Kym Whitley, Tisha Campbell and Yvette Nicole Brown are set to star in “Act Your Age,” a multi-camera comedy series from MGM Television that is expected to premiere on Bounce in the spring.
Bounce, the digital multicast and streaming channel that targets Black viewers, has given the series a 16-episode order. It’s the third original scripted comedy series scheduled to join the Bounce lineup, on the heels of “Johnson” and “Finding Happy.” The show is also a notable new piece of business for MGM Television since the studio was acquired by Amazon earlier this year.
“Act Your Age” reads like a “Golden Girls”-esque ensemble for a new era. Whitley plays Bernadette, a successful, no-nonsense real estate developer. Campbell plays Keisha, described as “the wild card of the group who is always up to something.” Brown, who is billed as a special guest star, plays Angela, the former First Lady of Norfolk,...
Bounce, the digital multicast and streaming channel that targets Black viewers, has given the series a 16-episode order. It’s the third original scripted comedy series scheduled to join the Bounce lineup, on the heels of “Johnson” and “Finding Happy.” The show is also a notable new piece of business for MGM Television since the studio was acquired by Amazon earlier this year.
“Act Your Age” reads like a “Golden Girls”-esque ensemble for a new era. Whitley plays Bernadette, a successful, no-nonsense real estate developer. Campbell plays Keisha, described as “the wild card of the group who is always up to something.” Brown, who is billed as a special guest star, plays Angela, the former First Lady of Norfolk,...
- 11/17/2022
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Before we get to the links please click on this photo to your left, the teaser poster for Yorgos Lanthimos's The Killing of a Sacred Deer. (Lanthimos last brought us the incredible The Lobster so we hope he's on a roll.) The poster is so beautiful we don't even mind that Nicole Kidman isn't on it! That's high praise if you haven't been paying attention.
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Los Angeles Times Jimmy Kimmel will return to host the Oscars again in March. Same team this year, producers too.
Interview Ethan Hawke talks to his friend Alessandro Nivola (easily one of the best stars among the under-famous and under-celebrated division) about his current hot streak
Fathom Events will broadcast the current London production of Angels in America to select Us movie theaters in late July. Click there for ticket sales in your area
Awards Daily keeping Oscar buzz alive all year for...
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Los Angeles Times Jimmy Kimmel will return to host the Oscars again in March. Same team this year, producers too.
Interview Ethan Hawke talks to his friend Alessandro Nivola (easily one of the best stars among the under-famous and under-celebrated division) about his current hot streak
Fathom Events will broadcast the current London production of Angels in America to select Us movie theaters in late July. Click there for ticket sales in your area
Awards Daily keeping Oscar buzz alive all year for...
- 5/17/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Fandor, the indie and international cinema streaming platform, is turning a new page — and “for better or worse, the new strategy is not for everyone,” admitted Fandor CEO Larry Aidem.
Earlier this week, the company closed Keyframe, its 5-year-old digital magazine, and two of its longtime staffers left the company: editorial director Jonathan Kiefer and David Hudson, who ran Keyframe Daily and whom, in his recent New York Times profile of Fandor, Glenn Kenny praised as a “great asset.”
“When I started at Fandor in 2012, and for several years afterwards, we were a good match, what with our shared sense of cinephilia and appreciation for timeliness,” Hudson said. “As Fandor evolves, its editorial focus is changing, and at this point, it’s best for me and the company to amicably part ways. I truly wish them well and hope that they achieve the growth they’re after.”
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Earlier this week, the company closed Keyframe, its 5-year-old digital magazine, and two of its longtime staffers left the company: editorial director Jonathan Kiefer and David Hudson, who ran Keyframe Daily and whom, in his recent New York Times profile of Fandor, Glenn Kenny praised as a “great asset.”
“When I started at Fandor in 2012, and for several years afterwards, we were a good match, what with our shared sense of cinephilia and appreciation for timeliness,” Hudson said. “As Fandor evolves, its editorial focus is changing, and at this point, it’s best for me and the company to amicably part ways. I truly wish them well and hope that they achieve the growth they’re after.”
