“Welcome to Hard Times”. That’s the name of a classic Western flick from over fifty years ago. But it could just as well be the title of this new film, which is being touted as a modern-day Western. This may be due mainly to the fact that this is set in the American West because the basic plot owes much more to the classic film noir dramas. As with many examples of that celebrated genre, the protagonist really wants to go straight after doing a “stretch in the joint”. Of course, life on the outside is full of set-backs and plain ole’ bad breaks that can only be cleared up by fast easy cash. And so the lure of crime beckons with one last job, a “big score”. Oh, another couple of things make this story unique. There’s a smuggling trip to the border, though not South. And...
- 4/19/2019
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Jane Goldman to adapt Daphne du Maurier gothic classic.
British genre auteur Ben Wheatley has signed on to direct a new version of Daphne du Maurier’s gothic classic Rebecca for Working Title and Netflix with a starry cast attached.
Lily James, who earned strong reviews for Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, will star alongside Armie Hammer, who can be seen in awards season contender On The Basis Of Sex.
Jane Goldman, whose recent credits include the Kingsman series and X-Men: First Class, is handling writing duties on the time-honoured story about a young bride plagued by the ghost...
British genre auteur Ben Wheatley has signed on to direct a new version of Daphne du Maurier’s gothic classic Rebecca for Working Title and Netflix with a starry cast attached.
Lily James, who earned strong reviews for Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, will star alongside Armie Hammer, who can be seen in awards season contender On The Basis Of Sex.
Jane Goldman, whose recent credits include the Kingsman series and X-Men: First Class, is handling writing duties on the time-honoured story about a young bride plagued by the ghost...
- 11/14/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Update Below
Lincoln Plaza Cinema — the first stop for much acclaimed independent and foreign fare since 1981 — will shutter next month when its New York City lease ends, according to Deadline. Occupying an Upper West Side residential building’s basement, the six-screen theater has hosted exclusive engagements of films like “Fahrenheit 9/11” and “Certified Copy.” It is operated as a partnership between the founder of the former New Yorker Films distribution company, Dan Talbot; France’s Gaumont Film Company, a mini-major studio; and local real estate investment film Milstein Properties, the owner of the site.
Read More:Dan Talbot’s 2004 Gotham Awards Speech
Talbot’s wife of 68 years, Toby, told Deadline that they “did everything we could to ask for the lease to be extended,” to no avail, as Milstein is “looking to make money” and “get everything [they] can.”
Multiple sources told IndieWire that Howard Milstein, chairman of Milstein Properties, had been seeking...
Lincoln Plaza Cinema — the first stop for much acclaimed independent and foreign fare since 1981 — will shutter next month when its New York City lease ends, according to Deadline. Occupying an Upper West Side residential building’s basement, the six-screen theater has hosted exclusive engagements of films like “Fahrenheit 9/11” and “Certified Copy.” It is operated as a partnership between the founder of the former New Yorker Films distribution company, Dan Talbot; France’s Gaumont Film Company, a mini-major studio; and local real estate investment film Milstein Properties, the owner of the site.
Read More:Dan Talbot’s 2004 Gotham Awards Speech
Talbot’s wife of 68 years, Toby, told Deadline that they “did everything we could to ask for the lease to be extended,” to no avail, as Milstein is “looking to make money” and “get everything [they] can.”
Multiple sources told IndieWire that Howard Milstein, chairman of Milstein Properties, had been seeking...
- 12/16/2017
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
Few things are more sublime than finding back-to-back features that hit some specific thematic sweet spot. Drive-in theaters may not be the popular viewing spot they once were, but with the overwhelming accessibility we now have, one can program their own personal double bill. Today, we’ve run through the gamut of 2017 films to select the finest pairings and tried to sway from the most obvious (i.e. a combination of Dunkirk, Darkest Hour and The Finest Hour). Check out list the below, and we’d love to hear your own picks, which can be left in the comments.
Lady Bird and Princess Cyd
On paper, too easy a pairing: coming-of-age stories that are too intelligent to propose that this, here, is the end of a journey; characters (titular characters, no less) whose impulsiveness, close-mindedness, and selfishness are, of course, part of what makes them so empathetic; portraits in miniature...
Lady Bird and Princess Cyd
On paper, too easy a pairing: coming-of-age stories that are too intelligent to propose that this, here, is the end of a journey; characters (titular characters, no less) whose impulsiveness, close-mindedness, and selfishness are, of course, part of what makes them so empathetic; portraits in miniature...
- 12/15/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Victoria & Abdul to 1927 in Wonderstruck up to the present day, with plenty of stops in the 1940s via Dunkirk, Mudbound and Darkest Hour and a quirky detour to 2002 for Lady Bird.
For composers, the era becomes another consideration when scoring a period piece, but they warn against being too doctrinaire when it comes to designing a sonic landscape confined to a specific time frame. "Principle rejection is a silly idea," says Thomas Newman, who composed the music for Stephen Frears' Victoria &...
For composers, the era becomes another consideration when scoring a period piece, but they warn against being too doctrinaire when it comes to designing a sonic landscape confined to a specific time frame. "Principle rejection is a silly idea," says Thomas Newman, who composed the music for Stephen Frears' Victoria &...
- 12/14/2017
- by Melinda Newman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The nominees for the 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards have been announced today, putting awards season in full swing before along with the Global Globe nominations earlier this week. The Screen Actors Guild Awards are unique in that it's the actors themselves choose the best performances from amongst their peers. Last year's big winners were Mahershala Ali for Moonlight and Emma Stone for La La Land, both of whom deserved the glory. This year they've selected another exceptional set of notable performers - from films including Get Out, The Disaster Artist, Darkest Hour, The Florida Project, Call Me by Your Name, and I Tonya. Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri and Lady Bird are the top nominees. I'm very happy with all this, especially Sally Hawkins and Timothee Chalamet, the two best performances of the year. Here's the full list of film nominees for the 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards...
