Next month, Netflix has a wide variety of films — modern to classic, animated to horror, Oscar winners to new indies — and we’ve picked seven that you should watch once they’re made available on the streaming service, either for the first time or as part of a nostalgic binge. Enjoy.
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1. “The Nightmare Before Christmas” (available February 1)
The 1993 stop-motion classic directed by Henry Slick and produced by Tim Burton tells the story of Jack Skellington, a resident from Halloween Town who stumbles through a portal to Christmas Town and decides to celebrate the holiday.
2. “The Blair Witch Project” (available February 1)
Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, the 1999 found footage horror film became one of the most successful indie films of all time when it was released. The movie follows three film students...
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1. “The Nightmare Before Christmas” (available February 1)
The 1993 stop-motion classic directed by Henry Slick and produced by Tim Burton tells the story of Jack Skellington, a resident from Halloween Town who stumbles through a portal to Christmas Town and decides to celebrate the holiday.
2. “The Blair Witch Project” (available February 1)
Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, the 1999 found footage horror film became one of the most successful indie films of all time when it was released. The movie follows three film students...
- 1/24/2017
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Brett Gelman, Judy Greer, Michael Cera and Nia Long have signed on to Janicza Bravo’s drama.
Bravo’s feature directorial debut centres on an unemployed actor whose blind girlfriend leaves him.
Fred Melamed, Shiri Appleby and Rhea Perlman will also star in Lemon for Burn Later Productions and Killer Films.
Ben-Hur star Toby Kebbell, Sofia Vergara, James Marsden and Lucy Punch will star alongside Whitney Cumming in her directorial debut The Female Brain. Black Bicycle Entertainment is financing the comedic project about brain chemistry among couples based on the book by neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine. Erika Olde produces with Night and Day Pictures’ Michael Roiff.The New York Film Festival has unveiled Projections, its avant-garde slate of 11 programmes comprising film and video that explore the essence of the moving image. Selections screen from October 7-9 and include the Us premiere of Eduardo Williams’ Argentina-Brazil-Portugal co-production The Human Surge. The festival runs from September 30-October 16. Click here for...
Bravo’s feature directorial debut centres on an unemployed actor whose blind girlfriend leaves him.
Fred Melamed, Shiri Appleby and Rhea Perlman will also star in Lemon for Burn Later Productions and Killer Films.
Ben-Hur star Toby Kebbell, Sofia Vergara, James Marsden and Lucy Punch will star alongside Whitney Cumming in her directorial debut The Female Brain. Black Bicycle Entertainment is financing the comedic project about brain chemistry among couples based on the book by neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine. Erika Olde produces with Night and Day Pictures’ Michael Roiff.The New York Film Festival has unveiled Projections, its avant-garde slate of 11 programmes comprising film and video that explore the essence of the moving image. Selections screen from October 7-9 and include the Us premiere of Eduardo Williams’ Argentina-Brazil-Portugal co-production The Human Surge. The festival runs from September 30-October 16. Click here for...
- 8/17/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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Former Academy president Arthur Hiller, who earned an Oscar nomination for Love Story and also directed Silver Streak, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles of natural causes. He was 92.
“I was a member of the board during his presidency and fortunate enough to witness first-hand his dedication to the Academy and his lifelong passion for visual storytelling,” said current Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs.
Hiller received the Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2001 for his philanthropic commitment to numerous charitable organisations, educational institutions and civil rights groups.
He served as Academy president from 1993 to 1997 and was president of the Directors Guild Of America from 1989 to 1993.
Hiller is survived by his daughter, Erica Hiller Carpenter, his son, Henryk, and five grandchildren. Gwen Hiller, his wife of 68 years, died in June.
Brett Gelman, Judy Greer, Michael Cera, Nia Long, Fred Melamed, Shiri Appleby and [link...
Former Academy president Arthur Hiller, who earned an Oscar nomination for Love Story and also directed Silver Streak, died on Wednesday in Los Angeles of natural causes. He was 92.
“I was a member of the board during his presidency and fortunate enough to witness first-hand his dedication to the Academy and his lifelong passion for visual storytelling,” said current Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs.
Hiller received the Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2001 for his philanthropic commitment to numerous charitable organisations, educational institutions and civil rights groups.
He served as Academy president from 1993 to 1997 and was president of the Directors Guild Of America from 1989 to 1993.
Hiller is survived by his daughter, Erica Hiller Carpenter, his son, Henryk, and five grandchildren. Gwen Hiller, his wife of 68 years, died in June.
Brett Gelman, Judy Greer, Michael Cera, Nia Long, Fred Melamed, Shiri Appleby and [link...
- 8/17/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Images can be a weapon, voice, tool of criticism, and a vehicle for awareness, and for painter Sun Mu, his work falls into all those categories. He takes center stage in the upcoming documentary "I Am Sun Mu," which tells his incredible story as an artist who uses his skills to speak out against the government that trained him. Directed by Adam Sjöberg, the documentary tells the story of Sun Mu — a pseudonym which means "no boundaries" — a North Korean defector who used to create work for the regime, who escaped the country, and now uses those same talents to depict his troubled life in the world's most reclusive and repressive state, while also creating images of hope. However, Sun Mu remains fearful, for his family still in North Korea (in the documentary, his face is never shown) and his past isn't so easy to shake off. "Every time I step on those names,...
- 11/9/2015
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
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