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In the wee hours of Thursday morning, Ysl Beauty rang in Paris Fashion Week with a party at the heart of the French capital celebrating their newest fragrance Myslf and its campaign starring acclaimed actor Austin Butler. Stars from the movie, music, and fashion worlds descended on an old fire station turned outdoor venue and basement nightclub to snap pictures, regale with peers, and usher in the L’Oréal...
In the wee hours of Thursday morning, Ysl Beauty rang in Paris Fashion Week with a party at the heart of the French capital celebrating their newest fragrance Myslf and its campaign starring acclaimed actor Austin Butler. Stars from the movie, music, and fashion worlds descended on an old fire station turned outdoor venue and basement nightclub to snap pictures, regale with peers, and usher in the L’Oréal...
- 9/29/2023
- by Waiss Aramesh
- Rollingstone.com
Blue Finch Film Releasing will release Calvaire on Digital Platforms from 19th September 2023. Synopsis: Marc Stevens is a travelling singer in rural Belgium. At the nursing home where he is performing, the concert has ended, and Marc takes to the road. Shortly afterwards his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. He is taken in by Bartel, an innkeeper who became psychologically fragile after his wife Gloria left him. This is how Marc’s ordeal begins… Re-released on UK Digital Platforms from 19th September 2023, director Fabrice Du Welz’s unrelenting modern horror classic Calvaire, considered a key part of the New French Extremity movement of bold and challenging horror cinema, was shot by cinematographer Benoît Debie (Gaspar Noé’s Irréversible) and stars Laurent Lucas (Raw), Philippe Nahon and Jackie Berroyer.
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- 9/2/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
Austin Butler is putting his triple threat talent to the test for director Julia Ducournau.
The “Elvis” Best Actor Oscar nominee teams up with the “Titane” Palme d’Or winner for a new Saint Laurent Ysl Beauty campaign. Butler was unveiled as the brand’s “fragrance ambassador” and debuted the new cologne, Myslf.
“I was honored to be asked to join the Ysl Beauty family,” Butler said in a press statement. “Over the last few years, I’ve spoken with people who knew Mr. Saint Laurent. He broke through labels. He was a rebel, and I love that about him. I feel privileged to be a part of the heritage he set in motion.”
The Saint Laurent brand shared (via People magazine) that Butler has “the vision of the brand to embrace bold self-expression, genuine pursuit of one’s true self and a mission to redefine beauty standards.”
International General Manager of Saint Laurent,...
The “Elvis” Best Actor Oscar nominee teams up with the “Titane” Palme d’Or winner for a new Saint Laurent Ysl Beauty campaign. Butler was unveiled as the brand’s “fragrance ambassador” and debuted the new cologne, Myslf.
“I was honored to be asked to join the Ysl Beauty family,” Butler said in a press statement. “Over the last few years, I’ve spoken with people who knew Mr. Saint Laurent. He broke through labels. He was a rebel, and I love that about him. I feel privileged to be a part of the heritage he set in motion.”
The Saint Laurent brand shared (via People magazine) that Butler has “the vision of the brand to embrace bold self-expression, genuine pursuit of one’s true self and a mission to redefine beauty standards.”
International General Manager of Saint Laurent,...
- 8/23/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
A couple weeks ago, we learned that Brotherhood of the Wolf and Silent Hill director Christophe Gans’ new Silent Hill movie, which is said to be “totally independent from the two previous movies”, had secured funding and would begin filming soon. Now the German website Filmportal has revealed a plot synopsis for Gans’ Return to Silent Hill, and where filming is going to take place!
According to the website, Return to Silent Hill has the following synopsis (using an online German to English translator): Driven by the shadows of his past, James Sunderland returns to Silent Hill to find his lost love, Mary Crane. But the dark, depressing small town is no longer the place from his memories. He meets characters who seem all too familiar and who try to divert him from his search for Mary. The longer he searches for Mary, the more he begins to wonder...
According to the website, Return to Silent Hill has the following synopsis (using an online German to English translator): Driven by the shadows of his past, James Sunderland returns to Silent Hill to find his lost love, Mary Crane. But the dark, depressing small town is no longer the place from his memories. He meets characters who seem all too familiar and who try to divert him from his search for Mary. The longer he searches for Mary, the more he begins to wonder...
- 3/3/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
With filming due to get underway very soon for Christophe Gans‘ Return to Silent Hill, you’re probably wondering just what exactly the details are for the film, including the story and cast. Luckily, German website Filmportal has provided a few details, including some preliminary casting and a few changes from the game’s story.
According to the site, Return to Silent Hill will be a German-British-Serbian co-production between Munich-based Maze Pictures with Metropolitan and Davis Films from Paris, and The Electric Shadow Company and Lotus Wallace from London. Half of the filming will take place in Germany, with Munich, Penzing, Nuremberg, Rossberg, and Lake Ammer being the locations of choice.
Alongside a screenplay from Gans, the film will be photographed by Benoit Debie, with Felicity Abbott handling production design and Sébastian Prangère serving as editor.
The synopsis goes like this: “Driven by the shadows of his past, James Sunderland...
According to the site, Return to Silent Hill will be a German-British-Serbian co-production between Munich-based Maze Pictures with Metropolitan and Davis Films from Paris, and The Electric Shadow Company and Lotus Wallace from London. Half of the filming will take place in Germany, with Munich, Penzing, Nuremberg, Rossberg, and Lake Ammer being the locations of choice.
Alongside a screenplay from Gans, the film will be photographed by Benoit Debie, with Felicity Abbott handling production design and Sébastian Prangère serving as editor.
The synopsis goes like this: “Driven by the shadows of his past, James Sunderland...
- 3/1/2023
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
There is one thing to be said for Seneca — On the Creation of Earthquakes, which has its world premiere in Berlin this week. It may be the first major film set in ancient Rome in a couple of decades. But those who are hoping for a vivid adventure like Gladiator or Spartacus or even a campy hoot like Quo Vadis will be sorely disappointed by this bizarre effort to create a historical fantasia. John Malkovich has a rare starring role and acquits himself solidly enough. But it is harder to understand what motivated director Robert Schwentke, who has some successful films to his credit (The Time Traveler’s Wife, Red, the Divergent series) but adds no luster to his resume with this head-scratcher.
Schwentke was born in Germany but has made most of his films in Hollywood. This German-financed effort was filmed primarily in Morocco and showcases a cast from all over the world,...
Schwentke was born in Germany but has made most of his films in Hollywood. This German-financed effort was filmed primarily in Morocco and showcases a cast from all over the world,...
- 2/20/2023
- by Stephen Farber
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Actor John Malkovich is in Berlin to debut his latest pic Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes, and during a press conference Monday, he spoke to reporters about his relationship with his co-star, Julian Sands, who has been missing since January.
“Julian and I were very, very close,” Malkovich told reporters in Berlin.
“I’m a godfather to his first son from his first marriage to Sarah, who I know very well. I introduced him to his second wife, and we have been close since we met in 1983 on the set of The Killing Fields. It’s a very sad event.”
Related: Deadline’s Berlin Film Festival Coverage
Sands was reported missing on January 13 after he failed to return from a hiking expedition in California. Several searches by public and private parties have already been carried out. The actor is also an experienced hiker.
John Malkovich, Julian Sands, ‘The Killing...
“Julian and I were very, very close,” Malkovich told reporters in Berlin.
“I’m a godfather to his first son from his first marriage to Sarah, who I know very well. I introduced him to his second wife, and we have been close since we met in 1983 on the set of The Killing Fields. It’s a very sad event.”
