Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. To keep up with our latest features, sign up for the Weekly Edit newsletter and follow us @mubinotebook on Twitter and Instagram.Newsa Man of Integrity.Having banned producers of and actors in Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) from leaving the country in an apparent attempt to pressure the director to pull the film from the Cannes Film Festival, Iranian authorities have now sentenced Rasoulof to eight years in prison, whipping, a fine, and confiscation of property, his lawyer announced today, adding that the courts consider the director’s films examples of collusion with the intention of committing a crime against the nation’s security.A group of about 200 French festival workers called Sous les écrans la dèche (“Under the screens the waste”) announced Monday that it will move ahead with plans for a strike during Cannes,...
- 5/8/2024
- MUBI
In this episode, the acting profession is discussed as a permanent quest to suspend time.Luis Gnecco is a Chilean actor with an extensive career in theater and television since the 1990s. In the last decade, his versatility has been recognized internationally for collaborating with important Latin American directors such as Rodrigo Sepúlveda, Fernando Meirelles, and Carlos Carrera. In Pablo Larraín's Neruda and Matías Lira's El bosque de Karadima, he played two well-known and controversial characters in Chilean history, sparking interesting discussions about the fictionalization of reality and the representation of horror. On the other hand, Esteban Bigliardi is an Argentine actor with a diverse filmography spanning various dramatic styles. His collaborations with directors such as Lisandro Alonso, Romina Paula, Alejandro Fadel, and María Alché have allowed him to explore genres as diverse as family drama, thriller, experimental narratives, and even horror.In the last year, he starred...
- 5/1/2024
- MUBI
A decade ago, I interviewed Argentinian filmmaker Martín Rejtman for an hour, walking through the general scope of his career before discussing his then-most-recent feature, Two Shots Fired, which may help flesh out the parts of this interview relating to his first feature, Rapado. Rejtman’s new film, Riders, is only his second documentary. As I wrote in my dispatch on Visions du Réel 2024, where the film premiered, Riders kicks off in May 2020, with extended global lockdown fatigue ramping up; after an opening rally of delivery drivers protesting their horrible conditions (“It is inadmissable to normalize the bodies of […]
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- 4/24/2024
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
A decade ago, I interviewed Argentinian filmmaker Martín Rejtman for an hour, walking through the general scope of his career before discussing his then-most-recent feature, Two Shots Fired, which may help flesh out the parts of this interview relating to his first feature, Rapado. Rejtman’s new film, Riders, is only his second documentary. As I wrote in my dispatch on Visions du Réel 2024, where the film premiered, Riders kicks off in May 2020, with extended global lockdown fatigue ramping up; after an opening rally of delivery drivers protesting their horrible conditions (“It is inadmissable to normalize the bodies of […]
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The post “With a Documentary, It’s More Difficult to Find Humor”: Martín Rejtman on Riders first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 4/24/2024
- by Vadim Rizov
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
“The Landscape and the Fury” by Switzerland’s Nicole Vögele took the Grand Jury Prize in the International Feature Film Competition at Swiss doc festival Visions du Réel on Friday.
Shot on the Bosnian-Croatian border, which is also the European Union border, the film unveils the struggle of refugees being chased away by police and navigating a terrain still contaminated with mines from the Bosnian War.
It marks a return to VdR for Vögele, who premiered her first short film “Mrs Loosli” at the fest in 2013. Her 2018 debut feature, “Closing,” won the Special Jury Prize for Filmmakers of the Present at Locarno.
Her win marks a hat-trick for Swiss documentaries after Peter Mettler picked up the top prize last year with “Where the Green Grass Grows” and Tizian Büchi won in 2022 with “L’Îlot.”
The jury, composed of Italian journalist and former Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian, producer Dora Bouchoucha and filmmaker Carmen Jaquier,...
Shot on the Bosnian-Croatian border, which is also the European Union border, the film unveils the struggle of refugees being chased away by police and navigating a terrain still contaminated with mines from the Bosnian War.
It marks a return to VdR for Vögele, who premiered her first short film “Mrs Loosli” at the fest in 2013. Her 2018 debut feature, “Closing,” won the Special Jury Prize for Filmmakers of the Present at Locarno.
Her win marks a hat-trick for Swiss documentaries after Peter Mettler picked up the top prize last year with “Where the Green Grass Grows” and Tizian Büchi won in 2022 with “L’Îlot.”
The jury, composed of Italian journalist and former Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian, producer Dora Bouchoucha and filmmaker Carmen Jaquier,...
- 4/19/2024
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: New York-based sales company Visit Films has sold Geoff McFetridge: Drawing A Life, which debuted at SXSW, and New York Film Festival title The Practice to Gravitas Ventures for North American distribution.
Gravitas Ventures will release both films in July on all platforms.
The Practice (La Práctica) is directed by Martin Rejtman and premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival before playing fests around the circuit, including New York Film Festival and BFI London. The film follows Gustavo, a recently separated yoga instructor, as he must deal with increasingly absurd situations and relationships to land back on his feet. Starring are Esteban Bigliardi, and Camila Hirane (Fugitives). The Practice is a co-production of Un Puma, Quijote Films, Rosa Filmes, Pandora Film Produktion, África, in association with Arte/Zdf. It was produced by Joaquim Sapinho, Victoria Marotta, Christoph Friedel,...
Gravitas Ventures will release both films in July on all platforms.
The Practice (La Práctica) is directed by Martin Rejtman and premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival before playing fests around the circuit, including New York Film Festival and BFI London. The film follows Gustavo, a recently separated yoga instructor, as he must deal with increasingly absurd situations and relationships to land back on his feet. Starring are Esteban Bigliardi, and Camila Hirane (Fugitives). The Practice is a co-production of Un Puma, Quijote Films, Rosa Filmes, Pandora Film Produktion, África, in association with Arte/Zdf. It was produced by Joaquim Sapinho, Victoria Marotta, Christoph Friedel,...
- 4/18/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Swiss documentary festival Visions du Réel (VdR) has revealed the line-up for its 55th edition (April 12-21) which opens with the IDFA- and Göteborg selection As The Tide Comes In by Juan Palacios (and co-directed by Sofie Husum Johannesen).
The full selection includes 128 films, 88 of which are world premieres.
Among the 14 world premieres in international competition is Apple Cider Vinegar from Belgium’s Sofie Benoot whose 2020 documentary Victoria won the Caligari award at Berlinale Forum. Her latest feature is part nature documentary, part philosophical tale beginning with the journey of a kidney stone.
Other world premieres include Swiss titles The...
The full selection includes 128 films, 88 of which are world premieres.
Among the 14 world premieres in international competition is Apple Cider Vinegar from Belgium’s Sofie Benoot whose 2020 documentary Victoria won the Caligari award at Berlinale Forum. Her latest feature is part nature documentary, part philosophical tale beginning with the journey of a kidney stone.
Other world premieres include Swiss titles The...
- 3/19/2024
- ScreenDaily
Swiss documentary film festival Visions du Réel has unveiled the program for its 55th edition, which includes 10 first films out of 15 in the main international competition, cementing its reputation as a springboard for emerging talent.
The official selection includes 165 films from 50 countries and no fewer than 88 world premieres, making VdR the place to be in April on the international non-fiction film calendar.
