Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSWanuri Kahiu on the set of RafikiRafiki director Wanuri Kahiu has announced her latest project, an adaptation of Octavia Butler's 1980 Wild Seed, produced by Viola Davis and written by novelist Nnedi Okorafor. Butler's novel follows two immortal African beings whose tumultuous rivalry takes them across pre-colonial West Africa to a plantation in the American South. Recommended VIEWINGFrom March 20–April 2, Vdrome is screening Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil's documentary Inaate/Se/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place/it flies. falls./]. The film "imagines new indigenous futures, looking simultaneously backward and forward." The new trailer for Hong Sang-soo's Grass is at once simple and cryptic, conveying one of many mysteries encountered by a young writer observing intimate interactions in a bustling cafe. The dreamy, video game-inspired images of Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel's Jessica Forever come to life in a new trailer.
- 3/27/2019
- MUBI
When I was in high school we put on a pretty great production of West Side Story. As much fun as that was, I would have loved to put on a stage play version of a film like Evil Dead or Alien! There’s no way in hell they would have let that fly back in the day, though.
We are living in different times, though, and high schools are trying new things. North Bergen High School in New Jersey recently developed full-length version of Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi horror film Alien. They called it Alien: The Play, and it was directed by Perfecto Cuervo, who is an English teacher, alongside his student players.
They even released a trailer for the play that you can watch below. I’ve also included some cool video and photos from the production that were posted on Twitter. It may come off as a little goofy,...
We are living in different times, though, and high schools are trying new things. North Bergen High School in New Jersey recently developed full-length version of Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi horror film Alien. They called it Alien: The Play, and it was directed by Perfecto Cuervo, who is an English teacher, alongside his student players.
They even released a trailer for the play that you can watch below. I’ve also included some cool video and photos from the production that were posted on Twitter. It may come off as a little goofy,...
- 3/25/2019
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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