Following the news that Mendes will direct four fab films about the Fab Four, our critic picks his fantasy lineup
Just when we were getting sick of the Marvel Cinematic Universe … Sam Mendes comes along with the Beatles Cinematic Universe. It’s a quartet of interlocking movies about the Fab Four, each centred on one band member, and with the fascinating promise of overlaps and Pov shifts, perhaps inspired by Lucas Belvaux’s triple-decker Trilogy pictures or Joao Canijo’s mirror image films Bad Living and Living Bad. Mendes’s moptop movies may tag quadrilaterally around key moments … Shea Stadium, the Maureen Cleave interview, Lennon’s death? But who to cast? Here is my fantasy lineup.
Just when we were getting sick of the Marvel Cinematic Universe … Sam Mendes comes along with the Beatles Cinematic Universe. It’s a quartet of interlocking movies about the Fab Four, each centred on one band member, and with the fascinating promise of overlaps and Pov shifts, perhaps inspired by Lucas Belvaux’s triple-decker Trilogy pictures or Joao Canijo’s mirror image films Bad Living and Living Bad. Mendes’s moptop movies may tag quadrilaterally around key moments … Shea Stadium, the Maureen Cleave interview, Lennon’s death? But who to cast? Here is my fantasy lineup.
- 2/21/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Taking home the Jury Prize at the 2023 Berlinale, Portuguese auteur João Canijo‘s latest Bad Living (Mal Viver) is the director’s masterpiece, examining the lives of five women tied to a seaside hotel which also happens to be their prison. Notably, the film is a diptych with the filmmaker’s other 2023 feature, Living Bad (also premiering in Berlin), which utilizes playwright August Strindberg in examining the equally dysfunctional guests of the hotel. I spoke with João Canijo about Bad Living, Portugal’s official submission in the category of Best International Feature for the 96th Academy Awards. Canijo discusses his filmmaking techniques as well as the narrative subtexts of the film.…...
- 11/20/2023
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Leonor Teles’ feature fiction debut Baan will close the festival.
Wang Bing’s Man In Black will open the 21st edition of Portugal’s documentary film festival Doclisboa (October 19-29).
Bing’s latest feature explores the life of Wang Xilin, a Chinese composer and dissident. The film had its world premiere at Cannes, in Special Screenings, where the Chinese director’s other film Youth (Spring) screened in competition.
‘Man In Black’: Cannes Review
Closing the festival is Leonor Teles’ feature fiction debut Baan which follows a young architect’s love life across Lisbon and Bangkok. The film premiered in competition at Locarno.
Wang Bing’s Man In Black will open the 21st edition of Portugal’s documentary film festival Doclisboa (October 19-29).
Bing’s latest feature explores the life of Wang Xilin, a Chinese composer and dissident. The film had its world premiere at Cannes, in Special Screenings, where the Chinese director’s other film Youth (Spring) screened in competition.
‘Man In Black’: Cannes Review
Closing the festival is Leonor Teles’ feature fiction debut Baan which follows a young architect’s love life across Lisbon and Bangkok. The film premiered in competition at Locarno.
- 9/19/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
- 9/18/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
- 9/14/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...
- 9/14/2023
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
The 2023 edition of the Berlin International Film Festival has come and gone (we got plenty more to insert here), but here are some of the reviews and future interviews for a huge swath of films from the prestigious film fest.
20,000 Species of Bees (read review)
Afire (Roter Himmel) (read review)
Bad Living (read review)
The Beast in the Jungle (read review)
BlackBerry (read review)
Disco Boy (read review)
Le grand chariot (The Plough) (read review)
Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert (read review)
Limbo (read review)
Living Bad (Viver Mal) (read review)
Manodrome (read review)
Music (read review)
Past Lives (read review)
The Shadowless Tower (read review)
She Came to Me (read review)
Silver Haze (read review)
Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything (read review)
The Survival of Kindness (read review)
The Teachers’ Lounge (read review)
Till the End of the Night (read review)
Tótem (read review)…
Continue reading.
20,000 Species of Bees (read review)
Afire (Roter Himmel) (read review)
Bad Living (read review)
The Beast in the Jungle (read review)
BlackBerry (read review)
Disco Boy (read review)
Le grand chariot (The Plough) (read review)
Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert (read review)
Limbo (read review)
Living Bad (Viver Mal) (read review)
Manodrome (read review)
Music (read review)
Past Lives (read review)
The Shadowless Tower (read review)
She Came to Me (read review)
Silver Haze (read review)
Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything (read review)
The Survival of Kindness (read review)
The Teachers’ Lounge (read review)
Till the End of the Night (read review)
Tótem (read review)…
Continue reading.
- 3/1/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Veteran French docmaker Nicolas Philibert was the surprise winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, taking the prize for his film “On the Adamant,” a poignant observational study of a Paris mental health care facility.
