Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
Directed by James Kent
Jun 03, 2015
Cinema
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Based on Vera Brittain’s bestselling memoirs of the First World War, Testament of Youth chronicles the young British writer’s life from 1914 through 1918.
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Jun 02, 2015
Music
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There is something slightly odd about a band’s 14th studio album, 38 years on from their debut release, being self-titled. It is almost certainly unintentional, but there’s a neatness about the link between that and this, perhaps, being the first time they haven’t felt so ahead of the curve
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Studio: Sundance Selects
Directed by Saverio Costanzo
Jun 02, 2015
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Midway in, Hungry Hearts transforms from a lyrical romance into a frustrating stab at psychological thriller.
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Jun 01, 2015
Live
Beverly
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Wildhoney
It would be more accurate if NYC Pop Fest were called NYC Guitar Pop Fest but that would be kind of dry and tedious and wouldn’t suit the four day celebration at all.
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Studio: Cohen Film Collection
Jun 01, 2015
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Magician charts Orson Welles’ rise from theatre’s enfant terrible to cinema’s wunderkind following his debut feature, Citizen Kane.
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Published by St. Martin's
Jun 01, 2015
Books
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In a few weeks, the Grateful Dead will cap a 50-year anniversary with five concerts, split between California and Chicago. In Deal, founding drummer Bill Kreutzmann details the long strange trip that began in 1965.
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Jun 01, 2015
Music
SOAK
There’s nothing the Brits like more than hyping one of their own. It’s a trait that explains why so few U.K. bands make it past album number two-by the time they’ve delivered a follow up, fickle tastemakers have already moved on to the latest hot piece of stuff. And then nobody listens.
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Studio: eOne
Directed by Oleg Stepchenko
Jun 01, 2015
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Jonathan Green is an enlightenment era scientist and explorer out for adventure, when he stumbles upon a Ukrainian village plagued by witches and demons.
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Fantagraphics
By Robert Goodin
May 29, 2015
Comic Books
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Robert Goodin (who is currently an animator on American Dad) weaves a unique and magical yarn in his latest graphic novel, The Kurdles. Sally is a teddy bear callously discarded from the family car on a road trip by the bratty child she belongs to.
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Studio: Radius-TWC
Directed by Benny and Josh Safdie
May 29, 2015
Cinema
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Benny and Josh Safdie are the rare contemporary filmmakers who don’t demand us to like-or even necessarily empathize with-their subjects. If they ask anything of their audience, it’s that we simply observe their characters and let our fascination take us where it may.
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