Reflecting the peculiarities and contradictions of the man who gives the film its title, Limonov: The Ballad is a strange, stilted, inventive, kaleidoscopic, challenging, imaginative and — above all, and perhaps entirely intentionally — irritating biopic of the Russian poet-punk-prisoner-gadfly-neo-Fascist Eduard Limonov (né Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko in 1948). To paraphrase the novelist Julian Barnes’ review of Emmanuel Carrere’s sort-of novel, sort-of biography on which this film is loosely based, Limonov: The Ballad is a work viewers may enjoy having seen more than they would enjoy seeing it.
It’s anybody’s guess how many will make the actual effort to watch this 138-minute ramshackle romp about a man who, before he died in 2020, applauded Russia’s annexation of Crimea and fought on the side of the invaders in Ukraine’s Donbas and Donetsk regions. Limonov’s unsavory sympathies would likely turn off most Western viewers, apart from the fearless fans of dramas about political monsters.
It’s anybody’s guess how many will make the actual effort to watch this 138-minute ramshackle romp about a man who, before he died in 2020, applauded Russia’s annexation of Crimea and fought on the side of the invaders in Ukraine’s Donbas and Donetsk regions. Limonov’s unsavory sympathies would likely turn off most Western viewers, apart from the fearless fans of dramas about political monsters.
- 5/19/2024
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s latest feature, Evil Does Not Exist, and the period action pic 12.12: The Day, from Korea, lead the nominations at this year’s Asian Film Awards.
Both films received six nominations, including Best Film and Best Director. Directed by Kim Sung-soo, whose credits include Asura: The City Of Madness and The Flu, 12.12: The Day is set against the backdrop of the real-life military coup of 1979, which resulted in an eight-year military junta in South Korea. The cast includes Hwang Jung-min (The Wailing), Jung Woo-sung (Asura: The City Of Madness), and Lee Sung-min (The Spy Gone North). Released on November 22, the film sailed past the 12 million admissions mark at the Korean box office over the Christmas holiday period, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2023 in the market.
Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist — which debuted out of Venice — follows Takumi and his daughter Hana, who live...
Both films received six nominations, including Best Film and Best Director. Directed by Kim Sung-soo, whose credits include Asura: The City Of Madness and The Flu, 12.12: The Day is set against the backdrop of the real-life military coup of 1979, which resulted in an eight-year military junta in South Korea. The cast includes Hwang Jung-min (The Wailing), Jung Woo-sung (Asura: The City Of Madness), and Lee Sung-min (The Spy Gone North). Released on November 22, the film sailed past the 12 million admissions mark at the Korean box office over the Christmas holiday period, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2023 in the market.
Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist — which debuted out of Venice — follows Takumi and his daughter Hana, who live...
- 1/12/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Christina Aguilera is down with the flu, which means she’s postponing some shows from her Las Vegas residency.
On her Instagram Story, Aguilera announced that she has the flu and will be out a few weeks. “After welcoming all of you to the new year from the stage in Las Vegas, I’ve been welcomed with a new year flu!” she wrote. “I am sorry to share that my two shows this weekend will be rescheduled while I rest — and I cannot wait to be back on that stage in a few weeks.”
Aguilera is doing a 10-date residency at the Venetian Resort and Casino, She did Dec. 30 and New Year’s Eve at the venue before bowing out.
She added, “I’m incredibly proud of this show and grateful for all of the support and love after opening weekend! See you soon.”...
On her Instagram Story, Aguilera announced that she has the flu and will be out a few weeks. “After welcoming all of you to the new year from the stage in Las Vegas, I’ve been welcomed with a new year flu!” she wrote. “I am sorry to share that my two shows this weekend will be rescheduled while I rest — and I cannot wait to be back on that stage in a few weeks.”
Aguilera is doing a 10-date residency at the Venetian Resort and Casino, She did Dec. 30 and New Year’s Eve at the venue before bowing out.
She added, “I’m incredibly proud of this show and grateful for all of the support and love after opening weekend! See you soon.”...
- 1/5/2024
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Right from his debut feature “Runaway” in 1995, Kim Sung-su has established two things vehemently: he can work with big stars and he can work on a big budget quite effectively. Starting with a then-young but nonetheless impressive Lee Byung-hun, he has since gone on to work with the likes of Lee Jung-jae, Jung Woo-sung, Hwang Jung-min and even Zhang Ziyi in a rare Korean production appearance. Since his last two works, he has also established that he is also adept at working with an ensemble cast, with both “The Flu” and the highly impressive “Asura: The City of Madness” having an extensive and impressive cast-list. Seven years since “Asura: The City of Madness”, Kim returns to the big screen and with a couple actors he has worked with for “12.12: The Day”, a political thriller based on recent Korean history.
Synopsis
On December 1979, Seoul had been enduring a harsh winter before the upcoming spring.
Synopsis
On December 1979, Seoul had been enduring a harsh winter before the upcoming spring.
