Chris Knipp

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ED HARRIS, JESSICA LANGE IN A LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

Eugene O'Neill: family dysfunction maximized

The play this film is a condensation of (it's just under two hours; play productions can run to four) is an intensely autobiographical depiction ...

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It's risky business to evoke the Eighties youth pictures

Even though, wisely, this is'n't called The Breakfast Club II, it must invite comparison with the 1985 John Hughes classic with Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, and ...

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TRAILER

The long-lived casualties of nuclear testing

The United States conducted 67 nuclear and thermonuclear tests across a twelve-year span at Bikini Atoll and Enewetak Atoll from 1946 to 1958. They started July 1, 1946 , with "Operation ...

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ITALIAN POSTER FOR THE SOCIAL RECKONING

A drab moment recalls an exciting one

I wish i could say that The Social Reckoning was a '"Sequel" to [URL="https://www.chrisknipp.com/writing/viewtopic.php?t=1590] The Social Network ,[/URL] but what it's ...

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TALLIE MEDEL IN WHAT CAN'T BE MENTIONED

DAN SALLITT: WHAT CAN'T BE MENTIONED (2026)

Not Éric Rohmer

Jake Kring-Schreifels in The Film Stage is one of several informed critics reviewing the new film by Dan Sallitt debuted at the New York Film ...

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KIM NOVAK IN KIM NOVAK'S VERTIGO

ALEXANDRE O. PHILIPPE: KIM NOVAK'S VERTIGO (2025)

A rare interview with 92-year-old Kim Novak slides into streaming release

TRAILER

SOURCE : The text below is largely indebted to the Melbourne Internatonal Film ...

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SIAN CLIFFORD IN LADY

Grand English lady lowers herself to be filmed for TV

Lady Isabella, aspires to be in the spotlight, and local talent show 'Stately Stars' provides her a break. However, high pressures and a loss of self lead to a surreal ...

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GERTI GRASSI, CLEMENS BOBKE IN TOMORROW A LONG TIME AGO

LUISE DONSCHER: TOMORROW A LONG TIME AGO/MORGEN VORLANGER ZEIT (2026) NYFF Currents Section

At reunification, GDR woman loses her job, then her mind

The economic consequences of reunification ...

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MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS

JULIA LOKTEV, ANNA NEMZER: MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II – EXILE (2026) NYFF

The young and the bold

Documentary filmmaker Julia Loktev was an early emigre. Arriving in the US from Russia at the age of nine in the US from ...

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BOBBY SOMMER IN LONDON

Autobahn revelations

A road movie, though it was shot in a studio, which somewhat deflates its balloon. Bobby (Bobby Sommer) a rideshare driver, is a neutral man with a full, tidy head of white-gray hair, and he is on the road ...

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TOM CRUISE IN DIGGER

An on-screen disaster about environmental disaster

I'm not sure who to feel sorry for with this one. Not Tom Cruise, because everyone agrees he works very hard and puts in a respectable effort in the titular role, in a remarkable ...

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JAMIE DIMON

WSJ Opinion
Jamie Dimon: A Plan for the Western World’s Revival
A U.S. trade pact with Europe could encompass friendly democracies and revive the old alliance.
By Jamie Dimon
Sept. 28, 2026 4:57 pm ET

Political Economics: Europe ...

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ROBERT PATTINSON IN PRIMETIME

L'abîme appelle l'abîme

Robert Pattinson has made a practice of trying new, different, interesting directors. This tme he works with Lance Oppenheim, an American filmmaker and documentarian known for blending nonfiction ...

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MOEKA HOSHI IN NEVER AFTER DARK

Bumpy ghostbusting in Japan

"I never work at night. The veil's too thin."

In Dave Boyle's tasty new Japanese language film Never After Dark , Airi ( Shogun actress Moeka Hoshi) is a traveling psychic who helps restless ...

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A SCENE FROM PLAYING WITH FIRE

ANNIE SPRINKLE, BETH STEPHENS: PLAYING WITH FIRE: AN ECOSEXUAL EMERGENCY (2025)

A look at the near-destruction by fire of a Santa Cruz mountain town

This is a film that looks at the explosion of forest fire in ...