Women are sinking their teeth ever deeper into horror. We chart their rise and talk to directors Ana Lily Amirpour, Julia Ducournau and Karyn Kusama
There’s a moment in French film-maker Julia Ducournau’s prize-winning feature debut Raw in which a young vegetarian (ethereally played by Garance Marillier) finds herself unexpectedly ravenous at the sight of a severed finger. It’s a deliciously horrifying vignette, squirm-inducingly squishy, yet somehow bizarrely sensual. Like Claire Denis’s controversial 2001 shocker Trouble Every Day, Raw takes an intimate approach to the taboo subject of cannibalism, sinking its teeth into the sins of the flesh. As all great horror films should, it touches a nerve – simultaneously repelling and seducing its audience, sucking us in and spitting us out.
For horror fans, Raw is the latest in an encouraging wave of genre-bending movies which have twisted familiar tropes to new and unsettling ends. At the...
There’s a moment in French film-maker Julia Ducournau’s prize-winning feature debut Raw in which a young vegetarian (ethereally played by Garance Marillier) finds herself unexpectedly ravenous at the sight of a severed finger. It’s a deliciously horrifying vignette, squirm-inducingly squishy, yet somehow bizarrely sensual. Like Claire Denis’s controversial 2001 shocker Trouble Every Day, Raw takes an intimate approach to the taboo subject of cannibalism, sinking its teeth into the sins of the flesh. As all great horror films should, it touches a nerve – simultaneously repelling and seducing its audience, sucking us in and spitting us out.
For horror fans, Raw is the latest in an encouraging wave of genre-bending movies which have twisted familiar tropes to new and unsettling ends. At the...
- 3/19/2017
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic Imogen CarterGuy LodgeKathryn Bromwich
- The Guardian - Film News
A version of this article originally appeared on ew.com.
Emma Watson loves to read.
The actress has that in common with her brainy Harry Potter character Hermione as well as bookish Belle, who she plays in the much-anticipated film Beauty and the Beast, out March 17. In addition to being a bookworm, Watson is also an outspoken feminist and as well as a Un Women Goodwill Ambassador and promoter of the organization’s HeForShe movement, which is dedicated to recruiting men into the movement for gender equality. As a response to her work with the Un, she launched the feminist...
Emma Watson loves to read.
The actress has that in common with her brainy Harry Potter character Hermione as well as bookish Belle, who she plays in the much-anticipated film Beauty and the Beast, out March 17. In addition to being a bookworm, Watson is also an outspoken feminist and as well as a Un Women Goodwill Ambassador and promoter of the organization’s HeForShe movement, which is dedicated to recruiting men into the movement for gender equality. As a response to her work with the Un, she launched the feminist...
- 2/21/2017
- by Madeline Raynor
- PEOPLE.com
Doc NYC Artistic Director Thom Powers at the IFC Center Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
This year's Doc NYC will open with Valentino: The Last Emperor director Matt Tyrnauer's latest, Citizen Jane: Battle For The City, and close with John Scheinfeld's Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary. Thom Powers and I covered a wide range of films including Dawn Porter's Trapped, Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson, Werner Herzog's Into The Inferno, Roger Ross Williams's Life, Animated, Ben Bowie and Geoff Luck's Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale, Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch: The Art Life, Claire Simon's Le Concours, Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson's The Ivory Game, Tom Hanks, John Mayer and Sam Shepard in Doug Nichol's California Typewriter, Lara Stolman's Swim Team, Adam Irving's Off The Rails and scads more when I sat down with the...
This year's Doc NYC will open with Valentino: The Last Emperor director Matt Tyrnauer's latest, Citizen Jane: Battle For The City, and close with John Scheinfeld's Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary. Thom Powers and I covered a wide range of films including Dawn Porter's Trapped, Kirsten Johnson's Cameraperson, Werner Herzog's Into The Inferno, Roger Ross Williams's Life, Animated, Ben Bowie and Geoff Luck's Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale, Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes and Olivia Neergaard-Holm's David Lynch: The Art Life, Claire Simon's Le Concours, Richard Ladkani and Kief Davidson's The Ivory Game, Tom Hanks, John Mayer and Sam Shepard in Doug Nichol's California Typewriter, Lara Stolman's Swim Team, Adam Irving's Off The Rails and scads more when I sat down with the...
- 11/3/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Godfather director will be presented with the event’s lifetime achievement award.
This year’s Stockholm International Film Festival (November 9-20) will honour Francis Ford Coppola with its annual Bronze Horse prize for lifetime achievement.
The Godfather and Apocalypse Now director will attend the festival to introduce an as-of-yet undisclosed screening of one of his films.
