With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
Andrew Haigh’s third feature as a director, 45 Years, is an excellent companion piece to its 2011 predecessor, Weekend. The latter examined the inception of a potential relationship between two men over the course of a weekend, whereas its successor considers the opposite extreme. Again sticking to a tight timeframe, the film chronicles the six days leading up to a couple’s 45th wedding anniversary.
45 Years (Andrew Haigh)
Andrew Haigh’s third feature as a director, 45 Years, is an excellent companion piece to its 2011 predecessor, Weekend. The latter examined the inception of a potential relationship between two men over the course of a weekend, whereas its successor considers the opposite extreme. Again sticking to a tight timeframe, the film chronicles the six days leading up to a couple’s 45th wedding anniversary.
- 6/17/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Get out those orange jumpsuits: Season 4 of "Orange Is the New Black" debuts on Netflix on June 17.
Also new in June: The first three "Jurassic Park" films, "Life" (starring Robert Pattinson as a Life magazine photographer and Dane DeHaan as James Dean) and Best Picture Oscar winner "Spotlight." ("The Big Short" arrives in July.)
Here's the complete list of what's new on Netflix streaming in June 2016:
Available June 1
"7 Chinese Brothers" (2015)
"72 Cutest Animals:" Season 1
"72 Dangerous Places:" Season 1
"A Walk to Remember" (2002)
"Big Stone Gap" (2014)
"Bob Ross: Beauty is Everywhere (1990)
"Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed:" Season 1-2
"Cold in July" (2014)
"Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land On The Moon?" (2001)
"Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution" (2015)
"(Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies" (2015)
"El Libro de Piedra" (1969)
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (2007)
"Extraordinary Tales" (2015)
"The Fear of 13" (2015)
"Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel García Márquez" (2015)
"Gentlemen and Gangsters:" Season 1
"The Good Witch...
Also new in June: The first three "Jurassic Park" films, "Life" (starring Robert Pattinson as a Life magazine photographer and Dane DeHaan as James Dean) and Best Picture Oscar winner "Spotlight." ("The Big Short" arrives in July.)
Here's the complete list of what's new on Netflix streaming in June 2016:
Available June 1
"7 Chinese Brothers" (2015)
"72 Cutest Animals:" Season 1
"72 Dangerous Places:" Season 1
"A Walk to Remember" (2002)
"Big Stone Gap" (2014)
"Bob Ross: Beauty is Everywhere (1990)
"Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed:" Season 1-2
"Cold in July" (2014)
"Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land On The Moon?" (2001)
"Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution" (2015)
"(Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies" (2015)
"El Libro de Piedra" (1969)
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (2007)
"Extraordinary Tales" (2015)
"The Fear of 13" (2015)
"Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel García Márquez" (2015)
"Gentlemen and Gangsters:" Season 1
"The Good Witch...
- 5/23/2016
- by Sharon Knolle
- Moviefone
Read More: Review: 'TransFatty Lives' is a Groundbreaking Documentary About Living With Als I'm a big subscriber to the notion that the show must go on. I've always been that way. In my twenties, toys, girls, music, drugs...they all obsessed me. Yet more than anything, I was into filmmaking. I spent most days trying to develop a feature — I must have written 10 scripts by the time I was 30 — and all the while I was making short films. In the fall of 2004 I noticed an uncontrollable shaking in my legs. By the following year I had been diagnosed with Als — Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease). When I got sick and was told I had two years left, it was like "last call." I had to make a film now or know I never would. That’s when "TransFatty Lives" was first born. Ian Dudley...
- 11/20/2015
- by Patrick O'Brien
- Indiewire
Read More: Tribeca Review: 'TransFatty Lives' is a Groundbreaking Documentary About Living With Als In a new emotional clip for "TransFatty Lives," we are introduced to Patrick O'Brien, a DJ and internet personality also known as TransFatty, who lives with Als in the Maryland suburbs. Described by Indiewire as "a stirring blend of diary film and advocacy, "TransFatty Lives" won the Audience Award at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. "TransFatty Lives" documents how O'Brien's decade-long experience with the illness has changed his own outlook on life and the outlook of those who surround him. Despite O'Brien's worsening condition, the film is surprisingly not downbeat. A deeply personal film directed by O'Brien himself, "TransFatty Lives" wears O'Brien's vibrant personality on its sleeve. In the clip above, we watch O'Brien trick or treating with children on Halloween. When asked if he wants chocolate, O'Brien...