- 10/28/2023
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
“I don’t want to be a symbol,” Kirill Serebrennikov told the New York Times earlier this year. Good luck with that. When Leto was selected for the Cannes Film Festival in 2018 the famed dissident director of stage and screen was still under house arrest in Moscow. He was absent again last year for Petrov’s Flu, owing to ongoing legal issues (dubiously charged with embezzling funds from his own theatre company); then in January, all of a sudden, he was free. Granted leave to direct a play in Hamburg, the Russian artist has stayed there since.
After all those galas in absentia, Serebrennikov is finally here, traveling to Cannes this week with Tchaikovsky’s Wife, a film that throws a sidelong glance at the challenges Russian artists have always had to accept. It was pointedly chosen as the first competition film to screen this year, premiering one day after...
After all those galas in absentia, Serebrennikov is finally here, traveling to Cannes this week with Tchaikovsky’s Wife, a film that throws a sidelong glance at the challenges Russian artists have always had to accept. It was pointedly chosen as the first competition film to screen this year, premiering one day after...
- 5/19/2022
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
The Russian theatre and film director was first spotted in Paris.
Russian film and theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov has left Russia following the lifting of a travel ban and suspended prison sentence linked to a contested embezzlement case.
News of his departure from Russia emerged on social networks on Tuesday evening (March 29) after Joël Chapron, who oversees Central and Eastern Europe for promotional body Unifrance, posted a picture on his Facebook account of Serebrennikov in Paris, with its historic Place de la Bastille in the background.
The move was confirmed by Ilya Stewart, Serebrennikov’s long-time film producer, of Moscow-based film company Hype.
Russian film and theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov has left Russia following the lifting of a travel ban and suspended prison sentence linked to a contested embezzlement case.
News of his departure from Russia emerged on social networks on Tuesday evening (March 29) after Joël Chapron, who oversees Central and Eastern Europe for promotional body Unifrance, posted a picture on his Facebook account of Serebrennikov in Paris, with its historic Place de la Bastille in the background.
The move was confirmed by Ilya Stewart, Serebrennikov’s long-time film producer, of Moscow-based film company Hype.
- 3/30/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Now in its 11th edition, the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival brings together a varied, eclectic lineup of cinema from all corners of the world––including a number of films still seeking distribution, making the series perhaps one of your only chances to see these works on the big screen.
With the five-day festival kicking off Wednesday, March 16, we’ve gathered seven essential films to check out. Beginning this Friday, March 11, MoMI will also present Second Look, which looks back at selections from the past decade of the festival.
Babi Yar. Context (Sergei Loznitsa)
One of two new archival documentaries from Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa screening at First Look, Babi Yar. Context revisits the horrific September 1941 massacre of 33,771 Jews that took place outside Kyiv. Casting an unflinching eye in its assembly of footage, the Cannes prizewinner examines factors leading up to the atrocity as Nazis took...
With the five-day festival kicking off Wednesday, March 16, we’ve gathered seven essential films to check out. Beginning this Friday, March 11, MoMI will also present Second Look, which looks back at selections from the past decade of the festival.
Babi Yar. Context (Sergei Loznitsa)
One of two new archival documentaries from Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa screening at First Look, Babi Yar. Context revisits the horrific September 1941 massacre of 33,771 Jews that took place outside Kyiv. Casting an unflinching eye in its assembly of footage, the Cannes prizewinner examines factors leading up to the atrocity as Nazis took...
- 3/10/2022
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Venice Golden Lion winner Happening won best film and best actress prizes
Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening won best film at the 27th edition of France’s Lumière Awards on Monday evening, while its star Anamaria Vartolomei was awarded the best actress prize.
Adapted from French writer Annie Ernaux’s 2019 semi-autobiographical work, Happening recounts a gifted literature student’s struggle to get an abortion in 1964, 11 years before abortion was legalised in France in 1975.
It marks a first lead role for Vartolomei, whose previous credits include How To Be A Good Wife and The Royal Exchange. Vartolomei is...
Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening won best film at the 27th edition of France’s Lumière Awards on Monday evening, while its star Anamaria Vartolomei was awarded the best actress prize.
Adapted from French writer Annie Ernaux’s 2019 semi-autobiographical work, Happening recounts a gifted literature student’s struggle to get an abortion in 1964, 11 years before abortion was legalised in France in 1975.
It marks a first lead role for Vartolomei, whose previous credits include How To Be A Good Wife and The Royal Exchange. Vartolomei is...
- 1/18/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The awards are voted on by 95 international correspondents from 36 countries.
Xavier Giannoli’s literary adaptation Lost Illusions leads the nominations of the 27th edition of France’s Lumière awards, followed by Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening and Arthur Harari’s Onoda, 10,000 Nights In The Jungle.
The awards, which are voted on by 95 international correspondents hailing from 36 countries this year, are France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Giannoli’s adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s eponymous 19th-century novel, which premiered in competition in Venice this year, was nominated in five categories including best film, director, screenplay, actor...
Xavier Giannoli’s literary adaptation Lost Illusions leads the nominations of the 27th edition of France’s Lumière awards, followed by Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening and Arthur Harari’s Onoda, 10,000 Nights In The Jungle.
