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Paul Schrader is known for writing Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver' and directing films including 'American Gigolo', 'First Reformed' and most recently 'The Card Counter'. The US filmmaker will receive an honorary prize at this year's @28th_sff - details: https://t.co/vRu4L8M0iW https://t.co/CHavWgNBBU

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Lynne Ramsay says she is "hoping" to shoot 'Stone Mattress' this year. The film, starring Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh, is an adaptation of a Margaret Atwood story about a woman on an Arctic cruise who meets a man who raped her 50 years ago. Details: https://t.co/2GVx9fTa1d https://t.co/jU8AHL5t9P

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'The Uncle' Karlovy Vary Review: "A handsomely-mounted calling-card whose script plays like an opportunistic cross between Michael Haneke’s Funny Games and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth." says Neil Young. @KVIFF #KarlovyVary https://t.co/V47TrUUYC1

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'Reality' Berlin Review: "Starts off feeling claustrophobic and grows even more so as it tells the true story of American whistleblower Reality Leigh Winner" says @TimGrierson #Berlinale2023 https://t.co/x3VCLrOUZ0 https://t.co/QcINMKamBb

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'Much Ado About Dying' IDFA Review: Simon Chambers films his Shakespeare-loving uncle's final years and "in its refreshingly frank look at the end of life [the film] becomes a thought-provoking study of what it means to live" says @NikkiBaughan #IDFA2022 https://t.co/K9b4SSLwth

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'She Came To Me' will be the first American film to open the @berlinale since Wes Anderson's 'Isle Of Dogs' in 2018. Peter Dinklage, Anne Hathaway, Marisa Tomei, Joanna Kulig, Brian d'Arcy James all star. Details: https://t.co/mMvJQ3FMH0 https://t.co/DNE1WqrE86

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'Beyond Utopia' Sundance Review: "A gripping, moving, sweatily tense documentary that prises open the hidden fiefdom of Kim Jong-un through the misfortunate citizens fighting for their lives trying to escape it" says Fionnuala Halligan #Sundance2023 https://t.co/L0KMfdDleK

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ICYMI: Horror 'Smile' became the first 18-rated film to top the UK-Ireland box office in over three years, since Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood' in August 2019. https://t.co/g8ErY7nQlY #SmileMovie https://t.co/rOTDDwKr7d

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'House Of Darkness' #Fantasia2022 Review: "LaBute is deliberately upending the traditional predator-prey narrative, offering an opposing view to his ferocious debut In The Company of Men," says @NikkiBaughan https://t.co/oxPDvuHzrY

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'One Last Evening' Rotterdam Review: "An excellent central performance from Sebastian Jakob Doppelbauer is at the heart of this intense chamber piece, which marks an impressive feature debut for director/co-writer Lukas Nathrath" says @NikkiBaughan #IFFR52 https://t.co/jiV1PNv78g https://t.co/VpH7HSajgC