Related: Deadline’s Berlin Film Festival Coverage
Sands was reported missing on January 13 after he failed to return from a hiking expedition in California. Several searches by public and private parties have already been carried out. The actor is also an experienced hiker.
John Malkovich, Julian Sands, ‘The Killing...
- 2/20/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Dominik Moll’s The Night of The 12th has won best film at the 28th edition of France’s Lumière Awards in Paris on Monday evening.
The investigative drama, which was nominated in six categories, also won Best Screenplay.
The film, which debuted in the Cannes Film Festival’s non-competitive Cannes Première section, stars Bastien Bouillon as a police detective who becomes obsessed with a case involving a complex female murder victim.
Best director went to Albert Serra for French Polynesia-set drama Pacification. The feature also clinched two other prizes: Best Actor for Benoît Magimal and Best Cinematography for Artur Tort.
Virginie Efira won Best Actress for her performance in Rebecca Zlotowski’s Other People’s Children about the challenge of navigating the stepmother role.
Nadia Tereszkiewicz won Best Female Revelation for her performance in Forever Young and Dimitri Doré, Best Male Revelation for Bruno Reidal.
Alice Diop clinched best documentary category for We,...
The investigative drama, which was nominated in six categories, also won Best Screenplay.
The film, which debuted in the Cannes Film Festival’s non-competitive Cannes Première section, stars Bastien Bouillon as a police detective who becomes obsessed with a case involving a complex female murder victim.
Best director went to Albert Serra for French Polynesia-set drama Pacification. The feature also clinched two other prizes: Best Actor for Benoît Magimal and Best Cinematography for Artur Tort.
Virginie Efira won Best Actress for her performance in Rebecca Zlotowski’s Other People’s Children about the challenge of navigating the stepmother role.
Nadia Tereszkiewicz won Best Female Revelation for her performance in Forever Young and Dimitri Doré, Best Male Revelation for Bruno Reidal.
Alice Diop clinched best documentary category for We,...
- 1/16/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Dominik Moll’s The Night of The 12th, which world premiered in Cannes in May, has topped the nominations for the 28th edition of France’s Lumière Awards.
The awards are voted on by members of the international press corp hailing from 36 countries based in France.
The Night Of The 12th was nominated in six categories including best film, director and screenplay. The film debuted in the Cannes Film Festival’s non competitive Cannes Première section.
The investigative drama is Moll’s seventh feature. It stars Bastien Bouillon, with support from Bouli Lanners, as a police detective who becomes obsessed with a case involving a complex female murder victim.
Other multi-nominated titles include Albert Serra’s French Polynesia-set drama Pacification five nominations.
Four films received four nominations each: Alice Diop’s Saint-Omer; Rebecca Zlotowski’s Other People’s Children; Louis Garrel’s The Innocent and Gaspar Noé’s Vortex.
Diop,...
The awards are voted on by members of the international press corp hailing from 36 countries based in France.
The Night Of The 12th was nominated in six categories including best film, director and screenplay. The film debuted in the Cannes Film Festival’s non competitive Cannes Première section.
The investigative drama is Moll’s seventh feature. It stars Bastien Bouillon, with support from Bouli Lanners, as a police detective who becomes obsessed with a case involving a complex female murder victim.
Other multi-nominated titles include Albert Serra’s French Polynesia-set drama Pacification five nominations.
Four films received four nominations each: Alice Diop’s Saint-Omer; Rebecca Zlotowski’s Other People’s Children; Louis Garrel’s The Innocent and Gaspar Noé’s Vortex.
Diop,...
- 12/15/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Bloody Disgusting has learned this afternoon that Yellow Veil Pictures have acquired all distribution rights in North America for the HD remaster of Fabrice du Welz’s 2004 Belgian horror movie Calvaire. Released at the height of the New French Extremity movement, Calvaire follows a traveling entertainer who falls victim to a dangerously unhinged innkeeper determined to keep him captive. The U.S. premiere of the remaster will take place next month as part of the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival.
As du Welz’s first feature, Calvaire would go on to become the first part of his thematic Ardennes Trilogy (alongside 2014’s Alleluia and 2019’s Adoration) and immediately define the young director as a voice to watch in Belgium. Calvaire takes its cues not only from the contemporary extreme cinema of France and Belgium, but also from iconic works like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to create a poetically brutal study of human nature.
As du Welz’s first feature, Calvaire would go on to become the first part of his thematic Ardennes Trilogy (alongside 2014’s Alleluia and 2019’s Adoration) and immediately define the young director as a voice to watch in Belgium. Calvaire takes its cues not only from the contemporary extreme cinema of France and Belgium, but also from iconic works like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to create a poetically brutal study of human nature.
- 9/16/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Andres Ramirez Pulido’s “La Jauria” won the Grand Prize at Critics’ Week, the Cannes Film Festival’s sidebar dedicated to first and second features. The Colombian film also won the Sacd prize.
The feature debut follows Eliú, a country boy who is wrongly accused of a crime and incarcerated in an experimental rehabilitation center for tough boys in the heart of the Colombian tropical forest.
Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun,” which stars “Normal People” actor Paul Mescal, won the French Touch Prize of the Jury. The bittersweet drama revolves around a father and daughter who spend a summer holiday in a Turkish resort.
Emmanuelle Nicot’s “Love According To Dalva,” meanwhile, won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for Zelda Samson. “Love According to Dalva” is a poignant drama about a 12-year-old girl growing up in foster care, alongside social workers and other children.
The Gan Foundation Award for Distribution went to Urban Distribution,...
The feature debut follows Eliú, a country boy who is wrongly accused of a crime and incarcerated in an experimental rehabilitation center for tough boys in the heart of the Colombian tropical forest.
Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun,” which stars “Normal People” actor Paul Mescal, won the French Touch Prize of the Jury. The bittersweet drama revolves around a father and daughter who spend a summer holiday in a Turkish resort.
Emmanuelle Nicot’s “Love According To Dalva,” meanwhile, won the Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award for Zelda Samson. “Love According to Dalva” is a poignant drama about a 12-year-old girl growing up in foster care, alongside social workers and other children.
The Gan Foundation Award for Distribution went to Urban Distribution,...
- 5/25/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
UK director Charlotte Well’s buzzed-about debut Aftersun also features among the prize-winners.
Colombian director Andrés Ramírez Pulido’s jungle-set, coming-of-age drama The Pack (La Jauria) has scooped the top €10,000 grand prix of the 61st edition of Cannes Critics’ Week.
The film revolves around a boy who is sent to an experimental juvenile correction centre in the heart of the Colombian jungle after he commits a crime.
The Colombia-France co-production is Pulido’s first feature after a number of well-travelled shorts including Damiana which premiered in Competition in Cannes in 2017 and El Edén which played in the Berlinale in 2018.
Tunisian...
Colombian director Andrés Ramírez Pulido’s jungle-set, coming-of-age drama The Pack (La Jauria) has scooped the top €10,000 grand prix of the 61st edition of Cannes Critics’ Week.
The film revolves around a boy who is sent to an experimental juvenile correction centre in the heart of the Colombian jungle after he commits a crime.
The Colombia-France co-production is Pulido’s first feature after a number of well-travelled shorts including Damiana which premiered in Competition in Cannes in 2017 and El Edén which played in the Berlinale in 2018.
Tunisian...
- 5/25/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
UK director Charlotte Well’s buzzed-about debut Aftersun also features among the prize-winners.
Columbian director Andrés Ramírez Pulido’s jungle-set, coming-of-age drama The Pack (La Jauria) has scooped the top €10,000 grand prix of the 61st edition of Cannes Critics’ Week.