The awards, which are voted on by 95 international correspondents hailing from 36 countries this year, are France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.
Giannoli’s adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s eponymous 19th-century novel, which premiered in competition in Venice this year, was nominated in five categories including best film, director, screenplay, actor...
- 12/10/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Petrov’s Flu opens on a stuffy commute—a Moscow bus in the early years of post-Soviet Russia. The eponymous protagonist is already bent over a handrail, stricken with his affliction. The mood is fevered, almost circus-like, the lighting like pea soup. In a moment of madness, Petrov (played by Semyon Serzin) is dragged from the bus by militiamen in Mexican wrestling masks. Hard rock plays. He takes a gun and joins their firing squad, mowing down some nameless humans. The mind briefly wanders to Brazil, and somehow Songs from the Second Floor.
The director here is Kirill Serebrennikov, a filmmaker whose imagination must forever do battle with the drama of his own life. Raised in Rostov in the 1970s, Serebrennikov became a key figure in the state-sponsored progressive cultural shifts of Vladimir Putin’s early years in office—seen at the time as a counterweight to the leader’s moves towards a new authoritarianism.
The director here is Kirill Serebrennikov, a filmmaker whose imagination must forever do battle with the drama of his own life. Raised in Rostov in the 1970s, Serebrennikov became a key figure in the state-sponsored progressive cultural shifts of Vladimir Putin’s early years in office—seen at the time as a counterweight to the leader’s moves towards a new authoritarianism.
- 7/14/2021
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Above: Annette by Leos Carax. Design by Rysk Studio.Cannes is back, and so is my annual round-up of the posters for the films in the Palme d’Or competition. Ten years ago I went to Cannes for the first time and did a post-festival round-up of the Competition posters, leading off with Lars von Trier’s Melancholia. Back then I managed to find posters for 19 of the 20 films in Palme d’Or contention; this year so far only 15 of the 24 seem to have finished key art. The best of the 15 is a poster that I have already featured a number of times because it premiered almost a year and a half ago: Javi Aznaraz’s design for Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, which was listed in the Official Selection of the cancelled 2020 festival and also made my Best of 2020 list. Of the rest, the poster by Rysk studio...
- 7/9/2021
- MUBI
Competition line-up includes films by Ozon, Farhadi, Ducournau, Weerasethakul, Kurzel, Moretti, Audiard and Hansen-Love.
The Official Selection of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival has been announced.
Scroll down for full line-up
Festival president Pierre Lescure and general delegate Thierry Frémaux revealed the line-up at a press conference at the Normandie Cinema in Paris.
The selection includes films by Nanni Moretti, Julia Ducournau, Asghar Farhadi, François Ozon, Justin Kurzel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mia Hansen-Love and Sean Penn. Four of the 24 Competition titles are directed by women.
Frémaux announced a new section for established filmmakers titled Cannes Premieres, which will see the titles get...
The Official Selection of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival has been announced.
Scroll down for full line-up
Festival president Pierre Lescure and general delegate Thierry Frémaux revealed the line-up at a press conference at the Normandie Cinema in Paris.
The selection includes films by Nanni Moretti, Julia Ducournau, Asghar Farhadi, François Ozon, Justin Kurzel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mia Hansen-Love and Sean Penn. Four of the 24 Competition titles are directed by women.
Frémaux announced a new section for established filmmakers titled Cannes Premieres, which will see the titles get...
- 6/3/2021
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
It has been a good day for everyone, even for God. No sign of rain. No evidence of disease or blood. — Henry Miller, quoted at the beginning of El año de la peste Around this time a year ago, many of us were suddenly sent home and forced to become film programmers. I asked people: after Contagion or, from a far distance, Outbreak, what was the ultimate Coronavirus movie? The Last Days of Planet Earth? Prophecies of Nostradamus? 28 Weeks Later? The Host? Tsai Ming-Liang’s The Hole? The South Korean apocalypse thriller The Flu? Logan’s Run? The Seed of Man? Soylent Green? 12 Monkeys? Kinji Fukasaku’s Virus? […]
The post Phase Zero: Felipe Cazals on His 1979 Gabriel García Márquez Collaboration, El año de la peste (Year of the Plague) first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Phase Zero: Felipe Cazals on His 1979 Gabriel García Márquez Collaboration, El año de la peste (Year of the Plague) first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/1/2021
- by Steve Macfarlane
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
It has been a good day for everyone, even for God. No sign of rain. No evidence of disease or blood. — Henry Miller, quoted at the beginning of El año de la peste Around this time a year ago, many of us were suddenly sent home and forced to become film programmers. I asked people: after Contagion or, from a far distance, Outbreak, what was the ultimate Coronavirus movie? The Last Days of Planet Earth? Prophecies of Nostradamus? 28 Weeks Later? The Host? Tsai Ming-Liang’s The Hole? The South Korean apocalypse thriller The Flu? Logan’s Run? The Seed of Man? Soylent Green? 12 Monkeys? Kinji Fukasaku’s Virus? […]
The post Phase Zero: Felipe Cazals on His 1979 Gabriel García Márquez Collaboration, El año de la peste (Year of the Plague) first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Phase Zero: Felipe Cazals on His 1979 Gabriel García Márquez Collaboration, El año de la peste (Year of the Plague) first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/1/2021
- by Steve Macfarlane
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
If you’re one of those people who think music has lost its dangerous edge, Sacha Baron Cohen had the cure for that in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” Taking on two levels of disguise in the 2020 sequel, Cohen again played his fictional Borat character, who in turn disguised himself for a key sequence in the movie as Country Dave, a singer who shows up to perform a song called “The Wuhan Flu” at a right-wing militia rally. His Borat and Country Dave characters may be fictional, but the rally was very real, and the presumably well-armed audience that had gathered for the Washington Three Percenters’ gathering in Olympia, Washington last June was not the kind of crowd to take having its beliefs mocked in a spirit of good fun.
