Szilárd Podmaniczky, Author at arthereartnow.com https://arthereartnow.com/author/szilard/ Art website - film, literature, music, theater, fine arts Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:46:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 141696643 Sorry, Baby: An Indie Diary Written in Winter Blues https://arthereartnow.com/2026/04/03/sorry-baby-an-indie-diary-written-in-winter-blues/ https://arthereartnow.com/2026/04/03/sorry-baby-an-indie-diary-written-in-winter-blues/#respond Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:46:23 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5734 Sorry, Baby is not a movie that solves trauma. It doesn’t offer easy answers or tidy resolutions.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2026/04/03/sorry-baby-an-indie-diary-written-in-winter-blues/feed/ 0 5734 Dust Bunny: The Monster Under Your Bed https://arthereartnow.com/2026/03/18/dust-bunny-the-monster-under-your-bed/ https://arthereartnow.com/2026/03/18/dust-bunny-the-monster-under-your-bed/#respond Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:40:59 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5724 Dust Bunny may not fully deliver on its promise, but it announces Bryan Fuller as a filmmaker worth watching.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2026/03/18/dust-bunny-the-monster-under-your-bed/feed/ 0 5724 No Other Choice: When the Job Market Turns You into a Serial Killer https://arthereartnow.com/2026/03/07/no-other-choice-when-the-job-market-turns-you-into-a-serial-killer/ https://arthereartnow.com/2026/03/07/no-other-choice-when-the-job-market-turns-you-into-a-serial-killer/#respond Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:59:04 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5712 No Other Choice may not be Park Chan-wook’s most personal or perfectly calibrated work, but it is thoughtful, provocative, and filled with moments of undeniable brilliance.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2026/03/07/no-other-choice-when-the-job-market-turns-you-into-a-serial-killer/feed/ 0 5712 Frankenstein: Makings of a True Monster https://arthereartnow.com/2026/03/03/frankenstein-makings-of-a-true-monster/ https://arthereartnow.com/2026/03/03/frankenstein-makings-of-a-true-monster/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:21:14 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5702 Mary Shelley was only eighteen when she wrote Frankenstein, which might explain why the story still feels so unsettlingly alive.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2026/03/03/frankenstein-makings-of-a-true-monster/feed/ 0 5702 Train Dreams: The Quiet Poetry of an Ordinary Life https://arthereartnow.com/2026/02/17/train-dreams-the-quiet-poetry-of-an-ordinary-life/ https://arthereartnow.com/2026/02/17/train-dreams-the-quiet-poetry-of-an-ordinary-life/#respond Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:34:20 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5689 At its core, Train Dreams is about transformation. Not just personal change, but societal evolution.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2026/02/17/train-dreams-the-quiet-poetry-of-an-ordinary-life/feed/ 0 5689 If I Had Legs I’d Kick You: A High-Wire Motherhood Ride https://arthereartnow.com/2026/02/15/if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you-a-high-wire-motherhood-ride/ https://arthereartnow.com/2026/02/15/if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you-a-high-wire-motherhood-ride/#respond Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:11:52 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5682 Welcome to A24’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, the darkly funny, intensely human, sometimes harrowing new film from Mary Bronstein.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2026/02/15/if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you-a-high-wire-motherhood-ride/feed/ 0 5682 Bugonia: Long Live the Mother Honey Bee https://arthereartnow.com/2026/02/08/bugonia-long-live-the-mother-honey-bee/ https://arthereartnow.com/2026/02/08/bugonia-long-live-the-mother-honey-bee/#respond Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:04:16 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5673 Bugonia is, in the end, a chamber play wrapped in a dark comedy and a visual manifesto about our reckless stewardship of the world we inhabit.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2026/02/08/bugonia-long-live-the-mother-honey-bee/feed/ 0 5673 Goodbye June: A Family Drama Drowned in Sentiment https://arthereartnow.com/2026/01/26/goodbye-june-a-family-drama-drowned-in-sentiment/ https://arthereartnow.com/2026/01/26/goodbye-june-a-family-drama-drowned-in-sentiment/#respond Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:47:06 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5665 Goodbye June, the 2025 drama marking Kate Winslet’s directorial debut, takes that scenario as its heart: gathering a fractured family around a dying matriarch and attempting to stitch together decades of tension.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2026/01/26/goodbye-june-a-family-drama-drowned-in-sentiment/feed/ 0 5665 The Lost Bus: This Isn’t Just Another Bush Fire https://arthereartnow.com/2026/01/09/the-lost-bus-this-isnt-just-another-bush-fire/ https://arthereartnow.com/2026/01/09/the-lost-bus-this-isnt-just-another-bush-fire/#respond Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:13:54 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5651 Released this past September, The Lost Bus is based on real events from November 2018, when the Camp Fire tore through Paradise, California.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2026/01/09/the-lost-bus-this-isnt-just-another-bush-fire/feed/ 0 5651 Sentimental Value: Home, Heartstrings, and Hidden Histories https://arthereartnow.com/2026/01/04/sentimental-value-home-heartstrings-and-hidden-histories/ https://arthereartnow.com/2026/01/04/sentimental-value-home-heartstrings-and-hidden-histories/#respond Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:05:37 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5644 One of the most compelling aspects of Sentimental Value is its meditation on home and personal legacy.