Nearly 45 years after working together on American Gigolo, director Paul Schrader and star Richard Gere are back for a more poignant drama about looking back at life while reaching the end of it. Oh, Canada stars Gere as Leonard […]
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One of the more important recently new development labs on the film circuit have just unveiled their 2024 line-up. Les Arcs Film Festival’s Co-Production Village have eighteen European projects and in contention we find the likes of Sofia Alaoui, Claire Fowler and Anastasiia Solonevych. Alaoui is currently developing her sophomore feature film in Tarfaya – it finds her re-teaming with Margaux Lorier for a third time out after netting world premieres at Sundance. And speaking of Sundance, Claire Flower will be presenting her Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab workshopped Toad in France as well. Ukrainainen filmmaker Anastasiia Solonevych who worked with Under the Volcano filmmaker Damian Kocur on the Palme d’Or comp short “As it Was” is mounting what will be her feature debut film.… Read the rest
Starring Jerry As Himself emerged from the “worst day” of producer Jonathan Hsu’s life, as he told director and longtime collaborator Lawrence Chen on the phone three years ago. “I found out my dad’s been working as a spy for […]
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After featuring a number of key art that left the standard credit block out the design, it is nice to see this poster from Mexico’s festival darling coming-of-age plague-zombie film, Párvulos, has a more traditional sense, where they are tucked discreetly into the bottom right corner. That and the evocative reminder of a reaching Bub from Day of the Dead. The attractive part of this design however is its commitment to verticality. It is not simply the block-red title card and director’s credit moving upwards along the left side, but the reaching hands (almost as if grabbing for the tagline, which it should be noted is the core theme of the story). The pull quotes and festival laurels, stacked downward on the right add even…
After her 2021 breakout in The Worst Person in the World, Renate Reinsve’s 2022 and 2023 seemed fairly quiet for the viewer, but she was working on no shortage of projects that finally saw the light of day this year. Following A Different Man, Handling the Undead, Another End, and Presumed Innocent, she leads Armand, […]
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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg) There are a lot of ways A Different Man could go and a lot of things it could be. Aaron Schimberg’s uniquely uncomfortable, uncomfortably unique feature […]
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaIn honor of Ken Kelsch, Abel Ferrara’s The Blackout and The Addiction screen on 35mm; prints of Douglas Buck’s Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America and the 2006 Sisters remake screen Saturday and Sunday, respectively. Film ForumA 4K restoration of Michelangelo Antonioni’s Il Grido begins; 42 screens on Sunday. […]
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June 25th, 1978. It is the day of the World Cup final between Argentina and Holland. It is also a time of military dictatorship, a junta has taken over the country. A death squad is under orders to find a group of dissidents and when they get a proper lead they go round them up and proceed to torture them. What starts out as inhumane interrogation goes to hell as the death squad discovers they have kidnapped a group of people who have aligned themselves with something far more evil than these puppets of the junta. “We should not play soccer amid the concentration camps and torture chambers” C.O.B.A. Once again the Onetti Brothers (What The Waters Left Behind and it’s sequel WTWLB:…