He received the award from jury president Kristen Stewart, after the star offered an extended and plainly heartfelt ode to the film’s humanity and simplicity: “People have gone in circles for thousands of years trying to pin down what can be deemed art, who’s allowed to do it and what determines its value,” she said, citing the boundary-pushing nature of the festival, and namechecking such opposing philosophers on the matter as Aristotle, Barthes, Sontag and Beavis & Butthead, before concluding, “For all of us, you just know it when you see it.”
It was an apt way to introduce a film that stood out in this year’s Competition...
He received the award from jury president Kristen Stewart, after the star offered an extended and plainly heartfelt ode to the film’s humanity and simplicity: “People have gone in circles for thousands of years trying to pin down what can be deemed art, who’s allowed to do it and what determines its value,” she said, citing the boundary-pushing nature of the festival, and namechecking such opposing philosophers on the matter as Aristotle, Barthes, Sontag and Beavis & Butthead, before concluding, “For all of us, you just know it when you see it.”
It was an apt way to introduce a film that stood out in this year’s Competition...
- 2/25/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Misery loves company, which may account for Portuguese director João Canijo’s decision to split his angst-ridden hotel-set project into two complementary films. Both were selected for the Berlinale, with the half centered on the hotel guests (“Living Bad”) landing in the Encounters section, and “Bad Living,” which revolves around the hotel staff, taking a main competition slot. It makes reviewing one without reference to the other something of an exercise in shadowboxing, especially when, as in “Bad Living,” the minute observation of its deteriorating female relationships could have used some kind of counterpoint, if only to make an unremittingly bleak, fractious 127 minutes pass a little faster. They may work in hospitality, but the women of “Bad Living” live in a draining, near-permanent state of hostility.
The heartbreak hotel location is perhaps the film’s biggest star. It’s a large, modern building, though not so modern that it doesn...
The heartbreak hotel location is perhaps the film’s biggest star. It’s a large, modern building, though not so modern that it doesn...
- 2/25/2023
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
The Mirror Has Two Faces: Canijo’s Customers Are Always Blight with Inverse Melodrama
“Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and presentiment of its end destroys it at is very peak,” wrote Swedish playwright August Strindberg, a master iconoclast who excelled in creating harrowing psychological warfare between despairing characters in his effort to obtain a semblance of true naturalism. João Canijo mainlines this process with Viver Mal (Living Bad), a counterpoint film to Bad Living (read review), which brings to the fore all the nasty soundbites in the background and heightens the anxiety between the five hoteliers whose misery dominates the previous chapter.…...
“Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and presentiment of its end destroys it at is very peak,” wrote Swedish playwright August Strindberg, a master iconoclast who excelled in creating harrowing psychological warfare between despairing characters in his effort to obtain a semblance of true naturalism. João Canijo mainlines this process with Viver Mal (Living Bad), a counterpoint film to Bad Living (read review), which brings to the fore all the nasty soundbites in the background and heightens the anxiety between the five hoteliers whose misery dominates the previous chapter.…...
- 2/23/2023
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
‘Music’, ‘The Plough’, ‘20,000 Species Of Bees’ and ‘Bad Living’ have also been scored.
Christian Petzold’s Afire has landed second on Screen’s 2023 Berlin jury grid with a strong 3.4 average.
The German drama received a mix of four-star and three-star ratings from the critics and is just behind Celine Song’s Past Lives which remains leader of the pack on 3.6.
Petzold’s fifth entry at Berlinale’s competition follows a group of friends holidaying by the Baltic Sea.
Next in line for the new titles is Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s 20,000 Species Of Bees which received a 2.6 average from critics.
Christian Petzold’s Afire has landed second on Screen’s 2023 Berlin jury grid with a strong 3.4 average.
The German drama received a mix of four-star and three-star ratings from the critics and is just behind Celine Song’s Past Lives which remains leader of the pack on 3.6.
Petzold’s fifth entry at Berlinale’s competition follows a group of friends holidaying by the Baltic Sea.
Next in line for the new titles is Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s 20,000 Species Of Bees which received a 2.6 average from critics.
- 2/23/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Portuguese auteur Joao Canijo (Blood of My Blood) arrives at the 2023 Berlinale with not just one but two films — a diptych shot in the same hotel location with overlapping characters. Bad Living (Mal Viver) focuses largely on the women who own and run the hotel, while its companion, Living Bad (Viver Mal), centers on some of the hotel’s guests. (Both films unfold within the same time frame.) Full disclosure: I have not seen Living Bad, but given that Bad Living was selected for the festival’s main competition presumably it was deemed to be the stronger work. One can only shudder to imagine what an ordeal Living Bad must be to endure. Punishingly slow, grandiloquently depressing and ultimately not even especially convincing psychologically, Bad Living feels like the work of people who sincerely believed they were making great art. Sadly, they were mistaken.
Bad Living assembles a procession of mostly static,...
Bad Living assembles a procession of mostly static,...
- 2/21/2023
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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