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Pedro Almodóvar: ‘Chemistry is a mystery’

by Anna Bogutskaya

The Spanish filmmaker reflects on the romance at the heart of his new queer western, Strange Way of Life, and the freedom of working in a shorter format.

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Festivals

Boy Kills World – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

A deaf-mute young man swears revenge on the group that murdered his family in Moritz Mohr’s bloodthirsty but tedious directorial debut.

Two adults, a man with a beard and glasses and a woman, face each other in close proximity, lit by warm evening sunlight.

Festivals

Dream Scenario – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Nicolas Cage plays an otherwise unremarkable college professor who unexpectedly finds himself appearing in peoples’ dreams in Kristoffer Borgli’s latest satire.

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Home Ents

What to watch at home in September

by Anton Bitel

Ken Russell, Peter Bogdanovich and Nicolas Cage’s first starring role are among this month’s bevvy of exciting home ents releases.

Podcast

Fremont | Rotting In the Sun + Sebastian Silva | Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

On Truth & Movies this week, a young refugee faces survivor’s guilt, insomnia and longing to be loved in Fremont. David Jenkins spoke to Sebastian Silva about his audacious meta-comedy Rotting In the Sun, and we reviewed the film. Finally for Film Club we returned to Jim Jarmusch’s debut, Stranger Than Paradise.

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Review

Rotting in the Sun review – bold and brilliant influencer satire

by David Jenkins

The impish Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva returns with a sharp thriller about an influencer who turns detective after a filmmaker he’s involved with goes missing.

Poolman – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

There’s a whole lot of Chinatown in Chris Pine’s directorial debut Poolman, an Angeleno neo-noir with a script that gives Robert Towne more than fair grounds to sue for damages.