When it premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof’s secretly-shot thriller The Seed of the Sacred Fig made headlines. Marking his first project to debut following his exile from his native Iran, after being sentenced to 8 […]
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This is a film of great freedom, suggesting that anything can happen at any given moment.
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Rohmer Summer has fed into Rohmer Fall: following sold-out screenings of The Green Ray and a shorts program, my screening series Amnesiascope has partnered again with Instagram auteur Rohmer Fits for two special screenings of Éric Rohmer’s 1998 triumph A Tale of Autumn, which will play Sunday, October 13 and Tuesday, October 22 at the […]
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As the awards season approaches, studios are coordinating their efforts regarding the films they intend to promote for the 97th Academy Awards, and it appears that the best picture category is poised to be a sausage fest. While many features […]
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While his work was recently seen worldwide (or least screened worldwide, even if the theaters were empty) with crafting the opening animated sequence of Joker: Folie à Deux, Sylvain Chomet is also hard at work on his next feature. Set to arrive in 2025, a long 15 years after his previous feature The Illusionist, The […]
The post First Teaser for Sylvain Chomet’s First Film in 15 Years, The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol first appeared on The Film Stage.
Grace returns to the small town she grew up in to settle her father’s estate. She learns that her brother, David, has gone missing. In fact, a lot of people from this small town are also missing. There is rumour that David was going to a commune deep into the mountains. No one knows exactly where it is, but one of Grace’s former teachers Mr. Green might. She follows this lead which takes them deep into the Australian wilderness. Together they venture out into the forest, unsure of what they will find out there. UK ex-pat and Australian transplant Joseph Sims-Dennett (Bad Behaviour, Observance) is back with their third film, Baal, a mystery horror flick shot in and around the Blue Mountains in the…
The best holiday movie of the season, Ham on Rye director Tyler Taormina expanded his star power with Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, which brings together Michael Cera, Elsie Fisher, Maria Dizzia, Sawyer Spielberg, Francesca Scorsese, and many more. After premiering at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, IFC Films picked it up for a […]
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A premiere in the World Cinema Documentary section at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó’s Agent of Happiness is quite an intriguing premise, following Bhutan’s official “Happiness Agents” as they quantify the true measure of happiness across the land. Picked up by Film Movement for a release at Quad Cinema […]
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Raven Banner has announced the launch of pre-sales for their Special Edition of Steven Kostanski’s small creature feature Frankie Freako. An instant hit on the festival circuit, pleasing fans wherever it played, you can pre-order either the Special Edition Blu-ray/CD combo pack, or, if you really want to feel vintage, get Frankie Freako on Limited Edition VHS. Links for both editions are in the official announcement below. Fasten Your Freakbelts for a Fully Freak’d Out Physical Release Party!!! Raven Banner has just launched pre-sales for their Special Edition of Steven Kostanski’s FRANKIE FREAKO. The 2-Disc release is a Blu-Ray/CD combo loaded with bonus features as well as the full film score by Blitz//Berlin. Plus it comes with a book of illustrations…