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2026/01/04/sentimental-value-home-heartstrings-and-hidden-histories/feed/ 0 5644 Orphan Review: The Weight of Memory https://arthereartnow.com/2025/12/26/orphan-review-the-weight-of-memory/ https://arthereartnow.com/2025/12/26/orphan-review-the-weight-of-memory/#respond Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:42:09 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5625 Orphan doesn’t fully blossom the way it could. The script’s emotional restraint and occasional heavy-handed dialogue keep us at a distance.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2025/12/26/orphan-review-the-weight-of-memory/feed/ 0 5625 Peter Hujar’s Day: Friendship, Photography, and the Grit of New York https://arthereartnow.com/2025/12/24/peter-hujars-day-friendship-photography-and-the-grit-of-new-york/ https://arthereartnow.com/2025/12/24/peter-hujars-day-friendship-photography-and-the-grit-of-new-york/#respond Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:25:04 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5616 Peter Hujar’s Day is now playing in cinemas, so if you can, grab a ticket and experience it on the big screen.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2025/12/24/peter-hujars-day-friendship-photography-and-the-grit-of-new-york/feed/ 0 5616 Dominik Szoboszlai is to get a statue https://arthereartnow.com/2025/11/10/dominik-szoboszlai-is-to-get-a-statue/ https://arthereartnow.com/2025/11/10/dominik-szoboszlai-is-to-get-a-statue/#respond Mon, 10 Nov 2025 11:05:00 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5587 Dominik Szoboszlai, captain of the Hungarian national football team and star midfielder for Liverpool FC, will soon be immortalized in wax.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2025/11/10/dominik-szoboszlai-is-to-get-a-statue/feed/ 0 5587 Hallow Road Review: No Parent Wants to Be Their Child’s Monster https://arthereartnow.com/2025/10/24/hallow-road-review-no-parent-wants-to-be-their-childs-monster/ https://arthereartnow.com/2025/10/24/hallow-road-review-no-parent-wants-to-be-their-childs-monster/#respond Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:15:49 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5570 Hallow Road isn’t just a clever genre exercise - it’s also about the everyday anxieties of parenting today.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2025/10/24/hallow-road-review-no-parent-wants-to-be-their-childs-monster/feed/ 0 5570 A Fish Called Wanda: A Classic Comedy with Bite https://arthereartnow.com/2025/10/17/a-fish-called-wanda-a-classic-comedy-with-bite/ https://arthereartnow.com/2025/10/17/a-fish-called-wanda-a-classic-comedy-with-bite/#respond Fri, 17 Oct 2025 15:48:40 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5561 A Fish Called Wanda (1988) is now considered a comedy classic, directed by Charles Crichton, who came out of semi-retirement at the age of seventy-eight to take it on.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2025/10/17/a-fish-called-wanda-a-classic-comedy-with-bite/feed/ 0 5561 Weapons Review: Gone Baby Gone https://arthereartnow.com/2025/10/11/weapons-review-gone-baby-gone/ https://arthereartnow.com/2025/10/11/weapons-review-gone-baby-gone/#respond Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:50:57 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5552 Despite its R rating, Weapons is not particularly frightening. What it offers instead is an uneasy mix of horror, folklore, dark comedy, and old-school small-town drama.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2025/10/11/weapons-review-gone-baby-gone/feed/ 0 5552 Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel Literature Prize https://arthereartnow.com/2025/10/09/hungarian-author-laszlo-krasznahorkai-wins-nobel-literature-prize/ https://arthereartnow.com/2025/10/09/hungarian-author-laszlo-krasznahorkai-wins-nobel-literature-prize/#respond Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:50:30 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5549 László Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2025/10/09/hungarian-author-laszlo-krasznahorkai-wins-nobel-literature-prize/feed/ 0 5549 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover: The Grand Feast of a Tyrant – Greenaway’s film https://arthereartnow.com/2025/10/07/the-cook-the-thief-his-wife-and-her-lover-the-grand-feast-of-a-tyrant-greenaways-film/ https://arthereartnow.com/2025/10/07/the-cook-the-thief-his-wife-and-her-lover-the-grand-feast-of-a-tyrant-greenaways-film/#respond Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:43:20 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5538 Greenaway trusts the audience to engage visually and emotionally rather than merely following plot points.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2025/10/07/the-cook-the-thief-his-wife-and-her-lover-the-grand-feast-of-a-tyrant-greenaways-film/feed/ 0 5538 Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story: Beyond the Cape https://arthereartnow.com/2025/09/30/super-man-the-christopher-reeve-story-beyond-the-cape/ https://arthereartnow.com/2025/09/30/super-man-the-christopher-reeve-story-beyond-the-cape/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:14:10 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5531 Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story is a masterclass in humanizing an icon. It refuses to turn Reeve into a pristine, unreachable superhero.

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]]> https://arthereartnow.com/2025/09/30/super-man-the-christopher-reeve-story-beyond-the-cape/feed/ 0 5531 Julie Keeps Quiet Review: Breaking the Cycle https://arthereartnow.com/2025/08/03/julie-keeps-quiet-review-breaking-the-cycle/ https://arthereartnow.com/2025/08/03/julie-keeps-quiet-review-breaking-the-cycle/#respond Sun, 03 Aug 2025 15:35:05 +0000 https://arthereartnow.com/?p=5523 Julie Keeps Quiet is not about sensational revelations. It’s about the slow internal process of recognizing harm.

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