Following the death of Oj Simpson this week, veteran TV presenter and comedienne Ruby Wax has written about the time she spent interviewing the footballing legend turned pariah for her BBC chat show.
Back in 1998, Wax travelled to Los Angeles where she spent 17 hours with Simpson. Writing in The Times of London this weekend, she says the moment he re-enacted his alleged killings of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman – for which he went through “the trial of the century” before being acquitted in 1995 – wasn’t even the weirdest part of the day.
Wax writes:
“After a manic 17 hours’ filming, I asked him for the final time whether he was involved in the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. I was sure we could get him to confess. But he simply turned to the camera, said “no” and gave a rueful smile.
Back in 1998, Wax travelled to Los Angeles where she spent 17 hours with Simpson. Writing in The Times of London this weekend, she says the moment he re-enacted his alleged killings of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman – for which he went through “the trial of the century” before being acquitted in 1995 – wasn’t even the weirdest part of the day.
Wax writes:
“After a manic 17 hours’ filming, I asked him for the final time whether he was involved in the 1994 murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman. I was sure we could get him to confess. But he simply turned to the camera, said “no” and gave a rueful smile.
- 4/14/2024
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Alex Moffat (Saturday Night Live), Joel David Moore (Avatar franchise), Lizze Broadway (Gen V), Urzila Carlson (upcoming Ozi: Voice of the Forest), and Francis Benhamou (Arranged) are the final additions to the cast of Netflix and Happy Madison’s rom-com Kinda Pregnant, starring Amy Schumer.
Details as to their roles are under wraps. Directed by Tyler Spindel (The Out-Laws), the film’s ensemble also includes Jillian Bell, Will Forte, Damon Wayans Jr., Brianne Howey, and Chris Geere, as we were first to report.
In the film written by Julie Paiva, we follow Lainy (Schumer), who given jealousy over her best friend’s pregnancy, begins wearing a fake baby bump… then accidentally meeting the man of her dreams. In addition to Schumer, producers on the project include Adam Sandler, Tim Herlihy, Judit Maull, Kevin Grady and Eli Thomas for Happy Madison, Molly Sims for Something Happy Productions, and Alex Saks for Saks Picture Company.
Details as to their roles are under wraps. Directed by Tyler Spindel (The Out-Laws), the film’s ensemble also includes Jillian Bell, Will Forte, Damon Wayans Jr., Brianne Howey, and Chris Geere, as we were first to report.
In the film written by Julie Paiva, we follow Lainy (Schumer), who given jealousy over her best friend’s pregnancy, begins wearing a fake baby bump… then accidentally meeting the man of her dreams. In addition to Schumer, producers on the project include Adam Sandler, Tim Herlihy, Judit Maull, Kevin Grady and Eli Thomas for Happy Madison, Molly Sims for Something Happy Productions, and Alex Saks for Saks Picture Company.
- 3/19/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Cinephiles will have plenty to celebrate this April with the next slate of additions to the Criterion Channel. The boutique distributor, which recently announced its June 2024 Blu-ray releases, has unveiled its new streaming lineup highlighted by an eclectic mix of classic films and modern arthouse hits.
Students of Hollywood history will be treated to the “Peak Noir: 1950” collection, which features 17 noir films from the landmark film year from directors including Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, and John Huston.
New Hollywood maverick William Friedkin will also be celebrated when five of his most beloved movies, including “Sorcerer” and “The Exorcist,” come to the channel in April.
Criterion will offer the streaming premiere of Wim Wenders’ 3D art documentary “Anselm,” which will be accompanied by the “Wim Wenders’ Adventures in Moviegoing” collection, which sees the director curating a selection of films from around the world that have influenced his careers.
Contemporary cinema is also well represented,...
Students of Hollywood history will be treated to the “Peak Noir: 1950” collection, which features 17 noir films from the landmark film year from directors including Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, and John Huston.
New Hollywood maverick William Friedkin will also be celebrated when five of his most beloved movies, including “Sorcerer” and “The Exorcist,” come to the channel in April.
Criterion will offer the streaming premiere of Wim Wenders’ 3D art documentary “Anselm,” which will be accompanied by the “Wim Wenders’ Adventures in Moviegoing” collection, which sees the director curating a selection of films from around the world that have influenced his careers.
Contemporary cinema is also well represented,...
- 3/18/2024
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
April’s an uncommonly strong auteurist month for the Criterion Channel, who will highlight a number of directors––many of whom aren’t often grouped together. Just after we screened House of Tolerance at the Roxy Cinema, Criterion are showing it and Nocturama for a two-film Bertrand Bonello retrospective, starting just four days before The Beast opens. Larger and rarer (but just as French) is the complete Jean Eustache series Janus toured last year. Meanwhile, five William Friedkin films and work from Makoto Shinkai, Lizzie Borden, and Rosine Mbakam are given a highlight.
One of my very favorite films, Comrades: Almost a Love Story plays in a series I’ve been trying to program for years: “Hong Kong in New York,” boasting the magnificent Full Moon in New York, Farewell China, and An Autumn’s Tale. Wim Wenders gets his “Adventures in Moviegoing”; After Hours, Personal Shopper, and Werckmeister Harmonies fill...
One of my very favorite films, Comrades: Almost a Love Story plays in a series I’ve been trying to program for years: “Hong Kong in New York,” boasting the magnificent Full Moon in New York, Farewell China, and An Autumn’s Tale. Wim Wenders gets his “Adventures in Moviegoing”; After Hours, Personal Shopper, and Werckmeister Harmonies fill...
- 3/18/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
We’re excited to announce another brand new addition to Bloody Disgusting’s podcast network, Bloody FM – welcome 3 Spooked Girls to our always growing horror podcast network!
In 3 Spooked Girls, Tara and Jessica, two long time best friends obsessed with all things haunted and the depraved, cover topics from cryptids to notorious serial killers.
The show started as a bi-monthly, paranormal-only podcast with the eponymous three hosts, but life happens, and with the third host stepping back, Jessica and Tara decided to push forward, making their third host “Kate the Bell Witch.” Since listeners often tell them that the show feels like listening to their friends talk, the hosts have adopted the listeners themselves as their unofficial third host.
After a few months on the air, they introduced their other favorite topic, true crime, by discussing the Lizzie Borden case and the house that is still haunted by the Borden family.
In 3 Spooked Girls, Tara and Jessica, two long time best friends obsessed with all things haunted and the depraved, cover topics from cryptids to notorious serial killers.
The show started as a bi-monthly, paranormal-only podcast with the eponymous three hosts, but life happens, and with the third host stepping back, Jessica and Tara decided to push forward, making their third host “Kate the Bell Witch.” Since listeners often tell them that the show feels like listening to their friends talk, the hosts have adopted the listeners themselves as their unofficial third host.
After a few months on the air, they introduced their other favorite topic, true crime, by discussing the Lizzie Borden case and the house that is still haunted by the Borden family.
- 2/16/2024
- by Klaudia Amenabar
- bloody-disgusting.com
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Film at Lincoln Center
A retrospective of Denis Villeneuve’s work also brings the director’s programming choices, among them films by Godard, Resnais, Cassavetes, and Wong Kar-wai.
Roxy Cinema
Bob Fosse’s Star 80, The Piano Teacher, The Pillow Book, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and End of Night all play on 35mm.
Anthology Film Archives
As retrospective of Haitian cinema continues, films by Hollis Frampton and Ernie Gehr play Saturday and Sunday, respectively.
