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3 weeks ago | anothermag.com | Nick Chen |TextNick Chen

Alonso Ruizpalacios’s searing new kitchen-set drama takes us inside the messy, chaotic heart of a Times Square restaurant For nearly two decades, Alonso Ruizpalacios has been trying to cook up a comedy-drama about chaotic, charismatic restaurant workers who verbally and physically fight like family members.

1 month ago | anothermag.com | Nick Chen |TextNick Chen

As his new film When Autumn Falls is released in UK cinemas, we recommend five films from the French cinematic stylist Provocative and prolific, François Ozon has directed 23 full-length features in 26 years, usually with a solo screenplay credit, too. What’s more, the 57-year-old French auteur is versatile: no two Ozon films are alike, except that they all showcase his trademark mischievousness, often with an icon of French cinema in the ensemble.