2021 DGA Awards winners: Chloé Zhao makes DGA history, ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ keeps sweeping
The 73rd Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards are tonight, awarding directorial achievements in feature film, documentaries, television and more. It might not have been... Read More
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AFI FEST Review: ‘Sound of Metal’ is thunderous
Writer/director Darius Marder’s new film, The Sound of Metal, explores, quite beautifully and somewhat elegiacally, how losing all control of your life can be the... Read More
‘Sound of Metal’ demands to be heard [Trailer]
Amazon Studios has released the first trailer for the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival hit Sound of Metal. During a series of adrenaline-fueled one-night gigs,... Read More
Watch: Riz Ahmed with a special announcement about ‘Sound of Metal’
During a series of adrenaline-fueled one-night gigs, itinerant punk-metal drummer Ruben (Riz Ahmed) begins to experience intermittent hearing loss. When a specialist tells him his... Read More
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