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3-Hour ‘Midsommar' Director's Cut Screened in NYC
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This year’s 12th edition of the Scary Movies festival at Film at Lincoln Center premiered Ari Aster’s extended version of “Midsommar” this past Saturday.

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Daniel Goldhaber's ‘Faces of Death' Remake Test Screens ...

March 4, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Daniel Goldhaber directs the remake. He turned a lot of heads with last year’s taut, tense and terrific “How to Blow Up A Pipeline.” I was also a big fan of his 2018 breakout, “Cam.”

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Critics Poll: ‘Vertigo’ Named Best Film of the 1950s, Over 120 Participants

March 4, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

It was a closer race than anticipated, but Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” has topped our best of the ’50s poll, besting Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s “Singin’ in the Rain” by just two votes.

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Zack Snyder Says R-Rated ‘Rebel Moon’ Director’s Cuts Will Be 6 Hours

March 4, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Director Zack Snyder’s sci-fi epic “Rebel Moon” premiered on Netflix in last December, and we’re also getting the sequel, “Rebel Moon Part Two: The Scargiver,” in April, but that’s not all folks.

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Spike Lee's ‘High and Low' Remake Starts Production, Lensed by Matthew Libatique

March 4, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

We already know that Denzel Washington and Halle Berry will be starring in Lee’s film, which is being helmed by A24 and Apple Studios. The film will be a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 crime thriller of the same name.

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Leos Carax's ‘C'est Pas Moi' is Only 40 Minutes Long

March 4, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Leos Carax was a guest at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event in Qatar. The filmmaker spoke about his career, his total hatred of digitally shot films and his upcoming 40-minute cinematic self-essay.

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Trailer for Steven Zaillian's ‘Ripley,' Shot in Black and White by Robert Elswit

March 4, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Andrew Scott stars in Netflix’s “Ripley,” based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel. The “All of Us Strangers” actor portrays the sinister grifter, originally portrayed by the likes of Matt Damon, John Malkovich and Dennis Hopper.

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Daniel Day-Lewis Says “He's Done," Not Unretiring

March 4, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Filmmaker Jim Sheridan, a close friend of the actor, is telling Screen that he regularly speaks to Day-Lewis and he’s pretty sure that whatever hopes we might have for an acting comeback won’t be coming to fruition.

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‘Oppenheimer' Wins ASC

March 4, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

“Oppenheimer” DP Hoyte van Hoytema has won the American Society of Cinematographers, the most prestigious awards body of the craft. I guess the ASC loved all the close-up shots in Nolan’s film.

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Austin Butler Getting Ready for ‘Heat 2'?

March 3, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

This past January, Mann did confirm his plans to shoot “Heat 2” in 2024. A few days later, he mentioned that he wanted to shoot it on film — something he hasn’t done since the aughts.

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Wong Kar-Wai is Working on His First Film in Over 10 Years

March 3, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

It was recently reported that French Couture giant Saint Laurent, which recently launched a feature-film production banner, would be helming Wong Kar-Wai’s next film — his first one since 2013’s “The Grandmaster.”

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‘Dune: Part Two' Tops Box-Office With $81.5 Million Debut

March 3, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

This weekend was all about “Dune: Part Two,” and not much else. And, for good reason. The sequel to the 2021 film, based on Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel, brought in $81 million between Thursday and Sunday.

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‘American Fiction’ Wins USC Scripter Award

March 3, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

In what amounted to a considerable upset, Cord Jefferson took home the USC Scripter Award for his “American Fiction” screenplay, besting its closest competitor, Christopher Nolan and “Oppenheimer.”

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Disney Wants Johnny Depp Back for ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 6'

March 2, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

In what could be a very smart business decision for Disney, they might be bringing back one of their most beloved and popular characters on the big screen.

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Readers’ Thoughts on ‘Dune: Part Two'?

March 2, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

I gather some of our readers went to see the film this weekend. What did you think? My review was positive. It’s an upgrade of the first one — both visually and story-wise.

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RESULTS: Readers' Best Films of the 2020s, So Far

March 2, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

We’re close to halfway through the 2020s and over 200 readers voted on the best films of the decade, so far. A brilliantly constructed film about “cancel culture” topped our list.

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They Allowed Renny Harlin to Direct Three ‘Strangers' Movies?

March 1, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

For some reason, journeyman director Renny Harlin has managed to convince a studio to let him direct three new ‘Strangers’ movies (yes, three), all hitting theaters in 2024.

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Denis Villeneuve Clarifies, “I Don’t Hate Dialogue”

March 1, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Speaking to Sharp Magazine, Villeneuve reflects on his controversial comments and acknowledges the absolute need for dialogue in cinema. However, he makes it clear that visuals will always be prioritized in his own work.

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Benny Safdie's ‘The Smashing Machine' to Shoot in April — 2024 Release?

March 1, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

I didn’t expect Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” to roll its cameras this early, but a Production Weekly listing has production on the A24-produced film set to begin in April.

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Sam Raimi's ‘Spider-Man 4' Could Happen ...

March 1, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

No offense to ‘Across the Spider-Verse,’ which I liked, but, for the longest time, Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man 2” was known as not only the best Spidey movie ever made, but also one of the best comic book movies ever made.

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Denis Villeneuve Says He's Working on A “Secret Project" That's Time Sensitive

March 1, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Denis Villeneuve shot both ‘Dune’ movies back-to-back, without even an hour in between. He’s telling THR “I physically need to recover for a couple of weeks.”

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