Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
The Fever (Maya Da-Rin)
The Fever, director-cum-visual artist Da-Rin’s first full-length feature project, puts a human face to a statistic that hardly captures the genocide Brazil is suffering. This is not just a wonderfully crafted, superb exercise in filmmaking, a multilayered tale that seesaws between social realism and magic. It is a call to action, an unassuming manifesto hashed in the present tense but reverberating as a plea from a world already past us, a memoir of sorts. – Leonardo G. (full review)
Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel
French New Wave
Dive into one of the most fertile eras of moving pictures with a new massive 45-film series on The Criterion Channel dedicated to the French New Wave. Highlights include Le...
The Fever (Maya Da-Rin)
The Fever, director-cum-visual artist Da-Rin’s first full-length feature project, puts a human face to a statistic that hardly captures the genocide Brazil is suffering. This is not just a wonderfully crafted, superb exercise in filmmaking, a multilayered tale that seesaws between social realism and magic. It is a call to action, an unassuming manifesto hashed in the present tense but reverberating as a plea from a world already past us, a memoir of sorts. – Leonardo G. (full review)
Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel
French New Wave
Dive into one of the most fertile eras of moving pictures with a new massive 45-film series on The Criterion Channel dedicated to the French New Wave. Highlights include Le...
- 1/7/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Title revealed of the upcoming feature from the director of ‘This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection’.
The next feature from Lesotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese is among 10 upcoming projects to receive support from the Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf), administered by the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The writer and director of Sundance award-winner This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection has received a grant of €10,000 for script and project development on his fourth feature, titled The Chattering Of Teeth.
Earlier this year, the filmmaker said he was developing a new feature around the theme of siege and fear...
The next feature from Lesotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese is among 10 upcoming projects to receive support from the Hubert Bals Fund (Hbf), administered by the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The writer and director of Sundance award-winner This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection has received a grant of €10,000 for script and project development on his fourth feature, titled The Chattering Of Teeth.
Earlier this year, the filmmaker said he was developing a new feature around the theme of siege and fear...
- 5/27/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Brooklyn-based distributor KimStim has acquired North American rights to Brazilian director Maya Da-Rin’s feature debut “The Fever” (“A Febre”), which world premiered in competition at Locarno and played at Toronto in 2019.
The film is represented in international markets by Pierre Menahem’s French sales banner Still Moving, who negotiated the deal on behalf of the producers with KimStim’s Mika Kimoto. “The Fever” will have its New York premiere at New Directors/New Films in December.
“The Fever” follows Justino, a 45-year-old member of the indigenous Desana people, who is a security guard at the Manaus harbor. As his daughter prepares to study medicine in Brasilia, Justino comes down with a mysterious fever. The movie’s key crew includes the veteran cinematographer Barbara Alvarez.
“The Fever” is set to open in theaters in 2021 in France where it will be distributed by Survivance, and in the U.K. with New Wave Films handling,...
The film is represented in international markets by Pierre Menahem’s French sales banner Still Moving, who negotiated the deal on behalf of the producers with KimStim’s Mika Kimoto. “The Fever” will have its New York premiere at New Directors/New Films in December.
“The Fever” follows Justino, a 45-year-old member of the indigenous Desana people, who is a security guard at the Manaus harbor. As his daughter prepares to study medicine in Brasilia, Justino comes down with a mysterious fever. The movie’s key crew includes the veteran cinematographer Barbara Alvarez.
“The Fever” is set to open in theaters in 2021 in France where it will be distributed by Survivance, and in the U.K. with New Wave Films handling,...
- 11/20/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Pingyao International Film Festival, founded by Chinese helmer Jia Zhangke and former Venice head Marco Muller, has released its full lineup of global and local films. The selections in the two main sections focus on first or second features.
The festival is set to take place from Oct. 10-19 in the ancient city of Pingyao in central Shanxi province, not far from Jia’s own hometown. Few foreigners will be present, as China continues to maintain travel and quarantine restrictions for those entering the country, despite lifting some measures.
A dozen films are set to compete in the international “Crouching Tigers” section. They include a number of titles that first bowed at Venice: “Residue,” from American director Merawi Gerima, which debuted to a special mention earlier this month in the independent Venice Days section before being picked up by Ava DuVernay’s film company and released on Netflix; “The Book of Vision,...
The festival is set to take place from Oct. 10-19 in the ancient city of Pingyao in central Shanxi province, not far from Jia’s own hometown. Few foreigners will be present, as China continues to maintain travel and quarantine restrictions for those entering the country, despite lifting some measures.
A dozen films are set to compete in the international “Crouching Tigers” section. They include a number of titles that first bowed at Venice: “Residue,” from American director Merawi Gerima, which debuted to a special mention earlier this month in the independent Venice Days section before being picked up by Ava DuVernay’s film company and released on Netflix; “The Book of Vision,...
- 10/6/2020
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety 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 past round-ups here.
An American Pickle (Brandon Trost)
Seth Rogen plays dual roles in his latest comedy, American Pickle follows Seth Rogen both as Herschel Greenbaum, an immigrant who falls in a vat of pickled is brined for 100 years, and his great-grandson Ben Greenbaum, who is a computer coder and lives a very different life, to say the least. While there are certainly humorous sequences (a Brooklyn hipster couple’s first impressions of Greenbaum’s pickle stand comes foremost to mind), Rogen is far more interested in the definitions of family and loyalty, themes that are not explored with a great deal of emotional impact, but do add some heart to what...
An American Pickle (Brandon Trost)
Seth Rogen plays dual roles in his latest comedy, American Pickle follows Seth Rogen both as Herschel Greenbaum, an immigrant who falls in a vat of pickled is brined for 100 years, and his great-grandson Ben Greenbaum, who is a computer coder and lives a very different life, to say the least. While there are certainly humorous sequences (a Brooklyn hipster couple’s first impressions of Greenbaum’s pickle stand comes foremost to mind), Rogen is far more interested in the definitions of family and loyalty, themes that are not explored with a great deal of emotional impact, but do add some heart to what...
- 8/7/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Earlier this month, Bruce Springsteen dug into his vault and released a killer E Street Band show recorded at Philadelphia’s First Union Center on September 25th, 1999. It was the culmination of a six-night stand in the city where he celebrated his 50th birthday and resurrected songs he hadn’t played in decades. Many die-hard Springsteen fanatics that followed the band all over the world felt that these shows were the best they did all year.
Five of the six shows took place at the First Union Center but, in the middle of the run,...
Five of the six shows took place at the First Union Center but, in the middle of the run,...
- 7/23/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street’s Band September 25th, 1999, show at Philadelphia’s First Union Center has been a legendary bootleg in hardcore fan circles for the past two decades. It’s finally available with pristine sound (and through legal means) as the newest chapter of his monthly concert download series.
The show was the culmination of a six-night stand at the South Philadelphia Sports Complex where Springsteen performed at both the historic Spectrum arena and the modern First Union Center. He turned 50 during one of the off-days; every...
The show was the culmination of a six-night stand at the South Philadelphia Sports Complex where Springsteen performed at both the historic Spectrum arena and the modern First Union Center. He turned 50 during one of the off-days; every...