The film revolves around a boy who is sent to an experimental juvenile correction centre in the heart of the Colombian jungle after he commits a crime.
The Colombia-France co-production is Pulido’s first feature after a number of well-travelled shorts including Damiana which premiered in Competition in Cannes in 2017 and El Edén which played in the Berlinale in 2018.
Tunisian...
Columbian director Andrés Ramírez Pulido’s jungle-set, coming-of-age drama The Pack (La Jauria) has scooped the top €10,000 grand prix of the 61st edition of Cannes Critics’ Week.
The film revolves around a boy who is sent to an experimental juvenile correction centre in the heart of the Colombian jungle after he commits a crime.
The Colombia-France co-production is Pulido’s first feature after a number of well-travelled shorts including Damiana which premiered in Competition in Cannes in 2017 and El Edén which played in the Berlinale in 2018.
Tunisian...
- 5/25/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Critics’ Week, the sidebar dedicated to first and second films running alongside the Cannes Film Festival, will be kicking off with Jesse Eisenberg’s feature debut “When You Finish Saving the World” and showcase four female-directed movies.
Selected out of 1100 submitted movies, the full roster includes 11 feature films, seven of which will compete and four will play as special screenings.
“When You Finish Saving the World,” which is headlined by Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard, revolves around the relationship between a politically-engaged mother and her fame-obsessed teenage son, who is also a burgeoning musician. The A24 movie is based on Eisenberg’s 2020 audio drama of the same name and was part of the Sundance 2022 selection.
“We already adored Eisenberg as an actor and discovered him as a true auteur with this film that’s both tender and contemporary and exposes a generational gap between a mother and her son,” said Ava Cahen,...
Selected out of 1100 submitted movies, the full roster includes 11 feature films, seven of which will compete and four will play as special screenings.
“When You Finish Saving the World,” which is headlined by Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard, revolves around the relationship between a politically-engaged mother and her fame-obsessed teenage son, who is also a burgeoning musician. The A24 movie is based on Eisenberg’s 2020 audio drama of the same name and was part of the Sundance 2022 selection.
“We already adored Eisenberg as an actor and discovered him as a true auteur with this film that’s both tender and contemporary and exposes a generational gap between a mother and her son,” said Ava Cahen,...
- 4/20/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Selection to be announced on Wednesday morning.
Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania has been named president of 2022 Critics’ Week, the Cannes parallel section for films by first and second-time films.
Ben Hania will be supported by a jury comprising French-Greek actress and director Ariane Labed, Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson, Belgian cinematographer Benoît Debie, and South Korean journalist, film programmer and director of Busan International Film Festival Huh Moonyung.
Ben Hania’s four features include her debut The Blade Of Tunis, 2017 Cannes Un Certain Regard entry Beauty And The Dogs, and 2020 Venice Orizzonti selection The Man Who Sold His Skin, the...
Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania has been named president of 2022 Critics’ Week, the Cannes parallel section for films by first and second-time films.
Ben Hania will be supported by a jury comprising French-Greek actress and director Ariane Labed, Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson, Belgian cinematographer Benoît Debie, and South Korean journalist, film programmer and director of Busan International Film Festival Huh Moonyung.
Ben Hania’s four features include her debut The Blade Of Tunis, 2017 Cannes Un Certain Regard entry Beauty And The Dogs, and 2020 Venice Orizzonti selection The Man Who Sold His Skin, the...
- 4/18/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Critics Week (or La Semaine de la Critique), the selection dedicated to first and second films running alongside the Cannes Film Festival, will boast a jury presided over by Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania (“The Man who Sold his Skin”).
Ben Hania has directed four features, including “Beauty and the Dogs” which competed in Un Certain Regard in 2017, and “The Man who Sold his Skin” which played at Venice in 2020 and was the first Tunisian film nominated for the Oscars’ international feature film race.
The jury of the 61st edition will be completed by French-Greek actress and director Ariane Labed, Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson (“Woman at War”), Belgian cinematographer Benoît Debie, and South Korean journalist and Busan Festival’s topper Huh Moon yung.
Four prizes will be handed out by Ben Hania’s jury, the La Semaine de la Critique Grand Prize, the French Touch Prize of the Jury, the...
Ben Hania has directed four features, including “Beauty and the Dogs” which competed in Un Certain Regard in 2017, and “The Man who Sold his Skin” which played at Venice in 2020 and was the first Tunisian film nominated for the Oscars’ international feature film race.
The jury of the 61st edition will be completed by French-Greek actress and director Ariane Labed, Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson (“Woman at War”), Belgian cinematographer Benoît Debie, and South Korean journalist and Busan Festival’s topper Huh Moon yung.
Four prizes will be handed out by Ben Hania’s jury, the La Semaine de la Critique Grand Prize, the French Touch Prize of the Jury, the...
- 4/18/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Vortex Trailer — Gaspar Noé‘s Vortex (2021) movie trailer has been released by Utopia. The Vortex trailer stars Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun, and Alex Lutz. Crew Gaspar Noé wrote the screenplay for Vortex. Denis Bedlow conducted the film editing on the film. Benoît Debie crafted the cinematography for the film. Plot Synopsis Vortex‘s plot synopsis: “Presented in split screen, [...]
Continue reading: Vortex (2021) Movie Trailer: An Aging Couple & Their Son Deal with Dementia in Gaspar Noé’s Split-screen Film...
Continue reading: Vortex (2021) Movie Trailer: An Aging Couple & Their Son Deal with Dementia in Gaspar Noé’s Split-screen Film...
- 3/12/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Very few filmmakers instantly pique your interest quite like Gaspar Noé and his latest, Vortex, is remarkable, often hard to watch, yet sweet in parts.
The Argentine-born director and writer unleashes Vortex on these shores at the Glasgow Film Festival for its UK premiere. You may be unfamiliar with the name but will have no doubt have heard quiet murmurs about his work, more specifically 2002’s Irreversible starring Vincent Cassel.
Front and centre is the one fate we all share, death. We follow the lives of elderly couple of Lui (Dario Argento) and Elle (Françoise Lebrun) where initially all seems well as they follow a standard, well-synchronised, morning routine. It quickly becomes obvious this is not the case as we witness the ravages of dementia as it takes its hold over Elle and we see the struggle play out in split screen.
It is a topic that is no stranger...
The Argentine-born director and writer unleashes Vortex on these shores at the Glasgow Film Festival for its UK premiere. You may be unfamiliar with the name but will have no doubt have heard quiet murmurs about his work, more specifically 2002’s Irreversible starring Vincent Cassel.
Front and centre is the one fate we all share, death. We follow the lives of elderly couple of Lui (Dario Argento) and Elle (Françoise Lebrun) where initially all seems well as they follow a standard, well-synchronised, morning routine. It quickly becomes obvious this is not the case as we witness the ravages of dementia as it takes its hold over Elle and we see the struggle play out in split screen.
It is a topic that is no stranger...
- 3/7/2022
- by Thomas Alexander
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Filmmaker Boaz Yakin discusses some of his favorite films with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Aviva (2020)
The Harder They Fall (2021)
The Harder They Come (1972)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Fresh (1994)
Mo’ Better Blues (1990)
Safe (2012)
Scream (2022)
The Punisher (1989)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Kagemusha (1980) – Bernard Rose’s trailer commentary
Mean Streets (1973)
Jaws (1975) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
The 400 Blows (1959) – Robert Weide’s trailer commentary
Yojimbo (1961)
Dodes’ka-den (1970)
Short Cuts (1993) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray commentary
Casablanca (1942) – John Landis’s trailer commentary
Coonskin (1975) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Fritz The Cat (1972) – Mick Garris’s trailer commentary, Charlie Largent’s Blu-ray review
The Lord of the Rings (1978)
Wizards (1977)
Heavy Traffic (1973) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairing
The Warriors (1979)
Quintet (1979)
Brewster McCloud (1970) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Mash (1970)
Nashville (1975) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary, Dan Perri’s trailer commentary,...