- 12/13/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
by Nathaniel R
Weekend Box Office (Dec 8-10)
W I D E
800+ screens
L I M I T E D
excluding prev. wide
1. Coco $18.4 (cum. $135.6)
Review | Feeling Seen 1.
Weekend Box Office (Dec 8-10)
W I D E
800+ screens
L I M I T E D
excluding prev. wide
1. Coco $18.4 (cum. $135.6)
Review | Feeling Seen 1.
- 12/11/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
by Nathaniel R
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has reached its diamond anniversary. Alfre Woodard and Sharon Stone announced the nominations. Here are the Globe nominations in all their glory and folly (it's always a combo of the two with any awards body... though people tend to be harsher on the Globes in this perception matter). The biggest surprise was the big love for Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World (which no other awards group had screened to date) but the Golden Globes do like to be first as is always evident in their TV nominations which are generally quite favorable to new series (note the love for The Handmaid's Tale, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, and more). As is also their habit they embraced a musical for their comedy/musical category giving a Best Picture nomination to The Greatest Showman.
Among the saddest snubs (discussed in fuller...
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has reached its diamond anniversary. Alfre Woodard and Sharon Stone announced the nominations. Here are the Globe nominations in all their glory and folly (it's always a combo of the two with any awards body... though people tend to be harsher on the Globes in this perception matter). The biggest surprise was the big love for Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World (which no other awards group had screened to date) but the Golden Globes do like to be first as is always evident in their TV nominations which are generally quite favorable to new series (note the love for The Handmaid's Tale, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, and more). As is also their habit they embraced a musical for their comedy/musical category giving a Best Picture nomination to The Greatest Showman.
Among the saddest snubs (discussed in fuller...
- 12/11/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Katey, Nick, Joe and Nathaniel reunite to talk about the Oscar season as the floodgates open - Globe & SAG noms are about to hit! There are absolutely no spoilers in this so listen away.
Index (43 minutes)
00:01 Introductions & The Greatest Showman
02:11 Lady Bird's prospects
04:15 SAG ensemble possibilities
11:00 Girls Trip & Comedy Globe
16:00 Best Director -- easy or tough call?
21:00 Three Billboards, Darkest Hour, Screenplay race
30:00 Phantom Thread, The Post, Murder on the Orient Express, Visual and Sound categories
38:30 Roman Israel Esq
41:00 Colin Farrell & Goodbyes
You can listen to the podcast here at the bottom of the post or download from iTunes. Continue the conversations in the comments, won't you? ...
Index (43 minutes)
00:01 Introductions & The Greatest Showman
02:11 Lady Bird's prospects
04:15 SAG ensemble possibilities
11:00 Girls Trip & Comedy Globe
16:00 Best Director -- easy or tough call?
21:00 Three Billboards, Darkest Hour, Screenplay race
30:00 Phantom Thread, The Post, Murder on the Orient Express, Visual and Sound categories
38:30 Roman Israel Esq
41:00 Colin Farrell & Goodbyes
You can listen to the podcast here at the bottom of the post or download from iTunes. Continue the conversations in the comments, won't you? ...
- 12/10/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The American Film Institute’s annual list highlighting the top 10 movies of the year includes multiple awards frontrunners. These lists, along with recent critics group awards, this weekend’s International Documentary Association Awards show on Saturday, and Monday’s Golden Globe film and TV nominations, build forward momentum for these and other awards contenders. Moving into Oscar contention is all about movies becoming must-sees for Guild and Academy voters.
As they did last year with long-form documentary “Oj: Made in America,” the AFI jury — a hand-picked mix of academics, critics, and industry insiders — also gave a special award to Ken Burns’ documentary series “Vietnam.”
Read More:‘Blade Runner 2049,’ ‘Logan,’ and More: the Genre-Benders That Are Major Oscar Contenders Film
Gaining traction are a number of films nominated for multiple Critics’ Choice Awards, including Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” (Warner Bros.), Guillermo del Toro’s romantic fantasy “The Shape of Water...
As they did last year with long-form documentary “Oj: Made in America,” the AFI jury — a hand-picked mix of academics, critics, and industry insiders — also gave a special award to Ken Burns’ documentary series “Vietnam.”
Read More:‘Blade Runner 2049,’ ‘Logan,’ and More: the Genre-Benders That Are Major Oscar Contenders Film
Gaining traction are a number of films nominated for multiple Critics’ Choice Awards, including Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” (Warner Bros.), Guillermo del Toro’s romantic fantasy “The Shape of Water...
- 12/7/2017
- by Anne Thompson and Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Variety is reporting the Writers Guild of America has released their list of films meeting eligibility criteria for their awards this year. As usual, they have excluded a number of Oscar hopefuls from contention,...
- 12/5/2017
- by Marshall Flores
- AwardsDaily.com
The hits keep on coming. Both “The Disaster Artist” (A24) and “The Shape of Water” (Fox Searchlight) opened strong, despite the usual strong-fall off in post-Thanksgiving audiences. Last year the month of November saw only one specialized release, “Manchester By the Sea,” pull an opening platform per theater average over $60,000. This year has already seen five.
“The Disaster Artist” (in 11 markets) showed the best performance in New York/Los Angeles of any title this year (nearly $120,000 per theater), besting last weekend’s numbers for “Call Me By Your Name” (Sony Pictures Classics). They join other Oscar-bound strong openers including “Lady Bird” (A24) and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (Fox Searchlight).
