…preposterous and over-long film, it’s a tribute to Riz Ahmed’s always compelling presence that I made it through all two hours. Ahmed stars as Malik, a father of two boys,…
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Jane Schoenbrun wants We’re All Going to the World’s Fair to ‘scare you and make you cry’
…of the prep process was really just getting her into the right emotional and creative state, so when we arrived on set, she was so well prepared that there could…
TIFF Interview: Sofia Bohdanowicz on grief and magical thinking in Point and Line to Plane
…and the way he’d nod his head. Jack has recently died. In these abstract forms and movements, we are lulled into a state of mourning. The power of emotion renders…
‘Ivory Tower’: why US college financing is broken
…other commodity, from food to gas, to the point that it’s no longer possible to pay your way through state school debt-free by working a summer job. Student debt has…
Cannes Review: Chie Hayakawa’s Plan 75 is a devastatingly unsentimental triumph
…the state that’s predatory rather than the individuals. In Ikiru, the state was incredibly efficient at not helping anyone with anything useful, and in Plan 75, it’s just as efficient…
Writer-director Nicolette Kribetz discusses Wild
…easy for an actress to undress yourself in front of the camera. But for the camera, in this moment, in this state, it doesn’t matter if she’s naked or if…