Never ever trust advanced Twitter reactions for a movie. They will, more times than not, be filled with praise and overreach. The truth is quite simple: Much of film twitter users are in the game for likes, retweets and, really, just notoriety.
Read more‘Bergman Island’: Mia Hansen-Løve’s Best Film to Date is Also Her Most Achingly Personal [Review]
“Bergman Island” is Mia Hansen-Løve’s best and most accomplished film. If she showed signs of brilliance in “Eden” and “Things to Come,” then here she’s found the perfect vehicle for her cinematic sensibilities — a dreamy and personal meta work that plays as joyously as a breezy summer day.
Read moreAndrew Dominik’s ‘Blonde’ Will Be Released as the NC-17 Director’s Cut; Submitted For Berlin Competition
Happy to report that after hefty post-production battles, Andrew Dominik will happen be getting final cut on his Marilyn Monroe biopic “Blonde.”
Read moreGeorge Miller’s ‘Furiosa’ Set to Begin Filming in April
It's been more than six years since George Miller gave us his masterpiece, "Mad Max: Fury Road." We all expected his next film to be the ‘Mad Max’ prequel ‘Furiosa,’ alas that project had so many delays, due in part to legal issues, that its future was in limbo for years — that is until today.
Read moreWes Anderson's Next Film is Titled ‘Asteroid City'
Bill Murray let it slip that the name of Wes Anderson's next film will be “Asteroid City.” The actor took part in a panel at the London Film Festival when he revealed the title. The highly anticipated film also stars Tilda Swinton, Tom Hanks, Margot Robbie, Scarlett Johansson, Adrien Brody, Bryan Cranston and Jeffrey Wright.
Read more‘Luzzu': A Neorealist Gem From Malta [Review]
Here’s another World Dramatic competition highlight from this past year’s Sundance Film Festival. A film filled with humanism, “Luzzu” is directed by Alex Camilleri, who used his years of life experience with Maltese fishermen to not just make a movie about them, but to also cast these non-professionals as his actors.
Read moreBerlinale 2022: What Will Premiere?
The Berlin Film Festival is only a few months away, which means it’s that time of the year again when I start speculating about the lineup. Since the festival confirmed this past week that it would return to being in-person in 2022, we could expect bigger names to show up this coming edition.
Read moreGuillermo del Toro Still Hasn’t Finished Editing ‘Nightmare Alley’
‘The Last Duel’: Ridley Scott’s Old-School Epic Driven By Three Great Performances [Review]
“The Last Duel” Is Ridley Scott’s take on Kurosawa’s “Rashomon.” A impeccably well-acted, based-on-true-story epic set in 14th century Paris, the film is an adaptation of Eric Jager’s book and it does indeed use the influential three-points-of-view storytelling style that Kurosawa used in his own classic.
Read moreStanley Kubrick’s ‘Napoleon’ Officially Set as HBO Mini-Series; Cary Fukunaga to Direct
HBO had announced back in 2018 that they were producing a version of Stanley Kubrick’s sadly unrealized opus, "Napoleon." Cary Fukunaga was supposed to direct with Steven Spielberg producing. Ever since then? Radio silence.
Read moreJonathan Glazer is Currently Shooting His WWII Holocaust Drama in Auschwitz
Director Jonathan Glazer is one of the true visionaries to have emerged in the film circuit the last decade. After all, his ultra-stylized 2000 gangster film “Sexy Beast” turned heads for its stunning visual palette However, Glazer only got better after that, having given us only two films since then: the highly underrated “Birth,” and his masterpiece: “Under the Skin,” starring Scarlett Johansson as a roaming alien sent to London to feed off of innocent and pathetic male pedestrians.
Read moreThe Current 10 Best Foreign Film Directors
In my 10.09.21 writeup titled Is Paul Thomas Anderson Still The Current ‘Master’ of Cinema?, I listed who I considered to be the best active filmmakers working today within the American studio system. This all led to this latest instalment, the 10 current giants of foreign cinema.
Read more‘Memoria’ Will Never Be Released on Streaming or Blu-Ray; To Go on Never-Ending Art Exhibit Tour
Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul brought his Tilda Swinton led-drama “Memoria” to Cannes in July. This was a meditative film about sound, and silence from the renowned auteur.
Read more‘Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo': New Cut Without Lead Actress A Possibility; ‘Chapter 3’ in Total Limbo
The likelihood of cinephiles actually getting a chance to see Abdelatif Kechiche’s controversial Cannes entry, “Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo,” is getting slimmer by the day.
Read more‘House of Gucci’ and ‘Nightmare Alley’ To World Premiere at the Academy Museum This Month
It looks as though Ridley Scott's “House Of Gucci” and Guillermo del Toro's “Nightmare Alley” will world premiere to members of the Academy at the newly unveiled Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
Read moreYes, ‘Spencer’ Was Rejected by NYFF
It goes without saying that many were puzzled by the absence of Pablo Larrain’s “Spencer” within the New York Film Festival lineup.
Read moreGene Hackman is 91?!
It feels like forever since the last time we saw the legendary Gene Hackman on the big screen. Hackman unofficially retired from acting after 2004’s “Welcome to Mooseport” (don’t make fun). He’s been missed ever since.
Read more‘Lamb’: A24’s Folk-Horror Dramedy Delivers Unusual Plot Gimmick [Capsule]
A film like “Lamb,” with, on-paper at least, such a strange plot, needs to be very aware of the trappings that might come in relying too much on its central gimmick.
Read more‘The Tender Bar’ Reaction …
From a fellow West Coast film critic who attended the Sunday night DGA screening of George Clooney’s upcoming “The Tender Bar.”
Read more‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!' Was Rejected by NYFF, But Ready For AFI Premiere
Just because a film was rejected by the New York Film Festival does not mean that it isn’t any good. Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land” was rejected in the thick of awards season back in the fall of 2016. So was Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival.” Just this year, Justin Kurzel’s “Nitram,” one of the best movies of Cannes 2021, was rejected (no doubt due to the controversy behind it).
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It’s been seven years since Alma Har’el’s feature debut, “Honey Boy,” which was written by and starred Shia LaBeouf — she is now set to direct her next film, with a very talented cast.