Key figures from the world of cinema will be attending including outgoing Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian in the main competition jury, Argentine director and screenwriter Martín Rejtman with his latest film “Riders” in the Burning Lights section, and celebrated French author Christine Angot with her debut film “Une Famille,” which premiered in Berlin.
This year’s opening film is Juan Palacios and Sofie Johannesen’s “As the Tide Comes In,” which has been touring the festival circuit since opening at IDFA. Guests of honor include acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-Ke,...
The official selection includes 165 films from 50 countries and no fewer than 88 world premieres, making VdR the place to be in April on the international non-fiction film calendar.
Key figures from the world of cinema will be attending including outgoing Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian in the main competition jury, Argentine director and screenwriter Martín Rejtman with his latest film “Riders” in the Burning Lights section, and celebrated French author Christine Angot with her debut film “Une Famille,” which premiered in Berlin.
This year’s opening film is Juan Palacios and Sofie Johannesen’s “As the Tide Comes In,” which has been touring the festival circuit since opening at IDFA. Guests of honor include acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-Ke,...
- 3/19/2024
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
German filmmaker Nele Wohlatz’s “Sleep With Your Eyes Open,” which had its world premiere on Saturday in the Encounters section of the Berlin Film Festival, tells a story about the search for a sense of belonging in a foreign country.
It starts with Kai, a young Taiwanese woman with a broken heart, arriving at a Brazilian beach resort for a holiday. Here, her life crosses paths with a group of Chinese migrants living in a luxury tower block, and in particular a young woman called Xiaoxin, who accepts her fate, and Fu Ang, who is working in an umbrella store when we meet him but harbors ambitions to become wealthy.
Xiaoxin writes about her life on a series of postcards, which are never sent and are eventually discarded. Kai finds them and reads them, provided a connection between the two women. At one point, we stop following Kai and...
It starts with Kai, a young Taiwanese woman with a broken heart, arriving at a Brazilian beach resort for a holiday. Here, her life crosses paths with a group of Chinese migrants living in a luxury tower block, and in particular a young woman called Xiaoxin, who accepts her fate, and Fu Ang, who is working in an umbrella store when we meet him but harbors ambitions to become wealthy.
Xiaoxin writes about her life on a series of postcards, which are never sent and are eventually discarded. Kai finds them and reads them, provided a connection between the two women. At one point, we stop following Kai and...
- 2/21/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
As various critics groups and awards bodies dole out their top films of the year, it can be hard to parse which ones are actually worth paying attention to. Following our top 50 films of 2023, one such list has arrived today with Film Comment’s annual end-of-year survey. Revealed at a special live talk last night, Todd Haynes’s May December, Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up, and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon grabbed the top three spots, while Eduardo Williams’s The Human Surge 3, Lisandro Alonso’s Eureka, and Víctor Erice’s Close Your Eyes topped the best undistributed films.
“It speaks to the ongoing vitality of cinema as an art form, as well as the discernment of our critics in the year of ‘Barbenheimer,’ that this year’s top films represent some of the most boundary-pushing, complex movies of recent times—three new classics from contemporary masters,...
“It speaks to the ongoing vitality of cinema as an art form, as well as the discernment of our critics in the year of ‘Barbenheimer,’ that this year’s top films represent some of the most boundary-pushing, complex movies of recent times—three new classics from contemporary masters,...
- 12/15/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
This ensemble absurdist comedy centring on a hapless Argentinian yoga instructor in Chile and his extended circle is appropriately loose-limbed in structure, although a little overstretched here and there.
Esteban Bigliardi plays Gustavo, whose yoga studio is just about the only full thing in his life. He’s already split up with his wife Vanesa (Manuela Oyarzun), a fellow yogi, although they’re still going through the motions of attending therapist appointments. Vanesa got to keep their apartment, where she now continues to teach much smaller classes, while Gustavo kept the studio but moved into brother-in-law and his wife’s fog bank of a flat - “He smokes and his wife is an idiot,” everyone tells him in just one of Martín Rejtman long-running scripted jokes.
Gustavo is aiming for samadhi - the state of “joyful calm” aimed for by the Ashtanga Yoga tradition - but while he is permanently in a state of calmness.
Esteban Bigliardi plays Gustavo, whose yoga studio is just about the only full thing in his life. He’s already split up with his wife Vanesa (Manuela Oyarzun), a fellow yogi, although they’re still going through the motions of attending therapist appointments. Vanesa got to keep their apartment, where she now continues to teach much smaller classes, while Gustavo kept the studio but moved into brother-in-law and his wife’s fog bank of a flat - “He smokes and his wife is an idiot,” everyone tells him in just one of Martín Rejtman long-running scripted jokes.
Gustavo is aiming for samadhi - the state of “joyful calm” aimed for by the Ashtanga Yoga tradition - but while he is permanently in a state of calmness.
- 11/4/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The particular focus of this year’s Viennale might have been Chile—the main retrospective, dedicated to Raúl Ruiz, was paired with a program exploring the country’s cinema in the half century since the 1973 coup—but its neighbor Argentina was also very well-represented. More than a specific curatorial inclination, this reflected the fact that it’s been a terrific year for Argentine film. Alongside such festival-circuit hits as Lisandro Alonso’s Eureka, Eduardo Williams’s The Human Surge 3 and Rodrigo Moreno’s The Delinquents, the Viennale screened more modestly scaled and below-the-radar films, including Martín Shanly’s About Thirty, Martín Rejtman’s The Practice and Puan by […]
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- 11/3/2023
- by Giovanni Marchini Camia
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
The particular focus of this year’s Viennale might have been Chile—the main retrospective, dedicated to Raúl Ruiz, was paired with a program exploring the country’s cinema in the half century since the 1973 coup—but its neighbor Argentina was also very well-represented. More than a specific curatorial inclination, this reflected the fact that it’s been a terrific year for Argentine film. Alongside such festival-circuit hits as Lisandro Alonso’s Eureka, Eduardo Williams’s The Human Surge 3 and Rodrigo Moreno’s The Delinquents, the Viennale screened more modestly scaled and below-the-radar films, including Martín Shanly’s About Thirty, Martín Rejtman’s The Practice and Puan by […]
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The post Popular and Political Argentinian Cinema at Viennale 2023 first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 11/3/2023
- by Giovanni Marchini Camia
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Feature also screened at New York, London film festivals.
Visit Films will kick off talks at AFM in Santa Monica next week on San Sebastian absurdist comedy The Practice.
‘The Practice’: San Sebastian Review
Martín Rejtman wrote and directed the Argentina-Chile-Portugal- Germany co-production about recently separated yoga instructors Gustavo and Vanesa who find it difficult to live apart.
The film centres on a recently separated yoga instructor with a knee injury who must deal with the search for a new home, a meddling mother, and a flirtatious student.
Esteban Bigliardi, Camila Hirane (Fugitives), Manuela Oyarzún (The Good Life), and...
Visit Films will kick off talks at AFM in Santa Monica next week on San Sebastian absurdist comedy The Practice.
‘The Practice’: San Sebastian Review
Martín Rejtman wrote and directed the Argentina-Chile-Portugal- Germany co-production about recently separated yoga instructors Gustavo and Vanesa who find it difficult to live apart.
The film centres on a recently separated yoga instructor with a knee injury who must deal with the search for a new home, a meddling mother, and a flirtatious student.
Esteban Bigliardi, Camila Hirane (Fugitives), Manuela Oyarzún (The Good Life), and...
