Monday, May 12, 2025

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Movie Review (Biennale, Venice 2024): ‘Kill The Jockey (El Jockey)’ Finds Luis Ortega Channeling Early Almodóvar

Director: Luis OrtegaWriter: Fabian Casas, Luis Ortega, Rodolfo PalaciosStars: Adriana Aguirre, Roberto Carnaghi, Úrsula Corberó Synopsis: Remo's self-destructive behavior overshadows his talent. Abril, an upcoming jockey is pregnant by Remo and has to...

Episode 600: Best of the Decade Awards / Top 10 Movies of the 2000s

This week’s episode is brought to you by Koffee Kult. Get 15% OFF with the code: ISF24 This week on the InSession Film Podcast, it's our best of the decade for the 2000s!...

Movie Review (Biennale, Venice 2024): ‘One to One: John & Yoko’ Intrudes on Hallowed Ground

Director: Kevin Macdonald, Sam Rice-EdwardsStars: John Lennon, Yoko Ono Synopsis: Set in 1972 New York, this documentary explores John and Yoko's world amid a turbulent era. Centered on the One to One charity...

Locarno 2024: Capsule Reviews of ‘By the Stream’, ‘Moon’, ‘The Sparrow in the Chimney’

This year’s Locarno Film Festival hasn’t had enough buzz or outreach compared to the recent ones. It is unfortunate because it is lenient toward giving more opportunities to rising or less-recognized directors...

Locarno Film Festival 2024: Capsule Reviews of ‘Bogancloch’, ‘Dragon Dilatation’, ‘Transamazonia’

While it may be the least looked-at European festival out of the big four (Cannes, Berlinale, Venice), the Locarno is a fascinating film festival. It gives most of its program spaces to...

Movie Review (Locarno 2024): ‘REAL’ is a Flimsy, Yet Compelling Look At Hyper Connection

Director: Adele TulliWriter: Adele Tulli Synopsis: REAL aims to delve into the ongoing metamorphoses triggered by our relationship with digital technologies, through an associative mosaic of stories, shedding light on different aspects of living...

Movie Review (Locarno 2024): ‘Mexico 86’ is Full of Endearment and Understanding

Director: Cesar DiazWriter: Cesar DiazStars: Bérénice Bejo, Fermín Martínez, Leonardo Ortizgris Synopsis: A Guatemalan activist battles a corrupt dictatorship in 1976 and flees to Mexico, leaving her son. Ten years later he joins...

Movie Review (Locarno 2024): ‘A Woman is a Woman’ Revisited and Restored

Director: Jean-Luc GodardWriters: Geneviève Cluny, Jean-Luc GodardStars: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo Synopsis: An exotic dancer is desperate to become a mother and accepts her reluctant boyfriend's suggestion that she be impregnated...

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