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FC at Venice 2018: New Films from Zhang Yimou and ‘The Babadook’ Director, plus ‘Soni’, a Terrific Indian Drama

Posted on September 8, 2018September 8, 2018
by Baradwaj Rangan

Jennifer Kent’s second directorial effort isn’t a bad film; merely an unremarkable one we seem to have seen many times before. Ivan Ayr’s Soni proves that the gender of the filmmaker isn’t as important as the sensitivity, the empathy they bring to the table

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FC at Venice 2018: New Films From The Makers Of ‘The Lives of Others’ And ‘Son of Saul’

Posted on September 7, 2018September 8, 2018
by Baradwaj Rangan

For about two hours, the 188-minute Never Look Away is a frustrating experience. But the last hour, imbued with a mystical quality, really works

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FC at Venice 2018: Willem Dafoe as Van Gogh, Natalie Portman in ‘Vox Lux’, plus ‘Acusada’

Posted on September 6, 2018September 6, 2018
by Baradwaj Rangan

Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate, about the famous painter is, at heart, a mood movie, about an artist who finally made peace with the fact that his real audience exists in the future. Brady Corbet’s film starring Portman as a pop star is thoughtful, enigmatic and disturbing

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FC at Venice 2018: Joaquin Phoenix in ‘The Sisters Brothers’, ‘Charlie Says’, ‘La Quietud’

Posted on September 5, 2018September 5, 2018
by Baradwaj Rangan

When art-house filmmakers tackle genre material, there’s always an interesting signature, whether the film ultimately succeeds or fails. I wouldn’t go so far as to suggest Jacques Audiard re-envisions the Western, but he does muddy the clean lines between heroes and villains

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FC at Venice 2018: Bradley Cooper And Lady Gaga In ‘A Star Is Born’, Plus ‘Close Enemies’

Posted on September 4, 2018September 6, 2018
by Baradwaj Rangan

Bradley Cooper’s musical is, no doubt, a love letter to Lady Gaga, but the letter writer shines, too

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FC at Venice 2018: Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Suspiria’ and Mike Leigh’s ‘Peterloo’

Posted on September 3, 2018
by Baradwaj Rangan

Luca Guadagnino’s reworking of Dario Argento’s most famous giallo work is similarly set in West Germany, in the late 1970s. But unlike the earlier film, this version takes pains to situate itself in its era

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FC at Venice 2018: Yorgos Lanthimos’s ‘The Favourite’, Plus Orson Welles’s Last Work

Posted on September 2, 2018September 2, 2018
by Baradwaj Rangan

The Other Side of the Wind is an exhausting mess of a movie, while The Favourite is a departure from Dogtooth, The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer

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FC at Venice 2018: Alfonso Cuarón’s Magnificent ‘Roma,’ Plus The Other Awards At The Festival

Posted on September 1, 2018
by Baradwaj Rangan

Director Alfonso Cuarón conjures up a mood that’s so evocative that we barely notice there isn’t much that’s happening in terms of what-next

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Tumbbad Movie Review

Posted on August 31, 2018September 6, 2018
by Baradwaj Rangan

Rahi Anil Barve and Adesh Prasad’s film, that inaugurated the Venice Critics’ Week, is a truly original “horror” movie that’s actually more of a ghoulish Panchatantra fable

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FC at Venice 2018: Virtual Reality Experiences Of War And The Cosmos, Plus Sci-Fi Based On Philip K Dick

Posted on August 30, 2018August 30, 2018
by Baradwaj Rangan

It felt like I was having the same outer-space experience Ryan Gosling did. Up, down, left, right – everywhere I looked, there was infinity

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FC at Venice 2018: Thoughts On Damien Chazelle’s Awesome Neil Armstrong Biopic, Starring Ryan Gosling

Posted on August 30, 2018August 31, 2018
by Baradwaj Rangan

Josh Singer’s script – based on First Man: The Life of Neil A Armstrong, by James R Hansen – is smart and incisive, and Damien Chazelle is on song

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FC at Venice 2018: #MeToo Makes It To The Lido, Though There Are Compensations

Posted on August 29, 2018August 31, 2018
by Baradwaj Rangan

There’s only one film directed by a woman in the Competition lineup, for the second year in a row. Artistic director Alberto Barbera said they considered ‘the quality of the film and not the sex of the director’

FC at Venice 2018: New Films from Zhang Yimou and ‘The Babadook’ Director, plus ‘Soni’, a Terrific Indian Drama

FC at Venice 2018: New Films From The Makers Of ‘The Lives of Others’ And ‘Son of Saul’

FC at Venice 2018: Willem Dafoe as Van Gogh, Natalie Portman in ‘Vox Lux’, plus ‘Acusada’

FC at Venice 2018: Joaquin Phoenix in ‘The Sisters Brothers’, ‘Charlie Says’, ‘La Quietud’

FC at Venice 2018: Bradley Cooper And Lady Gaga In ‘A Star Is Born’, Plus ‘Close Enemies’

FC at Venice 2018: Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Suspiria’ and Mike Leigh’s ‘Peterloo’

FC at Venice 2018: Yorgos Lanthimos’s ‘The Favourite’, Plus Orson Welles’s Last Work

FC at Venice 2018: Alfonso Cuarón’s Magnificent ‘Roma,’ Plus The Other Awards At The Festival

Tumbbad Movie Review

FC at Venice 2018: Virtual Reality Experiences Of War And The Cosmos, Plus Sci-Fi Based On Philip K Dick

FC at Venice 2018: Thoughts On Damien Chazelle’s Awesome Neil Armstrong Biopic, Starring Ryan Gosling

FC at Venice 2018: #MeToo Makes It To The Lido, Though There Are Compensations

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