Sabzian and Avila are happy to present a curated collection of conversations with Belgian filmmakers from Sabzian’s archive, paired with films of the same filmmakers whose work can be watched on the Avila platform.

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Joseph Cotten and Katharine Hepburn in the original Broadway production of The Philadelphia Story, 1939

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Festival de Sitges 2025: Premios a "La hermanastra fea", de Emilie Blichfeld; "No Other Choice", de Park Chan-wook y "La virgen de la tosquera", de la argentina Laura Casabé 👇👇 Palmarés completo con links a todas nuestras críticas 👇👇 www.otroscines.com/post/festiva...

🇵🇪 Concierto pro fondos para Luis Reyes, productor y músico conocido como Flipown, herido de gravedad en la #MarchaNacional de ayer 📍Lunes 20 de octubre 📍Yield Bar 📍20 soles

Para apoyar a la familia #Trvko Mauricio Ruiz #PeruSky #JeriAsesino

Kelly Reichardt’s #TheMastermind is an experiment in form so thorough and self-assured that even Robert Bresson might have appreciated it. Read @roryseanoc.bsky.social's Critic's Pick review as it opens in theaters: thefilmstage.com/cannes-revie...

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📌 Polvo rojo 8: Corazones tintineantes "Los personajes de Hou, negados de pasado e incapaces de anhelar un futuro, viven como si no hubiera historia". ✍️ Celeste Damiani taipeirevista.com/index.php/20...

Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Aprovecho para condenar de nuevo, desde el fondo de mi alma y de mis viseras al estado de Noruega, maldito seas estado de Noruega

Mostra SP: Escrito, dirigido e atuado por Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby é seu filme estreia, que retrata a história de Agnes, uma professora cuja vida está estagnada desde que passou por uma situação de violência durante seu doutorado. @iwittmann.bsky.social escreveu: feitoporelas.com.br/49a-mostra-d...

Seeing both the big screen adaptation of the musical adaptation of Manuel Puig's KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN in these current times made for quite a severe case of whiplash. So did Kathryn Bigelow's disappointing new film A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE. My review of both films:

#PerfectDays, la aclamada película de Wim Wenders, ya está disponible en #Netflix

King Kong is a movie about how your skills as a film director don't necessarily translate to success on Broadway

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THE SECRET AGENT: The deceptively leisurely pace acts as a container for sudden bursts of emotional and historical revelations, as the various modes Mendonça Filho adopts captures a wide gamut of cultural and personal memories; so fantastic in its ever-expanding field of view.

NO OTHER CHOICE: Unfurls the far-reaching logical extent of its wicked and very modern scenario at a deliberate but still jam-packed pace; can be somewhat inconsistent but the ingenuity of Park’s sequences and images never truly flags; often quite amusing in its messiness.

Something intriguing in the deliberately lopsided time given to the first target versus the others; lots of great digital transitions/superimpositions especially in their emphasis of the shared fecklessness between predator and prey; wish the family was integrated a tad better.

'Un poeta' de Simón Mesa Soto será la representante de Colombia en los premios Oscar y Goya 2026.

The Mexican Film Academy announced a list of 10 films in consideration to become the country’s Oscar entry. Happy to see I AM FRANKELDA among them. It would be cool if they selected the first Mexican stop-motion animated feature. It would also qualify it to compete for the Best Animated Feature.

✅ BELÉN y HOMO ARGENTUM, entre las precandidatas por ARGENTINA al Oscar a Mejor Película Internacional y al Goya (España). ✅ Por primera vez, la Academia local realizó una preselección de 4 films por premio. ✅ Ambas ganadoras se anunciarán el 24/9. www.otroscines.com/post/belen-y...

'El agente secreto' de Kleber Mendonça Filho será la representante de Brasil en los premios Oscar 2026.

Now in Issue 114, Henrique Brazão examines the use of long takes in Danielle Arbid’s Passion Simple (2020) and Celine Song’s Past Lives (2023). buff.ly/ZnxqB5I

Two new translations of Serge Daney from the ICA London program earlier this month. Thanks to @sabzian.bsky.social 1 of 2: On Raoul Ruiz's City of Pirates sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/09/city...

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | El ejército israelí ocupa la casa del cineasta Basel Adra, ganador de un Oscar por ‘No Other Land’. Adra se encuentra en paradero desconocido, según el codirector del documental. Sigue la actualidad del conflicto social.elpais.com/inbvb8

"You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to him."— Dril, the Socrates of social media

#Kinra, la representante de Perú en los premios Oscar 2026, será proyectada en el nuevo ciclo de cine nacional organizado por el Centro Cultural PUCP. Es una excelente película. No dejen de verla. #CinePeruano

Chungking Express (1994)

Vean el tráiler oficial de #NouvelleVague, la película de Richard Linklater sobre el rodaje de 'À bout de souffle', la ópera prima de Jean-Luc Godard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UufR...

For Drunk for Life, we continue our series of @critikat.bsky.social translations with an interview with Cahiers critic Alice Leroy. drunkforlife.substack.com/p/translatio...

I wrote about HAMNET, a love letter to one couple's undying devotion.

It appears that I’m significantly higher on Alice Winocour’s COUTURE than everyone else. I think Angelina Jolie is just spectacular. My review via Screen Daily.