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How Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet Set the Stage for Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’
More than seven decades before Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet landed eight Academy Award noms, Oscar voters were similarly spellbound by Laurence…
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‘The Ballad of Judas Priest’
It is easy, oh so easy, to mock heavy metal. For 40 years, This Is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner’s glorious…
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“It’s Up to Us to Tell the Truth”: Warwick Thornton on Exploring Indigenous Trauma With Berlin-Premiering Outback Western ‘Wolfram’
A decade after his outback Western Sweet Country, First Nations director Warwick Thornton returns, with his new film, Wolfram, to…
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Sony Bosses on ‘KPop Demon Hunters 2, Spider-Verse 3 and GOAT
In a quiet stretch of Sony Pictures Animation’s offices on the Miracle Mile are two unassuming cubicles. There are hardly…
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“We’ll Put Out the Films That Others Won’t”: Inside Watermelon Pictures’ Fearless Bet on Political Cinema
Just under two years ago, brothers Badie and Hamza Ali launched Watermelon Pictures, a Chicago-based production and distribution company designed…
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Berlin Rising Star Luna Wedler on Discovering Acting: “It Became My Great Love, Almost an Addiction”
In the oldest cliché of the business, Luna Wedler has spent a decade becoming an overnight success. At 26, the…
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How Original Three Plus Hour Runtime Was Cut
Sentimental Value, director Joachim Trier’s multicharacter tragicomedy, posed unique challenges for Oscar-nominated editor Olivier Bugge Coutté. Among them was deciding…
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Harper Steele on Trans-Masc Doc ‘What Will I Become?’ at Berlin 2026
“What do we do with our community’s collective heartbreak?” asks filmmaker Lexie Bean at the beginning of the Berlin-premiering What…
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Designing Victor’s Lab and Creature
For Tamara Deverell, Frankenstein truly came alive on a trip to Scotland. The production designer, whose collaboration with writer-director Guillermo…
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Ryan Coogler Goes Deep on Shattering Oscar Records, Losing Chadwick and Battling Imposter Syndrome
If you’re new to Oakland, California, and want a few recommendations from Ryan Coogler, set aside some time. As his…
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