- 7/6/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Portuguese event could be one of the first film festivals to take place physically in Europe as lockdowns ease.
Portuguese film festival IndieLisboa, which had to abandon its original April 30 to May 10 dates, is pushing on with plans to hold its 17th edition at the end of August, if an easing of the global Covid-19 health crisis allows.
The event took the usual step of unveiling most of its 2020 selection on April 30 to mark what would have been the opening day.
“We wanted to do something symbolic,” festival director Miguel Valverde told Screen. “In a normal year, we tie up...
Portuguese film festival IndieLisboa, which had to abandon its original April 30 to May 10 dates, is pushing on with plans to hold its 17th edition at the end of August, if an easing of the global Covid-19 health crisis allows.
The event took the usual step of unveiling most of its 2020 selection on April 30 to mark what would have been the opening day.
“We wanted to do something symbolic,” festival director Miguel Valverde told Screen. “In a normal year, we tie up...
- 5/5/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
One of best film festivals in the world for the discovery of emerging filmmaking talent occurs in New York City each spring. New Directors/New Films, a collaboration between Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art, have now announced the lineup for their 49th annual edition. Opening and closing with two Sundance favorites, Boys State and The Mole Agent, respectively, the rest of the lineup is chock full of more festival favorites.
There is Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s Tiger Award winner at Rotterdam, The Cloud in Her Room, Kazik Radwanski’s Tiff favorite Anne at 13,000 Ft., one of the best films we saw at Locarno, Maya Da-Rin’s The Fever, as well as Shannon Murphy’s Babyteeth, Alexander Nanau’s acclaimed documentary Collective, Robert Machoian’s The Killing of Two Lovers, the Ben Whishaw-led Surge, and a number of Berlinale premieres we’re looking forward to covering shortly.
There is Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s Tiger Award winner at Rotterdam, The Cloud in Her Room, Kazik Radwanski’s Tiff favorite Anne at 13,000 Ft., one of the best films we saw at Locarno, Maya Da-Rin’s The Fever, as well as Shannon Murphy’s Babyteeth, Alexander Nanau’s acclaimed documentary Collective, Robert Machoian’s The Killing of Two Lovers, the Ben Whishaw-led Surge, and a number of Berlinale premieres we’re looking forward to covering shortly.
- 2/20/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art announced the complete lineup for the 49th annual New Directors/New Films running March 25 – April 5 and opening with Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’s Boys State, winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize for documentary at Sundance.
The closing film is Maite Alberdi’s The Mole Agent. Both are New York premieres.
In between, the iconic series will screen 27 features and 10 short films from 35 countries, with 13 North American premieres and 4 U.S. premieres, 15 films directed or co-directed by women and 15 works by first-time feature filmmakers
In Boys State, Texas high school students participate in an elaborate mock election to build their own state government, encapsulating “precisely the state of politics in the United States today. The idealistic, pragmatic, witty, and combative teenage subjects are uncanny reflections of their adult counterparts,” said La Frances Hui, Associate Curator of Film, The...
The closing film is Maite Alberdi’s The Mole Agent. Both are New York premieres.
In between, the iconic series will screen 27 features and 10 short films from 35 countries, with 13 North American premieres and 4 U.S. premieres, 15 films directed or co-directed by women and 15 works by first-time feature filmmakers
In Boys State, Texas high school students participate in an elaborate mock election to build their own state government, encapsulating “precisely the state of politics in the United States today. The idealistic, pragmatic, witty, and combative teenage subjects are uncanny reflections of their adult counterparts,” said La Frances Hui, Associate Curator of Film, The...
- 2/20/2020
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
50% of its programme will be comprised of films directed by women.
The world premiere of Maria Bäck’s Swedish drama Psychosis in Stockholm wil open the Goteborg Film Festival on January 24 as part of the festival’s Nordic Competition. Goteborg has promised that 50% of its programme will be comprised of films directed by women.
The film is inspired by an experience writer-director Bäck had when she was 15 and her mother developed a psychosis while they were on a trip to Stockholm. The filmmaker describes the project as a “surreal fiction drama”; Garagefilm produces what is Bäck’s second feature following I Remember When I Die.
The world premiere of Maria Bäck’s Swedish drama Psychosis in Stockholm wil open the Goteborg Film Festival on January 24 as part of the festival’s Nordic Competition. Goteborg has promised that 50% of its programme will be comprised of films directed by women.
The film is inspired by an experience writer-director Bäck had when she was 15 and her mother developed a psychosis while they were on a trip to Stockholm. The filmmaker describes the project as a “surreal fiction drama”; Garagefilm produces what is Bäck’s second feature following I Remember When I Die.
- 1/7/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Goteborg Film Festival, the biggest showcase of local and international movies in the Nordics, will kick off its 43rd edition with Maria Bäck’s “”Psychosis,” and will close with actor-turned-director Mårten Klingberg’s “My Father Mary Anne.”
Both timely Swedish dramas dealing with trauma post-sexual abuse, and the experience of a transgender priest, respectively, “Psychosis” and “My Father Mary Anne” will have their world premiere at Goteborg.
Stellan Skarsgård, who just won a Golden Globe for his performance in the hit HBO series “Tchernobyl,” will receive the prestigious Nordic Honorary Dragon Award and will be honored with a retrospective of some of the greatest films of his career. As part of the tribute, the estival will also host the Nordic premiere of “The Painted Bird” which was recently shortlisted for the international feature film category at the Oscars. During the festival, Skarsgård will also having a masterclass.
In addition to opening the festival,...
Both timely Swedish dramas dealing with trauma post-sexual abuse, and the experience of a transgender priest, respectively, “Psychosis” and “My Father Mary Anne” will have their world premiere at Goteborg.
Stellan Skarsgård, who just won a Golden Globe for his performance in the hit HBO series “Tchernobyl,” will receive the prestigious Nordic Honorary Dragon Award and will be honored with a retrospective of some of the greatest films of his career. As part of the tribute, the estival will also host the Nordic premiere of “The Painted Bird” which was recently shortlisted for the international feature film category at the Oscars. During the festival, Skarsgård will also having a masterclass.
In addition to opening the festival,...
- 1/7/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Chris Longo Dec 31, 2019
Ready to enter the fifth dimension? We have the Twilight Zone New Year's Marathon schedule right here.
The Twilight Zone is as timeless as infinity. In this dimension, 2019 was a special year for the iconic sci-fi anthlogy as it marked the series' 60th anniversary. We may be entering a new decade, but Rod Serling will be there to greet us once more with the annual New Year's Twilight Zone marathon on Syfy.
The marathon begins on Tuesday, Dec. 31st at 6:00 a.m. with "One For The Angels" and concludes on Thursday, Jan. 2nd at 3:30 a.m. with "A Piano in the House."
This time of year is always special in The Twilight Zone. Rod Serling was born on Christmas Day in 1924. The New Year's Marathon is just one of the many ways Serling's legacy lives on. Earlier this year, his daughter, Anne, wrote in an...
Ready to enter the fifth dimension? We have the Twilight Zone New Year's Marathon schedule right here.