- 10/25/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Writer-director Martín Rejtman’s La Práctica skillfully eases us into a world where yoga is a lifestyle and not just an exercise. This is a world that promises health for the health-conscious, an improvement of one’s life through strict scheduling discipline, and freedom from earthly troubles thanks to the influence of Hinduism that can still be felt in yoga’s practice. Pity, then, that Gustavo (Esteban Bigliardi), an Argentinian yoga instructor living in Chile, is no longer grounded in his connection to that practice, as his separation from his wife, Vanesa (Manuela Oyarzún), prompts a series of life changes that a Vinyasa pose can’t fix.
Despite his dedication to exercise and a vegan diet, Gustavo’s health is threatened by a series of stretching accidents and pratfalls, forcing him to teach his yoga classes with a limp. He lives, at first, with Vanesa’s brother and the man’s wife,...
Despite his dedication to exercise and a vegan diet, Gustavo’s health is threatened by a series of stretching accidents and pratfalls, forcing him to teach his yoga classes with a limp. He lives, at first, with Vanesa’s brother and the man’s wife,...
- 9/30/2023
- by Zach Lewis
- Slant Magazine
You’re plenty absolved for not knowing the deal. It’s been 30 years since Martín Rejtman’s debut feature (Rapado), almost 10 from his last (Two Shots Fired), and nearly everything he’s made is only accessible through darkweb torrent networks I wouldn’t name here for fear of losing membership. In recent years, still, a small-even-by-small’s-standards cult has emerged, a just-enough status for this master of incident, image, and interactions––hilarious as in funny-ha-ha, not the dread “arthouse humor.” If there’s anything to account for a non-pareil comedic director falling so out-of-step with means of exposure, consider what the landscapes––financing, exhibition, distribution––roundly not-great for just about anybody would do to a sui generis Argentinian.
A near-decade’s absence hasn’t futzed with skill: La Práctica continues Rejtman’s reign as Argentina’s purveyor of mirthful chuckles, his characteristically patient and absurdity-spotted lens now trained on the...
A near-decade’s absence hasn’t futzed with skill: La Práctica continues Rejtman’s reign as Argentina’s purveyor of mirthful chuckles, his characteristically patient and absurdity-spotted lens now trained on the...
- 9/29/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
San Sebastian — Blessed by blowsy sun, two Conferences and a Co-Pro Forum, which brought the highest caliber and number of U.S., European execs and Latin American producers ever seen in festival history, San Sebastian rounded its final bend Friday after a packed, busy and upbeat event, also suggesting a stability in contrast to other major European events, such as Berlin.
Below, eight takeaways, some 24 hours before Saturday night’s closing gala and prize ceremony.
Women Rule Still
Coming into the festival, many of the biggest main competition buzz pictures were directed by women. Many now figure, according to a El Diario Vasco Spanish critics’ poll, as Golden Shell frontrunners: Isabel Helguera’s animated pic “Sultana’s Dream,” Raven Jackson’s Sundance hit “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” Jaione Camborda’s Toronto platform screener “The Rye Horn” and Tzu-Hui Peng and Ping-Wen Wang’s “A Journey in Spring.”
New...
Below, eight takeaways, some 24 hours before Saturday night’s closing gala and prize ceremony.
Women Rule Still
Coming into the festival, many of the biggest main competition buzz pictures were directed by women. Many now figure, according to a El Diario Vasco Spanish critics’ poll, as Golden Shell frontrunners: Isabel Helguera’s animated pic “Sultana’s Dream,” Raven Jackson’s Sundance hit “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” Jaione Camborda’s Toronto platform screener “The Rye Horn” and Tzu-Hui Peng and Ping-Wen Wang’s “A Journey in Spring.”
New...
- 9/29/2023
- by John Hopewell and Callum McLennan
- Variety Film + TV
”I adore his cinema,” said festival director José Luis Rebordinos of Hayao Miyazaki. ”He is in my list of all-time favourite directors.”
The 71st edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival opened September 22 with the Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki’s latest feature: The Boy And The Heron. The film screened in the official section out of competition at the Spanish festival, which has registered a 10% increase in industry professionals in its growing market activities.
At the ceremony, conducted mainly in Spanish and Basque, festival director José Luis Rebordinos paid homage to Miyazaki, recipient of one of the two Donostia...
The 71st edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival opened September 22 with the Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki’s latest feature: The Boy And The Heron. The film screened in the official section out of competition at the Spanish festival, which has registered a 10% increase in industry professionals in its growing market activities.
At the ceremony, conducted mainly in Spanish and Basque, festival director José Luis Rebordinos paid homage to Miyazaki, recipient of one of the two Donostia...
- 9/23/2023
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
Dark comedy stars Esteban Bigliardi from J.A. Bayona’s Spanish Oscar submission ’Society of The Snow’.
Ryan Kampe’s Visit Films has picked up worldwide sales excluding Argentina, Chile, Portugal and Germany to Argentine director Martín Rejtman’s The Practice (La Practica) ahead of its world premiere at San Sebastian (September 22-30).
The dark comedy will subsequently receive its North American premiere in the 61st New York Film Festival’s (NYFF) Main Slate on September 30.
It stars Esteban Bigliardi from J.A. Bayona’s Spanish Oscar submission and San Sebastian entry Society Of The Snow and NYFF selection The Delinquents...
Ryan Kampe’s Visit Films has picked up worldwide sales excluding Argentina, Chile, Portugal and Germany to Argentine director Martín Rejtman’s The Practice (La Practica) ahead of its world premiere at San Sebastian (September 22-30).
The dark comedy will subsequently receive its North American premiere in the 61st New York Film Festival’s (NYFF) Main Slate on September 30.
It stars Esteban Bigliardi from J.A. Bayona’s Spanish Oscar submission and San Sebastian entry Society Of The Snow and NYFF selection The Delinquents...
- 9/20/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Pathé handles world sales; 01 Distribution released in Italy on September 7.
Italy has selected Matteo Garrone’s timely Venice-winning immigration drama Io Capitano to represent the country at the 2024 Oscars.
The emotionally-charged story follows the harrowing journey of two Senegalese teenagers from Dakar to Italy.
It premiered at the Venice Film Festival to strong reviews across the board where it earned Garrone the best director Silver Lion and the best new actor prize for the film’s leading actor Seydou Sarr.
Just days earlier, Garrone and his cast and crew screened the film at the Vatican for Pope Francis.
Told in Wolof and French,...
Italy has selected Matteo Garrone’s timely Venice-winning immigration drama Io Capitano to represent the country at the 2024 Oscars.
The emotionally-charged story follows the harrowing journey of two Senegalese teenagers from Dakar to Italy.
It premiered at the Venice Film Festival to strong reviews across the board where it earned Garrone the best director Silver Lion and the best new actor prize for the film’s leading actor Seydou Sarr.
Just days earlier, Garrone and his cast and crew screened the film at the Vatican for Pope Francis.
Told in Wolof and French,...
- 9/20/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Aussie filmmaker Kitty Green’s latest pic, The Royal Hotel, starring Julia Garner, and Fingernails, the latest film from Christos Nikou, with Riz Ahmed and Jessie Buckley, have been added to San Sebastian’s competition lineup.
