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3 weeks ago | 
letterboxd.com | Brandon Streussnig |Marya E. Gates |Mia Lee Vicino |Brute Force
Smothering silence. A close-up of a man’s face, sweat pouring down its craggy exterior. He reaches out, another man hands him a tool. Zoom out. We see a safe. The tool is being used to crack it open. Inside the safe hides a better life. Or at least that’s what these men have told themselves. They only need to push a little harder and retrieve it.
If you’ve seen a heist picture, you know these beats well.
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
letterboxd.com | Marya E. Gates |Mia Lee Vicino |Katie Rife
A decade ago, I embarked on a viewing project calledA Year With Women. The challenge was to spend the entire year only watching movies that were directed or co-directed by women or non-binary individuals, be it new releases or older new-to-me discoveries. Inspired in part by my growing apathy towards a lot of lackluster films being produced by Hollywood, I looked at the year as a sort of social protest.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
rogerebert.com | Marya E. Gates
Pamela Anderson gives the performance of her career as Shelly in Gia Coppola's melancholic drama "The Last Showgirl." The oldest showgirl in Le Razzle Dazzle, the last revue of its kind on the Las Vegas strip, Shelly is a woman who has given her life to her art and refuses to be judged for her life choices. Written by Kate Gersten, the film follows Shelly and her fellow dancers ( Brenda Song and Kiernan Shipka) during the revue's final week.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Marya E. Gates
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysGia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl” follows a week in the life of a Las Vegas showgirl named Shelly (Pamela Anderson, in a career-defining performance) as she prepares to take her final curtain call.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
rogerebert.com | Marya E. Gates
Few things are as common yet as earth-shattering as love and death. Maura Delpero's " Vermiglio " explores these core human experiences in all their thorny complexities. In this remote Italian village in the alps, where time seems suspended in air, they intermingle with human life as seamlessly as the townsfolk blend into the vastness of the mountains they inhabit.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
rogerebert.com | Marya E. Gates
A movie where six-time Academy Award nominee Amy Adams is so swallowed up by the weight of parenting that she disassociates by transforming into a dog might sound like a bit much. And it is, purposefully so. The body horror comedy "Nightbitch," an adaptation of Rachel Yoder's 2021 magical realist novel of the same name, is writer-director Marielle Heller's latest foray into the darker aspects of what it is to be human.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
rogerebert.com | Marya E. Gates
Writer-director Hannah Peterson cut her filmmaking teeth on the sets of Sean Baker and Chloé Zhao, learning firsthand how to hone her cinematic voice and bring a fresh perspective to the screen. This can be seen in her radically empathetic debut feature film " The Graduates," about the aftermath of a school shooting, which premiered at the Metrograph in New York City last week and will continue to screen in art house theaters across the country over the next few weeks.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
letterboxd.com | Marya E. Gates |Mia Lee Vicino |Anthony Gilbert |Muriel Roy Bolton
The stars have aligned as Columbia Pictures celebrates its 100th anniversary the same year that Noirvember—the monthlong celebration of all things film noir—celebrates its fifteenth. Since Letterboxd’s genesis, the community has fully embraced this autumnal month, sharing endless watchlists amidst their journeys into the darkness.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Marya E. Gates
ShareIt’s not often that a film festival and book festival join forces, but that is just the case in Iowa City where the Refocus Film Festival , which celebrates films that are adapted from other mediums, and the Iowa City Book Festival just wrapped. I was delighted to attend both as a guest this past week, where I got my fill of movies, books, art, music, conversation, sunshine, diner food, and so much more.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
rogerebert.com | Marya E. Gates
It's not often that a film festival and book festival join forces, but that is just the case in Iowa City where the Refocus Film Festival, which celebrates films that are adapted from other mediums, and the Iowa City Book Festival just wrapped. I was delighted to attend both as a guest this past week, where I got my fill of movies, books, art, music, conversation, sunshine, diner food, and so much more.
