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‘Irma Vep’ Review: Olivier Assayas Reckons With The Ghosts Of His Filmmaking Past In Meta New HBO Series [Cannes]

May 22, 2022 1:00 pm

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews, Television

When cinema is your life, cinema can hurt. "Time doesn't heal," Tom Sturridge says about the scars that mark us in Olivier Assayas' beguiling and fascinating new HBO limited-series version of "Irma Vep." "Time...

‘The Nowhere Inn’ Trailer: St. Vincent & ‘Portlandia’s Carrie Brownstein Star In A Bizarre Metafictional Mock Doc

Edward Davis

August 12, 2021 9:28 am

News, Trailers

Meta-fiction with your favorite indie rock stars, St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein from Sleater Kinney and "Portlandia," that sounds pretty different, no? That's what you'll get in IFC Films' "The Nowhere Inn...

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‘Irma Vep’: Adria Arjona, Carrie Brownstein, Jerrod Carmichael & Others Join Alicia Vikander In HBO’s Series

Charles Barfield

July 19, 2021 2:54 pm

News, Television

One of the more exciting remake announcements of the last couple of years is the new “Irma Vep” TV series that is coming to HBO from A24 and filmmaker Olivier Assayas. The critically-acclaimed feature from 199...

‘The Nowhere Inn’ Teaser: St. Vincent Stars In A Metafictional Drama With ‘Portlandia’s’ Carrie Brownstein

Charles Barfield

May 18, 2021 1:25 pm

News, Trailers

To try to put “The Nowhere Inn” in a simple genre box is a difficult thing. It’s part mockumentary, part drama, part comedy, part character study, part rock biopic. It’s a lot of different things, all wrapped ...

‘Rodeo Queen’: Dakota Johnson To Star In New Comedy Series Directed By Carrie Brownstein

Charles Barfield

June 10, 2020 2:25 pm

News, Television

Over the past few years, we’ve seen Amazon Prime Video move from being the place for unique, award-winning series to more big-budget franchise fare, such as “Jack Ryan” and the forthcoming billion-dollar “Lord...

‘The Nowhere Inn’: St. Vincent & Carrie Brownstein Flirt With Self-Awareness In This Mock Rock Doc [Sundance Review]

Jessica Kiang

January 29, 2020 10:37 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

"I'm not for everybody," says Annie Clark, the artist also known as St. Vincent -- though not to the limo driver who, at the beginning of Bill Benz's metafictional mockumentary "The Nowhere Inn," is interrogat...

Sundance First Look: Anne Hathaway in Dee Rees’ Latest, Miranda July’s ‘Kajillionaire,’ Riley Keough In ‘Zola’ & More

The Playlist Staff

December 4, 2019 4:51 pm

News

The 2019 Sundance Film Festival is upon us and we're feeling good about most of our Most Anticipated 2020 Film feature predictions; many of the films with early February release dates are indeed making Sundance...

Ike Barinholtz’s ‘The Oath’ Is A Hilarious Look At A Tumultuous, Politically-Charged Family Dinner [LAFF Review]

Kyle Kohner

September 27, 2018 10:49 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Thanksgiving is not just a time for friends and family to come together and enjoy a feast. No, it's a confined space threatened by friendly facades, repressed disdain, and farcical attempts to remain civil at t...

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Joaquin Phoenix In ‘Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot’ [Sundance Review]

Gregory Ellwood

January 20, 2018 4:50 am

Awards Campaign, Festivals, News, Reviews

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PARK CITY – After screening Gus Van Sant’s new film “Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot” at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival I came to the not so fresh realization that we may all be taking Joaquin Phoenix fo...

‘Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot’ Trailer: Joaquin Phoenix Battles The Bottle

Kevin Jagernauth

January 16, 2018 10:18 am

News, Trailers

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We're just two days away from the launch of the Sundance Film Festival, and with each passing year it's becoming an increasingly important venue for Oscar movies. The last two years alone have seen "Call Me By ...

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