Overall, six films have been announced as late additions to proceedings in San Seb. The other titles are Kalak (Isabella Eklöf), The Successor (Xavier Legrand), Great Absence (Kei Chika-Ura), and the debut from Tzu-Hui Peng and Ping-Wen Wang, A Journey in Spring. Additionally, the French pic A Real Job, directed by Thomas Lilti, will play the fest’s special screenings section.
The Royal Hotel is Kitty Green’s first feature since her 2019 breakout, The Assistant. The film tells the tale of two backpackers (Garner and Jessica Henwick) who take a job in a pub in the remote Australian Outback. Neon has acquired North American rights to the film. Following his debut Apples, which played Telluride,...
Overall, six films have been announced as late additions to proceedings in San Seb. The other titles are Kalak (Isabella Eklöf), The Successor (Xavier Legrand), Great Absence (Kei Chika-Ura), and the debut from Tzu-Hui Peng and Ping-Wen Wang, A Journey in Spring. Additionally, the French pic A Real Job, directed by Thomas Lilti, will play the fest’s special screenings section.
The Royal Hotel is Kitty Green’s first feature since her 2019 breakout, The Assistant. The film tells the tale of two backpackers (Garner and Jessica Henwick) who take a job in a pub in the remote Australian Outback. Neon has acquired North American rights to the film. Following his debut Apples, which played Telluride,...
- 8/25/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Thomas Lilti’s A Real Job will premiere as a special screening.
Films from Xavier Legrand and Kitty Green are among the new titles in the competition line-up of the San Sebastian International Film Festival.
French director Legrand, whose 2017 feature Custody won best film at the Cesars and best director in Venice, brings The Successor, about a designer who discovers a shocking secret after his father dies.
Australian director Green follows up her fiction feature debut hit The Assistant (2019) with The Royal Hotel, about two backpackers who start working at a pub in the remote Australian outback. Julia Garner once again stars in the film,...
Films from Xavier Legrand and Kitty Green are among the new titles in the competition line-up of the San Sebastian International Film Festival.
French director Legrand, whose 2017 feature Custody won best film at the Cesars and best director in Venice, brings The Successor, about a designer who discovers a shocking secret after his father dies.
Australian director Green follows up her fiction feature debut hit The Assistant (2019) with The Royal Hotel, about two backpackers who start working at a pub in the remote Australian outback. Julia Garner once again stars in the film,...
- 8/25/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSLa Práctica.The New York Film Festival has announced its Main Slate. Alongside a good showing of Cannes prizewinners, the festival will present new films from Radu Jude, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrew Haigh, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Hong Sang-soo (x2 this year), Raven Jackson, Martín Rejtman, and the feature debut from playwright Annie Baker.In an interview with Indiewire, Ira Sachs shared that he and Ben Whishaw are preparing a new film about the photographer Peter Hujar, titled Peter Hujar’s Day (and presumably inspired by Linda Rosenkrantz’s book of the same name).Recommended VIEWINGIn memory of William Friedkin, who died this week at the age of 87, revisit Christopher Small and James Corning’s video essay about his films’ deftly constructed endings. “Over the course of Friedkin's films,” they write in their introduction, “our perspective...
- 8/9/2023
- MUBI
Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal in ‘All of Us Strangers’
The 61st New York Film Festival will feature 32 films in its Main Slate, with the chosen slate of films representing 18 countries. The lineup includes Cannes winners Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone Interest, Fallen Leaves, About Dry Grasses, and Perfect Days.
The 2023 festival runs September 29th through October 15th.
“The unsettled state of the industry is an unavoidable talking point these days, but my hope is that our festival, as it has done through its 61-year history, will serve as a reminder that the art of cinema is in robust health,” stated Dennis Lim, Artistic Director of the New York Film Festival. “The filmmakers in this year’s Main Slate are grappling with eternal questions—about how movies relate to the world, about what it means to make art from life, about the most interesting ways to approach the contemporary...
The 61st New York Film Festival will feature 32 films in its Main Slate, with the chosen slate of films representing 18 countries. The lineup includes Cannes winners Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone Interest, Fallen Leaves, About Dry Grasses, and Perfect Days.
The 2023 festival runs September 29th through October 15th.
“The unsettled state of the industry is an unavoidable talking point these days, but my hope is that our festival, as it has done through its 61-year history, will serve as a reminder that the art of cinema is in robust health,” stated Dennis Lim, Artistic Director of the New York Film Festival. “The filmmakers in this year’s Main Slate are grappling with eternal questions—about how movies relate to the world, about what it means to make art from life, about the most interesting ways to approach the contemporary...
- 8/8/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Taking place September 29-October 15, the 61st New York Film Festival has now unveiled its Main Slate lineup. Comprised of 32 films, the slate includes work by Lisandro Alonso, Annie Baker, Marco Bellocchio, Bertrand Bonello, Catherine Breillat, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Sofia Coppola, Bas Devos, Víctor Erice, Felipe Gálvez, Jonathan Glazer, Andrew Haigh, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Todd Haynes, Agnieszka Holland, Hong Sangsoo, Raven Jackson, Radu Jude, Aki Kaurismäki, Yorgos Lanthimos, Michael Mann, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Rodrigo Moreno, Paul B. Preciado, Martín Rejtman, Alice Rohrwacher, Angela Schanelec, Justine Triet, Wang Bing, Wim Wenders, and Zhang Lu.
“The unsettled state of the industry is an unavoidable talking point these days, but my hope is that our festival, as it has done through its 61-year history, will serve as a reminder that the art of cinema is in robust health,” said Dennis Lim, Artistic Director of the New York Film Festival. “The filmmakers in this year’s...
“The unsettled state of the industry is an unavoidable talking point these days, but my hope is that our festival, as it has done through its 61-year history, will serve as a reminder that the art of cinema is in robust health,” said Dennis Lim, Artistic Director of the New York Film Festival. “The filmmakers in this year’s...
- 8/8/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
The Zone Of Interest, Poor Things and Last Summer among the new additions.
The New York Film Festival (NYFF) has unveiled another 29 films – including new projects from Catherine Breillat, Jonathan Glazer and Andrew Haigh – for the main slate of its sixty-first edition, set to run from September 29 to October 15.
In all, the main slate will comprise 32 features from 18 countries.
A special addition to this year’s main slate is the North American premiere of a newly unearthed and restored short directed by Agnès Varda and featuring Pier Paolo Pasolini while both were in New York for the 1966 NYFF.
The new...
The New York Film Festival (NYFF) has unveiled another 29 films – including new projects from Catherine Breillat, Jonathan Glazer and Andrew Haigh – for the main slate of its sixty-first edition, set to run from September 29 to October 15.
In all, the main slate will comprise 32 features from 18 countries.
A special addition to this year’s main slate is the North American premiere of a newly unearthed and restored short directed by Agnès Varda and featuring Pier Paolo Pasolini while both were in New York for the 1966 NYFF.
The new...
- 8/8/2023
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
The New York Film Festival’s Main Slate of films will consists of almost three dozen films from a lineup of international directors that includes Justine Triet, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Alice Rohrwacher, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Aki Kaurismaki, Wim Wenders, Yorgos Lathimos and Jonathan Glazer. Film at Lincoln Center announced the lineup on Tuesday morning.
Among the 32 films are three special presentations that NYFF had already announced. The opening-night film will be Todd Haynes’ “May December,” its centerpiece screening will be Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” and its closing-night movie will be Michael Mann’s “Ferrari.”