So while “Wuhan Flu” was framed as a country-bluegrass song, in a matter of thinking, it was really about as punk-rock a...
So while “Wuhan Flu” was framed as a country-bluegrass song, in a matter of thinking, it was really about as punk-rock a...
- 1/29/2021
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive Trailer: The Swordsman Slashes Your Home Screens February 16th On Blu/VOD From Well Go USA
Coming to Blu-ray and digital next year from comtemporary Asian cinema specialists, Well Go USA, is debutante director Choi Jae-Hoon's The Swordsman, starring Jang Hyuk. A veteran of the popular K-drama circuit, Jang Hyuk features here as the titular swordsman, an aging royal guard forced into retirement after a slip-up leads to the fall of a king. Driven into seclusion in the forest with his shame and failing eyesight, he's called back into action when the one thing he loves most, his young daughter, is captured by traffickers. We've been given your exclusive first look at the new trailer for this exciting action film that features Jang in the lead with a special appearance from Indonesian badass Joe Taslim (The Raid, The...
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- 12/15/2020
- Screen Anarchy
While the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 is still ongoing, and will probably continue for quite some time, this naturally does not stop movie publishers worldwide to try and cash in on these developments. At least it seems that way, considering a South Korean film which was made in 2013 has been published in countries like Germany, albeit under the much more fitting title “Pandemic”. Leaving this context aside “Flu” is yet another entry into South Korea’s ventures into the genre of the disaster movie after such promising releases like “Ashfall”. Directed by Kim Sung-soo (“Asura: The City of Madness”) “Flu” combines the aesthetics of blockbuster cinema with a human story about survival and saving others.
When a container of undocumented immigrants reaches the city of Budang, South Korea, it also carries another, unwelcome passenger that has already killed the majority of the people inside. As the last...
When a container of undocumented immigrants reaches the city of Budang, South Korea, it also carries another, unwelcome passenger that has already killed the majority of the people inside. As the last...
- 10/8/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Thank them for being a friend: On Sept. 8, Regina King, Alfre Woodard, Tracee Ellis Ross and Sanaa Lathan starred in an online re-creation of “The Flu,” a season-one episode of The Golden Girls and part of a series called Zoom Where It Happens.
The event drew 120,000 RSVPs for the first installment, which wasn’t just about watching King’s Dorothy and Lathan’s Blanche trade barbs (as fun as that was).
Happens hopes to engage voters and highlight the importance of the census. “We are Black women, citizens and voters, and we are in this fight,” says Gina Prince-Bythewood, director ...
The event drew 120,000 RSVPs for the first installment, which wasn’t just about watching King’s Dorothy and Lathan’s Blanche trade barbs (as fun as that was).
Happens hopes to engage voters and highlight the importance of the census. “We are Black women, citizens and voters, and we are in this fight,” says Gina Prince-Bythewood, director ...
- 9/23/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Thank them for being a friend: On Sept. 8, Regina King, Alfre Woodard, Tracee Ellis Ross and Sanaa Lathan starred in an online re-creation of “The Flu,” a season-one episode of The Golden Girls and part of a series called Zoom Where It Happens.
The event drew 120,000 RSVPs for the first installment, which wasn’t just about watching King’s Dorothy and Lathan’s Blanche trade barbs (as fun as that was).
Happens hopes to engage voters and highlight the importance of the census. “We are Black women, citizens and voters, and we are in this fight,” says Gina Prince-Bythewood, director ...
The event drew 120,000 RSVPs for the first installment, which wasn’t just about watching King’s Dorothy and Lathan’s Blanche trade barbs (as fun as that was).
Happens hopes to engage voters and highlight the importance of the census. “We are Black women, citizens and voters, and we are in this fight,” says Gina Prince-Bythewood, director ...
- 9/23/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Stylish sword-fighting actions scenes and lush production values populate the trailer for “The Swordsman” starring Jang Hyuk, which also sees Indonesian action star Joe Taslim make his first appearance in a Korean film.