- 11/11/2015
- by Tarek Shoukri
- Indiewire
New festival director Leena Pasanaen also talks future plans.
Polish DoP-director Wojciech Staron’s Brothers was the big winner at this year’s Dok Leipzig (Oct 26 to Nov 1), the first edition under the new festival director Leena Pasanen.
The International Competition jury, which included Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic and Docpoint Helsinki’s artistic director Ulla Simonen, awarded the festival’s main award, the €10,000 Golden Dove, to Brothers about the love-hate relationship between two Polish brothers in their 80s.
Handled internationally by Capricci Films, the film had its world premiere in Locarno’s Semaine de la Critique in August where it won the Best Film Award.
This award is Staron’s second Dove after receiving the Silver Dove for his documentary Argentinian Lesson at Dok Leipzig in 2011.
He had also served as the DoP on Jerzy Sladkowski’s Vodka Factory which won the main Golden Dove in 2010.
In addition, a co-production with Poland - Romanian filmmaker Anca Damian’s animated...
Polish DoP-director Wojciech Staron’s Brothers was the big winner at this year’s Dok Leipzig (Oct 26 to Nov 1), the first edition under the new festival director Leena Pasanen.
The International Competition jury, which included Bosnian filmmaker Jasmila Zbanic and Docpoint Helsinki’s artistic director Ulla Simonen, awarded the festival’s main award, the €10,000 Golden Dove, to Brothers about the love-hate relationship between two Polish brothers in their 80s.
Handled internationally by Capricci Films, the film had its world premiere in Locarno’s Semaine de la Critique in August where it won the Best Film Award.
This award is Staron’s second Dove after receiving the Silver Dove for his documentary Argentinian Lesson at Dok Leipzig in 2011.
He had also served as the DoP on Jerzy Sladkowski’s Vodka Factory which won the main Golden Dove in 2010.
In addition, a co-production with Poland - Romanian filmmaker Anca Damian’s animated...
- 11/2/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Read More: Tribeca Review: 'TransFatty Lives' is a Groundbreaking Documentary About Living With Als FilmBuff has picked up U.S. distribution rights to "TransFatty Lives," which won the Audience Award at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. The film stars and is directed by Patrick O'Brien, a DJ and internet personality who goes by the moniker TransFatty. The film is a 10 year journey in O'Brien's life that begins after he is diagnosed with Als and given two to five years to live. "TransFatty Lives" is a personal document of O'Brien's struggle with the illness and an inspiring story of a man facing unspeakable challenges. FilmBuff will release "TransFatty Lives" theatrically and On Demand on November 20. Watch the trailer above. Watch: Tribeca Doc 'TransFatty Lives' Battles Als in Emotional Trailer...
- 10/26/2015
- by Wil Barlow
- Indiewire
TransFatty Lives is a stunning personal documentary directed by Patrick O’Brien aka DJ Transfatty, an artist/filmmaker living with Als. Produced, written and co-edited by Doug Pray, known best to me for his transcendent musical documentary Scratch and his documentaries about artists, he’s intensely interested in the process. Here he transforms O’Brien’s material into an accessible and […]...
- 4/27/2015
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Read More: Watch: Exclusive 'King Jack' Clip Teases Tribeca Coming-of-Age Drama The directorial debuts of Felix Thompson and Patrick O'Brien were the big winners at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival over the weekend, as "King Jack" and "TransFatty Lives" won the two Audience Awards, respectively. "Jack" was chosen to receive the Narrative Award and "TransFatty" won for Documentary. Each award comes with a cash prize of $25,000. "The awards go to two powerful and charming stories of young men facing their deepest fears and overcoming their own challenges," said Genna Terranova, Tribeca Film Festival Director "These fiction and non-fiction stories of triumph and resilience clearly resonated with audiences this year." "King Jack" follows a hardened 15-year-old in a rural town as he discovers the importance of friendship, family and looking for happiness even in the most desolate of circumstances....
