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Springboard: Sam de Jong on Directing the Social Realist 'Prince' and One of The Netherlands' Most Popular Rap Videos
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Read More: FilmBuff and Vice Media Acquire Berlinale Hit 'Prince' Indiewire's Springboard column profiles up-and-comers in the film industry worthy of your attention. There's a moment early on in Sam de Jong's Crystal Bear-winning "Prince" that sets the stage for what's to come, casting the coming-of-age tale as something quirky, off-kilter and uncomfortably funny. After getting screamed at by a gang of tattooed older guys, young Ayoub (Ayoub Elasri) and his friends stand back to watch as their primary tormentor attempts to make a clean getaway -- by kickstarting a pesky four-wheeler that just won't turn over. The moment breaks the tension and diffuses the danger, and Ayoub and his boys go right back to standing around in a neighborhood courtyard, watching the world go by. The trick of "Prince" is that all that humor can't dissipate the real dangers lurking in the feature, which eventually gives itself over to true violence, »
- Kate Erbland
Watch: A Couple Packs Their Bags and Explores the Global Lgbt Community in Exclusive 'Out & Around' Clip
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Read More: Logo Launches New Documentary Division With Six Award Winning Films When Jennifer Chang and Lisa Dazol first fell in love, they decided that they would live a life of adventure, and they sealed the deal when they packed their bags and went on a 342-day journey around the world to learn more about the global Lgbtq community. In "Out & Around," the couple visit Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, Philippines and Taiwan. Through video-journal footage, interviews with global Lgbt leaders and the couple's personal love story, the documentary paints a picture of the Lgbt community that transcends any border. Logo Documentary Films and the It Gets Better Project, which focuses on inspiring hope for Lgbt youth who face harassment, have partnered up for the documentary. Logo will premiere the film, in association with the It Gets Better Project, on Logo on August at 9pm. Check out the exclusive clip. »
- Kaeli Van Cott
Watch: Go To Detention With This Video Essay About John Hughes' 'The Breakfast Club'
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When cinema of the 1980s is the topic of conversation, undoubtedly, “The Breakfast Club” is part of, if not the centerpiece of the discussion. Even 30 years late,r John Hughes’ terrific coming-of-age dramedy is relevant, perhaps not in fashion (though I’ve seen my fair share of Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy lookalikes lately), but certainly in the analysis of displaced adolescent identities and generational gaps. Read More: 15 Classic Teen Rebellion Movies This brief but informative video from Nick Olshansky at The Thought Lab explores the identity crises of characters in “The Breakfast Club” (the brain, the athlete, the criminal, the princess, and the omnipresent nerd) and how, despite their phony behavior and ambiguous carriages, the pentad have a lot more in common than they would’ve believed. Olshansky discusses the importance of the principal (an unforgettably authoritative Paul Gleason) and how he is “the driving force” behind pushing these misfits towards. »
- Samantha Vacca
Watch: Jesse Eisenberg Unleashes Mayhem In First Clip From 'American Ultra'
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Next spring, Jesse Eisenberg will put on his blockbuster pants, taking the role of Lex Luthor in "Batman v Superman: Dawn On Justice." While he will no doubt make things quite difficult for the Man Of Steel, this summer he'll get his feet wet when it comes to causing mayhem with "American Ultra," and the first clip has landed. Co-starring Kristen Stewart, this is a stoner/comedy/action flick that finds the former Mark Zuckerberg playing a mild-mannered pot enthusiast who finds out that he's actually a sleeper agent with some serious ass kicking skills wired into his DNA. However, this soon gets him on the wrong side of some bad people and he has to fight for survive. This clip from Collider shows both the tender and tough sides of the young man who will do what it takes to stay alive. Read More: Jesse Eisenberg Is A New »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Watch: 'Gone Girl' Rosamund Pike is Back for Revenge in Exclusive 'Return to Sender' Clip
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Read More: Watch: Rosamund Pike Is Back In Amazing Amy Mode In Trailer For 'Return To Sender' Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike has brought back her revenge-fueled "Gone Girl" craziness in her latest film, "Return to Sender." Pike plays nurse Miranda, who agrees to go on a blind date, but when the wrong man comes to her door, she faces a serious assault. After her attacker is convicted and jailed for the crime, Miranda cannot seem to put the attack behind her. To gain closure, she reaches out to William through letters and prison visits and slowly forms a relationship with him. When William is paroled and looks to meet with her, Miranda decides to use the opportunity as a means of revenge. The film also stars Shiloh Fernandez, Nick Nolte, Camryn Manheim, Rumer Willis and Illeana Douglas. "Return to Sender" is now on iTunes and VOD. Check out the exclusive clip above. »
