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– The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced that legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese will present the 44th Chaplin Award to honoree Robert De Niro on Monday, May 8, 2017. The pair have worked together on eight films, beginning with “Mean Streets” in 1973. In addition, on the occasion of the Gala, the Film Society will present a weeklong tribute celebrating De Niro’s most iconic roles, April 12 – 19.
The evening’s presenters will also include Meryl Streep, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Stiller, Barry Levinson, and Harvey Keitel, with more to be announced at a later date. The annual event, attended by a host of notable guests and presenters, will include movie and interview clips, culminating in the presentation of the Chaplin Award to De Niro by Scorsese. Streep and Scorsese are both previous recipients of the Chaplin Award — the 35th and 25th,...
– The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced that legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese will present the 44th Chaplin Award to honoree Robert De Niro on Monday, May 8, 2017. The pair have worked together on eight films, beginning with “Mean Streets” in 1973. In addition, on the occasion of the Gala, the Film Society will present a weeklong tribute celebrating De Niro’s most iconic roles, April 12 – 19.
The evening’s presenters will also include Meryl Streep, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Stiller, Barry Levinson, and Harvey Keitel, with more to be announced at a later date. The annual event, attended by a host of notable guests and presenters, will include movie and interview clips, culminating in the presentation of the Chaplin Award to De Niro by Scorsese. Streep and Scorsese are both previous recipients of the Chaplin Award — the 35th and 25th,...
- 3/3/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Comprising a considerable amount of our top 50 films of last year, Sundance Film Festival has proven to yield the first genuine look at what the year in cinema will bring. Now in its 39th iteration, we’ll be heading back to Park City this week, but before we do, it’s time to highlight the films we’re most looking forward to, including documentaries and narrative features from all around the world.
While much of the joy found in the festival comes from surprises throughout the event, below one will find our 20 most-anticipated titles. Check out everything below and for updates straight from the festival, make sure to follow us on Twitter (@TheFilmStage, @jpraup, @djmecca and @FinkJohnJ), and stay tuned to all of our coverage here.
20. Come Swim (Kristen Stewart)
With her pair of career-best performances under the direction of Olivier Assayas, as well as working with Kelly Reichardt, Woody Allen,...
While much of the joy found in the festival comes from surprises throughout the event, below one will find our 20 most-anticipated titles. Check out everything below and for updates straight from the festival, make sure to follow us on Twitter (@TheFilmStage, @jpraup, @djmecca and @FinkJohnJ), and stay tuned to all of our coverage here.
20. Come Swim (Kristen Stewart)
With her pair of career-best performances under the direction of Olivier Assayas, as well as working with Kelly Reichardt, Woody Allen,...
- 1/16/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Stars: Bruce Willis, Ambyr Childers, Thomas Jane, Bryan Greenberg, Johnathon Schaech, Charlotte Kirk, Brett Granstaff, Ryan O’Nan, David Gordon, Colin Egglesfield, Cameron Brexler, Jesse Pruett, Tyler Jon Olson, Don Harvey, Lydia Hull | Written by Andre Fabrizio, Jeremy Passmore | Directed by Brian A. Miller
Take one part The Matrix, one part Surrogates and mix in a dash of video gmae Mirror’s Edge and you have Vice, a Cyberpunk action flick that – for older film fans like myself – plays as little more than a modern-day clone of Westworld and its sequel; which also shares a lot in common with the likes of Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell sequel Innocence.
Designed by Julian Michaels (Willis), Vice is the ultimate resort where anything goes, allowing customers to play out their wildest fantasies and fulfil their deepest, darkest desires with artificial inhabitants who look, think and feel like real humans. Things...
Take one part The Matrix, one part Surrogates and mix in a dash of video gmae Mirror’s Edge and you have Vice, a Cyberpunk action flick that – for older film fans like myself – plays as little more than a modern-day clone of Westworld and its sequel; which also shares a lot in common with the likes of Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell sequel Innocence.
Designed by Julian Michaels (Willis), Vice is the ultimate resort where anything goes, allowing customers to play out their wildest fantasies and fulfil their deepest, darkest desires with artificial inhabitants who look, think and feel like real humans. Things...
- 6/21/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The Conversation is a feature at Sound on Sight bringing together Drew Morton and Landon Palmer in a passionate debate about cinema new and old. For their fourth piece, they will discuss David Lynch’s film The Straight Story (1999).
Drew’s Take
I am in the midst of my 1999 class and I assigned two films I had yet to see from the acclaimed year – the year that Entertainment Weekly claimed to “change movies” – Kimberly Pierce’s Boys Don’t Cry and David Lynch’s The Straight Story. I like doing this as a Professor, because it varies the class and keeps me from getting too settled into a comfort zone. It challenges me to be more spontaneous and in the moment, a zone I typically find stimulating and energizing. Needless to say, the sixteen year old legacy of Lynch’s The Straight Story created a certain predisposition. Having seen all of Lynch’s other films,...
Drew’s Take
I am in the midst of my 1999 class and I assigned two films I had yet to see from the acclaimed year – the year that Entertainment Weekly claimed to “change movies” – Kimberly Pierce’s Boys Don’t Cry and David Lynch’s The Straight Story. I like doing this as a Professor, because it varies the class and keeps me from getting too settled into a comfort zone. It challenges me to be more spontaneous and in the moment, a zone I typically find stimulating and energizing. Needless to say, the sixteen year old legacy of Lynch’s The Straight Story created a certain predisposition. Having seen all of Lynch’s other films,...
- 4/11/2015
- by Landon Palmer
- SoundOnSight
Salon Nathan Rabin apologies for coining the term "Manix Pixie Dream Girl" (Must Read!)
Dazed Director David Gordon Green cites 10 new directors we should all familiarize ourselves with including the directors of Land Ho! and Blue Ruin two acclaimed indies this year
Variety Uma Thurman auctioning off an evening with her complete with cocktails and a Pulp Fiction screening. The journalist writing this must be very young because they refer to Tarantino's smash as "the movie that launched her career". Umm... she'd already been famous for 6 years at that point and had headlined movies. Fact check anyone?
Gold Derby which episode could win Kevin Spacey the Emmy this year? (My guess: none)
Superhero Hype interviews the producers of the new TV series Agent Carter (starring Hayley Atwell) which takes place after Captain America: The First Avenger but still in the 1940s
Guardian Mowgli, the only onscreen actor, cast in Jon Favreau...
Dazed Director David Gordon Green cites 10 new directors we should all familiarize ourselves with including the directors of Land Ho! and Blue Ruin two acclaimed indies this year
Variety Uma Thurman auctioning off an evening with her complete with cocktails and a Pulp Fiction screening. The journalist writing this must be very young because they refer to Tarantino's smash as "the movie that launched her career". Umm... she'd already been famous for 6 years at that point and had headlined movies. Fact check anyone?
Gold Derby which episode could win Kevin Spacey the Emmy this year? (My guess: none)
Superhero Hype interviews the producers of the new TV series Agent Carter (starring Hayley Atwell) which takes place after Captain America: The First Avenger but still in the 1940s
Guardian Mowgli, the only onscreen actor, cast in Jon Favreau...
- 7/16/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
This month's new movie releases include genetically modified apes, a crooning Keira Knightley and Marvel's latest space adventure. If that's not enough, we also offer a very special coming-of-age drama (filmed over 12 years) and Nicolas Cage in what is considered one of his greatest performances yet.
