’s newest epic historical drama is what Mao would call a paper tiger. It may...
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