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Sammie Purcell

Atlanta

Associate Editor at Rough Draft Atlanta

film critic and writer at @RoughDraftATL • words in @ajc and @screenqueenz • co-host of @ratedebate1 and HDYA • pretending my life is movie since 1994

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  • 1 week ago | roughdraftatlanta.com | Sammie Purcell

    The Atlanta Film Festival ended its in-person run on May 4. While the virtual rendition of the festival will run until May 12, I feel now's a good time to run down through some of my favorite movies that played. Ahead of the festival, I released a list of seven movies to watch out for. All my praise for those films still applies, but this list includes five new films that I came out of the theater loving. Keep scrolling for more. "Vulcanizadora" (dir.

  • 1 week ago | saportareport.com | Sammie Purcell

    “Cinderella” is a tale as old as time (that’s a line from a different fairytale, but you catch my drift). The Disneyfied version we know today is mostly based on Charles Perrault’s 17th century story, which includes the classic “Cinderella” signifiers – the pumpkin, the fairy godmother, the glass slippers. But one of the other well-known versions of the story comes from the twisted minds of folklore enthusiasts Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm – better known as the Brothers Grimm.

  • 1 week ago | roughdraftatlanta.com | Sammie Purcell

    At the beginning of "Bonjour Tristesse" - based on the 1954 novel previously adapted into a film in 1958 by Otto Preminger - Elsa (Nailia Harzoune) and her boyfriend, Raymond (Claes Bang) take in Raymond's 18-year-old daughter Cécile (Lily McInerny) as she overlooks the French seaside. She's standing in that particular way teenagers do: trying to look nonchalant, and in the pursuit of that endeavor, hyper concerned with how she comes across.

  • 1 week ago | roughdraftatlanta.com | Sammie Purcell

    "Cinderella" is a tale as old as time (that's a line from a different fairytale, but you catch my drift). The Disneyfied version we know today is mostly based on Charles Perrault's 17th century story, which includes the classic "Cinderella" signifiers - the pumpkin, the fairy godmother, the glass slippers. But one of the other well-known versions of the story comes from the twisted minds of folklore enthusiasts Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm - better known as the Brothers Grimm.

  • 1 week ago | roughdraftatlanta.com | Sammie Purcell

    With the help of a hefty investment, Resurgens Gaming is launching a new video game accelerator and publishing division. According to a press release, the Atlanta-based gaming company received an undisclosed amount of money to the tune of seven figures from multiple investors to launch a new venture called Ghost Launchpad.

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Sammie Purcell @ Sundance 2025
Sammie Purcell @ Sundance 2025 @sammie_purcell8
25 Feb 25

Time to hold myself accountable. https://t.co/7S6HsH4Nd1

Sammie Purcell @ Sundance 2025
Sammie Purcell @ Sundance 2025 @sammie_purcell8
4 Feb 25

RT @SaportaReport: Over the course of the roughly two hour runtime of ‘Riefenstahl,’ audiences come to know a woman desperate to separate h…

Sammie Purcell @ Sundance 2025
Sammie Purcell @ Sundance 2025 @sammie_purcell8
27 Jan 25

do you ever just think about the end of close encounters and cry