Digital Spy rounds up the five must-see movies for July below...
Begin Again
Release date: July 11
Why you should see it: Gretta (Keira Knightley) and Dave (Adam Levine) are college sweethearts who move to New York when Dave lands a deal with a major record company. When newly-found fame goes to Dave's head and he's tempted to stray, Gretta is left on her own. Meanwhile, Dan (Mark Ruffalo) is a disgraced record-label exec who, after a row with his business partner, ends up at an open mic night where Gretta is performing.
Captivated by her talent, this chance encounter sees the pair begin to make beautiful music together.
Digital Spy rounds up the five must-see movies for July below...
Begin Again
Release date: July 11
Why you should see it: Gretta (Keira Knightley) and Dave (Adam Levine) are college sweethearts who move to New York when Dave lands a deal with a major record company. When newly-found fame goes to Dave's head and he's tempted to stray, Gretta is left on her own. Meanwhile, Dan (Mark Ruffalo) is a disgraced record-label exec who, after a row with his business partner, ends up at an open mic night where Gretta is performing.
Captivated by her talent, this chance encounter sees the pair begin to make beautiful music together.
- 7/1/2014
- Digital Spy
The Weinstein Co. paid a reported Us$2 million for North American rights to The Railway Man after its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last September . but has waited more than six months to launch the film in the Us.
Us film critic/commentator Edward Douglas, who is a big fan of Jonathan Teplitzky's drama, has questioned that strategy.
.What I don't get about this movie is that the Weinstein Company picked it up at Toronto last September when they concurrently premiered a number of their movies like August: Osage County and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, which aren't nearly as good,. Douglas writes in his website ComingSoon.net.
Douglas praised the performances of Colin Firth as Eddie Lomax, the WWII prisoner-of-war veteran who confronts one of his Japanese tormentors 40 years later, Nicole Kidman as his wife and Hiro Sanada as his nemesis.
.It.s a shame...
Us film critic/commentator Edward Douglas, who is a big fan of Jonathan Teplitzky's drama, has questioned that strategy.
.What I don't get about this movie is that the Weinstein Company picked it up at Toronto last September when they concurrently premiered a number of their movies like August: Osage County and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, which aren't nearly as good,. Douglas writes in his website ComingSoon.net.
Douglas praised the performances of Colin Firth as Eddie Lomax, the WWII prisoner-of-war veteran who confronts one of his Japanese tormentors 40 years later, Nicole Kidman as his wife and Hiro Sanada as his nemesis.
.It.s a shame...
- 4/8/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The lowdown on all the big releases of the week, plus what's coming up on the film site today
What to see this weekend
First, let's get the basics out of the way. Are you in the UK or the Us? Not sure? Well, there's a couple of new releases you can catch wherever you lay your head. These are Machete Kills, Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo's slightly disappointing reunion and Romeo and Juliet, Julian Fellowes's slightly disappointing take on Shakespeare.
But if pushed, would you say you were in America? If so, you're in luck! Out this weekend is Captain Phillips, the great Paul Greengrass docudrama with Tom Hanks, as well as meaty James Franco/William Faulkner movie As I Lay Dying (which we reviewed at Venice) and bananas under-the-radar Disney drama Escape from Tomorrow (reviewed from Sundance). Plus there's All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, which...
What to see this weekend
First, let's get the basics out of the way. Are you in the UK or the Us? Not sure? Well, there's a couple of new releases you can catch wherever you lay your head. These are Machete Kills, Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo's slightly disappointing reunion and Romeo and Juliet, Julian Fellowes's slightly disappointing take on Shakespeare.
But if pushed, would you say you were in America? If so, you're in luck! Out this weekend is Captain Phillips, the great Paul Greengrass docudrama with Tom Hanks, as well as meaty James Franco/William Faulkner movie As I Lay Dying (which we reviewed at Venice) and bananas under-the-radar Disney drama Escape from Tomorrow (reviewed from Sundance). Plus there's All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, which...
- 10/11/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – The 49th Annual Chicago International Film Festival starts tonight, October 10, 2013, with a tribute to Roger Ebert and the premiere of James Gray’s “The Immigrant,” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard. Wasting no time, there are at least a dozen flicks this weekend that could grab your attention. It’s one of the strongest Ciff line-ups in memory, with a few nearly-certain Oscar candidates next to some films that are unlikely to play again in Chicago any time soon.
We have a great mix of options for you in the first five days of the fest (10/10-14) in our first of three highlight pieces put together by Brian Tallerico, Patrick McDonald, and, making his Hc debut, Nick Allen. The first page features films we’ve actually seen and recommend while the second features films over the same period that looked interesting that we either couldn’t get to or...
We have a great mix of options for you in the first five days of the fest (10/10-14) in our first of three highlight pieces put together by Brian Tallerico, Patrick McDonald, and, making his Hc debut, Nick Allen. The first page features films we’ve actually seen and recommend while the second features films over the same period that looked interesting that we either couldn’t get to or...
- 10/10/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Attendance up 22%; festival director Karl Spoerri talks about Zurich’s potential as a film finance hub.
The Zurich Film Festival’s ninth edition has given its Golden Eye for best international film to The Golden Cage (La Jaula De Oro) from Mexico’s Diego Quemada-Diez. The jury gave a special mention to actor Michael B Jordan in Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station.
The International Documentary Film winner was Danish director Kaspar Astrup Schroeder’s Rent A Family Inc. (Lej En Familie A/S). A special mention went to Omar Mullick and Bassam Tariq’s These Birds Walk from Pakistan.
The German-language competition awards went to Frauke Finsterwalder’s German feature Finsterworld and Anna Thommen’s Swiss documentary Neuland. A special mention went to Die Frau Die Sich Traut by Marc Rensing for feature and to Sabine Lidl’s Nan Goldin – I Remember Your Face for documentary.
Each of the awards comes with a $22,050 (CHF20,000) cash prize and...
The Zurich Film Festival’s ninth edition has given its Golden Eye for best international film to The Golden Cage (La Jaula De Oro) from Mexico’s Diego Quemada-Diez. The jury gave a special mention to actor Michael B Jordan in Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station.
The International Documentary Film winner was Danish director Kaspar Astrup Schroeder’s Rent A Family Inc. (Lej En Familie A/S). A special mention went to Omar Mullick and Bassam Tariq’s These Birds Walk from Pakistan.
The German-language competition awards went to Frauke Finsterwalder’s German feature Finsterworld and Anna Thommen’s Swiss documentary Neuland. A special mention went to Die Frau Die Sich Traut by Marc Rensing for feature and to Sabine Lidl’s Nan Goldin – I Remember Your Face for documentary.
Each of the awards comes with a $22,050 (CHF20,000) cash prize and...
- 10/6/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Your daily movie bulletin bringing you all the latest on 25 September
Coming up today
Daniel Radcliffe "is the latest name in the frame for the planned biopic of the late Queen singer Freddie Mercury," or so it appeared earlier this week, following a Daily Star report confidently claiming this was the case.
But, alas, the Harry Potter star has denied the rumours, telling Empire magazine: "everyone on the internet who I presume is saying I'm totally wrong for that part is correct. I Am completely wrong for that part!"
More on this later today, plus:
Blue is the Warmest Colour "should not be released" says director.