Synopsis
After the dethronement of Gwanghaegun, the country’s best swordsman Tae-yool vanishes. Joseon itself is in chaos due to the conflict between Qing and Ming Dynasty. Gurutai is a member of the imperial family of Qing. He makes unreasonable demands upon Joseon. Under this situation, Tae-yool’s daughter Tae-ok is taken by Gurutai’s subordinates. Tae-yool picks up his sword again to save his daughter.
Jang Hyuk (“The Flu”) stars as Tae-yool while Joe Taslim (“The Night Comes for Us”) takes up the role of Gurutai. Accompanying them are Kim Hyun-soo (“Silenced”) and Jung Man-sik (“Beasts Clawing at Straws”). It is pencilled in for a September 23rd, 2020 release in South Korea.
Synopsis
After the dethronement of Gwanghaegun, the country’s best swordsman Tae-yool vanishes. Joseon itself is in chaos due to the conflict between Qing and Ming Dynasty. Gurutai is a member of the imperial family of Qing. He makes unreasonable demands upon Joseon. Under this situation, Tae-yool’s daughter Tae-ok is taken by Gurutai’s subordinates. Tae-yool picks up his sword again to save his daughter.
Jang Hyuk (“The Flu”) stars as Tae-yool while Joe Taslim (“The Night Comes for Us”) takes up the role of Gurutai. Accompanying them are Kim Hyun-soo (“Silenced”) and Jung Man-sik (“Beasts Clawing at Straws”). It is pencilled in for a September 23rd, 2020 release in South Korea.
- 8/29/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Other openers include ‘Perfect 10’ in the UK and Paramount’s horror ‘Body Cam’ in Germany.
UK-Ireland, opening Friday August 7
With Tenet still on the horizon, new releases are scarce this weekend in the UK and Ireland.
However Warner Bros will be hoping to pick up useful information for the Tenet release through the rollout of Brandon Trost’s An American Picklein over 100 locations.
Starring Seth Rogen and produced with his Superbadco-creator Evan Goldberg, the film sees an immigrant worker at a pickle factory become accidentally preserved for 100 years, and wake up in modern day Brooklyn.
The film is US...
UK-Ireland, opening Friday August 7
With Tenet still on the horizon, new releases are scarce this weekend in the UK and Ireland.
However Warner Bros will be hoping to pick up useful information for the Tenet release through the rollout of Brandon Trost’s An American Picklein over 100 locations.
Starring Seth Rogen and produced with his Superbadco-creator Evan Goldberg, the film sees an immigrant worker at a pickle factory become accidentally preserved for 100 years, and wake up in modern day Brooklyn.
The film is US...
- 8/7/2020
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- ScreenDaily
Other openers include ‘Perfect 10’ in the UK and Paramount’s horror ‘Body Cam’ in Germany.
UK-Ireland, opening Friday August 7
With Tenet still on the horizon, new releases are scarce this weekend in the UK and Ireland.
However Warner Bros will be hoping to pick up useful information for the Tenet release through the rollout of Brandon Trost’s An American Picklein over 100 locations.
Starring Seth Rogen and produced with his Superbadco-creator Evan Goldberg, the film sees an immigrant worker at a pickle factory become accidentally preserved for 100 years, and wake up in modern day Brooklyn.
The film is US...
UK-Ireland, opening Friday August 7
With Tenet still on the horizon, new releases are scarce this weekend in the UK and Ireland.
However Warner Bros will be hoping to pick up useful information for the Tenet release through the rollout of Brandon Trost’s An American Picklein over 100 locations.
Starring Seth Rogen and produced with his Superbadco-creator Evan Goldberg, the film sees an immigrant worker at a pickle factory become accidentally preserved for 100 years, and wake up in modern day Brooklyn.
The film is US...
- 8/7/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦¬158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦¬1101325¦Gabriele Niola¦35¦
- ScreenDaily
Leonine is opening Russell Crowe thriller ‘Unhinged’ in Germany.
As cinemas begin to reopen again in many territories, Screen is tracking which films are being released in key territories each week.
Cinema reopening dates around the world: latest updates France, opening Wednesday July 15
The French box office entered its fourth full week of activity on July 15, following the reopening of cinemas on June 22 after their 14-week Covid-19 hiatus.
New films on release this week include Francois Ozon’s young adult drama Summer Of 85. Diaphana Distribution pushed the launch forward from France’s typical Wednesday release day to Tuesday, to...
As cinemas begin to reopen again in many territories, Screen is tracking which films are being released in key territories each week.
Cinema reopening dates around the world: latest updates France, opening Wednesday July 15
The French box office entered its fourth full week of activity on July 15, following the reopening of cinemas on June 22 after their 14-week Covid-19 hiatus.
New films on release this week include Francois Ozon’s young adult drama Summer Of 85. Diaphana Distribution pushed the launch forward from France’s typical Wednesday release day to Tuesday, to...
- 7/17/2020
- by 158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦¬1101324¦Elisabet Cabeza¦37¦¬1101325¦Gabriele Niola¦35¦¬1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦¬1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦69¦
- ScreenDaily
International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk had called for dropping charges.
Prominent Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov has been found guilty of fraud in a Moscow court today (June 26) and been given a three-year suspended sentence.
