The film finds Marianne Jean-Baptiste channeling an anger that feels excruciatingly real.
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Just as its style is enervating, Emilia Pérez settles for mundane portraiture.
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Grief may be its starting point, but the film has much more on its mind than that.
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Possibly the highlight among the new Korean Indies on show at the Busan International Film Festival this year (though this critic hasn’t quite seen everything yet), Kike Will Hit a Home Run is a quirky, charming and assured follow-up from director Park Song-yeol. The film is very much cut from the same cloth as his debut film Hot in Day, Cold at Night, which screened in Busan three years ago, but it builds on that film’s more modest achievements with a tighter story and clear stylistic aims that heighten both the film’s visual appeal and emotional throughline. Director Park and producer Won Hyang-na, who are also married off-screen, once again appear as a married couple quietly struggling to get by in the big city. Things…
American micro-indie filmmaker Patrick Wang of 2011’s In the Family (read review), The Grief of Others (2015), A Bread Factory (2018) parts I and II, was working under the radar and his latest project – Variety have the full details on his next oeuvre – a unconventional biopic on Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) – who was a French poet who dropped the written word to work as a trader and explorer in Africa. Actor Blake Draper toplines A.Rimbaud. Production just wrapped up in Winnipeg this week.
Hardball Entertainment’s Daryl Freimark, Thin Stuff Productions’ Fritzi Adelman and Evan Johnson (Rumours filmmaker) along with Wang produced the project.… Read the rest
If you’re under the age of 18 in France and you were itching to see Terrifier 3 in the cinemateques, looks like you’re shit outta luck. The Classification Committee over in France has recommended a ban on the film for minors under 18. Well, not a ban as it’s been put out there but an age appropriate rating on the film, the equivlant of an NC-17 here in North America, the death knell for distributors. This means, according to the film’s distributor, that tens of thousands of fans (read ticket sales) will not be able to watch the third installment of the extreme horror franchise in cinemas. The distributor is crying foul about, deploring the decision as they put it. They’re talking…
Join Chaz Ebert this Saturday, October 5th at the Decatur Book Festival, where she’ll be speaking with Gregory Berns, author and neuroscientist. Ebert Digital CEO and Publisher of RogerEbert.com, Chaz Ebert will appear at the Marriott Courtyard Hotel on Saturday, October 5 at 4:15pm EST. More information from the official media advisory can be found […]
The Criterion Collection plays hero once again with their recent 4K UHD release of Todd Solondz’s 1998 sophomore feature, Happiness. The film had long languished on a pitiful non-anamorphic window-boxed DVD from Lionsgate and fans have been clamoring for an updated version for many, many years. The grand dame of boutique home video has finally come to the rescue, following their Blu-ray release of Solondz’s Life During Wartime, Happiness marks the filmmaker’s second release with the label, and hopefully not the last as his follow ups – the equally confronting Storytelling and the outré masterpiece Palindromes – also deserve reevaluation. Happiness is a story of small town disfunction, not unlike David Lynch’s white picket fence nightmare, Blue Velvet, but Solondz replaces the hard-boiled narrative structure…
When a little girl vanishes straight from the playground, her parents Junyang (Wu Chien-ho) and Peiying (Anicca Panna) start a search that doesn’t provide any leads. That is, until they start getting DVDs with the footage of the family doing routine stuff together, shot in different public spots and, most disturbingly, through the windows of their apartment. After some sleuthing, they soon have a perfect suspect: their neighbor Wu (Lee Kang-sheng), a quiet loner who lives with his ailing mother and works as a manager at a supermarket, two clear strikes against him, according to the unspoken rules of the thriller genre. From then on, though, nothing in this film by Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua really goes as the initial setup suggests. Yeo Siew…
(Check out Chris Reed’s The Outrun movie review. It hits theaters Friday, October 4 via Sony Pictures. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There have been many books written and movies made about addiction and […]
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