With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Folk Hero & Funny Guy (Jeff Grace)
The bond of male friendship is examined – and tested – in Folk Hero & Funny Guy, a short and sweet dramedy from multi-hyphenate Jeff Grace, who writes and directs. We meet comedian Paul (Alex Karpovsky) at the end of a tired stand-up routine in a beer-stained comedy club. Meanwhile, Paul’s childhood friend Jason (Wyatt Russell) has built a successful career for himself as a folk music star.
Folk Hero & Funny Guy (Jeff Grace)
The bond of male friendship is examined – and tested – in Folk Hero & Funny Guy, a short and sweet dramedy from multi-hyphenate Jeff Grace, who writes and directs. We meet comedian Paul (Alex Karpovsky) at the end of a tired stand-up routine in a beer-stained comedy club. Meanwhile, Paul’s childhood friend Jason (Wyatt Russell) has built a successful career for himself as a folk music star.
- 5/12/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Family can sometimes drive us up a wall. At holiday dinners, families like to poke their noses in others business with questions about the future or current romantic partners or career choices, and the answers they are given are typically met with slight condescension. With every intention of defending ourselves, we bite our tongues to preserve the only time of week, month, or year we see our families. This tense familial setting is the foundation of the film “Ice Mother,” directed by Bohdan Sláma (“Something Like Happiness” “Country Teacher”).
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The film tells a story of Hana, an older woman who lives alone, aside from her weekly visits with her two sons and their families. These passive-aggressive dinners are central to the family dynamic that no one intends to break. One day, while...
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The film tells a story of Hana, an older woman who lives alone, aside from her weekly visits with her two sons and their families. These passive-aggressive dinners are central to the family dynamic that no one intends to break. One day, while...
- 4/13/2017
- by Kerry Levielle
- Indiewire
Jamie Dornan's latest role couldn't be more different to Christian Grey. The actor and Cillian Murphy have been pictured filming war drama Anthropoid in Prague.
Dornan will star in the film as a Czechoslovakian soldier who plots to assassinate the SS officer Reinhard Heydrich, who was nicknamed The Butcher of Prague.
The Fifty Shades of Grey actor and Murphy (Peaky Blinders) are joined in the cast by Charlotte Le Bon (Yves Saint Laurent), Anna Geislerová (Something Like Happiness), Toby Jones (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Harry Lloyd (Game of Thrones) and Bill Milner (X-Men: First Class).
Director Sean Ellis said of the film: "This has been a 14 year journey to get Anthropoid to the screen. I'm incredibly proud and happy to finally tell this important story about Czech resistance during World War II."
Filming for Anthropoid began earlier this month in Prague, with the film set for release at some...
Dornan will star in the film as a Czechoslovakian soldier who plots to assassinate the SS officer Reinhard Heydrich, who was nicknamed The Butcher of Prague.
The Fifty Shades of Grey actor and Murphy (Peaky Blinders) are joined in the cast by Charlotte Le Bon (Yves Saint Laurent), Anna Geislerová (Something Like Happiness), Toby Jones (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Harry Lloyd (Game of Thrones) and Bill Milner (X-Men: First Class).
Director Sean Ellis said of the film: "This has been a 14 year journey to get Anthropoid to the screen. I'm incredibly proud and happy to finally tell this important story about Czech resistance during World War II."
Filming for Anthropoid began earlier this month in Prague, with the film set for release at some...
- 7/29/2015
- Digital Spy
Toby Jones, Harry Lloyd, Bill Milner and Alena Mihulová join Jamie Dornan, Cillian Murphy, Anna Geislerová and Charlotte Le Bon in Sean Ellis’ Second World War thriller.
Principal photography has begun in the Czech Republic on Anthropoid, a Second World War thriller starring Jamie Dornan (50 Shades Of Grey) and Cillian Murphy (Inception) from Metro Manila director Sean Ellis.