Two of his co-defendants, Yury Itin, and Konstantin Malobrodsky, were also found guilty, whilst a fourth, Sofia Apfelbaum, was “unaware” of the fraud, according to the judge.
In 2017, Serebrennikov and his co-defendants were charged with embezzling 129 million rubles (€1.66 million) for a performing arts project called Platform, which received state funding and which promoted modern dance, theatre, and music in Russia.
Among the accusations pursued by...
Prominent Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov has been found guilty of fraud in a Moscow court today (June 26) and been given a three-year suspended sentence.
Two of his co-defendants, Yury Itin, and Konstantin Malobrodsky, were also found guilty, whilst a fourth, Sofia Apfelbaum, was “unaware” of the fraud, according to the judge.
In 2017, Serebrennikov and his co-defendants were charged with embezzling 129 million rubles (€1.66 million) for a performing arts project called Platform, which received state funding and which promoted modern dance, theatre, and music in Russia.
Among the accusations pursued by...
- 6/26/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was pressed by reporters on Monday on why President Donald Trump, at his Tulsa rally, used the offensive phrase “kung flu” to describe the coronavirus.
In one extended exchange, CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang repeatedly asked McEnany why Trump used the terminology.
She asked, “Last July, President Trump declared himself the least racist person there is…Why does he use racist phrases like ‘kung flu'”?
“The president doesn’t,” McEnany responded. “What the president does do is point to the fact that the origin of the virus was China. It’s a fair thing to point out. As China tries to ridiculously try to rewrite history. As China tries to ridiculously blame the virus on American soldiers. This is what China is trying to do. President Trump is saying, ‘No China. I will label this virus for its place of origin.'”
But Jiang then asked,...
In one extended exchange, CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang repeatedly asked McEnany why Trump used the terminology.
She asked, “Last July, President Trump declared himself the least racist person there is…Why does he use racist phrases like ‘kung flu'”?
“The president doesn’t,” McEnany responded. “What the president does do is point to the fact that the origin of the virus was China. It’s a fair thing to point out. As China tries to ridiculously try to rewrite history. As China tries to ridiculously blame the virus on American soldiers. This is what China is trying to do. President Trump is saying, ‘No China. I will label this virus for its place of origin.'”
But Jiang then asked,...
- 6/22/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The pandemic has not only caused numerous delays and cancellations in terms of theatrical releases and film festivals — it’s also causing some distributors and producers to rethink their strategy when it comes to what films they’ll even bring to festivals this year, in whatever form they end up taking. As of now, the vast majority of spring and summer film festivals have either been canceled, postponed, or switched to digital-only, but when it comes to the fall, as restrictions may ease up, many are exploring what avenues they can take in terms of a mix of in-person and virtual presentations. Some of the most-anticipated films of the year, however, will not be taking part.
Anne Thompson reports that Netflix is planning to skip the fall festivals, including Telluride, Venice, Toronto, New York, BFI London, AFI Fest, and more. With a slate that includes David Fincher’s Mank, Charlie Kaufman...
Anne Thompson reports that Netflix is planning to skip the fall festivals, including Telluride, Venice, Toronto, New York, BFI London, AFI Fest, and more. With a slate that includes David Fincher’s Mank, Charlie Kaufman...
- 5/28/2020
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
This time it’s really ending. NBC has set 9 p.m. Thursday, April 23, for the series finale of Will & Grace and will precede it with a half-hour retrospective special.
Hosted by Eric McCormack, the look back also will include reactions from Will & Grace fans and celebrities who will share stories about what the show — which originally aired from 1998-2006 and whose revival launched in 2017 — has meant to them. The special will chronicle the series’ guest stars and its history-making moments from over the years, including the first male-to-male kiss on network television. Elton John and Norman Lear also will appear.
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Hosted by Eric McCormack, the look back also will include reactions from Will & Grace fans and celebrities who will share stories about what the show — which originally aired from 1998-2006 and whose revival launched in 2017 — has meant to them. The special will chronicle the series’ guest stars and its history-making moments from over the years, including the first male-to-male kiss on network television. Elton John and Norman Lear also will appear.
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- 3/26/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSGoodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)Cancellations, closures, and cuts continue in the wake of Covid-19. Box Office Pro, Cineuropa, and Complex will be regularly updating timelines of the virus's impact on theatres and the film industry. In response to these events, website Screen Slate and New York City-based cinema Light Industry have launched the Cinema Worker Solidarity Fund, which seeks to help movie theater workers whose jobs have been affected by the closure of local cinemas. Meanwhile, the fate of this year's Cannes Film Festival remains indeterminate, with film companies planning a virtual market (and online screenings) should the festival be cancelled. Elsewhere, SXSW pushes forward by opting to distribute screening links to its jurors for award decisions. Recommended VIEWINGAll of avant-garde filmmaker Sky Hopinka's short films are now available for free, including Fainting Spells...
- 3/18/2020
- MUBI
Research by Chinese ticketing agency Maoyan appears to show that Chinese people have not lost their taste for feature films during the recent coronavirus-enforced closure of cinemas.
