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The title of “Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing” is the closest that Erik Shirai’s documentary comes to a joke at the…
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The title of “Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing” is the closest that Erik Shirai’s documentary comes to a joke at the…
Bentley’s Torcal EV tries to balance authenticity with fake V8 sounds The British automaker is on the hunt for a…
The self-professed “story of a theatrical revolution and how it shaped a nation,” Freddie Fox’s documentary “Into the Breach” attempts…
With its lush costumes, decadent food spreads and playfully anachronistic soundtrack, Sofia Coppola’s gorgeous 2006 film “Marie Antoinette” is a…
Did you hear the one about the 34-year-old American woman who directed a starry $40m period studio movie in France…
Against the rubble gray and stiff mahogany with which director May el-Toukhy washes out her post-Second World War Copenhagen, the…
As anyone who has made a great-author biopic (or even watched one, for that matter) can tell you, writing is…
If you’re ever thinking of attempting a single-location film, choose that location with care. Make it high-ceilinged, light-filled, book-lined, with…
The 2026 Venice Film Festival got underway on Wednesday, September 2, with Oscar-winning English director Danny Boyle’s Ink — starring…
One of the key moments from Lee Chang-dong’s last film, 2018’s “Burning,” still glows bright in the memory. A girl…