Film Forum
“Sapph-o-rama” continues with films by Nicholas Ray, Jonathan Demme, Lizzie Borden, and more; a 4K restoration of Pandora’s Box has begun a run; a print of The Third Man continues, while the Harold Lloyd film Hot Water shows on 35mm this Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
A retrospective of snubbed performances brings films by Scorsese, Elaine May, Jonathan Demme, and Gus Van Sant...
Film at Lincoln Center
A retrospective of Denis Villeneuve’s work also brings the director’s programming choices, among them films by Godard, Resnais, Cassavetes, and Wong Kar-wai.
Roxy Cinema
Bob Fosse’s Star 80, The Piano Teacher, The Pillow Book, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and End of Night all play on 35mm.
Anthology Film Archives
As retrospective of Haitian cinema continues, films by Hollis Frampton and Ernie Gehr play Saturday and Sunday, respectively.
Film Forum
“Sapph-o-rama” continues with films by Nicholas Ray, Jonathan Demme, Lizzie Borden, and more; a 4K restoration of Pandora’s Box has begun a run; a print of The Third Man continues, while the Harold Lloyd film Hot Water shows on 35mm this Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
A retrospective of snubbed performances brings films by Scorsese, Elaine May, Jonathan Demme, and Gus Van Sant...
- 2/16/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Museum of Modern Art
A massive run of Luis Buñuel’s Mexican films begins; “To Save and Project,” continues.
Film at Lincoln Center
“Never Look Away: Serge Daney’s Radical 1970s” brings films by Tati, Samuel Fuller, Nicholas Ray (x2), Godard, Straub-Huillet, Pasolini, and more.
Film Forum
“Sapph-o-rama” highlights lesbian cinema with films by Chantal Akerman, Lizzie Borden, Ulrike Ottinger, Yvonne Rainer, Celine Sciamma, and more; a 4K restoration of The Pianist, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, and The Third Man continue; a print of Calamity Jane plays on Sunday.
IFC Center
As Francis Ford Coppola’s latest recut, One from the Heart: Reprise, continues, Bertrand Bonello’s masterpiece Coma gets a New York premiere and a Dario Argento series begins; Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar plays late.
Roxy Cinema
Cronenberg’s Crash and Keith McNally...
Museum of Modern Art
A massive run of Luis Buñuel’s Mexican films begins; “To Save and Project,” continues.
Film at Lincoln Center
“Never Look Away: Serge Daney’s Radical 1970s” brings films by Tati, Samuel Fuller, Nicholas Ray (x2), Godard, Straub-Huillet, Pasolini, and more.
Film Forum
“Sapph-o-rama” highlights lesbian cinema with films by Chantal Akerman, Lizzie Borden, Ulrike Ottinger, Yvonne Rainer, Celine Sciamma, and more; a 4K restoration of The Pianist, I Heard It Through the Grapevine, and The Third Man continue; a print of Calamity Jane plays on Sunday.
IFC Center
As Francis Ford Coppola’s latest recut, One from the Heart: Reprise, continues, Bertrand Bonello’s masterpiece Coma gets a New York premiere and a Dario Argento series begins; Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar plays late.
Roxy Cinema
Cronenberg’s Crash and Keith McNally...
- 2/2/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Shopworn concept improved by up-and-coming actor Odessa A’zion, who is insanely watchable in director Jerren Lauder’s American gothic tale
Director Jerren Lauder has levelled up his directing skills considerably since his debut feature, Stay Out of the F**king Attic from 2020. Sure, the jump-scares, body-hopping demons and gore-letting represent the usual dime-store theatrics you expect from low-budget scare-’em-ups. But there’s a lot more finesse here in the telling of the backstory, as well as an unsettling moody soundtrack by Sanford Parker, and a sense of menace lurking around every corner in the bland suburban setting; together it evokes indie “elevated horror” features such as It Follows. But the component that really kicks The Inhabitant up a notch is the lead performance from young Odessa A’zion, who is insanely watchable as Tara, a troubled teenager in her final year of high school living with her lower-middle-class parents, Emily...
Director Jerren Lauder has levelled up his directing skills considerably since his debut feature, Stay Out of the F**king Attic from 2020. Sure, the jump-scares, body-hopping demons and gore-letting represent the usual dime-store theatrics you expect from low-budget scare-’em-ups. But there’s a lot more finesse here in the telling of the backstory, as well as an unsettling moody soundtrack by Sanford Parker, and a sense of menace lurking around every corner in the bland suburban setting; together it evokes indie “elevated horror” features such as It Follows. But the component that really kicks The Inhabitant up a notch is the lead performance from young Odessa A’zion, who is insanely watchable as Tara, a troubled teenager in her final year of high school living with her lower-middle-class parents, Emily...
- 8/8/2023
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
The Movie Partnership have announced that new horror thriller The Inhabitant will be coming to digital download – in the UK – from 14th August 2023.
The Inhabitant comes from Emmy award-winning writer Kevin Bachar and is directed by Jerren Lauder (You’re Killing Me) and stars Odessa A’zion, Leslie Bibb (Iron Man franchise), Dermot Mulroney, and Lizzie Broadway.
After discovering she is a descendant of the notorious axe murderer, Lizzie Borden, Tara is tormented by violent visions. As her nightmares start bleeding over into real life, she must confront her deepest fears and unravel the century old Borden family curse…
Check out the trailer and poster below:...
The Inhabitant comes from Emmy award-winning writer Kevin Bachar and is directed by Jerren Lauder (You’re Killing Me) and stars Odessa A’zion, Leslie Bibb (Iron Man franchise), Dermot Mulroney, and Lizzie Broadway.
After discovering she is a descendant of the notorious axe murderer, Lizzie Borden, Tara is tormented by violent visions. As her nightmares start bleeding over into real life, she must confront her deepest fears and unravel the century old Borden family curse…
Check out the trailer and poster below:...
- 7/14/2023
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Roxy Cinema
The Last Temptation of Christ and The Flowers of St. Francis have 35mm showings for Easter Weekend, while Barbarella and The Terminator also screen on film; Ken Jacobs’ Two Wrenching Departures plays on Sunday with Jacobs present.
IFC Center
Gregg Araki presents Something Wild on 35mm this Friday, while his film The Doom Generation opens in a director’s cut; Beau Travail offers a Claire Denis fix; Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight screen, while Akira and Barb Wire have late showings, with Wild Things showing on 35mm.
Bam
One of Shôhei Imamura’s last films, Warm Water Under a Red Bridge, is screening, while “Queering the Canon” offers films by Lizzie Borden, Funeral Parade of Roses, and more.
Museum of the Moving Image
A series on Jeanne Dielman‘s influences brings the film itself and work by Varda,...
Roxy Cinema
The Last Temptation of Christ and The Flowers of St. Francis have 35mm showings for Easter Weekend, while Barbarella and The Terminator also screen on film; Ken Jacobs’ Two Wrenching Departures plays on Sunday with Jacobs present.
IFC Center
Gregg Araki presents Something Wild on 35mm this Friday, while his film The Doom Generation opens in a director’s cut; Beau Travail offers a Claire Denis fix; Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight screen, while Akira and Barb Wire have late showings, with Wild Things showing on 35mm.
Bam
One of Shôhei Imamura’s last films, Warm Water Under a Red Bridge, is screening, while “Queering the Canon” offers films by Lizzie Borden, Funeral Parade of Roses, and more.
Museum of the Moving Image
A series on Jeanne Dielman‘s influences brings the film itself and work by Varda,...