Show Notes:
Movies Referenced In This Episode
Aviva (2020)
The Harder They Fall (2021)
The Harder They Come (1972)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Fresh (1994)
Mo’ Better Blues (1990)
Safe (2012)
Scream (2022)
The Punisher (1989)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Kagemusha (1980) – Bernard Rose’s trailer commentary
Mean Streets (1973)
Jaws (1975) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
The 400 Blows (1959) – Robert Weide’s trailer commentary
Yojimbo (1961)
Dodes’ka-den (1970)
Short Cuts (1993) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray commentary
Casablanca (1942) – John Landis’s trailer commentary
Coonskin (1975) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Fritz The Cat (1972) – Mick Garris’s trailer commentary, Charlie Largent’s Blu-ray review
The Lord of the Rings (1978)
Wizards (1977)
Heavy Traffic (1973) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairing
The Warriors (1979)
Quintet (1979)
Brewster McCloud (1970) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Mash (1970)
Nashville (1975) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary, Dan Perri’s trailer commentary,...
- 2/22/2022
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Stories from multiple perspectives have been onscreen at least since Rashomon, but even the great Akira Kurosawa might have found something to like in the new Gaspar Noé. The agent provocateur returns to remind us that death is inevitable and rarely dignified. His newest film is Vortex and it takes place in Paris, specifically the apartment of a married couple on the final furlongs of life. It opens on the pair enjoying an evening on the balcony: life is “a dream within a dream,” the husband says, quoting Poe, before continuing, “I’m one foot in the grave… a wilted rose.” The mind wanders to Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuel Riva in Amour, another story of wilting roses in the French capitol.
Over the course of a few fateful days, Françoise Lebrun and Dario Argento give scarcely fathomable performances as a woman in the late throes of dementia and her long-suffering...
Over the course of a few fateful days, Françoise Lebrun and Dario Argento give scarcely fathomable performances as a woman in the late throes of dementia and her long-suffering...
- 7/17/2021
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist–moving an audience through a movie […] making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark,” said the late, great Gordon Willis. As we continue our year-end coverage, one aspect we must highlight is, indeed, cinematography. From talented newcomers to seasoned professionals, we’ve rounded up the examples that have most impressed us this year. Check out our rundown below and, in the comments, let us know your favorite work.
Ad Astra (Hoyte Van Hoytema)
After conducting a symphony of the senses with The Lost City of Z, director James Gray moves effortlessly from jungles and rivers to the far reaches of space. Working with cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema (who also lensed Interstellar), Gray photographs a man’s journey to find his father in the abyss with elegance and finesse. Like many of the great odysseys, Ad Astra is both grand and intimate,...
Ad Astra (Hoyte Van Hoytema)
After conducting a symphony of the senses with The Lost City of Z, director James Gray moves effortlessly from jungles and rivers to the far reaches of space. Working with cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema (who also lensed Interstellar), Gray photographs a man’s journey to find his father in the abyss with elegance and finesse. Like many of the great odysseys, Ad Astra is both grand and intimate,...
- 1/2/2020
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Julia Loktev's Day Night Day Night (2006) and The Loneliest Planet (2011) are showing in July and August, 2019 on Mubi in the United States.Julia LoktevMidway through our conversation, Julia Loktev asked to go off the record. The plots of her two narrative features, Day Night Day Night (2006) and The Loneliest Planet (2011), turn on sudden, unexpected, transformative events, and while she’s happy to talk about the twists—“We're so attached to this notion of spoiling, which I find a bit strange”—she’s cagier about her own points of entry into the stories, mostly for fear of ruining anyone’s fun. We agreed to keep the published interview spoiler-free.Loktev was born in St. Petersburg (then still Leningrad) and immigrated to the United States as a child. Her family settled in Colorado, where she lived until college, when she moved to Montreal to study English and film at McGill University.
- 7/23/2019
- MUBI
“He may be a jerk, but he’s a great man. He’s brilliant,” says Heather (Stefania Lavie Owen), the neglected daughter of Moondog (Matthew McConaughey), in “The Beach Bum,” Harmony Korine’s latest exploration of charismatic and hedonistic human disasters. Heather’s father is an acclaimed poet, his artistic genius seemingly on the wane, who lives in South Florida like Hunter S. Thompson if he were a character in Korine’s fractured comedy about middle-American weirdness, “Trash Humpers.”
That Moondog isn’t trying to have sex with garbage cans and mailboxes would seem more a case of it having slipped his drug-addled mind, rather than a distaste for the practice itself. Moondog is also quite rich, much like James Franco’s character in Korine’s “Spring Breakers,” thanks to having married money in the form of the sexually voracious Minnie (Isla Fisher), whose emotional and physical adoration of her...
That Moondog isn’t trying to have sex with garbage cans and mailboxes would seem more a case of it having slipped his drug-addled mind, rather than a distaste for the practice itself. Moondog is also quite rich, much like James Franco’s character in Korine’s “Spring Breakers,” thanks to having married money in the form of the sexually voracious Minnie (Isla Fisher), whose emotional and physical adoration of her...
- 3/28/2019
- by Dave White
- The Wrap
In recent years, the SXSW Film Festival has grown in stature to become a key launchpad for many kinds of movies — anticipated studio comedies, edgy documentaries, and low-budget narrative features have all found taken flight at the Austin gathering. The addition of television series has further complicated SXSW’s profile, to the point where both media receive nearly the same level of attention.
The 2019 edition was an especially fertile example, as Jordan Peele’s horror sensation “Us” kicked off the proceedings with a level of enthusiasm that remained in place in the days ahead, with many other crowdpleasing movies and television shows. Setting aside the obvious, here are some of the biggest highlights.
“The Beach Bum”
Harmony Korine’s unorthodox portrait of jubilant Florida stoner Moondog (Matthew McConaughey) portrays a man whose guiding ambition in life is to find bliss every step of the way. Moondog is a role only...
The 2019 edition was an especially fertile example, as Jordan Peele’s horror sensation “Us” kicked off the proceedings with a level of enthusiasm that remained in place in the days ahead, with many other crowdpleasing movies and television shows. Setting aside the obvious, here are some of the biggest highlights.
“The Beach Bum”
Harmony Korine’s unorthodox portrait of jubilant Florida stoner Moondog (Matthew McConaughey) portrays a man whose guiding ambition in life is to find bliss every step of the way. Moondog is a role only...
- 3/16/2019
- by Eric Kohn, Ben Travers, Kate Erbland and Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
It turns out that Spring Break never ended after all, at least not for Moondog. Key West’s answer to The Dude, the sun-baked poet played with Thc-infused gusto by Matthew McConaughey is the life of every party and the biggest personality in any room he walks into. He’s so entertaining, in fact, that it takes nearly the entirety of “The Beach Bum” to fully absorb how little else there is to the film once the initial high of basking in Moondog’s perma-stoned glory wears off.
Comparisons to Korine’s last protagonist are unavoidable, so I won’t: Moondog is like a mellower version of James Franco’s Alien aged 15 hard-living years, not interested in guns or bling but equally stoked about weed and booze. “I’m a bottom-feeder, baby,” he tells his inexplicably understanding wife (Isla Fisher) after returning from his latest bender. “I gotta go low to get high.