Clint Eastwood's son is aiming to follow dad to Hollywood.
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are working on an adult animation titled Sausage Party.
The first photo from the set of forthcoming Dumb and Dumber sequel.
A video interview with Hugh Jackman, who'll be discussing Prisoners.
Coming up today
Daniel Radcliffe "is the latest name in the frame for the planned biopic of the late Queen singer Freddie Mercury," or so it appeared earlier this week, following a Daily Star report confidently claiming this was the case.
But, alas, the Harry Potter star has denied the rumours, telling Empire magazine: "everyone on the internet who I presume is saying I'm totally wrong for that part is correct. I Am completely wrong for that part!"
More on this later today, plus:
Blue is the Warmest Colour "should not be released" says director.
Clint Eastwood's son is aiming to follow dad to Hollywood.
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are working on an adult animation titled Sausage Party.
The first photo from the set of forthcoming Dumb and Dumber sequel.
A video interview with Hugh Jackman, who'll be discussing Prisoners.
- 9/25/2013
- by Adam Boult
- The Guardian - Film News
Now that the dust has settled and the behemoth Tiff is in our rear-view mirror, the Ioncinema.com team are comparing notes, grading films and looking back at our personal experiences, our rapport with the films we saw and the characters that vividly remain with us. Among our favorite fest recaps, our discerning fivesome (Eric Lavallee, Jordan M. Smith, Nicholas Bell, Leora Heilbronn, Caitlin Coder) have created a Top 20 List of New Faces from the 2013 of up-and-coming actors and actresses (of all age demos) that stole some thunder in lead or supporting player roles. Here they are:
#20. Zoe Levin (Palo Alto, Beneath the Harvest Sky)
Unlike the characters of Emily and Tasha in Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto and Aron Gaudet & Gita Pullapilly’s Beneath the Harvest Sky, Zoe Levin‘s future is a a bright one. Respectively playing a teens suffering from suburban and country-setting ennui, in Palo Alto...
#20. Zoe Levin (Palo Alto, Beneath the Harvest Sky)
Unlike the characters of Emily and Tasha in Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto and Aron Gaudet & Gita Pullapilly’s Beneath the Harvest Sky, Zoe Levin‘s future is a a bright one. Respectively playing a teens suffering from suburban and country-setting ennui, in Palo Alto...
- 9/19/2013
- by IONCINEMA.com Contributing Writers
- IONCINEMA.com
After nine days in Toronto for the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, I finally arrived home in Seattle late in the evening on Friday, September 13, and have been trying to catch up ever since. I still have one review to write for Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises, but managed to post 26 reviews from the festival and just below is a recap of all 26 with my teaser for each review, the grade and a few words to sort of put a capper on the festival as we now move full steam ahead into Oscar season. Speaking of Oscar season, following this recap I'm going to be going straight into work on updating my Oscar predictions. There is a lot of moving and shuffling that needs to be done after not only the Toronto, but Telluride and Venice Film Festivals and with the New York Film Festival right around the corner. Exciting times folks.
- 9/16/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The fun of watching a week's worth of new movies that almost no one has seen is the unknown -- you're not sure which ones will be great, which ones will move you to tears, or which ones will make you get up and walk out of the theater.
In other words, going into this year's Toronto International Film Festival, I expected the same thing I always do at events like these: to see a few good movies, one-to-two outstanding ones, a couple of hidden gems, and a whole lotta' duds. After returning from Canada last Wednesday, I am happy to admit that I was wrong.
Of the 20 films I saw at Tiff this year, two of them were bad, one was downright weird, two more were so-so, and the other 15 (15!) were spectacular. This is a phenomenal track record for a film festival, even one as distinguished as Toronto's.
As...
In other words, going into this year's Toronto International Film Festival, I expected the same thing I always do at events like these: to see a few good movies, one-to-two outstanding ones, a couple of hidden gems, and a whole lotta' duds. After returning from Canada last Wednesday, I am happy to admit that I was wrong.
Of the 20 films I saw at Tiff this year, two of them were bad, one was downright weird, two more were so-so, and the other 15 (15!) were spectacular. This is a phenomenal track record for a film festival, even one as distinguished as Toronto's.
As...
- 9/13/2013
- by Alex Suskind
- Moviefone
Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now will close the festival, which has assembled it largest programme to date.
The 33rd Cambridge Film Festival (Sept 19-29) has unveiled its 2013 line-up, comprising 150 titles from 40 countries.
As previously announced, Professor Stephen Hawking will attend the opening night gala of documentary Hawking, which will be broadcast live to more than 60 screens across the UK.
The festival will close with Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now, an Orwellian vision of a post-apocalyptic future starring Saoirse Ronan and George MacKay.
Alongside Hawking, other special guests to the festival will include directors Lucy Walker (The Crash Reel), Roland Klick (Deadlock), Mark Levinson (Particle Fever), Julien Temple (Oil City Confidential), Ramon Zürcher (The Strange Little Cat), Małgośka Szumowska (In The Name Of), Marzin Malaszczak (Sieniawka), Matt Hulse (Dummy Jim) and Andrew Mudge (The Forgotten Kingdom), Bob Stanley, John Pearse and actress Stephanie Stremler (Dust On Our Heart).
Strands include Young Americans, aimed at showcasing...
The 33rd Cambridge Film Festival (Sept 19-29) has unveiled its 2013 line-up, comprising 150 titles from 40 countries.
As previously announced, Professor Stephen Hawking will attend the opening night gala of documentary Hawking, which will be broadcast live to more than 60 screens across the UK.
The festival will close with Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now, an Orwellian vision of a post-apocalyptic future starring Saoirse Ronan and George MacKay.
Alongside Hawking, other special guests to the festival will include directors Lucy Walker (The Crash Reel), Roland Klick (Deadlock), Mark Levinson (Particle Fever), Julien Temple (Oil City Confidential), Ramon Zürcher (The Strange Little Cat), Małgośka Szumowska (In The Name Of), Marzin Malaszczak (Sieniawka), Matt Hulse (Dummy Jim) and Andrew Mudge (The Forgotten Kingdom), Bob Stanley, John Pearse and actress Stephanie Stremler (Dust On Our Heart).
Strands include Young Americans, aimed at showcasing...
- 8/21/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
I took a look and last year I saw 24 movies and reviewed 23 of them at the Toronto Film Festival (read my recap here). So I took a quick look at the lineup announced so far for this year's festival to see what I may or may not be seeing and already my list of "must sees" is at 18 followed by three titles I really want to see. After that I have 18 films followed by six that are quite unlikely I'll fit along with three I saw and already reviewed at Cannes earlier this year. As is always the case with film festivals of this size, I simply have to weigh each film by measure of "importance" in the grand scheme of things, followed by those I'm most excited to see and after that is when I can begin poking around at some of the films that raise my curiosity, but...
- 8/13/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity, one of many Special Presentations at this year's Tiff.
The Toronto International Film Festival has begun to announce its lineup for its 2013 edition, beginning with Gala and Special Presentations. To browse the festival's programming on their web site, visit here.
