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Review: Woody Allen's "Interiors" (1978); Blu-ray Release From Twilight Time
18 hours ago | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
“A Long Day’S Journey Into A Little Night Silence”
Woody’s Allen’s first dramatic feature film, Interiors, released in 1978 on the heels of his hugely successful and Oscar-winning masterpiece, Annie Hall, was met with praise by some and head-scratching by others. Most critics, however, acknowledged that the picture was a step the artist needed to take in his evolution as a filmmaker.
Prior to Annie Hall, Allen’s films were zany comedies—the “early funny ones,” as facetiously described in a later work, Stardust Memories. Beginning with Annie, Allen made a quantum leap forward in originality, confidence, and stylistic maturity. He reinvented the romantic comedy. In many ways, Annie Hall is a movie with a European sensibility. It could be argued that Allen’s body of work post-Annie resembles the kind of material made by a director like, say, Francois Truffaut—small, well-written, intimate gems about people, »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Filmart: LevelK scores with Finnish action drama 'Law Of The Land'
13 March 2017 4:00 PM, PDT | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Exclusive: Sales company inks raft of deals on Finland-Norway co-production.
LevelK has closed a first round of deals for debut feature director Jussi Hiltunen’s action drama Law Of The Land, starring award-winning actor Ville Virtanen (Sauna, Bad Family).
The Finland-Norway co-production sold to China (Lemon Tree Media), Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg (Just Entertainment) and Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Moldova, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Albania and Bulgaria (HBO Central Europe).
Set in the Arctic desert of the North on either side of the Finland-Sweden border, Law Of The Land is a “modern western” that follows Lasse, a retiring policeman who gets caught up between his legitimate and illegitimate sons who are trying to kill each other. With the conflict filling the area with an atmosphere of vengeance, Lasse is forced to confront his past mistakes as he tries to prevent violence.
The film also features Antti Holma, Mikko Neuvonen and longtime »
- hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
Watch: Wes Anderson Talks Akira Kurosawa, Symmetry, Acting & More in One-Hour Masterclass
13 March 2017 9:54 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Wes Anderson is deep into production on his next feature, the new stop-motion Isle of Dogs, and while this extended animation process means we won’t see the results for at least another year-plus, it has also freed him up to other opportunities. Following a Christmas advert, he’s now participated in an extensive, one-hour masterclass while at Arte Cinema. With it being conducted by a pair of French speakers, the translation process means it might not be as smooth as other conversations he has taken part in, but it is certainly one of the most informative about his influences and his process.
“The reason to hide your inspirations is because you are trying to steal them. If you can sneak it in, then you’ve gained something without having to lose something,” he says, mentioning his time at University of Texas when he would go back and forth consuming »
- Jordan Raup
Unfilmed Akira Kurosawa Script ‘The Mask of the Black Death’ Will Be Produced in China
5 March 2017 9:34 AM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
It’s been nearly two decades since the passing of Akira Kurosawa and since then we’ve seen a few posthumous works based on his unfilmed scripts, including 1998’s After the Rain and 2002’s The Sea is Watching. In 2020, we’ll be getting together. It’s been announced that two major Chinese production companies are teaming to produce The Mask of the Black Death.
Huayi Brothers Media and Ckf Pictures are teaming to bring Kurosawa’s script, based on Edgar Allan Poe‘s short story The Masque of the Red Death, to screens, reports China.org (via AkiraKurosawa.info). Written by the Yojimbo director in 1977 following production on Dersu Uzala — when he was also working on Ran and Kagemusha — the story is set in a apocalyptic landscape with a plague threatening the world and the royal family ignores the suffering of those afflicted.
Although a release is planned for 2020, no director has been set yet, »
- Jordan Raup
12 People with 10+ Oscar Nominations and No Wins
26 February 2017 8:07 PM, PST | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
At the Academy Awards on Sunday night, Kevin O’Connell just broke the longest streak for Oscar nominations without a win. The 59-year-old New Yorker had been nominated 21 times in total, making 2017 a very good year for him.
Who else among Hollywood’s finest has had to weather a storm of nominations without a win? Well, even just keeping it to over 10 nominations, it’s a healthy list. Let’s take a look.
O’Connell’s win must have been somewhat bittersweet for Russell, who’s directly behind the elder sound mixer in the category of most nominations without wins. »
- Alex Heigl
Watch This: An almost wordless short film wound up with an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay
23 February 2017 11:00 AM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
One week a month, Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres. This week: With the Academy Awards a few days away, we look back at some of the unlikeliest Oscar nominees, picking a different major category every day.
