This is one of those weekends that is fairly hard to predict. It features three new releases with little fanfare and a number one movie from last week with a dedicated fanbase that already saw it!
When it comes to new releases, Sony Pictures PG13 horror film The Invitation stands the best chance at taking the top spot. I mention the rating because I actually think that hurts its box office potential. The trailers for this one looked entertaining, reminding me a bit of the R rated Ready or Not from 2019. Whereas that film used its R rating to bloody perfection in crafting an extremely unique tale of murder and mayhem, The Invitation’s PG13 has softened my expectations for the film. I don’t see this one making it to double digits in its opening and by doing so, breaking a 65 week run of at least one film earning over 10 Million.
When it comes to new releases, Sony Pictures PG13 horror film The Invitation stands the best chance at taking the top spot. I mention the rating because I actually think that hurts its box office potential. The trailers for this one looked entertaining, reminding me a bit of the R rated Ready or Not from 2019. Whereas that film used its R rating to bloody perfection in crafting an extremely unique tale of murder and mayhem, The Invitation’s PG13 has softened my expectations for the film. I don’t see this one making it to double digits in its opening and by doing so, breaking a 65 week run of at least one film earning over 10 Million.
- 8/25/2022
- by Brad Hamerly
- JoBlo.com
Given the sense of suspended time often pervading the narratives and atmospheres of classic westerns, perhaps it’s appropriate that the wait for Valeska Grisebach’s own Western was a protracted one. Arriving eleven years after her previous film, the understated Sehnsucht (Longing, 2006), the third feature by the German filmmaker (and Berliner Schuler constituent) sacrifices none of the depth and focus of her previous work. With a plot following a group of German construction workers in Bulgaria, the film is in some ways far removed from the vast plains and Monument Valley iconography we identify with the Hollywood western tradition, while at […]...
- 3/12/2018
- by Jesse Cumming
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Well, it’s that time of year again. Yes, the Portland International Film Festival is set to begin for it’s 41st edition, and it’s going to be one of the festival’s best yet. Need some proof? Well, among it’s numerous feature length films and short works, there are films from names as iconic as Abbas Kiarostami and genuine discoveries like documentaries from directors Ben Russell and Filipa Cesar. And that’s just where this lineup begins. Here are ten (or more so eleven, but who’s counting) films that you need to see from this year’s bewildering Piff lineup.
10. Jeanette, The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc
When imagining the type of film that would be the result of a retelling of the early life of Joan of Arc, Bruno Dumont’s Jeanette is not the austere biography one would truly expect. Instead, telling the story...
10. Jeanette, The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc
When imagining the type of film that would be the result of a retelling of the early life of Joan of Arc, Bruno Dumont’s Jeanette is not the austere biography one would truly expect. Instead, telling the story...
- 2/16/2018
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Pastiches, homages, and carbon copies of films made years, decades, and movements ago clog today’s cinema. Art house fare as diverse and varied as Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), Queen of Earth (2015), The Death of Louis Xiv (2016), The Untamed (2016), and First Reformed (2017) all draw from a—now sizeable—history of cinema, for better or for worse. Add Valeska Grisebach’s Western to the batch. Eleven years since her previous work, Longing (2006), Grisebach returns to cinema with a slow-boiling film that injects the DNA of the western genre into a narrative concerning inter-European relations. And to be sure, Grisebach had some movies in mind while making Western (a few low-key nods to My Darling Clementine here and there), but as she told Daniel Kasman on this site, “it was more like they were traveling with [her] while [she] was making the film.” Western isn’t so much an homage as a muted mutation.
- 2/13/2018
- MUBI
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