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filmuforia.com | Meredith Taylor
Dir: Alex Garland | Cast: Michael Gandolfini, Joseph Quinn, Kit Connor, Cosmo Jarvis, Charles Melton, Will Poulter and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai | US Actioner, 95′by Peter HerbertWarfare travels new roads for writer director filmmaker Alex Garland and mixes the early sci fi visions of films like Devs and Men with the contemporary concerns of Civil War. The result is a war film that reimagines a real-life war incident into a new form of dystopian nightmare.
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filmuforia.com | Meredith Taylor
Dir: John Waters | Comedy Drama | 93 mins |USJohn Waters’ MULTIPLE MANIACS is a slim but grotesquely bloated comedy caper that could benefit from a general tightening up, not least where its portly central character Lady Divine is concerned.
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filmuforia.com | Meredith Taylor
Dir: Matthew Brady | Bio Doc, 90′How do we protect wild animals when there is no ‘wild’ left. Can the world be saved when so much has already been lost? This timely documentary follows the scientific experts on the frontlines of conservation as they seek to answer this question. From the cloud forests of Rwanda to the California coast, wildlife conservation is not without its challenges.
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filmuforia.com | Meredith Taylor
Cannes Film festival unveiled its official selection last week with the usual suspects including the latest Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (out of competition) and another French opener, Partir Un Jour, a musical comedy, from Amélie Bonin. It’s the first time the festival has opened with a debut feature.
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filmuforia.com | Meredith Taylor
Dir: Juzo Itami | 114min | Drama | JapanTAMPOPO celebrates the joy of eating and sensual nourishment with an offbeat and amusingly sensuous clutch of ramen-Western style foodie vignettes that showcase the art of cuisine and how close it is to the art of carnal delight.
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filmuforia.com | Meredith Taylor
Dir: Ted Kotcheff | Writer: Evan Jones, based on the novel by Kenneth Cook | Cast: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson | DoP: Brian West | 108min DramaThe maverick and multi-talented filmmaker Ted Kotcheff (1931-2025), who has died aged 94, was born in Plovdiv and grew up in a Macedonian community in Toronto, eventually becoming the youngest drama director in the country at only 24.
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filmuforia.com | Meredith Taylor
Dir/Wri: Sinead O’Shea | With: Edna O’Brien, Jessie Buckley (narrator), Declan Conlon, Gabriel Byrne, Anne Enright, Garlo Gebler, Sasha Gebler | Ireland, Biopic 108′“Maimed and stark and misshapen but ferociously tenacious.” Is a phrase that Edna O’Brien dreamt up to express the Irish. Ironically it also captures her own turbulent life as a woman struggling to find her place as a novelist in a man-dominated domain.
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filmuforia.com | Meredith Taylor
Dir: Elia Kazan | Cast: Marlon Brando, Lee J Cobb, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint| US Drama 108’Having recently drawn the unfriendly attention of the HUAAC for their youthful political indiscretions Elia Kazan and Lee J.
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filmuforia.com | Meredith Taylor
Director: Réné Clément | Cast: Brigitte Fossey, Georges Poujouly, Amedee, Laurence Badie | 96mins War DramaRéné Clément first developed his creativity studying architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the 1930s. It was there that he discovered filmmaking and his first short featured the famous Jacques Tati. A decade of documentary-making later his first feature arrived in 1946.
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filmuforia.com | Meredith Taylor
Dir: James Hawes | Cast: Rami Malek, Lawrence Fishburne, Rachel Brosnahan, Jon Bernal, Evan Milton | US Thriller 123′by: Ian LongThe word ‘amateur’ has more than one meaning. The most common refers to someone who has a low-level grasp of some pursuit, and as a result turns out inferior work. But the original definition – derived from the Latin amare, or amour in French – applies to someone who is motivated by love.
