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Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · 13h

SUMMER’S CAMERA @NewFest S. Korean debut director Divine Sung – tender, charming story of high school first love while girl discovers undeveloped photos on her late dad’s Nikon and the who he is. E Coast Prem today, Streams thru 10/21
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SUMMER'S CAMERA - NewFest

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Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · 15h

@newfest Director @deb_esquenazi NIGHT IN WEST TEXAS doc intimately follows @innocencetexas effort to exonerate gay Apache James Reyos’ 40 yr fight for support & the impact this has had on his life: 10/17 in theater w/Q&A, streams thru 10/21
newfest.org/events/night...
www.nightinwesttexas.com

NIGHT IN WEST TEXAS - NewFest

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Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · 1d

@amongneighbors American dir @yoavpotash adroitly, emotionally counters rising conservative nationalism that whitewashes past with last victims & witnesses to during/after Holocaust in Poland. Now NYC 10/17 LA then nat’l Via @8.above
My review: mavensnest.net/Lilithflicks...
www.amongneighbors.com

Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · 2d

100 METERS Director Kenji Iwaisawa insightfully adapts Uoto’s 5-vol manga with rotoscoped anime of track competitors over 10 yrs from jr high on through their zen analysis of training, running, losing, winning during 10 seconds @GKIDSfilms 10/12 theaters
gkids.com/films/100-meters/

100 METERS - GKIDS Films

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Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · 2d

MR K Norway’s Tallulah Schwab moves Crispin Glover's magician thru colorful allegorical mob psychology No Exit hotel inspired by Kafka, Carroll, Murakami with terrific international cast Now @ifccenter , L.A. @am_cinematheque , 10/24 Chicago @musicboxfilms
www.musicboxfilms.com/film/mr-k/

Mr. K - International Films - Independent Films | Music Box Films

After spending the night in a remote hotel, Mr. K (Crispin Glover) is stuck in a claustrophobic nightmare when he discovers that he can't leave the building.

www.musicboxfilms.com

Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · 3d

In Writer/Director @HarrisDickinson debut URCHIN, Frank Dillane completely embodies the no-easy-answers struggles of homeless addict in London escaping into dreams Envisioned by Canadian DP Josée Deshaies via @PicEntFilms 1-2 Special 10/3 NYC @IFCCenter L.A. More 10/17

Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · 7d

Jakubowicz's SOUL OF A NATION
Confusing edit contextual look at Israeli politics pre/post 10/7/23 w/news clips, interviews w/activists, non/elected figures esp secular women. If you know nothing re: Israeli politics Review mavensnest.net/Lilithflicks...
greenwichentertainment.com/film/soul-of...

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Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · 8d

Ned Crowley’s violent KILLING FAITH is post-pandemic philosophizing/ religious hysteria transposed to dark Olde AZ w/Guy Pearce’s ether-soused Dr-widower, DeWanda Wise as freed slave mom of mysterious girl vs Bill Pullman’s wily preacher @shout_studios
www.shoutstudios.com/killing-faith

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Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · 8d

For 10/7 terror-versary Dir Barry Avrich’s ROAD BETWEEN US: ULTIMATE RESCUE is like post-apocalyptic action flick of kibbutz family’s heroism helping victims, wounded soldiers "Grandpa's coming to save us" Melbar Entertainment Grp My review: mavensnest.net/Lilithflicks...
www.theroadbetweenus.com

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Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · 8d

ICE TOWER: Director/Co-writer Lucile Hadzihalilovic delves into psychology of H C Anderson’s “Snow Queen” as Hitchcockian Blonde Obsession by teen girl for Marion Cotillard's "Frozen" film star with theremin-like theme
Now in theaters @ifccenter @yellowveilpictures
www.theicetowermovie.com

The Ice Tower

Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and all...

www.theicetowermovie.com

Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · 11d

Based on true story, dir Neeraj Ghaywan’s 2nd feature HOMEBOUND, India’s Oscar entry, is moving portrait of long-time close friends Muslim & Dalit young men who want to get ahead & help their families. At 150+ N Am theaters @moviegoers_entertainment
moviegoers.co.uk/homebound

Moviegoers Entertainment

Moviegoers Entertainment is a Film & TV distribution company.

