Exclusive: Deadline has learned that IFC Films has set Aug. 7 for the release of the Liam Neeson and Micheál Richardson heart-warming movie Made in Italy. The pic, which reps the feature directorial debut of Dunkirk actor James D’Arcy, will hit drive-ins, those theaters that are open, and on-demand.
IFC Films is arguably the only distributor out there that’s making fresh titles available to those theaters that are open right now during some states’ early reopenings as the Covid-19 crisis calms. To date IFC has put five titles in drive-ins since March – Swallow, Resistance, True History of the Kelly Gang, How To Build A Girl, and The Wretched.
IFC took U.S. rights to HanWay Films’ Made in Italy back in February. In the pic, Liam Neeson plays Robert, a bohemian London artist who returns to Tuscany, Italy with his estranged son played by Micheál Richardson, to sell the house...
IFC Films is arguably the only distributor out there that’s making fresh titles available to those theaters that are open right now during some states’ early reopenings as the Covid-19 crisis calms. To date IFC has put five titles in drive-ins since March – Swallow, Resistance, True History of the Kelly Gang, How To Build A Girl, and The Wretched.
IFC took U.S. rights to HanWay Films’ Made in Italy back in February. In the pic, Liam Neeson plays Robert, a bohemian London artist who returns to Tuscany, Italy with his estranged son played by Micheál Richardson, to sell the house...
- 5/11/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSJean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol at the Cahiers du Cinéma offices in 1959. (Photo by Jack Garofalo)Seven out of nine of the editorial staff of Cahiers du cinéma, which recently announced its new ownership by a group of "bankers, tech entrepreneurs, and film producers," have resigned. The writers have cited a conflict of interest regarding the publication of critical reviews. This year's Berlinale has come to an end. A complete catalog of coverage can be found here, along with a list of the festival's winners. Recommended VIEWINGNetflix has released a teaser for Damien Chazelle's Paris-set miniseries, The Eddy.Václav Marhoul's The Painted Bird, an adaptation of the controversial Jerzy Kosiriski novel, follows the wanderings of a young boy in Eastern Europe at the end of World War I. Read our review of the film here.
- 3/4/2020
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSMichael Mann on the set of HeatMichael Mann has stated that he wishes to continue the Heat saga with a big-screen sequel, and maybe even a television series. Mann has also "two-thirds" of a novel that is both a prequel and sequel to the iconic film. At the Venice Film Festival, Brian De Palma discussed his forthcoming thriller that uses the "Harvey Weinstein era" as a "historical backdrop." The current title for the project is Predator. One last potential movie we'd like to see: the ever-absent Richard Kelly, director of Donnie Darko, is rumored to be entering production on a biopic about The Twilight Zone creator Rob Serling.Recommended VIEWINGRoy Andersson's dreamy About Endlessness depicts "a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human" in a string of interconnected lives. The official trailer for Ema,...
- 9/14/2019
- MUBI
Clifton Hill is a Canadian thriller set in the backdrop of one of the country’s most famous landmarks: Niagara Falls. But even a city this beautiful can’t escape the horror of murder and corruption.
Family is a key theme that drives Albert Shin’s film. But Clifton Hill is not family fun like the entertainment tourist draw it’s named after. Rather, it introduces the viewer to a tight-knit family that is no more. Families are complex and can be broken by many things. In this film’s case, it’s Abby’s compulsion to lie that causes her estrangement from her family.
Played by Tuppence Middleton, the trauma that triggers Abby’s pathological lying is revealed straight away in the film’s introductory scenes. Accompanied by one of the most unique scores of the year by Alex Sowinski and Leland Whitty, Abby witnesses the kidnapping of a...
Family is a key theme that drives Albert Shin’s film. But Clifton Hill is not family fun like the entertainment tourist draw it’s named after. Rather, it introduces the viewer to a tight-knit family that is no more. Families are complex and can be broken by many things. In this film’s case, it’s Abby’s compulsion to lie that causes her estrangement from her family.
