Above: Never Rarely Sometimes AlwaysOf the many narratives that have emerged from this year’s Sundance’s indie extravaganza, there is one that seems to herald a promising sign of change: some of the most exciting works screened in Park City over the past couple of weeks were films by women, about women. Few works unveiled at the fest this year have earned as much praise as Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always, which follows 17-year-old Autumn (newcomer Sidney Flanigan) in her journey from Pennsylvania to New York City to abort an unwanted pregnancy. Whether or not the film stands as Hittman’s career-best (a suggestion raised by David Sims at The Atlantic), it marks a departure from the director’s prior youth-in-crisis tales Beach Rats (2017) and It Felt Like Love (2013). Largely because, as observed by Devika Girish at Film Comment, this study of fraught teenagehood “turns into something...
- 2/4/2020
- MUBI
The skeleton crew of Josephine Decker’s first feature “Butter on the Latch” was small, even by the standards of the wave of micro-budgeted films that were hitting festivals during the first half of the decade: a sound recordist and cinematographer, Ashley Connor. “I was producing, directing and costume designing, running around the woods being the Pa and all the writing was improvised,” said Decker. “So Ashley really determined so much about the look of that film.”
The result was an entirely unique approach to creating in-camera effects, but it took six years of experiments before they figured it all out.
The ability of new digital Slr still photography cameras’ to record high-quality video, which made films like Decker’s debut possible, came with some trade-offs. The cameras had a shallow depth of field and the ability to precisely adjust (or rack) focus proved difficult. Connor, who was operating herself...
The result was an entirely unique approach to creating in-camera effects, but it took six years of experiments before they figured it all out.
The ability of new digital Slr still photography cameras’ to record high-quality video, which made films like Decker’s debut possible, came with some trade-offs. The cameras had a shallow depth of field and the ability to precisely adjust (or rack) focus proved difficult. Connor, who was operating herself...
- 8/23/2018
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Josephine Decker poised for third Berlinale appearance.
Ryan Kampe and his Visit Films team head to the Efm next week with a slate bolstered by Berlinale Forum selection Madeline’s Madeline from Bow And Arrow Entertainment and Forager Films.
New York-based Visit represents international rights to Josephine Decker’s drama that premiered at Sundance last month in the Next programme.
Newcomer Helena Howard plays a critical member of a prestigious physical theatre who is challenged by an ambitious workshop director to integrate her troubled personal life into the group’s projects.
Madeline’s Madeline marks Decker’s third film to be selected for the Berlinale after Butter On The Latch and Thou Wast Mild And Lovely. Decker co-wrote the feature with Donna di Novelli.
Krista Parris and Elizabeth Rao produced, and Michael Sherman, Matthew Perniciaro, Michael Decker, Peter Gilbert, Eddie Linker, and Joe Swanberg served as executive producers.
”Josephine’s power as a leading collaborative artist and filmmaker...
Ryan Kampe and his Visit Films team head to the Efm next week with a slate bolstered by Berlinale Forum selection Madeline’s Madeline from Bow And Arrow Entertainment and Forager Films.
New York-based Visit represents international rights to Josephine Decker’s drama that premiered at Sundance last month in the Next programme.
Newcomer Helena Howard plays a critical member of a prestigious physical theatre who is challenged by an ambitious workshop director to integrate her troubled personal life into the group’s projects.
Madeline’s Madeline marks Decker’s third film to be selected for the Berlinale after Butter On The Latch and Thou Wast Mild And Lovely. Decker co-wrote the feature with Donna di Novelli.
Krista Parris and Elizabeth Rao produced, and Michael Sherman, Matthew Perniciaro, Michael Decker, Peter Gilbert, Eddie Linker, and Joe Swanberg served as executive producers.
”Josephine’s power as a leading collaborative artist and filmmaker...
- 2/7/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The end of the year is often seen as a time when awards season gains momentum and critics produce their top 10 lists, but for much of the film industry, it’s also the first big preview of 2018 movies. Thanks to the Sundance Film Festival lineup, which in January will include 110 movies from 29 countries, a fresh crop of films to talk about have just been announced, many of which are certain to continue generating conversations throughout the year.
However, the Sundance program takes its time to gather buzz, and it’s not always obvious which movies deserve the most attention right off the bat. So here’s our annual attempt to take a first crack at some of the surprises and hidden gems in the lineup, with some input from Sundance director John Cooper and director of programming Trevor Groth. We’re as excited as anyone to see Paul Dano’s...
