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Slant MagazineUSAInterview: Sandra Wollner on ‘Everytime’ and Capturing an Atmosphere of Absence “I’m better at making films than describing them, I hope,” writer-director Sandra Wollner joked as she unpacked the thought process behind a scene in her film Everytime .
Slant MagazineUSA‘Hen’ Review: György Pálfi’s Weirdo Chicken’s-Eye Odyssey Pecks at Human Cruelty It might be easy, from a distance, to mistake György Pálfi’s Hen for another entry in the lineage of dour European cinematic parables using the innocent viewpoint of a farm animal to capture the…
Slant MagazineUSAReview: Mario Bava’s ‘Planet of the Vampires’ on Radiance 4K UHD Blu-ray Mario Bava’s Planet of the Vampires may not be the first Italian sci-fi film (that honor goes to The Day the Sky Exploded , which Bava co-directed), but it’s arguably the greatest, and without a…
Slant MagazineUSAInterview: Lance Hammer on ‘Queen at Sea’ and Making Art That Refuses Moral Certainty Lance Hammer’s second feature, Queen at Sea , adheres to a similar storytelling hook as Ballast , his 2008 feature-length directorial debut.
Slant MagazineUSARian Johnson and Steve Yedlin’s New iPhone App Puts Their Movie Look in Your Pocket Steve Yedlin, who’s shot all of Rian Johnson’s features since the director’s 2005 breakout Brick , has spent years arguing, in widely circulated video demos, that a film’s look owes more to how its…
Slant MagazineUSAReview: David Robert Mitchell’s ‘The End of Oak Street’ on Warner Bros. 4K UHD For many, the summer box office is synonymous with dinosaurs thanks to the Jurassic World series, which has all but cornered the market on prehistoric mayhem.
Slant MagazineUSA‘Behemoth!’ Trailer: Pedro Pascal Faces the Music in Tony Gilroy’s Film-Scoring Drama Tony Gilroy has spent the last several years orchestrating a rebellion in a galaxy far, far away, so it’s fitting that his first feature as a director since 2012’s The Bourne Legacy is about the…
Slant MagazineUSA‘L’Innocente’ Trailer: Luchino Visconti’s Final Film Gets a 50th-Anniversary 4K Restoration Luchino Visconti didn’t live to see L’Innocente premiere at Cannes in 1976, dying two months before the festival.
Slant MagazineUSA‘Closure’ Review: Michał Marczak’s Hypnotic Documentary Flouts True-Crime Conventions Michał Marczak’s Closure doesn’t feel much like nonfiction until its closing title cards. The film ends with a standard call to action, directing curious viewers to a site where they can follow the…
Slant MagazineUSA‘Dune: Part Three’ Final Trailer: Emperor Paul Atreides Discovers the Perils of Godhood Denis Villeneuve’s long march across Arrakis is nearly over. Warner Bros. released the final trailer for Dune: Part Three today, and if it’s any indication, the director is closing out his trilogy by…
Slant MagazineUSA‘All of a Sudden,’ ‘Clarissa,’ and ‘The Invite’ Lead 2026 Gotham Film Awards Nominations Nominations for the 36th annual Gotham Film Awards were announced Tuesday by the Gotham Film & Media Institute.
Slant MagazineUSASam Nivola and Nico Parker to Lead Yamazaki Takashi’s Giant-Robot Movie ‘Grandgear’ Sam Nivola and Nico Parker will star in Grandgear , the first English-language feature from Godzilla Minus One director Yamazaki Takashi, as first reported by Deadline .
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