The Red Balloon (1956)
From the mid-1950s through the early 1970s, Hollywood often looked to Europe (especially France and Italy) as the cutting edge of movie style. It was during this period that the award for Best Original Screenplay became an unofficial arthouse category at the Oscars, earning nominations and even wins for all sorts of movies whose modern equivalents one couldn’t imagine getting nominated today, like Blow-Up or any of the three Alain Resnais films that received nods in the 1960s: Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year At Marienbad, and the less famous La Guerre Est Finie. (What, no love for Muriel?) Federico Fellini and Ingmar Bergman »
- Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Horror Highlights: Phantasm: Ravager on Shudder, Clive Barker Reel Fear Contest, Piff After Dark, Slasher.Com, Atomica, The Eyes, A Haunting At Silver Falls II
15 February 2017 7:17 AM, PST | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
The latest horror flick filled with immense badassery to be added to Shudder's library is the fifth sequel in the Phantasm franchise, Phantasm: Ravager. Also in today's Highlights: details on the Clive Barker Reel Fear Contest, Portland International Film Festival's After Dark program, release details for Slasher.com and The Eyes, a new poster for Atomica, and production news and photos for A Haunting at Silver Falls II.
Phantasm: Ravager Comes to Shudder: "Joining Shudder is Phantasm: Ravager- the final installment of the long-running Phantasm series.
In addition to Phantasm: Ravager, streaming exclusively on Shudder is the remaster of Don Coscarelli’s 1979 classic Phantasm, as well as its sequels Phantasm III and Phantasm IV.
Phantasm was recently restored by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Coscarelli, and given both a new 4K remaster and a 5.1 surround sound mix, which will be the version presented exclusively on Shudder."
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Clive Barker Reel »
- Tamika Jones
Stockholm-Based Production Company Reels in Swedish Cinema
10 February 2017 4:36 PM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
B-Reel Films, the hip Stockholm-based banner behind some of Scandinavia’s most ambitious films and TV shows, from Mikael Marcimain’s “Gentlemen” to Pernilla August’s “A Serious Game,” recently ventured into the ultra-competitive English-language movie landscape with Lisa Langseth’s “Euphoria,” starring Alicia Vikander, Eva Green and Charlotte Rampling, and is developing a flurry of more upscale projects.
B-Reel Films is coming off a busy start of the year, having just won two Swedish Guldbagge Awards (Sweden’s equivalent of the Oscars) for “A Serious Game” including supporting actor for Michael Nyqvist. And on the TV side, the shingle’s first Nordic noir series “Before We Die” launched to hit ratings on Sweden’s public broadcaster Svt.
The company has two movies in post: “Euphoria,” which reteams Langseth and Vikander after the critically acclaimed “Hotel,” as well “Bergman,” a feature-length doc about Ingmar Bergman directed by Jane Magnuson. The »
- Elsa Keslassy
‘The Dinner’ Review: Steve Coogan and Richard Gere Are Enraged Siblings in Oren Moverman’s Intense Family Drama — Berlinale 2017
10 February 2017 10:30 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Oren Moverman is responsible for two of the most impressive American screenplays of the past 10 years, “I’m Not There.” and “Love & Mercy,” both of which turn ambitious approaches to personal stories into surprisingly accessible dramas. As a director, Moverman has shown a rougher edge.
His first two features, “The Messenger” and “Rampart,” were gritty, intimate stories of angry men screwed by the system that employs them (the military and the police force, respectively), while 2014’s “Time Out of Mind” took a similar approach to a man rejected by the system altogether (Richard Gere, playing a decrepit homeless man in New York). Moverman assembles these rickety dramas in piecemeal, gradually developing psychological tension out from the moments that form their lives, like a series of sparklers ignited one by one until they form a blazing whole.
His latest effort, “The Dinner,” is a firecracker from the start. While hobbled by »
- Eric Kohn
Directing Nominees Confess Biggest Hurdles, On-Set MVPs
7 February 2017 9:15 AM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
With five such different cinematic visions represented, what do this year’s Oscar nominees for director have in common?
It depends on whom you ask. Kenneth Lonergan, nominated writer-director of “Manchester by the Sea,” links the final five this way: They each “focus on deep connective tissue on a human level, even though they are all very different stylistically and in subject matter,” he tells Variety.
Mel Gibson, director of “Hacksaw Ridge,” invokes the process itself. “What do we have in common?” he asks. “At some point, somebody asked each of us a thousand questions a day and we had to make snap decisions.”
Each shares a fierce inventiveness, necessitated by the time and budget constraints each faced mounting their creatively ambitious projects.
