ECSTATIC Screen Notes

ECSTATIC Screen Notes

The ECSTATIC Notebook

The ECSTATIC New Release Notebook

Guy Maddin's giant brain, Damian McCarthy's wooden deliverance, and Annie Baker's masterful directorial debut

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Jason Hedrick
Oct 31, 2024
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Rumours

dir. Guy Maddin

There’s a highly particular pleasure that comes with seeing a film as aggressively avant-garde and uncommercial as Rumours in a vast, commercial multiplex. Fortunately, distributor Bleeker Street managed to push the film onto a few accessible screens behind the names of Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander paired with a marketing cam…

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