- 4/7/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)
The Movie: "Basket Case"
Where You Can Stream It: The Criterion Channel, Tubi, Kanopy, Screambox, Arrow
The Pitch: Backed by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a group of scattered New York artists gathered in a room sometime in 1974 to talk. Their goal was to assemble a loosely organized art collective that would remain in artistic control of its own exhibitions and its own cable TV station. The resulting collective was called Collaborative Projects, or Colab for short. Colab proceeded to put on public variety performances with names like "Income and Wealth Show," "The Batman Show," and "Just Another A**hole Show." The Colab also sponsored a series of feature films that came to be known as the No Wave movement.
The Movie: "Basket Case"
Where You Can Stream It: The Criterion Channel, Tubi, Kanopy, Screambox, Arrow
The Pitch: Backed by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a group of scattered New York artists gathered in a room sometime in 1974 to talk. Their goal was to assemble a loosely organized art collective that would remain in artistic control of its own exhibitions and its own cable TV station. The resulting collective was called Collaborative Projects, or Colab for short. Colab proceeded to put on public variety performances with names like "Income and Wealth Show," "The Batman Show," and "Just Another A**hole Show." The Colab also sponsored a series of feature films that came to be known as the No Wave movement.
- 2/25/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Film at Lincoln Center
Claire Denis’ masterful first feature Chocolat has been restored in 4K and begins a run.
Anthology Film Archives
“Working Girl(s)” highlights the working woman, spanning Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames to Mike Nichols’ Working Girl, while a series curated by Borden gets underway.
Paris Theater
After Hours screens on Sunday with a Griffin Dunne Q&a to follow.
Film Forum
The Sorrow and the Pity begins a run; Lou Ye’s Suzhou River continues showing in a 4K restoration while Song of the Sea plays this Sunday.
Roxy Cinema
The Todd Solondz retro continues with 35mm showings of Palindromes and Life During Wartime, while Wiener-Dog also shows; a puppet program plays on 16mm this Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
Miyazaki’s Ponyo plays Saturday and Sunday; Argento’s Deep Red plays Saturday.
IFC Center
House,...
Film at Lincoln Center
Claire Denis’ masterful first feature Chocolat has been restored in 4K and begins a run.
Anthology Film Archives
“Working Girl(s)” highlights the working woman, spanning Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames to Mike Nichols’ Working Girl, while a series curated by Borden gets underway.
Paris Theater
After Hours screens on Sunday with a Griffin Dunne Q&a to follow.
Film Forum
The Sorrow and the Pity begins a run; Lou Ye’s Suzhou River continues showing in a 4K restoration while Song of the Sea plays this Sunday.
Roxy Cinema
The Todd Solondz retro continues with 35mm showings of Palindromes and Life During Wartime, while Wiener-Dog also shows; a puppet program plays on 16mm this Sunday.
Museum of the Moving Image
Miyazaki’s Ponyo plays Saturday and Sunday; Argento’s Deep Red plays Saturday.
IFC Center
House,...
- 2/23/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Érica Sarmet's A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here is now showing exclusively on Mubi in most countries starting February 9, 2023, in the series Brief Encounters.A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here is a film about desire. Lesbian desire, of course, but also the desire for belonging, for serendipity, for freer and lighter relations, for a never-ending past and those who inhabit it, and for a more welcoming future in which we hope not only to be, but to be with. It is also, as it could not be otherwise, a film about my own personal desires. I knew I had a lot to say about lesbian figuration in Brazilian cinema, but as hard as I tried, I couldn't express it in words alone. I needed images that would help me invite people to feel what I felt (or as close to it as possible). That's why I decided...
- 2/8/2023
- MUBI
Actress Chloë Sevigny ("Poker Face") poses for "Evening Standard" magazine, photographed by Petra Collins:
Sevigny first appeared in music videos for 'Sonic Youth' and 'The Lemonheads'. In 1995, she made her feature film debut in "Kids" with roles in small-scale features including "Trees Lounge" (1996).
Sevigny played 'Lana Tisdel' in the drama film "Boys Don't Cry" (1999), earning an Oscar nomination for 'Best Supporting Actress'.
Sevigny then appeared in numerous independent films, including "American Psycho" (2000), "Demonlover" (2002), "Party Monster" (2003), "Dogville" (2003) and "The Brown Bunny" (2004).
From 2006 to 2011, Sevigny portrayed 'Nicolette Grant' on the HBO series "Big Love", winning a Golden Globe Award for 'Best Supporting Actress' in 2010. She also appeared in mainstream films including "Zodiac (2007) and the biopic "Mr. Nice" (2010).
Sevigny went on to appear in TV projects "Hit & Miss" (2012), "Portlandia" (2013), two seasons of "American Horror Story" (2015) and Netflix series "Bloodline" (2017). She also played 'Lizzie Borden' in the thriller "Lizzie:...
Sevigny first appeared in music videos for 'Sonic Youth' and 'The Lemonheads'. In 1995, she made her feature film debut in "Kids" with roles in small-scale features including "Trees Lounge" (1996).
Sevigny played 'Lana Tisdel' in the drama film "Boys Don't Cry" (1999), earning an Oscar nomination for 'Best Supporting Actress'.
Sevigny then appeared in numerous independent films, including "American Psycho" (2000), "Demonlover" (2002), "Party Monster" (2003), "Dogville" (2003) and "The Brown Bunny" (2004).
From 2006 to 2011, Sevigny portrayed 'Nicolette Grant' on the HBO series "Big Love", winning a Golden Globe Award for 'Best Supporting Actress' in 2010. She also appeared in mainstream films including "Zodiac (2007) and the biopic "Mr. Nice" (2010).
Sevigny went on to appear in TV projects "Hit & Miss" (2012), "Portlandia" (2013), two seasons of "American Horror Story" (2015) and Netflix series "Bloodline" (2017). She also played 'Lizzie Borden' in the thriller "Lizzie:...
- 1/13/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
by Jason Adams
If you look at the episodes of Shudder’s documentary series “Behind the Monsters” – each of which was devoted to its own Horror Icon – one thing became painfully clear right up front: Where the hell are our female horror icons? I don’t mean the survivors – we all know our Final Girls, they are legion. I mean the villains. Where is our Jasine Voorhees? Our Frederica Krueger? Why does nothing happen if I say “Candygal” five times in the mirror???
Well the past couple of years have finally begun to right that gendered wrong, bringing us the return of Isabella Fuhrman’s Esther in her Orphan franchise as well as Mia Goth’s ax-welding and Oscar-worthy turn in Pearl (in both the titular prequel as well as X). Finally some iconic Halloween costumes for the Lizzie Borden lovers among us! And now this weekend makes for three with M3GAN,...
If you look at the episodes of Shudder’s documentary series “Behind the Monsters” – each of which was devoted to its own Horror Icon – one thing became painfully clear right up front: Where the hell are our female horror icons? I don’t mean the survivors – we all know our Final Girls, they are legion. I mean the villains. Where is our Jasine Voorhees? Our Frederica Krueger? Why does nothing happen if I say “Candygal” five times in the mirror???
Well the past couple of years have finally begun to right that gendered wrong, bringing us the return of Isabella Fuhrman’s Esther in her Orphan franchise as well as Mia Goth’s ax-welding and Oscar-worthy turn in Pearl (in both the titular prequel as well as X). Finally some iconic Halloween costumes for the Lizzie Borden lovers among us! And now this weekend makes for three with M3GAN,...
