by Tomasz Ludward IFMCA member Tomasz Ludward recently interviewed composer Joy Ngiaw about her life and career, including her recent score for the animated sci-fi fantasy television series WondLa. TL: You started playing piano at the age of six. What is your first recollection of discovering your passion for music? JN: I’ve always loved music […]

By Jessica Herndon We all have moments from movies that we love to rewatch. Some of the most unforgettable and adored scenes in indie movies are the ones we least suspect. Michael Madsen dancing around to Stealers Wheel in Reservoir Dogs. Jeff Bridges doing the mashed potato dance in The Big Lebowski. Come to think […]

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PARK CITY, UTAH – JANUARY 22: (L–R) Eugene Grygo, Phoebe Hoffman, Lana Wilson, Michael Kim, and Nikenya Hall attend the 2024 Sundance Film Festival “Look Into My Eyes” premiere at the Egyptian Theatre on January 22, 2024, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock for Sundance Film Festival) By Lucy Spicer “I suddenly got […]

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By Will Espero The 13th annual Global Nonviolent Film Festival will be held online from September 26 to October 13 for all the world to see. Every year around this time, I prepare myself with excitement for the start of this truly inspiring event that I came to love over the last few years. All …

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, 2024) 3 out of 5 stars Tim Burton and Michael Keaton, arguably Burton’s muse before Johnny Depp, reunite to take audiences back to the deranged, colorful and surprisingly corporate afterlife in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Keaton returns as the ghost with the most, Beetlejuice, and his undying love for Lydia Deetz, played again […]

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Ethan Hawke is speaking for the first time about his latest Richard Linklater collaboration, “Blue Moon,” revealing that he first read the script for the biopic of songwriter Lorenz Hart 12 years ago. “I love it, let’s do it. We gotta make this movie,” Hawke recalled telling Linklater during a Venice Film Festival masterclass on […]

A love triangle involving a middle-aged couple and a younger woman is exposed and scrutinized from every angle when a professional breakup agent is employed in Elizabeth Lo’s “Mistress Dispeller.” The Chinese-U.S. documentary, which plays in Venice’s Horizons section, is extraordinary for both the candor of the subjects and the film’s exceptional fly-on-the-wall setup. The […]

“Angelina! Angelina! Angelina!” The Venice Film Festival loves its movie stars, and Angelina Jolie was the toast of Italy on Thursday night. The actress wept during an eight-minute standing ovation at the Sala Grande Theatre during the premiere of “Maria,” Pablo Larraín’s biographical drama about the Greek opera singer Maria Callas. The outpouring of love and emotion […]

The Becomers (Zach Clark, 2023) 4 out of 5 stars The Becomers is an absurdist tale of love and assimilation that defies common expectations and categorization. Writer/director Zach Clark (Little Sister) takes the familiar concept of extraterrestrials emigrating to Earth (à la District 9and Alien Nation) and adds intentional awkwardness and weirdness, to outstanding effect.The […]

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Critics Campus 2024 participant Daniel Tune investigates Caught by the Tides, a collage-like work that travels through its director’s films and personal archival material to tell a story of separated lovers, lost worlds and out-of-control technological change.