New cast members to sign up to the production include Toby Jones (Infamous), Harry Lloyd (The Theory of Everything), Bill Milner (X-Men: First Class, Son of Rambow), Alena Mihulova and Sam Keeley.
They join Dornan, Murphy, Charlotte Le Bon (Yves Saint Laurent) and Anna Geislerová (Something Like Happiness).
The film is based on the true story of two Czech soldiers - played by Dornan and Murphy - sent to assassinate the head of the SS in 1941.
SS General Reinhard Heydrich was second only to Himmler and Hitler in the Third Reich’s hierarchy and main architect for the ‘Final Solution...
Principal photography has begun in the Czech Republic on Anthropoid, a Second World War thriller starring Jamie Dornan (50 Shades Of Grey) and Cillian Murphy (Inception) from Metro Manila director Sean Ellis.
New cast members to sign up to the production include Toby Jones (Infamous), Harry Lloyd (The Theory of Everything), Bill Milner (X-Men: First Class, Son of Rambow), Alena Mihulova and Sam Keeley.
They join Dornan, Murphy, Charlotte Le Bon (Yves Saint Laurent) and Anna Geislerová (Something Like Happiness).
The film is based on the true story of two Czech soldiers - played by Dornan and Murphy - sent to assassinate the head of the SS in 1941.
SS General Reinhard Heydrich was second only to Himmler and Hitler in the Third Reich’s hierarchy and main architect for the ‘Final Solution...
- 7/29/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Czech production companies partnering on new projects from the likes of Kristian Levring, Per-Olav Sørensen and Bohdan Slama.
A raft of Czech production companies are here in Cannes with a range of projects including an drama set in Afghanistan.
Prague-based Sirena Films is planning to shoot high-end, Afghan-set TV series Nobel from Norwegian director Per-Olav Sørensen (The Heavy Water War) in August. This is a coproduction with Norway’s Monster Scripted.
Sirena is also partnering with Zentropa on Kristian Levring’s Devil’s Lake, sold by Zentropa, and is in negotiations with HBO to make detective TV series Nearest And Dearest, about missing person cases.
Negativ has a new feature from festival favourite Bohdan Slama, winner of San Sebastian’s Golden Shell for Something Like Happiness. Slama’s latest project is titled Icy Mother.
Axman Production is in Cannes looking to close financing on Czech-us coproduction American Chick from Viktor Taus. Scripted by Evita...
A raft of Czech production companies are here in Cannes with a range of projects including an drama set in Afghanistan.
Prague-based Sirena Films is planning to shoot high-end, Afghan-set TV series Nobel from Norwegian director Per-Olav Sørensen (The Heavy Water War) in August. This is a coproduction with Norway’s Monster Scripted.
Sirena is also partnering with Zentropa on Kristian Levring’s Devil’s Lake, sold by Zentropa, and is in negotiations with HBO to make detective TV series Nearest And Dearest, about missing person cases.
Negativ has a new feature from festival favourite Bohdan Slama, winner of San Sebastian’s Golden Shell for Something Like Happiness. Slama’s latest project is titled Icy Mother.
Axman Production is in Cannes looking to close financing on Czech-us coproduction American Chick from Viktor Taus. Scripted by Evita...
- 5/19/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Retrospective to include films from Danis Tanovic, Cristi Puiu, Mira Fornay and more.
A total of 50 films are to make up the retrospective Eastern Promises: Autobiography of Eastern Europe at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).
The line-up includes movies produced since 2000 in the countries that lived under Soviet influence after the Second World War and include some that were never released theatrically in Spain.
Several directors of films in the retrospective will attend the festival to present their works including Sarunas Bartas (Lithuania), Kristina Buožytė (Lithuania), Marian Crisan (Romania), Mira Fornay (Slovakia), Bohdan Sláma (Czech Republic), Malgorzata Szumowska (Poland) and Anna Viduleja (Latvia).
