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Interviews
I Wanted Them to Be Weird: Director John McPhail on Mixing Genres and Encouraging Actors in “Grow”
- Excerpt: Glaswegian director John McPhail talked about finding the right cast and setting and making a movie that can be enjoyed by the whole family.
Jay Weissberg: “O festival pode ser um espaço de intervenção política e social”
Paulo Portugal @ esquerda.net [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Nesta entrevista, o diretor do Pordenone Silent Film Festival/Giornate del Cinema Muto fala da edição deste ano, marcada por temas de antimilitarismo, da relação dos jovens com o cinema e do poder das orquestrações ao vivo.
Pordenone: “O festival pode ser um espaço de intervenção política e social”
Paulo Portugal @ Cinema Sétima Arte [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Ao longo da nossa conversa, numa esplanada em Pordenone, o diretor do festival assumiu a sua intenção de programar uma edição politicamente engajada e marcada por temas de antimilitarismo, com filmes da Palestina e Ucrânia com mais de um século.
Paulo Portugal @ Insider [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Entrevista com Jay Weissberg, diretor do Festival de Cinema Mudo de Pordedone, há dez anos. Na nossa conversa, sublinha o impacto emocional das orquestrações ao vivo na valorização do cinema mudo. E promete, em breve, um programa de cinema português.
Essays
The 11 Best Body-Swap Movies, Ranked
- Excerpt: Many, like “Freaky Friday,” focus on family; some, like the Hallmark “Princess Switch” trilogy, on romance; some, like “Freaky,” explore thriller or horror genres. Some play with race and/or gender, like “The Hot Chick” and “White Chicks.” And some, like “Trading Places,” with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, and this week’s “Good Fortune,” exploring race and class issues and economic disparity in satirical terms.
The Appeal Of Cinema’s Unlikely Angels
Victoria Luxford @ Little White Lies
- Excerpt: As Keanu Reeves dons feathered wings as an angel in Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune, Victoria Luxford look at how these spiritual servants have fared on screen.
For ‘Mr. Scorsese,’ faith — like cinema — is unfinished business
Jose Solís @ National Catholic Reporter
- Excerpt: Mr. Scorsese, Rebecca Miller’s five-part documentary out now on Apple TV+, traces the famed director’s career exploration of blasphemy and salvation, devotion and rejection, sin and grace.
Festival Coverage
Da Palestina ao Brasil: a revisão do olhar colonizador ou ‘as imagens de nós próprios’?
Paulo Portugal @ Insider [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: A cineasta palestiniana Lina Soualem e o realizador brasileiro Kléber Mendonça Filho ilustram a visão colonial em que imagens do passado dialogam com os conflitos do presente.
Entrevista com Jay Weissberg, diretor do Festival de Cinema Mudo de Pordedone, há dez anos. Na nossa conversa, sublinha o impacto emocional das orquestrações ao vivo na valorização do cinema mudo. E promete, em breve, um programa de cinema português.
Paulo Portugal @ esquerda.net [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: A partir de alguns registos de formas de colonização distintas, o diretor do festival Giornate del Cinema Muto lançou uma ponte entre o tempo destrutivo em que vivemos e o redesenho possível desses locais.
Exciting debuts and Radu Jude fill the Chicago International Film Festival
- Excerpt: Our dispatch from the fest’s 2025 edition includes coverage of Arco, Kontinental ’25, and The Plague.
Festival de Pordenone: o olhar do passado refletido no presente
Paulo Portugal @ Cinema Sétima Arte [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: O rosto de Dorothy Mackaill interroga-nos e desafia-nos sobre uma edição que reflete o presente a partir de uma homenagem ao arquivo
Giornate del Cinema Muto — “Cirano di Bergerac” abre paraíso da cinefilia
Paulo Portugal @ Cinema Sétima Arte [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: O famoso espadachim francês abriu o 44ª Festival de Cinema Mudo de Pordenone, chamando à cidade italiana muitos académicos, arquivistas e cinéfilos de todo o mundo, reunidos para celebrar a magia da cinefilia que acontece Teatro Verdi, sempre acompanhada por música ao vivo
Giornate del Cinema Muto — Cirano di Bergerac abre paraíso da cinefilia
Paulo Portugal @ Insider [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: O famoso espadachim francês abriu o 44ª Festival de Cinema Mudo de Pordenone, chamando à cidade italiana muitos académicos, arquivistas e cinéfilos de todo o mundo, reunidos para celebrar a magia da cinefilia que acontece Teatro Verdi, sempre acompanhada por música ao vivo.
Jim Jarmusch and Lav Diaz Sparkle in New York
Kenji Fujishima @ Book and Film Globe
A Main Slate Full of Discoveries
Kenji Fujishima @ Book and Film Globe
Pordenone: Entre A Morte Cansada e a energia de Chaplin
Paulo Portugal @ Insider [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Entre o cânone de ‘A Morte Cansada’, de Fritz Lang, Pordenone celebrou a ‘mania’ de Chaplin numa série de vertentes deste comediante completo.
Awards Coverage
2025 Nominations Predictions: October
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Makeup, 2006
Upcoming Film Previews
Eternity, Updated
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In Vitro
Keeper, Updated
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Mercy
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Primate
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The Running Man, Updated
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Other Types of Articles
Movie Madness Episode 603: Stop Grabbing People!
Erik Childress @ Movie Madness
- Excerpt: Reviews this week include a sequel to The Black Phone, Del Toro’s Frankenstein, Aziz Ansari’s Trading Places, a couple of great Sundance films and Luca Guadagnino’s #MeToo
Movie Madness Episode 604: Please William, Don’t Hurt ‘Em
Erik Childress @ Movie Madness
- Excerpt: This week in physical media with Erik Childress and Peter Sobczynski there is a whole lot of murder.
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch – Season 1
Sebastian Zavala @ NoEsEnSerie.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Visually, “Splinter Cell: Deathwatch” is attractive and compelling, and while it takes some narrative risks, nothing bothered or angered me. Derek Kolstad (also the creator of “John Wick”) has done a fine job with the show.
William & Kate: The Television Movie
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: William & Kate is pleasant enough, not well acted but nothing as horrendous as anything in (the three television films about the Sussexes).
With Love, Meghan Episode Five: Surprise and Delight
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: There was no joy to be found among friends in Surprise and Delight, our fifth With Love, Meghan episode. However, the lack of joy is more than made up for with more edible flower sprinkles and even some shade thrown at the Duchess’ BFFs by the Duchess herself.
With Love, Meghan Episode Four: Love is in the Details
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Love is in the Details, but no number of lavender towels can liven up the dullness of With Love, Meghan.
Box Office History (Week 42, 2025)
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: October 17
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Oscar History: October 18
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Oscar History: October 19
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Oscar History: October 20
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Oscar History: October 21
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Oscar History: October 22
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Oscar History: October 23
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