This marks unprecedented strength over such a short period, with “Lady Bird” and “Three Billboards” already performing well in wider release. At some point exhibitors are going to be challenged to handle so many hits (all will not go wide...
“The Disaster Artist” (in 11 markets) showed the best performance in New York/Los Angeles of any title this year (nearly $120,000 per theater), besting last weekend’s numbers for “Call Me By Your Name” (Sony Pictures Classics). They join other Oscar-bound strong openers including “Lady Bird” (A24) and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (Fox Searchlight).
This marks unprecedented strength over such a short period, with “Lady Bird” and “Three Billboards” already performing well in wider release. At some point exhibitors are going to be challenged to handle so many hits (all will not go wide...
- 12/3/2017
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Christopher Nolan’s war epic “Dunkirk” and Guillermo del Toro’s romantic fantasy “The Shape of Water” were the top nominees for the 22nd annual Satellite Awards, announced Wednesday morning by the International Press Academy. “Dunkirk” received 11 nominations to top all films, with “The Shape of Water” finishing second with 10. Other films with multiple nods included “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and “Lady Bird” with six each, and “Darkest Hour,” “Get Out,” “War for the Planet of the Apes” and “Blade Runner 2049” with four each. As is its custom, the Ipa nominated nearly all the top awards contenders, with the.
- 11/29/2017
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
by Nathaniel R
This long holiday weekend saw the releases of three major Oscar contenders. Call Me By Your Name had a sensational per screen average (101,000 per screen). Darkest Hour also showed its prosthetic Churchill face for a good opening ($44,000 per screen). And then there was Pixar's Coco, which easily trounced Justice League to take the #1 spot. Critics are raving and, more importantly, Latino critics are raving, too, as you can see at Remezcla and here at The Film Experience.
So let's do the box office report differently this weekend and look at this year's Animated Features...
Animated Features At The Box Office In 2017
Grosses As Of Nov 26th 1. Despicable Me 3 $264.3
6. Captain Underpants $73.9 2. Lego Batman Movie $175.7 7.
This long holiday weekend saw the releases of three major Oscar contenders. Call Me By Your Name had a sensational per screen average (101,000 per screen). Darkest Hour also showed its prosthetic Churchill face for a good opening ($44,000 per screen). And then there was Pixar's Coco, which easily trounced Justice League to take the #1 spot. Critics are raving and, more importantly, Latino critics are raving, too, as you can see at Remezcla and here at The Film Experience.
So let's do the box office report differently this weekend and look at this year's Animated Features...
Animated Features At The Box Office In 2017
Grosses As Of Nov 26th 1. Despicable Me 3 $264.3
6. Captain Underpants $73.9 2. Lego Batman Movie $175.7 7.
- 11/27/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Call Me By Your Name did some fantastic numbers over the weekend, with a 100K plus average per theater, putting it alongside La La Land’s massive opening take and...
- 11/26/2017
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
With “Lady Bird” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” expanding nationwide, two more Oscar contenders, Sony Pictures Classics’ “Call Me by Your Name” and Focus Features’ “Darkest Hour” entered this weekend to huge limited release numbers. “Call Me by Your Name” set a new per screen average record for the year from its four-screen La/NY release, making just under $405,000 for a PSA of $101,219. That’s the highest PSA at the box office since the $176,000 average scored by “La La Land” in a five-screen release last year. Also Read: 'Coco' Conquers Thanksgiving Box Office With $71 Million The coming-of-age Lgbt film stars.
- 11/26/2017
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
With a strong, five-day debut Disney and Pixar's Coco joined the ranks of the many successful films Disney has launched over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Receiving high marks from critics and audiences alike, the film finished atop the weekend box office and is looking at solid returns throughout the holiday season. Additionally, WB and DC Comics' Justice League and Lionsgate's Wonder played mostly as expected as the three films contributed to a healthy helping of receipts at the holiday box office, outperforming the Thanksgiving three-day last year by ~4% with the top twelve combining for over $180 million. With an estimated $49 million for the three-day weekend and $71.2 million for the five-day, Disney and Pixar's Coco delivered the fourth largest Thanksgiving weekend three- and five-day openings. As a result, Disney continues to own nine of the ten largest three and five-day openings over the Thanksgiving holiday with New Line's Four Christmases the...
- 11/26/2017
- by Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
Now In-theater: November 24, 2017 The motion pictures now in-theater are from various Hollywood and independent movie studios. Some of the films are in wide release (600 screens or more in the United States and Canada) and some are in limited release (a motion picture that is playing in a select few theaters across [...]
Continue reading: Now In-theater: November 24, 2017: Coco, Darkest Hour, The Man Who Invented Christmas, & More...
Continue reading: Now In-theater: November 24, 2017: Coco, Darkest Hour, The Man Who Invented Christmas, & More...
- 11/24/2017
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
I’d imagine every one of us, despite our individual life situations, however privileged or difficult they may be, wouldn’t have too much trouble coming up with a pretty long list of people and circumstances for which to be grateful, during the upcoming week traditionally reserved for the expression of thanks as well as throughout the entirety of the year.
Even in our brave new world, where gratitude and humility and generosity of spirit often seem to be in short supply, at the mercy of greed, abuse of power, disregard for the rule of law, and megalomaniac self-interest cynically masquerading as an aggressive strain of nationalist, populist passion, there are good, everyday reasons to look around and take stock of blessings in one’s immediate surroundings.
And speaking specifically as one who has the privilege and opportunity to occasionally write about matters concerning the movies, and even a (very...
