5 min movie guide
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The Florida Project
After Tangerine his quite remarkable sophomore film was the most talked-about and exciting premiere at Sundance two years, there was an enormous air of expectation to see how Sean Baker would fare with his follow-up movie. It turns out that there was no need to worry at all, and he ditched his Iphone 5’s and…
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The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Filmmaker Noah Baumbach has very definitely adopted Woody Allen’s mantle in this new ensemble NY dramedy that rambles through the dynamics of of a very disorderly family resulting in what will probably end up being one of his more populist films. The family patriarch Harold (an extraordinarily dry and funny Dustin Hoffman) is a retired…
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Faces Places
The 88 year old Belgian auteur Agnes Varda maybe losing her sight but it is very clear from her awe-inspiring new film FACES PLACES that she hasn’t lost any of her legendary vision. For once she has teamed up with another photographer called JR who is a French hipster visual artist who has established an…
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Crown Heights
17 year-old Colin Warner (Lakeith Stanfield) is an apprentice car mechanic in Brooklyn who dreams of being able to go back to his native Trinidad one day. On the side he is a rather unsuccessful petty thief who makes a real hash of stealing cars. However one day he is picked up by the…
