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“Encanto” succeeded with the notion of “no villain, except generational trauma,” and Disney keeps that idea going with the delightful “Turning Red” (Walt Disney Home Entertainment), a young woman’s coming-of-age story that’s a metaphor for any number of growing-up issues, including that moment when the “model” child begins to chafe at parental domination. It’s charming and adorable, and the boy-band songs by Billie Eilish and Finneas have already made their way into the latter’s stage act.
Also available:
“The Batman” (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment) Does a three-hour superhero saga have deleted scenes? You bet your bat-hook, and they’re on the 4K/Blu-ray/DVD release alongside other extras.
“Blacklight” (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment) Liam Neeson in the first of two (to date) 2022 thrillers that suggest that maybe it’s time for him to put down the gun.
“Cyrano” (MGM/Universal) Peter Dinklage gives...
“Encanto” succeeded with the notion of “no villain, except generational trauma,” and Disney keeps that idea going with the delightful “Turning Red” (Walt Disney Home Entertainment), a young woman’s coming-of-age story that’s a metaphor for any number of growing-up issues, including that moment when the “model” child begins to chafe at parental domination. It’s charming and adorable, and the boy-band songs by Billie Eilish and Finneas have already made their way into the latter’s stage act.
Also available:
“The Batman” (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment) Does a three-hour superhero saga have deleted scenes? You bet your bat-hook, and they’re on the 4K/Blu-ray/DVD release alongside other extras.
“Blacklight” (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment) Liam Neeson in the first of two (to date) 2022 thrillers that suggest that maybe it’s time for him to put down the gun.
“Cyrano” (MGM/Universal) Peter Dinklage gives...
- 5/6/2022
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Jérémie is having a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week. First, he’s run out of a “Jealousy Anonymous” meeting. Then, his boyfriend, hunky veterinarian Albert dumps him, precisely because of said jealousy. He’s been fired from his dream acting role and gave himself a black eye bumping into a wall while running away from another director, Sylvie, who is in the throes of her own breakdown.
To top it off, his father, who left his mother for another woman, has died by suicide. Desperate for love, desperate for a job, and just plain desperate, Jérémie makes his way from Paris to his mother’s countryside rental home near Saint-Auvent, seeking comfort and catharsis of some sort.
This is the premise of Maury’s directorial debut, “My Best Part,” which he co-wrote with Maud Ameline and Sophie Fillières. This funny, strange, and elusive character study is a film unlike any other,...
To top it off, his father, who left his mother for another woman, has died by suicide. Desperate for love, desperate for a job, and just plain desperate, Jérémie makes his way from Paris to his mother’s countryside rental home near Saint-Auvent, seeking comfort and catharsis of some sort.
This is the premise of Maury’s directorial debut, “My Best Part,” which he co-wrote with Maud Ameline and Sophie Fillières. This funny, strange, and elusive character study is a film unlike any other,...
- 2/24/2022
- by Katie Walsh
- The Wrap
The eighth annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival is upon us!
IndieWire can exclusively announce highlights from the upcoming Nitehawk Shorts Fest, running March 2–6 at both the Nitehawk’s Prospect Park and Williamsburg locations.
The Nitehawk Shorts Festival celebrates independent filmmaking by featuring over 60 short films, with filmmakers in attendance for Q&As. Continuing its mission to represent diverse backgrounds, voices, and perspectives with a selection of exceptional short-form films, female-directed films make up a majority of this year’s festival program.
The festival will include six programs: Opening Nite, Music Driven, Midnite, Matinee, NoBudge, and Closing Nite. Opening and Closing Nite shows will take place at the Prospect Park location, with post-screening parties hosted in the Trees Lounge bar. Music Driven, Midnite, Matinee, and NoBudge will be at the Williamsburg location.
“We have been eager to get the Nitehawk Shorts Festival back up and running, since it has become such an...
IndieWire can exclusively announce highlights from the upcoming Nitehawk Shorts Fest, running March 2–6 at both the Nitehawk’s Prospect Park and Williamsburg locations.
The Nitehawk Shorts Festival celebrates independent filmmaking by featuring over 60 short films, with filmmakers in attendance for Q&As. Continuing its mission to represent diverse backgrounds, voices, and perspectives with a selection of exceptional short-form films, female-directed films make up a majority of this year’s festival program.
The festival will include six programs: Opening Nite, Music Driven, Midnite, Matinee, NoBudge, and Closing Nite. Opening and Closing Nite shows will take place at the Prospect Park location, with post-screening parties hosted in the Trees Lounge bar. Music Driven, Midnite, Matinee, and NoBudge will be at the Williamsburg location.
“We have been eager to get the Nitehawk Shorts Festival back up and running, since it has become such an...
- 2/1/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
‘After Blue’ Review: Erotic Lesbian Acid Trip Is Like ‘The Love Witch’ Set on Planet ‘Annihiliation’
If you unearthed a glittery demon with one hairy arm who awakened your deepest desires from the third eye between her legs, what lengths would you travel to find her again? This, and plenty more completely insane scenarios, are among the many posed in Bertrand Mandico’s seductive, ethereal, and bizarre epic “After Blue,” aptly subtitled “Dirty Paradise.”
Set on a fantasy planet where only women can survive the harsh climate, the adventure follows a mother and daughter on a grueling journey to find and kill the evil “Kate Bush,” rumored to be death herself. One part “Annihilation” and one part “The Love Witch,” and cast under the veneer of a sadistic “The NeverEnding Story,” the film
The fantastical fable is narrated by Roxy (Paula-Luna Breitenfelder), a petulant teenager with a bleached-blonde mullet, who stares blankly into the camera in conversation with a mysterious disembodied voice. “The Earth was sick,...
Set on a fantasy planet where only women can survive the harsh climate, the adventure follows a mother and daughter on a grueling journey to find and kill the evil “Kate Bush,” rumored to be death herself. One part “Annihilation” and one part “The Love Witch,” and cast under the veneer of a sadistic “The NeverEnding Story,” the film
The fantastical fable is narrated by Roxy (Paula-Luna Breitenfelder), a petulant teenager with a bleached-blonde mullet, who stares blankly into the camera in conversation with a mysterious disembodied voice. “The Earth was sick,...