Even in our brave new world, where gratitude and humility and generosity of spirit often seem to be in short supply, at the mercy of greed, abuse of power, disregard for the rule of law, and megalomaniac self-interest cynically masquerading as an aggressive strain of nationalist, populist passion, there are good, everyday reasons to look around and take stock of blessings in one’s immediate surroundings.
And speaking specifically as one who has the privilege and opportunity to occasionally write about matters concerning the movies, and even a (very...
- 11/23/2017
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
One look at the Thanksgiving opening weekend records shows how important the holiday has been to Disney, which currently holds nine of the top ten three-day and five-day opening weekend records including last year's Moana, which opened with $82 million over the five-day holiday, the second largest of all-time. This weekend the studio debuts the latest Pixar feature, Coco, which has already become the largest single release in Mexico and looks to make an impact domestically this weekend. Coco will be opening in 3,987 locations starting Wednesday, with industry estimates anticipating a five-day opening in the $55-60 million range. This would be enough to challenge the studio's The Good Dinosaur for the fifth largest five-day Thanksgiving opening ever and based on the data we're looking at we're expecting it to go even higher. IMDb page view data shows Coco surging ahead of titles such as Good Dinosaur, Sing and even Moana leading up to release.
- 11/22/2017
- by Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
During awards season, craft discussions often focus on films in which large teams of technicians create whole worlds of images, effects, and sounds. However, as we saw last year with “Moonlight,” it’s a mistake to dismiss the craft of a low-budget film.
After making Disney’s “Pete’s Dragon,” director David Lowery wanted to shoot “A Ghost Story” with a small crew of friends, in a small home, and in a limited time period. And yet from composer Daniel Hart’s evocative score that works in perfect harmony with Johnny Marshall’s sound design, to costume designer Annell Brodeur’s remarkable feat of turning a bedsheet into a practical and beautiful ghost costume, the level of below-the-line talent was just as impressive as the small cities of people who made “Dunkirk” and “Blade Runner 2049.”
Possibly the biggest challenges on “A Ghost Story” belonged to Lowery and his cinematographer,...
After making Disney’s “Pete’s Dragon,” director David Lowery wanted to shoot “A Ghost Story” with a small crew of friends, in a small home, and in a limited time period. And yet from composer Daniel Hart’s evocative score that works in perfect harmony with Johnny Marshall’s sound design, to costume designer Annell Brodeur’s remarkable feat of turning a bedsheet into a practical and beautiful ghost costume, the level of below-the-line talent was just as impressive as the small cities of people who made “Dunkirk” and “Blade Runner 2049.”
Possibly the biggest challenges on “A Ghost Story” belonged to Lowery and his cinematographer,...
- 11/21/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
After a tightly embargoed screening of Steven Spielberg’s The Post last night, Gold Derby’s Tom O’Neil said that he could not remember a year where there were...
- 11/20/2017
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
Warner Bros. and DC Comics' Justice League struggled compared to expectations as it failed to top $100 million over the course of its three-day weekend. Meanwhile, it was Lionsgate's Wonder that captured audience attention, debuting with an excellent $27 million, topping Thor: Ragnarok for a second place finish, positioning itself well for the holiday weeks ahead. Additionally, A24's Lady Bird continued its impressive run in limited release as it makes way for a nationwide debut over Thanksgiving weekend. With an estimated $96 million, Justice League managed to top the weekend, but fell short of the low end of expectations. Despite bringing in $13 million from Thursday previews, which was $2 million more than Wonder Woman hauled in from preview screenings ahead of a $103.2 million debut, Justice League just couldn't crack the century mark, delivering the lowest opening for any of the films in DC's Extended Universe thus far. Opening day audiences gave the...
- 11/19/2017
- by Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
The inaugural IndieWire Honors was certainly a night to remember: The glamorous shindig celebrated six of IndieWire’s most lauded stars of the year, hand-picked by IndieWire’s editorial team: Mary J. Blige, Kumail Nanjiani, Sterling K. Brown, James Franco, Diane Kruger, and Issa Rae. The evening was hosted by comedian Nick Thune.
Read More:Join Focus Features And IndieWire For a Special Screening of ‘Darkest Hour’
The honorees kept their acceptance speeches short and sweet. Sterling K. Brown was particularly happy for the chance to properly thank his wife, having been cut off early during his Emmys acceptance speech. Receiving the Creative Independence award, Kumail Nanjiani thanked his writing partner and wife Emily V. Gordon, joking: “I think at least 20 percent of this is yours. I know you have two master’s degrees, but I think this makes us even.”
Read More:Mary J. Blige, Kumail Nanjiani, and More Made...
Read More:Join Focus Features And IndieWire For a Special Screening of ‘Darkest Hour’
The honorees kept their acceptance speeches short and sweet. Sterling K. Brown was particularly happy for the chance to properly thank his wife, having been cut off early during his Emmys acceptance speech. Receiving the Creative Independence award, Kumail Nanjiani thanked his writing partner and wife Emily V. Gordon, joking: “I think at least 20 percent of this is yours. I know you have two master’s degrees, but I think this makes us even.”
Read More:Mary J. Blige, Kumail Nanjiani, and More Made...
- 11/10/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Scad Savannah Film Festival announces 11 2017 award winners chosen from a record-breaking 4,000 submissions. The festival wraps tonight with Darkest Hour. The 2oth anniversary Scad Savannah Film Festival closes tonight with a...