The rest of the Main Slate lineup includes 12 films that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year, including the prize winners “Anatomy of a Fall” from Triet, “The Zone of Interest” from Glazer, “About Dry Grasses” from Ceylan, “Perfect Days” from Wenders and “Fallen Leaves” from Kaurismaki.
Others films include “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World...
Among the 32 films are three special presentations that NYFF had already announced. The opening-night film will be Todd Haynes’ “May December,” its centerpiece screening will be Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” and its closing-night movie will be Michael Mann’s “Ferrari.”
The rest of the Main Slate lineup includes 12 films that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year, including the prize winners “Anatomy of a Fall” from Triet, “The Zone of Interest” from Glazer, “About Dry Grasses” from Ceylan, “Perfect Days” from Wenders and “Fallen Leaves” from Kaurismaki.
Others films include “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World...
- 8/8/2023
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Film at Lincoln Center has set the 32 features from 18 countries making up the Main Slate of the New York Film Festival, from Cannes prize-winners Anatomy Of A Fall by Justine Triet (Palme d’Or) and Zone Of Interest by Jonathan Glazer (Grand Prix), to the latest by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, Hong Sangsoo, Radu Jude, Yorgos Lanthimos and Alice Rohrwacher.
Wenders’ Perfect Days saw a Best Actor for Kōji Yakusho in Cannes, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses a Best Actress for Merve Dizdar. Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves received the Grand Jury Prize. Hailing from Berlin, Angela Schanelec’s Music, Silver Bear winner for Best Screenplay.
The lineup includes films from Lisandro Alonso, Marco Bellocchio, Bertrand Bonello, Catherine Breillat, Bas Devos, Víctor Erice, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Martín Rejtman. Appearing in the Main Slate for the first time: Annie Baker, Devos, Felipe Gálvez, Glazer, Andrew Haigh,...
Wenders’ Perfect Days saw a Best Actor for Kōji Yakusho in Cannes, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses a Best Actress for Merve Dizdar. Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves received the Grand Jury Prize. Hailing from Berlin, Angela Schanelec’s Music, Silver Bear winner for Best Screenplay.
The lineup includes films from Lisandro Alonso, Marco Bellocchio, Bertrand Bonello, Catherine Breillat, Bas Devos, Víctor Erice, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Martín Rejtman. Appearing in the Main Slate for the first time: Annie Baker, Devos, Felipe Gálvez, Glazer, Andrew Haigh,...
- 8/8/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2023 New York Film Festival Main Slate lineup has officially been revealed.
Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, this year’s NYFF Main Slate boasts the latest films from Wim Wenders, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Jonathan Glazer. As previously announced, the festival will open September 29 with Todd Haynes’ “May December,” followed by Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” as the Centerpiece screening. The festival will conclude with Closing Night selection “Ferrari” by Michael Mann, debuting October 15.
The 61st NYFF includes Cannes winners “The Zone of Interest,” helmed by Glazer, “Anatomy of a Fall” directed by Justine Triet, and Wenders’ “Perfect Days,” as well as Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “About Dry Grasses” and Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves.” Berlinale Silver Bear winner “Music” will also screen.
“The unsettled state of the industry is an unavoidable talking point these days, but my hope is that our festival, as it has done through its 61-year history,...
Presented by Film at Lincoln Center, this year’s NYFF Main Slate boasts the latest films from Wim Wenders, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Jonathan Glazer. As previously announced, the festival will open September 29 with Todd Haynes’ “May December,” followed by Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” as the Centerpiece screening. The festival will conclude with Closing Night selection “Ferrari” by Michael Mann, debuting October 15.
The 61st NYFF includes Cannes winners “The Zone of Interest,” helmed by Glazer, “Anatomy of a Fall” directed by Justine Triet, and Wenders’ “Perfect Days,” as well as Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “About Dry Grasses” and Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves.” Berlinale Silver Bear winner “Music” will also screen.
“The unsettled state of the industry is an unavoidable talking point these days, but my hope is that our festival, as it has done through its 61-year history,...
- 8/8/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Twelve stories set in Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Brazil make up Horizontes Latinos, a selection of the year’s feature films, not yet released in Spain, from among all those totally or partially produced in Latin America, directed by moviemakers of Latino origin, or which are set against the backdrop or subject of Latino communities in the rest of the world. In the selection of titles competing for the Horizontes Award at San Sebastian’s 71st edition are two films to have carried off awards at the last Wip Latam –El castillo / The Castle and Estranho caminho / A Strange Path– and at the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum –Alemania–.
Having shown one of her previous movies in Horizontes Latinos, Los sonámbulos / The Sleepwalkers (2019), Paula Hernández returns to the section she will open with El viento que arrasa / A Ravaging Wind, a cinematic adaptation of Selva Almada’s homonymous novel. Alfredo Castro,...
Having shown one of her previous movies in Horizontes Latinos, Los sonámbulos / The Sleepwalkers (2019), Paula Hernández returns to the section she will open with El viento que arrasa / A Ravaging Wind, a cinematic adaptation of Selva Almada’s homonymous novel. Alfredo Castro,...
- 8/3/2023
- by Movies Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
Les Films du Losange has unveiled the trailer for “Un Silence,” Joachim Lafosse’s thought-provoking film starring Daniel Auteuil and Emmanuelle Devos that will world premiere in competition at San Sebastian Film Festival.
Tackling themes of abuse, the timely film revolves around Astrid (Devos), the wife of an acclaimed lawyer (Auteuil). Silenced for 25 years, her family balance suddenly collapses when her children initiate their own search for justice.
One of Belgium’s leading filmmakers, Lafosse is best known internationally for 2012’s “Our Children,” a heart-wrenching drama based on a true story starring Emilie Dequenne and Tahar Rahim. “Our Children” represented Belgium in the Oscars race. “Un Silence” will mark Joachim’s follow up to “The Restless,” which competed at Cannes in 2021 and also explored imploding family dynamics.
Auteuil, who previously won Cesar and BAFTA awards, notably starred in “La belle époque” by Nicolas Bedos, and “Hidden” by Michael Haneke; while Devos,...
Tackling themes of abuse, the timely film revolves around Astrid (Devos), the wife of an acclaimed lawyer (Auteuil). Silenced for 25 years, her family balance suddenly collapses when her children initiate their own search for justice.
One of Belgium’s leading filmmakers, Lafosse is best known internationally for 2012’s “Our Children,” a heart-wrenching drama based on a true story starring Emilie Dequenne and Tahar Rahim. “Our Children” represented Belgium in the Oscars race. “Un Silence” will mark Joachim’s follow up to “The Restless,” which competed at Cannes in 2021 and also explored imploding family dynamics.
Auteuil, who previously won Cesar and BAFTA awards, notably starred in “La belle époque” by Nicolas Bedos, and “Hidden” by Michael Haneke; while Devos,...
- 7/13/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Rushes: Fall Festival Preview, Lucile Hadžihalilović's "La Tour de Glace," Atom Egoyan's Soundscapes
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI, and sign up for our weekly email newsletter by clicking here.NEWSMay December.The first flurries of fall festival news have arrived. The New York Film Festival opens on September 29 with the North American premiere of Todd Haynes's May December—read Lawrence Garcia's take on the "immediately invigorating" film here, toward the conclusion of his Cannes dispatch. The San Sebastián Film Festival (September 22 through 30) has announced its first group of competition titles: among them, Cristi Puiu’s Mmxx, Raven Jackson’s All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, Martín Rejtman’s La prática, and Robin Campillo’s Red Island. Finally, the Venice Film Festival will open on August 30 with the world premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers.Lucile Hadžihalilović has announced her follow-up to Earwig (2021), the 1970s-set La Tour de Glace. Based on a brief plot synopsis,...