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- 5/11/2017
- by Anthony Kaufman
- Indiewire
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveriesNEWSThe Summer Is GoneCineuropa reports on an open letter of protest by "500 Portuguese and international personalities from the film industry" over "a new amendment to the [Portuguese] film law, which relieves national film body the Ica of the responsibility of choosing the juries for the institution’s financial support schemes." The proposed shift in approval power is a significant one, and the protest has drawn signatures from such figures as Leos Garax, Pedro Almodóvar, Aki Kaurismäki.The lineup for New Directors/New Films, New York's annual collaboration between the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art, is announced and looks great, including Notebook favorites Person to Person (Dustin Guy Defa), Arábia (João Dumans & Affonso Uchoa), The Dreamed Path (Angela Schenelac), The Future Perfect (Nele Wohlatz), and The Summer Is Gone (Dalei Zhang). Recommended VIEWINGThe trailer for It Comes At Night,...
- 2/15/2017
- MUBI
Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom's Christmas celebration ended with a splat!
The 32-year-old pop star and 39-year-old actor posted videos to Instagram early Tuesday morning of themselves playing the Pie Face Game with friends and family -- and both lost. Perry faced off against her sister, Angela Hudson, and while the "Roar" singer ended up with pie all over herself, she made sure her sibling was also wearing some of the dessert before the game was over.
Watch: Katy Perry Hilariously Compares Orlando Bloom's Throwback Legolas Pics to Jennifer Aniston
As for Bloom, he went up against Perry's brother, David Hudson, and also finished with pie on his face. "He cheated," the actor joked in the video caption.
Clearly these two know how to have a good time. Just days before Christmas and pie slinging, Perry brought Bloom along to a birthday karaoke party for her friend, Westworld actress Shannon Woodward, and they appeared...
The 32-year-old pop star and 39-year-old actor posted videos to Instagram early Tuesday morning of themselves playing the Pie Face Game with friends and family -- and both lost. Perry faced off against her sister, Angela Hudson, and while the "Roar" singer ended up with pie all over herself, she made sure her sibling was also wearing some of the dessert before the game was over.
Watch: Katy Perry Hilariously Compares Orlando Bloom's Throwback Legolas Pics to Jennifer Aniston
As for Bloom, he went up against Perry's brother, David Hudson, and also finished with pie on his face. "He cheated," the actor joked in the video caption.
Clearly these two know how to have a good time. Just days before Christmas and pie slinging, Perry brought Bloom along to a birthday karaoke party for her friend, Westworld actress Shannon Woodward, and they appeared...
- 12/27/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
NEWSConcept art from the next project of Paul W.S. Anderson–an adaptation of the beloved Capcom video game Monster Hunter. Anderson discusses the project, and his upcoming Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, alongside producer Jeremy Bolt at Deadline.Toronto International Film Festival has acquired 1,460 prints, including work from Peter Mettler, Alfred Hitchcock, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Abbas Kiarostami. Recommended VIEWINGThe first trailer for Martin Scorsese's Silence.Cristi Puiu puts his unique spin on the festival award acceptance speech in response to recent accolades from the Chicago International Film Festival & Thessaloniki International Film Festival (via Ray Pride).With the recent 15 year anniversary of Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko, the BFI has cut a fantastic new trailer for the films imminent re-release.Recommended READINGAt Keyframe, David Hudson compiles numerous considerations on the role of art in light of the U.S. election results."As the train gathered speed, I began considering what...
- 11/29/2016
- MUBI
NEWSWe wish we were at the Telluride and Venice film festivals, but since we're not that lucky, we've been voraciously following the buzz. To see what the critics are saying from the Telluride, which was last weekend, and Venice (on-going) check out David Hudson's round-ups at Keyframe. From the former, we're particularly excited about Barry Jenkins' Moonlight and Clint Eastwood's Sully, and from the latter, can't wait to see Uhlrich Seidl's Safari.Recommended VIEWINGSince we just wrapped our Kelly Reichardt retrospective on Mubi, we're feeling much need for her new film, Certain Woman. Starring Michelle Williams, Laura Dern, and Kristen Stewart, its first trailer is only getting us even more excited.We love Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice. And we also love the video essays by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin. Sight & Sound has made made the connection and presents Haunted Memories, exploring "the joy and regret...
