In a global context described by some as the Golden Age of documentary and by others as the Corporate Age of documentary, the Marché du Film’s Cannes Docs sidebar dedicated its May 20 talk to the question of a “Universal Values System in Documentary: Dismantling Borders for Greater Equity.”
Moderated by Devika Girish, editor of New York-based Film Comment magazine, the high-level panel included Alemberg Ang from Filipino production house Daluyong Studios; Chinese filmmaker and artist Viv Li; Chicken & Egg Pictures Program Director Kiyoko McCrae; and Adam Piron, director of the Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program.
Opening the talk, Girish invited panelists to share a documentary they would describe as a model of ethical filmmaking.
For Piron, it was the debut feature of American visual artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka, “Malni – Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore,” an experimental work about the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest.
Moderated by Devika Girish, editor of New York-based Film Comment magazine, the high-level panel included Alemberg Ang from Filipino production house Daluyong Studios; Chinese filmmaker and artist Viv Li; Chicken & Egg Pictures Program Director Kiyoko McCrae; and Adam Piron, director of the Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program.
Opening the talk, Girish invited panelists to share a documentary they would describe as a model of ethical filmmaking.
For Piron, it was the debut feature of American visual artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka, “Malni – Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore,” an experimental work about the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest.
- 5/22/2024
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Jeff Bridges has confirmed that he will return for the upcoming third installment in the Tron franchise, Tron: Ares.
Bridges made the announcement during a recent appearance on the Film Comment podcast, confirming that he will “play a part” in the film. Continuing, he expressed that he has “admired” the work of the new movie’s star, Jared Leto, and is “excited” to work with him. He also spoke about his anticipation to “see what the technology is gonna be all about.”
Bridges starred in the original Tron as video game developer Kevin Flynn and and his program, Clu. He later reprised the role in 2010’s Tron Legacy. Recalling filming Tron: Legacy, he explained that the motion-capture technology used then is now “passé,” and the third movie will have “even less AI stuff,” and will instead use “more actual sets, [which are] beautiful.”
Continuing, Bridges told Film Comment’s host, Devika Girish,...
Bridges made the announcement during a recent appearance on the Film Comment podcast, confirming that he will “play a part” in the film. Continuing, he expressed that he has “admired” the work of the new movie’s star, Jared Leto, and is “excited” to work with him. He also spoke about his anticipation to “see what the technology is gonna be all about.”
Bridges starred in the original Tron as video game developer Kevin Flynn and and his program, Clu. He later reprised the role in 2010’s Tron Legacy. Recalling filming Tron: Legacy, he explained that the motion-capture technology used then is now “passé,” and the third movie will have “even less AI stuff,” and will instead use “more actual sets, [which are] beautiful.”
Continuing, Bridges told Film Comment’s host, Devika Girish,...
- 4/30/2024
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Film News
Swiss documentary festival Visions du Réel (VdR) has revealed the line-up for its 55th edition (April 12-21) which opens with the IDFA- and Göteborg selection As The Tide Comes In by Juan Palacios (and co-directed by Sofie Husum Johannesen).
The full selection includes 128 films, 88 of which are world premieres.
Among the 14 world premieres in international competition is Apple Cider Vinegar from Belgium’s Sofie Benoot whose 2020 documentary Victoria won the Caligari award at Berlinale Forum. Her latest feature is part nature documentary, part philosophical tale beginning with the journey of a kidney stone.
Other world premieres include Swiss titles The...
The full selection includes 128 films, 88 of which are world premieres.
Among the 14 world premieres in international competition is Apple Cider Vinegar from Belgium’s Sofie Benoot whose 2020 documentary Victoria won the Caligari award at Berlinale Forum. Her latest feature is part nature documentary, part philosophical tale beginning with the journey of a kidney stone.
Other world premieres include Swiss titles The...
- 3/19/2024
- ScreenDaily
Updated with juror names and winner of 2023 Points North Pitch.
Earlier: A first-time filmmaker has claimed the top prize at the 19th Annual Camden Film Festival in Maine, one of the country’s foremost all-documentary festivals.
Director Yousef Srouji earned the Harrell Award for Three Promises, a film set in the Occupied Territories. “At the start of the 2000s, the Israeli army retaliated against the second intifada in the West Bank,” notes a description of the documentary. “All the while, Suha, a mother of two young children, decides it’s time to start a film diary. Years later, her youngest son Yousef picks up the archive and discovers the difficult choices she faced then. The three promises, made and broken, evidence the strong love of a mother to her children, to her land, and to herself. The result is a reflexive act of love in a time capsule.”
‘Three Promises...
Earlier: A first-time filmmaker has claimed the top prize at the 19th Annual Camden Film Festival in Maine, one of the country’s foremost all-documentary festivals.