The Twilight Zone is as timeless as infinity. In this dimension, 2019 was a special year for the iconic sci-fi anthlogy as it marked the series' 60th anniversary. We may be entering a new decade, but Rod Serling will be there to greet us once more with the annual New Year's Twilight Zone marathon on Syfy.
The marathon begins on Tuesday, Dec. 31st at 6:00 a.m. with "One For The Angels" and concludes on Thursday, Jan. 2nd at 3:30 a.m. with "A Piano in the House."
This time of year is always special in The Twilight Zone. Rod Serling was born on Christmas Day in 1924. The New Year's Marathon is just one of the many ways Serling's legacy lives on. Earlier this year, his daughter, Anne, wrote in an...
- 12/27/2019
- Den of Geek
Oliver Laxe’s “Fire Will Come” won the top prize, the Golden Alexander, at the 60th Thessaloniki Intl. Film Festival on Sunday, as well as the best actor award for Amador Arias, playing an arsonist who returns to his family home in the mountains.
The film, described in its Variety review as “a rustically beautiful rural parable,” played in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar — where it won the runner-up Jury Prize.
The Special Jury Award, the Silver Alexander, went to Maya Da-Rin’s “The Fever,” which world premiered at Locarno Film Festival. The film explores the complex and tense relationship between indigenous communities in Brazil and Western civilization.
The special jury award for best director, the Bronze Alexander, went to Melina Leon for “Song Without a Name,” which dramatizes a true-life case of Peruvian baby trafficking. The film played in Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.
Greta Fernandez took the best actress...
The film, described in its Variety review as “a rustically beautiful rural parable,” played in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard sidebar — where it won the runner-up Jury Prize.
The Special Jury Award, the Silver Alexander, went to Maya Da-Rin’s “The Fever,” which world premiered at Locarno Film Festival. The film explores the complex and tense relationship between indigenous communities in Brazil and Western civilization.
The special jury award for best director, the Bronze Alexander, went to Melina Leon for “Song Without a Name,” which dramatizes a true-life case of Peruvian baby trafficking. The film played in Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.
Greta Fernandez took the best actress...
- 11/10/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Chicago – The Chicago International Film Festival is competitive, and the 55th edition presented its awards on October 25th, 2019, at Chez venue in Chicago. The winner of the Gold Hugo as Best International Film was “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (France), directed by Céline Sclamma.
The 55th Chicago International Film Festival Awards Night was October 25th, 2019
Photo credit: Patrick McDonald for HollywoodChicago.com
The awards were presented by the various jury members in each film category, and were hosed by Artistic Director Mimi Plauché, Managing Director Vivian Teng, as well as programmers Anthony Kaufman and Sam Flancher. The Festival’s highest honor is the Gold Hugo, named for the mythical God of Discovery.
International Feature Film Competition
‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire,’ (France) Directed by Céline Sclamma
Photo credit: Chicago International Film Festival
The Gold Hugo for Best Film: “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” (France) Directed by Céline...
The 55th Chicago International Film Festival Awards Night was October 25th, 2019
Photo credit: Patrick McDonald for HollywoodChicago.com
The awards were presented by the various jury members in each film category, and were hosed by Artistic Director Mimi Plauché, Managing Director Vivian Teng, as well as programmers Anthony Kaufman and Sam Flancher. The Festival’s highest honor is the Gold Hugo, named for the mythical God of Discovery.
International Feature Film Competition
‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire,’ (France) Directed by Céline Sclamma
Photo credit: Chicago International Film Festival
The Gold Hugo for Best Film: “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” (France) Directed by Céline...
- 10/27/2019
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Maya Da-Rin’s The Fever won best film in the Roberto Rossellini awards, while best film in the Fei Mu awards went to Anthony Chen’s Wet Season.
The Fever, from Brazilian filmmaker Maya Da-Rin, won best film in the Roberto Rossellini awards at this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival (Pyiff), while Anthony Chen’s Wet Season won best film in the Fei Mu awards.
The Roberto Rossellini awards are presented to films in Pingyao’s Crouching Tigers section for international debuts and second features. Best director in these awards went to Cesar Diaz for Our Mothers, the Guatemala-set...
The Fever, from Brazilian filmmaker Maya Da-Rin, won best film in the Roberto Rossellini awards at this year’s Pingyao International Film Festival (Pyiff), while Anthony Chen’s Wet Season won best film in the Fei Mu awards.
The Roberto Rossellini awards are presented to films in Pingyao’s Crouching Tigers section for international debuts and second features. Best director in these awards went to Cesar Diaz for Our Mothers, the Guatemala-set...
- 10/17/2019
- by 89¦Liz Shackleton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The 3rd Pingyao International Film Festival has awarded its main Roberto Rossellini prizes to Brazilian director Maya Da-Rin’s The Fever, a film that follows the plight of a “urban indigenous’ worker, and to Guatemalan director Cesar Diaz, who traveled to the central Chinese event with his civil war drama Our Mothers.
Da-Rin thanked the fest for reaching out to films from the other side of the world and said the experience of making The Fever had been life-changing.
“For me it is a great honor,” she said upon receiving best film honors. “This film has been made ...
Da-Rin thanked the fest for reaching out to films from the other side of the world and said the experience of making The Fever had been life-changing.
“For me it is a great honor,” she said upon receiving best film honors. “This film has been made ...
- 10/16/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The 3rd Pingyao International Film Festival has awarded its main Roberto Rossellini prizes to Brazilian director Maya Da-Rin’s The Fever, a film that follows the plight of a “urban indigenous’ worker, and to Guatemalan director Cesar Diaz, who traveled to the central Chinese event with his civil war drama Our Mothers.
Da-Rin thanked the fest for reaching out to films from the other side of the world and said the experience of making The Fever had been life-changing.
“For me it is a great honor,” she said upon receiving best film honors. “This film has been made ...
Da-Rin thanked the fest for reaching out to films from the other side of the world and said the experience of making The Fever had been life-changing.
“For me it is a great honor,” she said upon receiving best film honors. “This film has been made ...
- 10/16/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Pingyao International Film Festival on Wednesday crowned “The Fever” by Maya Da-Rin as best film in its international category and “Wet Season” by Anthony Chen as the top title in its Chinese-language section.
The Roberto Rossellini Awards at the festival go to the top international directorial debuts or second features. Taking to the stage at the awards ceremony, Brazil’s Da-Rin said the prize was “a great honor.”
“This film has been made through seven years of a lot of work of a lot of people — people who give their lives to cinema and believe that through cinema we can think about our world,” she said. “The Fever” also won Best Actor and the Fipresci prize at Locarno this year.
Two other Roberto Rossellini Awards were handed out: the jury award to Chinese helmer Liang Ming for his debut, “Wisdom Tooth,” and the prize for best director to the...
The Roberto Rossellini Awards at the festival go to the top international directorial debuts or second features. Taking to the stage at the awards ceremony, Brazil’s Da-Rin said the prize was “a great honor.”
“This film has been made through seven years of a lot of work of a lot of people — people who give their lives to cinema and believe that through cinema we can think about our world,” she said. “The Fever” also won Best Actor and the Fipresci prize at Locarno this year.