- 9/7/2016
- MUBI
It might seem that celebrating the drive-in movie season during the dog days of August is a celebration that is coming about two, maybe three months too late. Isn’t summer just about wrapped up? Ha! Only if you’re in still in grade school—my kids went back to their respective halls of education on August 8! For them summer, in a single but significant way, is over. But for everyone else (including students), especially if you’re in the southwestern part of the country, the hot days of summer aren’t giving way to cool temperatures anytime soon, regardless of the insistence of the calendar. In Southern California, climate change has made summer-style heat a staple well into October, and sometimes beyond. Here it’s always drive-in season, even in January, and that’s the silver lining of a sizzling autumn for fans of the specific joys of outdoor cinema.
- 8/20/2016
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
The Viennale, running this year from October 20 through November 2, has begun previewing its lineup, including a retrospective essentially built on creatively programmed double features. For example: F.W. Murnau's Faust and William Dieterle's The Devil and Daniel Webster; three versions of Wuthering Heights (William Wyler, Luis Buñuel and Jacques Rivette); Alan Clarke's Elephant (1989) and Gus Van Sant's Elephant (2003); Josef von Sternberg's Crime and Punishment and Lav Diaz's Norte, the End of History; and so on. There'll also be special programs dedicated to Christopher Walken and Peter Hutton and among the features in the main program are Mia Hansen-Løve's Things to Come, Tim Sutton's Dark Night and Paul Verhoeven's Elle. » - David Hudson...
- 8/20/2016
- Keyframe
The Viennale, running this year from October 20 through November 2, has begun previewing its lineup, including a retrospective essentially built on creatively programmed double features. For example: F.W. Murnau's Faust and William Dieterle's The Devil and Daniel Webster; three versions of Wuthering Heights (William Wyler, Luis Buñuel and Jacques Rivette); Alan Clarke's Elephant (1989) and Gus Van Sant's Elephant (2003); Josef von Sternberg's Crime and Punishment and Lav Diaz's Norte, the End of History; and so on. There'll also be special programs dedicated to Christopher Walken and Peter Hutton and among the features in the main program are Mia Hansen-Løve's Things to Come, Tim Sutton's Dark Night and Paul Verhoeven's Elle. » - David Hudson...
- 8/20/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
The Film Society of Lincoln Center's announced that the Retrospective section of the 54th New York Film Festival, running from September 30 through October 16, "will feature a two-part lineup headlined and inspired by Bertrand Tavernier’s magnificent epic documentary My Journey Through French Cinema." I collected a first round of reviews when it screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato in June. There'll also be "a selection of French classics featured in the documentary and a 12-film exploration of one of Tavernier’s favorite American directors, Henry Hathaway." We've got all the titles and the descriptions. » - David Hudson...
- 8/19/2016
- Keyframe
The Film Society of Lincoln Center's announced that the Retrospective section of the 54th New York Film Festival, running from September 30 through October 16, "will feature a two-part lineup headlined and inspired by Bertrand Tavernier’s magnificent epic documentary My Journey Through French Cinema." I collected a first round of reviews when it screened at Il Cinema Ritrovato in June. There'll also be "a selection of French classics featured in the documentary and a 12-film exploration of one of Tavernier’s favorite American directors, Henry Hathaway." We've got all the titles and the descriptions. » - David Hudson...
- 8/19/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Tonight at midnight, New York's Spectacle Theater presents He Walked by Night (1948), the "template for Dragnet and a direct inspiration for dozens of police procedurals… It’s Alfred Werker’s name as director, but most film historians put the bulk of the work on the shoulders of Anthony Mann." In Los Angeles, Women of Cinefamily Weekend is on through Sunday. Tonight, Brie Larson presents Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground. Tomorrow, Sky Ferreira will perform a tribute to Lou Adler's Ladies & Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains. Sunday sees the La premiere of Antibirth, with director Danny Perez and star Natasha Lyonne slated to make a showing. Dennis Lim will introduce screenings of films by David Lynch in Berkeley this weekend. Plus, noir and Scout Tafoya's I Am No Bird in Chicago—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/19/2016
- Keyframe
Tonight at midnight, New York's Spectacle Theater presents He Walked by Night (1948), the "template for Dragnet and a direct inspiration for dozens of police procedurals… It’s Alfred Werker’s name as director, but most film historians put the bulk of the work on the shoulders of Anthony Mann." In Los Angeles, Women of Cinefamily Weekend is on through Sunday. Tonight, Brie Larson presents Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground. Tomorrow, Sky Ferreira will perform a tribute to Lou Adler's Ladies & Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains. Sunday sees the La premiere of Antibirth, with director Danny Perez and star Natasha Lyonne slated to make a showing. Dennis Lim will introduce screenings of films by David Lynch in Berkeley this weekend. Plus, noir and Scout Tafoya's I Am No Bird in Chicago—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/19/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
The Toronto International Film Festival's Primetime program, focusing on "high-quality television premieres," will see its second year when Tiff runs from September 8 through 18. Among the highlights: Episodes from the new season of Charlie Brooker’s anthology series, Black Mirror, featuring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mackenzie Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Alice Eve; three episodes from the third season of Jill Soloway's Transparent with Anjelica Huston, Jeffrey Tambor, Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Landecker, Jay Duplass, Judith Light, Cherry Jones, Rob Hubel, Alexandra Billings, Trace Lysette, Alexandra Grey, and Kathryn Hahn; and from Matt Johnson (The Dirties, Operation Avalanche), nirvanna the band the show. » - David Hudson...