- 10/7/2021
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Each year it is a pleasure to introduce the ten actors who make up the European Film Promotion‘s Shooting Stars, and this year is no different. The initiative, to celebrate and promote the best in European acting talent, is dear to the heart of HeyUGuys, and we’ll be continuing our partnership this year with in-depth interviews with each of the 2021 cohort.
This year will, as expected, be slightly different from previous years. The ten emerging actors will be presented as part of a three-day online programme, a week before the 71st Berlinale commences. The digital event, held on the 23rd to the 25th of February, will be an online experience where we’ll be able to sit down and learn a little more about what makes these ten people the ones to watch.
Each of the actors were chosen by a carefully selected jury from a list of...
This year will, as expected, be slightly different from previous years. The ten emerging actors will be presented as part of a three-day online programme, a week before the 71st Berlinale commences. The digital event, held on the 23rd to the 25th of February, will be an online experience where we’ll be able to sit down and learn a little more about what makes these ten people the ones to watch.
Each of the actors were chosen by a carefully selected jury from a list of...
- 1/12/2021
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis will head up the jury of this year’s socially-distanced Deauville American Film Festival. The event, which runs in the French seaside town Sept. 4-13, will be one of the first film festivals to be held in the post-covid-19 era.
Paradis will oversee a competition jury that includes her Knife + Heart director Yann Gonzalez, fellow French actors Zita Hanrot (Fatima) and Vincent Lacoste (Sorry Angel), director Bruno Podalydes (The Sweet Escape), producer Sylvie Pialat (Timbuktu), the author Delphine Horvilleur and French rapper Oxmo Puccino. They will pick this year’s Deauville winners, which will be ...
Paradis will oversee a competition jury that includes her Knife + Heart director Yann Gonzalez, fellow French actors Zita Hanrot (Fatima) and Vincent Lacoste (Sorry Angel), director Bruno Podalydes (The Sweet Escape), producer Sylvie Pialat (Timbuktu), the author Delphine Horvilleur and French rapper Oxmo Puccino. They will pick this year’s Deauville winners, which will be ...
- 8/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis will head up the jury of this year’s socially-distanced Deauville American Film Festival. The event, which runs in the French seaside town Sept. 4-13, will be one of the first film festivals to be held in the post-covid-19 era.
Paradis will oversee a competition jury that includes her Knife + Heart director Yann Gonzalez, fellow French actors Zita Hanrot (Fatima) and Vincent Lacoste (Sorry Angel), director Bruno Podalydes (The Sweet Escape), producer Sylvie Pialat (Timbuktu), the author Delphine Horvilleur and French rapper Oxmo Puccino. They will pick this year’s Deauville winners, which will be ...
Paradis will oversee a competition jury that includes her Knife + Heart director Yann Gonzalez, fellow French actors Zita Hanrot (Fatima) and Vincent Lacoste (Sorry Angel), director Bruno Podalydes (The Sweet Escape), producer Sylvie Pialat (Timbuktu), the author Delphine Horvilleur and French rapper Oxmo Puccino. They will pick this year’s Deauville winners, which will be ...
- 8/18/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
7500 (Patrick Vollrath)
Patrick Vollrath’s 7500 is a one-room, one-man show. It asks you to spend 92 minutes inside the cockpit of an Airbus A319, and in intimate quarters with a young first officer who must land it back to safety once the aircraft is hijacked by a group of Islamist terrorists. It is, for the best part of its brisk running time, a stomach-churning ride that bursts with the same force and anxieties of another recent–but far superior–single-setting drama: Steven Knight’s Locke. Much like Knight’s sophomore directorial work, it seesaws between claustrophobic and expansive, a testament to how much can be achieved in...
7500 (Patrick Vollrath)
Patrick Vollrath’s 7500 is a one-room, one-man show. It asks you to spend 92 minutes inside the cockpit of an Airbus A319, and in intimate quarters with a young first officer who must land it back to safety once the aircraft is hijacked by a group of Islamist terrorists. It is, for the best part of its brisk running time, a stomach-churning ride that bursts with the same force and anxieties of another recent–but far superior–single-setting drama: Steven Knight’s Locke. Much like Knight’s sophomore directorial work, it seesaws between claustrophobic and expansive, a testament to how much can be achieved in...
- 6/19/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Awarded Cannes’ Official Selection Label, Nicolas Maury’s film, hotly tipped to be a unique attraction, will be sold by way of an exclusive trailer at the Online Marché du Film. French firm Les Films du Losange (headed up by Margaret Ménégoz) has always appreciated and lent its support to extraordinary authors. In this respect, its international sales arm (steered by Alice Lesort) will feel quiet at home working on My Best Part, the first feature film directed by actor Nicolas Maury, at the Cannes Film Festival’s Online Marché du Film (running 22-26 June). Benefitting from the Cannes 73 Official Selection Label, the film (read our news) will be pre-sold on the basis of an exclusive trailer, shored up by video interviews with the director and with his principal (co)stars. Indeed, Nicolas Maury (who made a great impression in Knife + Heart and in the series Call My Agent!) plays a.
Hey. Did you know it's almost June? I know right? What the hell? Well, however long whatever this is keeps going on the good folks at Shudder are here to help with a good dose of horror delights this coming month. The big four titles next month include the doc Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street, Korean horror flick Warning: Do Not Play, horror anthology Scare Package and SXSW Midnighter title Yummy. Pride month happens in June and though celebrations around the World may be a wee bit subdued this year there is still lots of queer horror cinema to celebrate, including one of my favorites from the other year, Knife + Heart. Shudder is also hosting the short films from the Ehteria Film Festival,...
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- 5/30/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Looking to heat up your summer from the air-conditioned confines of your own home? Shudder has you covered this June with an eclectic set of horror films both old and new, including the Mark Patton documentary Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street, Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses, the horror anthology Scare Package, and much more!
Below, you can check out the full list of titles coming to Shudder in the Us this June, and be sure to visit Shudder's website to learn more about the streaming service and their scary good lineup!
"Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street
Some have called it the 'gayest horror movie ever made,' but for Mark Patton, the star of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, it was anything but a dream come true. 30 years after its initial release, Patton sets the record straight about the controversial sequel...
Below, you can check out the full list of titles coming to Shudder in the Us this June, and be sure to visit Shudder's website to learn more about the streaming service and their scary good lineup!
"Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street
Some have called it the 'gayest horror movie ever made,' but for Mark Patton, the star of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, it was anything but a dream come true. 30 years after its initial release, Patton sets the record straight about the controversial sequel...
- 5/26/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Stars: Vanessa Paradis, Nicolas Maury, Kate Moran, Jonathan Genet, Félix Maritaud, Khaled Alouach, Noé Hernández, Thibault Servière, Bertrand Mandico, Bastien Waultier, Romane Bohringer, Dourane Fall, Jules Ritmanic | Written by Yann Gonzalez, Cristiano Mangione | Directed by Yann Gonzalez
Knife+Heart (Un couteau dans le cœur) is a French 80s cinematic throwback directed by Yann Gonzalez. The film is set during 1979 in Paris and follows Anna (Vanessa Paradis) a gay porn producer who is recovering from heartbreak with romantic partner Lois (Kate Moran) when a mysterious killer begins to pick off Anne’s male talent one by one.
Variety describes Yann Gonzalez film as “unabashedly queer”, and you could not argue against a single letter in that description. Knife+Heart is incessantly provocative, too much at times, from its neon-lit opening to its apathetic climax. A stylish satirical feature that finds any form of over theatricality intensifies such and indulges to a sickly humorous extent.
Knife+Heart (Un couteau dans le cœur) is a French 80s cinematic throwback directed by Yann Gonzalez. The film is set during 1979 in Paris and follows Anna (Vanessa Paradis) a gay porn producer who is recovering from heartbreak with romantic partner Lois (Kate Moran) when a mysterious killer begins to pick off Anne’s male talent one by one.
Variety describes Yann Gonzalez film as “unabashedly queer”, and you could not argue against a single letter in that description. Knife+Heart is incessantly provocative, too much at times, from its neon-lit opening to its apathetic climax. A stylish satirical feature that finds any form of over theatricality intensifies such and indulges to a sickly humorous extent.
- 8/12/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Ari Aster’s ‘Hereditary’ follow-up ‘Midsommar’ also out this weekend.
This weekend in the UK will see Spider-Man: Far From Home try to light up this year’s summer box office with a blockbuster opening session.
The Marvel film, released by Sony Pictures (which retains ownership of the Spider-Man franchise), follows the recent success of fellow Marvel title Avengers: Endgame, which has taken a goliath £88.3m in the UK, making it the country’s fifth highest-grossing release of all time.
Disney put Endgame back into cinemas last week (including some bonus content featuring the cast and crew) to capitalise on...
This weekend in the UK will see Spider-Man: Far From Home try to light up this year’s summer box office with a blockbuster opening session.
The Marvel film, released by Sony Pictures (which retains ownership of the Spider-Man franchise), follows the recent success of fellow Marvel title Avengers: Endgame, which has taken a goliath £88.3m in the UK, making it the country’s fifth highest-grossing release of all time.
Disney put Endgame back into cinemas last week (including some bonus content featuring the cast and crew) to capitalise on...
- 7/5/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
If you're looking to camp out on your couch instead of under the stars, Shudder has plenty of horror movies to keep you entertained in the air-conditioned comforts of your own home this month, with Phantom of the Paradise, Knife+Heart, Boar, Hagazussa, The Exorcist, and more horror films joining the streaming service's eclectic lineup (which also includes a new podcast Queer Horror curated collection this month).
You can check out the full list of titles coming to Shudder in the Us this month below, and visit Shudder online to learn more about the streaming service.
"Things get wild this month, starting off with the Shudder exclusive big bad pig pic, Boar; a Pride Month collection headlined by the streaming premiere of Knife+Heart; our latest original podcast, Visitations with Elijah Wood & Daniel Noah; a tour through some of our favorite sub-genres with Sam Zimmerman’s Shudder Guides videos, and new additions...
You can check out the full list of titles coming to Shudder in the Us this month below, and visit Shudder online to learn more about the streaming service.
"Things get wild this month, starting off with the Shudder exclusive big bad pig pic, Boar; a Pride Month collection headlined by the streaming premiere of Knife+Heart; our latest original podcast, Visitations with Elijah Wood & Daniel Noah; a tour through some of our favorite sub-genres with Sam Zimmerman’s Shudder Guides videos, and new additions...
- 6/7/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
We have a busy start to this new month of home media releases, as we have more than 20 genre-related titles coming out this Tuesday alone. As far as new films are concerned, horror fans have quite an assortment to look for this week, between Knife+Heart, The Cleaning Lady, and I’ll Take Your Dead from Scream Factory. Arrow Video is giving the cult classic Trapped Alive the Special Edition treatment, and for those of you Stephen King aficionados out there, Children of the Corn is getting its own SteelBook, and there’s also a six-movie collection of King adaptations arriving on Tuesday as well.
All four of the original Batman movies are getting a 4K upgrade this week, courtesy of Warner Bros., and for those of you who are into stop-motion animation, the ever-delightful Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit hits Blu-ray on Tuesday too.
Other notable releases for June 4th include The Convent,...
All four of the original Batman movies are getting a 4K upgrade this week, courtesy of Warner Bros., and for those of you who are into stop-motion animation, the ever-delightful Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit hits Blu-ray on Tuesday too.
Other notable releases for June 4th include The Convent,...
- 6/4/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Come get your Q on! The 12th Annual QFest St. Louis, presented by Cinema St. Louis,runs April 28-May 2, 2019, at the Tivoli Theatre (6350 Delmar) .The St. Louis-based Lgbtq film festival, QFest will present an eclectic slate of 28 films. The participating filmmakers represent a wide variety of voices in contemporary queer world cinema. The mission of the film festival is to use the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of Lgbtq people and to celebrate queer culture. The full schedule can be found Here
The 12th Annual QFest St. Louis continues Tuesday April 30th. Here’s Tuesday’s schedule:
5:00pm April 30th: The Gospel Of Eureka – This is a Free screening
(though tickets are required from box office)
Eureka Springs, Ark., is a one-of-a-kind oasis in the Ozarks where Christian piety rubs shoulders with a thriving and open queer community. Known for its natural springs, the town...
The 12th Annual QFest St. Louis continues Tuesday April 30th. Here’s Tuesday’s schedule:
5:00pm April 30th: The Gospel Of Eureka – This is a Free screening
(though tickets are required from box office)
Eureka Springs, Ark., is a one-of-a-kind oasis in the Ozarks where Christian piety rubs shoulders with a thriving and open queer community. Known for its natural springs, the town...