- 1/4/2023
- by JA
- FilmExperience
William Lustig's 1980 film "Maniac" is one of the sweatiest, most brutal, most unpleasant grindhouse horror films of its decade on either side. Co-screenwriter Joe Spinell plays Frank Zito, a serial killer with a peculiar M.O. When he encounters his victims, mostly young women, he declares them to be too beautiful, with beauty being punishable by death. He then strangles his victims, strips them, scalps them (!), and carries his "souvenirs" back to his cramped New York apartment where he dresses mannequins in the clothes and "wigs." The film's gore effects were provided by horror movie maestro Tom Savini, who had previously worked on notable horror classics like "Friday the 13th," and with George Romero on "Dawn of the Dead" and "Martin." Savini would also go on to direct the 1990 remake of "Night of the Living Dead."
"Maniac" is bleak and unpleasant, but may also serve as the Platonic ideal of an exploitation movie.
"Maniac" is bleak and unpleasant, but may also serve as the Platonic ideal of an exploitation movie.
- 12/1/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Actress Chloë Sevigny ("Boys Don't Cry") poses for the latest issue of "Evening Standard" magazine, photographed by Petra Collins:
Sevigny first appeared in music videos for 'Sonic Youth' and 'The Lemonheads'. In 1995, she made her feature film debut in "Kids" with roles in small-scale features including "Trees Lounge" (1996).
Sevigny played 'Lana Tisdel' in the drama film "Boys Don't Cry" (1999), earning an Oscar nomination for 'Best Supporting Actress'.
Sevigny then appeared in numerous independent films, including "American Psycho" (2000), "Demonlover" (2002), "Party Monster" (2003), "Dogville" (2003) and "The Brown Bunny" (2004).
From 2006 to 2011, Sevigny portrayed 'Nicolette Grant' on the HBO series "Big Love", winning a Golden Globe Award for 'Best Supporting Actress' in 2010. She also appeared in mainstream films including "Zodiac (2007) and the biopic "Mr. Nice" (2010).
Sevigny went on to appear in TV projects "Hit & Miss" (2012), "Portlandia" (2013), two seasons of "American Horror Story" (2015) and Netflix series "Bloodline" (2017). She also played 'Lizzie Borden...
Sevigny first appeared in music videos for 'Sonic Youth' and 'The Lemonheads'. In 1995, she made her feature film debut in "Kids" with roles in small-scale features including "Trees Lounge" (1996).
Sevigny played 'Lana Tisdel' in the drama film "Boys Don't Cry" (1999), earning an Oscar nomination for 'Best Supporting Actress'.
Sevigny then appeared in numerous independent films, including "American Psycho" (2000), "Demonlover" (2002), "Party Monster" (2003), "Dogville" (2003) and "The Brown Bunny" (2004).
From 2006 to 2011, Sevigny portrayed 'Nicolette Grant' on the HBO series "Big Love", winning a Golden Globe Award for 'Best Supporting Actress' in 2010. She also appeared in mainstream films including "Zodiac (2007) and the biopic "Mr. Nice" (2010).
Sevigny went on to appear in TV projects "Hit & Miss" (2012), "Portlandia" (2013), two seasons of "American Horror Story" (2015) and Netflix series "Bloodline" (2017). She also played 'Lizzie Borden...
- 11/26/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Starring Hellraiser's Odessa A'zion, along with Leslie Bibb and Dermot Mulroney, The Inhabitant is in theaters and on VOD starting today (via Gravitas Ventures), and we have an exclusive clip just for Daily Dead readers!
"The Inhabitant is a new horror thriller by emerging genre director Jerren Lauder. Odessa A'zion plays Tara, a teenage descendant of Lizzie Borden who is caught between paranoid visions and festering schizophrenia amid a series of small-town murders. Leslie Bibb and Dermot Mulroney co-star. Produced by Steelyard Pictures' Leone Marucci and Ru Robot's Petr Jakl, The Inhabitant releases in the fall of 2022. Executive Producers include Ara Keshishian, Martin J. Barab, and Scott Macfarland. The trailer features vocals by social media star Rebecca Parham."
Trailer via IGN
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"The Inhabitant is a new horror thriller by emerging genre director Jerren Lauder. Odessa A'zion plays Tara, a teenage descendant of Lizzie Borden who is caught between paranoid visions and festering schizophrenia amid a series of small-town murders. Leslie Bibb and Dermot Mulroney co-star. Produced by Steelyard Pictures' Leone Marucci and Ru Robot's Petr Jakl, The Inhabitant releases in the fall of 2022. Executive Producers include Ara Keshishian, Martin J. Barab, and Scott Macfarland. The trailer features vocals by social media star Rebecca Parham."
Trailer via IGN
The post Watch an Exclusive Clip from The Inhabitant appeared first on Daily Dead.
- 10/7/2022
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
The Inhabitant Trailer — Jerren Lauder‘s The Inhabitant (2022) movie trailer has been released by Lionsgate. The Inhabitant trailer stars Dermot Mulroney, Leslie Bibb, Odessa A’zion, Lizze Broadway, Ryan Francis, and Michael Cooper Jr. Crew Kevin Bachar wrote the screenplay for The Inhabitant. “It’s produced by Leone Marucci and Petr Jákl.” Plot Synopsis The Inhabitant‘s plot [...]
Continue reading: The Inhabitant (2022) Movie Trailer: Odessa A’zion, A Descendant of Ax-murder Lizzie Borden, is Hearing Voices...
Continue reading: The Inhabitant (2022) Movie Trailer: Odessa A’zion, A Descendant of Ax-murder Lizzie Borden, is Hearing Voices...
- 10/1/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"You can't hide from an evil that lives within." Lionsgate has revealed an official trailer for a psychological horror thriller titled The Inhabitant, from filmmaker Jerren Lauder. This is actually a weird re-imagining of the classic axe murderer Lizzie Borden story – but about one of her descendants, a young woman named Tara. As Tara begins to hear voices and have paranoid visions of butchering her family, people in her small town are attacked and killed — and all evidence points to her. Of course. Can she confront the past and her own family history to find out the truth and stop more bloodshed? The film stars Dermot Mulroney, Leslie Bibb, Odessa A'zion, Lizze Broadway, Ryan Francis, and Michael Cooper Jr. Unfortunately this looks pretty bad - no wonder they're dumping it on VOD in a few weeks. Doesn't look worth your time. ›››
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- 9/27/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Ti West's film "X" was released back in March and, perhaps unexpectedly, ended with a trailer for a prequel film that was already complete. Now, "Pearl" has been released in theaters only five months later. And, as it turns out, West isn't done. "MaXXXine" is coming soon, too.
The premise of "X" is that a group of enterprising adult filmmakers in the 1970s have to trek out to a remote farm to shoot their latest opus. There are many conversations about the integrity of indie filmmaking and the liberating importance of porn movies. During shooting, however, the very elderly owner of the farm, Pearl, skulks around the production, titillated by the sex, but also longing for years of lust lost. Pearl ends up snapping and going on a killing spree. In an odd bit of casting, both Pearl and Maxine, one of the film-within-a-film's actresses, are played by Mia Goth.
The premise of "X" is that a group of enterprising adult filmmakers in the 1970s have to trek out to a remote farm to shoot their latest opus. There are many conversations about the integrity of indie filmmaking and the liberating importance of porn movies. During shooting, however, the very elderly owner of the farm, Pearl, skulks around the production, titillated by the sex, but also longing for years of lust lost. Pearl ends up snapping and going on a killing spree. In an odd bit of casting, both Pearl and Maxine, one of the film-within-a-film's actresses, are played by Mia Goth.
- 9/16/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
The Hulu streaming service recently announced that they will be releasing the Hellraiser reboot starring Odessa A’zion on October 7th – and Deadline reports that on the same day, another horror film starring A’zion, The Inhabitant, will be getting a 100+ screen theatrical release courtesy of Gravitas Ventures. You can watch the trailer for The Inhabitant in the embed above.