- 8/18/2016
- Keyframe
The Toronto International Film Festival's Primetime program, focusing on "high-quality television premieres," will see its second year when Tiff runs from September 8 through 18. Among the highlights: Episodes from the new season of Charlie Brooker’s anthology series, Black Mirror, featuring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mackenzie Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Alice Eve; three episodes from the third season of Jill Soloway's Transparent with Anjelica Huston, Jeffrey Tambor, Gaby Hoffmann, Amy Landecker, Jay Duplass, Judith Light, Cherry Jones, Rob Hubel, Alexandra Billings, Trace Lysette, Alexandra Grey, and Kathryn Hahn; and from Matt Johnson (The Dirties, Operation Avalanche), nirvanna the band the show. » - David Hudson...
- 8/18/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
"Arthur Hiller, an Academy Award-nominated director whose long career began in live television and flourished in the movies in the 1970s with crowd-pleasers like the phenomenally successful Love Story, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles," writes Dave Kehr for the New York Times. As Patrick Hipes notes at Deadline, Love Story would lead "to a streak of big movies for Hiller that spanned especially comedy including The Hospital, penned by Paddy Chayefsky (who also wrote The Americanization of Emily); Silver Streak with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor; The In-Laws with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin; The Lonely Guy with Steve Martin; and Outrageous Fortune starring Shelley Long and Bette Midler. He also helmed the film adaptations of Neil Simon’s The Out of Towners and Plaza Suite." We're collecting remembrances. » - David Hudson...
- 8/18/2016
- Keyframe
"Arthur Hiller, an Academy Award-nominated director whose long career began in live television and flourished in the movies in the 1970s with crowd-pleasers like the phenomenally successful Love Story, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles," writes Dave Kehr for the New York Times. As Patrick Hipes notes at Deadline, Love Story would lead "to a streak of big movies for Hiller that spanned especially comedy including The Hospital, penned by Paddy Chayefsky (who also wrote The Americanization of Emily); Silver Streak with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor; The In-Laws with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin; The Lonely Guy with Steve Martin; and Outrageous Fortune starring Shelley Long and Bette Midler. He also helmed the film adaptations of Neil Simon’s The Out of Towners and Plaza Suite." We're collecting remembrances. » - David Hudson...
- 8/18/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Today, the Film Society of Lincoln Center announces the lineup for the Projections section of the 54th New York Film Festival, running from September 30 through October 16: "Among the highlights are Eduardo Williams’s The Human Surge, winner of the top prize in Locarno’s 2016 Filmmakers of the Present section; world premieres of new work by visual poets Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, the subjects of last year’s Nyff Retrospective; features including Deborah Stratman’s The Illinois Parables and Dane Komljen’s All the Cities of the North; and the U.S. premiere of Há Terra!, directed by 2015 Kazuko Trust Award winner Ana Vaz." » - David Hudson...
- 8/17/2016
- Keyframe
Today, the Film Society of Lincoln Center announces the lineup for the Projections section of the 54th New York Film Festival, running from September 30 through October 16: "Among the highlights are Eduardo Williams’s The Human Surge, winner of the top prize in Locarno’s 2016 Filmmakers of the Present section; world premieres of new work by visual poets Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler, the subjects of last year’s Nyff Retrospective; features including Deborah Stratman’s The Illinois Parables and Dane Komljen’s All the Cities of the North; and the U.S. premiere of Há Terra!, directed by 2015 Kazuko Trust Award winner Ana Vaz." » - David Hudson...