- 4/29/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Come get your Q on! The 12th Annual QFest St. Louis, presented by Cinema St. Louis,runs April 28-May 2, 2019, at the Tivoli Theatre.The St. Louis-based Lgbtq film festival, QFest will present an eclectic slate of 28 films. The participating filmmakers represent a wide variety of voices in contemporary queer world cinema. The mission of the film festival is to use the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of Lgbtq people and to celebrate queer culture.
The fest is especially pleased to host the St. Louis premieres of two bio-docs: “Halston,” about the renowned fashion designer, and “Making Montgomery Clift,” about the legendary anti-Hollywood film star. The documentary “TransGeek,” which is about transgender people who are gamers, programmers, and video-game designers, has many local connections, including director, producers, and interview subjects. Several international narrative features receive their St. Louis premieres, including the lush biopic “Vita & Virginia,” about...
The fest is especially pleased to host the St. Louis premieres of two bio-docs: “Halston,” about the renowned fashion designer, and “Making Montgomery Clift,” about the legendary anti-Hollywood film star. The documentary “TransGeek,” which is about transgender people who are gamers, programmers, and video-game designers, has many local connections, including director, producers, and interview subjects. Several international narrative features receive their St. Louis premieres, including the lush biopic “Vita & Virginia,” about...
- 4/8/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key Light: Gonzalez’s Queer Giallo a Dicey Mélange
Love as an overwhelming, all-consuming fire seems to be the central conceit of Yann Gonzalez’s sophomore film Knife+Heart, a dizzying homage to Giallo cinema of the 1970s. Utilizing Vanessa Paradis in what might be her most enjoyable performance since Patrice Leconte’s The Girl on the Bridge (1999), Gonzalez sends us back to the seedy side of Paris in 1979, where a frazzled blonde lesbian producer of gay porn is inspired by the murder of one of her actors to embark on a more ambitious project by using the incident for her next film.…...
Love as an overwhelming, all-consuming fire seems to be the central conceit of Yann Gonzalez’s sophomore film Knife+Heart, a dizzying homage to Giallo cinema of the 1970s. Utilizing Vanessa Paradis in what might be her most enjoyable performance since Patrice Leconte’s The Girl on the Bridge (1999), Gonzalez sends us back to the seedy side of Paris in 1979, where a frazzled blonde lesbian producer of gay porn is inspired by the murder of one of her actors to embark on a more ambitious project by using the incident for her next film.…...
- 3/15/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Yann Gonzalez’s Knife+Heart arrives at a time when contemporary genre cinema is reckoning with itself. In the last ten years, a number of filmmakers, particularly in Francophone Europe, has produced and directed relatively high-profile films occupying a genre that has come to be known as neo-giallo. A definition for neo-giallo borders on impossible, save perhaps a film that retroactively occupies the European thriller genre of giallo, which peaked in popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and in doing so becomes a film made self-consciously, with an awareness of the genre’s conventions and thus a postmodern relationship to the material. At first glance, Gonzalez’s film certainly qualifies as such, extrapolating certain elements of giallo to an extent where it almost becomes necessary to understand the pedigree that haunts the genre as a whole. The film is not by necessity a deconstruction, but rather an earnest...
- 3/15/2019
- MUBI
Tony Sokol Mar 6, 2019
Hail Satan? will be the sinister centerpiece at the 21st Annual Boston Underground Film Festival, not too far from Salem.
Hail Satan? will screeen at the 21st Annual Boston Underground Film Festival, which unleashes five days of cinemadness on Cambridge from March 20 through March 24. The panel dug deep into the nether regions to present titles like Mope, Tone-Deaf, Knife+Heart, The Unthinkable, and director Penny Lane’s provocative Sundance-sensation Hail Satan?, which "crowns this year’s festivities with its inspirational and entertaining chronicle of the extraordinary rise of one of America’s most colorful and controversial religious movements," according to the festival's press.
"With unprecedented access, Hail Satan? traces the rise of The Satanic Temple: only six years old and already one of the most controversial religious movements in American history," reads the festival's synopsis. "The Temple and its enigmatic leader Lucien Greaves are calling for a Satanic...
Hail Satan? will be the sinister centerpiece at the 21st Annual Boston Underground Film Festival, not too far from Salem.
Hail Satan? will screeen at the 21st Annual Boston Underground Film Festival, which unleashes five days of cinemadness on Cambridge from March 20 through March 24. The panel dug deep into the nether regions to present titles like Mope, Tone-Deaf, Knife+Heart, The Unthinkable, and director Penny Lane’s provocative Sundance-sensation Hail Satan?, which "crowns this year’s festivities with its inspirational and entertaining chronicle of the extraordinary rise of one of America’s most colorful and controversial religious movements," according to the festival's press.
"With unprecedented access, Hail Satan? traces the rise of The Satanic Temple: only six years old and already one of the most controversial religious movements in American history," reads the festival's synopsis. "The Temple and its enigmatic leader Lucien Greaves are calling for a Satanic...
- 2/28/2019
- Den of Geek
"Is none of this affecting you at all?" Altered Innocence has debuted a full-length, official Us trailer for a French murder thriller titled Knife+Heart, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year. The film goes under the title Un couteau dans le coeur in France, which translates directly to A knife in the heart, but I prefer the official version more. Set in Paris in the summer 1979, the film follows Anne, a producer of third-rate gay porn. When Loïs, her editor & companion, leaves her, she attempts to reclaim her by turning a film more ambitious, but one of her actors ends up murdered. Vanessa Paradis stars as Anne, with Kate Moran, Nicolas Maury, Jonathan Genet, Khaled Alouach, & Félix Maritaud. Including an original score by M83. The film has been described as a "gleefully trashy exploitation film" that is kind of like "gay porn meets Giallo slasher." If that sounds like your kind of kink,...
- 1/22/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
After screening at last year’s Cannes and Fantastic Fest, Bloody Disgusting has the exclusive trailer and poster premiere for Yann Gonzalez’s second feature film, Knife+Heart, which is set to open in New York theaters March 15th and also in Los Angeles on March 22nd (additional dates to follow). In the film, Vanessa Paradis portrays a ’70s gay porn producer […]...
