(Check our Chris Reed’s Bird movie review. It hits theaters in NYC Friday, November 8 before expanding after that. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) British director Andrea Arnold (Cow) has long explored the ins and outs […]
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Taormina discusses how “sonder” informs the shape and texture of his work.
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Despite having gone into production in the summer of 2023 (in Mexico City and San Francisco), Dreams was not a film that Michel Franco wanted to rush for a 2024 drop. Today, The Match Factory officially launches sales on the project (easily be among our most anticipated features for 2025) and provides us with a better breakdown on what to expect. As we already knew, Jessica Chastain, newbie Isaac Hernández and Rupert Friend were part of the cast, but learn that Hernández plays a more significant role in the film and as was the case with Memory, Chastain will more or less be equal footing with – here we go with the synopsis:
Fernando (Hernández), a young ballet dancer from Mexico, dreams of being internationally recognized and living in the US.… Read the rest
There’s always the high-wire act, an exchange-and-trade, attending festivals in enviable parts of the world. Some locations only offer too much joy at the opportunity to kill time with a directorial debut that will never be seen outside these confines. Others are enough to chafe against entire concepts of cinephilia, to engender soul-searching questions such […]
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A ruthless political struggle between Sweden and Denmark turns bloody under the tyranny of the mad King Christian II. Caught up in this deadly war, two sisters seek revenge on the men who brutally murdered their family. Mikael Håfström’s action adventure Stockholm Bloodbath comes to cinemas and On Demand tomorrow, Friday, November 8th. We have an exclusive clip from the distributor Brainstorm Media to share with you today. We chose the clip with a fair share of carnage in it, an assault on a wedding. If anyone has any objections to this marriage speak now – preferably not with a sword – or forever hold your peace. Jakob Oftebro and Claes Bang look on as their soldiers attack a wedding party, then decide…
After his trio of “Man in a Room” films, Paul Schrader has switched gears with the poignant drama Oh, Canada. Reteaming with his American Gigolo star Richard Gere, the film follows a famed Canadian documentary filmmaker who gives a final interview to one of his former students to tell the whole truth about his life. […]
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Not many people have mourned 3D cinema’s second waning. Yet, every now and then, the old parlor trick threatens to capture the imagination. I can think of two films in the last few years that have done such: the first cost around $400M, made about six times that at the box office, and took place […]
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The Marrakech International Film Festival have announced its complete line-up and in the official competition (first and second feature films) film titles we find a handful of Cannes and Venice Film Festival sidebar items most notably Venice’s own Orizzonti section with Neo Sora’s Happyend, Scandar Copti’s Happy Holidays and Murat Fıratoğlu’s One of Those Days When Hemme Dies as part of the fourteen films selected in pursuit of the Étoile d’Or. The selection of 70 films is also spread across the Gala Screenings, Special Screenings, the 11th Continent, Moroccan Panorama, Cinema for Young Audiences & Families, and the Tributes program.… Read the rest