Nearly all (97%) of the people surveyed have been watching movies at home. After being cooped up for weeks, more than half (54%) are more keen than they were before the hiatus to watch films again in theaters.
Mainland China’s cinemas were closed at the end of January, as part of nationwide measures to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. That wiped out the Chinese New Year season in which the biggest tentpole films of the year are released. Cinemas have remained closed ever since, resulting in lost box office estimated at $2 billion.
There is no official word yet on when Chinese cinemas will be allowed to reopen, though the country is now slowly returning to work, and new virus infection cases have fallen steeply.
Nearly all (97%) of the people surveyed have been watching movies at home. After being cooped up for weeks, more than half (54%) are more keen than they were before the hiatus to watch films again in theaters.
Mainland China’s cinemas were closed at the end of January, as part of nationwide measures to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. That wiped out the Chinese New Year season in which the biggest tentpole films of the year are released. Cinemas have remained closed ever since, resulting in lost box office estimated at $2 billion.
There is no official word yet on when Chinese cinemas will be allowed to reopen, though the country is now slowly returning to work, and new virus infection cases have fallen steeply.
- 3/18/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
If the story of the Covid-19 outbreak seems familiar — a rare disease strikes a small area, only to become a deadly global pandemic — it’s because we have indeed seen it all before. Not just in the real-life cases of other diseases including Sars and bird flu, but in movies like Contagion and 28 Days Later.
These can largely be traced back to the original virus-leaps-from-a-monkey-to-almost-destroy-humanity story: 1995’s Outbreak, in which Dustin Hoffman and Renee Russo play stoic government scientists racing against time to save humanity from a faceless, relentless...
These can largely be traced back to the original virus-leaps-from-a-monkey-to-almost-destroy-humanity story: 1995’s Outbreak, in which Dustin Hoffman and Renee Russo play stoic government scientists racing against time to save humanity from a faceless, relentless...
- 3/14/2020
- by Chris Chafin
- Rollingstone.com
Petrov’s Flu
For his eighth feature, Russia’s Kirill Serebrennikov, still unable to leave Moscow despite being released from house of arrest in April of 2019, has commenced work on eighth feature Petrov’s Flu, based Alexey Salnikov’s (a contemporary writer compared to Bulgakov or Gogol) novel The Petrovs in Various Stages of the Flu (the screenplay which he wrote while under house arrest). The Russian-Swiss-German-French co-production will star Chulpan Khamatova and Semyon Serzin.…...
For his eighth feature, Russia’s Kirill Serebrennikov, still unable to leave Moscow despite being released from house of arrest in April of 2019, has commenced work on eighth feature Petrov’s Flu, based Alexey Salnikov’s (a contemporary writer compared to Bulgakov or Gogol) novel The Petrovs in Various Stages of the Flu (the screenplay which he wrote while under house arrest). The Russian-Swiss-German-French co-production will star Chulpan Khamatova and Semyon Serzin.…...
- 1/2/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
We’re less than 10 days away from Halloween now (Yay!), and if you’re on the hunt for some titles to indulge in to finish out your spooky season, this week’s Blu-ray and DVD releases might be of some assistance, as we have a fantastic array of new and old titles coming our way on Tuesday. As far as new horror goes, be sure to check out Chelsea Stardust’s Satanic Panic, Bloodline starring Seann William Scott, The Dead Center featuring Shane Carruth, and if you missed the first season, this week you can finally catch up with NOS4A2.
In terms of older titles, Kino Lorber is showing some love to Parasite 3-D, Phobia, Trilogy of Terror II, and Zoltan… Hound of Satan, and Warner Archive Collection is releasing the original Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark on Blu as well.
Other releases for October 22nd include The Killer of Dolls,...
In terms of older titles, Kino Lorber is showing some love to Parasite 3-D, Phobia, Trilogy of Terror II, and Zoltan… Hound of Satan, and Warner Archive Collection is releasing the original Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark on Blu as well.
Other releases for October 22nd include The Killer of Dolls,...
- 10/22/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
The Dead Center (2018) will be available on Blu-ray October 22nd From Arrow Video
When John Doe Rose From The Dead, He Brought Something Back.
When a very dead suicide victim disappears from the morgue, it sets in motion a chain of events that has the power to immolate everything, and everyone, it touches.
Troubled psychiatrist Daniel Forrester is drawn to help a mysterious patient who is brought to the emergency psych ward in a catatonic state with no memory of how he reached the hospital. As if to exorcise his own demons, the doctor feverishly tries to break through to his mysterious patient. But as a spate of mysterious deaths shake the ward to its core, Forrester comes to suspect that there is more to his new ward than meets the eye. As he comes to realize what he s unleashed, a desperate race against the forces of evil threatens to swallow him whole.
When John Doe Rose From The Dead, He Brought Something Back.
When a very dead suicide victim disappears from the morgue, it sets in motion a chain of events that has the power to immolate everything, and everyone, it touches.