- 1/22/2019
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Sibyl
Following the runaway success of her 2016 sophomore film Victoria, director Justine Triet returns with the highly anticipated dramedy Sibyl, filmed in secret over the summer of 2018 and featuring a high profile cast consisting of her Victoria star Virginie Efira, Adele Exarchopoulos, Gaspard Ulliel, Niels Schneider, Laura Calamy, Paul Hamy, and Sandra Huller. Produced by David Thion and Phillip Martin for Les Films Pelleas, the title is also co-produced by France 2 Cinema, Les Films de Pierre, Page 114, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes Cinema and Belgium’s Scope Pictures. Triet also reunites with her Victoria Dp Simon Beufils.…...
Following the runaway success of her 2016 sophomore film Victoria, director Justine Triet returns with the highly anticipated dramedy Sibyl, filmed in secret over the summer of 2018 and featuring a high profile cast consisting of her Victoria star Virginie Efira, Adele Exarchopoulos, Gaspard Ulliel, Niels Schneider, Laura Calamy, Paul Hamy, and Sandra Huller. Produced by David Thion and Phillip Martin for Les Films Pelleas, the title is also co-produced by France 2 Cinema, Les Films de Pierre, Page 114, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes Cinema and Belgium’s Scope Pictures. Triet also reunites with her Victoria Dp Simon Beufils.…...
- 1/4/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Cinema’s Legacy programme highlights films directed by women.
The Favourite, Vox Lux, and the first episode of Patty Jenkins’s limited series I Am The Night are among the selection to play in Special Screenings, Cinema’s Legacy and Midnight at AFI Fest 2018 presented by Audi.
The Special Screenings selections are: Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski), Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi), Gotham Awards nominee The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos), Roma (Alfonso Cuarón), the North American Premiere of Stan & Ollie (Jon S. Baird), Under The Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell) and Vox Lux (Brady Corbet).
Documentaries inckude The Cold Blue (Erik Nelson) and...
The Favourite, Vox Lux, and the first episode of Patty Jenkins’s limited series I Am The Night are among the selection to play in Special Screenings, Cinema’s Legacy and Midnight at AFI Fest 2018 presented by Audi.
The Special Screenings selections are: Cold War (Paweł Pawlikowski), Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi), Gotham Awards nominee The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos), Roma (Alfonso Cuarón), the North American Premiere of Stan & Ollie (Jon S. Baird), Under The Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell) and Vox Lux (Brady Corbet).
Documentaries inckude The Cold Blue (Erik Nelson) and...
- 10/18/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Austin-based genre festival Fantastic Fest is accustomed to the big guns of genre cinema — both M. Night Shyamalan and Guillermo del Toro have made appearances — and this year, two iconic women of horror showed up to promote their new films (and old ones). Jamie Lee Curtis flipped off the audience and yucked it up for the Texas premiere of “Halloween,” while Jessica Harper surprised a stunned theater of Dario Argento superfans who anticipated the event’s secret screening would be Luca Guadagnino’s reimagining of “Suspiria.” It was, and god, was it dazzling. While these big-ticket guests and films are always a draw, the best of the fest lay in the scrappy, bizarre pics fighting tooth and nail to find their audiences.
Some of the films have already seen their world premieres at Sundance, Venice, Cannes or Tiff, but they’re no longer competing for audiences against the big mainstream...
Some of the films have already seen their world premieres at Sundance, Venice, Cannes or Tiff, but they’re no longer competing for audiences against the big mainstream...
- 9/28/2018
- by April Wolfe
- Indiewire
Variety has reported that Yann Gonzalez's sophomore feature film Knife + Heart, starring Vanessa Paradis, has been picked up in the U.S. by Altered Innocence. Knife + Heart is about as close to a modern giallo flick as you can get. I like Knife + Heart personally. It has all kinds of lurid, sexy and provacative thrills. Shooting it on 35mm helps carry an air of 70s exploitation and independant cinema with it, neatly placing it in the era the story takes place in. In keeping with the giallo theme it is certainly, and vibrantly, violent as well. The drama debuted in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival and makes its North American premiere at Fantastic Fest this week. Paradis portrays a...
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- 9/24/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Altered Innocence has picked up U.S. rights to Yann Gonzalez’s second feature film “Knife+Heart,” starring Vanessa Paradis.
The drama debuted in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival and makes its North American premiere at Fantastic Fest this week. Paradis portrays a ’70s gay porn producer whose productions are stalked by a masked killer.
Altered Innocence plans a theatrical release for early 2019. This marks the second Gonzalez film to be distributed by Altered Innocence following the Queer Palm winning short film “Islands.”
The deal was negotiated between Frank Jaffe from Altered Innocence, and Kinology CEO Grégoire Melin. Jaffe said, “Yann Gonzalez is without a doubt one of the most exciting filmmakers working today. I’m incredibly excited to continue to bring his unique, impassioned form of cinema to U.S. audiences. ‘Knife+Heart’ has the perfect blend of retro slasher sensibilities, queer romantic dynamics, and an incredible...
The drama debuted in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival and makes its North American premiere at Fantastic Fest this week. Paradis portrays a ’70s gay porn producer whose productions are stalked by a masked killer.
Altered Innocence plans a theatrical release for early 2019. This marks the second Gonzalez film to be distributed by Altered Innocence following the Queer Palm winning short film “Islands.”
The deal was negotiated between Frank Jaffe from Altered Innocence, and Kinology CEO Grégoire Melin. Jaffe said, “Yann Gonzalez is without a doubt one of the most exciting filmmakers working today. I’m incredibly excited to continue to bring his unique, impassioned form of cinema to U.S. audiences. ‘Knife+Heart’ has the perfect blend of retro slasher sensibilities, queer romantic dynamics, and an incredible...
- 9/24/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
The Shape will be hitting the road this September. Following the announcement that the new Halloween will have its world premiere at Tiff as part of the Midnight Madness program, it's now been revealed that the film will also be the opening night movie at Austin's Fantastic Fest, with Laurie Strode herself, Jamie Lee Curtis, in attendance:
Press Release: Austin, TX — Wednesday, August 22, 2018 — Blasting off the festival in its 14th year will be the U.S. Premiere of David Gordon Green’s razor-sharp new contribution to the Halloween canon with legendary actor Jamie Lee Curtis—along with Halloween producers Malek Akkad, Jason Blum and Bill Block in attendance! Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Also showing at the festival is the U.
