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Exclusive Poster for Crystal Moselle and Derrick B. Harden’s The Black Sea Follows a Brooklynite Making Waves in Bulgaria

The Wolfpack director Crystal Moselle showed a deft hand in bringing a documentary-like authenticity to her drama Skate Kitchen. She’s now expanding those skills, heading out of NYC with The Black Sea, co-directed and starring Derrick B. Harden in a fish-out-of-water tale following a Brooklynite making waves in Bulgaria. Largely improvised with a cast also […]

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A TRAVELER’S NEEDS Trailer: Isabelle Huppert Finds Connection in Hong Sangsoo’s 31st Film

For his first of two features this year, director Hong Sangsoo reunites with star Isabelle Huppert for his new slice-of-life comedy. Following their collaboration on In Another Country and Claire’s Camera, the duo are back together for A Traveler’s Needs. […]

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Get Out of the Kitchen: Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Next Project in Development

Get Out of the Kitchen: Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Next Project in Development

Athina Rachel Tsangari‘s The Harvest is still touring the film festival circuit which began with a competition slot at Venice Film Festival followed by showcases at TIFF, NYFF, Busan, BFI London and some recent additional stateside screenings at Chicago and the AFI Fest just yesterday. And though she typically keeps her upcoming film projects under wraps, she did provide some crumbs about what might be her next feature film – and it’ll feature an American actress who the filmmaker has admired and has been out of the game for a while now. So we should not be shocked if one day an obscure name or an Eva Mendez, Bridget Fonda, Mira Sorvino or Phoebe Cates type comes out of retirement to sign up with the Greek-American filmmaker.… Read the rest

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Rachel Rose Repurposes Alicia Vikander, Victoria Pedretti & Wagner Moura in ‘The Last Day’

Rachel Rose Repurposes Alicia Vikander, Victoria Pedretti & Wagner Moura in ‘The Last Day’

Alicia Vikander, Victoria Pedretti and Wagner Moura have been confirmed as the trio of thesps on a new Killer Films project from a new filmmaker that just completed shooting this month. Rachel Rose‘s directorial debut The Last Day is said to be a project loosely adapted from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway typically centers around themes of memory, time, and the complexity of inner lives. A festival release will likely occur for this micro indie in the fall of next year or perhaps try for Sundance 2026. Lucie Elwes, Rose, Mason Plotts, Killer Films’ Pamela Koffler and Christine Vachon, Kaplan Morrison’s David Kaplan are producing.Read the rest

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Brooklyn Horror 2024 Review: BONE LAKE, Sleek, Sexy Erotic Thrilller Comes With a Big Finish

Professional couple Sage and Diego check in to their weekend rental, a literal mansion by a lake. Before they can say that it is almost too good to be true a younger, hotter couple, Matt and Cin, walk through the door. Seems they have been booked the same weekend. Rather than give up a whole weekend in a luxurious home they agree to share, there is more than enough room for everyone. Good times are had but soon inhibitions are challenged and truths are twisted. Someone has come to this weekend rental with deadly intentions and a game of survival has begun.    Sex and Violence. It is track 7 on the 1981 album Punks Not Dead by Scottish punk band The Exploited. Mercedes Bryce…

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Friday One Sheet: THE BRUTALIST

Typography is no stranger to the design of Brady Corbet’s “Monumental” new film, The Brutalist. The credits in both the film, and its recent trailer, do interesting things. This carries into this iconic poster, with the Statue of Liberty upside down, and framed in a spiral of type, from the one word pull-quote to the title, cast, and above the line credits. 2024 is shaping up to be the year where poster designers stop putting the full traditional credit bocks in their key art….

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