Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: The poster for Venice Critics' Week, illustrated by Fabiana Mascolo.The latest festival update comes from Venice Critics' Week, which has announced a lineup of seven debut features, including The Rossellinis by Alessandro Rossellini, the grandson of Roberto Rossellini. Until August 3, you have the opportunity to donate to the Online African Film Festival's crowdfunding campaign, which will help improve the festival's streaming platform and host new films of the African diaspora all year long. Recommended Viewing For those in the UK, Jonathan Glazer's short Strasbourg 1518 (about the hysteria-induced "dancing plague" that gripped the city) is now available on the BBC iPlayer.Between July 21 to August 18, Kino Klassika Foundation and the Centre of Contemporary Arts Tashkent are co-presenting Tashkent Film Encounters, an online program of classic films from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
- 7/22/2020
- MUBI
“Cane River” (1982), a recently unearthed debut from the late writer/director Horace Jenkins, is now, after a year of remastering, available for streaming.
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Part love story, part critique of colorism in Louisana, “Cane River” follows prodigal son Peter Metoyer (Richard Romain) as he finds a place in his hometown after an aborted football career in the big city.
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Part love story, part critique of colorism in Louisana, “Cane River” follows prodigal son Peter Metoyer (Richard Romain) as he finds a place in his hometown after an aborted football career in the big city.
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- 7/4/2020
- by Chance Solem-Pfeifer
- The Playlist
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Bam
Kelly Reichardt has programmed a series of films that inspired First Cow.
Museum of the Moving Image
A Kelly Reichardt retrospective is underway.
“See It Big! Outer Space” continues with Alien and Dark Star while 2001 continues playing alongside the museum’s incredible new exhibit.
Akira has screenings.
Metrograph
The earth is ending and there’s nothing we can do,...
Bam
Kelly Reichardt has programmed a series of films that inspired First Cow.
Museum of the Moving Image
A Kelly Reichardt retrospective is underway.
“See It Big! Outer Space” continues with Alien and Dark Star while 2001 continues playing alongside the museum’s incredible new exhibit.
Akira has screenings.
Metrograph
The earth is ending and there’s nothing we can do,...
- 2/27/2020
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
With the Oscars at hand, the specialized world will soon need to live without the infusion of titles that started with “Judy” five months ago, and with many successful films that followed. The new blood, though, remains uneven.
“The Lodge” (Neon) is more of a genre play not expected to fill in the gaps ahead. It had a decent initial response, but it remains to be seen how much further interest it has. But the potential is there. Otherwise, “The Assistant” (Bleecker Street) had mixed results in its initial expansion. Performing well, though with a shortened window with the early Oscar date, the “2020 Oscar-Nominated Short Films” program had a strong showing. But its shelf-life isn’t long.
Searchlight’s wide release of “Downhill” post-Sundance and the anticipated strong Valentine’s release of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Neon) lead the new films starting next weekend. They are badly needed.
“The Lodge” (Neon) is more of a genre play not expected to fill in the gaps ahead. It had a decent initial response, but it remains to be seen how much further interest it has. But the potential is there. Otherwise, “The Assistant” (Bleecker Street) had mixed results in its initial expansion. Performing well, though with a shortened window with the early Oscar date, the “2020 Oscar-Nominated Short Films” program had a strong showing. But its shelf-life isn’t long.
Searchlight’s wide release of “Downhill” post-Sundance and the anticipated strong Valentine’s release of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Neon) lead the new films starting next weekend. They are badly needed.
- 2/9/2020
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Neon’s latest, The Lodge scared up some solid numbers in its first weekend out, debuting on six screens in New York and Los Angeles, earning an estimated $78,104 with an impressive $13,017 per-screen average. The Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s isolated-in-a-snowed-in-cabin thriller starring Riley Keough, Richard Armitage, Jaeden Martell, and Lia McHugh is currently Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a 75% before it expands.
The film opened in New York at the Angelika, Nitehawk in Williamsburg, and the Drafthouse Brooklyn. It will also play in Los Angeles this weekend at AMC Century City, Drafthouse, Universal Citywalk, and AMC Burbank. We are hearing that it pulled in noteworthy numbers at Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse, which was bolstered by early access screenings. Overall, The Lodge started off strong Friday with over $36,000 and saw a steady decrease throughout the weekend, with Sunday looking at an estimated $15,500. The Lodge‘s box office debut surpasses...
The film opened in New York at the Angelika, Nitehawk in Williamsburg, and the Drafthouse Brooklyn. It will also play in Los Angeles this weekend at AMC Century City, Drafthouse, Universal Citywalk, and AMC Burbank. We are hearing that it pulled in noteworthy numbers at Brooklyn’s Alamo Drafthouse, which was bolstered by early access screenings. Overall, The Lodge started off strong Friday with over $36,000 and saw a steady decrease throughout the weekend, with Sunday looking at an estimated $15,500. The Lodge‘s box office debut surpasses...
