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Justin Chang
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Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
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HAMNET (Chloé Zhao, 2025)
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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PANAHI D'OR
May 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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But ... the theatre is named after Louis Lumière! How can you ban large trains? #Cannes2025
Voluminous outfits, in particular those with a large train, that hinder the proper flow of traffic of guests and complicate seating in the theater are not permitted.
May 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Behold, your Cannesclave:
As previously announced, the Jury for the 78th Festival de Cannes will be chaired by French actress Juliette Binoche. She will be joined by American actress and filmmaker Halle Berry, Indian director and screenwriter Payal Kapadia, Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, as well as Congolese director, documentarist and producer Dieudo Hamadi, Korean director and screenwriter Hong Sangsoo, Mexican director, screenwriter and producer Carlos Reygadas and American actor Jeremy Strong.
April 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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RIP the extraordinary Jean Marsh, dead today at 90. A career of astonishments, but this '80s kid will never forget her stuff-of-nightmares performances in RETURN TO OZ, WILLOW and a little-seen (but fondly remembered) TV version of A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT.
Jean Marsh as Princess Mombi in RETURN TO OZ (1985) Jean Marsh as Queen Bavmorda in WILLOW (1988) Jean Marsh as Morgana in A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT (1989)
April 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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The 19 titles just announced in this year's Cannes Film Festival competition:
78TH CANNES FILM FESTIVAL COMPETITION
 “Alpha” (Julia Ducournau) “Dossier 137” (Dominik Moll) “Eagles of the Republic” (Tarik Saleh) “Eddington” (Ari Aster) “Fuori” (Mario Martone) “The History of Sound” (Oliver Hermanus) “La Petite Dernière” (Hafsia Herzi) “The Mastermind” (Kelly Reichardt) “Nouvelle Vague” (Richard Linklater) “The Phoenician Scheme” (Wes Anderson) “Renoir” (Chie Hayakawa) “Romería” (Carla Simón) “The Secret Agent” (Kleber Mendonça Filho) “Sentimental Value” (Joachim Trier) “A Simple Accident” (Jafar Panahi) “Sirat” (Óliver Laxe) “Sound of Falling” (Mascha Schilinski) “Two Prosecutors” (Sergei Loznitsa) “Young Mothers” (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
April 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE — THE FINAL RECKONING is Cannes-bound. A shoo-in for the Pom d’Or.
Pom Klementieff in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE — THE FINAL RECKONING
April 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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L.A. folks: Tonight, @KennethTuran will sign copies of his wonderful new book, LOUIS B. MAYER & IRVING THALBERG: THE WHOLE EQUATION, followed by a free screening of BOMBSHELL (1933) and Q&A w/yours truly. Join us @hammermuseum.bsky.social @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social: cinema.ucla.edu/events/bombs...
April 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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DEFYING GRAVITY AT THE OSCARS
March 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Behold! My 2025 #Oscars menu, here to satisfy all that you Concrave. (As always, I'd like to thank the Academy, but not as much as I'd like to thank my wife, for her exacting editing and ingenious punmanship.)
APP(R)E(N)TI(CE)ZERS: The Gruel With the Needle, Lumpia Erivo, Maki Madison (wrapped with Anori), Pickle Boys, Sep-tenders (five), Soundtrack to a Crudités, Zoe Salad-aña MARC PLATTS DU JOUR: Chicken Flow-rentine, Chili Con(clave) Carne, A Confit Unknown, Cynthia Burrito, A Different Ham, Edward Nortongue, Inside Trout 2, Jeremy Stromboli, Jesse Fries-and-Burg, Memoir of a Quail, Marinara Grande, No Other Lamb, Nosferagù, Prawn Baker, Sebastian Spam, Timothée Chow/Lo Mein, The Wild Rabbit SNACK AUDIARD: Coralie Fagioli, Isabella Broccolini, Yura Borislaw SEAN BAKER: A Complete Bun-known, Felicity Scones (served with Butter Man and Jam Mangold), Monica Barbari, A Real Pain au Chocolat, Timothée Challah THE SWEETS OF THE SACRED FIG: Banana Torres, Brady Sorbet (served in a Karla Sofía Gascóne), Cool Mint Domingo, Demi S’more, Emilia-Feuille Pérez, Prune: Tart Two, Guy Pears, James Mango, Kingdom of the Planet of the Crêpes, Nickel Boysenberries, Samantha Flan THE BREWTALIST: Adrien Bro-tea, Alex Cocoa, I’m Still Beer, Kirin Culkin, Milk Tea Madison, Ralph Wines, A Real Champagne THE SNUBSTANCE: All We Imagine as Turkish Delight, Chard Truths, Date Winslet, Denis Vealneuve, Denzel Washington Apples, Edward Burger, Jamie Leek Curtis, Maclin ’n’ Cheese, Margarita Qualley, Marianneberry Jean-Baptiste, Pedro à la Mode-óvar, Payal Ka-paella, RaMell Rice, Saoirse Ro-naan, Spamela Anderson, The Shroom Next Door
March 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Stars. @theamynicholson.bsky.social #Berlinale
Berlin International Film Festival photos of critic Amy Nicholson and director Todd Haynes.
February 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Probably the last time I ever get to edit an @LAFilmCritics awards montage.
February 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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RIP Jules Feiffer.
Milo says goodbye to Rhyme and Reason, Tock, and the Humbug in an illustrated scene from “The Phantom Tollbooth.”
January 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Greetings from NSFC West (and yes, I still have my Christmas tree up). Happy @nsfc.bsky.social voting day!
January 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I agree, it isn’t as pretty as our charcutewreath.
A wreath made of salami, prosciutto, Gouda, Jarlsberg, Dubliner, grapes and rosemary branches.
December 26, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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Charcutree
A miniature Christmas tree made out of salami, cheese, and sliced strawberries, apples and cucumbers.
December 26, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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PRESENCE (2024) | Director: Steven Soderbergh | #OnePerfectShot
December 25, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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CLOSE YOUR EYES (Víctor Erice, 2023) #OnePerfectShot
Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) screams at a footman in "The Favourite" (2018).
December 18, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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Behold! My 2024 #Oscars menu. (Dedicated to the sadly unnominated MENUS-PLAISIRS — LES TROISGROS and THE TASTE OF THINGS; so sad not to include Breaderick Riceman and Flan Anh Hung.)
March 9, 2024 at 8:55 PM