Played by Tuppence Middleton, the trauma that triggers Abby’s pathological lying is revealed straight away in the film’s introductory scenes. Accompanied by one of the most unique scores of the year by Alex Sowinski and Leland Whitty, Abby witnesses the kidnapping of a...
- 9/9/2019
- by Sara Clements
- DailyDead
It’s almost surprising that abnormal neo-noir hasn’t seen more of an obnoxious resurgence post-“Twin Peaks: The Return.” Audiences have been re-introduced to its flavor, here and there, with films like David Robert Mitchell’s languorous and controversial “Under the Silver Lake” or the strangely unsung Hollywood mystery, “Gemini,” starring Lola Kirke in an underrated performance. Canadian filmmaker, Albert Shin has moved weird noir out of Los Angeles and into a slightly more rural setting, Clifton Hills — one of Niagara Falls most popular tourist locations — for his tonally confusing, spooky conspiracy thriller, whose title also shares the name of its crooked little casino town.
Continue reading ‘Clifton Hill’: A Neo-Noir Chasing The Tiger’s Tail Of David Lynch-Level Weirdness [Tiff Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Clifton Hill’: A Neo-Noir Chasing The Tiger’s Tail Of David Lynch-Level Weirdness [Tiff Review] at The Playlist.
- 9/6/2019
- by Andrew Bundy
- The Playlist
The notion of Niagara Falls as more than a tourist trap — as a place where people live and labor into the off-season, when the water is “turned down” and diverted to a hydroelectric plant — is the most resonant aspect of “Clifton Hill,” a Canadian noir that owes more than a little to the municipal conspiracies of “Chinatown.” When the theme restaurants and glow-in-the-dark putt-putt courses are emptied out or closed down altogether, the remaining residents are left with the dark secrets and shadow histories that course through the town — and sometimes sit at the bottom of the gorge. Director Albert Shin confronts just such a mystery when a Niagara Falls exile returns to reexamine her past, but he’s more skilled at suggesting foul play than laying out all the convoluted details.
Though “Clifton Hill” likely won’t travel far beyond its side of the Niagara Falls border, it does...
Though “Clifton Hill” likely won’t travel far beyond its side of the Niagara Falls border, it does...
- 9/6/2019
- by Scott Tobias
- Variety Film + TV
If you’ve grown up on the American side of Niagara Falls, Clifton Hill means two things. The Ontario tourist destination is an enjoyably garish bit of Las Vegas lite–Ferris wheels, wax museums, casinos. And it’s also the must-visit for 19-year-old Americans looking to drink legally. Director Albert Shin’s Clifton Hill is an intriguing cocktail of secrets, lies, run-down motels, flashing lights, and glitzy entertainment with a dark underbelly. In other words, the Hill’s moment in the spotlight is also some rather devastating PR for Niagara Falls upon the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
It is important to note, however, that Shin’s film is set during the off-season, a chilly stretch of time in which the number of visitors decreases. Most of the locations visited by Abby, deftly played by Tuppence Middleton, are lonely, somber, and cold. Shin sets this tone from the opening scenes.
It is important to note, however, that Shin’s film is set during the off-season, a chilly stretch of time in which the number of visitors decreases. Most of the locations visited by Abby, deftly played by Tuppence Middleton, are lonely, somber, and cold. Shin sets this tone from the opening scenes.
- 9/6/2019
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
Rhombus Media’s Kevin Krikst and Fraser Ash have jointly won the Canadian Media Producers Assn.’s 2019 Kevin Tierney Emerging Producer Award, it was announced this afternoon at the Indiescreen Awards, the opening event of the Toronto film festival’s industry conference at Glenn Gould Studios.
The Toronto-based pair’s latest feature is Albert Shin’s “Clifton Hill,” a Niagara Falls-set psychological thriller starring Tuppence Middleton (“Sense8”), Hannah Gross (“Mindhunter”), David Cronenberg and Eric Johnson (“Vikings”). The film has its world premiere tonight. WTFIlms’ Gregory Chambet is handling international sales. Elevation is distributing in Canada.
