On a Japanese film that you’re going to want to watch for.
For devotees looking to see Wicked explode on to the screen, Chu’s vision won’t disappoint.
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Back in September we reported that French filmmaker Alice Winocour had begun pre-production on her fifth feature film and a major casting announcement has just landed. Variety reports that Angelina Jolie has been cast (one of three central women characters in the film) in Coutures aka “Stitches.”
Following in the fashion walkways portraits of fellow French filmmakers Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper) and Bertrand Bonello (Saint Laurent), this French and English language film is set in the world of high fashion and unfolds in Paris. Jolie stars in the movie as a filmmaker and is one of three women whose lives will collide during Fashion Week.… Read the rest
DOC NYC, the world’s largest documentary film festival, runs November 13 through December 1 (in-person and online) for its 15th edition. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of The Bibi Files. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd […]
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After winning the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, before making stops at TIFF and NYFF, Pedro Almodóvar’s English feature debut The Room Next Door will finally hit U.S. theaters starting in December. Adapted from the novel “What […]
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There are few films that can capture the forthcoming bad vibes of 2025 better than this one. Celebrating its 30th anniversary next year, David Fincher’s newly-remastered Se7en is returning to theaters. Set open theatrically worldwide with exclusive IMAX engagements in the U.S. and Canada beginning on January 3, and international theatrical engagements on select dates, the theatrical […]
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Premiering with much fervor at Venice Film Festival, Halina Reijn’s Bodies Bodies Bodies follow-up Babygirl finds Nicole Kidman playing a high-powered CEO who puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern, played by Harris Dickinson. With Kidman picking up Best Actress at the festival, […]
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What is it about avant-garde films? They feel rebellious. New. Dangerous. The form is literally being poked, prodded, criticized, and challenged. Above all else, they are exciting. And few filmmakers in the field were more exciting than Roger Jacoby. A still-underrated pioneer of experimental filmmaking, Jacoby came up in New York’s 1960s art scene alongside […]
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Journalism is in crisis; in part due to people now getting their news from social media, in part due to the web forcing many newspapers and television outlets to publish their work for free; in part due to people not having much disposible income; and as we are seeing in real time, a lot because billionaires are buying newspapers and not letting journalists do their job. But we need information, both in words and in images. Images of war, especially, have brought realities of the experience to the public’s eye in way that cannot be propagandized or disputed by authorities who don’t want you to believe what is witnessed. The work of journalists and photojournalists on the ground is irreplacable. Margaret Moth was at the…
It’s awards season in France as well with today belonging to the Prix Louis Delluc awards. It’s only a two category event, but it nonetheless puts the focus on some of the best titles in French cinema with the majority of the films coming from the various sections of the past Cannes Film Festival. Among the favorites in the field of nine noms we find with the likes of Miséricorde, L’histoire de Souleymane and Le roman de Jim measuring up against Golden Bear winner by Mati Diop, while the first films category is completely dominated by Cannes offerings from the Critic’s Week, Directors’ Fortnight and Un Certain Regard sections.… Read the rest