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Peter Weir's Fearless formally and narratively brings up the challenges of being a person in the world, unavoidably tangled up in the problems of other people’s lives Peter Weir’s Fearless centres on a plane crash survivor who is, indeed, fearless, because he feels himself to be
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Artwork by Neven Udovičić The line that connects the idea of cinema as an empathy machine to the plague of “nicecore” kino (which Animus contributor Charles Bramesco wrote about so forcefully here) is the horizon beyond which an apparently large number of film viewers (and reviewers) are not inclined to
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At first glance, Robert Eggers’ The Northman does not seem all that different from other epic films set in the distant past, and comparisons to Ridley Scott’s Gladiator — as much from critics as from the film’s marketing team — are not totally unwarranted: in both films, the son of
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Isaac Butler tells us about his new book on Method acting and its history In a current film landscape where the gap between commercial blockbusters and more challenging work has only grown wider, it might seem counterintuitive to publish a book on Method acting. The style itself is more often
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Vincent Price's horror persona often brought to life chillingly pathetic characters seeking hollow victories Throughout the history of horror on screen, the relationship between characters and actors’ personas has been at the forefront of the genre’s development. From the Universal movies of the 1930s, to the final
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Channing Tatum and His Magic Mikes, Keanu Reeves, Johnny Knoxville, Simon Rex, and the Himbo Ascendent Dog, starring Channing Tatum as an ex–Army Ranger with PTSD who bonds with his unit’s Multi-Purpose Canine en route to his buddy’s funeral, is a road-movie two-hander in which one character
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The director tells us about her unique, visceral portrait of a young boy growing up in Naples' Spanish quarters One of the most striking offerings at last year’s London Film Festival, Nascondino (aka Hide and Seek), from London-based director Victoria Fiore, is doubly powerful: its portrait of a
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Three recent films set in Croatia and Bosnia look at the peculiar, frustrating situation of their younger generation One could be forgiven for imagining that the behaviour of the father character in Murina, the feature debut from Croatian director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, is far-fetched. Short-tempered and aggressive, Ante (Leon Lucev)
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Artwork by Neven Udovičić “Acting is really hard to talk about,” Isaac Butler tells Claire Davidson in his interview about his new book on Method acting, and he is right. Which is why it is a point of pride to publish three essays in this month’s issue that touch
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There are more important things than film. Nevertheless, film plays a role in things more important than itself, like nation building. Film plays a part in the process of reforging national and ethnic identities in the post-Soviet borderlands: Central Asia, Transcaucasia, the Baltics, Belarus and Ukraine. Yet there is a
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In his op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, Martin Scorsese tried to convince readers to go see Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley by writing that “the urgency and despair of then overlaps with the urgency and despair of now in a way that’s quite disturbing.” I don’t
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When we first meet the beautiful Selma (Zoé Adjani), she is passing an oral exam for a prestigious economics school in Paris. Outside, she immediately sets her sights on a beautiful male student, and their brief chat is unapologetically horny. Later on, during what appears to be one of those