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1 week ago | 
anothermag.com | Alex Denney
From Paolo Sorrentino’s new Neapolitan drama to a scorching erotic thriller from Karim Ainouz, here are the best films to see this month From May 2In Paolo Sorrentino’s first film to revolve around a female protagonist, everyone wants to know what Parthenope is thinking. It’s a question you imagine the director struggled with in developing the character, a young Neapolitan woman (Celeste Dalla Porta) named after a Greek siren whose beauty brings destruction in its wake.
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1 month ago | 
anothermag.com | Alex Denney
The 78th edition of the iconic festival will showcase new films from Ari Aster, Wes Anderson, Kelly Reichardt and more Citing the success of Anora, The Substance and Emilia Pérez as markers of its continued pre-eminence, Thierry Frémaux unveiled the lineup for the Cannes Film Festival’s 78th edition yesterday, with new films from Scarlett Johansson, Ari Aster, Wes Anderson and Joachim Trier all screening.
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1 month ago | 
anothermag.com | Alex Denney |TextAlex Denney
The pick of this month’s cinematic crop includes Alex Garland’s first film as co-director, and an enigmatic new tale from Georgian visionary Dea Kulumbegashvili From April 18In conversation with AnOther for Civil War, his surprisingly straight-laced sci-fi action flick of last year, Alex Garland spoke of his admiration for the old-school, “just the facts” mode of news reporting.
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1 month ago | 
anothermag.com | Alex Denney |TextAlex Denney
As his provocative new film about a priest and murderer is released, Alain Guiraudie talks about death, nature, and the great mystery of desire We’re in a blandly upmarket hotel in central London, the kind where Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now pipes softly from the function-room PA for no particular reason, and Alain Guiraudie is explaining to me the importance of seeing a priest’s erection in his new film, Misericordia.
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1 month ago | 
anothermag.com | Alex Denney |TextAlex Denney
Dan Erickson’s surrealist workplace drama rediscovered its mojo after a tricky second series, even if some mysteries are best left unsolved And, bam! After seven hours in which it sparked, guttered and threatened to lose its way completely, the second season of Severance exploded into life with a finale that made good on its missteps. Am I the only one who felt this way about the new instalment of Dan Erickson’s surrealist workplace show?
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2 months ago | 
anothermag.com | Alex Denney |TextAlex Denney
From Bong Joon Ho’s wild new sci-fi to a darkly comic thriller from Stranger by the Lake director Alain Guiraudie, here are the best of this month’s releases From March 7Why do we kill ourselves to get up and go to work each day? And what does work in the always-on, low-security marketplace of today do to our abiding sense of self? These are questions teased – but only fitfully dealt with – in Mickey 17, Bong Joon Ho’s latest blockbuster skewering of the age of inequality.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
anothermag.com | Alex Denney |TextAlex Denney
As his darkly funny tale about a neurotic south London matriarch hits cinemas, Mike Leigh talks about making audiences uncomfortable, and how algorithms are changing cinemaLead Image When Rob Brydon roared, “Secrets and lies, Gwen, secrets and lies!” in the final episode of Gavin and Stacey this Christmas, he merely confirmed what those in the know, know: that Mike Leigh is the absolute goat when it comes to a certain strain of British character comedy.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
anothermag.com | Alex Denney |TextAlex Denney
From Walter Salles’ Oscar-buzzed epic I’m Still Here to the first film from Greek weird-wave star Ariane Labed, we present our picks of this month’s releases From February 7The traumatic legacy of Brazil’s military dictatorship is brought painfully to light in Walter Salles’ epic family drama, a box-office smash at home that’s brought a belated reckoning with the hundreds of people ‘forcibly disappeared’ by the regime.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
anothermag.com | Alex Denney
Lead Image Alice Rohrwacher’s dazzling, mythopoetical romp through the Italian countryside of her youth stars Josh O’Connor as a kind of sadsack Indiana Jones, looting treasures from ancient Etruscan graves while mourning the loss of his girlfriend. But while her hero pouts fetchingly in his white rumpled suit, his merry band of tombaroli – tomb raiders – in tow, Rohrwacher has a blast behind the camera in this totally joyous, life-affirming work of genius.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
anothermag.com | Alex Denney
Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero’s tender new film examines the legacy of Mexican cartel violence, and one boy’s attempts to outrun the past In Sujo, Mexican filmmakers Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero tell a story about the legacy of violence left by the cartels where the violence sits mostly off-screen. Tender and hopeful, their film follows a boy forced into hiding at his aunt’s farmhouse when his dad, a sicario named Josue, is murdered by the drug gangs.
