The cinematic debut for the long-running animated series about a misfit family of restaurant owners brings all the quirks and quips of the original Bob’s Burgers.
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Hit the Road
Being the son of the great Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi and the protege of the late master director Abbas Kiarostami can’t help but cast a shadow, but if this digressive and slyly weighty debut is any indication, Panah Panahi will have no trouble making his own voice heard. A family of four drives through […]
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Sunken Roads: Three Generations After D-Day
Unfortunately, what Juergens presents onscreen comes across more like a loose scrapbook or vlog than a film.
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‘Let’s fuck up the frame’
The Gene Siskel Film Center’s monthlong celebration of Chicago native Haskell Wexler’s centennial concludes May 31.
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Downton Abbey: A New Era
Little of consequence happens in Downton Abbey: A New Era, but that’s sort of the point.
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The Janes is a call to action
“What we know for a fact is that making abortion illegal does not stop women from seeking abortions, it just keeps them from getting safe abortions.”
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The Last Victim
No amount of cowboy bravado could pump life into director Naveen Chathappuram’s debut film.
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Seeing with silence in avant-garde cinema
In the context of film, silence helps us appreciate the beauty and gift that is our sense of sight.
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The sweet sound of silents
The film is the thing, the guiding force behind what they do.
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Horror is a sound you can’t stop saying
Philip Glass’s soundtrack for piano, pipe organ, and chorus mirrors the repetition in the summoning spell.
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In defense of subtitles
Those once-pestering words on the bottom of television screens I now see as an opportunity to refresh and expand my communication.