Directed by Jerren Lauder (Stay Out of the F**king Attic) from a screenplay by Kevin Bachar, who works primarily on nature documentaries, The Inhabitant finds A’zion taking on the role of
Tara, who like any other teenage girl is just surviving high school — yet her father Ben and mother Emily seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry. After a visit to her aunt in a mental asylum and a...
Directed by Jerren Lauder (Stay Out of the F**king Attic) from a screenplay by Kevin Bachar, who works primarily on nature documentaries, The Inhabitant finds A’zion taking on the role of
Tara, who like any other teenage girl is just surviving high school — yet her father Ben and mother Emily seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry. After a visit to her aunt in a mental asylum and a...
- 9/1/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
In addition to Hulu’s Hellraiser, Odessa A’zion will also be seen in horror movie The Inhabitant this Halloween season, with Gravitas Ventures planning a theatrical release in October.
Deadline reports today that Gravitas has acquired North American rights to The Inhabitant, “slating it for release in over 100 theaters on October 7, 2022.”
Leslie Bibb (Mrs. American Pie), Dermot Mulroney (Umma) and Lizze Broadway (The Rookie) also star in the movie from director Jerren Lauder (Stay Out of the F**king Attic).
The film follows “Tara (A’zion), who like any other teenage girl, is just surviving high school — yet her father Ben (Mulroney) and mother Emily (Bibb) seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome axe murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.
“After a visit to her aunt in a mental asylum and a night in Lizzie Borden’s actual home,...
Deadline reports today that Gravitas has acquired North American rights to The Inhabitant, “slating it for release in over 100 theaters on October 7, 2022.”
Leslie Bibb (Mrs. American Pie), Dermot Mulroney (Umma) and Lizze Broadway (The Rookie) also star in the movie from director Jerren Lauder (Stay Out of the F**king Attic).
The film follows “Tara (A’zion), who like any other teenage girl, is just surviving high school — yet her father Ben (Mulroney) and mother Emily (Bibb) seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome axe murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.
“After a visit to her aunt in a mental asylum and a night in Lizzie Borden’s actual home,...
- 8/30/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
It’s Estonia, 2007, and the opening sequence of “Orphan: First Kill” assures we are in the realm of a horror movie because it opens with an overheard shot of a car snaking up a mountainous road blanketed in snow. That’s an obvious crib from “The Shining” that horror filmmakers can’t ever seem to resist, and it’s never not a charming genre in-joke in the key of the Wilhelm Scream, an evocative and easy reference filmmakers love to throw in to put us in a chilling mood.
From there, this prequel to the 2009 cult favorite “Orphan,” now directed by William Brent Bell taking over from the first film’s director Jaume Collet-Serra, mostly diverges from such high-minded fare, settling into trashy TV movie vibes for the rest of its twist-laden run time. Despite another marvelously deranged performance from Isabelle Fuhrman, , beloved for its risible-on-paper plot about a 33-year-old...
From there, this prequel to the 2009 cult favorite “Orphan,” now directed by William Brent Bell taking over from the first film’s director Jaume Collet-Serra, mostly diverges from such high-minded fare, settling into trashy TV movie vibes for the rest of its twist-laden run time. Despite another marvelously deranged performance from Isabelle Fuhrman, , beloved for its risible-on-paper plot about a 33-year-old...
- 8/19/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Film at Lincoln Center
A career-spanning Mike Leigh retro is underway, with the director appearing for Naked, Secrets & Lies, and Topsy-Turvy.
Japan Society
A print of The Animatrix will screen for possibly the first time ever in New York.
Museum of the Moving Image
Heat, Miami Vice, The Insider, and Collateral all screen on 35mm for “Mann to Mann: The Manly Melodramas of Michael Mann,” while Isao Takahata’s early feature Panda! Go Panda! plays and the great Dp James Wong Howe is given his dues in a new retrospective.
Roxy Cinema
On Friday, Desire will perform a concert that precedes a print of Drive, while he 35mm-heavy David Cronenberg retro continues, with The Dead Zone playing all weekend and Cosmopolis screening Saturday and Sunday.
Film Forum
A new 35mm print of Brooke Adams-starrer Vengeance Is Mine screens; the...
Film at Lincoln Center
A career-spanning Mike Leigh retro is underway, with the director appearing for Naked, Secrets & Lies, and Topsy-Turvy.
Japan Society
A print of The Animatrix will screen for possibly the first time ever in New York.
Museum of the Moving Image
Heat, Miami Vice, The Insider, and Collateral all screen on 35mm for “Mann to Mann: The Manly Melodramas of Michael Mann,” while Isao Takahata’s early feature Panda! Go Panda! plays and the great Dp James Wong Howe is given his dues in a new retrospective.
Roxy Cinema
On Friday, Desire will perform a concert that precedes a print of Drive, while he 35mm-heavy David Cronenberg retro continues, with The Dead Zone playing all weekend and Cosmopolis screening Saturday and Sunday.
Film Forum
A new 35mm print of Brooke Adams-starrer Vengeance Is Mine screens; the...
- 5/26/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Hello, dear readers! We’re back today with the final installment of our Marketplace Monday series, where we celebrate some of the brilliant writers, artists, and creators out there who utilize their creativity to help make the horror world a better place for all of us fans. We’ve spent the last few weeks during Indie Horror Month 2022 putting the spotlight on a ton of great indie horror movies and filmmakers out there, but we also wanted to make sure that we were showcasing all different types of creators out there for Ihm 2022. And if you’ve missed our previous Marketplace Monday posts, you can check them out Here.
Check out this week’s Marketplace Monday selection of artists, writers, and creators below, and be sure to visit Daily Dead for the rest of this week as we continue to celebrate even more indie horror awesomeness!
Books
The Tricker-Treater...
Check out this week’s Marketplace Monday selection of artists, writers, and creators below, and be sure to visit Daily Dead for the rest of this week as we continue to celebrate even more indie horror awesomeness!
Books
The Tricker-Treater...
- 4/25/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Have you been drawn into the first season of the Mysteries Decoded TV show on The CW? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Mysteries Decoded is cancelled or renewed for season two. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustration when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we'd like to offer you the chance to rate all of the Mysteries Decoded season one episodes here. Status Update Below.
A CW investigative documentary series, Mysteries Decoded comes from executive producers Gary Tarpinian and Paninee Theeranuntawat. In each episode, US Navy veteran and private investigator Jennifer Marshall leads a team working to reopen old cases like the Salem Witch Trials, the Lizzie Borden murders, and the mystery surrounding Area 51.
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A CW investigative documentary series, Mysteries Decoded comes from executive producers Gary Tarpinian and Paninee Theeranuntawat. In each episode, US Navy veteran and private investigator Jennifer Marshall leads a team working to reopen old cases like the Salem Witch Trials, the Lizzie Borden murders, and the mystery surrounding Area 51.
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- 4/8/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Happy Monday, dear readers! Indie Horror Month 2022 is still rolling on and for this year, we decided to dedicate every Monday throughout the month of April to showcasing the work and wares from an assortment of indie writers, artists, and other creatives working in the world of horror. So, be sure to check out our first selection of indie horror books, artwork, and killer merchandise below, and head back here over the next few weeks to see even more amazing indie horror writers and artists that we’ll be celebrating for this year’s Indie Horror Month!
Enjoy!
Books
Asleep in the Nightmare Room (By T.J. Tranchell)
Asleep In The Nightmare Room includes eleven short stories showcasing T.J. Tranchell's wide range of styles and characters; four poems that will stop your heart, make you laugh, and make you cry; and his own unique insights into the horror movies...