Coppola’s career has seen him win six Oscars from 15 nominations, as well as two Palme d’Ors for Apocalypse Now (1979) and The Conversation (1974).
Previous recipients of the festival’s honorary prize include David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Lauren Bacall, Wong Kar-wai and Claire Denis.
Coppola commented on being selected for the honour: “In my lifetime, I’ve never had the pleasure to visit Sweden and its capital Stockholm - which I’ve always wanted.”
Festival director Git Scheynius added: “When the Stockholm International Film Festival was founded 27 years ago, we made a list of directors we would love to host...
This year’s Stockholm International Film Festival (November 9-20) will honour Francis Ford Coppola with its annual Bronze Horse prize for lifetime achievement.
The Godfather and Apocalypse Now director will attend the festival to introduce an as-of-yet undisclosed screening of one of his films.
Coppola’s career has seen him win six Oscars from 15 nominations, as well as two Palme d’Ors for Apocalypse Now (1979) and The Conversation (1974).
Previous recipients of the festival’s honorary prize include David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Lauren Bacall, Wong Kar-wai and Claire Denis.
Coppola commented on being selected for the honour: “In my lifetime, I’ve never had the pleasure to visit Sweden and its capital Stockholm - which I’ve always wanted.”
Festival director Git Scheynius added: “When the Stockholm International Film Festival was founded 27 years ago, we made a list of directors we would love to host...
- 6/29/2016
- ScreenDaily
“Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick” is a new exhibition that features art inspired by the filmmaker and his work. Somerset House in London will host the event from July 6 through August 24 and will include pieces from artists like Daft Punk member Thomas Bangalter, Carl Craig, Doug Aitken, Gavin Turk, Haroon Mirza, Anish Kapoor and many more.
Each one was invited to “respond to a film, scene, character or theme from the Kubrick archives, shining new perspectives onto the cinematic master’s lifework.”
Read More: Stanley Kubrick Was Preparing To Remake ‘Pinocchio’ Before His Death
Kubrick’s wife of 41 years, Christiane Kubrick will also support the exhibition and contribute a portrait entitled, “Remembering Stanley.” Jan Harlan, Kubrick’s executive producer for 28 years is also a supporter of the project, with Warner Bros. endorsing it.
Read More: Cary Fukunaga In Talks To Direct Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon Project For HBO, Spielberg To Produce...
Each one was invited to “respond to a film, scene, character or theme from the Kubrick archives, shining new perspectives onto the cinematic master’s lifework.”
Read More: Stanley Kubrick Was Preparing To Remake ‘Pinocchio’ Before His Death
Kubrick’s wife of 41 years, Christiane Kubrick will also support the exhibition and contribute a portrait entitled, “Remembering Stanley.” Jan Harlan, Kubrick’s executive producer for 28 years is also a supporter of the project, with Warner Bros. endorsing it.
Read More: Cary Fukunaga In Talks To Direct Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon Project For HBO, Spielberg To Produce...
- 6/17/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
There’s an antithetical, creatively damaging notion in the world of filmmaking that once an actor or director receives some sort of acclaim for their work, the ultimate next step is being “ready” to commandeer their very own blockbuster. The thought of someone that shows true talent “graduating” to a system that harnesses their creative liberties is a depressing one, but thankfully a handful of emerging directors are developing projects that seem harmonious with the instincts that made them ones to admire in the first place. One such director that certainly falls into this category is Jennifer Kent, who landed on our radar with her horror hit The Babadook.
“It’s funny, when I hear people crying about, ‘Oh, female directors are never offered these big tentpole films … what about Jennifer Kent? She’s not doing anything!,’ I sort of read it and chuckle because, well, you have no idea...
“It’s funny, when I hear people crying about, ‘Oh, female directors are never offered these big tentpole films … what about Jennifer Kent? She’s not doing anything!,’ I sort of read it and chuckle because, well, you have no idea...
- 5/31/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
After rounding up award after award on the festival circuit, and a solid international commercial release, how is Jennifer Kent following up her hit horror picture, The Babadook? According to a lovely interview done by Monica Tan at The Guardian, Kent has been courted by Hollywood, but has been quite picky about what she does next. (I love her motto for picking scripts, "What would David Lynch do?") And that is to stay in Australia and make a realistic period piece on Tasmania in the 1820s titled Nightingale. The Nightingale is about the “pointlessness of revenge”, Kent says. A 21-year-old Irish convict called Claire chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against...