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Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · 12d

35 YRS AFTER Last day of free streaming @germanfilmoffice for Sibylle Schonemann's vivid authoritarian lesson LOCKED-UP TIME (1990) as 5 yrs after her Kafka-esque arrest, trial, imprisonment she confronts GDR "following orders" bureaucrats most still on the job
wiedervereinigung.goethe-on-demand.de

Goethe on Demand — Wiedervereinigung - Startseite

Die Streaming-Plattform des Goethe-Instituts

wiedervereinigung.goethe-on-demand.de

Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · 16d

Tove Jansson’s Finnish classic nature celebration SUMMER BOOK is adapted to English by wr Robert Jones/dir Charlie McDowell to focus on grief-recovering family led by Glenn Close’s charismatic Grandma @musicboxfilms now U.S. theaters
www.musicboxfilms.com/film/the-sum...

The Summer Book - International Films - Independent Films | Music Box Films

On a Finnish island, young Sophia explores the natural world with her grandmother (Glenn Close) in a delicate account of growing up and growing old.

www.musicboxfilms.com

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Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · 17d

On Demand 9/26: DEATH OF A LADIES' MAN - Canadian/Irish co-production with Gabriel Byrne hallucinating dance and musical numbers of Leonard Cohen's songs, 7 songs plus poems are heard. Wr/dir Matthew Bissonnette producer @celluloiddreams_ @buffalo8pro
celluloid-dreams.com/films/death-...

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Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · 29d

@CamdenIFF premiere 9/14 Dir Andrés Livov embeds in century of Quebec summers: THE BLUEBERRY BLUES indigenous and rural families gather wild berries in post-fire forests, to mechanized farms with long-time Mexican workers, blooming a community musical spirit
camdeniff.eventive.org/films/the-bl...

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Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · 29d

SRO @camdeniff Canadian Director Julien Elie's
SHIFTING BASELINES wonders & wanders thru fans of Space X's satellite & Mars rockets, impacts on TX wildlife & beaches, from Mexico to Caribbean to Canada, Moon, night sky unregulated space
camdeniff.eventive.org/films/shifti...
f3m.ca/en/film/shif...

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Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · Sep 12

After NY+ theater run filmmaker Reid Davenport's LIFE AFTER, on issues of disabled rights vis a vis right to die thru eyes of famous '80s case of CA woman til now, was SRO @camdeniff 9/12 @pbs @independentlens 11/3 repeats & streams
camdeniff.eventive.org/schedule/lif...
www.pbs.org/independentl...

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Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · Sep 12

@camdeniff 9/12 French Director Gaspard Hirschi’s I AM NIGHT AT NOONDAY imagines Don Quixote riding into Marseille now tilting at gated communities and searching for Dulcinea among poor immigrants like his Sancho Panza on a bike
camdeniff.eventive.org/films/i-am-n...

Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · Sep 11

Aussie dir Dan Goldberg THE JEWISH NAZI? Seeking his real name and family amid the nightmares, survivor gets manipulated on the way to unusual documentable truth
9/12 VOD @greenwichentertainment
My review: mavensnest.net/Lilithflicks...
greenwichentertainment.com/film/the-jew...

Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · Sep 10

Debut writer/director @thedambro Anthony D'Ambrosio’s TRIUMPH OF THE HEART @triumphoftheheart is intense time inside Auschwitz cellar with 9 Polish political prisoners, a saint and bombastic religious music
My review mavensnest.net/triumph.html
9/12 at 400+ theaters
www.triumphoftheheart.com

Reel Life: Flick Pix

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Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · Sep 8

Director Connie Field’s DEMOCRACY NOIR is inspired by 3 Hungarian women activists trying since 2014 to thwart Viktor Orbán's manipulative authoritarianism that U.S. is now closely following.
Now @angelikafilmny 9/12 Seattle & Portland 9/19 @laemmletheatres
clarityfilms.org/democracynoi...

Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · Sep 7

Debut Dir @nimshap Nim Shapira TORN: THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE POSTER WAR ON NYC STREETS With high emotional quotient, in-depth look at 1st reactions is a useful reminder of the shock and initial confrontations.
mavensnest.net/Lilithflicks...
9/5 NYC @cinema_village 9/12 LA @laemmle
www.torn-film.com

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Nora Lee Mandel @mandelmavensnest.bsky.social · Aug 29

Director Uta Briesewitz’s debut film AMERICAN SWEATSHOP scarily looks at what awfulness U.S. tech has wrought online through the distraught, impacted eyes of content moderator @lilireinhart Lili Reinhart & stressed co-workers 8/29 theaters VOD 9/19
brainstormmedia.com/catalog/1/it...