Palm Springs Film Festival

This is Not a Movie

By Alan Ng | January 2020

Director Yung Chang’s This is Not a Movie presents us with a simple, yet somewhat provocative title. A title that won’t make…

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Director Yung Chang’s This is Not a Movie presents us with a simple, yet somewhat provocative title. A title that won’t make sense until the end of...

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Kantemir Balagov's Beanpole (or its original Russian title Dyida) does something that a lot of films about WWII typically don't. It shows us the ravages...

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In 1999, Kosovo was devastated by war. In the span of two years, 13,500 people were killed, and the emotional wounds and memories of war are still with its...

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To say that Instinct is a controversial film would be an understatement (or it’s me misreading today’s culture). Director Halina Reijn dives right into...

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I firmly believe comedies are the hardest to pull off cinematically and even harder are foreign language comedies as translated lines don’t always do the...

Poker, Prop Bets, and 7 Days to Vegas with Vince Van Patten image — Poker, Prop Bets, and 7 Days to Vegas with Vince Van Patten
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You may know Vince Van Patten from a lot of everything. I know him as a host/commentator on the World Poker Tour. He is also the son of legendary actor...

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Most notable for his countless Shakespearean adaptations and performances, Kenneth Branagh takes on the bard himself in All Is True. Upon its opening...

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Legendary French director Olivier Assayas is back with one of his most lighthearted offerings yet. Non-Fiction (also known as Double Lives or Doubles...

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Writer/director/actor Emilio Estevez is clearly his father’s son. In The Public, he’s using this film as a platform for his political activism by...

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While watching Dava Whisenart’s documentary Bathtubs Over Broadway, she runs a bit on the old Late Night With David Letterman called “Dave’s Record...

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