Two other Roberto Rossellini Awards were handed out: the jury award to Chinese helmer Liang Ming for his debut, “Wisdom Tooth,” and the prize for best director to the...
- 10/16/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
By any conservative approximation, in the week that spanned the moment I left the Locarno screening of Maya Da-Rin’s The Fever and the minute I began writing this piece, an area as vast as 100 million square meters has been wiped away from Brazil’s Amazon basin. Over that seven-day window, President Bolsonaro has rushed to oust scientists unaligned with his regime, the international community promised sanctions against Brazil, and the Twitterverse rallied to the paean #PrayforAmazon, all while a surface as large as a one-and-a-half soccer field continues to disintegrate to flames each and every minute. The Fever, director-cum-visual artist Da-Rin’s first full-length feature project, puts a human face to a statistic that hardly captures the genocide Brazil is suffering. This is not just a wonderfully crafted, superb exercise in filmmaking, a multilayered tale that seesaws between social realism and magic. It is a call to action, an...
- 8/26/2019
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
The Golden Leopard goes to Portugal for Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela.
Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa received Locarno Film Festival’s top honour, the Golden Leopard, for his latest feature Vitalina Varela which had its world premiere in the Swiss festival’s international competition.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The international jury headed by French filmmaker and novelist Catherine Breillat also presented the Leopard for best actress to the 55-year-old Cape Verde islander Vitalina Varela for her performance in the film named after herself.
This is the second time Costa had taken home one of the main awards...
Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa received Locarno Film Festival’s top honour, the Golden Leopard, for his latest feature Vitalina Varela which had its world premiere in the Swiss festival’s international competition.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The international jury headed by French filmmaker and novelist Catherine Breillat also presented the Leopard for best actress to the 55-year-old Cape Verde islander Vitalina Varela for her performance in the film named after herself.
This is the second time Costa had taken home one of the main awards...
- 8/17/2019
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
The 72nd Locarno Film Festival drew to a close Saturday with Portuguese auteur Pedro Costa’s dark and detached film “Vitalina Varela” coming away with several awards together with superlatives from segments of the hardcore cinephile crowd, including jury president Catherine Breillat.
In announcing the Golden Leopard prize for the film, as well as best actress to its eponymous star, Breillat was emphatic in saying that Costa’s achievement goes beyond mere awards, insisting on its place in the cinema pantheon.
Costa was the most prominent name in the International Competition selection this year, which marked Lili Hinstin’s first edition as festival director. Other awards in the main section went to Park Jung-bum’s “Height of the Wave” (Special Jury Prize) and Damien Manivel as best director for “Isadora’s Children,” with the top actor going to Regis Myrupu in Maya Da-Rin’s “The Fever.” All the prizes reflected...
In announcing the Golden Leopard prize for the film, as well as best actress to its eponymous star, Breillat was emphatic in saying that Costa’s achievement goes beyond mere awards, insisting on its place in the cinema pantheon.
Costa was the most prominent name in the International Competition selection this year, which marked Lili Hinstin’s first edition as festival director. Other awards in the main section went to Park Jung-bum’s “Height of the Wave” (Special Jury Prize) and Damien Manivel as best director for “Isadora’s Children,” with the top actor going to Regis Myrupu in Maya Da-Rin’s “The Fever.” All the prizes reflected...
- 8/17/2019
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Tiff Co-Heads Cameron Bailey and Joana Vicente added several more films in the Gala and Special Presentations sections of the 44th Toronto International Film Festival that runs September 5-15.
Here are the new ones:
Gala Premieres
The Tom Harper-directed Aeronauts will make its Canadian premiere, with Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne starring.
The Giuseppe Capotondi-directed Burnt Orange Heresy will make its North American premiere.
Special Presentations
The Kenny Leon-directed American Son makes its world premiere.
The Quentin Dupieux-directed Deerskin ( Le Daim ) makes its international premiere.
The Gregor Jordan-directed Dirt Music makes its world premiere.
The Geetu Mohandas-directed The Elder One makes its world premiere
Guns Akimbo, directed by Jason Lei Howden, makes its world premiere
Human Capital, directed by Marc Meyers, makes its world premiere;
Jungleland, directed by Max Winkler makes its world premiere;
Lucy in the Sky, directed by Noah Hawley, makes its world premiere;
Lyrebird, directed by Dan Friedkin,...
Here are the new ones:
Gala Premieres
The Tom Harper-directed Aeronauts will make its Canadian premiere, with Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne starring.
The Giuseppe Capotondi-directed Burnt Orange Heresy will make its North American premiere.
Special Presentations
The Kenny Leon-directed American Son makes its world premiere.
The Quentin Dupieux-directed Deerskin ( Le Daim ) makes its international premiere.
The Gregor Jordan-directed Dirt Music makes its world premiere.
The Geetu Mohandas-directed The Elder One makes its world premiere
Guns Akimbo, directed by Jason Lei Howden, makes its world premiere
Human Capital, directed by Marc Meyers, makes its world premiere;
Jungleland, directed by Max Winkler makes its world premiere;
Lucy in the Sky, directed by Noah Hawley, makes its world premiere;
Lyrebird, directed by Dan Friedkin,...
- 8/13/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
The Brazilian filmmaker Maya Da-Rin has garnered attention for her documentaries Terras (2009) and Margem (2007), both shot in the Amazon region. Now, she is back with her fiction debut, an enigmatic film capable to explore the mystery of the Amazon forrest to create a dream-like atmosphere that impregnates the viewer like a burning fever. In it, Justino (Regis Myrupu), a middle-aged member of the indigenous Desana people in Brazil, begins to come down with a vague illness while working as a security guard at a shipyard in Manaus. His daughter Vanessa (Rosa Peixoto) is preparing to leave her father to study medicine in Brasilia. The two are caught between their family's past in the Amazon and their present in an urbanizing Amazon.We interviewed the writer-director about her new feature The Fever, which had its world premiere in the International Competition at the 72nd Locarno Film Festival.Notebook: What is your...
- 8/12/2019
- MUBI
Locarno–The breakout success of “Toni Erdmann” put Germany’s Komplizen Film on the map, earning the production house an Oscar nomination while paving the way for a remarkable string of international hits. Now the company is producing its first Netflix series, set to bow this fall, offering a glimpse of what a rapidly changing market means for independent European producers, the group said in Locarno on Friday.
Appearing in conversation with film critic Frederic Jaeger, Komplizen’s Maren Ade, Janine Jackowski and Jonas Dornbach discussed the changes they’ve witnessed across 20 years in the industry while talking about what Netflix represents for the company’s ongoing evolution. “It’s a different way of working—very different from what we had in the past,” said Dornbach. “From time to development to post…. This is a whole different way of developing a movie.”
Produced by Komplizen and StickUp Films, “Skylines” is...
Appearing in conversation with film critic Frederic Jaeger, Komplizen’s Maren Ade, Janine Jackowski and Jonas Dornbach discussed the changes they’ve witnessed across 20 years in the industry while talking about what Netflix represents for the company’s ongoing evolution. “It’s a different way of working—very different from what we had in the past,” said Dornbach. “From time to development to post…. This is a whole different way of developing a movie.”
