After her impressive directorial debut Test Pattern, which was nominated for both Gotham and Independent Spirit Awards, Shatara Michelle Ford returned to the festival circuit in 2024 with Dreams in Nightmares. Now finally picked up by Lunette Films for a release beginning in NYC on August 21 and LA on August 28, the new trailer […]
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50-something years into a seismic career, Shinya Tsukamoto has embarked upon the rare English-language project. And in branching out, one of Japanese cinema’s preeminent figures—director of the Tetsuo: The Iron Man series, A Snake in June, Bullet Ballet, and Tokyo Fist, whose work extends to performances in Martin Scorsese’s Silence, Takashi Miike’s Ichi the Killer, […]
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When you think of Robin Hood, what do you think of? Errol Flynn? Kevin Costner? Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor? Bryan Adams’ smash hit “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You”? With The Death of Robin Hood, Michael Sarnoski is taking a new angle on the legendary outlaw. Riffing from […]
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One year on from their Wes Anderson set, in what one would only hope sets a tradition, the Criterion Collection will debut something a tad slimmer but no less essential: a Leos Carax compilation featuring Boys Meets Girl, Mauvais Sang, and The Lovers on the Bridge, with It’s Not Me (the best of them all?) […]
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A directorial debut standout on the festival circuit last year, Stillz’s Venice, TIFF, and NYFF selection Barrio Triste is now arriving in theaters in a fitting July slot. Executive produced by Harmony Korine, with an original score by Arca, Film Movement will open the first feature from the Bad Bunny collaborator in theaters on July […]
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Summer is here, and there are plenty of books in our latest roundup worthy of lugging to the beach. Just don’t be surprised if you get funny looks for eating up a book about Hannibal Lecter while lounging poolside. A Place Both Wonderful and Strange by Scott Meslow (Running Press) The death of David Lynch […]
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Following up her reframed remake of Black Christmas, Sophia Takal’s Act One, is a polarizing work taking place in the shadows of Anytown, USA (though largely filmed in and near Takal’s hometown of Montclair, NJ). Set in the era of AOL Instant Messenger—before social media and influencers polluted the minds of teens—Act One is a psychosexual thriller with […]
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We’re delighted to exclusively announce that Altered Innocence has acquired North American rights to Virgina (Virdžina), the acclaimed 1991 feature from celebrated Serbian filmmaker Srđan Karanović. The newly restored film will make its World Restoration Premiere at the Frameline LGBTQ+ Film Festival. Completed in June 1991 as Yugoslavia descended into war, Virgina was effectively lost […]
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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Blue Film (Elliot Tuttle) “Provocation” has become watered-down in recent times. All it takes to provoke someone is tossing off a bunch of half-assed offensive statements or aiming your […]
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How many times has the story of Robin Hood been told? How many books have been written, how many movies made about the outlaw? With The Death of Robin Hood, writer-director Michael Sarnoski goes back to the source. Rather, the supposed sources. The earliest stories of Robin Hood were ballads told by commoners across England. […]
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