In a year marked by a stagnant box office and distributors experimenting with a wide variety of releases, what does an overlooked film constitute? While there are fewer means than in years past to quantify such a metric, there are still plenty of films that didn’t get their due throughout 2020 and deserve more attention in the weeks, months, years to come.
Sadly, many documentaries would qualify for this list, but we stuck strictly to narrative efforts; one can instead read our rundown of the top docs here. Check out the list below, as presented in alphabetical order. A great deal of the below titles are also available to stream, so check out our feature here to catch up.
A Sun (Chung Mong-hong)
Chung Moog-hong’s A Sun––a rich Taiwanese drama with the texture of a novel––was unceremoniously released on Netflix in the middle of the Sundance Film Festival,...
Sadly, many documentaries would qualify for this list, but we stuck strictly to narrative efforts; one can instead read our rundown of the top docs here. Check out the list below, as presented in alphabetical order. A great deal of the below titles are also available to stream, so check out our feature here to catch up.
A Sun (Chung Mong-hong)
Chung Moog-hong’s A Sun––a rich Taiwanese drama with the texture of a novel––was unceremoniously released on Netflix in the middle of the Sundance Film Festival,...
- 12/24/2020
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Distributor pivoted after coronavirus pandemic forced theatre closures.
Films released via Oscilloscope Laboratories’ virtual cinema initiative have generated more than $200,000 since the company reconfigured its distribution plans when the coronavirus pandemic forced theatres to close.
Through Thursday (May 14), Saint Frances, Other Music, Best Of CatVideoFest, The Infiltrators and Clementine had generated $215,108 at the virtual box office.
O-Scope kicked off its virtual cinema programme with The Avalon venue in Washington DC on March 16 as soon as it became clear theatre closures would endure for a while.
The New York-based distrbutor splits net revenue with participating theatres, who typically set a $12 price point for online ticket sales.
Films released via Oscilloscope Laboratories’ virtual cinema initiative have generated more than $200,000 since the company reconfigured its distribution plans when the coronavirus pandemic forced theatres to close.
Through Thursday (May 14), Saint Frances, Other Music, Best Of CatVideoFest, The Infiltrators and Clementine had generated $215,108 at the virtual box office.
O-Scope kicked off its virtual cinema programme with The Avalon venue in Washington DC on March 16 as soon as it became clear theatre closures would endure for a while.
The New York-based distrbutor splits net revenue with participating theatres, who typically set a $12 price point for online ticket sales.
- 5/15/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
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.
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov)
The horrors of war are often told through male-centric narratives. Heroes who go through hell on the battlefield, brothers who sacrifice everything for each other, soldiers who return home scarred for life etc., all of which we’ve seen put on the big screen time and again. But wars are of course collective nightmares, tears in the fabric of history that leave no one–men, women, children–unscathed. This is the premise of Russian writer–director Kantemir Balagov’s second feature Beanpole, a radical relationship drama that examines the trauma of war from a distinctly female perspective. – Zhuo-Ning Su (full review)
Where to...
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov)
The horrors of war are often told through male-centric narratives. Heroes who go through hell on the battlefield, brothers who sacrifice everything for each other, soldiers who return home scarred for life etc., all of which we’ve seen put on the big screen time and again. But wars are of course collective nightmares, tears in the fabric of history that leave no one–men, women, children–unscathed. This is the premise of Russian writer–director Kantemir Balagov’s second feature Beanpole, a radical relationship drama that examines the trauma of war from a distinctly female perspective. – Zhuo-Ning Su (full review)
Where to...
- 5/8/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"Are you gonna break my heart?" "I've never broken one single heart." Oscilloscope Labs has unveiled an official trailer for an indie film titled Clementine, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Lara Jean Gallagher, who grew up in rural Pennsylvania. This premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, and will debut as a "virtual cinema" release this month. In this "moody and mysterious narrative feature," a scenic lake house becomes a sanctuary for two young women. Karen is just out of a long-term relationship and sneaks into her ex's summer home. There she meets the precocious Lana, whose "bold charisma" is a welcome distraction. Soon something sparks between them. "Equal parts psychological thriller and sexual coming-of-age story, Clementine is a tense rumination on who to love and how to let go." Starring a small cast with Otmara Marrero, Sydney Sweeney, Will Brittain, & Sonya Walger. Looks quite seductive. Here's...