- 8/17/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Abbas Kiarostami's son has announced that the late director has left behind a film that his family is hoping to release next year, "and I can tell you that it is quite amazing." Also in today's roundup on projects in the works: The latest on David Lynch and Mark Frost's next season of Twin Peaks and on Martin Scorsese's The Irishman with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino; Guillermo del Toro has begun production on The Shape of Water; John Turturro's Going Places is a spin-off from The Big Lebowski; Michael Haneke is wrapping Happy End with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert and Mathieu Kassovitz; Robert Downey Jr. may be teaming with True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto for a drama at HBO—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/17/2016
- Keyframe
Abbas Kiarostami's son has announced that the late director has left behind a film that his family is hoping to release next year, "and I can tell you that it is quite amazing." Also in today's roundup on projects in the works: The latest on David Lynch and Mark Frost's next season of Twin Peaks and on Martin Scorsese's The Irishman with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino; Guillermo del Toro has begun production on The Shape of Water; John Turturro's Going Places is a spin-off from The Big Lebowski; Michael Haneke is wrapping Happy End with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert and Mathieu Kassovitz; Robert Downey Jr. may be teaming with True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto for a drama at HBO—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/17/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Return of the Double Feature, a series programmed by Film Forum's Bruce Goldstein, opens on Friday and runs through September 13 in New York. Saturday sees a double bill of works by Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless, "a singularly penetrating film noir that still jars after more than 50 years," as Jonathan Stevenson puts it. "In counterpoint, Contempt embraces domestic life, but it is scarcely less fraught and Godard is as merciless as ever." More goings on: A new restoration of Louis Malle’s debut film, Elevator to the Gallows, tours the country. Dennis Lim will be introducing and discussing films by David Lynch in Berkeley. The Austin Film Society's presenting new restorations of King Hu's A Touch of Zen and Dragon Inn. And Mubi's Daniel Kasman has curated a series of films by Hong Sang-soo for Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art. » - David Hudson...
- 8/17/2016
- Keyframe
Return of the Double Feature, a series programmed by Film Forum's Bruce Goldstein, opens on Friday and runs through September 13 in New York. Saturday sees a double bill of works by Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless, "a singularly penetrating film noir that still jars after more than 50 years," as Jonathan Stevenson puts it. "In counterpoint, Contempt embraces domestic life, but it is scarcely less fraught and Godard is as merciless as ever." More goings on: A new restoration of Louis Malle’s debut film, Elevator to the Gallows, tours the country. Dennis Lim will be introducing and discussing films by David Lynch in Berkeley. The Austin Film Society's presenting new restorations of King Hu's A Touch of Zen and Dragon Inn. And Mubi's Daniel Kasman has curated a series of films by Hong Sang-soo for Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art. » - David Hudson...