Gala Presentations
American Dreams in China (Peter Chan, China)
The Art of the Steal (Jonothan Sobol, Canada)
August: Osage County (John Wells, USA)
Cold Eyes (Cho Ui-seok & Kim Byung-seo, Korea)
The Fifth Estate (Bill Condon, USA)
The Grand Seduction (Don McKellar, Canada)
Kill Your Darlings (John Krokidas, USA)
Life of Crime (Daniel Schechter, USA)
The Love Punch (Joel Hopkins, France)
The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra, India/France/Germany)
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Justin Chadwick, South Africa)
Parkland (Peter Landesman, USA)
The Railway Man (Jonathan Teplitzky, Australia/UK)
The Right Kind of Wrong (Jeremiah Chechik, Canada)
Rush (Ron Howard, UK/Germany)
Shuddh Desi Romance (Maneesh Sharma, India...
The Toronto International Film Festival has begun to announce its lineup for its 2013 edition, beginning with Gala and Special Presentations. To browse the festival's programming on their web site, visit here.
Gala Presentations
American Dreams in China (Peter Chan, China)
The Art of the Steal (Jonothan Sobol, Canada)
August: Osage County (John Wells, USA)
Cold Eyes (Cho Ui-seok & Kim Byung-seo, Korea)
The Fifth Estate (Bill Condon, USA)
The Grand Seduction (Don McKellar, Canada)
Kill Your Darlings (John Krokidas, USA)
Life of Crime (Daniel Schechter, USA)
The Love Punch (Joel Hopkins, France)
The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra, India/France/Germany)
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Justin Chadwick, South Africa)
Parkland (Peter Landesman, USA)
The Railway Man (Jonathan Teplitzky, Australia/UK)
The Right Kind of Wrong (Jeremiah Chechik, Canada)
Rush (Ron Howard, UK/Germany)
Shuddh Desi Romance (Maneesh Sharma, India...
- 7/31/2013
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The films to be screened at this year's Toronto film festival – as the programme release is staggered, this will be updated as more details are revealed
The 38th Toronto Film Festival runs September 5 - 15 2013. This article will be updated as official announcements detailing the full line-up are released.
Opening night film
The Fifth Estate, Dir: Bill Condon, USA
Closing night film
Life of Crime, Dir: Daniel Schechter, USA
World premieres
12 Years a Slave, Dir: Steve McQueen, USA
All Is By My Side, Dir: John Ridley, United Kingdom
The Art of the Steal, Dir: Jonathan Sobol, Canada
Attila Marcel, Dir: Sylvain Chomet, France
August: Osage County, Dir: John Wells, USA
Bad Words, Dir: Jason Bateman, USA
Belle, Dir: Amma Asante, United Kingdom
Can a Song Save Your Life? Dir: John Carney, USA
Cannibal (Caníbal), Dir: Manuel Martín Cuenca, Spain/Romania/Russia/France
Dallas Buyers Club, Dir: Jean-Marc Vallée, USA
Devil's Knot,...
The 38th Toronto Film Festival runs September 5 - 15 2013. This article will be updated as official announcements detailing the full line-up are released.
Opening night film
The Fifth Estate, Dir: Bill Condon, USA
Closing night film
Life of Crime, Dir: Daniel Schechter, USA
World premieres
12 Years a Slave, Dir: Steve McQueen, USA
All Is By My Side, Dir: John Ridley, United Kingdom
The Art of the Steal, Dir: Jonathan Sobol, Canada
Attila Marcel, Dir: Sylvain Chomet, France
August: Osage County, Dir: John Wells, USA
Bad Words, Dir: Jason Bateman, USA
Belle, Dir: Amma Asante, United Kingdom
Can a Song Save Your Life? Dir: John Carney, USA
Cannibal (Caníbal), Dir: Manuel Martín Cuenca, Spain/Romania/Russia/France
Dallas Buyers Club, Dir: Jean-Marc Vallée, USA
Devil's Knot,...
- 7/24/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
WikiLeaks drama kicks off a huge slate of major world premieres, including August: Osage County, Twelve Years a Slave, Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom and new films for Brits such as Kate Winslet, Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes and Richard Ayoade, as well as the late James Gandolfini
• Toronto film festival: 20 tops picks in pictures
• The full Toronto film festival line-up
The Toronto film festival today offered audiences a glimpse of the future, as it unveiled a list of premieres which reads like a dry run for next year's Oscars ceremony.
Among the 13 galas and 52 special presentations revealed is The Fifth Estate, the drama based partly on the book about WikiLeaks by Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding, which will open this year's festival. The drama, directed by Bill Condon, stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange with Daniel Brühl, David Thewlis, Stanley Tucci, Laura Linney and Dan Stevens in supporting roles.
• Toronto film festival: 20 tops picks in pictures
• The full Toronto film festival line-up
The Toronto film festival today offered audiences a glimpse of the future, as it unveiled a list of premieres which reads like a dry run for next year's Oscars ceremony.
Among the 13 galas and 52 special presentations revealed is The Fifth Estate, the drama based partly on the book about WikiLeaks by Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding, which will open this year's festival. The drama, directed by Bill Condon, stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange with Daniel Brühl, David Thewlis, Stanley Tucci, Laura Linney and Dan Stevens in supporting roles.
- 7/24/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Toronto Film Festival Movie Lineup (photo: Chiwetel Ejiofor in Steve McQueen’s ’12 Years a Slave’) (See previous post: “Toronto Film Festival 2013 Dates and Movies.”) Among the Toronto Film Festival’s World and North American premieres are director Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Fassbender, Paul Dano, Sarah Paulson, and Paul Giamatti; Jean-Marc Vallée’s Dallas Buyers Club, with Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, Steve Zahn, and Griffin Dunne; Atom Egoyan’s Devil’s Knot, with Reese Witherspoon, Mireille Enos, Kevin Durand, Stephen Moyer, Dane DeHaan, Colin Firth, Elias Koteas, Alessandro Nivola, Bruce Greenwood, Amy Ryan, and Martin Henderson; and Sylvain Chomet’s Attila Marcel, which is supposed to be an homage to Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton, featuring Guillaume Gouix, Anne Le Ny, Bernadette Lafont, and Hélène Vincent. See Toronto Film Festival 2013 lineup below. Toronto Film Festival: World premieres 12 Years a Slave, Dir: Steve McQueen,...
- 7/23/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
The road to Tiff is paved with seemingly endless lists of drool-worthy films, and 2013′s iteration looks to be business as usual on that score. Tiff announced its Gala and Special Presentation lineup, which make up only a fraction of the eventual haul. (Last year topped out at 289 features.)
Of what’s already been announced, a few highlights:
Alfonso Cuarón’s long-awaited sci-fi thriller Gravity, starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. Kelly Reichardt’s follow-up to Meek’s Cutoff, the ecoterrorism-themed Night Moves, with Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard (with, presumably, no relation to the 1975 Gene Hackman movie of the same name). David Gordon Green’s attempt to rope Nicholas Cage back into Serious Acting with Joe. Under the Skin, the long-awaited return of director Jonathan Glazer, who hasn’t made a movie since 2004′s Birth. Atom Egoyan’s take on the West Memphis Three, Devil’s Knot,...
Of what’s already been announced, a few highlights:
Alfonso Cuarón’s long-awaited sci-fi thriller Gravity, starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. Kelly Reichardt’s follow-up to Meek’s Cutoff, the ecoterrorism-themed Night Moves, with Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard (with, presumably, no relation to the 1975 Gene Hackman movie of the same name). David Gordon Green’s attempt to rope Nicholas Cage back into Serious Acting with Joe. Under the Skin, the long-awaited return of director Jonathan Glazer, who hasn’t made a movie since 2004′s Birth. Atom Egoyan’s take on the West Memphis Three, Devil’s Knot,...