- 5/7/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
We’re introduced to Karen (Otmara Marrero) in bed as her older girlfriend D. (Sonya Walger) wakes her. While the former wants to sleep in, the latter seeks inspiration for a new canvas and wants her prized possession to be a willing participant towards that need. This is why D. tells her lover that her youth scares her by ruminating aloud about how Karen will inevitably break her heart. Rather than say it out of belief, however, she speaks those words to sink her claws in deeper. She’s deflecting from the fact that she’ll eventually break Karen’s instead, letting her feel secure by projecting an image of power that doesn’t exist. It’s therefore no surprise to learn that when Karen mourns their sudden break-up, D. has already moved on.
Writer/director Lara Gallagher pulls back the camera to show the scene was but a memory immortalized on video.
Writer/director Lara Gallagher pulls back the camera to show the scene was but a memory immortalized on video.
- 5/6/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Clementine will screen at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar) Saturday, Nov 16 at 5:00pm as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. Writer/Director Lara Gallagher will be in attendance. Ticket information can be found Here
In a desperate plea for attention, unhinged and heartbroken Karen — who’s unable to let go of her failing relationship with an older and more successful woman — steals away to her estranged lover’s lakehouse in a remote and beautiful Pacific Northwest forest. While there, she becomes entangled with Lana, a provocative young girl hell-bent on moving to California and cultivating an identity that lives up to her expectations of the world outside of her small town. As Karen grapples with her difficulties in the past and expectations for the future, her relationship with Lana oscillates wildly. Is Karen serving as a surrogate mother to Lana? Is she the watcher or the watched?...
In a desperate plea for attention, unhinged and heartbroken Karen — who’s unable to let go of her failing relationship with an older and more successful woman — steals away to her estranged lover’s lakehouse in a remote and beautiful Pacific Northwest forest. While there, she becomes entangled with Lana, a provocative young girl hell-bent on moving to California and cultivating an identity that lives up to her expectations of the world outside of her small town. As Karen grapples with her difficulties in the past and expectations for the future, her relationship with Lana oscillates wildly. Is Karen serving as a surrogate mother to Lana? Is she the watcher or the watched?...
- 11/14/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Clementine Review Clementine (2019) Film Review from the 18th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Lara Gallagher, starring Otmara Marrero, Sydney Sweeney, Will Brittain, Sonya Walger, Alissa Jessup, Lilian McNeil, Chase Offerle, and Samuel Summer. It’s often said about great things that the sum of their parts is greater than their whole. Sadly, Clementine seems to exemplify the opposite. [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Clementine: A Small Step for Story, A Large Step for Representation [Tribeca 2019]...
Continue reading: Film Review: Clementine: A Small Step for Story, A Large Step for Representation [Tribeca 2019]...
- 5/5/2019
- by Leah Singerman
- Film-Book
The premiere post-tiff destination (September 20-25th) in the film community and a major leg up for narrative and non-fiction films in development, the Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) announced a whopping 140 projects selected for the Project Forum at the upcoming Ifp Independent Film Week. Made up of several sections (Rbc’s Emerging Storytellers program, No Borders International Co-Production Market and Spotlight on Documentaries), we find latest updates from the likes of docu-helmers Doug Block (112 Weddings) and Lana Wilson (After Tiller), and among the narrative items we find headliners in Andrew Haigh (coming off the well received 45 Years), Sophie Barthes (Cold Souls and Madame Bovary), Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty), Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries), Jorge Michel Grau (We Are What We Are), Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal (Stranger Things) and new faces in Sundance’s large family in Charles Poekel (Christmas, Again) and Olivia Newman (First Match). Here...
- 7/22/2015
- by admin
- IONCINEMA.com
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