- 11/4/2017
- by Clarence Moye
- AwardsDaily.com
Is it awards season already? Why, it seems it was just a few weeks ago that the Oscars reached their chaotic conclusion as La La Land was mistakenly proclaimed the best picture winner before the error was corrected and Moonlight
But the movies are restless at the starting gate. Some, like the gay romance Call Me by Your Name and the generational saga Mudbound, were introduced at Sundance. The fantastical tale The Shape of Water made an impressive debut in Venice before heading to Telluride and Toronto, where such films as the Winston Churchill biopic Darkest Hour, the feminist celebration Battle of the Sexes, the high school-set Lady Bird and the singular Three...
But the movies are restless at the starting gate. Some, like the gay romance Call Me by Your Name and the generational saga Mudbound, were introduced at Sundance. The fantastical tale The Shape of Water made an impressive debut in Venice before heading to Telluride and Toronto, where such films as the Winston Churchill biopic Darkest Hour, the feminist celebration Battle of the Sexes, the high school-set Lady Bird and the singular Three...
- 11/3/2017
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With only two months left to go in the year, we recently rounded up where you can stream the best films of 2017. Now, it’s time to turn to the theatrical options (and a few others). This month brings a handful of festival favorites from as far back as January finally releasing, plus a few blockbusters, and much more. It should be noted that Sony Pictures Classics will be giving a one-week qualifying run to A Fantastic Woman starting Nov. 17, but we’ll return to that when it gets a proper release next February.
Matinees to See: My Friend Dahmer (11/3), A Gray State (11/3), A River Below (11/3), Murder on the Orient Express (11/10), Bitch (11/10), Wonder (11/17), The Breadwinner (11/17), Sweet Virginia (11/17), Porto (11/17), I Love You, Daddy (11/17), and Darkest Hour (11/22)
15. Thor: Ragnarok (Taika Waititi; Nov. 3)
Synopsis: Imprisoned, the mighty Thor finds himself in a lethal gladiatorial contest against the Hulk, his former ally. Thor must...
Matinees to See: My Friend Dahmer (11/3), A Gray State (11/3), A River Below (11/3), Murder on the Orient Express (11/10), Bitch (11/10), Wonder (11/17), The Breadwinner (11/17), Sweet Virginia (11/17), Porto (11/17), I Love You, Daddy (11/17), and Darkest Hour (11/22)
15. Thor: Ragnarok (Taika Waititi; Nov. 3)
Synopsis: Imprisoned, the mighty Thor finds himself in a lethal gladiatorial contest against the Hulk, his former ally. Thor must...
- 11/2/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Another autumn whizzes by and with it a look back on the festivals we've covered. Here's everything we reviewed from Tiff and Nyff and Middleburg this year in case you missed it. Reviews from Jason Adams, Manuel Betancourt, Nick Davis, Sean Donovan, Murtada Elfaldl, John Guerin, Chris Feil, and Nathaniel R
Tiff 2017
the films
The Breadwinner • Darkest Hour •
Death of Stalin • Disaster • Downsizing •
Euphoria • Film Stars Dont Die in Liverpool •
First They Killed My Father •
The Florida Project • Happy End • I, Tonya •
The Killing of a Sacred Deer • Kings •
Lady Bird • Lodgers • Mademoiselle Paradis •
Mary Shelley • mother! •
Never Steady Never Still • On Body and Soul •
The Racer and the Jailbird • Revenge •
The Seen and Unseen • The Shape of Water •
Sheikh Jackson • Thelma •
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri •
Tigre • Western • The Wife • Zama
parties, events, randomness
greatest party photo ever • "I'm Armie" •
Helena Bonham-Carter • mother! moods •
portraits from the fest • Podcast...
Tiff 2017
the films
The Breadwinner • Darkest Hour •
Death of Stalin • Disaster • Downsizing •
Euphoria • Film Stars Dont Die in Liverpool •
First They Killed My Father •
The Florida Project • Happy End • I, Tonya •
The Killing of a Sacred Deer • Kings •
Lady Bird • Lodgers • Mademoiselle Paradis •
Mary Shelley • mother! •
Never Steady Never Still • On Body and Soul •
The Racer and the Jailbird • Revenge •
The Seen and Unseen • The Shape of Water •
Sheikh Jackson • Thelma •
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri •
Tigre • Western • The Wife • Zama
parties, events, randomness
greatest party photo ever • "I'm Armie" •
Helena Bonham-Carter • mother! moods •
portraits from the fest • Podcast...
- 10/30/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Day 1 (Darkest Hour), Day 2 (James Ivory, Mudbound, A Fantastic Woman) in case you missed them, Day 3 (Last Flag Flying)
Ann Hornaday and Greta Gerwig talk after a screening of Lady Bird. photo src
The last moments of Middleburg were a blissful blur that it's taken me a week to recover from. Before I left the splendor of the country at this under-the-radar festival in Virginia, I managed to attend three more events.
Lady Bird
I caught some of Lady Bird again (one viewing is definitely not enough). Just enough to give me that rush of pre-college feels again before meeting one-on-one with Greta Gerwig. We'll share that interview next week as Lady Bird begins its theatrical release. Gerwig is such a singular actress that we don't want her to give that up (please never leave our screens!) but it's a joy to know that she writes and directs just as beautifully.
Ann Hornaday and Greta Gerwig talk after a screening of Lady Bird. photo src
The last moments of Middleburg were a blissful blur that it's taken me a week to recover from. Before I left the splendor of the country at this under-the-radar festival in Virginia, I managed to attend three more events.
Lady Bird
I caught some of Lady Bird again (one viewing is definitely not enough). Just enough to give me that rush of pre-college feels again before meeting one-on-one with Greta Gerwig. We'll share that interview next week as Lady Bird begins its theatrical release. Gerwig is such a singular actress that we don't want her to give that up (please never leave our screens!) but it's a joy to know that she writes and directs just as beautifully.