Comparisons to Korine’s last protagonist are unavoidable, so I won’t: Moondog is like a mellower version of James Franco’s Alien aged 15 hard-living years, not interested in guns or bling but equally stoked about weed and booze. “I’m a bottom-feeder, baby,” he tells his inexplicably understanding wife (Isla Fisher) after returning from his latest bender. “I gotta go low to get high.
- 3/10/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
In terms of the narrative, it might be his most minimalist and arguably, this stands as Gaspar Noé‘s best film to date. In terms of blueprint for both sound (Ken Yasumoto) and image (Benoît Debie’s vibrantly camerawork), this is an eyegasm pretty after the introduction of characters (VHS tape interview) are done with Climax. which our Nicholas Bell explains as “forever attuned to the sensory possibilities of cinema, provides a film which begins like a hit of amyl nitrate before it descends headlong into hysterical overdose territory, reeling like a nasty hangover after closing time at Berghain.” We would have preferred to see the night screening with cast in full dance mode, but we were nonetheless on hand for the world preem screening in the early a.m where all the buzz broke.…...
- 2/28/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Update, Writethru: France’s biggest movie awards night has drawn to a close with Custody (Jusqu’à La Garde) crowned Best Picture. Originally screened in Venice and Toronto in 2017, it’s a story of domestic abuse that stars Denis Ménochet and Léa Drucker, the latter won Best Actress tonight. Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers also scored multiple recognition including Best Director.
While some of tonight’s winners in Paris were expected — during a ceremony that is forever laborious — it was a major shock to see an In Memoriam segment minus two incredibly important figures. Where was Michel Le Grand? And why was Samuel Hadida not remembered in a first segment, but the added later in the telecast? Franchement?
In any case, below is a rundown of
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While some of tonight’s winners in Paris were expected — during a ceremony that is forever laborious — it was a major shock to see an In Memoriam segment minus two incredibly important figures. Where was Michel Le Grand? And why was Samuel Hadida not remembered in a first segment, but the added later in the telecast? Franchement?
In any case, below is a rundown of
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- 2/22/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Mother love - best actress for Elodie Bouchez in In Safe Hands Photo: UniFrance
A French film made in English has won best film and best director for Jacques Audiard at the Lumières, often described as France’s answer to the Golden Globes. The accolades are awarded by the foreign press and media working in France.
Audiard’s film (his first foray into English) The Sisters Brothers with John C Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix is described as “a dark comedy Western.” It also won a prize for best cinematography for Benoît Debie.
Way out West … Joaquin Phoenix in The Sisters Brothers Photo: UniFrance
The other notable winner at the 24th edition of the awards was Jeanne Henry’s adoption drama In Safe Hands / Pupille with Gilles Lellouche, Sandrine Kiberlain and Elodie Bouchez who best actress for her performance as the prospective parent. The film is screening in the Glasgow Film Festival later this month.
A French film made in English has won best film and best director for Jacques Audiard at the Lumières, often described as France’s answer to the Golden Globes. The accolades are awarded by the foreign press and media working in France.
Audiard’s film (his first foray into English) The Sisters Brothers with John C Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix is described as “a dark comedy Western.” It also won a prize for best cinematography for Benoît Debie.
Way out West … Joaquin Phoenix in The Sisters Brothers Photo: UniFrance
The other notable winner at the 24th edition of the awards was Jeanne Henry’s adoption drama In Safe Hands / Pupille with Gilles Lellouche, Sandrine Kiberlain and Elodie Bouchez who best actress for her performance as the prospective parent. The film is screening in the Glasgow Film Festival later this month.
- 2/5/2019
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Jacques Audiard’s dark comedy western won best film and best director.
Jacques Audiard’s dark comedy western The Sisters Brothers, co-starring John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix, won best film and best director at the 24th edition of France’s Lumière awards on Monday evening.
In a third prize for Audiard’s English-language debut, Benoît Debie, who was also nominated for his work on Gaspar Noé’s Climax, won best cinematography.
The Sisters Brothers was a front-runner at the nomination stage alongside comedy of manners Mademoiselle de Joncquières, adoption drama Pupille and Venice-winning divorce drama Custody although there were no stand-out favourites this year.
Jacques Audiard’s dark comedy western The Sisters Brothers, co-starring John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix, won best film and best director at the 24th edition of France’s Lumière awards on Monday evening.
In a third prize for Audiard’s English-language debut, Benoît Debie, who was also nominated for his work on Gaspar Noé’s Climax, won best cinematography.
The Sisters Brothers was a front-runner at the nomination stage alongside comedy of manners Mademoiselle de Joncquières, adoption drama Pupille and Venice-winning divorce drama Custody although there were no stand-out favourites this year.
- 2/5/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
One of the least surprising bits of film news this year was that Harmony Korine would be bringing the world premiere of his new film, The Beach Bum, to SXSW. Led by Texas’s own Matthew McConaughey, he stars as the rebellious and lovable rogue Moondog as he partakes in misadventures. Now, ahead of the premiere and release soon after, Neon has unveiled the full trailer.
“I always like playing with the real actor persona, the pop persona, what’s authentic to the person, and then push it out to the stratosphere,” Korine told Indiewire. “He plays with the idea of what people imagine him to be, and kind of takes it into another radical direction.”
Also starring Isla Fisher, Snoop Dogg, Zac Efron, Jimmy Buffett, Jonah Hill, and Martin Lawrence, the film is shot by Benoît Debie. Check out the trailer and poster below.
The Beach Bum follows the...
“I always like playing with the real actor persona, the pop persona, what’s authentic to the person, and then push it out to the stratosphere,” Korine told Indiewire. “He plays with the idea of what people imagine him to be, and kind of takes it into another radical direction.”
Also starring Isla Fisher, Snoop Dogg, Zac Efron, Jimmy Buffett, Jonah Hill, and Martin Lawrence, the film is shot by Benoît Debie. Check out the trailer and poster below.
The Beach Bum follows the...
- 1/23/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Lumières are the Golden Globes of France.
A mixed bag of nominations for the 24th edition of France’s Lumière awards was unveiled in Paris on Monday (Dec 17).
Jacques Audiard’s Us-set, English-language The Sisters Brothers, period comedy-drama Mademoiselle de Jonquières, adoption drama Pupille and Venice-winning relationship drama Custody came out as the front-runners with four nominations each.
Following with three nominations each were Alex Lutz’s comedy-drama Guy, about a man who discovers he is the illegitimate son of a fading variety star and decides to follow him on tour; comedy The Trouble With You, sexual abuse drama Little Tickles,...
A mixed bag of nominations for the 24th edition of France’s Lumière awards was unveiled in Paris on Monday (Dec 17).
Jacques Audiard’s Us-set, English-language The Sisters Brothers, period comedy-drama Mademoiselle de Jonquières, adoption drama Pupille and Venice-winning relationship drama Custody came out as the front-runners with four nominations each.
Following with three nominations each were Alex Lutz’s comedy-drama Guy, about a man who discovers he is the illegitimate son of a fading variety star and decides to follow him on tour; comedy The Trouble With You, sexual abuse drama Little Tickles,...
- 12/17/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Jacques Audiard begins his first English-language film with a carefully choreographed, night-time shootout set against a remote, western landscape. The Sisters Brothers may initially seem like a change of pace for the slow-burn, humanist director, but this opening set piece gives way to a slow, more contemplative narrative with small bursts of violence. While the pace is sometimes a little too rambling for its own good, Audiard’s foray into the western genre is kept afloat by its central quartet’s engaging chemistry and the film’s resistance to adhere to convention.