However, the Sundance program takes its time to gather buzz, and it’s not always obvious which movies deserve the most attention right off the bat. So here’s our annual attempt to take a first crack at some of the surprises and hidden gems in the lineup, with some input from Sundance director John Cooper and director of programming Trevor Groth. We’re as excited as anyone to see Paul Dano’s...
- 11/29/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Part of the new wave of idiosyncratic female auteur voices (Sophia Takal, Sarah Adina Smith, Janicza Bravo, Chloé Zhao and Eliza Hittman come to mind), the one-two karate chop in the shape of Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely got this American indie fan’s knickers in a knot.
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- 11/15/2017
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
For AhkeemEstablished in 2002, the Tribeca Film Festival has had a bit of trouble defining itself during the course of its 15-year run. It lacks the grit and quirk of SXSW or the finesse of Sundance, but like the latter, it serves a springboard with its own lab for first time directors. Tribeca's ambitious programming has evolved to encompass much more than movies. A Virtual Reality sidebar is innovative and conveniently forward-looking, the television slate, chock full of hotly anticipated premieres, is opportunely adaptive, and the Talks section is fascinating in its pairings, both expected (Noah Baumbach and Dustin Hoffman, whose work together will be showcased at Cannes) and funkily improbable (Barbra Streisand and Robert Rodriguez). There's even a curation of interactive media in the Games section.While the festival is often unfairly maligned, there are many decent offerings, including spillover from the international film festival circuit and a premieres of some more well-known titles,...
- 5/4/2017
- MUBI
At the Tribeca Film Festival, press photographers lined the Flames red carpet expecting the likes of James Franco and Greta Gerwig. Instead, they were greeted by filmmakers Zefrey Throwell and Josephine Decker as well as Flames cast members wearing printed-out masks of said celebrities. In a way, this stunt acts as a great introduction to the tone of the film, a documentary that explores and expounds on Throwell and Decker’s relationship over the course of five years in very intimate detail (from funnily-posed sex to a post-dating therapy session to the editing room of this film). I got to sit down with Throwell, Decker, and their long-time Dp Ashley Connor to discuss the intimacy of the film, how nudity isn’t necessarily the most revealing thing, and the line of exploitation both on film and in a relationship.
The Film Stage: This is an understatement, but Flames is a deeply intimate film.
The Film Stage: This is an understatement, but Flames is a deeply intimate film.
- 5/2/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Flames marks cinematographer Ashley Connor’s third feature collaboration with filmmaker, artist and performer Josephine Decker — she previously lensed Decker’s Thou Wast Mild and Lovely and Butter on the Latch — but this time there’s a twist. Decker “co-directed for a long time” (see the film and you’ll understand) with director Zefrey Thowell, and the movie bracingly, explicitly details the emotional, sexual and psychosexual gyrations of their turbulent eight-month relationship. The pair would often call Connor over to film a recreation of something that happened to them just a day earlier — like a bout of lovemaking leading to a […]...
- 4/25/2017
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
When you have an artist like Miranda July co-signing and excited for an up-and-coming filmmaker’s next effort, perhaps that’s ample reason to sit up and take notice if you haven’t already. And you absolutely should. Performance artist, actor, and filmmaker Josephine Decker took the indie world by storm in 2014 with her startling one-two punch of “Thou Wast Mild And Lovely” and “Butter On The Latch.” Even before they premiered, the movies were the talk of the indie space after both pictures were accepted into the Berlin Film Festival that year, which raised Decker’s profile exponentially.
Continue reading Passion Turns To Heartbreak In the First Nsfw Trailer For Josephine Decker’s ‘Flames’ [Watch] at The Playlist.
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- 4/14/2017
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
Filmed over the course of five — often wonderful, occasionally excruciating — years, Josephine Decker and Zefrey Throwell’s “Flames” chronicles the artist pair’s real-life falling in (and out of) love story. The film, set to bow at Tribeca later this month, blends reality and art, fact and fiction, the past and the present, all to tell a deeply intimate and very original story.
Read More: Cinelicious Pics Acquires Two Raunchy Josephine Decker Films
Decker, best known to cinephiles as the singular mind behind the double-whammy dramas “Butter on the Latch” and “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely,” and performance artist Throwell fell madly in love when they first met, kicking off a passionate romance punctuated by their own desires to document their budding relationship (hey, artists).
But a whirlwind vacation to the Maldives rocks their relationship to its core — or is the trip really to blame? — and when the pair decides to split,...
