Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images When you’re winning an honor like a Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival, it’s easy to feel frazzled and forget a name or two in your acceptance speech. But it is hard not to notice when Benny Safdie doesn’t thank his brother, Josh Safdie, with whom …
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Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: NEON, Mime Films/Tanit Films, Kaplan Morrison, BiM Distribuzione The critical consensus on this year’s Venice Film Festival has been that it’s one of the weaker line-ups in recent memory. I would wait to pass judgment on that; cinema history is full of dismissive takes on festival lineups that later turned out …
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Photo: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images Maybe family is everything. Jim Jarmusch’s ensemble film, Father Mother Sister Brother, has just won the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival. “Oh shit,” the surprised Jarmusch began in his speech. “All of us here who make films are not motivated by competition, but this is something I …
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Photo: Toronto International Film Festival Comedian John Early’s directorial debut Maddie’s Secret is not a straightforward cautionary tale about bulimia. While it doesn’t necessarily trivialize the eating disorder or its harmfulness, Early is less concerned with bulimia than in its historic depictions onscreen — chiefly in hokey, made-for-TV movies from the ’90s, whose campiness, …
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Quratulain Balouch’s team released a statement detailing her activities in Skardu and her recovery Quratulain Balouch’s team released a statement detailing her activities in Skardu and her recovery
Photo: Apple TV+ The agitated, ominous vibration of giant power lines and quaking transmission towers feels like a Greek chorus throughout Paul Greengrass’s intense new wildfire thriller, The Lost Bus. Over the course of the film, Greengrass regularly cuts away to the churning cables and metal structures, as well as to the roaring flames …
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After a long and arduous campaign, Emmys weekend is finally upon us! And before you rush to make sure you didn’t sleep through a full week in a haze of post–Labor Day exhaustion, I am of course referring to the Creative Arts Emmys, the weekend-before celebration of all the nuts, bolts, crafts, and voice-over …
Photo: Allie Fredericks/Black Bear/Everett Collection If the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival only gives us one thing this year, it will be an excuse to talk about Sydney Sweeney and not have to mention jeans. The actress and for-some-reason political lightning rod delivers her best film performance to date in Christy, the true-life story …
Ameesha Patel dropped two photos from the memorable evening on her Instagram handle Ameesha Patel dropped two photos from the memorable evening on her Instagram handle
Quratulain Balouch’s team released a statement detailing her activities in Skardu and her recovery Quratulain Balouch’s team released a statement detailing her activities in Skardu and her recovery