Eli (John C. Reilly) and Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix) work as hitmen in 1850s Oregon. Although connected through blood the brothers have quite different outlooks on life. Charlie is a heavy drinker who embraces the violence of his occupation while Eli is a gentler, more introspective soul, dreaming of a simpler life. Under the employment of mysterious crime boss,...
Eli (John C. Reilly) and Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix) work as hitmen in 1850s Oregon. Although connected through blood the brothers have quite different outlooks on life. Charlie is a heavy drinker who embraces the violence of his occupation while Eli is a gentler, more introspective soul, dreaming of a simpler life. Under the employment of mysterious crime boss,...
- 10/30/2018
- by Luke Channell
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
It’s shaping up to potentially be a really good year for John C. Reilly, which is never a bad thing. The talented actor is usually known for his comedic turns, though 2018 has marked a pair of more serious (though still amusing) outings sticking out on his resume. This week, hot on the heels of Stan & Ollie showcasing him in an outstanding Trailer, his western The Sisters Brothers hits theaters. It’s a really interesting film, one that turns the western on its ear. Reilly is tremendously good too, turning in some of the best work of his career so far (more on this later). 2018 may well turn out to be Reilly’s year, before all is said and done. The movie is, of course, a western, as you might imagine. Set in Oregon during the 1850’s, it has a very traditional set up, though that’s not how it turns out.
- 9/21/2018
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
“The Sisters Brothers” gallops on screen with a lot of ambitions, and it fulfills them all. It’s a sprawling Western that’s also an intimate character piece; it has moments of wit but also devastating tragedy; it delves into larger themes like the impact of fathers upon sons, and how greed and industrialization lead to environmental devastation, and yet it offers the hope of redemption.
In the pantheon of English-language debuts from international filmmakers — it’s directed by Jacques Audiard, the Frenchman behind “A Prophet,” “Rust and Bone,” “Dheepan” and “The Beat My Heart Skipped” — it’s a notable one. And it’s also a reminder that while the Western may never regain the massive cinematic popularity it once enjoyed, it’s also a genre that will never die so long as talented artists still find ways to use it to tell new and interesting stories.
It’s got...
In the pantheon of English-language debuts from international filmmakers — it’s directed by Jacques Audiard, the Frenchman behind “A Prophet,” “Rust and Bone,” “Dheepan” and “The Beat My Heart Skipped” — it’s a notable one. And it’s also a reminder that while the Western may never regain the massive cinematic popularity it once enjoyed, it’s also a genre that will never die so long as talented artists still find ways to use it to tell new and interesting stories.
It’s got...
- 9/19/2018
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
After creating not just a hit, but a film that seeped into the culture with Spring Breakers, Harmony Korine has had a difficult time getting his next project off the ground. There was his ambitious-sounding crime drama The Trap that never materialized and he still seems to be working on an adaptation of the controversial Tampa. He’s finally now back with The Beach Bum, which stars Matthew McConaughey as Moondog, “a rebellious and lovable rogue who lives life large,” who gets into “hilarious misadventures.”
While we thought it might show up this year, Neon has set it for a March 2019 release, perfectly timed with a likely SXSW premiere. Also starring Isla Fisher, Snoop Dogg, Zac Efron, Jimmy Buffett, Jonah Hill, and Martin Lawrence, the first teaser shows off another vibrant, one-of-a-kind experience from Korine. Shot by Benoît Debie, check out the first red band teaser below.
The Beach Bum...
While we thought it might show up this year, Neon has set it for a March 2019 release, perfectly timed with a likely SXSW premiere. Also starring Isla Fisher, Snoop Dogg, Zac Efron, Jimmy Buffett, Jonah Hill, and Martin Lawrence, the first teaser shows off another vibrant, one-of-a-kind experience from Korine. Shot by Benoît Debie, check out the first red band teaser below.
The Beach Bum...
- 9/7/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Harmony Korine fans have been waiting six years for the indie provocateur to return to filmmaking, and now the hiatus is finally over. Neon has debuted the teaser trailer to Korine’s upcoming “The Beach Bum,” which finds him turning Matthew McConaughey’s surfer image on its gonzo head.
“The Beach Bum” stars McConaughey as Moondog, a rebellious poet living in Miami who marches to the beat of his own drum. The trailer below makes it clear that Moondog is destined to be another fan favorite Korine creation, possibly on par with James Franco’s Alien from “Spring Breakers.” The director has re-teamed with his “Spring Breakers” cinematographer Benoît Debie and the two look to deliver more neon-soaked, drug-infused misadventures.
Starring opposite McConaughey is one of Korine’s most accessible ensemble casts yet, including Isla Fisher, Zac Efron, Martin Lawrence, and Snoop Dogg. The film has already made headlines for...
“The Beach Bum” stars McConaughey as Moondog, a rebellious poet living in Miami who marches to the beat of his own drum. The trailer below makes it clear that Moondog is destined to be another fan favorite Korine creation, possibly on par with James Franco’s Alien from “Spring Breakers.” The director has re-teamed with his “Spring Breakers” cinematographer Benoît Debie and the two look to deliver more neon-soaked, drug-infused misadventures.
Starring opposite McConaughey is one of Korine’s most accessible ensemble casts yet, including Isla Fisher, Zac Efron, Martin Lawrence, and Snoop Dogg. The film has already made headlines for...
- 9/7/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
A mainstay in French for almost 40 years, Jacques Audiard frequently chronicles criminals and convicts (or ex-criminals/ex-convicts) trying to either navigate a seedy underbelly or readjust to civilian life. He broke through to American audiences with his 2009 prison drama A Prophet, about an Algerian youth forced to negotiate between rival subcultures, before winning the Palme d’Or in 2015 for Dheepan, which follows a former Tamil Tiger trying to carve out a little bit of peace in Paris. His latest film, The Sisters Brothers, superficially scans as a departure from his previous work; it’s not only his first English-language film, but it’s also a period Western to boot. Yet, The Sisters Brothers neatly fits into Audiard’s established thematic mode: two hitmen whose latest mission inevitably forces them to envision a future without violence and crime.
Adapted from Patrick deWitt’s novel by Audiard and his screenwriting partner Thomas Bidegain,...
Adapted from Patrick deWitt’s novel by Audiard and his screenwriting partner Thomas Bidegain,...
- 9/2/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
For those of you not familiar with Gaspar Noé, he's the same director behind the crazy cult classic film Irreversible. Now he's got a new film coming out called Climax that looks like the most insane movie based around dancing that I've seen. The story focuses on a group of dancers who end up on a bad trip after accidentally taking psychedelic drugs and their night descends into complete and utter chaos. As you'll see in the trailer, it looks like an incredibly wild film. Here's the synopsis:
From director Gaspar Noé (Irreversible; Enter the Void; Love) comes a hypnotic, hallucinatory, and ultimately hair-raising depiction of a party that descends into delirium over the course of one wintry night. In Climax, a troupe of young dancers gathers in a remote and empty school building to rehearse. Following an unforgettable opening performance lit by virtuoso cinematographer Benoît Debie (Spring Breakers; Enter the Void...
From director Gaspar Noé (Irreversible; Enter the Void; Love) comes a hypnotic, hallucinatory, and ultimately hair-raising depiction of a party that descends into delirium over the course of one wintry night. In Climax, a troupe of young dancers gathers in a remote and empty school building to rehearse. Following an unforgettable opening performance lit by virtuoso cinematographer Benoît Debie (Spring Breakers; Enter the Void...