- 7/12/2023
- MUBI
Before Venice gets into go mode and unveil their line-up, Artistic Director José Luis Rebordinos has given us a sampling of the films that will premiere in the competition section for the 2023 San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept. 22nd-30th). Two American films with the item out of Sundance in Raven Jackson‘s All Dirt Roads Taste Of Salt is joined by strongNoah Pritzker‘s Ex-Husbands. These two are in in some major auteur company with Argentinian filmmaker Martín Rejtman confirming that his long-gestating La práctica is in the can while neighboring tandem in Maria Alché and Benjamin Naishtat bring their comedy Puán (shot by Hélène Louvart) to the comp as well.…...
- 7/7/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Spain’s San Sebastian film festival unveiled its first group of competition titles Friday, naming a typically eclectic mix of established art house favorites — Cristi Puiu, Joachim Lafosse, Robin Campillo — and rising talents, including Maria Alche, Benjamín Naishtat and American debutant Raven Jackson whose first feature, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, will be competing for San Sebastian’s Golden Shell this year.
Produced by Moonlight director Barry Jenkins, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is described as a lyrical exploration of the life of a Black woman in Mississippi and stars The Woman King‘s Sheila Atim.
A second American title, the comedy Ex-Husbands from director Noah Pritzker (Quitters), also made the San Sebastian cut. Rosanna Arquette, Griffin Dunne, Miles Heizer, James Norton and Eisa Davis are part of the ensemble cast in a story focused on a father (Dunne) overwhelmed by the twin crises of an impending divorce...
Produced by Moonlight director Barry Jenkins, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is described as a lyrical exploration of the life of a Black woman in Mississippi and stars The Woman King‘s Sheila Atim.
A second American title, the comedy Ex-Husbands from director Noah Pritzker (Quitters), also made the San Sebastian cut. Rosanna Arquette, Griffin Dunne, Miles Heizer, James Norton and Eisa Davis are part of the ensemble cast in a story focused on a father (Dunne) overwhelmed by the twin crises of an impending divorce...
- 7/7/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 71st San Sebastian Film Festival runs September 22-30.
Robin Campillo’s Red Island and Cristi Puiu’s Mmxx are among the first titles to be selected in competition for this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival (September 22-30).
Campillo makes his first appearance competing at the festival with French-Belgium co-production Red Island about the French colonisation of Madagascar. The French director’s previous film Bpm (Beats Per Minute) screened in the festival’s Pearl strand in 2017 after winning the jury prize at Cannes earlier that year.
Also competing in competition for the first time is Argentinian director Martín Rejtman...
Robin Campillo’s Red Island and Cristi Puiu’s Mmxx are among the first titles to be selected in competition for this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival (September 22-30).
Campillo makes his first appearance competing at the festival with French-Belgium co-production Red Island about the French colonisation of Madagascar. The French director’s previous film Bpm (Beats Per Minute) screened in the festival’s Pearl strand in 2017 after winning the jury prize at Cannes earlier that year.
Also competing in competition for the first time is Argentinian director Martín Rejtman...
- 7/7/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
A bevy of established auteurs – Joachim Lafosse, Cristi Puiu, Robin Campillo and Martín Rejtman – rub shoulders with the fast-rising figures of Maria Alche and Benjamín Naishtat and new U.S. discovery Raven Jackson among a first batch of directors contending in main competition at September’s San Sebastian Film Festival.
Also in the mix, announced Friday, is U.S. writer-director Noah Pritzker (“Quitters”) whose “Ex-Husbands” headlines “After Hours” co-stars Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette.
Always open to a broader gamut of movies than many other “A” festivals, the first features confirmed for San Sebastian on Friday include four comedies with a change of register to lighter comedy for both Naishtat and Alche, who triumphed at 2018’s San Sebastián with “Rojo” and “A Family Submerged,” best director and Horizontes winners respectively.
The biggest movie event in the Spanish-speaking world – which means ever more as Spanish-language titles hit big viewerships on streaming...
Also in the mix, announced Friday, is U.S. writer-director Noah Pritzker (“Quitters”) whose “Ex-Husbands” headlines “After Hours” co-stars Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette.
Always open to a broader gamut of movies than many other “A” festivals, the first features confirmed for San Sebastian on Friday include four comedies with a change of register to lighter comedy for both Naishtat and Alche, who triumphed at 2018’s San Sebastián with “Rojo” and “A Family Submerged,” best director and Horizontes winners respectively.
The biggest movie event in the Spanish-speaking world – which means ever more as Spanish-language titles hit big viewerships on streaming...
- 7/7/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The San Sebastián Film Festival has revealed the Official Selection for its latest edition, which is due to unfold from September 22 — 30.
The festival, which is celebrating its 71st edition, will screen Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu’s latest film Mmxx in competition. The festival describes the pic as a story that captures the “wanderings of a bunch of errant souls stuck at the crossroads of history.”
Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse returns to San Sebastian this year with his tenth full-length film, A Silence, a drama starring Emmanuelle Devos and Daniel Auteuil. In 2015, he won the fest’s Silver Shell for Best Director for The White Knights, and two of his films have screened in the Perlak sidebar: After Love (2016) and The Restless (2021).
American filmmaker Raven Jackson will enter Competition with her debut film, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt. The festival described the pic as “a lyrical exploration of the life of a woman in Mississippi.
The festival, which is celebrating its 71st edition, will screen Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu’s latest film Mmxx in competition. The festival describes the pic as a story that captures the “wanderings of a bunch of errant souls stuck at the crossroads of history.”
Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse returns to San Sebastian this year with his tenth full-length film, A Silence, a drama starring Emmanuelle Devos and Daniel Auteuil. In 2015, he won the fest’s Silver Shell for Best Director for The White Knights, and two of his films have screened in the Perlak sidebar: After Love (2016) and The Restless (2021).
American filmmaker Raven Jackson will enter Competition with her debut film, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt. The festival described the pic as “a lyrical exploration of the life of a woman in Mississippi.
- 7/7/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Co-productions are increasingly the norm in Chile where state funds remain scant in a market of a mere 19.5 million inhabitants. Its new president’s campaign pledge last year to more than double the state’s contribution to the arts is not quite a reality, with a 16% increase noted so far. On the bright side, there has been an uptick in private funding, with some 50% of a film’s budget covered by private investors. To date, the audiovisual sector has seen a 31.5% increase in state funding this year compared to 2022.
Chilean filmmakers are also exploring new genres, straying from traditional dramas. More often than not — as in Maite Alberdi’s Sundance win for 2023’s “The Eternal Memory” — Chilean cinema has triumphed at one major festival or awards event after another.
Topping it all, Chile’s Pedro Pascal, whose star has continued its meteoric rise with “The Mandalorian” and “The Last of Us,...
Chilean filmmakers are also exploring new genres, straying from traditional dramas. More often than not — as in Maite Alberdi’s Sundance win for 2023’s “The Eternal Memory” — Chilean cinema has triumphed at one major festival or awards event after another.