- 10/30/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Day 1 (Darkest Hour) and Day 2 (James Ivory, Mudbound, A Fantastic Woman) in case you missed them.
Saturday at Middleburg started really slow but then the tempo and key changed. And then it got chopped and screwed and tessellated... and became truly special. If you don't know what any of that means, it's okay; neither did I. I shall explain when we come to the topic of Oscar nominated film composer Nicholas Britell of Moonlight fame.
But first Last Flag Flying...
Richard Linklater is America's most distinguished auteur in the subgenre of movies in which a tight knit group of men just kind of hang out for two hours. He's back quickly after his delightful college baseball comedy Everybody Wants Some!! but this time he's trained his lens on three men his own age... ...
Saturday at Middleburg started really slow but then the tempo and key changed. And then it got chopped and screwed and tessellated... and became truly special. If you don't know what any of that means, it's okay; neither did I. I shall explain when we come to the topic of Oscar nominated film composer Nicholas Britell of Moonlight fame.
But first Last Flag Flying...
Richard Linklater is America's most distinguished auteur in the subgenre of movies in which a tight knit group of men just kind of hang out for two hours. He's back quickly after his delightful college baseball comedy Everybody Wants Some!! but this time he's trained his lens on three men his own age... ...
- 10/26/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Nathaniel R
In the absence of a Best Picture frontrunner, something I think we all can agree on at this particular juncture in time, does that mean anything could happen with Best Picture nominations? Or does that mean the Best Picture competition is fairly settled but that the films (i.e. campaigns) have yet to sort out who is the most formidable?
I'd argue, perhaps foolishly, that it's the latter. I see a fairly clear situation ahead where these seven films (and maybe only these seven) are going to be nominated. A winner will emerge but none have yet made a clear case that they're "the one".
Call Me By Your Name | Darkest Hour | Dunkirk
Get Out | Mudbound | The Shape of Water
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Since Academy rules allow for 5-10 nominees in a given year in the top category and since we've usually seen the final size...
In the absence of a Best Picture frontrunner, something I think we all can agree on at this particular juncture in time, does that mean anything could happen with Best Picture nominations? Or does that mean the Best Picture competition is fairly settled but that the films (i.e. campaigns) have yet to sort out who is the most formidable?
I'd argue, perhaps foolishly, that it's the latter. I see a fairly clear situation ahead where these seven films (and maybe only these seven) are going to be nominated. A winner will emerge but none have yet made a clear case that they're "the one".
Call Me By Your Name | Darkest Hour | Dunkirk
Get Out | Mudbound | The Shape of Water
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Since Academy rules allow for 5-10 nominees in a given year in the top category and since we've usually seen the final size...
- 10/26/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The latest round of Oscar Squad predictions, with Picture, Director and the acting categories. Not many big changes from last time except an uptick for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
- 10/13/2017
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
Our 22 Oscar experts derived from major media outlets are predicting that one of these six films will win Best Picture this year: “Darkest Hour,” “Dunkirk,” “The Florida Project,” “Mudbound,” “The Post,” or “The Shape of Water.” All but “The Post” have screened already. “Mudbound” debuted at Sundance, “Dunkirk” was a huge hit this summer […]...
- 10/9/2017
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
At the first edition of the Hamptons International Film Festival in 1993, the programmers landed an event that instantly made it stand out: a conversation between Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. “That helped show the community we were for real,” artistic director David Nugent said in an interview. Twenty-five years later, nobody’s doubting Hiff’s bonafides.
Over the decades, the festival has settled into its early October weekend slot, traditionally overlapping with the New York Film Festival. That gives the exclusive Suffolk County gathering an edge during the awards season, which launches in the cozy mountains of Telluride and takes flight in Toronto. But Hiff provides the first opportunity for many Oscar hopefuls to reach Academy members and other influencers away from the mayhem of a crowded, industry-oriented festival scene.
“A lot of studios have seen the opportunity here,” said Hiff executive director Anne Chaisson, but it certainly hasn’t...
Over the decades, the festival has settled into its early October weekend slot, traditionally overlapping with the New York Film Festival. That gives the exclusive Suffolk County gathering an edge during the awards season, which launches in the cozy mountains of Telluride and takes flight in Toronto. But Hiff provides the first opportunity for many Oscar hopefuls to reach Academy members and other influencers away from the mayhem of a crowded, industry-oriented festival scene.
“A lot of studios have seen the opportunity here,” said Hiff executive director Anne Chaisson, but it certainly hasn’t...
- 10/5/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Cinema St. Louis has unveiled the narrative and documentary features that comprise the 26th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival, to be held Nov. 2-12, Among the highlights are such St. Louis-related works as “Atomic Homefront,” opening-night film “Bad Grandmas,” and “For Ahkeem” and such festival buzz films as “Call Me by Your Name,” “Dahmer,” “Darkest Hour,” “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool,” “Last Flag Flying,” “The Leisure Seeker,” “Thoroughbreds,” and “Walking Out.”
For a complete list of the films, go Here
http://www.cinemastlouis.org/films-preview
The fest will honor Pam Grier (“Bad Grandmas” and “Jackie Brown”) with a Women in Film Award; Sam Pollard (“Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me” and “Acorn and the Firestorm”) with a Lifetime Achievement Award; Marco Williams (“Tell Them We Are Rising”) with a Contemporary Cinema Award; and Washington U. grad Dan Mirvish (the Jules Feiffer-written “Bernard...