Read More: Cinelicious Pics Acquires Two Raunchy Josephine Decker Films
Decker, best known to cinephiles as the singular mind behind the double-whammy dramas “Butter on the Latch” and “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely,” and performance artist Throwell fell madly in love when they first met, kicking off a passionate romance punctuated by their own desires to document their budding relationship (hey, artists).
But a whirlwind vacation to the Maldives rocks their relationship to its core — or is the trip really to blame? — and when the pair decides to split,...
- 4/13/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
After highlighting 50 films that we can guarantee are worth seeing this year, it’s time we venture into the unknown. Rather than regurgitating a list of dated-years-in-advance studio releases, we’ve set out to focus on 100 films we’re genuinely looking forward to, regardless of their marketing budgets. While some might not have a set release — let alone any confirmed festival premiere — most have wrapped production and will likely debut at some point in 2017, so make sure to check back for updates over the next twelve months and beyond. Be sure to keep the following one-hundred films on your radar (with release dates, where applicable). If you want to see how we did with our picks last year (potentially to shame us), head on over here.
100. The Discovery (Charlie McDowell; Winter Tbd)
One of the primary pleasures of Charlie McDowell‘s directorial debut The One I Love was his ability...
100. The Discovery (Charlie McDowell; Winter Tbd)
One of the primary pleasures of Charlie McDowell‘s directorial debut The One I Love was his ability...
- 1/11/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
A year after premiering at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, Tim Sutton’s “Dark Night” is set to arrive in theaters courtesy of Cinelicious Pics. An elliptical quasi-documentary, the film brings to mind Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant” (and, for that matter, Alan Clarke’s “Elephant”) as it explores the day leading up to a tragedy that’s modeled in part after the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado of 2012. Find the film’s trailer and poster below.
Read More: Sundance Review: ‘Dark Night’ is a Gorgeous Look at an American Tragedy
The trailer offers glimpses of the nonprofessional actors who make up Sutton’s cast and keeps viewers guessing as to who among them might be plotting violence as day slowly turns into night. Hélène Louvart (“Pina,” “The Beaches of Agnes”) shot “Dark Night,” and her cinematography is its most distinctive, arresting element — all mood and atmosphere, the film relies on...
Read More: Sundance Review: ‘Dark Night’ is a Gorgeous Look at an American Tragedy
The trailer offers glimpses of the nonprofessional actors who make up Sutton’s cast and keeps viewers guessing as to who among them might be plotting violence as day slowly turns into night. Hélène Louvart (“Pina,” “The Beaches of Agnes”) shot “Dark Night,” and her cinematography is its most distinctive, arresting element — all mood and atmosphere, the film relies on...
- 1/10/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress, as presented by the creators themselves. At the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Tormenting the Hen
Logline: A feature film tumult of social malaise and toxic love, set in the picturesque Berkshires!
Elevator Pitch:
When playwright Claire is invited to set her latest work at a rural theatre company, her fiancé Monica tags along for a much-needed vacation. Upon encountering Mutty, an enigmatic groundskeeper with a gross lack of boundaries, Monica’s hopes for respite, her future with Claire, and her very sanity are thrown into jeopardy.
Production Team:
Theodore Collatos – Writer, Director, Cinematographer and co-editor (“Dipso”, “Time”)
Ben Umstead – Producer (“Albatross”, “Three Fingers”)
George Manatos – Producer, Editor...
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Tormenting the Hen
Logline: A feature film tumult of social malaise and toxic love, set in the picturesque Berkshires!
Elevator Pitch:
When playwright Claire is invited to set her latest work at a rural theatre company, her fiancé Monica tags along for a much-needed vacation. Upon encountering Mutty, an enigmatic groundskeeper with a gross lack of boundaries, Monica’s hopes for respite, her future with Claire, and her very sanity are thrown into jeopardy.
Production Team:
Theodore Collatos – Writer, Director, Cinematographer and co-editor (“Dipso”, “Time”)
Ben Umstead – Producer (“Albatross”, “Three Fingers”)
George Manatos – Producer, Editor...
- 10/18/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Editor’s Note: Last week. producer Dan Schoenbrun announced that he would be giving away his festival hit “collective:unconscious” for free. While the strategy may be surprising, from the start nothing about the project — in which five up-and-coming directors would adapt each other’s dreams — was particularly conventional. We asked Schoenbrun the philosophy behind giving the film away and he shared with us this essay.
