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Ruth Negga employs a couple of handy metaphors when talking about her turn as Mildred Loving in Jeff Nichols’ biographical drama, “Loving,” from carrying a precious vase to safety alongside her co-star Joel Edgerton to launching off a trampoline under the guidance of Nichols. But each metaphor – thoughtfully considered and very charming, much like the Ethiopian-Irish actress herself – help drives home one single thing: The delicate, brave nature of taking on such a meaningful and important role.

Nichols’ film eschews the standard high-drama biographical movie formula, instead focusing on the more intimate aspects of the love story that would go on to change the face of marriage in America. While many Americans are at least aware of the existence of the landmark Loving v. Virginia case, few know the details – how the Lovings were ambushed and raided after their 1958 marriage, charged with a slew of crimes, forced to leave their »

- Kate Erbland

1 hour ago

Los Angeles cinephiles got a once-in-a-lifetime treat last week thanks to The Academy’s “Heat” 20th anniversary screening, which included a viewing of the new 4K restoration of the film and a Christopher Nolan-moderated Q&A with director Michael Mann and stars Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. IndieWire provided some of the best highlights from the event the morning after, and anyone wanting to experience the chat a little more intimately is now in luck. The Academy is hosting a ton of video clips from the reunion on their YouTube page, which includes segments devoted to topics like the film’s approach to visuals and use of sound.

Read More: Christopher Nolan Hosts ‘Heat’ Live Chat With De Niro, Pacino & Michael Mann: Read Key Quotes

One of the best clips, embedded below, finds the actors reflecting on what it was like to take on these characters and »

- Zack Sharf

1 hour ago

IndieWire’s Springboard column profiles up-and-comers in the film industry worthy of your attention.

Dash Shaw isn’t kidding around — and neither is the title of the first-time filmmaker’s Toronto International Film Festival debut, “My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea.” The animated feature really is about a sinking high school, and it’s really told from the perspective of a Shaw surrogate, an outcast high schooler also named Dash Shaw (gasp). The graphic novelist and short story writer turned screenwriter and director lends his unique vision — both in terms of actual visuals and his funny, self-deprecating view of the world — to the story, which blends the charm of a solid teenager-centric film with any number of high-stakes, high-seas adventures (Tiff rightly refers to it as “John Hughes fused with ‘The Poseidon Adventure'”) to make something that is truly unique.

Read More: Tiff 2016: 9 Breakthrough Names To »

- Kate Erbland

1 hour ago

Earlier this year, the concentration camp Auschwitz was wiped off the face of the Earth. A superpowered Holocaust survivor who goes by the name of “Magneto” went to the hallowed massacre site, and — blind with rage after suffering a tremendous personal loss — used his mutant abilities to dismantle the single most important landmark of his people’s suffering. It was a striking moment, in part because it seemed wildly out of place in a movie about a group of teens who dress in purple spandex and fight each other with magic, and in part because Magneto’s rash show of rage wasn’t played as a revenge fantasy so much as an act of historical rejection.

There’s a good reason why, in real life, Auschwitz is a museum and not a landfill: It protects against those who say the Holocaust could never happen again, and — increasingly — to serve as »

- David Ehrlich

1 hour ago

Pablo Larrain’s “Jackie” roused what’s been a sleepy market at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. Starring Natalie Portman as the former First Lady, the film covers a four-day period that begins just before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and Portman turns in an Oscar-worthy performance that received a standing ovation at the film’s screening Sunday.

Fox Searchlight has first and last look on the movie, but distributors also understood to be in the hunt include Amazon, A24, and EuropaCorp, French mogul Luc Besson’s U.S.-based upstart led by former Universal co-chairman Marc Shmuger. Two sources said EuropaCorp bid Sunday in the the high single-digit millions. CAA and Insiders are handling the sale.

Related‘Jackie’ Review: Pablo Larrian’s Experimental Jackie Kennedy Biopic Is a Unique Triumph – Venice Film Festival

Also generating heat is Spanish filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo’s genre-defying monster movie “Colossal” starring Anne Hathaway. »

- Graham Winfrey

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Mateo Gil’s latest sci-fi film “Realive” asks the question: “What would it be like to be resurrected after being dead for over 50 years?” The film follows Marc Jarvis (Tom Hughes), a successful man who has recently been diagnosed with a fatal, fast-spreading cancer. He decides to cryonize his body in the hope that he will be brought back to life when they have found a cure. Six decades later, the Prodigy Health Corporation resurrects Marc, and he becomes the first human to survive the process, but his reanimation doesn’t go smoothly and he soon finds himself longing for his past self. The film also stars Charlotte Le Bon (“Bastille Day”) and Oona Chaplin (“Quantum Solace”). Watch an exclusive trailer for the film below.

Read More: Meet the 2011 Tribeca Filmmakers | “Blackthorn” Director Mateo Gil

Gil is likely most famous for co-writing Alejandro Amenábar’s 1997 film “Open Your Eyes,” which »

- Annakeara Stinson

2 hours ago

The very slow build to “Arrested Development” Season 5 continues. While backstage at the Creative Arts Emmys last night following “Archer’s” win for Outstanding Animated Program, Bluth matriarch Jessica Walter assured press the show is fully expecting to return at some unspecified time in the future. “It’s looking real good,” Walter said about the upcoming fifth season of the acclaimed comedy series, which was cancelled in 2007 by Fox but revived in 2013 by Netflix. “I don’t have dates, but everybody is on board.”