Topping it all, Chile’s Pedro Pascal, whose star has continued its meteoric rise with “The Mandalorian” and “The Last of Us,...
- 5/16/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Mubi Podcast: Encuentros returns this week with a new episode.The fifth episode features:Laura Paredes, an Argentine actress, recognized in the theater scene for being part of Piel de Lava, one of the most outstanding groups inside and outside her country for its strong experimental approach. Paredes has worked in film with Argentine directors such as Martín Rejtman, Santiago Mitre, and Matías Piñeiro. She has starred in Laura Citarella's two feature films: Ostende (2011) and Trenque Lauquen (2022), the latter of which premiered at the most recent edition of the Venice Film Festival. The second guest is Manuela Martelli, a Chilean actress and director whose career began with outstanding performances in films in her country directed by Andrés Wood and Gonzalo Justiniano. Since then, she has appeared in films by renowned Latin American directors such as Sebastián Lelio, Martín Rejtman, and Alicia Scherson, as well as in projects in Italy,...
- 12/21/2022
- MUBI
Mubi Podcast: Encuentros returns this week with a new episode.The third episode features:Verónica Llinás, an Argentine actress of theater, film and television, recognized in particular for her comedy skills. In her long film career, she has worked with important Argentine filmmakers such as Martín Rejtman, Sebastián Borensztein, and the production company El Pampero Cine. In 2015, she starred in and co-directed with Laura Citarella La mujer de los perros (Dog Lady), a fictionalized and contemplative self-portrait that premiered at Rotterdam, in which she admirably explored the possibilities of non-verbal language.The second guest is Vladimir Durán, a Colombian actor and director based in Buenos Aires. In 2011 he competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his short film Soy tan feliz (I Am so Happy), and in 2018 his first feature film, Adiós entusiasmo (So Long Enthusiasm), premiered at the Berlinale Forum. He has acted in films by Franco Lolli,...
- 12/6/2022
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Shiva Baby (2020) Emma Seligman's Bottoms now has a cast, which includes Shiva Baby star Rachel Sennott, Havana Rose Liu, Ayo Edebiri, and former NFL player Marshawn Lynch. Written by Seligman and Sennott, the film is a high school sex comedy about "two unpopular queer girls in their senior year who start a fight club to try to impress and hook up with cheerleaders." Michel Bouquet, the prolific French film and theater actor, has died at 96. Early in his film career, Bouquet narrated Alain Resnais' Night and Fog (1955), then went on to appear in films by François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Deray, and many more. Among his later performances was the role of the tiular painter in Gilles Bourdos's Renoir (2013). Submissions are now open for "The Video Essay," the annual collaborative section of...
- 4/13/2022
- MUBI
Comparisons abound—Frances Ha and Eric Rohmer seemingly closest at hand, Martín Rejtman if you want to dig a bit deeper—but it’s the pleasure of discovering a new voice that runs through El Planeta, the directorial debut of artist Amalia Ulman. Sketched in a kind of brevity per its wit but photographed with patience and depth—speaking literally on the latter, per those excellent black-and-white images—it proved a potent antidote to much of its Sundance brethren, and right now is maybe just what’s needed as a particularly dire summer movie season winds down.
With Utopia set to release El Planeta on September 24, there naturally comes a techno-bumping trailer. As we said out of Sundance, “In tone, El Planeta is just sarcastic enough to hide its earnestness. Thematically, it’s about economic aspirations as much as it is the “entitlement” intrinsically linked to it. What characters want...
With Utopia set to release El Planeta on September 24, there naturally comes a techno-bumping trailer. As we said out of Sundance, “In tone, El Planeta is just sarcastic enough to hide its earnestness. Thematically, it’s about economic aspirations as much as it is the “entitlement” intrinsically linked to it. What characters want...
- 8/19/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Cannes Titles To Stream Online
A pair of documentaries selected for this year’s Cannes Classics program will screen for free on the festival’s website and on the Cine+ Dailymotion platform as of this evening (July 2) from 7pm local time. The two films, both just shy of one hour in length, are Daphné Baiwir’s The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland, a portrait of the famed actress who was the first female president of the Cannes jury in 1965, and Emmanuel Barnault’s Pieces Of Cannes, a look at the French festival’s 74-year history. The films will be available until July 4 at 10pm local time.
Venice Gap Financing Projects
Venice Film Festival has revealed the 30 projects that will take part in its Gap-Financing Market during this year’s industry-focused Production Bridge, running September 1-11. The event will offer filmmaking teams one-on-one meetings with international decision-makers. Among the selected titles are The Secret Of Places,...
A pair of documentaries selected for this year’s Cannes Classics program will screen for free on the festival’s website and on the Cine+ Dailymotion platform as of this evening (July 2) from 7pm local time. The two films, both just shy of one hour in length, are Daphné Baiwir’s The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland, a portrait of the famed actress who was the first female president of the Cannes jury in 1965, and Emmanuel Barnault’s Pieces Of Cannes, a look at the French festival’s 74-year history. The films will be available until July 4 at 10pm local time.
Venice Gap Financing Projects
Venice Film Festival has revealed the 30 projects that will take part in its Gap-Financing Market during this year’s industry-focused Production Bridge, running September 1-11. The event will offer filmmaking teams one-on-one meetings with international decision-makers. Among the selected titles are The Secret Of Places,...
- 7/2/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Welcome back to Intermission, a spin-off podcast from The Film Stage Show. Led by yours truly, Michael Snydel, I invite a guest to discuss an arthouse, foreign, or experimental film of their choice.
For the twelfth episode, I talked to prolific Chicago critic Ben Sachs, an associate editor at Cine-File, about Martín Rejtman’s 2014 Argentine comedy Two Shots Fired (available along with the rest of Rejman’s fiction work on Mubi). A wryly absurd, deceptively simple portrait of weathering middle class discontentment, Rejtman’s film traces the undulations of a family and their friends/acquaintances after a 16-year-old boy attempts suicide. He presents that event as little more than a darkly comedic non-sequitur, a corollary into a series of vignettes about disconnection and spiritual fatigue.
His sparely evocative sensibility can occasionally recall filmmakers like Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismaki, but it’s more productive to contextualize him with his regional contemporaries and descendants.
For the twelfth episode, I talked to prolific Chicago critic Ben Sachs, an associate editor at Cine-File, about Martín Rejtman’s 2014 Argentine comedy Two Shots Fired (available along with the rest of Rejman’s fiction work on Mubi). A wryly absurd, deceptively simple portrait of weathering middle class discontentment, Rejtman’s film traces the undulations of a family and their friends/acquaintances after a 16-year-old boy attempts suicide. He presents that event as little more than a darkly comedic non-sequitur, a corollary into a series of vignettes about disconnection and spiritual fatigue.
His sparely evocative sensibility can occasionally recall filmmakers like Jim Jarmusch and Aki Kaurismaki, but it’s more productive to contextualize him with his regional contemporaries and descendants.
- 4/22/2021
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks Int’l has nabbed worldwide rights to Daniel Werner’s feature debut, erotic thriller “Bandit Love” (“Amor Bandido”), after it screened at Argentine indie film festival Bafici, where it garnered both audience and critical acclaim.
“This slow-burn thriller, disguised as an illicit romance, surprised everyone at its Bafici premiere and critics went mad. It’s a kind of high-concept festival gem that is hard to find nowadays … all major festivals and buyers will chase this one,” FilmSharks CEO Guido Rud said. Rud has also acquired the remake rights of the film for his subsidiary, the Remake Co.