- 7/23/2013
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
The Toronto International Film Festival opens on September 5 and the first wave of titles has been announced. The lineup includes Palme d'Or winner Blue Is the Warmest Color, Jim Jarmusch's vampire drama Only Lovers Left Alive, and films from Judd Apatow, Jason Reitman and David Gordon Green. We've singled out five major titles for your persual, including the opener: Bill Condon's The Fifth Estate. Be sure to visit the full list, which reveals a movie starring the late James Gandolfini, Jason Bateman's directorial debut, Bad Words, and what could be Idris Elba's greatest role in the biopic Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Devil's Knot Atom Egoyan's Devil's Knot is based on the controversial murder case involving three children and the...
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- 7/23/2013
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
Bill Condon's much anticipated Wikileaks movie "The Fifth Estate" is set to kick off this year's annual Toronto International Film Festival.
'Estate' is one of three world premieres to be held at this year's fest, the other two being Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" and John Well's play adaptation "August: Osage County".
The festival, which runs from September 5th to 15th, will also be host to thirteen galas and fifty-two special presentations. The Elmore Leonard adaptation "Life of Crime" will be the closing night entry.
Other high profile entries this year are the world premieres of Jason Reitman's "Labor Day," Justin Chadwick's "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," Atom Egoyan's "Devil's Knot," Jean-Marc Vallée's "Dallas Buyers Club," John Ridley's "All is By My Side," Paul Haggis' "Third Person," Richard Ayoade's "The Double," Richard Shepard's "Dom Hemingway," Ralph Fiennes' "The Invisible Woman,...
'Estate' is one of three world premieres to be held at this year's fest, the other two being Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" and John Well's play adaptation "August: Osage County".
The festival, which runs from September 5th to 15th, will also be host to thirteen galas and fifty-two special presentations. The Elmore Leonard adaptation "Life of Crime" will be the closing night entry.
Other high profile entries this year are the world premieres of Jason Reitman's "Labor Day," Justin Chadwick's "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," Atom Egoyan's "Devil's Knot," Jean-Marc Vallée's "Dallas Buyers Club," John Ridley's "All is By My Side," Paul Haggis' "Third Person," Richard Ayoade's "The Double," Richard Shepard's "Dom Hemingway," Ralph Fiennes' "The Invisible Woman,...
- 7/23/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
With dramatic fare such as August: Osage County, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Dallas Buyers Club, 2013′s Toronto Int. Film Festival once again will be shelving a wide-ranging quotient for Oscar-buzz titles. In the 70 plus title announcement made this morning, Tiff is chock-full in the type of titles that will essentially be putting the distribution companies in the dual modes of: a. buying up available items to stock up their 2014 slate, and b., launching their campaigns for the award season and giving their fall calenders an extra push.
Some might want to call this a Cumberbatchian type edition (Benedict Cumberbatch appears in August: Osage County, Tiff opener The Fifth Estate, and the Venice-bound 12 Years a Slave) but with only David Cronenberg (currently in production with Maps to the Stars) and Guy Maddin (currently in creative overdrive with Seances a.k.a Spiritismes), 2013 will be looked back upon as a...
Some might want to call this a Cumberbatchian type edition (Benedict Cumberbatch appears in August: Osage County, Tiff opener The Fifth Estate, and the Venice-bound 12 Years a Slave) but with only David Cronenberg (currently in production with Maps to the Stars) and Guy Maddin (currently in creative overdrive with Seances a.k.a Spiritismes), 2013 will be looked back upon as a...
- 7/23/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave and Wikileaks drama The Fifth Estate are among a raft of world premieres set for the 38th Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff).
Toronto will open on September 5 with Bill Condon’s The Fifth Estate, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
The festival will close on September 15 with Daniel Schechter’s crime story Life of Crime, based on Elmore Leonard’s novel The Switch. The film stars Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes, yasiin bey (aka Mos Def), Isla Fisher, Will Forte, Mark Boone Jr, and Tim Robbins.
In the first wave of programming to be announced for Tiff, there are also world premieres for Ralph Fiennes’ The Invisible Woman; Jason Reitman’s Labor Day; Devil’s Knot by Atom Egoyan; The Railway Man by Jonathan Teplitzky; August: Osage County starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts; Richard Ayoade’s The Double; and Starred Up from David Mackenzie.
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Toronto will open on September 5 with Bill Condon’s The Fifth Estate, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
The festival will close on September 15 with Daniel Schechter’s crime story Life of Crime, based on Elmore Leonard’s novel The Switch. The film stars Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes, yasiin bey (aka Mos Def), Isla Fisher, Will Forte, Mark Boone Jr, and Tim Robbins.
In the first wave of programming to be announced for Tiff, there are also world premieres for Ralph Fiennes’ The Invisible Woman; Jason Reitman’s Labor Day; Devil’s Knot by Atom Egoyan; The Railway Man by Jonathan Teplitzky; August: Osage County starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts; Richard Ayoade’s The Double; and Starred Up from David Mackenzie.
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- 7/23/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Today the organizers of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival announced about a quarter of the festival's lineup including Galas, Special Presentations and the fest's opening night film, which will be Bill Condon's Wikileaks feature The Fifth Estate. That, however, is just the start. As far as the Gala Presentations are concerned you have John Wells' August: Osage County starring Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, John Krokidas' Kill Your Darlings with Daniel Radcliffe, Justin Chadwick's Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom starring Idris Elba in the title role, Peter Landesman's JFK assassination pic Parkland and Jonathan Teplitzky's The Railway Man with Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman. The Special Presentations grow even more insane as it begins with Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave, the much-talked-about Cannes feature Blue is the Warmest Color, Jean-Marc Vallee's Dallas Buyers Club starring Matthew McConaughey, Atom Egoyan's Devil's Knot based...
- 7/23/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Director Steven Soderbergh to give cinema lesson. Producer Gale Anne Hurd to be feted by festival.
The Deauville American Festival has announced the line-up of its 39th edition running August 30 to September 8.
Jim Mickle’s cannibal picture We Are What We Are, Matt Creed’s debut feature Lily,about a young woman re-evaluating her life following cancer, and Destin Cretton’s children’s home drama Short Term 12 are among the 12 titles screening in competition.
Roughly half the competing pictures are looking for French distribution including Drake Doremus’ family drama Breath In, represented by Qed Film Sales, and Lily, which is handled by producers Up the River Films and Verisimiltude.
As in previous years, the festival hosted on the northern coast of France is laying on a dedicated screening space – the Deauville American Film Corner – for film professionals.
Steven Soderbergh’s critically acclaimed Liberace bio-pic Behind The Candelabra, which yesterday picked up 15 Emmy nominations, will open the...
The Deauville American Festival has announced the line-up of its 39th edition running August 30 to September 8.
Jim Mickle’s cannibal picture We Are What We Are, Matt Creed’s debut feature Lily,about a young woman re-evaluating her life following cancer, and Destin Cretton’s children’s home drama Short Term 12 are among the 12 titles screening in competition.
Roughly half the competing pictures are looking for French distribution including Drake Doremus’ family drama Breath In, represented by Qed Film Sales, and Lily, which is handled by producers Up the River Films and Verisimiltude.