For a complete list of the films, go Here
http://www.cinemastlouis.org/films-preview
The fest will honor Pam Grier (“Bad Grandmas” and “Jackie Brown”) with a Women in Film Award; Sam Pollard (“Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me” and “Acorn and the Firestorm”) with a Lifetime Achievement Award; Marco Williams (“Tell Them We Are Rising”) with a Contemporary Cinema Award; and Washington U. grad Dan Mirvish (the Jules Feiffer-written “Bernard...
- 10/3/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
by Nathaniel R
Awards season is really heating up now that release dates (or lack thereof) are firming up, and various pre-Oscar honors are being announced. Last year, you may recall, The Film Experience was invited to attend the Middleburg Film Festival and we're invited for a second round next month.
The fest, now in its fifth year and closer to something like Telluride than Toronto or Cannes considering its Oscar focus and brevity, is growing each year and all takes place at one well-heeled resort. Last year they had big events for La La Land and Lion as well as very crowded talks with Cheryl Boone Isaacs on the Academy's diversity efforts as well as a fascinating discussion of Us presidents and cinematic depictions with Janet Maslin and David Gergen where the danger of Trump was discussed at length (before the election - sigh). At that event they spent...
Awards season is really heating up now that release dates (or lack thereof) are firming up, and various pre-Oscar honors are being announced. Last year, you may recall, The Film Experience was invited to attend the Middleburg Film Festival and we're invited for a second round next month.
The fest, now in its fifth year and closer to something like Telluride than Toronto or Cannes considering its Oscar focus and brevity, is growing each year and all takes place at one well-heeled resort. Last year they had big events for La La Land and Lion as well as very crowded talks with Cheryl Boone Isaacs on the Academy's diversity efforts as well as a fascinating discussion of Us presidents and cinematic depictions with Janet Maslin and David Gergen where the danger of Trump was discussed at length (before the election - sigh). At that event they spent...
- 9/28/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The Austin Film Festival has announced the Ted Kennedy drama Chappaquiddick as their closing night film and has added the Armie Hammer romance Call Me By Your Name, Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, the WWII drama Darkest Hour and The Upside starring Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart to the lineup. Now in its 24th year, the festival, which recognizing the writers' contributions to film, television, and new media, takes place October 26-November 2…...
- 9/26/2017
- Deadline
Did Oscar season actually start in February? When Jordan Peele’s feature directorial debut “Get Out” opened in late February (not typically a release date space that hosts zeitgeist-smashing hits), few could have expected that the social thriller would not only be a success with critics (the film still sits at a 99% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes) but also a huge moneymaker, pulling in over $252 million at the global box office. Next up? An awards campaign. Chatter surrounding the film’s awards possibilities kicked up early, and the trick has been keeping it up though these many months. One way to do that? A special event at a festival known for its love of award movies. “Get Out” is already into it.
Peele and his film are set for a timely Hamptons International Film Festival appearance later this month, when the festival runs October 5 – 9 in and around East Hampton, NY.
Peele and his film are set for a timely Hamptons International Film Festival appearance later this month, when the festival runs October 5 – 9 in and around East Hampton, NY.
- 9/22/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
From acclaimed drama Call Me By Your Name to war biopic Darkest Hour...
- 9/21/2017
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
Between them our 21 Oscar experts derived from major media outlets are predicting that one of these five films will win Best Picture this year: “Darkest Hour,” “Dunkirk,” “Mudbound,” “The Post,” or “The Shape of Water.” All but “The Post” have screened already. “Mudbound” debuted at Sundance, “Dunkirk” was a huge hit this summer and “Darkest Hour” and […]...
- 9/18/2017
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
There were 255 movies in this year’s Toronto International Film Festival lineup, but only a handful of them will continue to generate conversations this fall, and just a fraction of that crowd will gain steam in Oscar season. That leaves us pondering a number of questions: With “The Shape of Water” winning the top prize at Venice and finding more fans at Tiff, does it have the edge on “Lady Bird”? How does “Darkest Hour” fit into this conversation, and could it topple the early momentum for “Dunkirk”? And what about all the movies we haven’t seen yet?
Read More:With ‘Dunkirk’ and ‘Darkest Hour’ Showing Strong, Will Churchill-Heavy Britpics Storm the Oscars?
These are some of the topics tackled in the latest episode of Screen Talk, as co-hosts Eric Kohn and Anne Thompson unpack a dense week of movies.
Listen to the full episode below.
Screen Talk is available on iTunes.
Read More:With ‘Dunkirk’ and ‘Darkest Hour’ Showing Strong, Will Churchill-Heavy Britpics Storm the Oscars?
These are some of the topics tackled in the latest episode of Screen Talk, as co-hosts Eric Kohn and Anne Thompson unpack a dense week of movies.
Listen to the full episode below.
Screen Talk is available on iTunes.
- 9/15/2017
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
Detroit may have bombed but the letter "D" could still reign come Oscar time with Dunkirk, Darkest Hour, and Downsizing all potential Best Picture players. Though it can sometimes feel gross to discuss rich movies from an Oscar perspective before they've even been considered as films, it happens to us all this time of year and the films invite it with their slow rollouts from festival reviews that result in months of discussion and speculation before the public can buy tickets. In other words: Look what they made me us do!
Downsizing
After 'miniature masterpiece' style reviews at Venice the critics got considerably chillier with Alexander Payne's latest once it hit Telluride. Now the film is playing in Toronto and the reviews continue to be mixed. This could spell trouble for the film, but be patient. Initial reviews are only part of the Oscar equation...
