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Eleanor Coppola Was the Guardian Angel of Apocalypse Now
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
When Eleanor Coppola died Friday at the age of 87, it was inevitable that most obituaries would lead with the fact that she had been the wife of Francis Ford Coppola, one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of the last...
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Cannes 2024 Directors Fortnight, Critics Week, and ACID Lineups Unveiled
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Following the main lineups for the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, a handful of sidebar slates have been unveiled, featuring Directors Fortnight, Critics Week, and ACID. Notable highlights include the Sundance favorite Good One (read our review here), Tyler Taormina’s Christmas...
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2024 Cannes Film Festival: Matthew Rankin, Tyler Taormina, Poggi/Vinel & India Donaldson Lock in Directors’ Fortnight
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
This year’s edition of the Directors’ Fortnight will begin with Barbie and end with…plastic. Julien Rejl‘s selection committee have lassoed a total of twenty-one features for a slate that will bookend with Sophie Fillières‘ final feature (she passed away shortly...
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The Overlook Film Festival 2024 Highlights, Part 1: Fasterpiece Theater, Exhuma, All You Need is Death, Me
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
The Overlook Film Festival is thankfully not a market festival. Only one of this year’s screenings was a world premiere: “Abigail,” which played on the closing night of the four-day festival, and will soon be released globally by Universal Pictures....
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What You Do is Who You Are: Irena’s Vow Screenwriter Dan Gordon on Telling the Story of a Teenager Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
You might not expect the passion project of the writer who brought us “Rambo: First Blood,” “Highlander,” and the action comedy “Gotcha!” would be the story of a Polish teenager who hid a small group of Jews from the Nazis....
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Criterion in July 2024: FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE and PERFECT DAYS Coming Soon
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
Also: 'Black God, White Devil' from Brazil, 'Pat Garret and Billy the Kid' from Sam Peckinpah, 'Risky Business' from Paul Brickman, 'Le samourai' from Melville in 4K. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Kim Minhee Meets Cats and Makes Conversation in U.S. Trailer for Hong Sangsoo’s In Our Day
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Death, taxes, and one-to-three Hong Sang-soo movies per year. I much prefer the latter, and it’s nice knowing we’re just a month out from In Our Day, his 30th feature and latest on which he serves as director, writer, producer,...
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Chicago Critics Film Festival Announces Full 2024 Lineup with Sing Sing, Ghostlight, Babes, I Saw the TV Glow, More
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
The Chicago Critics Film Festival announced its 11th Annual lineup this morning, featuring over two dozen Chicago premieres, over a dozen special guests, and anniversary screenings of “Little Women,” “Bringing Out the Dead,” and “Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence.”...
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SOLO Trailer: Drag Performers Compete for the Spotlight in TIFF-Winning Toxic Romance
by admin|1 year ago|Hammer to Nail
Spring just might be the season for electrifying anti-love stories with Love Lies Bleeding and Challengers. Joining the frey might be writer-director Sophie Dupuis’ queer-drag romance Solo – a rare portrait of dealing with toxic relationships while finding oneself. Set...
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The Criterion Collection’s July Lineup Includes 4Ks of Pat Garrett, Le Samouraï, and Risky Business
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
Cruise. Criterion. Just a matter of time, really, until the world’s premier movie star made his way into the collection. Smart money might not have been on Paul Brickman’s Risky Business, a great film mostly known for one or two...
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