Read More: How Five Directors Adapted Each Others’ Dreams in ‘collective:unconscious’
I’ve spent the past two years producing “collective:unconscious,” an omnibus feature film where I asked five of my favorite filmmakers (Lily Baldwin, Frances Bodomo, Daniel Patrick Carbone, Josephine Decker and Lauren Wolkstein) to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen.
We premiered the movie to a sold out screenings at SXSW, where we became the first ever anthology film to play in Competition. From there, we took the film out on the festival circuit,...
Read More: How Five Directors Adapted Each Others’ Dreams in ‘collective:unconscious’
I’ve spent the past two years producing “collective:unconscious,” an omnibus feature film where I asked five of my favorite filmmakers (Lily Baldwin, Frances Bodomo, Daniel Patrick Carbone, Josephine Decker and Lauren Wolkstein) to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen.
We premiered the movie to a sold out screenings at SXSW, where we became the first ever anthology film to play in Competition. From there, we took the film out on the festival circuit,...
- 8/2/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Josephine Decker's Butter on the Latch is playing on Mubi in the Us through September 30. Her next film, Thou Wast Mild and Lovely, will be running through October 1. Photo courtesy of josephinedecker.squarespace.com.Josephine Decker’s last two films (Butter on the Latch and Thou Wast Mild and Lovely) were both exciting low budget gems that won over audiences and critical praise at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014. Decker is able to command a strong hold of everyday realism, similar to that of contemporary director and collaborator Joe Swanberg, while her main characters lose hold of their own reality, reaching a breaking point before they can pull themselves back together and push forward. Decker’s films can also be humorous and genuinely frightening works, maintaining the low budget mumblecore feel with an added touch of psychological horror.It was a real pleasure getting to talk to Josephine Decker...
- 9/2/2015
- by David Grillo
- MUBI
Josephine Decker | Close-Up Cinema | An Evening With Fenella Fielding | Film4 Summer Screen
It has been widely agreed that New York film-maker Josephine Decker has “got something”. The New Yorker described her as “the most original independent film-maker to surface in the past few years”, and her first two features, Butter On The Latch and Thou Wast Mild And Lovely are both sensual, impressionistic, elliptical stories, teetering on the edge of strangeness. These films are probably too experimental for mainstream distribution: as an alternative, Decker is touring them as a double bill in seven UK cities this month, and holding Q&As after each event.
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It has been widely agreed that New York film-maker Josephine Decker has “got something”. The New Yorker described her as “the most original independent film-maker to surface in the past few years”, and her first two features, Butter On The Latch and Thou Wast Mild And Lovely are both sensual, impressionistic, elliptical stories, teetering on the edge of strangeness. These films are probably too experimental for mainstream distribution: as an alternative, Decker is touring them as a double bill in seven UK cities this month, and holding Q&As after each event.
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- 7/31/2015
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
This weekend’s onslaught of smaller new films will have awards contenders and big names to jostle with at the box office. Awards hopefuls Foxcatcher and The Homesman begin their theatrical runs in limited New York and L.A. rollouts, with the former a likely winner in the first weekend when the numbers come in Sunday. The films from Sony Pictures Classics and Roadside Attractions, respectively, tell particularly American stories, though from very different eras. The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart took time off in 2013 to work on his directorial debut. Open Road’s Rosewater, starring Gael García Bernal, will begin its theatrical rollout this weekend. It will be the biggest opener of this weekend’s cadre of specialty newcomers, playing in several hundred locations in the U.S. and Canada. Actor Chris Lowell also makes his filmmaking launch with Beside Still Waters. The project had smooth sailing until it came time for distribution,...
- 11/14/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Credit ahead-of-the-curve kids Filmmaker magazine who named Josephine Decker one of their 25 New Faces of 2013, but to the rest of the world, this director came out of nowhere and then landed a whale of a debut at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival. Dubbed the “Double Decker” experience, Berlin premiered Decker’s first two mysterious and enigmatic movies: “Butter On The Latch” and “Thou Wast Mild & Lovely.” A multi-hyphenate who started in documentaries (producing for A&E, ABC, and Discovery), Decker has been working in the highly collaborative field of micro-indies these last few years, acting for directors like Joe Swanberg, Onur Tukel, Adam Wingard, and Spencer Parsons. The doc “Bi The Way” explored the rise of bisexuality in America and her short, "Me The Terrible," about a child pirate who tries to conquer New York City, also received lots of critical plaudits. Her two features were first conceived as shorts, but...
