#“Pseudo-Marxist Media Guerrilla” Group Total Refusal to Make Feature Film Debut With ‘Money Is a Form of Speech’ (Exclusive)

#“Pseudo-Marxist Media Guerrilla” Group Total Refusal to Make Feature Film Debut With ‘Money Is a Form of Speech’ (Exclusive)

Total Refusal, an avant-garde art collective that repurposes video games into critiques of capitalism, is set to make its first full-length feature film, a “post-apocalyptic political musical” called Money Is a Form of Speech. The project, which Total Refusal is producing together with Vienna-based film group Glitter & Doom — the team behind Achmed Abdel-Salam’s German-language…

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#The Tricky Politics of This Year’s European Film Awards

#The Tricky Politics of This Year’s European Film Awards

Typically, the European Film Awards (EFA) are an event for celebration and, broadly, consensus. There might be debate over which European movie deserves the top prize — this year’s best film contenders include refugee dramas Io Capitano from Italian director Matteo Garrone and Green Border from Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland; Justine Triet’s French legal thriller…

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#‘Oppenheimer’ to Get Japan Release

#‘Oppenheimer’ to Get Japan Release

Oppenheimer will get a theatrical release in Japan. Japanese distributor Bitters End has confirmed it will bow Christopher Nolan’s biopic in local cinemas next year, though it did not set a specific release date. In a statement, Bitters End said it had made the decision after screening the film and “following months of thoughtful dialogue…

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