The award, which comes with a C$5,000 cash prize, recognizes the talents of emerging feature producers. Krikst and Ash’s previous Toronto film, Stephen Dunn’s “Closet Monster,” won the festival’s Best Canadian Film prize in 2015.
Felize Frappier of Max Films Media received the Cmpa’s 2019 Established Producer Award in recognition of her remarkable contribution to Canadian cinema,...
The Toronto-based pair’s latest feature is Albert Shin’s “Clifton Hill,” a Niagara Falls-set psychological thriller starring Tuppence Middleton (“Sense8”), Hannah Gross (“Mindhunter”), David Cronenberg and Eric Johnson (“Vikings”). The film has its world premiere tonight. WTFIlms’ Gregory Chambet is handling international sales. Elevation is distributing in Canada.
The award, which comes with a C$5,000 cash prize, recognizes the talents of emerging feature producers. Krikst and Ash’s previous Toronto film, Stephen Dunn’s “Closet Monster,” won the festival’s Best Canadian Film prize in 2015.
Felize Frappier of Max Films Media received the Cmpa’s 2019 Established Producer Award in recognition of her remarkable contribution to Canadian cinema,...
- 9/5/2019
- by Jennie Punter
- Variety Film + TV
Five established producers and seven up-and-comers are in the running.
The Canadian Media Producers Association (Cmpa) has named the nominees for its 2019 Indiescreen Awards.
Up for the Established Producer Award are: Christina Piovesan, from First Generation Films (American Woman); Felize Frappier, from Max Films Media (Kuessipan); Jessica Adams, from Ja Productions (Tammy’s Always Dying); Judy Holm, from Markham Street Films (Level 16); and Lori Lozinski, of Violator Films (The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open).
Nominated for the Kevin Tierney Emerging Producer Award are: Julie Strifler, of Endgame Films (Easy Land); Katie Bird Nolan and Lindsay Tapscott, from Babe...
The Canadian Media Producers Association (Cmpa) has named the nominees for its 2019 Indiescreen Awards.
Up for the Established Producer Award are: Christina Piovesan, from First Generation Films (American Woman); Felize Frappier, from Max Films Media (Kuessipan); Jessica Adams, from Ja Productions (Tammy’s Always Dying); Judy Holm, from Markham Street Films (Level 16); and Lori Lozinski, of Violator Films (The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open).
Nominated for the Kevin Tierney Emerging Producer Award are: Julie Strifler, of Endgame Films (Easy Land); Katie Bird Nolan and Lindsay Tapscott, from Babe...
- 8/20/2019
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Sorry We Missed You, The Traitor, A Hidden Life among Masters selection.
Toronto International Film Festival top brass announced on Tuesday (13) The Aeronauts and Wasp Network among a cluster of additions to Galas and Special Presentations, and also unveiled Contemporary World Cinema, which Our Lady Of The Nile will open, as well as Masters, and Wavelengths.
Tom Harper’s ballooning adventure The Aeronauts starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones will receive its Canadian premiere in Galas, suggesting a Telluride world premiere slot, while Olivier Assayas’ spy saga Wasp Network with Penélope Cruz and Edgar Ramírez gets a North American premiere...
Toronto International Film Festival top brass announced on Tuesday (13) The Aeronauts and Wasp Network among a cluster of additions to Galas and Special Presentations, and also unveiled Contemporary World Cinema, which Our Lady Of The Nile will open, as well as Masters, and Wavelengths.
Tom Harper’s ballooning adventure The Aeronauts starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones will receive its Canadian premiere in Galas, suggesting a Telluride world premiere slot, while Olivier Assayas’ spy saga Wasp Network with Penélope Cruz and Edgar Ramírez gets a North American premiere...
