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Sound of Hope

Sound of Hope

Suspicion toward an Angel Studios picture is quite understandable; perhaps, because after all, this Utah based movie studio had already gained prominence last year with the surprising box office success of the child trafficking thriller Sound of Freedom. The box office takings of the Sound of Hope film reached 242 million dollars thanks to a

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Made in England

Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger

In the documentary’s introductory segment, “Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger”, Martin Scorsese explains how and when he first saw the most remarkable achievements of the eminent filmmaking team, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, as a young kid, under what are perhaps some of the most undesirable situations possible: the family’s black-and-white

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Sorry/Not Sorry

Sorry/Not Sorry

Created in their video department The New York Times, and based largely on its reporting content, “Sorry/Not Sorry” is a how-to guide about Louis C.K. The story of a standup comic who turned into a lowbudget extreme self-revealing filmmaker. He went on to be a writer, director, producer and one of the principal actors in

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Sisi & I

Sisi & I

Let us first settle in our minds one evident thing: Yes, it hasn’t taken us too long to get a film for the prominent queen of Austria, empress Elisabeth of Austria Sisi as she is mostly known in public. That film was Marie Kreutzer’s ‘Corsage'(2022), featuring a cold and rather too serious for the occasion

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Mother, Couch

Mother, Couch

From the moment the Mother Couch film begins and Dave (Ewan McGregor) hurries through a vacant parking lot, the picture “Mother, Couch” is a little dull. Dressed in these black suit, Dave strides into the furniture shop, which display antiques that are all painstakingly crafted. At the reception area is a vivacious woman called Bella

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Touch

Touch

Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur’s Touch may encompass several decades, languages, continents and cultures, civilizations etc., and bear themes of memory, ageing, loss and love. However its delicateness is as pleasing as the caress of butterfly wing. Kristófer (Egill Ólafsson) aged widow who owns a restaurant in Iceland goes to the doctor and reports that he

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Family Portrait

Family Portrait

As wind agitated the grass and the trees and inched closer to the explosive climax of “Family Portrait”, one could almost ascribe that the sound is a character itself in the film, a technique that has been used well in this particularly well directed film that is selflessly more of a surrealistic opera rather than

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Sweetheart Deal

Sweetheart Deal

Seattle stands to be the third most populous city in the US and also one of the biggest. It possesses great technological, cultural, as well as industrial prominence while it’s large port thrusts it into a cosmopolitan world. However in Sweetheart Deal–sweet heart deal, a refreshing documentary directed by Elisa Levine and the late Gabriel

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The Critic

The Critic

An actress took a seat next to me at a wedding reception in London, and though effort she spoke with the plummy diction and flawless projection learnt as cheap seats at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. “You do understand,” she stuck in her surliest voice as though speaking the words of Coward that “AC-tor

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