A book will be published to accompany the retrospective with contributions from journalists and critics across Europe.
The titles are:
Kruh In Mleko / Bread And Milk
Jan Cvitkovic (Slovenia) 2001
A modern classic of Slovenian cinema, the tale of a man who went out for bread and milk and lost himself to alcohol...
A total of 50 films are to make up the retrospective Eastern Promises: Autobiography of Eastern Europe at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27).
The line-up includes movies produced since 2000 in the countries that lived under Soviet influence after the Second World War and include some that were never released theatrically in Spain.
Several directors of films in the retrospective will attend the festival to present their works including Sarunas Bartas (Lithuania), Kristina Buožytė (Lithuania), Marian Crisan (Romania), Mira Fornay (Slovakia), Bohdan Sláma (Czech Republic), Malgorzata Szumowska (Poland) and Anna Viduleja (Latvia).
A book will be published to accompany the retrospective with contributions from journalists and critics across Europe.
The titles are:
Kruh In Mleko / Bread And Milk
Jan Cvitkovic (Slovenia) 2001
A modern classic of Slovenian cinema, the tale of a man who went out for bread and milk and lost himself to alcohol...
- 8/8/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled its 2012 competition lineup, announcing that "110 feature-length films were selected, representing 31 countries and 44 first-time filmmakers, including 26 in competition. These films were selected from 4,042 feature-length film submissions composed of 2,059 Us and 1,983 international feature-length films. 88 films at the Festival will be world premieres…. On Day One, the Festival will screen one narrative film and one documentary from both the Us and World Cinema competitions, as well as one shorts program."
And those four films are Todd Louiso's Hello I Must Be Going (Us Dramatic Competition), Lauren Greenfield's The Queen of Versailles (Us Documentary Competition), Kieran Darcy-Smith's Wish You Were Here (World Cinema Dramatic Competition — image above) and Malik Bendjelloul's Searching for Sugar Man (World Cinema Documentary Competition). Click here to see titles and synopses for all four programs.
The festival runs from January 19 through 29.
Updates: Ioncinema's Eric Lavallee on the highlights of the World...
And those four films are Todd Louiso's Hello I Must Be Going (Us Dramatic Competition), Lauren Greenfield's The Queen of Versailles (Us Documentary Competition), Kieran Darcy-Smith's Wish You Were Here (World Cinema Dramatic Competition — image above) and Malik Bendjelloul's Searching for Sugar Man (World Cinema Documentary Competition). Click here to see titles and synopses for all four programs.
The festival runs from January 19 through 29.
Updates: Ioncinema's Eric Lavallee on the highlights of the World...
- 12/1/2011
- MUBI
Of all the fourteen films/filmmakers mentioned we see Quentin Dupieux return to screen fairly quick after his debut film Rubber, we have Blue Tongue Films team member (Animal Kingdom, Hesher and tons of awesome short films) Kieran Darcy-Smith who gets behind the camera for Wish You Were Here with (see pic) Joel Edgerton topling. We have Dogtooth writer contributing to helmer Babis Makridis' debut film "L" and finally Czech director Bohdan Sláma (The Country Teacher (2009) and Something Like Happiness (2005)) coming to the festival with 4 Suns. Here's the complete selected items for this often overlooked World Dramatic Comp section. 4 Suns / Czech Republic (Director and screenwriter: Bohdan Sláma) — Immature Fogi attempts to straighten up and accept his responsibilities as a new husband and father, as well as role model to his troubled son from a previous relationship, but finds himself unable to change his nature, leaving him to watch haplessly...
- 11/30/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
If you're a fan of road movies, then you better call in sick with a case of swine flu, as this weeks sees a lot of them arriving in theaters. For everyone else, there are docs on art and music, some European sunshine and a little smattering of domestic darkness.
