The first half of Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy As Lazzaro unfolds in a sharecropping tobacco farm known as Inviolata, its…
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The Netflix-Cannes feud got just a little bit nastier today, with the streaming service’s CCO, Ted Sarandos, confirming…
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Among his many claims to fame, the renowned French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau is often remembered as a pioneer of…
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I shall not fail to uphold my reputation. I am particularly pleased by all the protests and whistles directed at me…
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Robert Altman. David Cronenberg. Michael Cimino. Stephen Frears. Raúl Ruiz. André Téchiné. Chen Kaige. The Coen…
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