After offering up our picks for the best films of the first half of the year, we enter the second half with a strong release slate. Arriving this July is a stellar set of documentaries, a few promising wide releases, new films from some of the century’s most prolific directors, and much more. Check out my picks below.
15. Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) (Arie and Chuko Esiri)
Before an eventual Criterion release, Janus Films will bow the debut feature by Nigerian-raised, New York-educated twins Arie and Chuko Esiri, which recently played at Berlinale, New Directors/New Films, and more. David Katz said in his review, “Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven and Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express have been directly cited by the filmmakers as inspirations for Eyimofe, and I would also mention Amores Perros for its interleaving structure and top-to-bottom dissection of a megalopolis, teeming with...
15. Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) (Arie and Chuko Esiri)
Before an eventual Criterion release, Janus Films will bow the debut feature by Nigerian-raised, New York-educated twins Arie and Chuko Esiri, which recently played at Berlinale, New Directors/New Films, and more. David Katz said in his review, “Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven and Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express have been directly cited by the filmmakers as inspirations for Eyimofe, and I would also mention Amores Perros for its interleaving structure and top-to-bottom dissection of a megalopolis, teeming with...
- 7/1/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
‘The Reason I Jump’, ‘White Riot’ also make the list.
Films about Irish singer Shane MacGowan and natural historian David Attenborough are among the 13 titles on the best documentary longlist for the 2020 British Independent Film Awards.
The longlist is the final of four to be announced this week, following lists for new talent, most promising newcomer and international film.
Julien Temple’s Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan is a look at the celebrated Irish punk musician and singer, combining archive and family footage with animation. It debuted at San Sebastián in September; Altitude has the rights for the UK and Ireland,...
Films about Irish singer Shane MacGowan and natural historian David Attenborough are among the 13 titles on the best documentary longlist for the 2020 British Independent Film Awards.
The longlist is the final of four to be announced this week, following lists for new talent, most promising newcomer and international film.
Julien Temple’s Crock Of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan is a look at the celebrated Irish punk musician and singer, combining archive and family footage with animation. It debuted at San Sebastián in September; Altitude has the rights for the UK and Ireland,...
- 11/20/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
“Saint Maud,” “White Riot” and “Calm With Horses” are among the leading titles on the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) longlists announced Tuesday.
Riz Ahmed, star and co-writer of Berlin-winner “Mogul Mowgli” is on the longlist in the debut screenwriter long list, alongside Billie Piper for “Rare Beasts.”
Rose Glass, director of “Saint Maud,” which won an honorable mention at the BFI London Film Festival in 2019, makes it to the BIFA debut director and screenwriter longlist, as does producer Oliver Kassma, in the breakthrough producer category.
“White Riot” won awards at Berlin, London, Krakow and IndieLisboa, and director Rubika Shah duly makes it to the debut director list and Ed Gibbs in the breakthrough producer category.
“Calm With Horses” won at the Irish Film and Television Awards, and director Nick Rowland finds a place in the director longlist, Joseph Murtagh in the debut screenwriting category and Daniel Emmerson as breakthrough producer.
Riz Ahmed, star and co-writer of Berlin-winner “Mogul Mowgli” is on the longlist in the debut screenwriter long list, alongside Billie Piper for “Rare Beasts.”
Rose Glass, director of “Saint Maud,” which won an honorable mention at the BFI London Film Festival in 2019, makes it to the BIFA debut director and screenwriter longlist, as does producer Oliver Kassma, in the breakthrough producer category.
“White Riot” won awards at Berlin, London, Krakow and IndieLisboa, and director Rubika Shah duly makes it to the debut director list and Ed Gibbs in the breakthrough producer category.
“Calm With Horses” won at the Irish Film and Television Awards, and director Nick Rowland finds a place in the director longlist, Joseph Murtagh in the debut screenwriting category and Daniel Emmerson as breakthrough producer.
- 11/17/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Twenty-seven films have been longlisted across three new talent categories.
The British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) has moved its ceremony from its traditional early December slot to February 2021 as it announces the longlists for six categories this week.
The nominations will be announced on December 9 and winners revealed “in early February”, according to BIFA. An exact date and format of the ceremony has yet to be announced.