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Books
Asleep in the Nightmare Room (By T.J. Tranchell)
Asleep In The Nightmare Room includes eleven short stories showcasing T.J. Tranchell's wide range of styles and characters; four poems that will stop your heart, make you laugh, and make you cry; and his own unique insights into the horror movies...
- 4/4/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)The Cannes Film Festival has announced that this year's edition will celebrate the 40-year career of Tom Cruise (whose Top Gun: Maverick is premiering at the festival) with a full career retrospective. Ahead of the reveal for this year's lineup on April 14, Cannes has also confirmed that one of the titles set to premiere will be George Miller's Three Thousand Years of Longing, his first film since 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road. Described by Miller as being "anti-Mad Max," Three Thousand Years of Longing is a fantasy romance drama starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton. New York City's iconic video store, Kim's Video and Music, will be reopening this month inside the new Alamo Drafthouse location on Liberty Street. Recommended VIEWINGA24 has released a trailer for Alex Garland's Men,...
- 3/23/2022
- MUBI
Fortysomething sex worker Sascha falls for twentysomething Maria, but a visit to her home town forces a reckoning
Henrika Kull’s intimate movie is set in a real-life legal brothel in Berlin. Katharina Behrens plays fortysomething Sascha: a good-natured, easygoing veteran who brusquely calls herself a Nutte, a “tart”, rather than the official term Sexarbeiterin, or sex worker, and she periodically makes tense visits to her home town of Brandenburg to see her 11-year-old son from a previous relationship. She is more or less happy with her life – until suddenly she falls passionately in love with a new girl at the brothel, a twentysomething Italian called Maria, played by the performance artist and former escort Adam Hoya, who as Eva Collé was the subject of the 2019 documentary Searching Eva.
Bliss may or may not illuminate the “sex work is work” debate: certainly, Sascha and Maria’s day-to-day experience of the...
Henrika Kull’s intimate movie is set in a real-life legal brothel in Berlin. Katharina Behrens plays fortysomething Sascha: a good-natured, easygoing veteran who brusquely calls herself a Nutte, a “tart”, rather than the official term Sexarbeiterin, or sex worker, and she periodically makes tense visits to her home town of Brandenburg to see her 11-year-old son from a previous relationship. She is more or less happy with her life – until suddenly she falls passionately in love with a new girl at the brothel, a twentysomething Italian called Maria, played by the performance artist and former escort Adam Hoya, who as Eva Collé was the subject of the 2019 documentary Searching Eva.
Bliss may or may not illuminate the “sex work is work” debate: certainly, Sascha and Maria’s day-to-day experience of the...
- 12/20/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Portrayals of sex workers in film tend to fall into extremes: either the high class escort/call girl who makes in the thousands (or more) a night, or the street prostitute or stripper working in a seedy club, usually surrounded by the dregs of society, and herself a victim of violence and drugs, or worse. That continues today, and so even a nearly 40-year-old film can still seem radical. Lizzie Borden's Working Girls is indeed still radical, and still revelant, in its presentation and examination of the life of an ordinary person, who happens to be a sex worker. The film has been remastered and released as part of The Criterion Collection, and deservedly so; the film is one that both speaks to its time -...
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- 7/27/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Highly respected but rarely screened, Working Girls, Lizzie Borden’s 1986 feature about a group of women working an extended shift in a Manhattan brothel, finally makes its way to home video this week thanks to the Criterion Collection. Presented in a new 4K digital restoration, the film is long overdue for reappraisal, and not merely due to the struggles currently faced by sex workers throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Borden’s previous feature, Born in Flames, was defiantly scrappy and overtly political. Working Girls represents an upgrade in production value while retaining Borden’s unwavering interest in feminist politics, race relations, workers’ rights […]
The post “I Could Only Shoot When I Had Increments of $200 to Spend”: Lizzie Borden on Working Girls, Harvey Weinstein and Changing Perceptions of Sex Work first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “I Could Only Shoot When I Had Increments of $200 to Spend”: Lizzie Borden on Working Girls, Harvey Weinstein and Changing Perceptions of Sex Work first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 7/14/2021
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Highly respected but rarely screened, Working Girls, Lizzie Borden’s 1986 feature about a group of women working an extended shift in a Manhattan brothel, finally makes its way to home video this week thanks to the Criterion Collection. Presented in a new 4K digital restoration, the film is long overdue for reappraisal, and not merely due to the struggles currently faced by sex workers throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Borden’s previous feature, Born in Flames, was defiantly scrappy and overtly political. Working Girls represents an upgrade in production value while retaining Borden’s unwavering interest in feminist politics, race relations, workers’ rights […]
The post “I Could Only Shoot When I Had Increments of $200 to Spend”: Lizzie Borden on Working Girls, Harvey Weinstein and Changing Perceptions of Sex Work first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “I Could Only Shoot When I Had Increments of $200 to Spend”: Lizzie Borden on Working Girls, Harvey Weinstein and Changing Perceptions of Sex Work first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 7/14/2021
- by Erik Luers
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
After a hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, there’s a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings taking place.
Museum of the Moving Image
Prints of 2001 (on 70mm), Full Metal Jacket, and The Right Stuff have screenings; The Young Girls of Rochefort has a matinee screening on Friday, while Thief plays Sunday to kick off this year’s Caan Film Festival.
Film at Lincoln Center
The restoration of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s masterpiece Flowers of Shanghai continues, while the great Simone Barbes or Virtue shows through the weekend.
Film Forum
Le Cercle Rouge La Piscine, and 8½ continue, while a print of Paul Schrader’s Blue Collar begins a week-long run; Kent Jones will conduct a Q & A on Friday.
Museum of the Moving Image
Prints of 2001 (on 70mm), Full Metal Jacket, and The Right Stuff have screenings; The Young Girls of Rochefort has a matinee screening on Friday, while Thief plays Sunday to kick off this year’s Caan Film Festival.
Film at Lincoln Center
The restoration of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s masterpiece Flowers of Shanghai continues, while the great Simone Barbes or Virtue shows through the weekend.
Film Forum
Le Cercle Rouge La Piscine, and 8½ continue, while a print of Paul Schrader’s Blue Collar begins a week-long run; Kent Jones will conduct a Q & A on Friday.
- 7/8/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Bertrand Mandico's After Blue (Paradis sale).The lineup for the 2021 Locarno International Film Festival includes Piazza Grande screenings of Michael Mann's Heat and Gaspar Noé's Vortex, and the latest by by Bertrand Mandico, Axelle Ropert, Abel Ferrara, Salomé Lamas and more.The great filmmaker and actor Robert Downey Sr. has passed on at age 85. His incredible filmography includes Babo 73 (1964), Sweet Smell of Sex (1965), Chafed Elbows (1966), No More Excuses (1968), Putney Swope (1969), Pound (1970), and Greaser's Palace (1972).In an interview on the Armchair Expert podcast, Quentin Tarantino announced that he has purchased Los Angeles' Vista Theatre, emphasizing that though the theatre will screen both new and old movies, it will be "only film [...] the best prints." Screenwriter and filmmaker Clare Peploe has died. Though best known for her screenplays for Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged and La Luna,...
- 7/7/2021
- MUBI
After a hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, there’s a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings taking place.
Cinema Village
“Abel Ferrara’s Cinema Village,” a nine-title selection of films both from and beloved by the great director, is underway with tickets running only $5. Read our interview with Ferrara here.
