Film School: Our Chief Film Critic Justin Tanner Recommends This Classic!

Film School: Our Critic Justin Tanner Recommends You See This Classic!
WHY OUR FILM CRITIC JUSTIN TANNER RECOMMENDS THIS CLASSIC
WHY OUR FILM CRITIC JUSTIN TANNER RECOMMENDS THIS CLASSIC
Film School: Why Our Critic Justin Tanner Recommends This Classic
'The Pumpkin Eater' (1964) directed by Jack Clayton, is an achingly brutal analysis of infidelity, jealousy and obsession starring Oscar nominated Anne Bancroft as a woman who can’t seem to stop having children; she is saddled with eight at the top of the film.
Her marriage to a philandering screenwriter (the always terrific Peter Finch), starts to disintegrate when she discovers his affair with her best friend (an unbelievably young Maggie Smith).
Harold Pinter’s script is strange and marvelous, and includes one of the greatest scenes ever captured on film: A brilliantly unhinged monologue delivered to Bancroft while at the hairdressers by the deliciously named Yootha Joyce. Joyce’s character, a lonely desperate woman under an adjacent

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Trailer 2 'Euphoria Season 3'

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Official Trailer 'Backrooms'; Directed by YouTube sensation Kane Parsons; Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve, Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell

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Not Summer. ‘Cliff Booth’ Venice Film Festival Premiere? "Full on theatrical run in late September or early October"

Brilliant Director S. Craig Zahler's ‘The Bookie and the Bruiser' FINALLY Starts Production in April

‘The Social Reckoning’: Alexandre Desplat To Score Aaron Sorkin’s Anticipated Facebook Sequel, Not Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Tom Hanks, Bad Bunny and Colman Domingo to Star in ‘The Comebacker,’ Marielle Heller’s Baseball Drama; Heller: “The Diary of a Teenage Girl" “Can You Ever Forgive Me” “A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood”; Based on a short story by Dave Eggers

A Discussion of ‘The Battle of Algiers’; Gillo Pontecorvo's docudrama depicts the rise, fall, and resurrection of a popular uprising against French colonialism, one small detail at a time

Official Trailer 'Margo's Got Money Troubles' New Series; Showrunner David E. Kelley; Starring Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nicole Kidman, and Nick Offerman; Based on the bestselling novel by Rufi Thorpe

Gritty Thriller. Official Trailer 'Fuze'; Directed by David Mackenzie ('Hell or High Water'); Starring Theo James, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Official Trailer 'One Spoon of Chocolate'; Directed by RZA; Presented by Quentin Tarantino; Starring Shameik Moore and Paris Jackson

Official Trailer 'Pompei: Below The Clouds'; From Award-winning filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi; Striking portrait of life in Naples, a city living in the shadow of Vesuvius

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Conversation with Director Oliver Laxe (Sirat)

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IndieWire: ‘The Plague’ Review: Charlie Polinger’s Debut Takes Body Horror and ‘Lord of the Flies’ Into Extraordinary, Emotional Spaces; Filmmaker Polinger plays with broad riffs on coming-of-age, body horror, and bullying genres to craft something with a potent power
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