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As part of our
#strikegermany
counter-programming to
#Berlinale2024
, we are covering select titles from the Palestinian Film Archive.
@dykelctics
kicks things off today with writing on Mohammad Bakri's Jenin, Jenin.
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We unequivocally love the
@jon_bois
project. His latest is another win.
@esmesayss
:
"In a way it’s the opposite of Section 1...Rather than a story where choices and accidents weave together to create a miracle...it’s one of slow and inevitable disaster."
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We can always count on
@KaylaBeardslee
. Here she is with thoughts on the latest from
#ONEW
:
"The end result is a project that brings together dance-pop and ballads to create a sensitive pop album quietly brimming with life."
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The staff of In Review Online have come to the collective decision to abide by the international call from
#strikegermany
. We will be withholding coverage of the Berlin International Film Festival on the grounds that its institutional backing from the German government is (1/6)
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Right under the wire, we bring to you our Top 25 Albums of 2022. It’s also the second edition of our weekly magazine, kicking off in earnest in 2023. Feel free to argue our selections with us. See you all in 2023!
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#ClintEastwood
is 92 today. In honor of his bday, we've got a series of 8 essays — tackling the various modes, motifs & movies of his career — coming 1 per day over this week & next.
Kicking things off is
@ayeenforootan
with our retrospective (Cl)Intro.
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Still a few days until 2023, and so we bring to you today our favorite 25 ( + honorable mentions) films of 2022. This also happens to be the inaugural issue of our new weekly magazine, so please check out our thoughts and support us on Patreon if you can.
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We know Berlinale has wrapped (with some choice fucking words, at that), but we're still on the
#StrikeGermany
beat. Today
@DanielGorman20
takes a look at the four
@ForensicArchi
shorts included in the Palestinian Film Archive.
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Issue 3 of
#InROWeekly
is here & it's a doozy. Included are 2 essays —
@lawrencengarcia
on Mike Leigh,
@zwlws
on Star Film Ranch — canon pieces on Biggie & Whit Stillman, & reviews of
#MissingMovie
,
#TheSon
& more!
Support our Patreon for instant access!
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The 20th anniv edition of
@NYAFF
is currently in full swing at
@FilmLinc
and
@AsiaSociety
. We're dropping our first dispatch today, talking
@shinji_higuchi
's
#shinultraman
,
@arvinchen
's Mama Boy, Jeong Ga-young's Nothing Serious & others. More coming soon!
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We've got some big changes coming in 2023! Weekly magazines. Patreon opportunities so you can directly support our writers. Maybe the chance to private Zoom with our former EIC where you can either flatter or berate him. Check the link⬇️ for more details.
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#Berlinale
is wrapping up today, but we have more
#strikegermany
coverage of the 🇵🇸Palestinian Film Archive still coming. First up for your potential Sunday reading is Michael Scoular on the collected documentaries of Sobhi Al-Zobaidi.
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Today we've got our 3rd entry in our
#ClintEastwood
retro, which comes from
@robot_boy__
, this time on Clint's passion for music.
"Long before his ascent to movie stardom, young Clint dreamed of being a musician."
Dig into it here:
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Catching up with April albums currently, & kicking things up off with thoughts on new records from
#FivioForeign
(-),
@Camila_Cabello
(+),
@mollytuttle
(+),
@fontainesdublin
(+), and
#KellyLeeOwens
(~).
Bylines:
@AlbatrossAlex
@joshhurst
@TheBosma
& more
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We wanted to wait until the next theatrical release for Lav Diaz to publish, but those are regrettably slowing down in frequency. So just because, some Saturday reading for you: Joshua Bogatin talking with Lav Diaz about When the Waves Are Gone.
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While it's true that
@Cinemadureel
may have already wrapped, we took our time with the excellent program & wrote about a selection of its major titles, including the latest (largely excellent) films from Matías Piñeiro, James Benning, Ben Russell, & more!
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Lest it be lost amongst awards/best-of hubbub, Hou Hsiao-hsien's Millennium Mambo turns 20 (in U.S. theatrical years) tomorrow.
@fred_beretta
's excellent revisitation is well worth a read, fantastic counter-programming to the endless Barbenheimer chatter.
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We picked our 10 favorite films of 2023, ranked them, & wrote about them! (Same story with
#11
-25 yesterday.) Spoiler:
@CinemaGuild
and
@GhopperFilm
combined to hog 40% of the list, but that favoritism was decided by vote. Now, time to agree or argue.
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#ThePeoplesJoker
is the best superhero film to arrive in years and years.
