The Graduates is a quiet film. Written and directed by Hannah Peterson, it tells the story of a high school one year after a deadly shooting. Genevieve (Mina Sundwall)––whose boyfriend Tyler was one of the victims––has been struggling to get through her final year, anxious to graduate and hopefully start anew at college. Her mother […]
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American indie filmmaker Zachary Wigon (2014’s The Heart Machine and 2022’s Sanctuary) is not wasting time getting back into the saddle — Deadline reports that Wigon will re-team with Margaret Qualley for a book-to-film psychological horror-thriller project titled Victorian Psycho. Production is set to begin in March of next year and is backed by Traffic’s Dan Kagan with Wigon also producing alongside Sebastien Raybaud. Nick Shumaker also re-teams with Wigon as an executive-producer with Bard Dorros.
Based on author Virginia Feito’s upcoming novel, this is set in 1858, the film will follow a young, eccentric governess named Winifred Notty (Qualley) who arrives at the remote gothic manor known as Ensor House.… Read the rest
When is Luca Guadagnino not on a role? The director made waves this year by making moviegoers swoon and thirst over the love triangle in his smash hit Challengers. Now he’s back with another tale of lust and longing that […]
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Writer-director Hannah Peterson effectively suffuses the film with a mournful absence of life.
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Robert Zemeckis’ Here arrives with an ambitious framing device in that the entire story is told through one static camera placement. Through this fixed position we witness the early days of Earth when dinosaurs roamed freely. But like his fellow filmmakers from the Baby Boomer generation, Zemeckis’ primary interest lay not in the Mesozoic Era, […]
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Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada premiered at Cannes this past spring, and although the subject matter, surrounding a dying filmmaker grappling with his own mortality, led to speculation that this was the final film from the aging filmmaker, Schrader is wasting little time setting up his next projects. Schrader has just begun writing a script that […]
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(The 2024 Middleburg Film Festival ran October 17-20. Check our Chris Reed’s Small Things Like These movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) With her 2010 short story “Foster,” Irish writer Claire Keegan established herself as a magnificent […]
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Aaron Fradkin delves into discusses the unique challenges of using personal spaces to amplify fear, blending vintage horror aesthetics with modern pacing, and drawing on feedback from his viral YouTube shorts to craft scares that resonate deeply.
The notoriously unpredictable and always confusing Gotham Awards revealed their nominations for the upcoming 34th gala, with Sean Baker’s Anora leading the pack. Anora earned four nominations: Best Feature, Best Director, Outstanding Lead Performance for Mikey Madison, and—perhaps most exciting for the team—Outstanding Supporting Performance for Yura Borisov, who has been on a strong streak this decade with roles in Compartment Number 6, Petrov’s Flu, and Captain Volkonogov Escaped. The Palme d’Or winning film clean up in all three major categories while All We Imagine as Light, Nickel Boys and I Saw the TV Glow are also in the mix with multiple nominations.… Read the rest