- 11/13/2014
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
The Independent Filmmaker Project (Ifp) has announced during Independent Film Week the first five projects to get week-long theatrical runs at the Made In NY Media Center’s theatre as part of the Screen Forward initiative.
Starting on October 17, the programme will give filmmakers in the process of self-distribution the opportunity to gain a New York theatrical run, with Ifp working alongside each filmmaking team on a range of support including audience engagement and grassroots outreach strategies, publicity and a revenue split.
The fall slate includes: Josephine Decker’s Butter On The Latch and Thou Wast Mild And Lovely; Paul Harrill’s Something, Anything; Onur Tukel’s Summer Of Blood; and Madeleine Olnek’s The Foxy Merkins.
“Screen Forward is a natural outgrowth of our mission to foster and celebrate the work of emerging artists,” said Joana Vicente (pictured), executive director of Ifp and the Made in NY Media Center. “With the Media...
Starting on October 17, the programme will give filmmakers in the process of self-distribution the opportunity to gain a New York theatrical run, with Ifp working alongside each filmmaking team on a range of support including audience engagement and grassroots outreach strategies, publicity and a revenue split.
The fall slate includes: Josephine Decker’s Butter On The Latch and Thou Wast Mild And Lovely; Paul Harrill’s Something, Anything; Onur Tukel’s Summer Of Blood; and Madeleine Olnek’s The Foxy Merkins.
“Screen Forward is a natural outgrowth of our mission to foster and celebrate the work of emerging artists,” said Joana Vicente (pictured), executive director of Ifp and the Made in NY Media Center. “With the Media...
- 9/18/2014
- ScreenDaily
Instructions Not Included director Eugenio Derbez has struck an exclusive first-look deal with that film’s distributor Pantelion Films.
Derbez and his new 3Pas Studios, the partnership he formed with former Pantelion president of production Benjamin Odell, will focus on Spanish and English-language films targeted at Latino and crossover audiences in the Us.
“We are thrilled to take our longstanding relationship with Eugenio to the next level,” said Pantelion Films CEO Paul Presburger. “He is a true auteur in every sense of the word, and he has an amazing ability to tap into the shared passions of Latino and American audiences.”
“One of the keys to Pantelion’s continued successful evolution is the roster of cross-cultural A-list stars it is assembling,” said Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer. “Nobody is better able to deliver films reflecting the universal themes that will continue to build Pantelion‘s brand and audience than Eugenio Derbez, an incredible...
Derbez and his new 3Pas Studios, the partnership he formed with former Pantelion president of production Benjamin Odell, will focus on Spanish and English-language films targeted at Latino and crossover audiences in the Us.
“We are thrilled to take our longstanding relationship with Eugenio to the next level,” said Pantelion Films CEO Paul Presburger. “He is a true auteur in every sense of the word, and he has an amazing ability to tap into the shared passions of Latino and American audiences.”
“One of the keys to Pantelion’s continued successful evolution is the roster of cross-cultural A-list stars it is assembling,” said Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer. “Nobody is better able to deliver films reflecting the universal themes that will continue to build Pantelion‘s brand and audience than Eugenio Derbez, an incredible...
- 9/5/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Fury (David Ayer)
[via the BFI]
The programme for the 58th BFI London Film Festival launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. The lineup includes highly anticipated fall titles including David Ayer’s Fury, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, the Sundance smash Whiplash, Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language 3D, The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, Jason Reitman’s Men, Women and Children and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Wild.
As Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals, it introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience, offering a compelling combination of red carpet glamour, engaged audiences and vibrant exchange. The Festival provides an essential profiling opportunity for films seeking global success at the start of the Awards season, promotes the careers of British and...
[via the BFI]
The programme for the 58th BFI London Film Festival launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. The lineup includes highly anticipated fall titles including David Ayer’s Fury, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, the Sundance smash Whiplash, Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language 3D, The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, Jason Reitman’s Men, Women and Children and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Wild.
As Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals, it introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience, offering a compelling combination of red carpet glamour, engaged audiences and vibrant exchange. The Festival provides an essential profiling opportunity for films seeking global success at the start of the Awards season, promotes the careers of British and...
- 9/3/2014
- by John
- SoundOnSight
World premieres include Wwi drama Testament of Youth, Carol Morley’s The Falling and sci-fi sequel Monsters: Dark Continent.
The line-up for the 58th London Film Festival (Oct 8-19) has been revealed this morning and it is packed with awards contenders and the best of this year’s festivals.
