That Title Is Currently Unavailable: Chasing the Hard-to-Find Movie
In recent years, scores of essays have addressed the rapid transformation of the home video industry. Focused on topics including the impact of Netflix’s…
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Tarantino and His Wrecking Crew Catch the End of a Golden Age in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
For superstar auteur Quentin Tarantino, there’s no business like show business — never has been for the whole arc of his career — and…
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Punching with Your Feet: Stearns Gets Dark in “The Art of Self-Defense”
Writer-director Riley Stearns confronts the foul odor of hypermasculinity and misogyny in “The Art of Self-Defense,” a pitch-black comedy featuring Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola,…
Read Now“Maiden” Doc Sails Around the World with Tracy Edwards and Her Crew
Legendary British skipper Tracy Edwards, who in 1989 led the first all-female crew of sailors to compete in the tough-as-nails, 33,000-mile Whitbread Round the…
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‘Midsommar’ Crowns a May Queen in Aster’s Frightening Folktale
“Hereditary” director Ari Aster’s sophomore feature “Midsommar” firmly cements the filmmaker’s auteur bona fides. A visually stunning slice of art-house “folk horror” that draws…
Read NowFilmmaker Rachel Lears Showcases New Progressive Voices in “Knock Down the House”
Writer-producer-director-photographer Rachel Lears teams with writer-producer-editor (and spouse) Robin Blotnick and producer Sarah Olson on advocacy doc “Knock Down the House,” now streaming on…
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Read NowMartin Scorsese and Bob Dylan Make Believe in ‘Rolling Thunder Revue’
Martin Scorsese embraces the prankster spirit of a longtime inspiration/subject in “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story.” The confounding testimony is as much…
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Talbot and Fails Team Up in Convincing Feature Debut
Joining several recent titles that consider, among other things, gentrification and race in the San Francisco Bay Area, Joe Talbot’s feature directorial debut is…
Read NowPhilippe Celebrates 40 Years of Facehugging and Chest-bursting with “Memory: The Origins of Alien”
Forty years ago this week, the release of “Alien” added a seminal text to the American movie library. Mixed reviews would, with time, give…
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Olivia Wilde Makes Confident Directorial Debut with ‘Booksmart’
“Booksmart,” Olivia Wilde’s great feature directorial debut, is — like several of the very best teen/teensploitation/coming-of-age comedies — about many things. But the one…
Read NowRusso-Young Adapts “The Sun Is Also a Star”
Impossibly beautiful lead performers underline the YA fantasy aspects of Ry Russo-Young’s translation of “The Sun Is Also a Star,” based on Nicola Yoon’s…
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Bristol Makes Bright Brooklyn Debut with “See You Yesterday”
Fargo-based filmmaker Matthew Myers recently remarked that director Stefon Bristol was, among other things, paying his bills by driving for Uber until production began…
Read NowA Reel of Tomorrow’s Filmmakers: MSUM’s Annual Senior Seminar Film Showcase
The spring semester is coming to a close for college students across the FM area. For MSUM film production students, the semester culminated in…
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Crowdsourcing to completion on Jacob Wetterling documentary
If you’re from the Midwest, then you’ve probably heard about the tragic disappearance of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling in the fall of 1989. An unsolved…
Read NowJennifer Gage’s fan-fiction adaptation ‘After’
Jennifer Gage’s sudsy “After” offers run-of-the-mill college romance targeted to the PG-13 demographic. The result, a far cry from the lustier stories upon which…
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In her feature directorial debut, Clermont-Tonnerre tames ‘The Mustang’
A true-to-life setting sparks interest in “The Mustang,” a solid man-and-his-horse story from first-time feature director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre. Anchored by a livewire performance…
Read NowKorine and McConaughey Introduce ‘The Beach Bum’
Harmony Korine keeps a tight grip on his title as one of the most critic/critique-proof filmmakers of recent times with “The Beach Bum,” a…
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Another Film Legend to Visit Fargo
The 2019 Fargo Film Festival this February saw huge success, particularly with the appearance of Academy Award visual effects winner Richard Edlund, who received…
Read NowArtist Rashid Johnson Makes Feature Debut with ‘Native Son’
Following a world premiere as one of the opening night selections of the Sundance Film Festival in January, conceptual visual artist Rashid Johnson’s adaptation…
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Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ Tethers Audience to Gut-Check Self-Examination
With enough mirrors, doublings, and doppelgangers to make Hitchcock, Kubrick and Welles proud, Jordan Peele’s “Us” cements the filmmaker’s reputation as a master craftsman…
Read NowIn an Excellent Debut, Writer-Director Nia DaCosta Explores ‘Little Woods’
Set in the fictional Little Woods, North Dakota — a small town in the western oil patch not too far from the Canadian border…
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Fargo Film Festival 2019: Hidatsa’s ‘trail of tears’ documentary
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A Cult Classic, a Star Wars Legend, and Other Top Talent On Display at the Fargo Film Festival
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