- 8/14/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
There were a number of surprising developments at Cannes Film Festival, but perhaps at the top of the list was that a new film from Gaspar Noé was not only one of his best films, but also one of the best of the entire festival. Coming off of his provocative (and not much else) 3D feature Love, he returned with Climax, following a group of dancers who band together for a three-day rehearsal-turned-drug-fueled trip into hell. Landing with the perfect distributor of A24, they’ve now released the first trailer ahead of a fall release.
In a rare A-grade review, Giovanni Marchini Camia said at Cannes, Gaspar Noé has probably never been likened to Lazarus before – or any other saint, for that matter – but he’s fully earned himself the comparison with Climax, which constitutes a miraculous comeback after the nadir that was Love. It has all the in-your-face trademarks of the Noé brand,...
In a rare A-grade review, Giovanni Marchini Camia said at Cannes, Gaspar Noé has probably never been likened to Lazarus before – or any other saint, for that matter – but he’s fully earned himself the comparison with Climax, which constitutes a miraculous comeback after the nadir that was Love. It has all the in-your-face trademarks of the Noé brand,...
- 8/14/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Every year, we here at PopOptiq celebrate the month of October with a series of articles we like to call 31 Days of Horror; and every year, I update the list of my favourite horror films ever made. Last year, I released a list that included 150 picks. This year, I’ll be upgrading the list to 200 movies, making minor alterations, changing the rankings, adding new entries, and possibly removing a few titles.
Note: Since there are so many great horror films and so much to choose from, I am not including documentaries such as Haxan — short films such as Outer Space – a mini-series such as Stephen King’s It — nor animated films such as Perfect Blue, Ninja Scroll and Coraline. I am, however, including some films as special mentions along with a few movies that some people consider horror films, but I don’t.
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Special Mention: King Kong
Directed by Merian C. Cooper...
Note: Since there are so many great horror films and so much to choose from, I am not including documentaries such as Haxan — short films such as Outer Space – a mini-series such as Stephen King’s It — nor animated films such as Perfect Blue, Ninja Scroll and Coraline. I am, however, including some films as special mentions along with a few movies that some people consider horror films, but I don’t.
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Special Mention: King Kong
Directed by Merian C. Cooper...
- 6/26/2018
- by Ricky D
- SoundOnSight
The Notebook is covering Cannes with an on-going correspondence between critics Lawrence Garcia and Daniel Kasman.Dear Danny,If The Image Book does turn out to be Godard’s final gesture—and as you say, it certainly feels that way—it’s one I’m certain to cherish, not least because it's the rare competition film that left me with more questions than answers. "Nothing is as handy as a text,” Godard intones—and a later image offers a title page for the complete works of Alexandre Dumas. But where does one even begin creating a catalog of images? A tracking shot through a ballroom in the third section ("St. Petersburg Evenings") is smeared into gorgeously over-saturated color; the unstable ground of Michael Snow’s La région centrale transforms into a shadowy cascade of pebbles; emerald waves break over the surface of a cliffside vista in "Arabia." In Godard’s hands,...
- 5/14/2018
- MUBI
Gaspar Noé has probably never been likened to Lazarus before – or any other saint, for that matter – but he’s fully earned himself the comparison with Climax, which constitutes a miraculous comeback after the nadir that was Love. It has all the in-your-face trademarks of the Noé brand, but here they’re packaged in a compact, expertly crafted horror flick that transcends its puerility to achieve something altogether sublime.
The immediately entrancing prelude provides a moderate intimation of what’s to come. A blinding, total whiteness is revealed to be a top-down drone shot of a snowy landscape when a girl staggers into the frame, bloodied and screaming, and then falls to the ground, flailing her arms to make a grotesque snow angel. After observing this spectacle for a little while longer, the drone flies on, and that’s the last blood we’ll see for the next hour or so.
The immediately entrancing prelude provides a moderate intimation of what’s to come. A blinding, total whiteness is revealed to be a top-down drone shot of a snowy landscape when a girl staggers into the frame, bloodied and screaming, and then falls to the ground, flailing her arms to make a grotesque snow angel. After observing this spectacle for a little while longer, the drone flies on, and that’s the last blood we’ll see for the next hour or so.
- 5/14/2018
- by Giovanni Marchini Camia
- The Film Stage
Stéphanie Di Giusto on The Dancer: "The movie is always in movement." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Stéphanie Di Giusto's The Dancer (La Danseuse), screenplay in collaboration with Les Cowboys director Thomas Bidegain, based on the book Loïe Fuller: Danseuse De La Belle Époque by Giovanni Lista, stars Soko as Fuller with Lily-Rose Depp as Isadora Duncan. The supporting cast includes Gaspard Ulliel, Mélanie Thierry, François Damiens, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Amanda Plummer, and Denis Ménochet.
I met up with the director at the restaurant inside the Marlton Hotel the day before her debut film opened in New York. We discussed how Nick Cave and Warren Ellis got involved through Andrew Dominik's The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, her costume designer Anaïs Romand who won a César, working with cinematographer Benoît Debie, seeing Soko in Alice Winocour's Augustine, and Harvey Weinstein's reaction after seeing The Dancer at Cannes.
Stéphanie Di Giusto's The Dancer (La Danseuse), screenplay in collaboration with Les Cowboys director Thomas Bidegain, based on the book Loïe Fuller: Danseuse De La Belle Époque by Giovanni Lista, stars Soko as Fuller with Lily-Rose Depp as Isadora Duncan. The supporting cast includes Gaspard Ulliel, Mélanie Thierry, François Damiens, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Amanda Plummer, and Denis Ménochet.
I met up with the director at the restaurant inside the Marlton Hotel the day before her debut film opened in New York. We discussed how Nick Cave and Warren Ellis got involved through Andrew Dominik's The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford, her costume designer Anaïs Romand who won a César, working with cinematographer Benoît Debie, seeing Soko in Alice Winocour's Augustine, and Harvey Weinstein's reaction after seeing The Dancer at Cannes.
- 12/4/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It’s easy to understand the Hollywood logic behind developing sequels: If it does well, keep it going — and going, and going, with spin-offs flying in every direction long after the concept has been spread thin. But some projects are so antithetical to this approach that the very idea of the franchise approach registers as a vulgarity. So it goes with the ongoing attempts to turn Harmony Korine’s “Spring Breakers” into something more than a single movie.
First, it was going to be a sequel; now, it’s a “digital series,” again without the participation of the creative team behind the original. This needs to stop.
Three years ago, it was reported that Muse Prods., the company run by Chris and Roberta Hanley, was shopping around a followup to the 2012 project without the involvement of Korine or anyone else associated with the original. That included “Spring Breakers” star James Franco,...
First, it was going to be a sequel; now, it’s a “digital series,” again without the participation of the creative team behind the original. This needs to stop.
Three years ago, it was reported that Muse Prods., the company run by Chris and Roberta Hanley, was shopping around a followup to the 2012 project without the involvement of Korine or anyone else associated with the original. That included “Spring Breakers” star James Franco,...
- 3/31/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Plus: A lot more ‘Alien,’ the first photo of Luke Skywalker, and the weekend’s best shots.
This week marks the start of a great new chapter in the history of Film School Rejects/One Perfect Shot, as we’re pleased to present the premiere episodes of our first three shows under the new One Perfect Podcast banner.
Up first and available today, After the Credits, a new kind of movie review show hosted by Fsr Columnist Matthew Monagle. Each week Matthew will be joined by a special guest to help him explore our expectations of certain films and how they impact the way we feel about what we ultimately see in theaters. This week the special guest is Fsr Chief Film Critic Rob Hunter, and the film in question is The Belko Experment.
Subscribe to One Perfect Pod: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS | Soundcloud
Then on Wednesday, March 22nd, the first episode of Shot by Shot drops. Hosted...
