#‘Savages’ Review: A Heartfelt and Galvanizing Animated Film Calls for Environmental Protection

#‘Savages’ Review: A Heartfelt and Galvanizing Animated Film Calls for Environmental Protection

Films about the ecological stakes of contemporary life often center the results of unfettered human consumption. By showing the abuses suffered by the environment, they function as both an urgent warning and a desperate plea. Claude Barras takes a different route in Savages (Sauvages), his incisive and edifying animated feature about an 11-year-old girl trying…

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#‘The Invasion’ Review: Sergei Loznitsa’s Doc About Ukrainian Life During Wartime Is Quietly Devastating

#‘The Invasion’ Review: Sergei Loznitsa’s Doc About Ukrainian Life During Wartime Is Quietly Devastating

Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s filmography could be neatly divided into three genre buckets: feature films (the last two were Donbass and A Gentle Creature, both from the last decade), documentaries compiled entirely from archive sources (The Kiev Trial), and documentaries about current events, filmed by Loznitsa himself and small crews. The most well-known example from…

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#Cannes Hidden Gem: Elegiac ‘Eephus’ Captures the “Meditative” Quality of Baseball

#Cannes Hidden Gem: Elegiac ‘Eephus’ Captures the “Meditative” Quality of Baseball

“Half the time I was directing, I also had a glove on my hand,” says filmmaker Carson Lund of making his feature directorial debut with the Cannes title Eephus. The film, which is premiering in Directors’ Fortnight and is being sold worldwide by Film Constellation, follows a men’s recreational New England baseball team as they play their final…

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