Scroll down for the New Talent longlists
Rose Glass’ horror Saint Maud and Nick Rowland’s drama Calm With Horses are two of six films included in all three longlists for the BIFA 2020 New Talent categories.
The British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) has moved its ceremony from its traditional early December slot to February 2021 as it announces the longlists for six categories this week.
The nominations will be announced on December 9 and winners revealed “in early February”, according to BIFA. An exact date and format of the ceremony has yet to be announced.
Scroll down for the New Talent longlists
Rose Glass’ horror Saint Maud and Nick Rowland’s drama Calm With Horses are two of six films included in all three longlists for the BIFA 2020 New Talent categories.
- 11/17/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Roy Andersson in Being A Human Person. Fred Scott says: 'Roy was very welcoming from the start, but it did take the best part of a year's worth of trips - four or five trips - in 2017 to kind of feel like, from my perspective, like I was really embedded' Photo: Courtesy of Curzon Fred Scott's Being A Human Person partially charts the making of Roy Andersson's "last film" About Endlessness at the same time as offering what turns out to be an extremely intimate and revealing portrait of the director that considers not only his career but the problematic relationship he has with alcohol that worsens during the shoot.
The director confined his contributors to those who were coming and going from the studio only, which lends the film a concentrated feel and speaking about the hybrid nature of the end result, Scott said: "My ambition was never to...
The director confined his contributors to those who were coming and going from the studio only, which lends the film a concentrated feel and speaking about the hybrid nature of the end result, Scott said: "My ambition was never to...
- 11/13/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Roy Andersson’s latest film, possibly his last, offers more deadpan glimpses into the Swedish director’s surreal and sometimes horrific imagination
This typically humanist compendium of human frailty from the creator of the acclaimed “Living Trilogy” has been described by some as Roy Andersson’s final feature. That’s certainly the impression the Swedish film-maker himself gave in Fred Scott’s recent superb documentary Being a Human Person, in which Andersson is captured on camera struggling to complete what is only his sixth feature in as many decades. Following on from the Golden Lion winner A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2015), it’s tempting to read About Endlessness as an autumnal closing statement for his singular oeuvre. Yet in reality it is both less weighty and more open-ended than that, feeling at times like a familiar compilation of poignant outtakes and self-contained curios from a still vibrant body of work.
This typically humanist compendium of human frailty from the creator of the acclaimed “Living Trilogy” has been described by some as Roy Andersson’s final feature. That’s certainly the impression the Swedish film-maker himself gave in Fred Scott’s recent superb documentary Being a Human Person, in which Andersson is captured on camera struggling to complete what is only his sixth feature in as many decades. Following on from the Golden Lion winner A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2015), it’s tempting to read About Endlessness as an autumnal closing statement for his singular oeuvre. Yet in reality it is both less weighty and more open-ended than that, feeling at times like a familiar compilation of poignant outtakes and self-contained curios from a still vibrant body of work.
- 11/8/2020
- by Mark Kermode Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Roy Andersson has always had an eye for the absurdities of human life - both the beautiful and the bleak - and his latest and, in all likelihood, his last, film continues in the same vein. There is more melancholy in About Endlessness, however, than in his preceding 'Living Trilogy', as despite moments of humour and hopefulness, its dominant themes are regret and loss.
In fact, it's the sense of time passing, rather than being unending, that marks out one of the first of his trademark vignettes, as a couple watch geese flying south for the winter. "It's September already." says one. "How late it is," you can feel Andersson reminding us "how late." There's nostalgia for the everyday as well as a sense of the familiar, and those who make the time to catch documentary Being A Human Person, which charts Andersson making of the film, will also see the influence of his.
In fact, it's the sense of time passing, rather than being unending, that marks out one of the first of his trademark vignettes, as a couple watch geese flying south for the winter. "It's September already." says one. "How late it is," you can feel Andersson reminding us "how late." There's nostalgia for the everyday as well as a sense of the familiar, and those who make the time to catch documentary Being A Human Person, which charts Andersson making of the film, will also see the influence of his.
- 11/5/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
‘Saint Maud’ was the best-performing holdover.
