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. Alien: Romulus (Fede Alvarez) It’s a dire, inhospitable environment, wherein corporate interests can give way to ghoulish monstrosities, and those just trying to navigate the chokehold of capitalism are […]
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NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaAn Adrian Lyne retrospective features Fatal Attraction, Jacob’s Ladder, Lolita, and Foxes on 35mm, while Bob Saget and Norm MacDonald’s seminal Dirty Work plays on a print Saturday. BAMA Shelley Duvall retrospective is underway. Museum of Modern ArtA celebration of Robert Frank’s centennial begins. Museum […]
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Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) is back and doing what he does best: making people and places look enchantingly beautiful. Parthenope, titled after the myth of Greek sirens who lured men to their deaths at sea, stars Celeste […]
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In conjunction with her new narrative feature No Address, which will be released in 2025, director Julia Verdin and co-director Stephen Wollwerth embarked on a simultaneous documentary project about homelessness across the country with Americans with No Address. Her crew took a bus to twenty cities over three weeks, conducting over one-hundred and seventy-five interviews as a means to research common issues and various solutions utilized to combat a complex crisis. We sat with director Julia Verdin plus actors Xander Berkley and William Baldwin, who appeared in both the narrative and documentary feature, as they relay their thoughts and experiences.… Read the rest
Production is officially underway on Alice Winocour‘s fifth feature film, Coutures aka Stitches, and the casting announcements keep getting bigger. Joining yesterday’s reveal of Angelina Jolie are Louis Garrel and Ella Rumpf who reteams with her Raw co-star Garance Marillier, model Anyier Anei and Finnegan Oldfield who round out the ensemble. Variety reports that filming is currently underway in Paris. Other behind the line players involved include cinematographer Andre Chemetoff (he just completed Shaden Safieddine Tazi’s Un jour tout va disparaitre), costume designer Pascaline Chavanne, and production designer Florian Sanson. Producers include CG Cinéma’s Charles Gillibert and Closer Media’s Zhang Xin and William Horberg.… Read the rest
Zilbalodis discusses what he hopes people will make of the film’s ambiguities.
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The seventeenth edition of Morbido has all but wrapped up for another year. Despite our absence we were still able to wrangle in some reviews for films made by our friends down south, with one more coming down the pipeline. Gonzalo Otero’s The Devil’s Teardrop took home the Golden Skull this year in the LatAm while Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s The Devil’s Bath took home the Golden Skull in the section. Yes, the devil was in the details this year. Morbido alumni Nico and Lucionao Loretti, and Can Evrenol, once again took home Skull Awards for their films 1978 and Sayara respectively. All the winners and statements from programmer José Luis Mejía Razo and mi padre de teror Pablo Guisa Koestinger lead to the…