- Kaeli Van Cott
Watch: You Can't Trust Benicio del Toro in Explosive New 'Sicario' Trailer
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Read More: Watch: Emily Blunt Crosses the Border in Violent 'Sicario' Trailer Oscar winner Benicio del Toro ("Traffic," "The Usual Suspects") is front and center and bringing the heat as a mysterious consultant -- or possible hitman -- in the latest look at "Sicario." The drama premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and will screen at Tiff in September. Del Toro stars alongside Emily Blunt and Josh Brolin in the thriller, which focuses on an FBI agent (Blunt) who crosses the border with help from an elite government task force official (Brolin) and a mysterious Mexican consultant (del Toro). It doesn't take long for the idealistic woman to learn that not everything is as cut and dry as she had originally thought, and she must think twice in order to survive the journey to catch a drug lord. "Sicario" hits theaters on September 18. Check out the new UK trailer above. »
- Kaeli Van Cott
Watch: 10-Minute Video Essay Explores The Art Of The Hallway Dream Fight Scene In Christopher Nolan's 'Inception'
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Christopher Nolan enjoys bending the traditional rules of gravity and physics to his own peculiar whim. You can see it in the show-stopping aerial attack that opens “The Dark Knight Rises” as well as the memorable moment in “Interstellar” where the mountains on the ocean planet visited by Team McConaughey turn out to be giant freaking tidal waves. There are plenty of folks who will argue for his dense, exposition-heavy heist thriller of the mind “Inception,” and also plenty of folks who will argue against it. What cannot be denied is the righteous majesty of the film’s unrivaled action centerpiece: a third act hallway smack-down that takes place in a lavish hotel corridor with zero gravity. It’s a breathtaking display of bravura filmmaking and one of the all-time greatest set pieces of Nolan’s career. Courtesy of a new video from Cinefix, viewers at home can now take »
- Nicholas Laskin
Watch: Harvey Weinstein, Olivia Wilde, And More In First Trailer For 'Doll & Em' Season 2 Starring Emily Mortimer
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I'm not sure how many people watched the first season of "Doll & Em," but I'm very glad HBO renewed the show. It's a terrific showbiz dramedy starring Emily Mortimer (playing herself) and the actresses' real life best friend Dolly Wells that isn't just about navigating the world of Hollywood, but also about the balance of middle-aged friendships and more. It's great stuff (read our review of the first season) and the pair are back for more. The first trailer for season two has dropped, and it looks like once again, there will be a well selected batch of cameos. Harvey Weinstein, Olivia Wilde, and Evan Rachel Wood are among the faces that pop-up, with the next batch of episodes seemingly finding the pair trying to put on a stage production. And of course, they run into the kind of problems only they could get into. It looks like another warm »
- Kevin Jagernauth
The Original 'Straight Outta Compton' Producer on Why It Took So Long to Make it to Screen
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I'm a New York-based domestic sales agent, but I haven't always served that role. I spent many years working in the studio system in L.A.; first as a writer, then as an executive, and later as a producer. I am finally on the verge of my first memorable "Hollywood" feature. Read More: Energetic and Entertaining 'Straight Outta Compton' Falls Prey to Biopic Syndrome I was the very first producer on "Straight Outta Compton," as it was originally submitted to me when I was an in-house producer at a company called Circle of Confusion, having recently left New Line Cinema. At New Line, I had been known for liking smart movies in the hip-hop arena (as a teen in early '80s Brooklyn, this is what we were into and it stayed with me). Soon after getting the script for "Straight Outta Compton," I went to Sundance, where I stayed »
- Bill Straus
Watch: Get Dragged Into A Thrilling Police Spy Crime in Exclusive 'Brave Men's Blood' Trailer
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Read More: Why You Need to Start Paying Attention to Icelandic Cinema Olaf de Fleur's "Brave Men's Blood," a new Icelandic crime thriller, has premiered a chaotic two minute trailer full of police fights, spies, drugs and violence. Taking place in Reykjavík, the film follows the investigation into a suspected spy working high up in the city's police force. An intense falling out ensues in a confusing jumble of crime and crime-fighting, filled with gangsters, torture tactics and a complicated mess of violent confrontations. The thriller stars Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Darri Ingolfsson and Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson. Watch the trailer above. The film will be released by Oscilloscope Laboratories on VOD on September 1. Read More: Does Iceland Deserve A Better Movie? Examining the Landscape of 'Land Ho!' »
