We got a nice sampling of Berlinale (e.g. the Golden Bear winner Dahomey) and Cannes (e.g. the Palme d’Or winner Anora) items with a Golden Lion Venice quintet in Dea Kulumbegashvili‘s April, Brady Corbet‘s The Brutalist, Athina Rachel Tsangari‘s Harvest, Yeo Siew Hua‘s Stranger Eyes and Wang Bing‘s Youth (Hard Times) shoring up in the Main Slate section at the upcoming 62nd edition of the New York Film Festival. Both Hong Sangsoo and Wang Bing will be serving not one, but two films this year.
For those who are paying attention we have two world premieres that were completely off our radar in Julia Loktev‘s My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow and Robinson Devor‘s Suburban Fury – a docu project he has been working on for more than a decade.… Read the rest