Press Release: Austin, TX — Wednesday, August 22, 2018 — Blasting off the festival in its 14th year will be the U.S. Premiere of David Gordon Green’s razor-sharp new contribution to the Halloween canon with legendary actor Jamie Lee Curtis—along with Halloween producers Malek Akkad, Jason Blum and Bill Block in attendance! Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Also showing at the festival is the U.
- 8/22/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Jamie Lee Curtis’ “Halloween” has been selected as the opening night film of the 14th edition of Fantastic Fest on Sept. 20 at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, Tex.
Curtis is expected to be attendance along with producers Malek Akkad, Jason Blum and Bill Block. She is returning to play the iconic Laurie Strode in the “Halloween” franchise. Universal Pictures will open the film on Oct. 19.
Curtis’ character will have a final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago. David Gordon Green is directing from a script he co-wrote with Danny McBride.
Fantastic Fest made the announcement Wednesday as part of unveiling its second wave of programming. It also announced that it will hold the U.S. premiere of Fantastic Fest alum Jeremy Saulnier’s psychological thriller “Hold the Dark,” starring Jeffrey Wright,...
Curtis is expected to be attendance along with producers Malek Akkad, Jason Blum and Bill Block. She is returning to play the iconic Laurie Strode in the “Halloween” franchise. Universal Pictures will open the film on Oct. 19.
Curtis’ character will have a final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago. David Gordon Green is directing from a script he co-wrote with Danny McBride.
Fantastic Fest made the announcement Wednesday as part of unveiling its second wave of programming. It also announced that it will hold the U.S. premiere of Fantastic Fest alum Jeremy Saulnier’s psychological thriller “Hold the Dark,” starring Jeffrey Wright,...
- 8/22/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
If you want to see the next wave of independent talent in genre cinema, look no further than the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, which just announced it's first wave of programming for the 3rd edition of the festival that will take place this October. We have the full announcement below, which includes new movies that have been generating buzz, such as Cam and Luz, along with other special events and retrospective screenings.
The festival takes place from October 11th - 18th and festival badges are already for sale. Individual tickets will be available, starting early September. For more information or to pick up a badge, visit:
http://brooklynhorrorfest.com/badges/
Thursday, August 16th, New York, NY - The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival returns to bring the best and most provocative of horror cinema to local screens and we’re thrilled to announce wave one of our program today! Join us...
The festival takes place from October 11th - 18th and festival badges are already for sale. Individual tickets will be available, starting early September. For more information or to pick up a badge, visit:
http://brooklynhorrorfest.com/badges/
Thursday, August 16th, New York, NY - The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival returns to bring the best and most provocative of horror cinema to local screens and we’re thrilled to announce wave one of our program today! Join us...
- 8/16/2018
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
The Notebook is covering Cannes with an on-going correspondence between critics Lawrence Garcia and Daniel Kasman.Dear Danny,Aside from the closing ceremony, the last day of Cannes features a rerun of the entire competition slate in a number of venues across the Palais des Festivals, which gives lingering festival-goers—or mostly just the tired, sleep-deprived press corps—a chance to revisit favorites or just catch up with missed titles. That’s how I managed to watch Christophe Honoré’s under-seen, somewhat undervalued and resolutely blue (in both tone and color palette) Sorry Angel, an intimate queer relationship drama set in Paris, 1993. The setting immediately recalls Robin Campillo’s recent Bpm, a film that fervently fused the political and personal in its depiction of the Paris chapter of Act Up in the early 1990s. But Honoré’s vision is less propelled by political agitation—though Act Up Paris is mentioned,...
- 5/20/2018
- MUBI
Palme d’Or-winner Shoplifters finishes second.
Burning, Lee Chang-dong’s drama based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, has finished top of Screen’s Cannes 2018 jury grid with a record score of 3.8 out of 4.
Described by Screen’s review as ’quietly devastating…a film of wondrous complexity and inscrutability’, the film centres on a lost young man, the woman he falls for, and a stranger with unknown motivations. It received top marks from eight of the ten critics on the grid and 3 from the other two.
The 3.8 average is the highest score in the history of the Screen Cannes jury grid,...
Burning, Lee Chang-dong’s drama based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, has finished top of Screen’s Cannes 2018 jury grid with a record score of 3.8 out of 4.
Described by Screen’s review as ’quietly devastating…a film of wondrous complexity and inscrutability’, the film centres on a lost young man, the woman he falls for, and a stranger with unknown motivations. It received top marks from eight of the ten critics on the grid and 3 from the other two.
The 3.8 average is the highest score in the history of the Screen Cannes jury grid,...
- 5/19/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Lee Chang-dong’s drama received top marks from eight of the ten critics.
Burning, Lee Chang-dong’s drama based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, has finished top of Screen’s Cannes 2018 jury grid with a record score of 3.8 out of 4.
Described by Screen’s review as ’quietly devastating…a film of wondrous complexity and inscrutability’, the film centres on a lost young man, the woman he falls for, and a stranger with unknown motivations. It received top marks from eight of the ten critics on the grid and 3 from the other two.
The 3.8 average is the highest score...
Burning, Lee Chang-dong’s drama based on a short story by Haruki Murakami, has finished top of Screen’s Cannes 2018 jury grid with a record score of 3.8 out of 4.
Described by Screen’s review as ’quietly devastating…a film of wondrous complexity and inscrutability’, the film centres on a lost young man, the woman he falls for, and a stranger with unknown motivations. It received top marks from eight of the ten critics on the grid and 3 from the other two.
The 3.8 average is the highest score...
- 5/19/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
There is a movie within the movie Knife + Heart and it boasts the slightly euphemistic title of Homocidal (although I prefer the working title: Anal Fury). It is, in fact, being filmed as we watch, along with a number of other similarly lewd movies. Homocidal is the latest production of Far West Films, a fictional queer softcore porn studio that acts as the focus of Knife + Heart, a delightfully icky horror movie seeped in beautiful Giallo homage that is the second feature of Niçoise polymath Yann Gonzalez (who you might know as one half of M83).
Vanessa Paradis plays Anne, the indomitable producer, director, and screenwriter of the aforementioned independent movie studio. She is a filmmaker through and through, and thus it is not unusual for Anne to take events she sees or experiences in real life and use them in her porn movies, regardless of how delicate they may be.