- 8/13/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
‘The Farewell’ Director Lulu Wang, Producer Cassian Elwes Join Toronto Film Festival’s Filmmaker Lab
Directors Lulu Wang (“The Farewell”) and Patricia Rozema (“I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing”) and producer Cassian Elwes will serve as mentors at the Toronto International Film Festival’s 2019 Tiff Filmmaker Lab, Tiff organizers announced on Wednesday.
The festival also unveiled its lineup of Canadian films, which will include new work directed by Atom Egoyan, Louise Archambault, Ellen Page and Amy Jo Johnson, and starring Felicity Huffman, Imogen Poots and David Cronenberg, among others. And it announced participants in industry programs and the Canadian honorees in its annual Tiff Rising Stars showcase.
The films were spread across eight different sections of the Toronto Film Festival, some of which have yet to announce their non-Canadian programming.
Also Read: Mister Rogers, the Joker and Judy Garland Are All Headed to Toronto Film Festival
The Canadian galas, all previously announced, are the opening-night documentary “Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band,” Semi...
The festival also unveiled its lineup of Canadian films, which will include new work directed by Atom Egoyan, Louise Archambault, Ellen Page and Amy Jo Johnson, and starring Felicity Huffman, Imogen Poots and David Cronenberg, among others. And it announced participants in industry programs and the Canadian honorees in its annual Tiff Rising Stars showcase.
The films were spread across eight different sections of the Toronto Film Festival, some of which have yet to announce their non-Canadian programming.
Also Read: Mister Rogers, the Joker and Judy Garland Are All Headed to Toronto Film Festival
The Canadian galas, all previously announced, are the opening-night documentary “Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band,” Semi...
- 7/31/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The Toronto International Film Festival has added another 26 new titles to its 2019 festival lineup, comprised entirely of features directed by Canadian filmmakers. Each year, Tiff highlights films that hail from its own shores in a standalone announcement, and this year it includes seven first features, 13 works by returning Tiff alumni, and almost 50% films directed by women.
Tiff debuts include Aisling Chin-Yee’s “The Rest of Us,” Harry Cepka’s “Raf,” Matthew Rankin’s “The Twentieth Century,” Heather Young’s “Murmur,” and Nicole Dorsey’s “Black Conflux.” Plenty of returning filmmakers are also included in this batch of films, including Atom Egoyan, Sophie Deraspe, Joey Klein, Albert Shin, Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis, Louise Archambault, Kire Paputts, and Amy Jo Johnson.
“We are deeply impressed by the high quality of the work done by Canadian directors this year — particularly from filmmakers who were making their first and second features,...
Tiff debuts include Aisling Chin-Yee’s “The Rest of Us,” Harry Cepka’s “Raf,” Matthew Rankin’s “The Twentieth Century,” Heather Young’s “Murmur,” and Nicole Dorsey’s “Black Conflux.” Plenty of returning filmmakers are also included in this batch of films, including Atom Egoyan, Sophie Deraspe, Joey Klein, Albert Shin, Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis, Louise Archambault, Kire Paputts, and Amy Jo Johnson.
“We are deeply impressed by the high quality of the work done by Canadian directors this year — particularly from filmmakers who were making their first and second features,...
- 7/31/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Festival also announces four Canadian Rising Stars and the annual Filmmaker Lab participants.
Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) brass announced on Wednesday (July 31) the launch of a talent incubator for female content creators and unveiled the line-up of Canadian features, nearly half of which are directed by women.
Five features from indigenous filmmakers are among the selection of 26 Canadian features. Tiff also announced four Canadian Rising Stars, the annual Tiff Filmmaker Lab participants, finallists for Telefilm Canada’s Pitch This! competition, and the roster of Canadian short films.
The Canadian feature selections include seven first features and 13 works by returning Tiff alumni,...
Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) brass announced on Wednesday (July 31) the launch of a talent incubator for female content creators and unveiled the line-up of Canadian features, nearly half of which are directed by women.