As revealed in the trailer, which debuts in Variety, “Bandit Love” turns on a 16 year old, the son of a prominent judge, who is romantically entangled with his 35-year-old teacher. Unhappy at home, he takes off with her to a hideaway in the countryside. What starts off as an idyllic,...
“This slow-burn thriller, disguised as an illicit romance, surprised everyone at its Bafici premiere and critics went mad. It’s a kind of high-concept festival gem that is hard to find nowadays … all major festivals and buyers will chase this one,” FilmSharks CEO Guido Rud said. Rud has also acquired the remake rights of the film for his subsidiary, the Remake Co.
As revealed in the trailer, which debuts in Variety, “Bandit Love” turns on a 16 year old, the son of a prominent judge, who is romantically entangled with his 35-year-old teacher. Unhappy at home, he takes off with her to a hideaway in the countryside. What starts off as an idyllic,...
- 3/23/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
New York-based non-profit distributor Cinema Tropical has acquired North American rights to Brazilian documentary “My Darling Supermarket,” the debut feature by Tali Yankelevich.
Cinema Tropical plans to release the film in virtual cinemas starting on Feb. 24, including New York City’s Film Forum, followed by other cities nationwide.
A co-production between Brazil’s Casa Redonda, in co-production with Denmark’s Good Company Pictures and Brazil’s Mão Direita, “My Darling Supermarket” had its world premiere in the IDFA Competition for First Appearance and has unspooled in numerous film festivals, among them MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight, Visions du Réel, Edinburgh, Thessaloniki, Guadalajara and Doxa.
Cinema Tropical, a leading presenter of Latin American cinema in the U.S., describes “My Darling Supermarket” as a “charming and witty portrait of a grocery store in São Paulo” that follows the day to day of its employees — a band of essential workers steeped in the confined space of the store.
Cinema Tropical plans to release the film in virtual cinemas starting on Feb. 24, including New York City’s Film Forum, followed by other cities nationwide.
A co-production between Brazil’s Casa Redonda, in co-production with Denmark’s Good Company Pictures and Brazil’s Mão Direita, “My Darling Supermarket” had its world premiere in the IDFA Competition for First Appearance and has unspooled in numerous film festivals, among them MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight, Visions du Réel, Edinburgh, Thessaloniki, Guadalajara and Doxa.
Cinema Tropical, a leading presenter of Latin American cinema in the U.S., describes “My Darling Supermarket” as a “charming and witty portrait of a grocery store in São Paulo” that follows the day to day of its employees — a band of essential workers steeped in the confined space of the store.
- 2/1/2021
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
The new projects by Benjamín Naishtat, Martín Rejtman and Iván Fund have taken home some of the main prizes at this year’s edition. Despite the peculiar conditions of this 2020 edition, the San Sebastián International Film Festival managed to host a successful platform and series of events dedicated to professionals working on their projects. This year saw the first editions of the Wip Latam and Wip Europa (which emerged as an evolution of Glocal in Progress) work-in-progress programmes, alongside the ninth Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, which continues strengthening bridges between the film industries of both continents. While the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum took place entirely online, Wip Latam and Wip Europa unspooled as hybrid events, hosting physical screenings at the festival and offering online access in collaboration with Cinando. During the awards ceremony,...
Ivan Dusk’s Dusk Stone won the Wip Latam award.
Argentinian director Iván Fund’s Dusk Stone has won the prestigious Wip Latam Industry Award in San Sebastián, guaranteeing a Spanish distribution deal and post production support via sponsors Ad Hoc Studios, Deluxe Spain, Dolby Iberia, Laserfilm, Nephilim producciones, No Problem Sonido and Sherlock Films.
Dusk Stone, is an Argentina-Chile co-production between Rita Cine, Insomnia Films and Globo Rojo FIlms. It is a drama that deals with grief and loss and is about a woman who travels to a coastal town to help her friend sell her house. The friend...
Argentinian director Iván Fund’s Dusk Stone has won the prestigious Wip Latam Industry Award in San Sebastián, guaranteeing a Spanish distribution deal and post production support via sponsors Ad Hoc Studios, Deluxe Spain, Dolby Iberia, Laserfilm, Nephilim producciones, No Problem Sonido and Sherlock Films.
Dusk Stone, is an Argentina-Chile co-production between Rita Cine, Insomnia Films and Globo Rojo FIlms. It is a drama that deals with grief and loss and is about a woman who travels to a coastal town to help her friend sell her house. The friend...
- 9/25/2020
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
Manuel Nieto’s trans-Atlantic co-production “The Employer and the Employee” scooped San Sebastian’s biggest industry prize this week, the Egeda Platino Industria Award for the best Latin American work in progress. Its producers will receive $34,850 cash in kind to go towards finishing the film. Seven companies from Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and France make up the ambitious co-production.
San Sebastian’s 2020 Industry section, like so many other events this year, was forced to adapt to a streaming model. However, the timing of the festival, coinciding with relaxed travel restrictions both from within and outside of Europe, allowed for part of the section to be held in person, creating a hybrid event that could prove a model for other festivals to emulate.
From this year’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, several significant cash prizes were handed out, with two $23,230 cash prizes going to both the Dale! Award winner, Marcelo Martinessi’s Luxbox-sold “Who Killed Narciso?...
San Sebastian’s 2020 Industry section, like so many other events this year, was forced to adapt to a streaming model. However, the timing of the festival, coinciding with relaxed travel restrictions both from within and outside of Europe, allowed for part of the section to be held in person, creating a hybrid event that could prove a model for other festivals to emulate.
From this year’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, several significant cash prizes were handed out, with two $23,230 cash prizes going to both the Dale! Award winner, Marcelo Martinessi’s Luxbox-sold “Who Killed Narciso?...
- 9/25/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
In a deal struck on the cusp of San Sebastian Film Festival, Germany’s Pandora Filmproduktion has boarded “Riders,” the latest project from Martín Rejtman, hailed as the founding father of the New Argentine Cinema.
Written by Rejtman, “Riders” (“El Repartidor Está en Camino”) will be presented to further potential partners at this weekend’s 9th’s San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum.
Set up at Buenos Aires’ Un Puma, headed by María Victoria Marotta, “Riders” will be co-produced by Joao Matos at Portugal’s Terratreme Filmes and now Pandora, one of Europe’s most active co-production partners, working on new films by established directors such as Claire Denis, as well as emerging talent from around the world.
Conceived during Covid-19, and currently at screenplay development, “Riders” will turn on Buenos Aires food delivery app bike riders, most recently arrived from Venezuela, whose numbers grew exponentially during Argentina’s lockdown.
Written by Rejtman, “Riders” (“El Repartidor Está en Camino”) will be presented to further potential partners at this weekend’s 9th’s San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum.
Set up at Buenos Aires’ Un Puma, headed by María Victoria Marotta, “Riders” will be co-produced by Joao Matos at Portugal’s Terratreme Filmes and now Pandora, one of Europe’s most active co-production partners, working on new films by established directors such as Claire Denis, as well as emerging talent from around the world.
Conceived during Covid-19, and currently at screenplay development, “Riders” will turn on Buenos Aires food delivery app bike riders, most recently arrived from Venezuela, whose numbers grew exponentially during Argentina’s lockdown.
- 9/16/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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