Film at Lincoln Center
The restoration of Joyce Chopra’s Smooth Talk continues, while Hou Hsiao-hsien’s masterpiece Flowers of Shanghai and Muhammad Ali, the Greatest screen.
Museum of the Moving Image
Prints of Full Metal Jacket and The Shining have showings, while 2001 plays on Dcp; non-Kubrick screenings include Beau Travail and The Right Stuff.
Film Forum
Le Cercle Rouge La Piscine,...
Cinema Village
“Abel Ferrara’s Cinema Village,” a nine-title selection of films both from and beloved by the great director, is underway with tickets running only $5. Read our interview with Ferrara here.
Film at Lincoln Center
The restoration of Joyce Chopra’s Smooth Talk continues, while Hou Hsiao-hsien’s masterpiece Flowers of Shanghai and Muhammad Ali, the Greatest screen.
Museum of the Moving Image
Prints of Full Metal Jacket and The Shining have showings, while 2001 plays on Dcp; non-Kubrick screenings include Beau Travail and The Right Stuff.
Film Forum
Le Cercle Rouge La Piscine,...
- 7/2/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has announced the 395 artists and executives that have been invited to join this year — about half the number of last year’s class. The 2021 class is comprised of 46% women, 39% underrepresented ethnic/racial communities and 53% international from 49 countries outside the United States. Of the 395 invitees, 89 are former Oscar nominees, including 25 winners.
Eight individuals have been invited to join by multiple branches and must select one branch upon acceptance. They include Leslie Odom Jr, Kaouther Ben Hania, Craig Brewer, Lee Isaac Chung, Emerald Fennell, Shaka King, Alexander Nanau, Florian Zeller.
Other big names among the newly invited include Walt Disney CEO Bob Chapek, “Promising Young Woman” original screenplay winner Emerald Fennell and “Minari” stars Steven Yeun, Ye-ri Han and recently crowned supporting actress Yuh-Jung Youn.
In the directing category, new invitees include Janicza Bravo, Nia DaCosta, Cathy Yan, Darius Marder, Michael Almereyda, Lizzie Borden,...
Eight individuals have been invited to join by multiple branches and must select one branch upon acceptance. They include Leslie Odom Jr, Kaouther Ben Hania, Craig Brewer, Lee Isaac Chung, Emerald Fennell, Shaka King, Alexander Nanau, Florian Zeller.
Other big names among the newly invited include Walt Disney CEO Bob Chapek, “Promising Young Woman” original screenplay winner Emerald Fennell and “Minari” stars Steven Yeun, Ye-ri Han and recently crowned supporting actress Yuh-Jung Youn.
In the directing category, new invitees include Janicza Bravo, Nia DaCosta, Cathy Yan, Darius Marder, Michael Almereyda, Lizzie Borden,...
- 7/1/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
After a hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, there’s a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings taking place.
Film Forum
Le Cercle Rouge has been given a new 4K restoration, while La Piscine and 8½ continue.
Film at Lincoln Center
As the new restoration of In the Mood for Love continues playing daily, Joyce Chopra’s Smooth Talk begins a week-long run.
Museum of the Moving Image
“See It Big” has a major weekend with Daughters of the Dust, Beau Travail, The Piano, and Do the Right Thing; meanwhile, 2001 plays on 70mm this Friday.
IFC Center
The restoration of Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls continues.
Roxy Cinema
Prints of John Waters’ Polyester and...
Film Forum
Le Cercle Rouge has been given a new 4K restoration, while La Piscine and 8½ continue.
Film at Lincoln Center
As the new restoration of In the Mood for Love continues playing daily, Joyce Chopra’s Smooth Talk begins a week-long run.
Museum of the Moving Image
“See It Big” has a major weekend with Daughters of the Dust, Beau Travail, The Piano, and Do the Right Thing; meanwhile, 2001 plays on 70mm this Friday.
IFC Center
The restoration of Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls continues.
Roxy Cinema
Prints of John Waters’ Polyester and...
- 6/24/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
After a hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, there’s a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings taking place.
Museum of the Moving Image
The Shining and 2001 play; Juneteenth is commemorated with Daughters of the Dust and Do the Right Thing.
Film at Lincoln Center
The new restoration of In the Mood for Love continues playing daily, while Muhammad Ali, the Greatest screens with Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris on Saturday.
IFC Center
George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park, about which a whole lot more here, continues, while a restoration of Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls kicks off.
Roxy Cinema
The American Friend screens this Friday and Saturday.
Bam
Thousand Pieces of Gold...
Museum of the Moving Image
The Shining and 2001 play; Juneteenth is commemorated with Daughters of the Dust and Do the Right Thing.
Film at Lincoln Center
The new restoration of In the Mood for Love continues playing daily, while Muhammad Ali, the Greatest screens with Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris on Saturday.
IFC Center
George A. Romero’s The Amusement Park, about which a whole lot more here, continues, while a restoration of Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls kicks off.
Roxy Cinema
The American Friend screens this Friday and Saturday.
Bam
Thousand Pieces of Gold...
- 6/18/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSFollowing the launch of the English-language podcast earlier this month, yesterday we revealed our upcoming original Spanish-language podcast! In the first season of the Mubi Podcast: Encuentros, co-produced by Mubi and La Corriente del Golfo Podcast, leading voices in Latin American film and culture come together to think about their own methods and processes for approaching the craft, talk about personal experiences, and reflect on films and filmmakers that have inspired their work. We begin with Gael García Bernal (Mexico) and Carolina Sanín (Colombia) as the guests of the first episode, entitled The Ritual of the Masks. The first season of Encuentros consists of in-depth conversations among colleagues, an encounter between two people who share their love for cinema. Check out the trailer above and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts here.Andrea Arnold...
- 6/16/2021
- MUBI
Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames (1983) is exclusively showing on Mubi in several countries in the series Rediscovered. This interview took place on May 17, 2021 via Zoom in connection to the Mubi premiere. Into the darkness of the pastWe’ve thrown the shamans of the ruling classThe struggle of the exploitеd massHas broken the oppressors’ lashWе are born in flames.—Red Krayola, “Born in Flames”Honey speaking at the pirate radio station Phoenix Radio in Born in Flames.Notebook: There’s an early scene in Born in Flames of what looks like a consciousness-raising group: women sharing their personal experiences of oppression in a collective setting. How much of the film’s themes came about through group discussions, like the ones in your first film Regrouping (1976)? Or did you approach the film with pre-arranged ideas? Lizzie Borden: Born in Flames was actually a reaction against Regrouping (1976). The original women I...
- 6/14/2021
- MUBI
"I like being the center of attention." Janus Films has released a new trailer for the 4K restoration and re-release of the 1986 "controversial" film Working Girls, from writer / director Lizzie Borden. Inspired by the experiences of sex workers Borden met while making her iconic Born in Films, it was her second feature film first released in theaters in 1987. It originally premiered at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival, then won a Special Jury Prize playing at the Sundance Film Festival in 1987. The film takes us through a day in the life of several prostitutes working in an upscale Manhattan brothel. A stark portrayal of the women prostitutes, the male customers and the motivations of both. Watch as the madam manipulates her "girls". Watch as she answers the phone by saying "Hello John, what's new and different?" Watch as the "johns" try to manipulate the girls. "Part nudie exploitation, part sociological thesis." Ultimately offering "an empathetic,...
- 6/6/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Ahead of a confirmed release on the Criterion Collection this July, the new restoration of Lizzie Borden’s acclaimed 1987 Sundance winner Working Girls will get a theatrical run courtesy of Janus Films. Inspired by the experiences of sex workers Borden met while making her landmark docu-style film Born in Flames, Working Girls takes place over a day in a Manhattan brothel as we witness the ins and outs of the profession. In advance of the restoration’s theatrical run starting on June 18, a new trailer has now arrived.