- 8/17/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
The Toronto International Film Festival's unleashed another round of lineups for this year's edition (September 8 through 18), including new films by Pedro Almodóvar, Wim Wenders, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Kelly Reichardt, Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, Hong Sang-soo, Emmanuelle Bercot, Walter Hill, Antonio Campos, Joseph Cedar, Philippe Falardeau, James Franco, Ken Loach, Douglas Gordon, Lav Diaz, Jõao Pedro Rodrigues, Ana Vaz, Matías Piñeiro, Angela Schanelec, Wang Bing, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, installations by Sharon Lockhart and Albert Serra—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/16/2016
- Keyframe
The Toronto International Film Festival's unleashed another round of lineups for this year's edition (September 8 through 18), including new films by Pedro Almodóvar, Wim Wenders, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Kelly Reichardt, Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, Hong Sang-soo, Emmanuelle Bercot, Walter Hill, Antonio Campos, Joseph Cedar, Philippe Falardeau, James Franco, Ken Loach, Douglas Gordon, Lav Diaz, Jõao Pedro Rodrigues, Ana Vaz, Matías Piñeiro, Angela Schanelec, Wang Bing, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, installations by Sharon Lockhart and Albert Serra—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/16/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Only one person at a time will get to see Loris Gréaud's Sculpt, a sci-fi featuring Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Lonsdale, Pascal Greggory, Abel Ferrara and a soundtrack by The Residents. Tickets to screenings beginning today at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are free of charge, too, most likely making them even harder to come by. "Gréaud is making four versions of Sculpt, each similar in narrative arc but different in pacing, script and sequence of events," notes Alex Moshakis in the Guardian. If and when there are reviews, we'll be adding them to this collection of previews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/16/2016
- Keyframe
Only one person at a time will get to see Loris Gréaud's Sculpt, a sci-fi featuring Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Lonsdale, Pascal Greggory, Abel Ferrara and a soundtrack by The Residents. Tickets to screenings beginning today at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are free of charge, too, most likely making them even harder to come by. "Gréaud is making four versions of Sculpt, each similar in narrative arc but different in pacing, script and sequence of events," notes Alex Moshakis in the Guardian. If and when there are reviews, we'll be adding them to this collection of previews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/16/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Having announced the lineup for the Main Slate of the 54th New York Film Festival (September 30 through October 16), the Film Society of Lincoln Center now unveils details on its Convergence program, running from October 1 through 4 and featuring "virtual reality, augmented reality, installations, and more." There'll be new work by Milica Zec and Winslow Turner Porter III, Kiira Benzing and Stina Hamlin, Lance Weiler and Nick Fortugno, special talks by Lindsay Doran, Hilmar Koch and Nick Rasmussen—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/15/2016
- Keyframe
Having announced the lineup for the Main Slate of the 54th New York Film Festival (September 30 through October 16), the Film Society of Lincoln Center now unveils details on its Convergence program, running from October 1 through 4 and featuring "virtual reality, augmented reality, installations, and more." There'll be new work by Milica Zec and Winslow Turner Porter III, Kiira Benzing and Stina Hamlin, Lance Weiler and Nick Fortugno, special talks by Lindsay Doran, Hilmar Koch and Nick Rasmussen—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/15/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
For the tenth year in a row, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson index entries at their blog that can serve as supplements to their landmark textbook, Film Art: An Introduction. More in this books roundup: Stuart Klawans on John Huston's adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s first novel, Wise Blood; Nadin Mai on two collections, one on Pedro Costa, the other on Béla Tarr; Nathan Heller's appreciation of Hitchcock/Truffaut; Max Nelson on novelist Richard Price and HBO's The Night Of; editor Robert Gottlieb on working with Lauren Bacall; Amy Schumer on her favorite books and adaptations—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/15/2016
- Keyframe
For the tenth year in a row, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson index entries at their blog that can serve as supplements to their landmark textbook, Film Art: An Introduction. More in this books roundup: Stuart Klawans on John Huston's adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s first novel, Wise Blood; Nadin Mai on two collections, one on Pedro Costa, the other on Béla Tarr; Nathan Heller's appreciation of Hitchcock/Truffaut; Max Nelson on novelist Richard Price and HBO's The Night Of; editor Robert Gottlieb on working with Lauren Bacall; Amy Schumer on her favorite books and adaptations—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/15/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Karina Longworth's marvelous podcast, You Must Remember This, returns from a summer break with a new series on Joan Crawford. The first episode (44'18") focuses on the young Lucille LeSueur and swerves off on an entertaining detour for background on Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. More listening: Werner Herzog is impressed by Kanye West's Famous; Joseph McBride discusses Charles Chaplin's City Lights; Sam Fragoso talks with Ira Sachs about Little Men and more; White Reindeer director Zach Clark talks with John Waters about Multiple Maniacs, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Justin Bieber and Terrence Malick; and the latest edition of Illusion Travels By Streetcar is about "The Madness of Busby Berkeley." » - David Hudson...
- 8/15/2016
- Keyframe
Karina Longworth's marvelous podcast, You Must Remember This, returns from a summer break with a new series on Joan Crawford. The first episode (44'18") focuses on the young Lucille LeSueur and swerves off on an entertaining detour for background on Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. More listening: Werner Herzog is impressed by Kanye West's Famous; Joseph McBride discusses Charles Chaplin's City Lights; Sam Fragoso talks with Ira Sachs about Little Men and more; White Reindeer director Zach Clark talks with John Waters about Multiple Maniacs, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Justin Bieber and Terrence Malick; and the latest edition of Illusion Travels By Streetcar is about "The Madness of Busby Berkeley." » - David Hudson...
