After last year’s stateside success with Call Me By Your Name, Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino is back with a “re-imagining” of Dario Argento’s 1970s classic Suspiria. The update, which stars Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, Mia Goth and Chloë Grace Moretz, heads to theaters this weekend via Amazon Studios. Legendary documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman is out with his latest film, Monrovia, Indiana. Wiseman, who helped define the big screen non-fiction genre over the decades, has yet to receive awards recognition, though his latest, released via his Zipporah Films label, could change that. Susan Sarandon stars in Viper Club from YouTube Originals and Roadside Attractions, the largest U.S. theatrical release for a YouTube financed feature. Neon is heading out with Scandinavian-based filmmaker Ali Abbasi’s Border, based on a story by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist. Following its bow as the opening night film at New York Lgbt film festival NewFest,...
- 10/26/2018
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
This new documentary film summarizes, illustrates and connects one of the principal structural elements of American society …. since the country began over 300 years ago. It is told through the discoveries of two white southern and privileged women who grew up uncomfortably aware of their own advantage in the long shadow of a disproportionately large disadvantaged population, that of the African Americans.
The argument that The Long Shadow cogently, convincingly makes is, that today descendants of millions of African slaves brought here still suffer discrimination and multiple entrenched social injustices which are specifically designed to keep these people down and exploited.
Director Frances Causey and Co-Creator and Editor Maureen Gosling attended the festival and I had the chance to talk with Maureen about the incredible amount of research that went into this film. “It’s surprising how much you can find by way of images through Google these days. Frances sent...
The argument that The Long Shadow cogently, convincingly makes is, that today descendants of millions of African slaves brought here still suffer discrimination and multiple entrenched social injustices which are specifically designed to keep these people down and exploited.
Director Frances Causey and Co-Creator and Editor Maureen Gosling attended the festival and I had the chance to talk with Maureen about the incredible amount of research that went into this film. “It’s surprising how much you can find by way of images through Google these days. Frances sent...
- 11/13/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Showcasing the Best in Independent and World Cinema
Thursday, October 5–15, 2017Acclaimed Festival Films From Around the World And New Offerings from Bay Area Filmmakers Highlight First Slate of Films Announced at 40th Mill Valley Film Festival
The Mill Valley Film Festival (Mvff), presented by the California Film Institute, has announced the first set of films to premiere at the 40th edition of the Festival, returning to Marin County October 5–15, 2017. The Festival will present the Bay Area premiere of many acclaimed films from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.
Additionally, Mvff will launch many acclaimed Bay Area filmmakers’ latest films as part of the Festival’s effort to showcase the many established and emerging filmmakers in the Bay Area.
Early Confirmed films from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival at MVFF40:
Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or Winner and Swedish Oscar Submission The Square...
Thursday, October 5–15, 2017Acclaimed Festival Films From Around the World And New Offerings from Bay Area Filmmakers Highlight First Slate of Films Announced at 40th Mill Valley Film Festival
The Mill Valley Film Festival (Mvff), presented by the California Film Institute, has announced the first set of films to premiere at the 40th edition of the Festival, returning to Marin County October 5–15, 2017. The Festival will present the Bay Area premiere of many acclaimed films from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.
Additionally, Mvff will launch many acclaimed Bay Area filmmakers’ latest films as part of the Festival’s effort to showcase the many established and emerging filmmakers in the Bay Area.
Early Confirmed films from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival at MVFF40:
Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or Winner and Swedish Oscar Submission The Square...
- 9/5/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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