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Watch: Sofia Coppola and Elle Fanning Reunite for Roku Gin Ad
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Woe betide Sofia Coppola skeptics, but a 58-second liquor ad suggests nice paycheck before manicured artistic intent. Still it’s nice seeing the director reunite with the star of her best film (Somewhere‘s very own Elle Fanning) for a quick, floral...
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Green Border | Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
The Good Pole: Holland’s Humanitarian Drama a Steady Drizzle of Misery Porn The difference between an exploitation vs. a social issue film can sometimes be difficult to ascertain, sometimes straying into both territories, usually depending on the agenda of its...
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Frontieres 2024: Market Announces Line Ups For The Genre Film Lab And Shorts to Features
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
The folks at Frontieres have announced this year's lineup ups for The Genre Film Lab and Shorts to Features programs.    The Genre Film Lab is an accelerator program designed to support the development of Canadian feature film genre projects...
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Tribeca Review: Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play is a Documentary Self-Portrait of Various Works in Progress
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play. Not A Movie. A Play is in fact a documentary self-portrait, at times providing a behind-the-scenes look at the workshopping of Harris’ provocative and acclaimed Tony-nominated play. Harris, with a filmography that includes co-writing Zola,...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Catherine Breillat, Powell and Pressburger, Charli XCX & More
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Film at Lincoln CenterA Catherine Breillat retrospective begins, featuring many restorations; Before Sunset screens outdoors on Friday. Museum of Modern ArtA career-spanning Powell and Pressburger retrospective begins. Roxy CinemaFellox Roxy...
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Friday One Sheet: LONGLEGS (Again)
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Perhaps the best movie marketing effort of 2024, at least via its posters, has been for Osgoode Perkins' soon to be released Longlegs. We have always been ardent admirers of design house GrandSon, and, quite simply put, they have been...
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Marvel’s Black Villain Era
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
The question of villainy has always been a complicated issue for African Americans in film. Being seen as full characters has been a struggle, and Black people were so marginalized in American cinema they didn’t even get to be bad...
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​Donald Sutherland: The Consummate Character Actor
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Actor Donald Sutherland died on Thursday in Miami, aged 88. Recognizable to six decades of film fans for his mellifluous voice and probing eyes, Sutherland was as close to stardom as character acting gets. Though seldom weighted with the burden...
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Black Out: The Disappearance of Black Couples in Advertising
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Have you been watching TV at all these days? If you have, odds are you have seen fewer and fewer Black couples living and enjoying life together in commercials. Seeing a Black man and a Black woman together is almost...
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It’s About Reshaping: David Kirkman on Underneath: The Children of the Sun
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
What if Christopher Nolan and Spike Lee teamed-up to collaborate on a film together? The results would probably be a lot like the small micro-budget sci-fi film “Underneath: Children of the Sun” directed by St. Louis native David Kirkman.  The...
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