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- 5/30/2016
- Screen Anarchy
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The Criterion Collection has unveiled its July 2016 line-up (click covers for more details):
Speaking of Criterion, Joachim Trier visits the closet:
The New Yorker‘s Richard Brody on when the Maysles filmed the Beatles:
The birthplace of the modern American documentary is Wisconsin, where Robert Drew brought a crew in early 1960 to film the campaigns of John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in that state’s Democratic Presidential primary. Albert Maysles was the cinematographer of its most iconic sequence, a long hand-held tracking shot following Kennedy from backstage to a lectern. There, Maysles caught Kennedy in the magic moment—the transformation from private to public, from casual manner to stage manner.
The Criterion Collection has unveiled its July 2016 line-up (click covers for more details):
Speaking of Criterion, Joachim Trier visits the closet:
The New Yorker‘s Richard Brody on when the Maysles filmed the Beatles:
The birthplace of the modern American documentary is Wisconsin, where Robert Drew brought a crew in early 1960 to film the campaigns of John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in that state’s Democratic Presidential primary. Albert Maysles was the cinematographer of its most iconic sequence, a long hand-held tracking shot following Kennedy from backstage to a lectern. There, Maysles caught Kennedy in the magic moment—the transformation from private to public, from casual manner to stage manner.
- 4/18/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Tomi Ungerer: All in One at The Drawing Center in New York on Liberté Crucifiée: "I view the shooting at Charlie Hebdo with an incredible sense of sadness." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
During the opening weekend of celebrations for the exhibition Tomi Ungerer: All in One, curated by Claire Gilman at The Drawing Center in New York, I asked the star of Brad Bernstein's Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story about his Barbies that resembled Nicole Kidman's look in Lee Daniels' The Paperboy. He told me that Bagdad Cafe director Percy Adlon's Landleben and Celia Lowenstein's Fascination: Fascism were two other films that profiled him. We talked about his fascination with the Brothers Grimm and how he sees himself in Luis Buñuel and David Lynch. The day before, with Steven Heller, he spoke about his sadness over the tragedy in Paris...
During the opening weekend of celebrations for the exhibition Tomi Ungerer: All in One, curated by Claire Gilman at The Drawing Center in New York, I asked the star of Brad Bernstein's Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story about his Barbies that resembled Nicole Kidman's look in Lee Daniels' The Paperboy. He told me that Bagdad Cafe director Percy Adlon's Landleben and Celia Lowenstein's Fascination: Fascism were two other films that profiled him. We talked about his fascination with the Brothers Grimm and how he sees himself in Luis Buñuel and David Lynch. The day before, with Steven Heller, he spoke about his sadness over the tragedy in Paris...
- 1/20/2015
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In today's roundup of news and views: Chris Marker's photographs taken in North Korea, David Lynch's depiction of Los Angeles, a discussion of the work of Claire Denis, a Martin Scorsese symposium, revisiting Michael Powell's The Tales of Hoffmann, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Jean-Luc Godard's Notre musique, a collection of writing by George Kuchar, an interview with Abdellah Taïa, Christopher Hitchens on John Wayne, reviews of David Cronenberg's first novel, Tom Tykwer's plans for a television series set in Berlin in the 1920s, Joe Sarno Day at DC's and more. » - David Hudson...
- 10/8/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
In today's roundup of news and views: Chris Marker's photographs taken in North Korea, David Lynch's depiction of Los Angeles, a discussion of the work of Claire Denis, a Martin Scorsese symposium, revisiting Michael Powell's The Tales of Hoffmann, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Jean-Luc Godard's Notre musique, a collection of writing by George Kuchar, an interview with Abdellah Taïa, Christopher Hitchens on John Wayne, reviews of David Cronenberg's first novel, Tom Tykwer's plans for a television series set in Berlin in the 1920s, Joe Sarno Day at DC's and more. » - David Hudson...
- 10/8/2014
- Keyframe
The 7th annual Arizona Underground Film Festival will screen a smorgasbord of cult flicks, horror movies, comedies and provocative documentaries on September 19-27 at The Screening Room in Tucson, Az.
Opening Night: The fest kicks off on the 19th with Killers, a dark thriller all the way from Japan and Indonesia about a psychopath and a journalist who forge an unlikely, hellish bond.
Other films to be on the look out for include documentaries like the powerful Who Took Johnny? by acclaimed filmmakers Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley and David Belinson that examines the legacy of the disappearance of young Johnny Gosch in 1982; Penny Vozniak’s Despite the Gods, about Jennifer Lynch’s struggles to make a Bollywood musical; and Gideon C. Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater’s wild Limo Ride.
Then, there are horror movies like the Lovecraft-inspired The Call Girl of Cthulu by Chris Lamartina; the slasher flick Crazy Bitches...
Opening Night: The fest kicks off on the 19th with Killers, a dark thriller all the way from Japan and Indonesia about a psychopath and a journalist who forge an unlikely, hellish bond.
