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62nd New York Film Festival Main Slate Features Mike Leigh, Julia Loktev, Sean Baker, David Cronenberg, Brady Corbet & More
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
The best-curated film festival of the year has unveiled its first complete section. The 62nd New York Film Festival has dropped its Main Slate lineup, featuring surprise world premieres from Julia Loktev and Robinson Devor, along with the latest from...
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2024 TIFF: Kulumbegashvili, Zilbalodis, Lojkine, Soderbergh, Rankin & Sofia Bohdanowicz in Centrepiece Programme
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
It’s year two for the Toronto Intl. Film Festival’s Centrepiece programme – the place where we find films from the film festival circuit as old as this year’s Sundance and as fresh as the future film premieres to be found...
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‘Daughters’ Review: A Quietly Devastating Portrait of Girls and Their Incarcerated Fathers
by admin|2 years ago|Slant Magazine
The importance of touch between a parent and child looms large over nearly every scene. The post ‘Daughters’ Review: A Quietly Devastating Portrait of Girls and Their Incarcerated Fathers appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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SDCC 2024: Activations, Apes and Other Animals
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
San Diego Comic-Con is known for its activations, and the best of 2024 were, by far, presentations by Paramount+ and 20th Century Fox. Outside the San Diego Convention Center, for the second year in a row, Paramount+ used Happy Does...
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Popcorn Frights 2024 Kicks Off Thursday: Macabre Delights Abound
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Popcorn Frights Film Festival kicks off Thursday night with the world premiere of Beezel and the Florida premiere of Strange Darling. The festival will be a hybrid experience, presenting both in-theater and virtual film offerings, running...
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Short Films in Focus: Welcome to the Enclave
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Sarah Lasley’s sneaky and unsettling “Welcome to the Enclave” starts out looking like an overly corporate and sterile intro video for a virtual suburban neighborhood one can visit online. The music sounds like it’s straight out of an iMovie effects...
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I Saw the Sixth Sense Knowing the Big Twist, and Loved It Anyway
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
"The Sixth Sense" is the movie that made its writer-director M. Night Shyamalan a cultural force, and he's been one ever since. It's also the movie that stereotyped him as a filmmaker whose work is dependent on plot twists. If you reading...
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Girls Will Be Girls Trailer: Sundance Highlight Arrives This September
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
While Sundance Film Festival is perhaps most associated with the coming-of-age film, one of a different variety arrived at the festival this year. Girls Will Be Girls follows a young Indian girl who begins a romance with her boarding school...
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Interview with Next Avenue: Chaz Ebert Wants You To Give a FECK
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
RogerEbert.com Co-Founder and Publisher Chaz Ebert recently spoke to journalist Randi Mazzella about her bestselling book It's Time to Give a FECK:Elevating Humanity through Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion and Kindness, and we are reprinting what was chosen by the editors of Next Avenue as the...
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An Unheralded French New Wave Master Gets the Spotlight in Trailer for Jacques Rozier Retrospective
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
“I was lucky and so excited to discover [Jacques Rozier’s] Adieu Philippine earlier this year in France, because it is very little known and not available in the U.S. It’s my new favorite French New Wave film,” Richard Linklater recently...
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