Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey and Lesley Manville star in Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ semi-autobiography.
Jayro Bustamante’s (‘La Llorona’) magical-realist thriller is now streaming on Shudder.
Gints Zilbalodis’ animated film is Latvia’s official selection for the 97th Academy Awards®️
Best International Feature.
‘Dahomey,’ ‘Gaucho Gaucho,’ ‘I Saw the TV Glow,’ ‘Mountains,’ and ‘Sugarcane’ announced as finalists.
In this Sound and Vision, an exclusive interview with film and music video director Jérôme Vandewattyne. Jérôme Vandewattyne and Severine Cayron are two members of the band Pornographie Exclusive, and co-directors, co-producers, writers of the album film One-way Ticket to the Other Side, which also has segments by the likes of David Gregory, Douglas Buck and Buddy Giovinazzo. Jéròme is also the director of cult films Spit’n’Split and The Belgian Wave, and directed dozens of music videos (some of which are sampled below this interview). We spoke to Jérôme via e-mail. How did One-way Ticket to the Other Side come about? It’s very complicated to know exactly where the first idea comes from. With Severine Cayron, my partner and the other brain of Pornographie Exclusive,…
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After more than two decades in development limbo, countless rejected drafts permanently memory-holed to studio vaults, and near endless studio dawdling, Ridley Scott (Napoleon, Blade Runner, Alien), seemingly inexhaustible even as his 87th birthday quickly approaches, makes a triumphant return to cinemas with the much mooted, mostly anticipated sequel, the aptly, if inartfully, titled Gladiator II, the sequel to Scott’s 2000 endlessly quotable, generationally popular, Gladiator, a historical epic set in Ancient Rome. With the original title character, Maximus Decimus Meridius (Oscar winner Russell Crowe), the former general turned slave-gladiator, done and dusted at the end of Gladiator, any sequel would have to work around his literal and figurative absence, the former narratively, the latter, thematically. The part legacy sequel, part remake scripted by Scott’s…
The seventeenth edition of Morbido has all but wrapped up for another year. Despite our absence we were still able to wrangle in some reviews for films made by our friends down south, with one more coming down the pipeline. Gonzalo Otero’s The Devil’s Teardrop took home the Golden Skull this year in the LatAm while Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s The Devil’s Bath took home the Golden Skull in the section. Yes, the devil was in the details this year. Morbido alumni Nico and Lucionao Loretti, and Can Evrenol, once again took home Skull Awards for their films 1978 and Sayara respectively. All the winners and statements from programmer José Luis Mejía Razo and mi padre de teror Pablo Guisa Koestinger lead to the…
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…
Father Javier is a man with a mission, and an addiction. His mission is to visit families with family members who are under some kind of spell. Javier does not believe that these incidents are nothing more than psychological or mental issues that can be corrected with the right prescription. Javier addresses his own issues with medication as well. Heroine. Heroine he keeps in a hollowed out crucifix. Javier wakes up abruptly in a basement, his mentor Ramon at his side. Javier recalls to him a troubling pattern. Every family he visits disappears. All that is left behind are signs of extreme violence and a strange marking indented in the walls. Except this last time Javier woke up from his drug induced blackout to…
The Taiwanese master of slow cinema discuses VR works, the intersection of theatre, performance art and cinema, and upcoming works.