Other films to be on the look out for include documentaries like the powerful Who Took Johnny? by acclaimed filmmakers Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley and David Belinson that examines the legacy of the disappearance of young Johnny Gosch in 1982; Penny Vozniak’s Despite the Gods, about Jennifer Lynch’s struggles to make a Bollywood musical; and Gideon C. Kennedy and Marcus Rosentrater’s wild Limo Ride.
Then, there are horror movies like the Lovecraft-inspired The Call Girl of Cthulu by Chris Lamartina; the slasher flick Crazy Bitches...
- 9/19/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Feature Jason D'Allison 17 May 2013 - 07:08
Grange Hill. The only school kids ever seemed to be interested in. Us included…
At your school, did anyone die in the swimming pool? Did you have to contend with vicious bullies (and we’re talking about the teachers!)? Did everyone have London accents coarse enough to strip the paint off the classroom doors? Yes? Flippin’ ’eck, you must have gone to Grange Hill!
If you grew up in the 1980s but don’t have a fondness for Grange Hill, there’s probably only one explanation: you were banned from watching it. Yep, for those of us who could get away with it, this rites-of-passage drama series about the pupils of a north-London comprehensive was must-see television, but by parents and teachers it was generally despised. It all started in 1978, and continues to this day (just about), but its golden age was undoubtedly the 1980s.
Grange Hill. The only school kids ever seemed to be interested in. Us included…
At your school, did anyone die in the swimming pool? Did you have to contend with vicious bullies (and we’re talking about the teachers!)? Did everyone have London accents coarse enough to strip the paint off the classroom doors? Yes? Flippin’ ’eck, you must have gone to Grange Hill!
If you grew up in the 1980s but don’t have a fondness for Grange Hill, there’s probably only one explanation: you were banned from watching it. Yep, for those of us who could get away with it, this rites-of-passage drama series about the pupils of a north-London comprehensive was must-see television, but by parents and teachers it was generally despised. It all started in 1978, and continues to this day (just about), but its golden age was undoubtedly the 1980s.
- 5/16/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Jean-Pierre Jeunet was born on September 3, 1953 in Roanne, France. His career in cinema began with making short animated films with his creative partner, Marc Caro. Jeunet and Caro’s mind-blowing feature-length debut was Delicatessen (1991). The duo went on to create the magnificently imaginative The City of Lost Children (1995) which opened the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. 20th Century Fox then entrusted Jeunet with the direction of their fourth Alien film – Alien: Resurrection (1997) – which also marked Jeunet’s separation from Caro. Jeunet’s solo directing career continued with his most successful film to date and the film that best represents his unbridled love for cinema – Amelie (2001). His next pairing with Amelie star Audrey Tautou – A Very Long Engagement (2004) – didn’t fare quite as well in the box office but it was still critically appreciated. And now Jeunet has created the fantastical world of Micmacs (2010)… Jeunet is one of my favorite directors of the...
- 6/22/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
HollywoodNews.com: As the director responsible for Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, Amelie, and A Very Long Engagement, Jean-Pierre Jeunet is one of the world’s pre-eminent auteurs, creating a unique vision of the world with every film he makes. In his latest, MicMacs, Jeunet further explores the magic realism that give his earlier work such distinctive flair, and yet embeds it in a believable and deeply felt world where the stakes, as silly as they sometimes seem, are always grounded in something real.
Hollywood News recently sat down with Jeunet at the Los Angeles press day for MicMacs. In addition to talking about his approach for this particular film, Jeunet revealed details about his work on The Life of Pi, which director Ang Lee is reportedly set to take over, reflected on his experience making the Hollywood studio film Alien: Resurrection, and hinted at what his next movie might be.
Hollywood News recently sat down with Jeunet at the Los Angeles press day for MicMacs. In addition to talking about his approach for this particular film, Jeunet revealed details about his work on The Life of Pi, which director Ang Lee is reportedly set to take over, reflected on his experience making the Hollywood studio film Alien: Resurrection, and hinted at what his next movie might be.
- 5/25/2010
- by Todd Gilchrist
- Hollywoodnews.com
The full line-up and schedule for this year's Hot Docs film festival went online earlier today, and if you're a documentary fan living in the Toronto area, I think you'll be pretty pleased with the selections. This year's festival runs from April 29th to May 9th, and even if you don't plan on attending, it's still worth perusing the listings just to make a note of some of the intriguing non-fiction films to keep an eye on in the coming months. Although there don't seem to be quite as many high-profile films this year, there are still a lot of cool hidden gems buried among the various programs. I've made a short list of some of the highlights after the jump, but you should head over to the Hot Docs official site [1] to browse the full line-up for yourself. You can also see reviews of some of these films over...
- 3/24/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
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