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20-10-2025 Vol 19

Day: September 2, 2025

Venice Film Festival 2025: The Smashing Machine, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, The Testament of Ann Lee, Father Mother Sister Brother

The bit in Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘60s film “Pierrot le Fou” where Belmondo asks maverick filmmaker Sam Fuller, playing himself, to…

Healers and Nurturers: Ethan Hawke on the Artists of “Blue Moon” and “Highway 99: A Double Album”

“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may” is a phrase a young Ethan Hawke took to heart while filming “Dead Poets…

The Unloved, Part 140: Shattered

I grew up with Wolfgang Petersen’s films. I saw them in theaters; they were always on TV. The fabled original…

Venice Review: An Impressive Dwayne Johnson Softens Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine

The Smashing Machine is a movie with a lot of heart and soul. It’s also a movie with great love…

Venice Review: The Wizard of Kremlin Proves an Irrelevant, Cynical Approach to Vladimir Putin’s Russian 

In April 2022, two months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Italian author and political writer Giuliano da Empoli published a…

Telluride Review: Noah Baumbach Makes His Fellini Film with Jay Kelly

Let’s start here: Billy Crudup is one of our truly great actors. Early into Jay Kelly, written by Noah Baumbach…