Five features from indigenous filmmakers are among the selection of 26 Canadian features. Tiff also announced four Canadian Rising Stars, the annual Tiff Filmmaker Lab participants, finallists for Telefilm Canada’s Pitch This! competition, and the roster of Canadian short films.
The Canadian feature selections include seven first features and 13 works by returning Tiff alumni,...
- 7/31/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Kacey Rohl, Mikhaïl Ahooja, Nahéma Ricci, Shamier Anderson are Tiff Rising Stars.
Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) brass announced on Wednesday (July 31) the launch of a talent incubator for female content creators and unveiled the line-up of Canadian features, nearly half of which are directed by women.
Five features from indigenous filmmakers are among the selection of 26 Canadian features. Tiff also announced four Canadian Rising Stars, the annual Tiff Filmmaker Lab participants, finallists for Telefilm Canada’s Pitch This! competition, and the roster of Canadian short films.
The Canadian feature selections include seven first features and 13 works by returning Tiff alumni,...
Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) brass announced on Wednesday (July 31) the launch of a talent incubator for female content creators and unveiled the line-up of Canadian features, nearly half of which are directed by women.
Five features from indigenous filmmakers are among the selection of 26 Canadian features. Tiff also announced four Canadian Rising Stars, the annual Tiff Filmmaker Lab participants, finallists for Telefilm Canada’s Pitch This! competition, and the roster of Canadian short films.
The Canadian feature selections include seven first features and 13 works by returning Tiff alumni,...
- 7/31/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
From TorontoFilm.Net here is the Toronto Film Production Update for December 2018 including "Greenland", "Locke and Key", "October Faction" and a whole lot more:
Baroness Von Sketch Show- Season 4
TV Series
Bvss 4 Productions Ontario Inc.
Prod.: Graham Ludlow
Dir.: Jordan Canning, Aleysa Young
Sep 24 - Dec 13/18
Clifton Hill
(Aka Jane Of The Desert)
Feature
Rhombus on the Lake Inc.
Producer: Fraser Ash, Kevin Krikst, Matt Code
Director: Albert Shin
Nov 12 -Dec 14/18
Designated Survivor- Season 3
TV Series
eOne / Netflix
Prod.: Chris Hatcher
Exec. Prod.: Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Noah
Dir.: various
Oct 15/18 - Feb 12/19
Greenland
Feature
Greenland Films Inc.
Producer Basil Iwanyk
Dir.: Neill Blomkamp
Jan 14 - Mar 8/19
Let It Snow
TV Movie
Netflix
Prod.: D. Clark, B. Bauman,
A. Faigen
Dir: Luke Snellin
Feb 1 - Mar 29/19
Locke & Key- Season 1
TV Series
Matheson Productions Inc.
Producer: Kevin Lafferty
Dir.: Michael Morris
Feb 4 - June...
Baroness Von Sketch Show- Season 4
TV Series
Bvss 4 Productions Ontario Inc.
Prod.: Graham Ludlow
Dir.: Jordan Canning, Aleysa Young
Sep 24 - Dec 13/18
Clifton Hill
(Aka Jane Of The Desert)
Feature
Rhombus on the Lake Inc.
Producer: Fraser Ash, Kevin Krikst, Matt Code
Director: Albert Shin
Nov 12 -Dec 14/18
Designated Survivor- Season 3
TV Series
eOne / Netflix
Prod.: Chris Hatcher
Exec. Prod.: Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Noah
Dir.: various
Oct 15/18 - Feb 12/19
Greenland
Feature
Greenland Films Inc.
Producer Basil Iwanyk
Dir.: Neill Blomkamp
Jan 14 - Mar 8/19
Let It Snow
TV Movie
Netflix
Prod.: D. Clark, B. Bauman,
A. Faigen
Dir: Luke Snellin
Feb 1 - Mar 29/19
Locke & Key- Season 1
TV Series
Matheson Productions Inc.
Producer: Kevin Lafferty
Dir.: Michael Morris
Feb 4 - June...
- 11/24/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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