Produced by Komplizen and StickUp Films, “Skylines” is...
- 8/10/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Paris-based Still Moving has dropped a first international teaser-trailer for Maya Da-Rin’s “A Febre” (The Fever), which world premieres this week in main International Competition at the 2019 Locarno Intl. Film Festival.
One of two Latin American Locarno Golden Leopard contenders, with Maura Delpero’s Argentine-Italian “Maternal” (“Hogar”), “The Fever” marks one of the latest productions from Germany’s Komplizen Films, the recipient of Locarno’s 2019 Best Independent Producer Award.
Produced by Dar-Rin’s label, Tamandua Vermelho, and Sao Paulo-based Enquadramiento Filmes, “The Fever” is co-produced by Komplizen and Still Moving, which has also stepped up to handle international sales.
Brazil’s Vitrine Filmes, the go-to-distributor for many top Brazilian films – “Divine Love,” “Bacurau” – will release “The Fever” in Brazil.
At a time when Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro has drawn world attention to the fate of the Amazon, championing its predominantly illegal logging industry, “The Fever” nails the fate of many indigenous Brazilians.
One of two Latin American Locarno Golden Leopard contenders, with Maura Delpero’s Argentine-Italian “Maternal” (“Hogar”), “The Fever” marks one of the latest productions from Germany’s Komplizen Films, the recipient of Locarno’s 2019 Best Independent Producer Award.
Produced by Dar-Rin’s label, Tamandua Vermelho, and Sao Paulo-based Enquadramiento Filmes, “The Fever” is co-produced by Komplizen and Still Moving, which has also stepped up to handle international sales.
Brazil’s Vitrine Filmes, the go-to-distributor for many top Brazilian films – “Divine Love,” “Bacurau” – will release “The Fever” in Brazil.
At a time when Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro has drawn world attention to the fate of the Amazon, championing its predominantly illegal logging industry, “The Fever” nails the fate of many indigenous Brazilians.
- 8/5/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Gold Derby can exclusively reveal all six episodes being submitted to Emmy Awards voters by each of the eight 2019 nominees for Best Drama Series. Each of the following series must offer these episodes for voters to view on the official Television Academy portal. The category winner will be presented on the Primetime Emmys ceremony slated for Fox on September 22. Last year’s champ was “Game of Thrones.” The only other returning nominee from last year’s slate is “This Is Us.”
See 2019 Emmy nominations complete list: All the nominees for the 71st Emmy Awards
“Better Call Saul” has been nominated in this category every season. The six episodes are “Smoke,” “Breathe,” “Something Stupid,” “Coushatta,” “Wiedersehen,” “Winner.”
“Bodyguard” is a first-year contender. The six episodes are “Episode 1.1,” “Episode 1.2,” “Episode 1.3,” “Episode 1.4,” “Episode 1.5,” “Episode 1.6.”
“Game Of Thrones” has won this category three times before. The six episodes are “Winterfell,” “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,...
See 2019 Emmy nominations complete list: All the nominees for the 71st Emmy Awards
“Better Call Saul” has been nominated in this category every season. The six episodes are “Smoke,” “Breathe,” “Something Stupid,” “Coushatta,” “Wiedersehen,” “Winner.”
“Bodyguard” is a first-year contender. The six episodes are “Episode 1.1,” “Episode 1.2,” “Episode 1.3,” “Episode 1.4,” “Episode 1.5,” “Episode 1.6.”
“Game Of Thrones” has won this category three times before. The six episodes are “Winterfell,” “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,...
- 8/2/2019
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
With Maternal and The Fever, the international laboratory has seen a total of 101 productions take part in its development, production and distribution schemes. It’s time to celebrate at TorinoFilmLab (Tfl). The international laboratory has crossed the threshold of 100 completed films with Maternal by Maura Delpero (Italy/Argentina) and The Fever by Maya da Rin (Brazil/Germany/France), two debut features directed by female filmmakers that are set to premiere in the International Competition of the 72nd Locarno Film Festival (7-17 August 2019). Maternal is the only Italian production that has been selected in Locarno’s International Competition. The first fiction feature by Italian-born, Argentinian-based filmmaker Maura Delpero is set in an Italian religious centre for teenage mothers in Buenos Aires (see the news). It was recently awarded with the 2019 Tfl Audience Design Fund, the Tfl’s distribution scheme for international co-productions between Europe and the rest of the world. The award consists.
Bruce Springsteen made a surprise appearance Saturday evening near the end of Southside Johnny’s annual July 4th weekend concert at the Stone Pony Summer Stage in Asbury Park, New Jersey. He came onstage to join his old friend on a spirited rendition of “Sherry Darling” and stuck around for seemingly unrehearsed takes on “The Fever,” “Talk to Me,” “Kitty’s Back,” ‘I Don’t Wanna Go Home,” ‘Mona/Not Fade Away” and “Having a Party.”
Southside Johnny and Springsteen rose out of the late Sixties Asbury Park rock scene...
Southside Johnny and Springsteen rose out of the late Sixties Asbury Park rock scene...
- 7/7/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
The Primetime Emmys are one of the most gratifyingly transparent awards in the entertainment industry, publicly releasing their ballots with all the submitted candidates who television academy members will be deciding on. Voting for the 2019 nominations started on June 10, so now we know who’s up in the running. And one show in particular could make history several times over: FX’s “Pose.” Scroll down for its complete list of submissions.
This series about the New York City ballroom scene in the late 1980s could boast the first openly transgender actors ever nominated for performances in series regular roles. That includes Best Drama Actress contender Mj Rodriguez as well as Best Drama Supporting Actress hopefuls Dominique Jackson, Indya Moore, Angelica Ross and Hailie Sahar. They would follow in the footsteps of trailblazer Laverne Cox, who made history with two guest-acting nominations in recent years for “Orange is the New Black.
This series about the New York City ballroom scene in the late 1980s could boast the first openly transgender actors ever nominated for performances in series regular roles. That includes Best Drama Actress contender Mj Rodriguez as well as Best Drama Supporting Actress hopefuls Dominique Jackson, Indya Moore, Angelica Ross and Hailie Sahar. They would follow in the footsteps of trailblazer Laverne Cox, who made history with two guest-acting nominations in recent years for “Orange is the New Black.
- 6/10/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Billy Porter understands timing is essential. After a failed music career in the Nineties, Porter, 49, was bankrupt and couch-surfing, surviving on acting scraps for decades, before he transformed himself for a career-catapulting, Tony-winning turn as Lola in Kinky Boots in 2012. Now, he’s not shy about owning his moment as the flamboyant Pray Tell, the ball Mc and a male lead in FX’s musical drama Pose, a role that was created for him using his own life experience as a backdrop.
“I did everything that everybody wanted me to...
“I did everything that everybody wanted me to...
- 6/5/2019
- by Jerry Portwood
- Rollingstone.com
A single word greets TV academy members as they explore FX’s 2019 Emmy Fyc mailer: Fearless.
The cable network’s tagline is front and center on the black cube-shaped package, with the FX logo above designed to look like a window that offers a sneak peek at the 10 individual program booklets held within. This year’s Emmy-eligible content from FX includes five comedies, four dramas and one limited series. Below, we give you an insider’s sneak peek at which specific episodes are being watched by Emmy voters as we speak.