As in previous years, the festival hosted on the northern coast of France is laying on a dedicated screening space – the Deauville American Film Corner – for film professionals.
Steven Soderbergh’s critically acclaimed Liberace bio-pic Behind The Candelabra, which yesterday picked up 15 Emmy nominations, will open the...
- 7/19/2013
- ScreenDaily
Director Steven Soderbergh to give cinema lesson. Producer Gale Anne Hurd to be feted by festival.
The Deauville American Festival has announced the line-up of its 39th edition running August 30 to September 8.
Jim Mickle’s cannibal picture We Are What We Are, Matt Creed’s debut feature Lily,about a young woman re-evaluating her life following cancer, and Destin Cretton’s children’s home drama Short Term 12 are among the 12 titles screening in competition.
Roughly half the competing pictures are looking for French distribution including Drake Doremus’ family drama Breath In, represented by Qed Film Sales, and Lily, which is handled by producers Up the River Films and Verisimiltude.
As in previous years, the festival hosted on the northern coast of France is laying on a dedicated screening space – the Deauville American Film Corner – for film professionals.
Steven Soderbergh’s critically acclaimed Liberace bio-pic Behind The Candelabra, which yesterday picked up 15 Emmy nominations, will open the...
The Deauville American Festival has announced the line-up of its 39th edition running August 30 to September 8.
Jim Mickle’s cannibal picture We Are What We Are, Matt Creed’s debut feature Lily,about a young woman re-evaluating her life following cancer, and Destin Cretton’s children’s home drama Short Term 12 are among the 12 titles screening in competition.
Roughly half the competing pictures are looking for French distribution including Drake Doremus’ family drama Breath In, represented by Qed Film Sales, and Lily, which is handled by producers Up the River Films and Verisimiltude.
As in previous years, the festival hosted on the northern coast of France is laying on a dedicated screening space – the Deauville American Film Corner – for film professionals.
Steven Soderbergh’s critically acclaimed Liberace bio-pic Behind The Candelabra, which yesterday picked up 15 Emmy nominations, will open the...
- 7/19/2013
- ScreenDaily
Every summer, from June 28 to July 9, Paris steps up its cinema game in a big way. This is no small thing in a city with probably more repertory and arthouse theaters per capita than anywhere in the world, so if you're going to be in the city during these dates (for vacation or for living), make sure to save some time for the Paris Cinema festival. This year includes premieres of almost every notable film from Cannes, including Roman Polanski's Venus in Fur, Claire Denis' The Bastards and The Palm D'or winner Blue is the Warmest Color. The international competition, on the other hand, highlights great films from around the world that have yet to play in France, including David Gordon Green's Prince...
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- 6/10/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Nicolas Cage has signed onto star in Hotel 33, a film written by newcomer Kellie Madison. Check the below press release for the deets.
Los Angeles, CA (May 10th, 2013) – Following their successful collaboration on 2 Guns and Lone Survivor, Foresight Unlimited, Envision Entertainment and Emmett/Furla Films are joining forces to produce the surreal thriller Hotel 33, starring Oscar®-winning actor Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas), it was announced today by Foresight CEO Mark Damon and Emmett/Furla’s Randall Emmett.
Foresight Unlimited will handle international sales for Hotel 33, which will be produced by Randall Emmett and George Furla, and executive produced by Envision Entertainment’s Remington Chase, Stepan Martirosyan and Vitaly Grigoriants, and Foresight’s Mark Damon. Malek Akkad is also an executive producer on the film.
Newcomer Kellie Madison wrote the script and will direct Hotel 33 which will start production in September 2013.
The film is based on the presumed event surrounding...
Los Angeles, CA (May 10th, 2013) – Following their successful collaboration on 2 Guns and Lone Survivor, Foresight Unlimited, Envision Entertainment and Emmett/Furla Films are joining forces to produce the surreal thriller Hotel 33, starring Oscar®-winning actor Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas), it was announced today by Foresight CEO Mark Damon and Emmett/Furla’s Randall Emmett.
Foresight Unlimited will handle international sales for Hotel 33, which will be produced by Randall Emmett and George Furla, and executive produced by Envision Entertainment’s Remington Chase, Stepan Martirosyan and Vitaly Grigoriants, and Foresight’s Mark Damon. Malek Akkad is also an executive producer on the film.
Newcomer Kellie Madison wrote the script and will direct Hotel 33 which will start production in September 2013.
The film is based on the presumed event surrounding...
- 5/11/2013
- by Andy Greene
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Get ready to salivate over the costumes.
The Weinstein Company has just announced the acquisition of biopic Grace of Monaco, a film about Grace Kelly. Directed by Olivier Dahan (La Vie En Rose), the movie stars Nicole Kidman as Kelly and Tim Roth as Kelly’s husband, Prince Rainier III. The film also features Milo Ventimiglia, Frank Langella, Parker Posey and Paz Vega.
“More than thirty years after her death, Grace Kelly’s story continues to be one of insurmountable allure and we are so happy Olivier Dahan has brought it new life,” said TWC co-chairman Harvey Weinstein in a release.
The Weinstein Company has just announced the acquisition of biopic Grace of Monaco, a film about Grace Kelly. Directed by Olivier Dahan (La Vie En Rose), the movie stars Nicole Kidman as Kelly and Tim Roth as Kelly’s husband, Prince Rainier III. The film also features Milo Ventimiglia, Frank Langella, Parker Posey and Paz Vega.
“More than thirty years after her death, Grace Kelly’s story continues to be one of insurmountable allure and we are so happy Olivier Dahan has brought it new life,” said TWC co-chairman Harvey Weinstein in a release.
- 3/25/2013
- by Erin Strecker
- EW - Inside Movies
For short films, the Tribeca Film Festival is a must. Winning the award for Narrative Short or Best Documentary Short automatically qualifies a film for the Academy Awards. Their track record isn’t too bad either. Shawn Christensen’s Curfew had its New York premiere at the Festival and went on to win the Academy Award.
This year, Tribeca will show 60 short films in eight categories, from a variety of new and returning directors (including Christensen with Grandma’s Not A Toaster), and featuring performances from a number of Hollywood stars. Elijah Wood plays a standup comic who attempts a daring set in Setup,...
This year, Tribeca will show 60 short films in eight categories, from a variety of new and returning directors (including Christensen with Grandma’s Not A Toaster), and featuring performances from a number of Hollywood stars. Elijah Wood plays a standup comic who attempts a daring set in Setup,...
- 3/11/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
It was only a matter of time before the filmmaking team known as "The Butcher Brothers" would drop the slightly silly moniker and start crediting themselves as normal guys, and it only seems fitting that Mitch Altieri and Phil Flores would choose to do it with a film like Holy Ghost People. The duo has shown some skill and (better yet) improvement with each successive movie -- The Hamiltons, The Violent Kind, The Thompsons (and yes I left out April Fools Day to be kind) -- but their latest is easily their most complete, cohesive, and compelling thriller yet.
The simple gritty film works as both a dramatic piece and a thriller at the same time, and tonally it seems to borrow a little from the early indie films of David Gordon Green, which is meant as a compliment to all involved. At its best moments Holy Ghost People provides...
The simple gritty film works as both a dramatic piece and a thriller at the same time, and tonally it seems to borrow a little from the early indie films of David Gordon Green, which is meant as a compliment to all involved. At its best moments Holy Ghost People provides...
