
Gilbert Adair
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Jun 27, 2024 |
bfi.org.uk | David Thomson |Rachel Pronger |Dominic Lees |Gilbert Adair
When it was first released, our reviewer David Thomson found Sidney Lumet’s media satire to be too reliant on the methods and devices of commercial TV, writing “the film is as vicious and feeble as a wasp trapped in the jam it craves”. 25 June 2024Network is a furious and infuriating tangle. Is it a brilliant/shocking/corrosive satire on America’s dwelling in screened imitations of reality, or is it a snake devouring its own tail?
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Jun 23, 2024 |
bfi.org.uk | Philip Concannon |Gilbert Adair |Anton Bitel
In the summer of 2021, the simmering tensions along the Poland-Belarus border were stoked by Belarusian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko, who offered refugees safe passage into the EU through his country. Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border is set shortly after this announcement, opening with a group of Syrian refugees on a plane descending into Minsk. “This route is a godsend,” one woman tells another, having heard horror stories of people fleeing to the EU via other routes.
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Jun 21, 2024 |
bfi.org.uk | Gilbert Adair |Philip Concannon |Anton Bitel
Fellini’s Casanova is a far from perfect work that no critic’s cant will ever quite recuperate, up to and including the cavalier Panglossism with which the French school in particular is infected, where all is for the best in this best of all possible films and patches that might strike one as boring or stupid are, one is testily corrected, supposed to be boring or stupid.
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May 21, 2024 |
bfi.org.uk | Ela Bittencourt |Gilbert Adair |Philip Concannon |Ela Bittencourt Festivals
Reviewed from the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. In Yorgos Lanthimos’s comic epic fantasy Poor Things (2023), Emma Stone was electrifying as a Frankensteinian creature, Bella Baxter – a deceased pregnant woman, reanimated with the transplanted brain of her foetus. From a laboratory to a world voyage and peril, then back again to practise medicine, Bella’s rapid development defied biological expectations and societal norms.
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Nov 19, 2023 |
yourstelecast.com | Gilbert Adair
Transportation industry trailblazers are propelling their next-generation vehicles by building on NVIDIA DRIVE end-to-end solutions, which span the cloud to the car. NVIDIA’s automotive design win pipeline has increased to $14 billion over the next six years — from 2023 through 2028 — as announced at the financial analyst event held during GTC.
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