“These movies couldn’t be more different,” points out “Moonlight” writer-director Barry Jenkins. “The movies I like best are the ones where you can feel the curiosity »
- Marshall Fine
Goteborg: Lucrative Dragon award goes to 'Sami Blood'
5 February 2017 10:54 AM, PST | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Other Winners include The War Show, Tom of Finland, Heartstone.
Swedish director Amanda Kernell’s Sami Blood won the Dragon award for best nordic feature in Goteborg, worth $114,000 (1m Sek), making it one of the most lucrative prizes at any international film festival.
Kernell’s debut feature is a drama about a teenage Sami girl who resolves to leave behind her identity in racist 1930s society and start a new life in Uppsala. Kernell, who has Sami heritage, was inspired by her grandmother’s own story. At the Goteborg awards gala, Kernell (pictured) thanked “the elders who shared their stories with me”.
The film also won the Sven Nykvist cinematography award for DoP Sophia Olsson.
Sami Blood premiered in Venice Days and then played at festivals including Toronto, Tokyo and Dubai. LevelK handles sales.
Other winners in Goteborg were: best Nordic documentary to Obaidah Zytoon and Andreas Dalsgaard’s Syria story The War Show, which the jury »
- wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
‘Sámi Blood’ Tops 40th Goteborg Film Fest
4 February 2017 1:12 PM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Goteborg — Swedish helmer-writer Amanda Kernell’s debut feature “Sámi Blood” came away a big winner at the 40th Goteborg Film Festival, scoring the generously endowed (approx. $114,000) Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film.
“Sámi Blood” tells the story of a teenage Sámi girl, Elle Marja (Lene Cecilia Sparrok), who resolves to leave behind her Sámi identity and find a new life in Uppsala during the 1930s. The film, recently acquired for U.S. release by Synergistic Distribution, also claimed the Sven Nykvist Cinematography Award for DoP Sophia Olsson.
The Swedish premiere of “Sámi Blood” capped the fest’s special focus on Sámi filmmaking. Kernell, who is herself of Sámi heritage, will soon screen the film for Sámi elders in Lapland. The fest also world-preemed Kernell’s excellent 30-minute short “I Will Always Love You Conny” in a showcase of five new films funded by Moving Sweden’s micro-budget scheme.
The audience »
- Alissa Simon
First Look at Michael Fassbender in Tomas Alfredson’s ‘The Snowman’
1 February 2017 6:53 AM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
It’s been over half-a-decade since we last saw the work of Tomas Alfredson on screen — his stellar follow-up to Let the Right One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — but he’s finally returning in 2017 with one of our most-anticipated films of the year. His latest feature is The Snowman, an adaptation of Jo Nesbø‘s novel, which also stars Rebecca Ferguson and Charlotte Gainsbourg, and follows Fassbender as detective Harry Hole who, upon finding a pink scarf on a snowman, searches for the missing woman.
“It’s got that Scandi-noir element to it, for sure. I think it’s going to be very rich. I love working with Tomas Alfredson. He’s an absolutely great filmmaker. And I think it’s going to be scary, and I think it’s going to be edge-of-the-seat stuff. I like it because Harry Hole’s a very flawed genius in his department of work. »
- Jordan Raup
Tomas Alfredson, Pernilla August, Svt Link for ‘Bergman Revisited’
1 February 2017 4:42 AM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Goteborg — Tomas Alfredson, Pernilla August, Lisa Aschan and Jane Magnusson are among local filmmakers participating in “Bergman Revisited” – a series of new short films by Swedish directors, inspired by Bergman’s spirit and universe and backed by the Swedish Film Institute and Swedish pubcaster Svt.
Celebrating the centenary of Ingmar Bergman’s birth in 2018, “Bergman Revisted” will also feature shorts by Lisa Aschan and Jane Magnusson.
The centenary of Swedish legendary director Ingmar Bergman’s birth in 2018 looks set to spark major centenary events, one of the biggest being “Bergman Revisited, which was presented Monday at Sweden’s 40th Göteborg Film Festival by the chairman of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, Jan Holmberg. Also presenting were Swedish directors Tomas Alfredson, Jesper Walderstam and Jane Magnusson. The local filmmakers, six in all, will tap Sek 1 million ($110,000) from the Institute and Svt to make the films.
As Swedish producer and editor of Svt »
- Jorn Rossing Jensen
5 Things That Set Goteborg Apart
28 January 2017 1:36 AM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of Sweden’s Goteborg Film Festival – though something really quite unusual happened to the 13th edition – Swedish film writer Jon Asp, a Variety collaborator, has authored a book, “Draken och demonerna” (The Dragon and the Demons), on Scandinavia’s most prominent festival. Variety asked him to drill down on five things which set Goteborg apart.