See Emmys 2019 exclusive: FX categories
As a reminder, last year FX dominated the Primetime Emmy telecast thanks to “The Assassination of Gianni Versace” and “The Americans”. A week earlier at the Creative Arts Emmys, “Atlanta” walked off with three trophies including Best Comedy Guest Actor for Katt Williams. With “Versace,” “The Americans” and “Atlanta” all ineligible this year, the...
The cable network’s tagline is front and center on the black cube-shaped package, with the FX logo above designed to look like a window that offers a sneak peek at the 10 individual program booklets held within. This year’s Emmy-eligible content from FX includes five comedies, four dramas and one limited series. Below, we give you an insider’s sneak peek at which specific episodes are being watched by Emmy voters as we speak.
See Emmys 2019 exclusive: FX categories
As a reminder, last year FX dominated the Primetime Emmy telecast thanks to “The Assassination of Gianni Versace” and “The Americans”. A week earlier at the Creative Arts Emmys, “Atlanta” walked off with three trophies including Best Comedy Guest Actor for Katt Williams. With “Versace,” “The Americans” and “Atlanta” all ineligible this year, the...
- 6/3/2019
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
The one thing that I was hoping Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone revival wouldn’t do is remake old classic episodes. I wanted to see new and original stories! Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like that is going to happen.
We already saw a teaser trailer for the series that featured a set reminiscent of the classic William Shatner episode “Nick of Time”. Now is been announced that the other classic Shatner episode, “Nightmare At 30,000 Feet” is being remade and Adam Scott as been cast in it.
“Nightmare A 30,000 Feet” tells the story of a man, fresh out of a mental hospital, in an airplane who sees a gremlin on the wing tearing into the engine.
So, it looks like this new Twilight Zone series is just going to remake the old classic episodes, so now my excitement for the series has died. There’s no point in remaking the classics.
We already saw a teaser trailer for the series that featured a set reminiscent of the classic William Shatner episode “Nick of Time”. Now is been announced that the other classic Shatner episode, “Nightmare At 30,000 Feet” is being remade and Adam Scott as been cast in it.
“Nightmare A 30,000 Feet” tells the story of a man, fresh out of a mental hospital, in an airplane who sees a gremlin on the wing tearing into the engine.
So, it looks like this new Twilight Zone series is just going to remake the old classic episodes, so now my excitement for the series has died. There’s no point in remaking the classics.
- 10/29/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Co-created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Steven Canals, and set around the birth the modern American Lgbtq rights movement, Pose has proven to be a compelling look at the intersection of ball culture, the 1980s HIV and AIDS epidemic, and the politics that would define an entire generation.
The series is regularly praised for both its groundbreaking casting and its diverse production team. (The show features the largest cast of transgender actors as series regulars and a significant number of Lgbtq production team members at every level.)
But its strengths equally lie in its approach to storytelling: an honest, but sensitive tackling of challenging subjects and an authentic look at the history of a community fighting to be safe and seen.
This past Sunday, the series added yet another item to its growing list of progressive footprints. Activist, author and Pose writer and producer Janet Mock became the first...
The series is regularly praised for both its groundbreaking casting and its diverse production team. (The show features the largest cast of transgender actors as series regulars and a significant number of Lgbtq production team members at every level.)
But its strengths equally lie in its approach to storytelling: an honest, but sensitive tackling of challenging subjects and an authentic look at the history of a community fighting to be safe and seen.
This past Sunday, the series added yet another item to its growing list of progressive footprints. Activist, author and Pose writer and producer Janet Mock became the first...
- 7/9/2018
- by Abbey White
- TVfanatic
Put your service to the test with the top gigs shooting soon in New York City! Amazon’s hit series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” is casting male actors to play waiters in its second season. Plus, “The Fever” is seeking a young actor for a flashback scene in its season premiere, and “The Deuce” is casting actors to play receptionists, waiters, and more. “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”Season 2 casting continues for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Male talent, aged 18–35, is wanted to portray waiters in background roles. There will be a fitting on July 9, followed by filming from July 10–12 in NYC. Pay is $182 for 12 hours of work, plus a day rate for fitting. Apply here! “The Fever”“The Fever” is currently casting a young actor for a child version of the main character for its Season 3 finale. An Asian-American female actor, aged 8–12, is wanted to play the young version of Amber in a flashback scene.
- 7/4/2018
- backstage.com
The Performer | Billy Porter
The Show | Pose
The Episode | “The Fever” (June 24, 2018)
The Performance | From the instant we laid eyes (and ears) on Pose’s Pray Tell — the boisterous emcee of the New York City ball scene, as depicted on the FX drama — we were enamored. Every exaggerated reaction and whip-smart critique drew us deeper into his orbit, not that we put up much of a fight.
But as the weeks continued, as the show began to gradually strip Pray Tell of his mystique, we found ourselves even more in awe of this complicated character brought to life with fierce conviction by Porter.
The Show | Pose
The Episode | “The Fever” (June 24, 2018)
The Performance | From the instant we laid eyes (and ears) on Pose’s Pray Tell — the boisterous emcee of the New York City ball scene, as depicted on the FX drama — we were enamored. Every exaggerated reaction and whip-smart critique drew us deeper into his orbit, not that we put up much of a fight.
But as the weeks continued, as the show began to gradually strip Pray Tell of his mystique, we found ourselves even more in awe of this complicated character brought to life with fierce conviction by Porter.
- 6/30/2018
- TVLine.com
We’ve reached the halfway point in the first season of FX’s groundbreaking “Pose,” and as the stakes in the underground queer ballrooms of 1980s New York ratchet up, so do personal victories and tragedies for the characters in the Ryan Murphy drama.
Broadway and recording veteran Billy Porter had a shining moment on Sunday as Pray Tell, the stunt queen emcee who hosts the weekly balls where gay orphans, trans woman and a family of Lgbtq people gather for organized self-flattery and some fierce dress up.
Pray Tell is never short on comebacks or crowd-pleasing disses for the brave children who walk various categories at the balls, in search of validation — but he’s never been as dimensional as he was in Sunday’s installment “The Fever,” written by trans activist Janet Mock.
Also Read: Summer TV Premiere Dates: Every New and Returning Show (Photos)
“It’s been...
Broadway and recording veteran Billy Porter had a shining moment on Sunday as Pray Tell, the stunt queen emcee who hosts the weekly balls where gay orphans, trans woman and a family of Lgbtq people gather for organized self-flattery and some fierce dress up.
Pray Tell is never short on comebacks or crowd-pleasing disses for the brave children who walk various categories at the balls, in search of validation — but he’s never been as dimensional as he was in Sunday’s installment “The Fever,” written by trans activist Janet Mock.
Also Read: Summer TV Premiere Dates: Every New and Returning Show (Photos)
“It’s been...
- 6/26/2018
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
Everyone's facing major decisions about their healthcare in Pose Season 1 Episode 4, but not everyone is coming out better on the other side.