- Meredith Mattlin
Exclusive: Poster For New Wim Wenders Upcoming Retrospective Tour ‘Portraits Along The Road’
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Happy 70th birthday, Wim Wenders. The venerable German auteur is perhaps best known for cinema classics “Wings of Desire,” “Paris, Texas,” and his three Oscar nominated documentaries “Buena Vista Social Club,” the 3D contemporary dance portrait “Pina,” and his most recent photography film “The Salt of the Earth.” But Wenders, whose works stands alongside Werner Herzog, Agnes Varda, Andrzej Wajda, Jacques Rivette and other elder statesmen and women of European cinema has been woefully under the radar in North America. This is because, as he explained to us in an interview earlier this year, most of this early, classic films from the 1970s have been unavailable on DVD because of unresolved rights clearances and ownership issues. With those problems resolved very recently, the Criterion Collection and Janus Films are working together to rectify cinephiles’ knowledge of Wenders’s vast, eclectic and amazing body of work. Last week, Janus Films announced "Wim Wenders:. »
- Rodrigo Perez
Kathleen Kennedy Talks Approach Of 'Star Wars' Han Solo Pic, And Fate Of Josh Trank's Spinoff Movie
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There's a quite a bit to talk about in the "Star Wars" universe, not only with "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" arriving in a few short months, but also the "Anthology" series spin-offs that are also coming. Next year, Gareth Edwards will deliver "Star Wars: Rogue One," and the plan had been for Josh Trank to follow in 2018 with his own anthology picture. However, the "Fantastic Four" mess saw him removed and/or exit that job (depending on who you ask) and a spin-off Han Solo movie directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller was put into its place. While speaking to EW, Kennedy revealed the approach to the Han Solo movie, and the fate of Trank's movie. “There’s got to be a reason for [the stand-alone film] to be. And obviously the thing that 'Star Wars' has always done so well is it doesn’t spend a lot »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Here Are All the Movies Opening Today, August 14; What Will You See?
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Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, August 14. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise. Wide The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Director: Guy Ritchie Cast: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki, Jared Harris, Hugh Grant, Luca Calvani Synopsis: "In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and Kgb operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons." Criticwire Grade Average: C+ (7 reviews) Straight Outta Compton Director: F. Gary Gray Cast: O’Shea Jackson, Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown, Jr., Aldis Hodge and Paul Giamatti Synopsis: "In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all »
- Indiewire
Watch: Ethan Hawke is a 1980's Pot Dealer in Exclusive 'Ten Thousand Saints' Clip
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Read More: Watch: 'Ten Thousand Saints' Trailer Revives the New York City Punk Scene A pregnant teenager, a "botanist" dad and a failed proposal are only a portion of what's to come for the dysfunctional family in "Ten Thousand Saints." "Ten Thousand Saints" is the story of three New York City teenagers in the late 1980s: Vermont-native Judge, straight-edge musician Johnny and rich uptown girl Eliza. The three form their own surrogate family to break away from their dysfunctional parents. The film adaptation of Eleanor Henderson's novel of the same name stars Ethan Hawke, Hailee Steinfeld, Emily Mortimer, Asa Butterfield and Emile Hirsch. The film opens in theaters on August 14. Check out the exclusive clip of the film above. Read More: Exclusive Poster for Ethan Hawke Drama 'Ten Thousand Saints' Goes Punk »
- Kaeli Van Cott
Why the Midnight Madness of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' Still Matters 40 Years Later
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Read More: 9 Cult Films That Deserve a Television Prequel Series "Michael Rennie was ill / The day the Earth stood still / But he told us where we stand. / And Flash Gordon was there / In silver underwear, / Claude Rains was the Invisible Man. / Then something went wrong / For Fay Wray and King Kong, / They got caught in a celluloid jam. / Then at a deadly pace, / It came from Outer Space, / And this is how the message ran..." The opening lines to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" reference American low-budget productions in the horror-sci-fi genre that were made between the 1930 and 1950. Michael Rennie starred as an alien visitor in "The Day the Earth Stood Still;" Flash Gordon, who originated as a comic strip hero in the 1934, became a film franchise by the end of the decade; Claude Rains had a breakthrough performance as the titular Invisible Man in 1933 and Fay Wray portrayed the equally. »
- Sara Itkis
Vote for Project of the Week: Will It Be 'Thanks for Having Us,' 'Yinz,' 'I am Jugger' or 'The Heels Have Eyes: A Denver Dragumentary'?