- 8/15/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
"It takes a certain kind of nerve for a director to entitle his debut feature-length work Rat Film, but there's much more to Theo Anthony's richly informative essay on the planet's most-maligned critters than its bluntly confrontational moniker," begins Neil Young in the Hollywood Reporter. "Indeed, the picture is as much a keenly observed anthropological study of the city of Baltimore—where Anthony resides—as it is about the four-legged friends/fiends who infest this historic port." We're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/14/2016
- Keyframe
"It takes a certain kind of nerve for a director to entitle his debut feature-length work Rat Film, but there's much more to Theo Anthony's richly informative essay on the planet's most-maligned critters than its bluntly confrontational moniker," begins Neil Young in the Hollywood Reporter. "Indeed, the picture is as much a keenly observed anthropological study of the city of Baltimore—where Anthony resides—as it is about the four-legged friends/fiends who infest this historic port." We're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/14/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Yousry Nasrallah’s "unabashedly sudsy" Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces, which screened in Competition at the Locarno Film Festival, "is essentially one lengthy flashback to the month before an important local dignitary visits a small Egyptian town, an unlikely mélange of enough wedding dynamics, romantic dalliances, drug deals, deaths in the family, and exit strategies to fill an entire year," writes James Lattimer at the House Next Door. We've got the trailer and we're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/14/2016
- Keyframe
Yousry Nasrallah’s "unabashedly sudsy" Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces, which screened in Competition at the Locarno Film Festival, "is essentially one lengthy flashback to the month before an important local dignitary visits a small Egyptian town, an unlikely mélange of enough wedding dynamics, romantic dalliances, drug deals, deaths in the family, and exit strategies to fill an entire year," writes James Lattimer at the House Next Door. We've got the trailer and we're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/14/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Ralitza Petrova's Godless has won the Golden Leopard at this year's Locarno Film Festival. Further prizes awarded by the International Competition jury (President Arturo Ripstein, plus Kate Moran, Rafi Pitts, Rodrigo Teixeira and Wang Bing): Special Jury Prize: Radu Jude's Scarred Hearts. Best Direction: João Pedro Rodrigues for The Ornithologist. Best Actress: Irena Ivanova for Godless. Best Actor: Andrzej Seweryn for The Last Family. And a Special Mention goes to Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel's Mister Universo. We've got the full list of all the awards. » - David Hudson...
- 8/13/2016
- Keyframe
Ralitza Petrova's Godless has won the Golden Leopard at this year's Locarno Film Festival. Further prizes awarded by the International Competition jury (President Arturo Ripstein, plus Kate Moran, Rafi Pitts, Rodrigo Teixeira and Wang Bing): Special Jury Prize: Radu Jude's Scarred Hearts. Best Direction: João Pedro Rodrigues for The Ornithologist. Best Actress: Irena Ivanova for Godless. Best Actor: Andrzej Seweryn for The Last Family. And a Special Mention goes to Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel's Mister Universo. We've got the full list of all the awards. » - David Hudson...