"The Fever" is an apt title, both metaphorically and literally, for the latest episode of the FX drama. The writers have put everyone at a crossroads at the exact same time, and manage to carry them through their choices with some of the best writing of the series so far.
Of course, the episode is about the literal fevers characters like Damon and Candy experience. But it's also about the metaphorical ones, including the jealous fever that ravages Angel when she becomes so self-conscious about her body and her relationship with Stan that she throws him out.
Damon's actual fever starts unassumingly from a cold bug but quickly morphs into a health scare when Blanca discovers he and Ricky have been having sex and once the condom came off.
"The Fever" is an apt title, both metaphorically and literally, for the latest episode of the FX drama. The writers have put everyone at a crossroads at the exact same time, and manage to carry them through their choices with some of the best writing of the series so far.
Of course, the episode is about the literal fevers characters like Damon and Candy experience. But it's also about the metaphorical ones, including the jealous fever that ravages Angel when she becomes so self-conscious about her body and her relationship with Stan that she throws him out.
Damon's actual fever starts unassumingly from a cold bug but quickly morphs into a health scare when Blanca discovers he and Ricky have been having sex and once the condom came off.
- 6/25/2018
- by Abbey White
- TVfanatic
Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched “The Fever,” the fourth episode of “Pose.”
In the premiere episode of FX’s “Pose,” aspiring ballroom culture mother Blanca (Mj Rodriguez) received an HIV-positive diagnosis. Just a few episodes later, ballroom Mc Pray Tell, played by Billy Porter, learned he was HIV positive as well.
Although Porter admits there were “hints” at where the story would go early on, he didn’t know just how deep they would go with Pray Tell. But when he finally learned of Pray Tell’s diagnosis, he felt ready for it.
“I feel like I’m standing [up] for all of my friends who didn’t make it and whose stories were buried for so long,” Porter tells Variety. “Their stories are getting told [now] and I’m one of the people who’s getting to tell them, and that means everything to me.
In the premiere episode of FX’s “Pose,” aspiring ballroom culture mother Blanca (Mj Rodriguez) received an HIV-positive diagnosis. Just a few episodes later, ballroom Mc Pray Tell, played by Billy Porter, learned he was HIV positive as well.
Although Porter admits there were “hints” at where the story would go early on, he didn’t know just how deep they would go with Pray Tell. But when he finally learned of Pray Tell’s diagnosis, he felt ready for it.
“I feel like I’m standing [up] for all of my friends who didn’t make it and whose stories were buried for so long,” Porter tells Variety. “Their stories are getting told [now] and I’m one of the people who’s getting to tell them, and that means everything to me.
- 6/25/2018
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s roundup, the NBC series “Midnight Texas,” based on the bestselling trilogy by Charlaine Harris, is casting experienced line dancers in New Mexico for a shoot next week. Plus, Season 3 of “The Fever” is casting a bilingual actor for a supporting role, a major live event production company is seeking singers and rappers, and a Honda Commercial is casting young interviewers. “Midnight Texas” Casting is now in progress for the second season of the NBC series “Midnight Texas,” based on the bestselling trilogy by author Charlaine Harris. Experienced New Mexico–based line dancers, aged 18 and older, are wanted to play background on the series. The shoot is scheduled tentatively for June 21 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Some pay will be provided. Apply here! “The Fever,” Season 3Join Season 3 of “The Fever,” an original drama TV series, in a supporting role. An Asian female actor, aged 25–30, is wanted to play Laura,...
- 6/14/2018
- backstage.com
As has become commonplace for the annual event, the Cannes Film Festival’s competition slate continues to be dominated by male directors. Announced yesterday, the 2018 competition lineup includes the highest number of films from female filmmakers since 2011, and the festival will play home to new works from Nadine Labaki, Eva Husson, and Alice Rohrwacher. At the festival’s announcement press conference, artistic director Thierry Frémaux hinted that another work from a woman could be added to the lineup in the coming days.
In years past, Frémaux has blamed the lack of female directors on the Cannes slate on the discrepancy between how many male and female directors are working today, and yet Cannes has often programmed and championed a number of the film world’s best female filmmakers. The lack of many of them from this year’s lineup is jarring — though, to be fair, this year’s lineup is...
In years past, Frémaux has blamed the lack of female directors on the Cannes slate on the discrepancy between how many male and female directors are working today, and yet Cannes has often programmed and championed a number of the film world’s best female filmmakers. The lack of many of them from this year’s lineup is jarring — though, to be fair, this year’s lineup is...
- 4/13/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The folks at the Splathouse podcast discuss The Suckling (1990), and it’s the headliner for today’s Horror Highlights. Also: album artwork and a track preview for Chris Alexander's They Drink Your Blood, Manos Returns world premiere details, the winners of the Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Festival 2018 awards, Speak of the Devil virtual experience information, and details on the La screening premiere of Smiley’s.
New Splathouse Episode Details: From Splathouse: "Sarah and Mike fu**ed up and made a mistake in the recording of this episode of The Splathouse...recording devices ran for about 40 mins during the pre-show meeting and ate up batteries and disc space...but rather than abort the project, Mike and Sarah made the most of it.
Welcome to a "fly on the brothel wall" episode of The Splathouse!
All the card-carrying Splat gang members return:
- John shows up with a ranty rant...
New Splathouse Episode Details: From Splathouse: "Sarah and Mike fu**ed up and made a mistake in the recording of this episode of The Splathouse...recording devices ran for about 40 mins during the pre-show meeting and ate up batteries and disc space...but rather than abort the project, Mike and Sarah made the most of it.
Welcome to a "fly on the brothel wall" episode of The Splathouse!
All the card-carrying Splat gang members return:
- John shows up with a ranty rant...
- 3/6/2018
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
9:30-11 p.m., Wednesday, June 13
HBO
The problem with The Fever isn't its production values or its performances or even the idealism that it wears on its sleeve. All of those are beyond reproach. What proves to be its undoing is the heavy-handed fashion in which the upper-middle-class white guilt story line plays out.
There is nary an ounce of subtlety in the screenplay from Wallace Shawn (My Dinner With Andre) and Carlo Nero, which Shawn adapted from his own stage play. It's all about the illumination that comes over one older woman after she takes a step back to examine her privileged life through the prism of a poor, war-stricken country, but the HBO telefilm -- shot entirely on location in Zagreb, Croatia -- sounds the same strident note repeatedly while at the same time neglecting the eloquence of restraint.
Because Vanessa Redgrave is the film's sole star, the project's politicization is hardly a shock. She's a dynamic and courageous actress, an Oscar winner and an artist of impeccable talent. But Redgrave also has a history of injecting her belief system into her work, or at least the tendency to accept those that jibe with her social mindset. Fever is no exception.
While its class-conscious heart obviously is in the right place, it makes its points with such obsessive self-awareness and altruism that it tends to trump eloquent points about the widening gap between haves and have-nots.
At the core of the movie's world view are its generic underpinnings. It's set in an unknown nation so as to apparently remove preconceived notions from the equation, and its characters (including Redgrave) mostly have no formal names. Redgrave is Woman. There also is Piano player, Thin young man and Bitter man. Star cameos abound, also in plain wrap characters: Joely Richardson is Woman at 30, Michael Moore (yes, that Michael Moore) is War correspondent and Angelina Jolie portrays the Young woman in the church. The conceit is that it doesn't matter who these people are or where they are; it and they are simple metaphors for grinding injustice.