Rank Film (Distributor) Three-day gross (Oct 16-18) Total gross to date Week 1 Tenet (Warner Bros) £186,000 £16.9m 8 2 Saint Maud (Studiocanal) £132,462 £520,491 2 3 Cats And Dogs: Paws Unite! (Warner Bros) £106,000 £869,000 3 4 After We Collided (Shear Entertainment) £100,219 £3.8m 7 5 On The Rocks (A24/Trafalgar Releasing) £45,446 £326,030 3
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.30
Warner Bros’ blockbuster Tenet topped the UK box office for an eighth consecutive weekend, as takings for the top five titles decreased 39% on the previous session.
Tenet added £186,000, a fall of 37% on its previous session. It now has £16.9m, and will likely fall short of director Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, which...
Rank Film (Distributor) Three-day gross (Oct 16-18) Total gross to date Week 1 Tenet (Warner Bros) £186,000 £16.9m 8 2 Saint Maud (Studiocanal) £132,462 £520,491 2 3 Cats And Dogs: Paws Unite! (Warner Bros) £106,000 £869,000 3 4 After We Collided (Shear Entertainment) £100,219 £3.8m 7 5 On The Rocks (A24/Trafalgar Releasing) £45,446 £326,030 3
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.30
Warner Bros’ blockbuster Tenet topped the UK box office for an eighth consecutive weekend, as takings for the top five titles decreased 39% on the previous session.
Tenet added £186,000, a fall of 37% on its previous session. It now has £16.9m, and will likely fall short of director Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, which...
- 10/19/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
‘Saint Maud’ was the best-performing holdover.
Rank Film (Distributor) Three-day gross (Oct 16-18) Total gross to date Week 1 Tenet (Warner Bros) £186,000 £16.9m 8 2 Michael Ball & Alfie Boe - Back Together (CinemaLive) £170,120 £170,120 1 3 Saint Maud (Studiocanal) £132,462 £520,491 2 4 Cats And Dogs: Paws Unite! £106,000 £869,000 3 5 After We Collided (Shear Entertainment) £100,219 £3.8m 7
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.30
Warner Bros’ blockbuster Tenet topped the UK box office for an eighth consecutive weekend, as takings for the top five titles decreased 25% on the previous session.
Tenet added £186,000, a fall of 37% on its previous session. It now has £16.9m, and will likely fall short of director Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, which...
Rank Film (Distributor) Three-day gross (Oct 16-18) Total gross to date Week 1 Tenet (Warner Bros) £186,000 £16.9m 8 2 Michael Ball & Alfie Boe - Back Together (CinemaLive) £170,120 £170,120 1 3 Saint Maud (Studiocanal) £132,462 £520,491 2 4 Cats And Dogs: Paws Unite! £106,000 £869,000 3 5 After We Collided (Shear Entertainment) £100,219 £3.8m 7
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.30
Warner Bros’ blockbuster Tenet topped the UK box office for an eighth consecutive weekend, as takings for the top five titles decreased 25% on the previous session.
Tenet added £186,000, a fall of 37% on its previous session. It now has £16.9m, and will likely fall short of director Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, which...
- 10/19/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Archer’s Mark and Studio 24 pitching feature-length documentary at Idfa’s Forum next week.
Archer’s Mark and Studio 24 are collaborating on a feature-length documentary exploring the life and work of acclaimed Swedish auteur Roy Andersson.
Fred Scott will direct Being A Human Person and has been working on the film for the past two years, gaining unprecedented access to Andersson on the set of his sixth and final feature film, About Endlessness.
Mike Brett, Steve Jamison and Jo-Jo Ellison, the team behind BAFTA-nominated Notes On Blindness, produce for Archer’s Mark. Andersson’s longtime collaborators, Pernilla Sandström and Johan Carlsson,...
Archer’s Mark and Studio 24 are collaborating on a feature-length documentary exploring the life and work of acclaimed Swedish auteur Roy Andersson.
Fred Scott will direct Being A Human Person and has been working on the film for the past two years, gaining unprecedented access to Andersson on the set of his sixth and final feature film, About Endlessness.
Mike Brett, Steve Jamison and Jo-Jo Ellison, the team behind BAFTA-nominated Notes On Blindness, produce for Archer’s Mark. Andersson’s longtime collaborators, Pernilla Sandström and Johan Carlsson,...
- 11/14/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
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