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Andy Ditzler returns to the High with Film Love’s Civil Rights on Film

AJFF focuses on #MeToo, freedom of the press and more for its 2019 lineup

Film Love brings the cinematic work of Joseph Cornell to the High Museum

Review: “Venom” forgets the Marvel formula and eschews plot for predictable action

Review: “Blaze” artfully traces the grace and the fury of drunken angel Blaze Foley

Review: Our complete guide to the best movies at this year’s Out on Film Festival

Review: “Kusama: Infinity” focuses on the art more than on the artist, and that’s just fine

Review: “Ozark,” “Queer Eye” bring Georgia flavors to what’s streaming this month

Review: “The Bookshop” is a film that works its charm with a quiet, seductive melancholy

Review: “Leave No Trace” a gently charming film that asks troubling questions

Steve MurrayMarch 11, 2019

For the latest program in his ongoing High Museum retrospective, Film Love curator Andy Ditzler chose three works from a 2009 four-part series that represent a ...

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Steve MurrayFebruary 5, 2019

The 2019 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival begins February 6 and runs through February 26 at venues in Atlanta, Alpharetta, Sandy Springs and Marietta. The festival ...

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Steve MurrayJanuary 16, 2019

After 16 years of popping up -- and delighting, challenging and informing Atlantans -- in different venues around the city, Film Love begins its five-month resi...

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Steve MurrayOctober 5, 2018

Watching Tom Hardy soak in the saltwater aquarium of a posh San Francisco restaurant, munching on a live lobster, one thought came to me. It’s the same thought ...

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Steve MurraySeptember 28, 2018

In the opening moments of Blaze, you might worry you’re in for a hard slog. That’s because the chronologically fragmented biopic flings us into the figurative d...

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Steve MurraySeptember 26, 2018

Now in its 31st year, the organizers of Out on Film have achieved what they aim to do every time: “I say this a lot,” says festival director Jim Farmer, “but we...

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Steve MurraySeptember 21, 2018

As eye-poppingly colorful as her paintings, with her red curtain of hair and polka-dot couture, when Yayoi Kusama shuffles from the mental hospital where she vo...

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Steve MurrayAugust 31, 2018

Last year, several friends asked me if I’d watched the original Netflix series Ozark. I hadn’t, which seems weird to me now, since it stars two actors I really ...

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Steve MurrayAugust 31, 2018

At first glance, it appears to have all the cozy, twee trappings of a predictable Britcom: quaint seaside village, a period setting (it’s 1959), a reclusive but...

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Steve MurrayJuly 13, 2018

As you watch Will (Ben Foster) and his 13-year-old daughter Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie) slink with animal stealth through the dripping, emerald lushness of...

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