Fever is set in motion by the feverish semi-delirium of a well-off English woman (Redgrave), who is briefly consumed by a mysterious illness while traveling in a dirt-poor nation ravaged by war, atrocity and the stranglehold of a rich ruling class. Her fever sends her imagination into overdrive and a "psychological voyage of self-discovery" (as an HBO news release puts it). Narrating her own tale, she reflects on the happiness and comfort of her nice little life in the West while at the same time awakening to the poverty, misery and brutality that is the lot of so many who don't happen to be born into such fortunate circumstances. She gets bummed out that she suddenly sees herself as more shallow and less worldly wise than she had ever imagined.
Yet while the film likes to think it is making profound points about inequality and unfairness, the scribes fail to connect the dots in a way that would bring Fever anything approaching true insight. Director Nero and director of photography Mark Moriarty bring a grayish, washed-out look to the production that effectively matches its downbeat outlook, and the players -- Redgrave in particular -- supply artistic heft. But this still is mostly a piece about the residual guilt suffered by the blessed rather than the towering chronicle of class-consciousness that it so aspires to be.
THE FEVER
HBO
Shawn Fever, Blumhouse Prods. and HBO Films
Credits:
Executive producers: Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Blum
Co-executive producer: Carlo Nero
Co-producer: Andrew Warren
Associate producer: Igor Aleksander Nola
Teleplay: Wallace Shawn, Carlo Nero
Director: Carlo Nero
Based on the play by: Wallace Shawn
Director of photography: Mark Moriarty
Production designer: Ivica Trpcic
Costume designer: Vjera Ivankovic
Editor: Mel Quigley
Music: Claudio Capponi
Casting: Siobhan Bracke
Cast:
Woman: Vanessa Redgrave
War correspondent: Michael Moore
Young woman in the church: Angelina Jolie
Diplomat: Rade Sherbedgia
Ranevskaya: Geraldine James
Violinist: Maxim Vengerov
Piano player: Vag Papian
Woman at 30: Joely Richardson
Jeffrey: Simon Williams
Woman's husband 30 years ago: Marinko Prga
Children: Lea Spisic, Raphael Sparanero, Tonka Simurina
Ballet dancers: Georg Stanciu, Jelena Knezovic...
HBO
The problem with The Fever isn't its production values or its performances or even the idealism that it wears on its sleeve. All of those are beyond reproach. What proves to be its undoing is the heavy-handed fashion in which the upper-middle-class white guilt story line plays out.
There is nary an ounce of subtlety in the screenplay from Wallace Shawn (My Dinner With Andre) and Carlo Nero, which Shawn adapted from his own stage play. It's all about the illumination that comes over one older woman after she takes a step back to examine her privileged life through the prism of a poor, war-stricken country, but the HBO telefilm -- shot entirely on location in Zagreb, Croatia -- sounds the same strident note repeatedly while at the same time neglecting the eloquence of restraint.
Because Vanessa Redgrave is the film's sole star, the project's politicization is hardly a shock. She's a dynamic and courageous actress, an Oscar winner and an artist of impeccable talent. But Redgrave also has a history of injecting her belief system into her work, or at least the tendency to accept those that jibe with her social mindset. Fever is no exception.
While its class-conscious heart obviously is in the right place, it makes its points with such obsessive self-awareness and altruism that it tends to trump eloquent points about the widening gap between haves and have-nots.
At the core of the movie's world view are its generic underpinnings. It's set in an unknown nation so as to apparently remove preconceived notions from the equation, and its characters (including Redgrave) mostly have no formal names. Redgrave is Woman. There also is Piano player, Thin young man and Bitter man. Star cameos abound, also in plain wrap characters: Joely Richardson is Woman at 30, Michael Moore (yes, that Michael Moore) is War correspondent and Angelina Jolie portrays the Young woman in the church. The conceit is that it doesn't matter who these people are or where they are; it and they are simple metaphors for grinding injustice.
Fever is set in motion by the feverish semi-delirium of a well-off English woman (Redgrave), who is briefly consumed by a mysterious illness while traveling in a dirt-poor nation ravaged by war, atrocity and the stranglehold of a rich ruling class. Her fever sends her imagination into overdrive and a "psychological voyage of self-discovery" (as an HBO news release puts it). Narrating her own tale, she reflects on the happiness and comfort of her nice little life in the West while at the same time awakening to the poverty, misery and brutality that is the lot of so many who don't happen to be born into such fortunate circumstances. She gets bummed out that she suddenly sees herself as more shallow and less worldly wise than she had ever imagined.
Yet while the film likes to think it is making profound points about inequality and unfairness, the scribes fail to connect the dots in a way that would bring Fever anything approaching true insight. Director Nero and director of photography Mark Moriarty bring a grayish, washed-out look to the production that effectively matches its downbeat outlook, and the players -- Redgrave in particular -- supply artistic heft. But this still is mostly a piece about the residual guilt suffered by the blessed rather than the towering chronicle of class-consciousness that it so aspires to be.
THE FEVER
HBO
Shawn Fever, Blumhouse Prods. and HBO Films
Credits:
Executive producers: Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Blum
Co-executive producer: Carlo Nero
Co-producer: Andrew Warren
Associate producer: Igor Aleksander Nola
Teleplay: Wallace Shawn, Carlo Nero
Director: Carlo Nero
Based on the play by: Wallace Shawn
Director of photography: Mark Moriarty
Production designer: Ivica Trpcic
Costume designer: Vjera Ivankovic
Editor: Mel Quigley
Music: Claudio Capponi
Casting: Siobhan Bracke
Cast:
Woman: Vanessa Redgrave
War correspondent: Michael Moore
Young woman in the church: Angelina Jolie
Diplomat: Rade Sherbedgia
Ranevskaya: Geraldine James
Violinist: Maxim Vengerov
Piano player: Vag Papian
Woman at 30: Joely Richardson
Jeffrey: Simon Williams
Woman's husband 30 years ago: Marinko Prga
Children: Lea Spisic, Raphael Sparanero, Tonka Simurina
Ballet dancers: Georg Stanciu, Jelena Knezovic...
- 6/13/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Oscar-winning documentary maker Michael Moore has made his big screen acting debut, playing a political journalist in upcoming movie The Fever. The politically-outspoken Bowling For Columbine director stars alongside Vanessa Redgrave and her daughter Joely Richardson in the HBO Films production, which is currently in post-production in London. The film, directed by Redgrave's son and Richardson's half-brother Carlo Gabriel Nero, is adapted from Wallace Shawn's play of the same name, and follows the political awakening of a middle-class woman. Moore plays a rebellious reporter covering politics in countries under turmoil. Jason Blum, who produced the film with Redgrave, says, "Michael has one big scene with Vanessa, and we were a little nervous because no one's ever really seen him act before. But he totally pulled it off." Bosses have yet to decide if the film will be released to cinemas or make its debut on cable TV.
- 11/3/2003
- WENN
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.