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Author Archive: Dennis Dermody

Sirat

            Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Oliver Laxe’s nerve-shredding, trippy, nightmarish odyssey begins with a wall of weathered speakers being assembled in a gully surrounded by mountains in the barren Moroccan desert. Soon a wall…
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Peter Hujar’s Day

            Ira Sachs’ sublime new film is based on a tape recording that writer Linda Rosenkrantz made of her good friend photographer Peter Hujar, recounting his past day. It was in 1974 and the project of hers was never finished but…
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Three/Three…Extremes

            Out on Blu-ray from Arrow Releasing is a delightfully deranged 2-disc set of two separate trilogies of terror, with short films by well-known Asian directors. Like most omnibus horror-themed collections the entries are hit and miss. But in the second…
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