@esmesayss
sat down with
@VeraDrew22
to discuss queer fairy tales, collaborative art-making, the film's journey from mixed-media collage movie to pop culture-filtered memoir, & more!
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be reviewing selected works within the Palestinian Film Archive and publishing original writings related to these films. We declare solidarity with all participating in this strike, and solidarity with those participating in protests across the festival grounds. (6/6)
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Our
#strikegermany
continues, but it's not only Palestinian cinema we're talking. Today
@tenmoreskies
takes an eye to Suneil Sanzgiri's latest anticolonialist film, Two Refusals, which was set to premiere at
#Berlinale
before Sanzgiri pulled it in protest.
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Our
#ClintEastwood
essay retro marches on. Day
#2
has
@DanielGorman20
reflecting on Clint's early, mixed success action-direction work. "Even the duds reveal small pleasures...flickers of style."
Up tomorrow: Clint's cinematic relationship to music.
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The Top 5 films in our
#BestFilmsof2021
countdown have arrived. A quartet of auteurs are out-dueled by a relative newcomer. Peep the results, watch the films, smash the follow.
Bylines:
@igorfshman
@swen_ryan
@lawrencengarcia
@PatrickPreziosi
@morrisycy1
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Eclipse day is here.
@alexcfields
took the opportunity to write about Kevin Jerome Everson's series of eclipse films. No special glasses required.
"Like an eclipse, cinema is a gathering of people to watch the movement of light through time and space."
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Top 25 Films of 2023, you ask? Don't let anyone tell you it's subjective. There's a correct answer & we have it. Today we have new writing on the films that our staff ranked
#11
-25. Tomorrow we're bringing even more words on our Top 10.
#BestFilmsof2023
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Next up in our
#strikegermany
solidarity,
#Berlinale2024
counter-programming — wherein we're covering select titles from the Palestinian Film Archive — is Dhruv Goyal on Maryse Gargour's The Land Speaks Arabic.
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#locarno76
wrapped over the weekend, but we had a few more films we wanted to talk about, including the latest works from titans like Lav Diaz and Ken Loach,
@BobByington
's Lousy Carter, & more!
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Gaza, we find the festival’s attempt to mitigate these criticisms with the gesture of The TinyHouse Project to be a condescension toward active and ongoing genocide. The festival’s poor attempt at good faith gives little actual space to the voices who push against empire, (4/6)
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Running May 4-8 is
@prismaticground
. We checked it out & you should too if you like documentaries that understand film as a visual & not merely narrative medium.
Dispatch 1 has takes on Travis Wilkerson's latest, a fantastic work from
@kohlberger
, & more.
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Sunday content is rare for us, but today marks the start of our massive Robert Zemeckis retrospective. 1 piece per day until Sep. 8, when Pinocchio is released.
Kicking things off today with an intro. Make sure to stick with us over the next couple weeks!
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#InROWeekly
is full to bursting this week. We've got a batch of
#SXSW2023
reviews (where
@AndrewDignan
pulls triple-duty;
@NeilBahadur
is in on Zhang Yimou's latest; + new records from Miley, Yves Tumor, and Onew.
Support us on Patreon for instant access!
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by the latter’s censorship and marginalization of activist voices. Germany’s military and financial support of Israel, alongside the repression of those speaking up against Israel’s genocidal actions against the Palestinian people of Gaza and its assault and expropriation (2/6)
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Feature Article | INTERSECTIONS OF AMERICAN EVIL: A DECADE OF ELI ROTH | On the occasion of
@eliroth
’s 46th birthday,
@calamityhey
looks back at the four films the director has made this decade. (Part of our onging series on major artists of the 2010s.)
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#KickingtheCanon
might have taken a brief breather between fall fest season & the end-of-the-year hustle, but we're back in 2022, kicking off with
@swen_ryan
on Tsai Ming-liang's WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? in honor of the 20th anniversary of its US release. 👇
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of those within the Occupied West Bank, should not be ignored or condoned. We wish to send our commitment of solidarity to all filmmakers and cultural workers who have joined this strike; business as usual is unacceptable. As over 100 Palestinians are killed each day in (3/6)
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2022 has arrived, & with it, the beginning of our Top Albums of 2021 countdown. 15 HMs today, including 5 new write-ups & featuring records from
@SEMATARYGRAVEMN
,
@carlypearce
,
@TURNSTILEHC
,
@theantlers
,
@MikoMarks
,
@pooh_shiesty
& more!