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The winning filmmaker will become a candidate for August Project of the Month. That winner will be in the running for Project of the Year. The four projects up for this week's Project of the Week are listed below (with descriptions courtesy of the filmmakers). You can vote at the bottom of the page. Thanks for Having Us: Four young female comedians try (and fail) to find their voices at the lowest rung of the comedy ladder: open mics. Yinz: Three high school best friends' relationships are tested as they cover up a crime and their ringleader's affair with an older woman. I am Jugger: A documentary chronicling the origins of Jugger, an alternative sport created by 'Blade Runner' screenwriter David Webb Peoples. The Heels Have Eyes: A Denver Dragumentary: Using the Diva Dozen as a central focus, The Heels Have Eyes explores the world of Denver's fantastic drag performance community. »
- Indiewire
Shane Carruth Talks His Next Movie 'The Modern Ocean,' Says "It Erupts Into A Big Action Film"
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To date, the films of Shane Carruth have been both small in size, and huge on ideas. His breakout time travel puzzler "Primer" from 2004 is still dissected today, while his more recent "Upstream Color" presented a relationship unfolding in a sea of visual and thematic riches. For a while now, we've known his next picture would be "The Modern Ocean," but as usual, the filmmaker is keeping a fairly low profile. When we talked to him about the movie a couple of years back, he shared some intriguing details about what it would focus on. "There’s no genre or otherwordly elements in it, it’s set in the modern day on shipping routes, with people who build routes to trade -- you know, vanilla from Madagascar and then pick up crude oil and drop it off in India. They build up this intellectual property of a route that is »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson Thriller 'Regression' to Open the 63rd San Sebastian Festival
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Read More: Watch: Emma Watson Warns Ethan Hawke in Tense 'Regression' Trailer Director Alejandro Amenábar's latest work, "Regression," starring Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson, will have its world premiere as the opener of the 2015 San Sebastian Festival. "Regression" follows Detective Bruce Kenner in 1990's Minnesota as he investigates the case of Angela, who accuses her father, John, of sexual abuse. When John's memory of the crime is fuzzy and unclear, psychologist Dr. Raines is brought to the case to find out the truth. As the detective explores further and further, he uncovers more mysteries that cause Angela to fear for her and Kenner's lives. The film also stars David Thewlis and David Dencik. It will have its world premiere on September 18 in the Kursaal Auditorium. "Regression" will open in Spain on October 2, followed by Germany, the UK, France, Italy China and Korea later this fall. The 2015 San Sebastian Festival will. »
- Kaeli Van Cott
“When You Have a Message or Issue-Driven Film, It’s Already an Act of Patriarchy”: Hubert Sauper on We Come as Friends
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Hubert Sauper’s new film We Come As Friends is more non-fiction poetry than traditional documentary. Following his Oscar-nominated Darwin’s Nightmare, We Come As Friends is set in South Sudan as it becomes its own country. A new (or, rather, the same old) colonialism is represented by rapacious outside interests pressing in on Sudan from all sides, desiring the country’s oil and natural resources. Amidst it all, Sauper and his collaborators build their own tiny aircraft, complete with a wind-up music box on the dashboard, and fly it into a nexus of cultural communication gaps, deception, corruption, violence and a rhapsodic […] »
- Alix Lambert
Sherlock Holmes & the Internet of Things: How to Join a Massive Storytelling Experiment
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They resemble a line of ants transporting food back to a colony. Some carry rolls of tape, others clutch massive reams of butcher paper and a select few are the keeper of the scissors. Read More: From Virtual Reality to Interactive Documentaries: 'Sensory Stories' Showcases Immersive Storytelling Over a 100 people follow me out of the National Stadium located in Warsaw. We're on a collective mission. Over the course of 90 minutes, the group will create a massive crime scene complete with victims, killers and motives. Together they will transform into a collaborative Sherlock Holmes as they scour through clues and attempt not to containment their crime scenes. Welcome to Sherlock Holmes & the Internet of Things, a prototype of the Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab that experiments with shifts in authorship and ownership of stories while exploring the ethical and political implications of IoT (Internet of Things). For the last 10 months, Nick Fortugno and myself have staged. »
- Lance Weiler
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