Vanessa Paradis plays Anne, the indomitable producer, director, and screenwriter of the aforementioned independent movie studio. She is a filmmaker through and through, and thus it is not unusual for Anne to take events she sees or experiences in real life and use them in her porn movies, regardless of how delicate they may be.
- 5/19/2018
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Vasilli Schneider & Niels Schneider
Remember French-Canadian Niels Schneider, the object of affection for both the male and female leads of Xavier Dolan's Heartbeats? Apparently he's but one of 4 (!) Schneider brothers -- there was a 5th who died very young :( -- who all appear to be in showbiz: actor/models/musicians whatnot. And here's Vasilli and Niels together at the premiere of Knife + Heart at Cannes.
In our enthusiastic relentlessness about actresses we invariably ignore actors so before the final ceremony let's not let Cannes end without a visual tribute to the best snacks at Cannes...
Remember French-Canadian Niels Schneider, the object of affection for both the male and female leads of Xavier Dolan's Heartbeats? Apparently he's but one of 4 (!) Schneider brothers -- there was a 5th who died very young :( -- who all appear to be in showbiz: actor/models/musicians whatnot. And here's Vasilli and Niels together at the premiere of Knife + Heart at Cannes.
In our enthusiastic relentlessness about actresses we invariably ignore actors so before the final ceremony let's not let Cannes end without a visual tribute to the best snacks at Cannes...
- 5/19/2018
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
• The New Yorker Kathleen Turner is singing... yes, singing, at Cafe Carlyle for a week or so. Omg I'd love to cover that for y'all but that place is pricey.
• Film School Rejects the troubled history of the film adaptation of Lin-manuel Miranda's In the Heights may finally be ending with Warner Bros snatching up the rights
• Mnpp on the trailer for the art slasher flick Knife + Heart premiering at Cannes
• The Guardian thoughtful piece by Xan Brooks about provocative cinema, Cannes, and Lars von Trier in our new age of moralizing
• Playbill California readers take note. At the upcoming Hollywood Bowl production of Annie, Megan Hilty, Ana Gasteyer, and Lea Salonga star. Fun casting! And those voices!!
• Boy Culture Trinity Taylor makes over Nico Tortorella who now identifies as gender fluid, or as he says 'sort of cisgendered but not so... Cissy
• Av Club Jordan Peele producing a...
• Film School Rejects the troubled history of the film adaptation of Lin-manuel Miranda's In the Heights may finally be ending with Warner Bros snatching up the rights
• Mnpp on the trailer for the art slasher flick Knife + Heart premiering at Cannes
• The Guardian thoughtful piece by Xan Brooks about provocative cinema, Cannes, and Lars von Trier in our new age of moralizing
• Playbill California readers take note. At the upcoming Hollywood Bowl production of Annie, Megan Hilty, Ana Gasteyer, and Lea Salonga star. Fun casting! And those voices!!
• Boy Culture Trinity Taylor makes over Nico Tortorella who now identifies as gender fluid, or as he says 'sort of cisgendered but not so... Cissy
• Av Club Jordan Peele producing a...
- 5/18/2018
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
It’s the summer of 1979 and a serial killer is stalking the gay porn stars of Paris with a switchblade that’s holstered inside a large rubber dildo. The first victim is claimed after the murderer — whose identity is hidden behind a jet-black bondage mask — seduces him at a disco and then literally fucks him to death.
Subsequent slaughters are a touch less creative, but that doesn’t stop the violence from enflaming the imagination of an atomic blonde super-producer named Anne (Vanessa Paradis), who finds herself increasingly inspired by the sudden rash of death around her. It’s all a bit close to home, as all of the corpses come from her troupe of fresh-faced twinks, and yet Anne eagerly re-stages the killings as part of her meta new masterwork, “Homocidal.” Anything to impress her editor and ex-lover, Loïs (Kate Moran), who’s starting to think that Anne’s...
Subsequent slaughters are a touch less creative, but that doesn’t stop the violence from enflaming the imagination of an atomic blonde super-producer named Anne (Vanessa Paradis), who finds herself increasingly inspired by the sudden rash of death around her. It’s all a bit close to home, as all of the corpses come from her troupe of fresh-faced twinks, and yet Anne eagerly re-stages the killings as part of her meta new masterwork, “Homocidal.” Anything to impress her editor and ex-lover, Loïs (Kate Moran), who’s starting to think that Anne’s...
- 5/18/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Someone is killing the cast and crew around the production of a gay French porno in “Knife + Heart,” which provides an inspired opportunity to set an erotic thriller within the milieu of vintage Parisian blue movies. In the hands of gifted French director Yann Gonzalez, who leaps from Critics’ Week to the official competition with this hyper-stylized follow-up to “You and the Night,” an environment that might have once given exploitation helmers the excuse to stage some red-blooded voyeurism (à la “Body Double” or “Crimes of Passion”) instead serves as a backdrop for queer empowerment in what should be one of the hottest tickets for gay audiences this year.
Picture “Cruising” as directed by Brian De Palma, and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what to expect from this frisky parody-homage, which is equal parts kinky and kitsch, rendered with the kind of meticulous attention to lighting,...
Picture “Cruising” as directed by Brian De Palma, and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what to expect from this frisky parody-homage, which is equal parts kinky and kitsch, rendered with the kind of meticulous attention to lighting,...
- 5/17/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
If Dario Argento, Brian De Palma and Kenneth Anger conceived a three-way love child while watching Cruising and listening to a Giorgio Moroder mix tape, the result would be something like French director Yann Gonzalez’s Knife + Heart (Un couteau dans le coeur).
Taking the erotic kitsch and glamorously trashy aesthetics of his many shorts and first feature, You and the Night, to the next level, Gonzalez uses a murder mystery set in the late-'70s gay porn industry to explore deeper themes of desire, abandon and sexual repression, all of it with plenty of humor and blood splatters. Playing the same ...
Taking the erotic kitsch and glamorously trashy aesthetics of his many shorts and first feature, You and the Night, to the next level, Gonzalez uses a murder mystery set in the late-'70s gay porn industry to explore deeper themes of desire, abandon and sexual repression, all of it with plenty of humor and blood splatters. Playing the same ...
- 5/17/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If Dario Argento, Brian De Palma and Kenneth Anger conceived a three-way love child while watching Cruising and listening to a Giorgio Moroder mix tape, the result would be something like French director Yann Gonzalez’s Knife + Heart (Un couteau dans le coeur).
