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Review

By the Stream review – burrows under your skin

by David Jenkins

Korean director Hong Sang-soo returns with this playful study of creation, performance and why films don’t need audiences to be successful.

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Review

Saturday Night review – unappealing nepo baby triumphalism

by Mark Asch

Jason Reitman pans back to 1975 and Lorne Michaels’ ambitious plans for a live broadcast sketch show in his fanfiction retelling of SNL’s inception.

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Review

Hard Truths review – incredible in small, measured strokes

by Mark Asch

Reuniting with Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Mike Leigh makes a welcome return to contemporary filmmaking with a searing portrait of a woman on the brink.

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In Praise Of

Double Indemnity and the banality of evil

by Darren Richman

The shadow of the Holocaust and the filmmaker’s personal experience with it looms large across Billy Wilder’s most influential and enduring work.
Review

Presence review – an enjoyably swift chiller

by Manuela Lazic

Steven Soderbergh plays with the cinematic form to craft a compelling story about family dynamics and grief.

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In Retrospect

Dances of desire in The Brutalist, Wicked, and Queer

by Carly Mattox

Several of 2024’s films explore the relationship between movement and belonging, with intriguing – and often moving – results.
Truth & Movies - A Little White Lies Podcast
Podcast

The Brutalist + Lol Crawley | Presence | The Fountainhead (1949)

On Truth & Movies this week after paying tribute to the late, great David Lynch we discuss the truly epic The Brutalist and spoke to it’s cinematographer Lol Crawley. We also review Steven Soderbergh’s Presence and, for film club, revisit The Fountainhead.
Interviews

Brady Corbet: ‘It’s a fucking film’

by Hannah Strong

The maverick writer/​director espouses the need to stick behind your aesthetic and creative ideals at all costs.
Review

The Brutalist review – gorgeous, capital-C Cinema

by Hannah Strong

Adrien Brody is phenomenal in Brady Corbet’s sublime three-and-a-half hour drama, as a Jewish architect arrives in post-war America to a hostile new world.

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Journeys

Eisenstein in Sacramento

by Marlenée Heath

A writer reflects on Sergei Eisenstein’s little-known research trip to California, where he took in the sights of Sutter’s Fort.

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