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EOY Catch Up: Hard Truths

Set in contemporary London we meet Pansy, a middle-aged black woman just trying to move forward in an increasingly stressful world. As we follow her accomplishing every day mundane tasks she seems to be set off by the most innocuous things from being bumped into walking down the street, to a cashier at the grocery rubbing her the wrong way. Her stress becomes our stress and it’s hard to understand just where all the hostility comes from.

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EOY Catch Up: Flow

Cat is languidly living in an urban wilderness. Surrounded by worn-down buildings and lush greenery, you sense both the familiar and the unknown. Without any warning he is faced with quickly rising water; he moves farther and farther up surrounding buildings and to the top of a sculpture identical to our small protagonist. Nothing but water as far as the eye can see, he’s unsure of where to go.

A Complete Unknown
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A Complete Unknown shows Dylan’s pricklier side

Based closely on the events of Bob Dylan’s life, A Complete Unknown follows the man himself from stepping fresh-faced into NYC to the height of his popularity as he alienates almost everyone who cares about him. We’re introduced to a young Dylan(Timotheé Chalamet) freshly arrived in New York City by way of Minnesota.

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Seattle Film Critics Society announce 2024 Winners

This morning, across their social media channels, The Seattle Film Critics Society (counting a couple The SunBreak contributors among its membership) announced winners for the 2024 SFCS Awards, honoring the year’s best in film. At the top of the nominations heap: a pleasantly surprising win for Coralie Fargeat’s satirical body horror sensation The Substance. Sean Baker’s sex-worker cinderella to cross-country chaos comedy Anora took home the most awards; Dementus from Furiosa was crowned the Villain of the Year; and on the local front Rainier: A Beer Odyssey was named the best Pacific Northwest Finally, film and local programmers/directors/filmmakers/champions of short filmmaking here and afar, Megan Leonard and Carlos A.F. Lopez, were honored with a well-deserved Special Citation for their tireless efforts.

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Seattle Film Critics Society announce 2024 nominees

This morning, across their social media channels, The Seattle Film Critics Society (counting a couple The SunBreak contributors among its membership) announced nominations for the 2024 SFCS Awards, honoring the year’s best in film. At the top of the nominations heap: Brady Corbet’s VistaVision festival stunner The Brutalist (releasing later this month) and two desert-set blockbusters Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel Dune: Part Two and George Miller’s post-apocalyptic prequel 

The winners will be announced on December 16th.