- 2/9/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Over the span of decades, the question of “What does it mean to be Black in America?” has endured as a highpoint of cultural conversation in the United States. As mainstream art continues to widen its parameters, permitting the voices of disparate cultures to contribute to the discussion, the answer to this social inquest has adopted a myriad of answers, especially within the realm of cinema.
Regrettably, even within the cinephile community, the widely held opinion of Black films in the 1970s and 1980s is frequently attributed to the Blaxploitation craze, which admittedly function within their own exaggerated and endlessly entertaining domain of social commentary.
Continue reading ‘Cane River’: New Restoration Reclaims The Voice & Vision Of A Forgotten Black Filmmaker [Review] at The Playlist.
Regrettably, even within the cinephile community, the widely held opinion of Black films in the 1970s and 1980s is frequently attributed to the Blaxploitation craze, which admittedly function within their own exaggerated and endlessly entertaining domain of social commentary.
Continue reading ‘Cane River’: New Restoration Reclaims The Voice & Vision Of A Forgotten Black Filmmaker [Review] at The Playlist.
- 2/7/2020
- by Jonathan Christian
- The Playlist
Oscilloscope Finally Releases ‘Cane River,’ and a Son Seeks His Father’s Long-Lost Filmmaking Legacy
Barely released in 1982 and all but unseen for over three decades, Horace B. Jenkins’ “Cane River” was an independent-film anomaly: a race and colorism-themed love story with an all-black cast, written and directed by a black filmmaker, financed by wealthy black backers. Sadly, Jenkins died the same year — long before the film resurfaced in 2013, when its original negative was discovered in the vault of New York City’s DuArt Film & Video. Seven years later, “Cane River” is getting the release it deserved.
The film first premiered in New Orleans in May 1982. Richard Pryor, then shooting “The Toy” in Baton Rouge, attended the screening in disguise. He loved it so much that he offered to use his star power to help get it out. But the backers, the New Orleans’ Rhodes family — owners of a successful funeral business that has specialized in serving Black families since the Civil War — passed on the offer,...
The film first premiered in New Orleans in May 1982. Richard Pryor, then shooting “The Toy” in Baton Rouge, attended the screening in disguise. He loved it so much that he offered to use his star power to help get it out. But the backers, the New Orleans’ Rhodes family — owners of a successful funeral business that has specialized in serving Black families since the Civil War — passed on the offer,...
- 2/7/2020
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
As Neon rides the awards-season wave with Bong Joon Ho’s cinematic masterpiece Parasite, it isn’t stopping with delivering genre titles that speak to the brand. This weekend, its will debut its chilling thriller The Lodge directed by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz.
Written by Fiala, Franz and Sergio Casci, The Lodge follows a family that decides to spend the holidays in a snowy remote cabin. Already, this doesn’t sound like a good idea. The father (Richard Armitage) is forced to leave the family vaycay for work and his new girlfriend Grace (Riley Keough) stays behind to take care of his kids, Aidan (Jaeden Martell) and Mia (Lia McHugh). When a blizzard hits, they become trapped and, well, Grace’s dark past begins to terrify all of them.
The Lodge debuted last year at Sundance before going through the festival circuit and then making its premiere in Italy in January.
Written by Fiala, Franz and Sergio Casci, The Lodge follows a family that decides to spend the holidays in a snowy remote cabin. Already, this doesn’t sound like a good idea. The father (Richard Armitage) is forced to leave the family vaycay for work and his new girlfriend Grace (Riley Keough) stays behind to take care of his kids, Aidan (Jaeden Martell) and Mia (Lia McHugh). When a blizzard hits, they become trapped and, well, Grace’s dark past begins to terrify all of them.
The Lodge debuted last year at Sundance before going through the festival circuit and then making its premiere in Italy in January.
- 2/7/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Debuting in 1982, “Cane River” was an independent-film curio: a race and colorism-themed love story with an all-black cast, written and directed by a black filmmaker, financed by wealthy black backers. The filmmaker’s name was Horace B. Jenkins, who spent most of his career working in public television, and died of a heart attack at the age of 42, just a few months after “Cane River” premiered.
Largely financed by the Rhodes family of New Orleans (an African American family that has provided dignified burials for African Americans since the Civil War), “Cane River” was championed by Richard Pryor, but disappeared for decades after Jenkins’ sudden death.
It was mostly unknown until 2013, when an Academy Film Archive team selected the film’s original negative as part of a large group of materials brought from the vault of DuArt Film & Video.
After some preliminary research, including a discussion with the film’s editor Debi Moore,...
Largely financed by the Rhodes family of New Orleans (an African American family that has provided dignified burials for African Americans since the Civil War), “Cane River” was championed by Richard Pryor, but disappeared for decades after Jenkins’ sudden death.
It was mostly unknown until 2013, when an Academy Film Archive team selected the film’s original negative as part of a large group of materials brought from the vault of DuArt Film & Video.
After some preliminary research, including a discussion with the film’s editor Debi Moore,...
- 1/21/2020
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
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