Palm Springs Film Festival

An Almost Ordinary Summer

By Alan Ng | January 2020

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

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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...

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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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Every culture in the world has one thing in common, and it’s the way they abuse and objectify its women. In Ash Mayfair’s The Third Wife, attention is...

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Hollywood has always trivialized death, specifically in the police, gangster, and gang genres. Death seems less tragic because it’s “art” after all....

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In his first feature film The Last Color, writer/director Vikas Khanna tells a story at a time in India when Indian culture exiled its widows in the ashram...

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(thumbnail photo credit: Getty Images for Palm Springs International Film Festival) You know that saying, “Never meet your heroes?” Well,...

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