- 3/11/2013
- by Scott Weinberg
- FEARnet
Body Works: Summerour’s Quiet Reimagining of Notable Scandal an Ambivalent Mix
For his directorial debut, John Henry Summerour fictionalizes a decade old account of a notorious crematorium scandal in 2002 northwestern Georgia (the director’s native stomping grounds) for his debut, Sahkanaga, in which the Environmental Protection Agency, from an anonymous tip, discovered more than 300 bodies in various states of decomposition, dumped unceremoniously in the woods instead of being cremated. Summerour tells the tale from the perspective of an adolescent boy, whose accidental discovery of the grisly details leads to his rite of passage as far as discovering the cruel realities of an ignorant small town community. Grotesque details aside, Summerour’s film is mostly an understated community drama about religious hypocrisy in a small town, albeit without any particular statement about the rights and wrongs of the cultural beliefs examined. While this observational quality is mostly appealing for this intriguing aspect,...
For his directorial debut, John Henry Summerour fictionalizes a decade old account of a notorious crematorium scandal in 2002 northwestern Georgia (the director’s native stomping grounds) for his debut, Sahkanaga, in which the Environmental Protection Agency, from an anonymous tip, discovered more than 300 bodies in various states of decomposition, dumped unceremoniously in the woods instead of being cremated. Summerour tells the tale from the perspective of an adolescent boy, whose accidental discovery of the grisly details leads to his rite of passage as far as discovering the cruel realities of an ignorant small town community. Grotesque details aside, Summerour’s film is mostly an understated community drama about religious hypocrisy in a small town, albeit without any particular statement about the rights and wrongs of the cultural beliefs examined. While this observational quality is mostly appealing for this intriguing aspect,...
- 12/6/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
As Kenny Powers (presumably) rides off into the sunset this Sunday night, we pay homage to HBO's best-kept secret.
By James Montgomery
Danny McBride in "Eastbound and Down"
Photo: HBO
"Stevie, you weak mother----er, you listen to me right now. You have made an ass-ton of stupid choices in Myrtle Beach; this is the moment of truth. Now is not the time to lay on the ground like a bald f---ing baby. Now is the time to be a f---ing man."
That was Kenny Powers on last Sunday's penultimate episode of "Eastbound & Down," moments after learning that recently shorn sycophant Stevie Janowski had lost his son (which would lead to Powers subsequently decking him in the face, hence the reason Stevie was laying on the ground like a bald f---ing baby), and I took the time to transcribe it for two reasons: One, because I love the phrase "an ass-ton of stupid choices.
By James Montgomery
Danny McBride in "Eastbound and Down"
Photo: HBO
"Stevie, you weak mother----er, you listen to me right now. You have made an ass-ton of stupid choices in Myrtle Beach; this is the moment of truth. Now is not the time to lay on the ground like a bald f---ing baby. Now is the time to be a f---ing man."
That was Kenny Powers on last Sunday's penultimate episode of "Eastbound & Down," moments after learning that recently shorn sycophant Stevie Janowski had lost his son (which would lead to Powers subsequently decking him in the face, hence the reason Stevie was laying on the ground like a bald f---ing baby), and I took the time to transcribe it for two reasons: One, because I love the phrase "an ass-ton of stupid choices.
- 4/13/2012
- MTV Movie News
As Kenny Powers (presumably) rides off into the sunset this Sunday night, we pay homage to HBO's best-kept secret.
By James Montgomery
Danny McBride in "Eastbound and Down"
Photo: HBO
"Stevie, you weak mother----er, you listen to me right now. You have made an ass-ton of stupid choices in Myrtle Beach; this is the moment of truth. Now is not the time to lay on the ground like a bald f---ing baby. Now is the time to be a f---ing man."
That was Kenny Powers on last Sunday's penultimate episode of "Eastbound & Down," moments after learning that recently shorn sycophant Stevie Janowski had lost his son (which would lead to Powers subsequently decking him in the face, hence the reason Stevie was laying on the ground like a bald f---ing baby), and I took the time to transcribe it for two reasons: One, because I love the phrase "an ass-ton of stupid choices.
By James Montgomery
Danny McBride in "Eastbound and Down"
Photo: HBO
"Stevie, you weak mother----er, you listen to me right now. You have made an ass-ton of stupid choices in Myrtle Beach; this is the moment of truth. Now is not the time to lay on the ground like a bald f---ing baby. Now is the time to be a f---ing man."
That was Kenny Powers on last Sunday's penultimate episode of "Eastbound & Down," moments after learning that recently shorn sycophant Stevie Janowski had lost his son (which would lead to Powers subsequently decking him in the face, hence the reason Stevie was laying on the ground like a bald f---ing baby), and I took the time to transcribe it for two reasons: One, because I love the phrase "an ass-ton of stupid choices.
- 4/13/2012
- MTV Music News
The retrospective Aleksandr Sokurov: A Spiritual Voice opens on Thursday at BFI Southbank in London and runs through December 30. For Steve Rose, who meets Sokurov for the Guardian, "overshadowing his entire career is his 'tetralogy of power,' a magnum opus conceived in 1980 and only completed this year. The first three films focused on 20th-century leaders — Hitler in 1999's Moloch, Lenin in 2001's Taurus, and Emperor Hirohito in 2005's The Sun — pinning them down in isolated, almost abstract domestic situations. The final movie, a loose adaptation of Goethe's Faust, is almost a complete departure…. Why make three movies on historical subjects and one on a fictional one? 'Why do you think?' I suggest Faust is a sort of prequel to the other three. 'Maybe,' he nods. Or is it that the first three deal with the death of power, whereas Faust addresses its acquisition? 'But he never gets this power,...
- 11/15/2011
- MUBI
Michael Winterbottom enjoyed TV success with his Rob Brydon/Steve Coogan faceoff. Now the promising London to Brighton director could follow a similar path
Could a tiny cultural trend be in the offing? Recently, the British feature director Michael Winterbottom made his debut in the world of television comedy with his wildly popular BBC TV series The Trip, starring Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan as lightly fictionalised versions of themselves, gossiping and squabbling on a huge restaurant-crawl across the north, a double-act spun off from their appearance in Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy movie A Cock And Bull Story.
I recently blogged about the fascinating career of David Gordon Green, the American director who began as a maker of lyrical movies in the manner of Terrence Malick, and now directs and produces the HBO TV comedy Eastbound And Down, starring Danny McBride and Will Ferrell. Now there is a third feature-film maker...
Could a tiny cultural trend be in the offing? Recently, the British feature director Michael Winterbottom made his debut in the world of television comedy with his wildly popular BBC TV series The Trip, starring Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan as lightly fictionalised versions of themselves, gossiping and squabbling on a huge restaurant-crawl across the north, a double-act spun off from their appearance in Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy movie A Cock And Bull Story.
I recently blogged about the fascinating career of David Gordon Green, the American director who began as a maker of lyrical movies in the manner of Terrence Malick, and now directs and produces the HBO TV comedy Eastbound And Down, starring Danny McBride and Will Ferrell. Now there is a third feature-film maker...
- 1/12/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
- Former child actress Cammie King Conlon (pictured), who as Rhett and Scarlett's daughter, Bonnie Blue Butler, had a very memorable onscreen death in Gone With the Wind has sadly died for real at the age of 76. She also voiced the young doe Faline in Disney's Bambi.