Click here for full line-up
Titles already generating awards buzz that will receive gala screenings at Lff include Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo, and Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, which proved the breakout hit at Sundance.
Other galas will give European premieres to Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children, starring Adam Sandler and Ansel Elgort with a racy voiceover by Emma Thompson, and biopic Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon and directed by Jean-Marc Vallee.
Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner will also feature among the main gala screenings as will the world premiere of Testament of Youth, a First World...
The line-up for the 58th London Film Festival (Oct 8-19) has been revealed this morning and it is packed with awards contenders and the best of this year’s festivals.
Click here for full line-up
Titles already generating awards buzz that will receive gala screenings at Lff include Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo, and Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, which proved the breakout hit at Sundance.
Other galas will give European premieres to Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children, starring Adam Sandler and Ansel Elgort with a racy voiceover by Emma Thompson, and biopic Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon and directed by Jean-Marc Vallee.
Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner will also feature among the main gala screenings as will the world premiere of Testament of Youth, a First World...
- 9/3/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Following previous announcements of their film lineup, the Fantasia International Film Festival has released their full lineup of movies to be shown at the 18th Annual festival, starting July 17.
New additions to the lineup include 2014 Cannes Selection When Animals Dream, directed by Jonas Alexander Amby and the return of Fantasia’s showcase of animated films, Axis.
Tickets for the festival go on sale starting July 16, and the festival runs through August 5.
View the whole press release of additional announcements below:
Fantasia Celebrates Its 18th Birthday
With Over 160 Feature Films Montreal, Thursday July 10, 2014 – 2014 is the year that Fantasia turns 18. We can’t believe it either. Fantasia’s 18th birthday means over 160 features and something in the neighborhood of 300 shorts, many being shown for the first time on this continent, a good number screening here for the first time anywhere in the world.In addition to being stacked with a multitude of breathtaking debut filmmaker discoveries,...
New additions to the lineup include 2014 Cannes Selection When Animals Dream, directed by Jonas Alexander Amby and the return of Fantasia’s showcase of animated films, Axis.
Tickets for the festival go on sale starting July 16, and the festival runs through August 5.
View the whole press release of additional announcements below:
Fantasia Celebrates Its 18th Birthday
With Over 160 Feature Films Montreal, Thursday July 10, 2014 – 2014 is the year that Fantasia turns 18. We can’t believe it either. Fantasia’s 18th birthday means over 160 features and something in the neighborhood of 300 shorts, many being shown for the first time on this continent, a good number screening here for the first time anywhere in the world.In addition to being stacked with a multitude of breathtaking debut filmmaker discoveries,...
- 7/10/2014
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
The second installment of the First Time Fest, the Second Time Around, took place in New York City from April 3rd to April 7th where ten first time filmmakers were able to showcase their films and possibly be in competition to receive distribution of their films by Cinema Libre Studios. Since its debut in March of last year, the First Time Fest has grown to honor and embrace first time filmmakers for their efforts in trying to make their first work and trying to get recognized in an ever difficult field of art.
Johanna Bennett and Mandy Ward thought up of the idea for this type of film festival seven years ago when they realized that no other event had honored the first time filmmaker. Taking this idea in mind, they agreed to bring these newcomers to the field and give them advice as well as bring them closer to...
Johanna Bennett and Mandy Ward thought up of the idea for this type of film festival seven years ago when they realized that no other event had honored the first time filmmaker. Taking this idea in mind, they agreed to bring these newcomers to the field and give them advice as well as bring them closer to...
- 4/21/2014
- by Catherina Gioino
- Nerdly
“Butter On The Latch” Dir. Josephine Decker, starring Sarah Small, Isolde Chae-Lawrence Indie filmmaker Josephine Decker pulled off one of the major coups of the Berlin Film Festival—a “Double Decker.” A cute phrase to communicate the fact that she had her two debut films, “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely” and “Butter On the Latch,” both accepted and premiering at the Berlinale. It's certainly no small accomplishment and nothing to sneeze at. And while some were taken with Decker’s oblique, dreamy experimentalism that often charted moods of dread with a sensual palate, placing her as a “filmmaker to watch” is perhaps putting the cart before the horse. Decker’s definitely got something, but as unformed and inchoate as it is now, it’s largely a bunch of expressive ideas, atmospheres and cinematic forms that never quite coalesce. “Thou Wast Mild and Lovely,” the film we caught first, was aggravatingly precious and arty,...
- 2/18/2014
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
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