Bringing a pristine level of craft with their portraits of subcultures in The Last Race and The Truffle Hunters, Gregory Kershaw and Michael Dweck turned their vision to the world of gauchos for their latest project. Returning to Sundance Film Festival for a third time earlier this year, Gaucho Gaucho beautifully captures this particular way […]
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There was a brief delay for the start of the production (originally they were circling a 2023 start), but finally French-Canadian filmmaker Philippe Falardeau did get back into the saddle this past September for his latest which translates to Thousand Secrets, Thousand Dangers. The French-language feature, the Montreal-centric Mille secrets mille dangers has one week left to go in production – so the’ll be aiming to position this as a film fest release perhaps Locarno. Toplining the book to film adaptation we find Neil Elias, Hassan Mahbouba and Rose-Marie Perreault and a noteworthy behind the line part of the team is André Turpin.… Read the rest
(The 2024 Middleburg Film Festival runs October 17-20. Check our Chris Reed’s Conclave movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Every time a Pope dies, Catholics around the world no doubt find themselves both mourning the loss […]
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The Line is unpleasant. But then it should be, shouldn’t it? Written by Ethan Berger and Alex Russek and directed by Berger in his feature debut, this is a film about a college fraternity and all of the horrible sins committed in the name of tradition and brotherhood. Alex Wolff stars as Tom, a sophomore […]
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Our friends at FilmSharks have been hard at work securing territorial rights for the Argentine animated film, Dalia and the Red Book (Dalia y el Libro Rojo) since screening at Sitges this year. When Dalia is a little girl, her father includes a character in the novel he’s writing as a tribute to her: a goat. Years later, after her father dies leaving the book unfinished, Dalia is kidnapped by the book’s main characters, who introduce her into the world of fiction through a portal. The only ally she has there to overcome the challenges she faces is her faithful goat. ScreenDaily has the rundown of territories sold so far. Warner Bros Discovery has picked up East European rights, Alfa Pictures and…
Our friend at Blood Window Javier Fernandez has brought something to our attention that deserves yours. An Argentine cosmic horror flick called Blind Paradise has been acquired by sales outfit Firebook Entertainment who will takes worldwide sales into AFM soon. From ScreenDaily who broke the news the other day: Set against the haunting backdrop of the vast Patagonia region in Argentina, Blind Paradise centres on a young man who believes he is an orphan and follows the call of a mysterious messenger who assures him his father is living on an unknown island in the southern part of the country. Upon his arrival, the man discovers he has been lured as part of a plan to replace his dying father in an…
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. This looks like a hoot. Mikael Håfström’s action-adventure comedy Stockholm Bloodbath is coming to cinemas and On Demand on November 8th from Brainstorm Media. It just looks like one big rollicking adventure flick with big set pieces and smaller melees. Perfect to dive into without much effort. The official trailer and poster have been released, check out the trailer down below. Inspired by one of the bloodiest and darkest events in Scandinavia, making it an epic portrayal of history. Featuring a star-studded cast of international actors, including Sophie Cookson (Kingsman-The Secret Service), Claes Bang (The…
Mórbido, my Mexican home away from home, has announced the lineup for this year’s festival. As expected there are a tonne of great films coming to CDMX at the end of the month and I’m super sad that I’m not going to be there to experience it con mi familia Morbido. Local lad Isaac Ezban will open this year’s festival with his terrific horror hit, Parvulos. Other local and LatAm offerings include Edgar Nito’s A Fisherman’s Tale, A Mother’s Embrace from Christian Ponce, 1978 from Nico Loretti, Portraits of the Apocalypse from Fabien Forte, and I’m really curious to see how Catholic Mexicans respond to Pedro Cristiani’s Deus Irae. Really curious. Morbido alumni Alexandre O Philippe’s Venice-winning documentary Chain Reactions will play at the festival along with…
I am generally indifferent to collage style posters, particularly when designers transitioned from hand-painted to photoshop. However, I do admire the commitment to verticality taken by design house, Fable, for Justin Kurzel’s neo-nazi procedural, The Order. The pull quotes, the above the line credits, festival laurel, the title, even the American flag, and Nicholas Hoult’s pump action all emphasize the top-down approach here. The only outlier here is Jude Law pointing his firearm off screen. As an aside, Law is giving a magnificently haggard character-actor performance here, riffing on a specific kind Nick Offerman americana. Given its early 1980s setting, the poster here goes with a burnt cream (not sepia!) colour palette, which I am also digging here. The whole package comes together without looking too busy…
Every genre, sub-genre, and micro-genre eventually exhausts itself. But genres typically don’t end; they expand, they evolve, and adapt, drawing on new ideas from outside the genre, mixing elements from other genres, and ultimately resurrect themselves, reborn on the ashes of the old. Someone, somewhere, is thinking far too much about the current state of the undead sub-genre. Fresh, bold, new ideas are what the exhausted zombie/undead sub-genre desperately needs. Instead, longtime fans of the sub-genre George Romero reinvented in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead have been subjected to the never-ending Walking Dead spin-offs and the occasional standalone straight-to-streaming, straight-to-the-memory-hole entry made on a micro-budget and D-level actors. Writer-director Lowell Dean (the Wolf Cop series) provides more than a few in his latest…
