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A collection of 30 posts

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: One Life (2023)

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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: One Life (2023)

The Academy Award-winning costume designer behind Black Panther, Ruth Carter once noted she didn’t just start making superhero films. She’s been making them for decades, with a filmography that includes Malcolm X, Amistad and Selma. Carter’s right. There are two different kinds of superhero films: the corporate

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: All of Us Strangers

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: All of Us Strangers

Andrew Scott’s performance alone is worth the investment of time and money even as the film doesn’t quite work as a whole.

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Ferrari (2023)

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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Ferrari (2023)

An altogether infertile American studio film, Michael Mann’s Ferrari neglects the creativity and bravura in the racing that any good racing movie should have and substitutes stereotypical housewife and mistress roles for the film’s two women.

Fritz on Fridays: Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

Fritz on Fridays: Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

At the absolute maximum, there are but a handful of filmmakers in the history of the seventh art who have left a greater mark on the medium than Fritz Lang. I’m even hesitant to identify a single filmmaker with a definitive case for being more influential over the course

Fritz on Fridays: <i>The Big Heat</i> (1953)

Fritz on Fridays: <i>The Big Heat</i> (1953)

Beginning today, on the first Friday of every month, this column by critic Joshua Polanski will feature a short review or essay on a film directed by Fritz Lang (1890-1976), the great Austrian “Master of Darkness.” Occasionally (but not too occasionally), Fritz on Fridays will also feature interviews and conversations