Top 25 next week
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We're excited to have
@Greg_Gerke
join us today with an impassioned piece on Dreyer's Gertrud for
#KickingtheCanon
:
"A final film — an art object that takes the whole of a person’s experience and transmutes it into a few hours, a few moments in life."
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and offers only a tiny house, filled with hot air, off to the side, where no one else can see or hear you. While we will not be covering the Berlin Film Festival, that will not be the end of our participation in the strike. Instead, as a form of counter-programming, we will (5/6)
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Day 4 of our ongoing
#ClintEastwood
project & today sees
@DanielGorman20
make his 2nd appearance in the retro, talking Clint's relationship to, shaping of, & tinkering with the Western. 🤠
We'll be back on Mon. with an essay on Clint's "airport trilogy."
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So, we did a thing. Whole ass makeover. Been rocking our look for a bit, but in honor of InRO's 15th bday, we decided a
#glowup
was in order. Still fine-tuning things, but we're (mostly) ready for our close-up. Tell your friends & neighbors.
#NewYearNewMe
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Our Top 25 Films of 2021 countdown begins today with
#21
-25, including a
@kanyewest
appearance, an anime, a pair of singular auteurs, & a bonkers horror flick.
#16
-20 coming at you tmrw. Peep the work.
Bylines:
@mikedoub
@samcmac
@morrisycy1
@AGoldenkind
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Our
#StrikeGermany
coverage of the Palestinian Film Archive today continues:
@graceboschetti
revisits assorted shorts from director Mona Hatoum, who "presents the vulnerability of her body to violence, contextualized within... sociopolitical conflicts."
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For today's
@kickingthecanon
,
@Maxwolf333
weighs in on 1993's NITRATE KISSES:
"...an act of preservation which remains enamored with both the form and its subjects, an exuberant reminder that even the most serious topics and histories benefit from love."
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As Berlinale digs its own grave, what better time to look to small-scale, regional, & niche film festivals.
@NevermoreFF
ran this weekend in person & its slate is streaming online until March 1.
@alexcfields
checked it out & penned words on select titles.
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Coming Wed. is
@HouseOfGucciMov
. A little delicious camp for the holidays.
@colonelmortimer
with more:
"[Like] a very expensive and very long episode of a prime-time soap...Relentlessly entertaining and entirely self-aware in its silliness."
#HouseofGucci
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We've begun our coverage from
#JapanCuts
! See our first dispatch here, including
#WifeOfASpy
,
#Aristocats
,
#ThePassLastDaysOfTheSamuri
, and more! Check it out, and visit
@js_film_nyc
for all the details on the festival.
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Issue 4 of
#InRoWeekly
& it's another fat one:
#Sundance2023
coverage, new reviews of
#InfinityPool
,
#TheWanderingEarth2
,
#ShotgunWedding
,
@ryuichisakamoto
& more.
Bonus, all-Sundance issue coming post-weekend. Sub our Patreon for instant access!
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.
@MovingImageNYC
's
#FirstLook
is one of the most underrated film fests out there, with consistently fantastic curation. The 2024 edition played over the weekend & we took in a good chunk of the slate, starting off with the Ross' bros
#GasolineRainbow
.
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The 2024 edition of Rendez-vous With French Cinema is currently running
@FilmLinc
. In our sole dispatch, we highlight some of the titles we've already written about & check out 7 new films, including the latest from Michel Gondry, Thomas Cailley, & more.
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#BestFilmsof2021
countdown is almost complete.
#6
-10 today, in what's our most Hollywood-heavy dispatch:
#WestSideStory
,
@MNightShyamalan
, &
#NicolasCage
all make appearances, plus some Puiu & Hamaguchi for good measure. Not in that order, so have a read!
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Today begins our Best Films of the Year countdown, including a feisty year-end intro from
@morrisycy1
& 15 Hon. Mentions, with a few new takes on films we earlier skewed mixed or negative on. We're humble like that.
#1
-25 next week, 5 per day.
#Bestof2021
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This Monday's
#KickingTheCanon
is a timely one, and features new InRO recruit
@esmesayss
. Our thoughts on
#Avatar
& its return to theaters:
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#Memoria
#ApichatpongWeerasethakul
| "This is unmistakably Apichatpong, not only in his total willingness to vary his approach as the shot and scene necessitates, but in the rich sense of character and circumstance."
—
@swen_ryan
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It’s here! Our top films/performances, etc. of the (or last) year. Look for our top music selections tomorrow. And please retweet and share if you like us like we like you. Happy New Year.