Read More: ‘Arrested Development’ Creator Mitch Hurwitz Has Created a 22-Episode Season 4 Remix

Walters’ statement continues the ambiguous road towards a new season of “Arrested Development.” Every cast member seems on board for more Bluth mayhem, though no start date has ever been released in the three years since Season 4. Earlier this summer at the TCAs, creator Mitch Hurwitz told press that production could begin as »

- Zack Sharf

2 hours ago

This year’s Oscar race is in crazy flux, moving and changing every day. Every year the Toronto International Film Festival pushes a new slate of high-profile Oscar hopefuls, adding more players—and media—to the season’s ongoing awards trajectory. And many movies that don’t make the grade fall by the wayside.

“Jackie,” which tells the JFK assassination aftermath from the perspective of widow Jacqueline Kennedy (Natalie Portman), was not a TIFF debut; that honor went to Venice, where it was a hit and Noah Oppenheim won for best screenplay. However, it was Tiff’s Sunday night screening where the bidding began in earnest — and with it, the possibility that Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain’s  film would be an Oscar contender.

Fox Searchlight, which has first and last dibs on the movie, may want to rush it into the awards season, as they’ve done in the past »

- Anne Thompson

3 hours ago

Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress — at the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.

In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.

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Logline: An intimate film about the impacts of cancer on a mother and her imaginative son.

Elevator Pitch:

Alessandro Farrattini’s short film about a tragic discovery is a terribly touching yet tongue-in-cheek tale of a mother and son’s separate but (hopefully) universal acceptances of a terribly stinky, terribly poopy, and terribly evil disease whose super villain name is, cancer.

Production Team:

Alessandro Farrattini: Director

Alessandro is an award-winning Director whose previous short “Corpse Remover” was 150% funded on Kickstarter. He also works as an Assistant Director and Videographer for companies such as The East London Music Group and Warner Bros. »

- Steve Greene

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Michel Gondry’s latest film “Microbe and Gasoline,” about two friends who embark on a road trip across France in a vehicle they built themselves, premiered at last year’s New York Film Festival before being released in limited release this past July. It received mostly positive reviews from critics who praised Gondry’s restraint in contrast to his usual fantastical whimsy. Now, Gondry has returned with another directorial effort, only this time it’s a music video for the now-defunct modern blues group The White Stripes.

Read More: Michel Gondry’s Mysterious Career: How He Keeps Making Movies Even When Nobody’s Watching

Jack White, one half of the White Stripes, recently shared a previously unreleased White Stripes track entitled “City Lights,” which will appear on his career-spanning new compilation album “Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016.” Gondry apparently whipped up a music video for the song “as a gift,” according to a press release, »

- Vikram Murthi

3 hours ago

“Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” won its very first Emmy last night for best variety series writing, and despite being on hiatus this week, Oliver took to the show’s YouTube page to release an outrageous web exclusive that pretty much proves why the show deserved the honor. Speaking about birds, or “cat feeder” as Oliver calls them, the late night host launched into an epic, expletive-filled tirade to ensure birds would never come back from their upcoming migration.

Read More: ‘Last Week Tonight’: John Oliver Turned a 20-Year-Old Kids’ Book with ‘Startling Parallels’ to Trump into a Bestseller

“To me, every single bird is just a shitty sequel to the dinosaurs, and we’re better off without you,” Oliver shouts. But that’s only the beginning of a three-minute takedown of parrots, geese, ostriches (“first draft flamingos”), swans, pelicans, hummingbirds (“obese bees in need of a nose job”) and more. »

- Zack Sharf

16 hours ago

After three consecutive nominations, “Archer” has finally been crowned the best animated program on TV.

Read More: Creative Arts Emmys 2016: Full Winners List

The long-running FX comedy took home the trophy Sunday night during the second ceremony for the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. It had been nominated the two years prior, but this marks the beloved spy spoof’s first win.

And we really only have one more thing to say about that:

After failing to land a nomination for Outstanding Animated Program in its first three seasons, FX decided to submit the series for Outstanding Comedy Series instead. While the bid failed, “Archer” got its first nod for Animated Program the following year. With a win in its pocket just two years later, it seems clear the strategy worked in spreading awareness among TV Academy members.

“Archer” also won four consecutive Critics Choice Awards for Outstanding Animated Program »

- Ben Travers

16 hours ago

The Netflix docuseries sensation “Making a Murderer” took home the trophy for Outstanding Documentary Series early Sunday night.

In what came as a surprise to no one, executive producers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos accepted their trophies during Sunday night’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The documentary series has been widely acclaimed since its debut last December, and it’s already picked up three additional trophies at the Creative Arts Emmys (for editing, directing and writing).

Read More: Creative Arts Emmys 2016: Full Winners List

In the Outstanding Documentary Special category, Netflix scored again with “What Happened, Miss Simone?” The documentary feature on American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist Nina Simone was nominated for an Oscar earlier this year. At this ceremony, however, it won.

Heading into tonight’s ceremony — the second night of the Creative Arts awards presentation — Netflix only had one win (“Marvel’s Jessica Jones,” which »

- Ben Travers

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