Natalie Erika James uses ghostly body horror to explore binge eating, approval-seeking, and the psychic fractures of biracial identity.
“I want to become anyone except myself.” — Mary and Max What occupies the mind of a preadolescent girl at fourteen? For Sid Bookman (Ani Palmer), it is a liminal period marked by an unexamined sensitivity to changes in both body and psyche. New Zealand filmmaker Paloma Schneideman’s latest work, Big Girls Don’t Cry, offers an intimate, quietly piercing coming-of-age story that speaks to stirring curiosity and confusion in puberty. It is nothing less than a heartfelt reflection on the uneasy process of being a “qualified” grown-up. Living in a small town in New Zealand, Sid resides with her mellow older sister Adele (Tara Canton), a partygoer closely tied to a lively circle of friends. She forms a reliable bond with Tia (Ngataitangirua Hita), a…
Ubeimar Rios stars in Simón Mesa Soto’s melancholy film, which is “primarily a story about humans, not professions or vocations.”
Almost a full half year before the start of the festival on June 18, the Chattanooga Film Festival has announced a “fun-sized first wave of films and events.” Now in its 13th year, the festival will celebrate that anniversary with a screening of Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (which may or may not actually be more of a 40th anniversary celebration for the film) hosted by filmmakers and married couple Becca Howard and Joe Lynch. Howard and Lynch will also host a 45th anniversary screening of Heavy Metal and a live recording of their podcast A Couple of Old Fashionds. Alongside the live podcast recording, attendees on the ground in the festival’s namesake city can look forward to video artists Everything is Terrible’s…
Plus: ‘July Rhapsody,’ ‘The Love That Remains,’ ‘Islands,’ ‘Bitter Rice,’ ‘The Moment,’ ‘A Poet.’
News from Variety this morning is that the V/H/S horror anthology franchise has been acquired from Studio71 by Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Abu Dhabi.
Louis Koo, Raymond Lam, Jessica Hester Hsuan, Sonija Kwok, and Lai-Ming Tang star in the Hong Kong action movie.
A gritty-glossy (and subtly distressed) series of character posters dropped recently for Bart Layton’s (The Imposter)’s adaptation of Don Winslow’s (The Savages) heist potboiler about literal highway robbery, Crime 101, in anticipation of its February release. Framed in ultra close-up, where you get half of the face, at best, the posters feature a stacked cast of movie stars who regularly moonlight as character actors, including Halle Berry, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barry Keoghan, Chris Hemsworth, and Mark Ruffalo. The latter is featured here, looking like he just stepped out of a Michael Mann flick — all five o’clock shadow and film grain. (I am not being abstract or figurative here, I mean Collateral to be exact. Ruffalo had a lovely minor part as an bad ass…
John Turturro, Jamie Lee Curtis, Steve Buscemi, Giancarlo Esposito, Tatiana Maslany and Will Price star in writer/director Noah Segan’s character study / crime drama.