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More
#LightMatter
coverage today. Michael Sicinski breaks down his favorites from the slate so far, including new works from Laura Kraning, Stephanie Barber, and more.
Verdict: Experimental film fans need to be paying attention. Final dispatch tomorrow!
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Wrapping up our
#StrikeGermany
coverage of the Palestinian Film Archive today (outside of an upcoming interview), and we're starting things off with a personal and passionate piece from
@AGoldenkind
on a pair of Arab Loutfi films.
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#SXSW22
wrapped on Sunday & we published our final dispatch today, talking
@cooperraiff2
’s 2nd consecutive win with CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH, the excellent new
@nickcave
/
@warrenellis13
doc THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE,
@dargott
& Demian Fenton’s DIO, & more!
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#BestFilmsof2021
continues at InRO & we're checking in today with
#11
-15, an eclectic mix including 3 singular documentaries, a massive superhero blockbuster & a Cannes winner.
Bylines:
@mikedoub
@calamityhey
@misterminsoo
@newsfrmhome
@matthew_lucas
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Today marks the beginning of our Tsai Ming-liang retrospective. 25+ films covered over the next two weeks. Get ready.
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.
@fred_beretta
loves
#KickingTheCanon
. This week it's
#UnknownPleasures
:
"Arguably, [the film's] portrayal of late-capitalist malaise could be read, if not as explicitly Marxist, then at least as a left-wing, anti-capitalist critique of globalization."
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#Retrospective
| Christian Petzold: In the Cut
Next week, we'll be tackling
#ChristianPetzold
's entire catalog, leading up to the official release of
#Undine
on Friday.
Check out the intro from
@DanielGorman20
here, and check back for our takes next week!
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#LaCivil
#TeodoraMihai
| "Mihai’s claim that she wants this film to effect positive social change rings somewhat hollow, presenting little in the way of solutions or even much of a political point."
— Chris Mello
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"But if Close seems an improvement on Girl, it’s only because it’s better at hiding its insufficiencies without replacing its callousness and emptiness with anything because, well, Dhont has nothing to replace it with."
—
@esmesayss
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We've been talking the
#BestFilmsof2023
the past couple days & we're wrapping things up today with the fully-designed magazine version with a few extra goodies for our Patreon subscribers, including Honorable Mention selections & individual writer lists.
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#Sundance
might have wrapped yesterday, but we have a few more thoughts, starting with today's words on
#EmilytheCriminal
,
#FreeCholSooLee
,
#amiok
,
#riotsvilleusa
,
#AllThatBreathes
&
#Mija
.
Bylines:
@swen_ryan
@DanielGorman20
@ayeenforootan
@jacobcfries
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#TheMatrixResurrections
has arrived, and
@colonelmortimer
is amped.
"Nothing could ever approach that shock of the new that the original gave audiences, but this is still a quintessential Wachowski huge swing."
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Rooted & Restless returns with
@joshhurst
&
@_jon_oh_
making up for lost time, tackling 6 new releases from October and November, including
@mirandalambert
,
@lukecombs
,
@AllisonMoorer
,
@kalieshorr
& more.
@kickingthecanon
pick is 1994's AMERICAN RECORDINGS
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We're talking more of
@MovingImageNYC
's
#FirstLook
fest. First up:
@AcademicHack
took in the excellent Illuminations program, which included works from experimental artists like Lewis Klahr, Kevin Jerome Everson & sometimes InRO contributor
@Maxwolf333
!
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InRO's Best Films of 2021 continues today with
#16
-20, including a France-set film from an American auteur & an America-set film from a French auteur (symmetry!), among others.
#BestOf2021
Bylines:
@ayeenforootan
@mollywrites_
@mattmccrac
@lawrencengarcia
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Check out
@tenmoreskies
's InRO debut with his piece on Michael Roemer's overlooked Vengeance is Mine, following the recent Blu-ray release of its restoration from
@TheFilmDesk
and
@VinegarSyndrome
.
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Top 20 Films of 2018 | Writing by
@DanielGorman20
@jacobcfries
@joe_biglin
@misterminsoo
@colonelmortimer
@calamityhey
@bournecinema
@TheEndofCinema
@Calum_Reed
@_jon_oh_
@matthew_lucas
@lawrencengarcia
@lund_carson
@anythingplusmor
@justinstew
and more!
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In anticipation of
@Metrograph
's Antoine Bourges retrospective,
@provincialbooby
sat down with the director to talk his latest film Concrete Valley, his artistic kindship with Frederick Wiseman, the performative nature of individual existence, and more.