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"24 City"
Festival favorite Jia Zhang-ke ("Still Life") delivers a portrait of a culture in flux and a meditation on the ethereal nature of history with yet another of his patented hybrids of documentary aesthetic and name actors. Once a virtually self-contained community with its own accommodations and amenities, the massive 50-year-old munitions factory in Chengdu is undergoing demolition to make way for high-rise apartments. Through the testimony of former inhabitants both real and fictional, Jia offers a take on the growing pains of...
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"24 City"
Festival favorite Jia Zhang-ke ("Still Life") delivers a portrait of a culture in flux and a meditation on the ethereal nature of history with yet another of his patented hybrids of documentary aesthetic and name actors. Once a virtually self-contained community with its own accommodations and amenities, the massive 50-year-old munitions factory in Chengdu is undergoing demolition to make way for high-rise apartments. Through the testimony of former inhabitants both real and fictional, Jia offers a take on the growing pains of...
- 6/1/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
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COLOGNE, Germany -- Twelve films, including Pedro Almodovar's Volver, Luc Jacquet's Oscar-winning documentary March of the Penguins, and claymation feature Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit have made the shortlist for this year's European Film Prize people's choice award. The European Film Academy announced the shortlist on Friday, which also includes the black comedy Adam's Apples from Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen; Oskar Roehler's adaptation of Michel Houellebecq's Elementary Particles; 2005 Palme d'Or winner L'enfant from Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne; Christian Carion's Oscar-nominated World War I film Merry Christmas and Roman Polanski's adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist. Joe Wright's adaptation of another 19th century English classic, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice made the EFA cut, along with Michele Placido's mafia drama Crime Novel and last year's San Sebastian winner Something Like Happiness from Czech director Bohdan Slama.
- 9/4/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Czech nods find 'Happiness'
MOSCOW -- Czech director Bohdan Slama's poignant tale of love and friendship in a crumbling post-industrial town, Something Like Happiness, swept the board at the Czech Film and Television Academy awards held Saturday in Prague. The film -- called Stesti in Czech -- took seven of 13 Czech Lions, including best film for producer Pavel Strnad of Prague's Negativ Film, best director and screenplay for Slama and best cinematography for Divis Marek, the Czech Film Center said in a statement Monday. Three other awards went to the cast -- best actor for Pavel Liska, best actress for Tatiana Vilhelmova and best supporting actress for Ana Geislerova.
- 2/28/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
'Happiness' finds Louve as Montreal fest wraps
TORONTO -- Bohdan Slama's German/Czech drama Something Like Happiness picked up the Louve d'Or award Sunday as the Montreal Festival of New Cinema and New Media wrapped its 34th edition. Slama received the grand prize for his third film after the award-winning Wild Bees capped off a successful 10-day run for Montreal's third summer film festival. The festival also gave the Radio-Canada Screenplay Award to Mohammad Rasoulof's Iranian film Iron Island. The dark comedy about a group of homeless people attempting to survive atop a sinking oil tanker in the Persian Gulf also received an honorable mention from Quebec critics, who gave their AQCC Award to U.S. director Lodge Kerrigan for Keane.
- 10/24/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Czech academy smiles on 'Happiness'
MOSCOW -- The Czech Film and Television Academy has chosen Bohdan Slama's Something Like Happiness as the country's Oscar entry for best foreign-language film, the Czech Film Center said Tuesday. Slama's film -- which won the San Sebastian film festival's Golden Shell for best film and Silver Shell for Ana Geislerova as best actress -- is the Czech director-screenwriter's third feature film. "A moving story about a fragile relationship between two young people which gradually grows into true love, the cast and atmosphere are reminiscent of Slama's successful debut 'Wild Bees' which brought the filmmaker several awards at international festivals," the Czech Film Center's Jana Cernik said. Nine Czech films have won a place at the Oscars since 1965 with three taking the prize -- The Shop on Main Street (directors Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, 1965); Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel, 1967); and Kolya (Jan Sverak, 1996).
- 10/4/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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