Troubled psychiatrist Daniel Forrester is drawn to help a mysterious patient who is brought to the emergency psych ward in a catatonic state with no memory of how he reached the hospital. As if to exorcise his own demons, the doctor feverishly tries to break through to his mysterious patient. But as a spate of mysterious deaths shake the ward to its core, Forrester comes to suspect that there is more to his new ward than meets the eye. As he comes to realize what he s unleashed, a desperate race against the forces of evil threatens to swallow him whole.
- 10/17/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Arrow Films is pleased to make available the International trailer for The Dead Center, the brand-new thriller from “a masterful new voice in terror” (Nerdist), Billy Senese, director of the acclaimed A Frankenstein Story. Helmed by genre stalwart Shane Carruth, the creator of Primer and Upstream Color, The Dead Center is a unique tale of existential terror that explores the demons that live inside of all of us. The film features exceptional supporting performances from Jeremy Childs (Preacher) and Poorna Jagannathan (Big Little Lies).
In further news, Arrow Films is also delighted to announce that they have acquired world-wide rights to the film. Fran Simeoni, Arrow’s Director of Content and Distribution, had this to say:
“We have had a fantastic experience working on The Dead Center with Billy, from the trade and critical response to fans and our own enjoyment of building the campaign and assets. It’s always...
In further news, Arrow Films is also delighted to announce that they have acquired world-wide rights to the film. Fran Simeoni, Arrow’s Director of Content and Distribution, had this to say:
“We have had a fantastic experience working on The Dead Center with Billy, from the trade and critical response to fans and our own enjoyment of building the campaign and assets. It’s always...
- 8/30/2019
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
Blue Is The Warmest Colour | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Computer Chess : Parkland | The Family | Breakfast With Johnny Wilkinson | Flu | ¡Vivan Las Antipodas! | Vendetta
Blue Is The Warmest Colour (18)
(Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013, Fra/Bel/Sp) Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jérémie Laheurte. 180 mins
Beyond making viewers feel lecherous, this Cannes winner's already notorious sexual frankness is just one element in an intense, sensual study of a young woman learning about love, life and, yes, sex. It's storytelling at its finest: simple but detailed, and at times unbearably emotional.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (12A)
(Francis Lawrence, 2013, Us) Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson. 146 mins
The only post-Twilight teen franchise left standing brings media manipulation and simmering revolution to its next round of youth combat.
Computer Chess (15)
(Andrew Bujalski, 2013, Us) Patrick Riester, Myles Paige, James Curry. 91 mins
The cruddy video quality and geeky insularity of the early computing era are fondly rebooted in this delightful retro farce.
Blue Is The Warmest Colour (18)
(Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013, Fra/Bel/Sp) Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jérémie Laheurte. 180 mins
Beyond making viewers feel lecherous, this Cannes winner's already notorious sexual frankness is just one element in an intense, sensual study of a young woman learning about love, life and, yes, sex. It's storytelling at its finest: simple but detailed, and at times unbearably emotional.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (12A)
(Francis Lawrence, 2013, Us) Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson. 146 mins
The only post-Twilight teen franchise left standing brings media manipulation and simmering revolution to its next round of youth combat.
Computer Chess (15)
(Andrew Bujalski, 2013, Us) Patrick Riester, Myles Paige, James Curry. 91 mins
The cruddy video quality and geeky insularity of the early computing era are fondly rebooted in this delightful retro farce.
- 11/23/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s the perfect time of year for a scary movie about killer flu wiping out a population. Simply named Flu, this is a typical disaster movie, South Korean style, from The Warrior writer-director Sung-su Kim. However, it contains the drama within the boundaries of the district of Bundang, the suburb of Seoul – supposedly one of South Korea’s wealthiest and highest developed areas – so it has a unique identity as a piece of film-making from the region, even though it may follow the same plot-lines of larger epics. It also presents an interesting insight into social and political attitudes of the region.
After a container containing illegal immigrants is found with just one survivor in Bundang, the residents quickly start to become ill and infected with a strange and deadly, flu-like virus that spreads as an airborne disease. The city with half a million people is sealed off, its...
After a container containing illegal immigrants is found with just one survivor in Bundang, the residents quickly start to become ill and infected with a strange and deadly, flu-like virus that spreads as an airborne disease. The city with half a million people is sealed off, its...
- 11/22/2013
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
(Screened at the 2013 London Korean Film Festival.) A deadly outbreak devastates Korea in “The Flu”, the latest film from acclaimed “Musa the Warrior” director Kim Sung Su, and his first in some ten years. The blockbuster thriller takes the real life threat of a mutated version of the avian flu virus and ramps it up in classic disaster movie fashion, placing an A-list cast in its path with the usual apocalyptic results. Popular stars Jang Hyuk (“Iris 2”) and Soo Ae (“Athena, Goddess of War”) headline, racing against time as they try to save themselves and find a cure. The film begins with a container full of illegal Hong Kong immigrants arriving in a suburb of Seoul, only for the smugglers to open it and find them dead, victims of a particularly nasty new strain of avian flu. A lone survivor escapes and unwittingly starts spreading the disease, with thousands more...
- 11/6/2013
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
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