This week marks the start of a great new chapter in the history of Film School Rejects/One Perfect Shot, as we’re pleased to present the premiere episodes of our first three shows under the new One Perfect Podcast banner.
Up first and available today, After the Credits, a new kind of movie review show hosted by Fsr Columnist Matthew Monagle. Each week Matthew will be joined by a special guest to help him explore our expectations of certain films and how they impact the way we feel about what we ultimately see in theaters. This week the special guest is Fsr Chief Film Critic Rob Hunter, and the film in question is The Belko Experment.
Subscribe to One Perfect Pod: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS | Soundcloud
Then on Wednesday, March 22nd, the first episode of Shot by Shot drops. Hosted...
- 3/20/2017
- by H. Perry Horton
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
"I saw a dead body. In the sea. There was a star on his belly." A boy makes a haunting discovery underwater in the trailer for Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Evolution, but it's what's happening on the ground that is the real nightmare. Viewers can learn the sinister secrets of a mysterious island for themselves on November 25th when IFC Midnight releases Evolution theatrically in New York and Los Angeles, as well as on VOD.
Press Release: IFC Midnight is proud to present Evolution, Lucile Hadzihalilovic's evocative, mysterious latest feature film. The film's world premiere took place at the Toronto International Film Festival, and marked the very welcome return of Hadzihalilovic's (Innocence) distinct voice on the international cinematic stage. The film went on to enthrall audiences at Fantastic Fest, BFI London Film Festival, the San Sebastian International Film Festival where it won the "Special Jury Prize" as well as "Best...
Press Release: IFC Midnight is proud to present Evolution, Lucile Hadzihalilovic's evocative, mysterious latest feature film. The film's world premiere took place at the Toronto International Film Festival, and marked the very welcome return of Hadzihalilovic's (Innocence) distinct voice on the international cinematic stage. The film went on to enthrall audiences at Fantastic Fest, BFI London Film Festival, the San Sebastian International Film Festival where it won the "Special Jury Prize" as well as "Best...
- 11/17/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Shrouded in grief and chilly to the core, Andrew Dominik’s mournful documentary “One More Time With Feeling” is at once sobering in tone and intoxicating in style. The intimate film follows singer Nick Cave in and out of the studio as lays down tracks for his upcoming album “Skeleton Tree,” doing so in the face of tremendous personal loss. Though it will undoubtedly hit fans the hardest, even those less familiar with the Australian rocker will find much to admire in this lyrical portrait of sorrow, creativity and perseverance, shot in luscious black and white 3D.
Cave commissioned the film himself, intending it to be his first, last and only public statement to support the release of his latest album, and it’s easy to understand why. In July 2015, Cave’s 15-year-old son Arthur died, falling off a cliff in the English town of Brighton. Arthur died before Cave...
Cave commissioned the film himself, intending it to be his first, last and only public statement to support the release of his latest album, and it’s easy to understand why. In July 2015, Cave’s 15-year-old son Arthur died, falling off a cliff in the English town of Brighton. Arthur died before Cave...
- 9/6/2016
- by Ben Croll
- Indiewire
Andrew Dominik has created a gorgeous, immersive, and emotional experience in “One More Time With Feeling.” Sprung from the grief of Nick Cave, it is black-and-white, 3D, and a music documentary like no other.
I screened it in the basement of the Australian filmmaker’s Lauren Canyon home, then spoke with Dominik on iPhone video as he smoked an American Spirit on his patio, then inside on iPhone audio over a bowl of spaghetti bolognese. The film will premiere at the Venice International Film Festival.
Dominik first met his fellow countryman because they both once dated the same woman, who is the mother of Dominik’s child. Cave would call her on the phone and the two men would chat; they got along. “Nick Cave was like Jesus in Melbourne where I’m from,” said Dominik. “He’s a person people had a wide array of feelings about. People loved him,...
I screened it in the basement of the Australian filmmaker’s Lauren Canyon home, then spoke with Dominik on iPhone video as he smoked an American Spirit on his patio, then inside on iPhone audio over a bowl of spaghetti bolognese. The film will premiere at the Venice International Film Festival.
Dominik first met his fellow countryman because they both once dated the same woman, who is the mother of Dominik’s child. Cave would call her on the phone and the two men would chat; they got along. “Nick Cave was like Jesus in Melbourne where I’m from,” said Dominik. “He’s a person people had a wide array of feelings about. People loved him,...
- 8/29/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Andrew Dominik has created a gorgeous, immersive, and emotional experience in “One More Time With Feeling.” Sprung from the grief of Nick Cave, it is black-and-white, 3D, and a music documentary like no other.
I screened it in the basement of the Australian filmmaker’s Lauren Canyon home, then spoke with Dominik on iPhone video as he smoked an American Spirit on his patio, then inside on iPhone audio over a bowl of spaghetti bolognese. The film will premiere at the Venice International Film Festival.
Dominik first met his fellow countryman because they both once dated the same woman, who is the mother of Dominik’s child. Cave would call her on the phone and the two men would chat; they got along. “Nick Cave was like Jesus in Melbourne where I’m from,” said Dominik. “He’s a person people had a wide array of feelings about. People loved him,...
I screened it in the basement of the Australian filmmaker’s Lauren Canyon home, then spoke with Dominik on iPhone video as he smoked an American Spirit on his patio, then inside on iPhone audio over a bowl of spaghetti bolognese. The film will premiere at the Venice International Film Festival.
Dominik first met his fellow countryman because they both once dated the same woman, who is the mother of Dominik’s child. Cave would call her on the phone and the two men would chat; they got along. “Nick Cave was like Jesus in Melbourne where I’m from,” said Dominik. “He’s a person people had a wide array of feelings about. People loved him,...
- 8/29/2016
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
To celebrate the digital release of Colt 45 – out 7th December – we are giving away an iTunes download copy!
Colt 45 is the explosive tale of cops, robbers and some very serious firepower from the brilliant Fabrice Du Welz – one of Europe’s hottest new directors now being fast-tracked to Hollywood! His current project Message from the King stars Luke Evans (Dracula Untold), Teresa Palmer (Knight of Cups) and is written by the team behind A Most Wanted Man.
All this impressive action mayhem is captured in frigid widescreen cinematography courtesy of Gaspar Noe regular Benoit Debie.
“Gripping and well-crafted shootout scenes” – The Hollywood Reporter
“Sleek, well-oiled piece of action-movie machinery” – Variety
Order today: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/colt-45/id1050746219
Colt 45 will be released on: iTunes, Sky Store, Google Play, Filmflex, Virgin Movies on Demand, Blinkbox / Talk Talk, Xbox, Wuaki, and Amazon Instant Video.
To win a Colt 45 iTunes download code,...
Colt 45 is the explosive tale of cops, robbers and some very serious firepower from the brilliant Fabrice Du Welz – one of Europe’s hottest new directors now being fast-tracked to Hollywood! His current project Message from the King stars Luke Evans (Dracula Untold), Teresa Palmer (Knight of Cups) and is written by the team behind A Most Wanted Man.
All this impressive action mayhem is captured in frigid widescreen cinematography courtesy of Gaspar Noe regular Benoit Debie.
“Gripping and well-crafted shootout scenes” – The Hollywood Reporter
“Sleek, well-oiled piece of action-movie machinery” – Variety
Order today: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/movie/colt-45/id1050746219
Colt 45 will be released on: iTunes, Sky Store, Google Play, Filmflex, Virgin Movies on Demand, Blinkbox / Talk Talk, Xbox, Wuaki, and Amazon Instant Video.
To win a Colt 45 iTunes download code,...
- 12/3/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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