Downsizing
After 'miniature masterpiece' style reviews at Venice the critics got considerably chillier with Alexander Payne's latest once it hit Telluride. Now the film is playing in Toronto and the reviews continue to be mixed. This could spell trouble for the film, but be patient. Initial reviews are only part of the Oscar equation...
- 9/14/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Who would have thought that two of this year’s strongest contenders for Best Picture would take place roughly at the same time, and cover roughly the same subjects, in completely different ways?...
- 9/6/2017
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
Telluride – As a five-year-old living in Phnom Penh, the capitol of Cambodia, Loung Ung was as happy any girl her age could be. She lived a relatively prosperous life thanks to her father’s position in the government and enjoyed the love and support of her older brothers and sisters. When the Khmer Rouge invaded the city and took over the country in 1975 her life – like the entire nation’s – changed forever.
Continue reading ‘First They Killed My Father’: Angelina Jolie Revisits Cambodia’s Darkest Hour [Telluride Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘First They Killed My Father’: Angelina Jolie Revisits Cambodia’s Darkest Hour [Telluride Review] at The Playlist.
- 9/6/2017
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
Fox Searchlight Dominates Telluride As ‘Shape Of Water’ And ‘Battle Of The Sexes’ Make Oscar Pitches
It was probably inevitable, but at this point it’s a smart bet that the 2018 Best Picture winner didn’t screen at the 44th Telluride Film Festival. I mean, sure, it’s still possible, and without question the annual Labor Day cinephile extravaganza featured at least two Best Picture nominees: “The Shape of Water” and “Darkest Hour.” But no one left the Colorado town believing either were locks to win Oscar’s top prize.
Continue reading Fox Searchlight Dominates Telluride As ‘Shape Of Water’ And ‘Battle Of The Sexes’ Make Oscar Pitches at The Playlist.
Continue reading Fox Searchlight Dominates Telluride As ‘Shape Of Water’ And ‘Battle Of The Sexes’ Make Oscar Pitches at The Playlist.
- 9/5/2017
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
The first wave of fall film festivals have gotten underway, with the Telluride Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival offering up a number of buzz worthy titles. Some potential Academy Award contenders have screened at both fests, while some were exclusive to only one. Still others have played at one and then will wait to play later on this month at either the New York Film Festival or the Toronto International Film Festival. Today, we’ll go over a few high profile movies and see what the general consensus so far has been. Suffice to say, the Oscar race has been evolving greatly over the past few days. Read on for more. Keep in mind, there’s still some still to be revealed titles, outside of the aforementioned festivals. Nyff will unveil Last Flag Flying and Wonder Wheel, while Tiff will be the launching pad for Chappaquiddick, I Love You,...
- 9/5/2017
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Telluride Film Festival is about a lot more than Oscars. Co-directors Tom Luddy and Julie Huntsinger certainly set out to program the year’s likeliest Oscar contenders, including Joe Wright’s Gary Oldman vehicle “Darkest Hour,” Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird,” starring Saoirse Ronan, Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water,” starring Sally Hawkins, and “Battle of the Sexes,” starring a luminous Emma Stone as real-life hero Billie Jean King.
But Telluride was also a crucible for conversations about the state of the motion picture industry throughout the weekend, as Netflix and Amazon threw parties and checked out several high-profile movies without distribution — including Francis Ford Coppola’s musically-enhanced “The Cotton Club Encore” — that banked on the festival boosting their critical and audience cred before top buyers.
Here’s what we learned over the Labor Day weekend:
1. Christian Bale is fat.
The subject of two well-deserved weekend tributes...
But Telluride was also a crucible for conversations about the state of the motion picture industry throughout the weekend, as Netflix and Amazon threw parties and checked out several high-profile movies without distribution — including Francis Ford Coppola’s musically-enhanced “The Cotton Club Encore” — that banked on the festival boosting their critical and audience cred before top buyers.
Here’s what we learned over the Labor Day weekend:
1. Christian Bale is fat.
The subject of two well-deserved weekend tributes...
- 9/4/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The Telluride Film Festival is about a lot more than Oscars. Co-directors Tom Luddy and Julie Huntsinger certainly set out to program the year’s likeliest Oscar contenders, including Joe Wright’s Gary Oldman vehicle “Darkest Hour,” Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird,” starring Saoirse Ronan, Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water,” starring Sally Hawkins, and “Battle of the Sexes,” starring a luminous Emma Stone as real-life hero Billie Jean King.
But Telluride was also a crucible for conversations about the state of the motion picture industry throughout the weekend, as Netflix and Amazon threw parties and checked out several high-profile movies without distribution — including Francis Ford Coppola’s musically-enhanced “The Cotton Club Encore” — that banked on the festival boosting their critical and audience cred before top buyers.
Here’s what we learned over the Labor Day weekend:
1. Christian Bale is fat.
The subject of two well-deserved weekend tributes...
But Telluride was also a crucible for conversations about the state of the motion picture industry throughout the weekend, as Netflix and Amazon threw parties and checked out several high-profile movies without distribution — including Francis Ford Coppola’s musically-enhanced “The Cotton Club Encore” — that banked on the festival boosting their critical and audience cred before top buyers.
Here’s what we learned over the Labor Day weekend:
1. Christian Bale is fat.
The subject of two well-deserved weekend tributes...
- 9/4/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Angelina Jolie will be in the house when the Telluride Film Fest kicks off this weekend. Big Oscar Movies drop with Darkest Hour, Downsizing, Battle of the Sexes, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool,...
- 8/31/2017
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
Telluride starts in just over a week or so. The very latest dispatch from Michael Patterson, who is pretty good at sussing out what’s going to T-Ride, shows that...
- 8/21/2017
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
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