- Tiff acquisition news: Sony Pictures Classics has picked up U.S. rights to the Mordecai Richler adaptation Barney's Version, which stars Paul Giamatti and Dustin Hoffman.
- Ciarán Hinds, who plays Aberforth Dumbledore in both parts of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will reunite with Daniel Radcliffe for the Victorian ghost story adaptation The Woman in Black (which will not be 3D) as a landowner who counsels the young lawyer. Also joining the cast is Janet McTeer, who'll play Hinds' character's wife.
- Adam McKay claims the heavy web-present demand for Anchorman 2 has "helped" put the sequel back into Paramount's possibility pile,...
- 9/9/2010
- by Christopher Campbell
- Cinematical
Tucked way in the outback of the Ozarks, where the soundtrack consists of random rifle pops and the ceaseless barking of dogs, Debra Granik's bleak and sturdy film explores family, honour and (of all things) protocol amongst a criminal clan of hillbillies. The poverty stricken setting, timeless to the point where it is unclear whether or not the film is a period piece except for a cell phone in the background and the cars driven by the police. It is winter, but no snow has fallen, and two children bounce in the sparse woods on trampoline outside of a cluttered and ramshackle home. Have you ever wondered why the old women in these places have such weathered and hard faces? Well circumstance and trials faced by young Ree Dolly (played powerfully and willfully by Jennifer Lawrence), in her battered flannels and animal sweaters, certainly evokes a little of that journey towards haggardness.
- 6/17/2010
- Screen Anarchy
So, not only do Universal Pictures release the first images of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World to us, but they pretty much release their entire catalogue for the upcoming year via Rope of Silicon. I’m not going to go through the entire list of their movies but I’ll give you a brief run-down of what I’m looking forward to with their synopsis. If you want the full list, head over the RoS to get the complete low-down.
Meet the Fockers Sequel (Hopefully Called ‘Meet the Little Fockers’)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Teri Polo, Blythe Danner, Jessica Alba, Laura Dern, Harvey Keitel
Director: Paul WeitzRobert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner are all set to return for the third film in the Focker franchise following Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers.
Release Date: No UK release date as yet,...
Meet the Fockers Sequel (Hopefully Called ‘Meet the Little Fockers’)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Teri Polo, Blythe Danner, Jessica Alba, Laura Dern, Harvey Keitel
Director: Paul WeitzRobert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner are all set to return for the third film in the Focker franchise following Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers.
Release Date: No UK release date as yet,...
- 1/7/2010
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
For the fourth consecutive year Hollywood has selected its Black List, a compilation of the top unproduced screenplays for 2009. Over 300 film professionals were asked to submit the titles of up to ten of their favorite screenplays. The only condition for the picks were that the projects would not be released in theaters this year. That means some of the Black List honorees may be in the process of being turned into movies but by far the majority remain thoughts on digital ink, a blueprint for grand dramatic ideas, high-reaching adventure and controversial ideas waiting to be burned to light.
For a screenplay to have made it onto the Black List it must have received at least five votes for it. Some scripts have five votes while the top-rated screenplay received 47 votes. That doesn't mean that the script with the most votes is the best screenplay of the year; it means...
For a screenplay to have made it onto the Black List it must have received at least five votes for it. Some scripts have five votes while the top-rated screenplay received 47 votes. That doesn't mean that the script with the most votes is the best screenplay of the year; it means...
- 12/12/2009
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
A pair of new projects are currently being prepped by writer/director Rich Robinson (who co-scripted and -helmed 2007’s Marcus) and producer/cinematographer Neil Moore for Backwoods Entertainment. One is a creature feature called The Colony, and the other is a youth-oriented horror/comedy in the Monster Squad vein titled The Slayers.
The Colony is set in the town of Eden Mills, where local sheriff Nick Whittaker must protect the residents from a pack of wolflike predators that dwell in an abandoned mineshaft. One of those beasts will make an appearance in The Slayers, which focuses on a group of misfit kids who team up to fight monsters threatening them and their neighbors. Robinson and Moore have shot teasers for both projects, which can be viewed at The Colony’s official website here and The Slayers’ site here.
“One thing we felt was important for us to hang onto,” Robinson says of The Slayers,...
The Colony is set in the town of Eden Mills, where local sheriff Nick Whittaker must protect the residents from a pack of wolflike predators that dwell in an abandoned mineshaft. One of those beasts will make an appearance in The Slayers, which focuses on a group of misfit kids who team up to fight monsters threatening them and their neighbors. Robinson and Moore have shot teasers for both projects, which can be viewed at The Colony’s official website here and The Slayers’ site here.
“One thing we felt was important for us to hang onto,” Robinson says of The Slayers,...
- 11/11/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
A pair of new projects are currently being prepped by writer/director Rich Robinson (who co-scripted and -helmed 2007’s Marcus) and producer/cinematographer Neil Moore for Backwoods Entertainment. One is a creature feature called The Colony, and the other is a youth-oriented horror/comedy in the Monster Squad vein titled The Slayers.
The Colony is set in the town of Eden Mills, where local sheriff Nick Whittaker must protect the residents from a pack of wolflike predators that dwell in an abandoned mineshaft. One of those beasts will make an appearance in The Slayers, which focuses on a group of misfit kids who team up to fight monsters threatening them and their neighbors. Robinson and Moore have shot teasers for both projects, which can be viewed at The Colony’s official website here and The Slayers’ site here.
“One thing we felt was important for us to hang onto,” Robinson says of The Slayers,...
The Colony is set in the town of Eden Mills, where local sheriff Nick Whittaker must protect the residents from a pack of wolflike predators that dwell in an abandoned mineshaft. One of those beasts will make an appearance in The Slayers, which focuses on a group of misfit kids who team up to fight monsters threatening them and their neighbors. Robinson and Moore have shot teasers for both projects, which can be viewed at The Colony’s official website here and The Slayers’ site here.
“One thing we felt was important for us to hang onto,” Robinson says of The Slayers,...
- 11/11/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
A pair of new projects are currently being prepped by writer/director Rich Robinson (who co-scripted and -helmed 2007’s Marcus) and producer/cinematographer Neil Moore for Backwoods Entertainment. One is a creature feature called The Colony, and the other is a youth-oriented horror/comedy in the Monster Squad vein titled The Slayers.
The Colony is set in the town of Eden Mills, where local sheriff Nick Whittaker must protect the residents from a pack of wolflike predators that dwell in an abandoned mineshaft. One of those beasts will make an appearance in The Slayers, which focuses on a group of misfit kids who team up to fight monsters threatening them and their neighbors. Robinson and Moore have shot teasers for both projects, which can be viewed at The Colony’s official website here and The Slayers’ site here.
“One thing we felt was important for us to hang onto,” Robinson says of The Slayers,...
The Colony is set in the town of Eden Mills, where local sheriff Nick Whittaker must protect the residents from a pack of wolflike predators that dwell in an abandoned mineshaft. One of those beasts will make an appearance in The Slayers, which focuses on a group of misfit kids who team up to fight monsters threatening them and their neighbors. Robinson and Moore have shot teasers for both projects, which can be viewed at The Colony’s official website here and The Slayers’ site here.
“One thing we felt was important for us to hang onto,” Robinson says of The Slayers,...
- 11/11/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
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