- 4/27/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Read More: Meet the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival Filmmakers Patrick O'Brien's "TransFatty Lives," filmed over 10 years, tells the intimate story of what it's like to live with Als (a.k.a. Lou Gehrig's disease). A onetime NYC deejay and Internet superstar known as "TransFatty," O'Brien began to document his life in 2005, after being diagnosed with Als and given only 2-5 years to live. The film unflinchingly looks the possibility of death in the face, while at the same time exploring all the things that make life worth living. What's your film about in 140 characters or less? Boy becomes gimp, gimp makes film, gimp gets girl, girl and gimp have baby, gimp loses girl, gimp loses fuckin’ mind, gimp goes down in cinema history. Now what's it Really about? "TransFatty Lives" is a 10-year epic visual diary. It's an emotional rollercoaster. It takes you into the dark heart of Als (a.
- 4/17/2015
- by Anya Jaremko-Greenwold
- Indiewire
New York underground filmmaker Patrick O'Brien narrates "TransFatty Lives," the documentary about his experience with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — aka Lou Gherig's Disease — in the mechanical voice that ultimately replaced his real one after a tracheotomy. The effect is immediate intimacy with O'Brien's perspective as well as his condition, a remarkable feat that extends to the rest of the movie, which O'Brien himself directed over the course of the decade that has elapsed since his initial diagnosis. The resulting project is a stirring blend of diary film and advocacy, chronicling the debilitating effects of Als and various means of coping with it, with O'Brien's perseverance conveyed in each scene by the movie's very existence. But "TransFatty Lives" stands out less for its inherently emotional topic than the appealing personality at its center. The portly, bearded O'Brien's spunky attitude, epitomized by his online identity as performance artist...
- 4/16/2015
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Read More: 5 Observations About the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival Lineup In the autobiographical documentary "TransFatty Lives," director Patrick O'Brien, best known as the eponymous onetime NYC DJ and Internet meme-making superstar, turns the camera on himself to document his life after being diagnosed with Als in 2005 and given only 2-5 years to live. The result is a brazen, illustrative and deeply personal account of what it's like to live when you find out you are going to die. In the emotional trailer above, O'Brien confronts his diagnosis with inspiring optimism. Combining home movie footage with personal accounts from friends and clips from his days of Internet stardom, "TransFatty Lives" is bound to be one of the more life-affirming features at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. The documentary will have its world premiere April 16. Check out the official film poster below: Read More: Tribeca 2015: Harvey Weinstein, Christopher Nolan,...
- 4/1/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Andrew Renzi‘s directorial debut about a third wheel starring Richard Gere, Dakota Fanning and Theo James, Reed Morano‘s relationship testing drama featuring Olivia Wilde and Luke Wilson, Onur Tukel‘s secret unleashed on the airwaves and Gregory Kohn‘s hallucinatory tale with Eléonore Hendricks topling are part of the American independent offerings at the 14th Tribeca Film Festival. Renzi’s Franny and Morano’s Meadowland will be competing in the dozen selected in the World Narrative Competition while Tukel’s Applesauce and Kohn’s Come Down Molly are among the in the Viewpoints sidebar. Here are the selected titles below sans synopsis.
World Narrative Feature Competition (12)
The Adderall Diaries, directed and written by Pamela Romanowsky. (USA) – World Premiere.
Bridgend, directed by Jeppe Rønde, co-written by Jeppe Rønde, Torben Bech, and Peter Asmussen. (Denmark) – North American Premiere.
Dixieland, directed and written by Hank Bedford. (USA) – World Premiere
Franny, directed and written by Andrew Renzi.
World Narrative Feature Competition (12)
The Adderall Diaries, directed and written by Pamela Romanowsky. (USA) – World Premiere.
Bridgend, directed by Jeppe Rønde, co-written by Jeppe Rønde, Torben Bech, and Peter Asmussen. (Denmark) – North American Premiere.
Dixieland, directed and written by Hank Bedford. (USA) – World Premiere
Franny, directed and written by Andrew Renzi.
- 3/3/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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