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Patrick
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Literature and Film

Co-host of the "Cannesversations" film podcast rss.com/podcasts/cannesversations/

Find me on letterboxd.com/Patrick_Fey/

Deutsche Filmkritiken schreibe ich für Kino-Zeit und Moviebreak.
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Three years ago, when studying at CCNY, I wrote a profile on Sean Baker for a creative nonfiction writing class.
This year, I was given the chance to rework it and am happy that my 7500-word primer on the filmmaker now finally sees the light of day.
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Sean Baker's Rollercoaster to Oscar Glory | Deep Dive
Sean Baker's career from hardscrabble indie director to Oscar winner has been anything but easy: we have the deep dive on Anora's unlikely success.
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I have a soft spot for Ulrich Köhler, who made one of the best titled films ever (MONTAG KOMMEN DIE FENSTER). At #NYFF, I saw his latest, GAVAGAI, which took root in the embarrassment he felt in the course of making SLEEPING SICKNESS and its 2011 Berlinale premiere. It's complicated. t.co/WGao9LZDg2
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October 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Three years ago, when studying at CCNY, I wrote a profile on Sean Baker for a creative nonfiction writing class.
This year, I was given the chance to rework it and am happy that my 7500-word primer on the filmmaker now finally sees the light of day.
tinyurl.com/yc24a7b4
Sean Baker's Rollercoaster to Oscar Glory | Deep Dive
Sean Baker's career from hardscrabble indie director to Oscar winner has been anything but easy: we have the deep dive on Anora's unlikely success.
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March 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Wenig überraschend liefert Hong bei der diesjährigen #Berlinale mit WHAT DOES THAT NATURE SAY TO YOU einen meiner Favoriten. In großer Offenheit kündigt sich hier eine Zukunftsaussicht nach der anderen an, nur um diese schließlich allesamt zum Bersten zu bringen.
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What Does that Nature Say to You (2025) | Film, Trailer, Kritik
Dass ein solches Argument nicht ohne eigene Fallstricke daherkommt, wird deutlich, überträgt man diesen Ansatz nur einmal auf jene Franchise-Maschinerien, die Komplexität vornehmlich durch zunehmende ...
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February 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Zum deutschen Kinostart von PFAU - BIN ICH ECHT? präsentieren wir euch ein Feature zu Hauptdarsteller Albrecht Schuch, der nicht nur den Schnurrbart immer wieder mit Würde zu tragen versteht: tinyurl.com/bdh676ta
February 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
With Sundance ongoing and the Berlinale ahead, we were thinkink of the most anticyclical thing to put out and came up with our Top 10 episode of 2024, joined, as last year, by our friends LAWRENCE GARCIA & @feridemercury.com
Here is episode 1/2, in which we count down from 10-6.
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Cannesversations - Our Top Ten of 2024 - Part 1 | RSS.com
For the first episode of Cannesversations this year, Eliana and Patrick are joined by critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu and Lawrence Garcia for the second year to look back at their favorite films of 2024.Follow Öykü & Lawrence on Twitter/X or LetterboxdOur Part 1 Top 10 Films discussion begins with#10 - 33:35#9 - 43:00#8 - 59:12#7 - 1:17:18#6 - 1:19:50#5 - 1:28:24ÖyküThe Periphery of the Base | Zhou TaoLes Reines du Drames | Alexis LangloisBy the Stream | Hong Sang SooMiséricorde | Alain Guiraudie100,000,000,000 (Cent mille milliards) | Virgil VernierEat the Night | Caroline Poggi, Jonathan VinelLawrencePresence | Steven SoderberghHard Truths | Mike LeighBy the StreamChime | Kiyoshi KurosawaThe Other Way Around | Jonás TruebaPatrickMiséricordeIsrael Palestina on Swedish TV 1958-1989 | Göran OlssonYouth (Homecoming) | Wang BingWe are Inside | Farah KassemLos delincuentes | Rodrigo MorenoElianaThe Room Next Door | Pedro AlmodovárIsrael Palestina on Swedish TV 1958-1989Dahomey | Mati DiopCastration Movie Anthology i. Traps | Louise WeardBluish | Lilith Kraxner, Milena Czernovsky & All We Imagine as Light | Payal KapadiaTú me abrasas | Matías PiñeiroPart two of our top 10 films of 2024 will be coming soon! We wish all of you a happy 2025
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January 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Lars Eidinger, ab heute mit STERBEN im Kino, ist der wohl polarisierendste deutsche Schauspieler unserer Zeit. Was genau es ist, woran sich das Publikum in der Causa Eidinger scheidet, ist indes nicht leicht auszumachen.

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April 25, 2024 at 4:51 PM
After a long and unintended hiatus, Cannesversations is back with a discussion on Marcel Carné's LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS, a film that grew on me with every datum I learned about its historical backdrop and production context.
Cannesversations - Les Enfants du Paradis | Children of Paradise (1945) by Marcel Carné | RSS.com
This week, Patrick and Eliana discuss Marcel Carné’s 1945 film Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise), which appeared in the 2011 Cannes Classics section. Filmed during the Nazi Occupation of F...
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April 12, 2024 at 8:13 AM
For the last episodes of last year's CANNESVERSATIONS, we were very happy to have our critic friends Öykü Sofuoğlu and Lawrence Garcia join us to discuss our favorite movies of 2023.
Expectedly, this took a bit longer, so it became a two-parter.

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January 5, 2024 at 9:39 AM
Mit Jakob Jurisch habe ich im Moviebreak-Podcast über unsere Lieblingsfilme des Jahres gesprochen. Wenig davon hat es bisher auf die regulären Deutschen Kinoleinwände geschafft, aber was nicht ist, kann ja noch werden.
Wie jedes Jahr gilt jedenfalls: Es war ein gutes Kinojahr!
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January 3, 2024 at 10:38 PM
This week on CANNESVERSATIONS, we delve into Lizzie Borden's WORKING GIRLS. A milieu to this day avoided like the plague in American cinema, Borden's depiction of sex work bespeaks refreshing mundanity and virtuously circumvents the common tropes of glamorization or precarization. bit.ly/400rYzr
Cannesversations - Working Girls (1986) Lizzie Borden- Cannesversations Episode 10 | RSS.com
This week Eliana and Patrick delve into Lizzie Borden's 1986 dramedy Working Girls about a day in the life of a group of young sex workers in a middle-class brothel in 1980s Manhattan. A milieu rarely...
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October 20, 2023 at 9:42 AM