- 8/13/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
"Angela Schanelec’s continued lack of recognition, at least outside of Germany, is genuinely baffling," finds Giovanni Marchini Camia, writing for Filmmaker from Locarno. "nd yet, out of the competition entries I managed to see, The Dreamed Path is the only one I feel deserves to be called a masterpiece." It's "a demanding film, even more so than Schanelec’s previous work, but the challenge is legitimated by being commensurate with her thematic ambition: to dissect the torturous dialectic between the universal human need for connection and the invisible forces that inhibit its fulfillment." We're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/13/2016
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"Angela Schanelec’s continued lack of recognition, at least outside of Germany, is genuinely baffling," finds Giovanni Marchini Camia, writing for Filmmaker from Locarno. "nd yet, out of the competition entries I managed to see, The Dreamed Path is the only one I feel deserves to be called a masterpiece." It's "a demanding film, even more so than Schanelec’s previous work, but the challenge is legitimated by being commensurate with her thematic ambition: to dissect the torturous dialectic between the universal human need for connection and the invisible forces that inhibit its fulfillment." We're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/13/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Dispatching to Indiewire from Locarno, Ingrid Oliveira notes that Anka Sasnal and Wilhelm Sasnal's The Sun, the Sun Blinded Me, screening in Locarno, centers on Rafal Mularz (Rafal Mackowiak), who "feels he has become a stranger in his own society. Living a routine sheltered from the outside world, he faces a turning point in life. An adaptation of Albert Camus's The Stranger, the film replaces the character of 'The Arab' with a black man Rafal encounters washed ashore at a beach, in a harrowing scene that has became all-too-common in Europe." We've got the trailer and we're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/13/2016
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Dispatching to Indiewire from Locarno, Ingrid Oliveira notes that Anka Sasnal and Wilhelm Sasnal's The Sun, the Sun Blinded Me, screening in Locarno, centers on Rafal Mularz (Rafal Mackowiak), who "feels he has become a stranger in his own society. Living a routine sheltered from the outside world, he faces a turning point in life. An adaptation of Albert Camus's The Stranger, the film replaces the character of 'The Arab' with a black man Rafal encounters washed ashore at a beach, in a harrowing scene that has became all-too-common in Europe." We've got the trailer and we're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/13/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
"Wet Woman in the Wind is a curious proposition—a formal genre exercise with energy to spare, and a cheerfully dirty mind," writes Jonathan Romney in a dispatch to Film Comment from Locarno. "Written and directed by Akihiko Shiota, best known for low-key drama titles such as Harmful Insect and action blockbuster Dororo, Wet Woman is one of a series of films commissioned by the Nikkatsu Corporation to celebrate the 45th anniversary of their 'Roman Porno' series of sex films, which originally ran from 1971 to 1988." We're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/13/2016
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"Wet Woman in the Wind is a curious proposition—a formal genre exercise with energy to spare, and a cheerfully dirty mind," writes Jonathan Romney in a dispatch to Film Comment from Locarno. "Written and directed by Akihiko Shiota, best known for low-key drama titles such as Harmful Insect and action blockbuster Dororo, Wet Woman is one of a series of films commissioned by the Nikkatsu Corporation to celebrate the 45th anniversary of their 'Roman Porno' series of sex films, which originally ran from 1971 to 1988." We're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/13/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Lina Rodríguez's This Time Tomorrow is "about a tight-knit family, whose symbiosis is suddenly disrupted by a tragic illness," writes Ela Bittencourt for frieze. "Thanks to a capable cast and to Rodriguez’s confident writing, Mañana a esta hora feels fully realized. As in a Chekhov play, Rodriguez enthuses trivial moments with unexpected poignancy: there is a kind of poetry to the way the two parents and their teenage daughter fold laundry together, just as there is palpable tension in their glances and gestures." We're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/13/2016
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Lina Rodríguez's This Time Tomorrow is "about a tight-knit family, whose symbiosis is suddenly disrupted by a tragic illness," writes Ela Bittencourt for frieze. "Thanks to a capable cast and to Rodriguez’s confident writing, Mañana a esta hora feels fully realized. As in a Chekhov play, Rodriguez enthuses trivial moments with unexpected poignancy: there is a kind of poetry to the way the two parents and their teenage daughter fold laundry together, just as there is palpable tension in their glances and gestures." We're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/13/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
"In 2011, it wasn’t just Alpine weather which took Locarno by storm in 2011," writes Emilio Mayorga for Variety. "Back to Stay, an intimate family drama from Milagros Mumenthaler, a then practically-unknown young Swiss-Argentine director, won its top Golden Leopard, best actress and a Fipresci international critics’ award. Five years later, she’s back with her second feature, The Idea of a Lake," which is "freely inspired by Pozo de aire, a book of poems and photos by Guadalupe Gaona." We're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/12/2016
- Keyframe
"In 2011, it wasn’t just Alpine weather which took Locarno by storm in 2011," writes Emilio Mayorga for Variety. "Back to Stay, an intimate family drama from Milagros Mumenthaler, a then practically-unknown young Swiss-Argentine director, won its top Golden Leopard, best actress and a Fipresci international critics’ award. Five years later, she’s back with her second feature, The Idea of a Lake," which is "freely inspired by Pozo de aire, a book of poems and photos by Guadalupe Gaona." We're collecting reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 8/12/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
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