Taking the erotic kitsch and glamorously trashy aesthetics of his many shorts and first feature, You and the Night, to the next level, Gonzalez uses a murder mystery set in the late-'70s gay porn industry to explore deeper themes of desire, abandon and sexual repression, all of it with plenty of humor and blood splatters. Playing the same ...
Taking the erotic kitsch and glamorously trashy aesthetics of his many shorts and first feature, You and the Night, to the next level, Gonzalez uses a murder mystery set in the late-'70s gay porn industry to explore deeper themes of desire, abandon and sexual repression, all of it with plenty of humor and blood splatters. Playing the same ...
- 5/17/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
French writer/director Yann Gonzalez returns to the Cannes Film Festival Thursday night with “Knife + Heart” (Un Couteau Dans Le Cœur), his sophomore feature and first to compete for the Palme d’Or. The debut trailer introduces viewers to vice-fueled, nightclub-lurking Anne (César Award winner Vanessa Paradis), a Parisian producer of gay porn films.
Although she’s in the business of providing pleasure, Anne has two dark distractions in the 1979-set drama: possessive impulses toward her ex-girlfriend, Loïs (Kate Moran), and the masked man slaying her actors for sport. As Anne spies on Loïs, the killer spies on her.
Penned by Gonzalez and Cristiano Mangione, “Knife + Heart” was a late addition to the festival’s main competition announced one week after the rest of the line-up. Its predecessor, Athens International Film Festival Best Picture winner “You and the Night” (Les rencontres d’après minuit) — a Cannes 2013 Critics’ Week...
Although she’s in the business of providing pleasure, Anne has two dark distractions in the 1979-set drama: possessive impulses toward her ex-girlfriend, Loïs (Kate Moran), and the masked man slaying her actors for sport. As Anne spies on Loïs, the killer spies on her.
Penned by Gonzalez and Cristiano Mangione, “Knife + Heart” was a late addition to the festival’s main competition announced one week after the rest of the line-up. Its predecessor, Athens International Film Festival Best Picture winner “You and the Night” (Les rencontres d’après minuit) — a Cannes 2013 Critics’ Week...
- 5/17/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
IndieWire reached out to the filmmakers with films premiering at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival to ask which cameras and lenses they used and, more importantly, why they were the right ones for their movies.
A few trends emerged. Once again, Arri’s digital cameras reign supreme as the choice of international auteurs and their cinematographers. Meanwhile, 13 cinematograhers shot on celluloid, including eight of the 21 competition films gunning for the Palme d’Or: “Ash is the Purest White,” “Shoplifters,” “BlacKkKlansman,” “Lazzaro Felice,” “Sorry Angel,” “Leto,” “Knife + Heart” and “Ayka.”
A handful of films relied on smaller, less expensive cameras that fit their budgets and circumstances, including two documentaries that used outdated Dvcam and Hdv formats when they began as one-person shoots many years ago. Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who is still banned from making films in his home country, used Canon 5d mark and Sony a7s, while Terry Gilliam...
A few trends emerged. Once again, Arri’s digital cameras reign supreme as the choice of international auteurs and their cinematographers. Meanwhile, 13 cinematograhers shot on celluloid, including eight of the 21 competition films gunning for the Palme d’Or: “Ash is the Purest White,” “Shoplifters,” “BlacKkKlansman,” “Lazzaro Felice,” “Sorry Angel,” “Leto,” “Knife + Heart” and “Ayka.”
A handful of films relied on smaller, less expensive cameras that fit their budgets and circumstances, including two documentaries that used outdated Dvcam and Hdv formats when they began as one-person shoots many years ago. Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who is still banned from making films in his home country, used Canon 5d mark and Sony a7s, while Terry Gilliam...
- 5/11/2018
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
On paper, this looks like a less than spectacular Cannes. Where are the stars? Where are the big names?
Just two of the 21 films in competition are American: Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” and David Robert Mitchell’s “Under the Silver Lake.” From the U.K., zero. Disney will bring “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” though it’s upstaging Cannes by holding the world premiere five days earlier in Hollywood. If you had to skip a year, this would be the time to do it, some have gone as far as to suggest.
I couldn’t disagree more. The fact that we don’t know what to expect from most of the films in competition makes this the most exciting lineup in ages — one with a genuine opportunity for discovery.
I’ve been attending Cannes since 2011. That’s how far you’d have to go back to find an edition with...
Just two of the 21 films in competition are American: Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” and David Robert Mitchell’s “Under the Silver Lake.” From the U.K., zero. Disney will bring “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” though it’s upstaging Cannes by holding the world premiere five days earlier in Hollywood. If you had to skip a year, this would be the time to do it, some have gone as far as to suggest.
I couldn’t disagree more. The fact that we don’t know what to expect from most of the films in competition makes this the most exciting lineup in ages — one with a genuine opportunity for discovery.
I’ve been attending Cannes since 2011. That’s how far you’d have to go back to find an edition with...
- 5/7/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
The complete Cannes 2018 lineup has now come into focus. After a number of announcements, the presumably final one has arrived and leading the pack is Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built (out of competition), Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The Wild Pear Tree (in competition), and closing the festival is Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Also added is Ramin Bahrani’s HBO film Fahrenheit 451 and Kevin Macdonald’s Whitney Houston documentary Whitney.
The competition lineup also further expands, with Yann Gonzalez’s Vanessa Paradis-led drama Knife + Heart and Kazakh Sergey Dvortsevoy’s Ayka joining the group. Un Certain Regard adds Alejandro Fadel’s Muere, Monstruo, Muere, Renée Nader Messora and João Salaviza’s The Dead And The Others, and Sergey Loznitsa’s Donbass.
Ahead of the festival, kicking off in a few weeks, check out the first teaser for the new...
The competition lineup also further expands, with Yann Gonzalez’s Vanessa Paradis-led drama Knife + Heart and Kazakh Sergey Dvortsevoy’s Ayka joining the group. Un Certain Regard adds Alejandro Fadel’s Muere, Monstruo, Muere, Renée Nader Messora and João Salaviza’s The Dead And The Others, and Sergey Loznitsa’s Donbass.
Ahead of the festival, kicking off in a few weeks, check out the first teaser for the new...
- 4/19/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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