“When I started Working Girls, I wanted to begin with a whole different aesthetic that had to do with telling a story very simply,” Borden told Feminist Studies. “I didn’t want to make a voyeuristic film, but I wanted to create curiosity in the viewer, almost voyeurism, about what it’s actually like to be in a house of prostitution.” She...
“When I started Working Girls, I wanted to begin with a whole different aesthetic that had to do with telling a story very simply,” Borden told Feminist Studies. “I didn’t want to make a voyeuristic film, but I wanted to create curiosity in the viewer, almost voyeurism, about what it’s actually like to be in a house of prostitution.” She...
- 6/4/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Lizzie Borden’s groundbreaking film “Working Girls” is coming back to theaters. The project, detailing the lives of sex workers, approaches the topic with a seldom-seen motivation towards removing stigmas. It was revolutionary at the time of release, garnering attention from audiences as well as a 1987 Sundance Film Festival Special Grand Jury Prize.
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- 6/4/2021
- by Valerie Thompson
- The Playlist
On the evening of February 8th, 1980, 20-year-old sex worker Karen Marsden was sobbing in a police car. The officers who’d picked her up wanted her to take them to the sites of satanic rituals she’d claimed to have attended in the woods near Fall River, Massachusetts, but she was panicked and incoherent. She claimed that her pimp, whom she referred to as Satan, would kill her if he found out she’d been talking to police. She asked them to drop her at St. Mary’s church so...
- 5/28/2021
- by Andrea Marks
- Rollingstone.com
Chicago – In this new golden age of animation, the ability to create mood and setting is more accessible than ever. For creator and writer Ron Falzone (with director Julian Grant), a notable death in the 1920s and the movie business associated with it is in their film “Coriander and a Penny’s Worth of Lonesome.”
Now available on most major streaming platforms, “Coriander and a Penny’s Worth of Lonesome” is an animated film with a unique artistic design that evokes both the era and the narrative. The story is about a seminal event in movie and American history … the death of silent film era matinee idol Rudolph Valentino in 1926. A woman named Coriander becomes involved in the circumstance of Valentino’s passing, and brings along her past and present situations to the funeral.
Available on Most Major Streaming Services
Photo credit: Grant Guignol & Squeakin’ Yojimbo Pictures
Creator and writer...
Now available on most major streaming platforms, “Coriander and a Penny’s Worth of Lonesome” is an animated film with a unique artistic design that evokes both the era and the narrative. The story is about a seminal event in movie and American history … the death of silent film era matinee idol Rudolph Valentino in 1926. A woman named Coriander becomes involved in the circumstance of Valentino’s passing, and brings along her past and present situations to the funeral.
Available on Most Major Streaming Services
Photo credit: Grant Guignol & Squeakin’ Yojimbo Pictures
Creator and writer...
- 5/17/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
(Some light spoilers ahead for “Fall River,” Episode 1 titled “My Soul To Keep.”)
Sex for sale, satanic cults, addiction and a streak of brutal murders of young women too gruesome to fathom are all brought to light in a four-part docuseries “Fall River” from Blumhouse Television and premiering May 16 on Epix.
Almost 90 years after Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her stepmother 40 whacks in Fall River, Massachusetts, another macabre killing spree hit the quaint, historic New England city. It began on Oct. 13, 1979, when the naked body of Doreen Levesque, a homeless 17-year-old girl, was found under the high school bleachers. She was tied up with fishing wire, her head and face were crushed with a rock and, as private investigator Chris Hayes put it, “This girl had a baseball bat shoved inside of her.”
Watch the exclusive trailer above.
In the 1960s, ’70s and early ’80s, drug addiction rates...
Sex for sale, satanic cults, addiction and a streak of brutal murders of young women too gruesome to fathom are all brought to light in a four-part docuseries “Fall River” from Blumhouse Television and premiering May 16 on Epix.
Almost 90 years after Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her stepmother 40 whacks in Fall River, Massachusetts, another macabre killing spree hit the quaint, historic New England city. It began on Oct. 13, 1979, when the naked body of Doreen Levesque, a homeless 17-year-old girl, was found under the high school bleachers. She was tied up with fishing wire, her head and face were crushed with a rock and, as private investigator Chris Hayes put it, “This girl had a baseball bat shoved inside of her.”
Watch the exclusive trailer above.
In the 1960s, ’70s and early ’80s, drug addiction rates...
- 5/15/2021
- by Rosemary Rossi
- The Wrap
Fall River, a four-part docuseries running on Epix, is structured like a rollercoaster. Every episode cranks up the suspense, building to a conclusion, and then drops the viewer into an emotional freefall. Almost 90 years after Lizzie Borden was acquitted of murder, Fall River, Massachusetts, hosted a second trial of the century. But this one was more like the witch hunts held in Salem, just over an hour’s drive away. Three women were killed in 1979, and the police and media blamed a devilish sect. The cult leader, a pimp named Carl Drew, declared himself Satan, and held his flock in scared awe by exacting human sacrifice at demonic rituals in the woods.
Executive produced by Blumhouse Television, Fall River is one of the most graphic documentaries to come out of the recent glut of the televised true crime genre. Most of this comes from the archival footage the series uses...
Executive produced by Blumhouse Television, Fall River is one of the most graphic documentaries to come out of the recent glut of the televised true crime genre. Most of this comes from the archival footage the series uses...
- 5/13/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Lizzie Borden’s restored and rereleased radical feminist movie is just as scrappy and smart as it was in 1983
Here is the 1983 zero-budget underground movie from radical feminist director Lizzie Borden (who was born Linda Borden and took the name of the famous “40 whacks” woman) now on rerelease after a recent restoration.
One factor that may have kept this film long under the radar is its quite extraordinary climax in which a revolutionary bomb blows up one of New York’s World Trade Center towers – a low-budget but remarkably potent and dreamlike special effect just before the closing credits. And the scene in which this bomb is planted, with someone making her way up to the top floor, creeping through a service door and leaving a suspicious suitcase in a dark empty area full of wires, shows every sign of guerrilla-filming without permission in the place itself.
Here is the 1983 zero-budget underground movie from radical feminist director Lizzie Borden (who was born Linda Borden and took the name of the famous “40 whacks” woman) now on rerelease after a recent restoration.
One factor that may have kept this film long under the radar is its quite extraordinary climax in which a revolutionary bomb blows up one of New York’s World Trade Center towers – a low-budget but remarkably potent and dreamlike special effect just before the closing credits. And the scene in which this bomb is planted, with someone making her way up to the top floor, creeping through a service door and leaving a suspicious suitcase in a dark empty area full of wires, shows every sign of guerrilla-filming without permission in the place itself.
- 5/11/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Bill Duke's Deep Cover, Lizzie Borden's Working Girls, and Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror lead the class of July 2010 from the Criterion Collection. In keeping with the season, Jacques Deray's La piscine is also on the release slate, along with Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby. The first two titles are the ones that have already stirred up quick interest on social media; they are the kind of films that devoted adherents have dreamed of receiving "the Criterion treatment," though never quite imagining the reality. Deep Cover, especially. Here's the official description, if you've never had the pure satisfaction of seeing it for yourself: "Film noir hits the mean streets of 1990s Los Angeles in this stylish and subversive underworld odyssey from veteran actor-director Bill Duke. Laurence...
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- 4/15/2021
- Screen Anarchy
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