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#TopologyOfSirens
#JonathanDavies
| "More than anything, Davies trusts in the sensorial import of his images, in the implications and pleasures of shifting lights and dissolves, and the effect is nothing short of transporting."
—
@swen_ryan
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"Padre Pio, could be characterized as a return to a pre-tech-anxiety period for the Bronx-born filmmaker...fed up with the rapid gentrification of his beloved city..."
Read the full review from
@fred_beretta
of
#PadrePio
from
#AbelFerrara
below.
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Former InRO EIC
@samcmac
emerged from his semi-retirement to talk to Frederick Wiseman about the director's latest documentary, his influence on independent Chinese filmmaking, and the performativity of subjects in his work.
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We've got
@DanielGorman20
on the
#KickingTheCanon
beat this week, talking
#SilverLode
from
#AllanDwan
:
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In our humble opinion, Jane Campion's Bright Star is one of the true underrated films of the aughts, not to mention one of the most romantic cinema objects in recent memory.
@graceboschetti
debuts on InRO with a piece digging into what makes it so special.
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With
#Allensworth
touching down at
@TheNYFF
, we took the opportunity to sit down and chat with
#JamesBenning
about this, that, and the other.
@zwlws
is a maestro with interviews, so make sure to check out their conversation!
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#TakingBackTheLegislature
, from the collective known as the Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers, follows the July 1, 2019 storming of the Hong Kong Legislative Council by young protestors. Read more of
@mattmccrac
's review below:
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For our patrons,
@DanielGorman20
on
#TheDevilsRejects
from
@RobZombie
.
Read an excerpt, or subscribe to read this and all the pieces from last (and every) Friday's
#InROWeekly
!
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We've been a little slow with
#KickingtheCanon
during festival season, but we're trying to make up for it. Today we're going a-g, and have
@Maxwolf333
talking the monumental
#LaRegionCentrale
from Michael Snow.
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The
@FilmFestLocarno
wraps this weekend, so we're talking a few films today for your weekend reading, including the excellent latest from Radu Jude & Eduardo Williams (both of which were announced for
#TIFF2023
's
@WVLGTHS
today). More Locarno talk soon.
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We did it. Best of the Year coverage is a wrap with today's 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟭𝟬 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗺𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬. These were some great films, but also, good fucking riddance, 2020.
Bylines:
@jacobcfries
@calamityhey
@DanielGorman20
@ebmorgan1
@TheEndofCinema
@mattmccrac
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More
#StrikeGermany
writing on Palestinian cinema today, with
@joshuapolanski
digging into Elia Suleiman’s Chronicle of a Disappearance.
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.
@PatrickPreziosi
&
@swen_ryan
are back talking more
#IrmaVep
today, this time diving into episodes 5-7. One more correspondence to go, where they will discuss the finale and conduct a postmortem on the project's translation to serial form.
@hbomax
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#iffr2024
is in full swing & we've got dozens of pieces set to publish before its over. Kicking things off today with a strong batch of films, including
@kohlberger
's The Electric Kiss, fest-opener
#HeadSouth
, Marko Raat's 8 Views of Lake Biwa, & more!
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Unfortunately,
#NellyAndNadine
"suffers from a failure of imagination," says newest InRO writer Shar. Read more here:
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#ZeroesAndOnes
#AbelFerrara
| “The most tangible facets of Zeros and Ones are its violence and, in keeping with its code-referencing title, its digitality.”
—
@PatrickPreziosi
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Top 10 bylines courtesy of
@morrisycy1
,
@glutendeath
,
@mikedoub
,
@samcmac
,
@swen_ryan
,
@br_hanford
,
@esmesayss
,
@ayeenforootan
,
@fred_beretta
0
1
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The zombie flick is mercifully in a lull thanks to
#TheWalkingDead
fatigue. But
@DanielGorman20
finds a lot of impressive craft in
@Shudder
's
#Virus32
:
"A series of escalating set pieces that ratchet up the tension with a thrillingly precise formalism."
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#NDNF
festival kicks off today, & we're back with our 2nd dispatch, including thoughts on five new-to-us films from the slate. Go grab your tix now.
Bylines:
@morrisycy1
@FilmProfBU
@misterminsoo
@AGoldenkind
@matthew_lucas
@NDNF
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A director with no shortage of films worth writing about, Nicholas Ray's Bitter Victory celebrates its 65th anniversary this year (by U.S. release).
@DanielGorman20
took the opportunity to... write about Bitter Victory. Dig in.
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