MEGALOPOLIS TEASER
As Francis Ford Coppola nears premiering his latest and self-financed epic at Cannes, he released a teaser trailer on Tuesday. It looks impressive. Here it is from YouTube:
RASOULOF ESCAPES FROM IRAN
We've been following the latest travails of Iranian film maker Mohammad Rasoulof for the past few weeks. ...
First-time feature director Constance Tsang makes a splash in Cannes with “Blue Sun Palace,” the first U.S. film in Critics Week that is in the Mandarin Chinese language. Set in a massage parlor, staffed with Chinese immigrants, in Queens, New York, the melodramatic film tells of how the romantic relationship between a man and a […]
Schrader goes in-depth with IndieWire about his new Cannes premiere and the Quentin Tarantino movie that almost was — and would've included a new rendition of Schrader's "Rolling Thunder" ending.
Paul Schrader had a special job on the set of his latest film, “Oh, Canada”: drawing on the jockstrap that Jacob Elordi wears in one of the Vietnam War drama’s pivotal scenes. There’s a choice at the heart of “Oh, Canada,” when the fictional filmmaker Leonard Fife (played as a young man by Elordi, and […]
At this point, any actor signing on for a Yorgos Lanthimos film knows they wont be resting on their laurels. Literally. One of his trademarks is a kind of heightened physicality — whether its Rachel Weisz and Joe Alwyn twerking in “The Favourite,” Emma Stone “furious jumping” in “Poor Things” or Nicole Kidman lending a […]
Back to Black (Sam Taylor-Johnson, 2024) 1½ out of 5 stars If you want to watch a compelling biopic about the late, great singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, I can recommend, with all my heart, the Oscar-winning 2015 documentary by Asif Kapadia, Amy. Unfortunately, the new dramatization of her life, Back to Black, starring relative newcomer Marisa […]
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Nightwatch: Demons are Forever (Ole Bornedal, 2023) 3½ out of 5 stars A sequel 30 years in the making, Nightwatch: Demons are Forever sees Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal return as writer and director several decades after the original 1994 film’s release. Bornedal also directed an English-language remake with the same title only three years later, […]
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Brazilian social impact entertainment company Maria Farinha Films has taken a minority stake in Joanna Natasegara’s London-based production company Violet Films, which is known for high-profile docs such as “White Helmets,” “Virunga,” “The Edge of Democracy” and Prince Harry’s Netflix series “Invictus.” Leonardo DiCaprio and Barry Jenkins are involved as producer and writer, respectively, in […]
The restored version of Indian filmmaker Shyam Benegal’s 1976 masterpiece “Manthan” (“The Churning”) is screening at the Cannes Film Festival’s Cannes Classics strand. Shot by DoP Govind Nihalani in rural Gujarat, western India, the film is produced by 500,000 farmers who contributed towards its making, under the banner Gujarat Milk Co-Op Marketing Federation Ltd. The […]
The Johnny Depp-directed film “Modì,” about Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, has secured a distribution deal in Italy, where it will be released by emerging production/distribution player Be Water. Above is a first-look image from the set of the film, which is now in post. “Modì” stars Italy’s Riccardo Scamarcio as the bad boy painter and […]