1.Festival No. 13 Skipped
Goteborg turns 40. But in fact its 13th edition was skipped in 1991, due to superstition, the festival communicated at the time. There was, however, a more serious reason. I recently interviewed the former festival heads Gunnar Carlsson and Gunnar Bergdahl . They explained the real reason to advance as quickly as possible to the 15th edition in order to improve their chances of hosting the annual Swedish film gala, regularly taking place in Stockholm. But the operation failed. The 13th edition was finally held in January 2017 with previously never-made screenplays, »
- Jon Asp
Arthouse Rocco: Close-Up on Two Films By Catherine Breillat
26 January 2017 5:59 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Catherine Breillat's Romance (1999) is playing January 25 - February 24 and Anatomy of Hell (2004) is playing January 26 - February 25, 2017 in the United Kingdom in the series Catherine Breillat, Auteur of Porn?“Why do men who disgust us understand us better than the ones we love?”—Marie, Romance“Forget it. She’s a bitch. A slut like any other.”“Yes, but the queen of sluts.”—Man, Anatomy of HellNobody fucks like the French. Or is that the Italians? Ask Catherine Breillat, the French auteur who remarked, when probed in an interview promoting her 2004 feature Anatomy of Hell, regarding the decision to cast Rocco Siffredi, the Italian megastar of hardcore porn, in one of the film’s two leading roles: “No French actor could do it. Rocco performs with his entire body and mind, so he is a sort of perfection.” The Italian Stallion, »
Scott Reviews Alex Ross Perry’s Golden Exits [Sundace 2017]
25 January 2017 1:27 PM, PST | CriterionCast | See recent CriterionCast news »
Prolificacy can catch up to even the most dogged of artists. For writer/director Alex Ross Perry, one of the most distinct and sharp voices of his generation, Golden Exits is the moment his speed (this is his third feature in a three-year span) has caught up. The whole movie revolves about exhaustion – the exhaustion of carrying on youthful enthusiasms into middle age, of maintaining relationships that have lost their spark, of answering the same questions about your life for fifteen straight years. So, too, can one nearly feel the exhaustion in making it. The gradual plodding of the keyboard and lack of interest in revision permeate a 94-minute film that manages to be both well-structured and underwritten. I looked at his 2014 breakout film, Listen Up Philip, and saw a man who wanted to reach the heights of Woody Allen at his most creatively feverish and emotionally unsteady. Three years later, »
- Scott Nye
‘Moonlight’ Director Barry Jenkins Takes Home an ‘Embarassing’ Haul From The Criterion Closet — Watch
25 January 2017 9:29 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Earlier this January, Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” won Best Picture — Drama at the 74th Golden Globes after racking up widespread critical acclaim since its world premiere at Telluride last September. The film has recently racked up eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. In honor of his new film and all the recent accolade, the Criterion Collection invited Barry Jenkins to check out the famed Criterion Closet and pick out some films to take home. Watch the video below.
Read More: National Society of Film Critics Names ‘Moonlight’ Best Picture of 2016
Jenkins picks out a host of films from the closet that have special significance for him. Some of these films include the “John Cassavetes: Five Films” box set, which Jenkins describes as “foundational”; Krzysztof Kieślowski’s ten-hour long “Dekalog,” a film Jenkins once bought on Ebay because he “felt like he had to see it”; Mathieu Kassovitz’s “La Haine, »
- Vikram Murthi
'The Giant' wins top prize at 2017 Guldbagge Awards
24 January 2017 12:06 AM, PST | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Other winners at Swedish film awards include The Yard, Martha & Niki and My Aunt In Sarajevo.
Johannes Nyholm’s The Giant (pictured) was the big winner at the 2017 Guldbagge Awards in Sweden.
Produced by Garagefilm International and Beo Film, it won best film, best screenplay (for Nyholm) and best make-up (Eva von Bahr, Love Larson and Pia Aleborg).
The Yard also won three awards, including best actor (Anders Mossling), best cinematography (Ita Zbroniec-Zajt) and best sound/sound design (Patrik Strömdahl).
Goran Kapetanović won best director for the unusual My Aunt In Sarajevo, which had a theatrical release despite being only 58 minutes long. The film’s Sadžida Šetić also won best actress in a supporting role.
Maria Sundbom picked up best actress for The Girl, The Mother And The Demons, while Michael Nyqvist won best supporting actor for his role in A Serious Game.
Martha And Niki won best editing (Tora Mkandawire Mårtens and Therese Elfström) and best »
Watch Us Pull a Rabbit Out of our Hat
23 January 2017 7:10 AM, PST | Trailers from Hell | See recent Trailers from Hell news »
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