Director Yousef Srouji earned the Harrell Award for Three Promises, a film set in the Occupied Territories. “At the start of the 2000s, the Israeli army retaliated against the second intifada in the West Bank,” notes a description of the documentary. “All the while, Suha, a mother of two young children, decides it’s time to start a film diary. Years later, her youngest son Yousef picks up the archive and discovers the difficult choices she faced then. The three promises, made and broken, evidence the strong love of a mother to her children, to her land, and to herself. The result is a reflexive act of love in a time capsule.”
‘Three Promises...
- 9/19/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Critical Zone.International Competition(Jury: Lambert Wilson, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Lesli Klainberg, Charlotte Wells, Matthijs Wouter Knol)Golden Leopard: Critical Zone (Ali Ahmadzadeh)Special Jury Prize: Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Radu Jude)Best Direction: Stepne (Maryna Vroda)Best Performance: Dimitra Vlagopoulou (Animal)Best Performance: Renée Soutendijk (Sweet Dreams)Special Mention: Nuit Obscure - Au Revoir Ici, N'importe Où (Sylvain George)Filmmakers Of The PresentGolden Leopard: Dreaming & Dying (Nelson Yeo)Best Emerging Director: Katharina Huber (A Good Place)Special Jury Prize: Camping Du Lac (Éléonore Saintagnan)Best Performance: Clara Schwinning (A Good Place)Best Performance: Isold Halldórudóttir and Stavros Zafeiris (Touched)Special Mentions: Excursions (Una Gunjak), Negu Hurbilak (Colective Negu)First Feature(Jury: Omar El Zohairy, Devika Girish, Isabel Sandoval)First Feature Award: Dreaming & Dying (Nelson Yeo)Pardi Di Domani(Jury: Ewa Puszczyńska, Matthew Rankin, Amos Sussigan)Best...
- 8/12/2023
- MUBI
The pair join jury president French actor Lambert Wilson in the international competition strand
Aftersun director Charlotte Wells and Holy Spider star Zar Amir Ebrahimi are among the jurors for the 76th Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12).
The Scottish filmmaker and Iranian actor will sit on the international competition jury, led by French actor Lambert Wilson, alongside European Film Academy president Matthijs Wouter Knol and Lesli Klainberg, president of film at the Lincoln Centre.
Films competing at Locarno this year include Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World, Lav Diaz’s Essential Truths...
Aftersun director Charlotte Wells and Holy Spider star Zar Amir Ebrahimi are among the jurors for the 76th Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12).
The Scottish filmmaker and Iranian actor will sit on the international competition jury, led by French actor Lambert Wilson, alongside European Film Academy president Matthijs Wouter Knol and Lesli Klainberg, president of film at the Lincoln Centre.
Films competing at Locarno this year include Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World, Lav Diaz’s Essential Truths...
- 7/12/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Aftersun director Charlotte Wells and Holy Spider star Zar Amir Ebrahimi have joined the jury of the 76th Locarno International Film Festival and will judge the 2023 competitors for the festival’s Golden Leopard award. Ebrahimi also stars in Noora Niasari’s Sundance audience award winner Shayda, which will be the closing film in Locarno this year.
French actor Lambert Wilson, known for his performances in the Matrix films, will head up this year’s Locarno international jury as president. Also in the 2023 jury are European Film Academy director and CEO Matthijs Wouter Knol and Lesli Klainberg, President of Film at New York’s Lincoln Center.
The films of Locarno’s Concorso Cineasti del presente sidebar, featuring works from first and second-time directors will be assessed by a three-person jury of Beatrice Fiorentino, general delegate of Film Critics’ Week at the Venice Film Festival, the French-Tunisian director Erige Sehiri (Under the Fig Trees...
French actor Lambert Wilson, known for his performances in the Matrix films, will head up this year’s Locarno international jury as president. Also in the 2023 jury are European Film Academy director and CEO Matthijs Wouter Knol and Lesli Klainberg, President of Film at New York’s Lincoln Center.
The films of Locarno’s Concorso Cineasti del presente sidebar, featuring works from first and second-time directors will be assessed by a three-person jury of Beatrice Fiorentino, general delegate of Film Critics’ Week at the Venice Film Festival, the French-Tunisian director Erige Sehiri (Under the Fig Trees...
- 7/12/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI, and sign up for our weekly email newsletter by clicking here.NEWSEverything Everywhere All at Once. Everything Everywhere All at Once swept the 95th Academy Awards this weekend, winning Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Editing, and three of the four acting prizes. Read the full list of winners here, and keep your eyes peeled for commentary from our end soon.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Quentin Tarantino is preparing to shoot what could be his final film, The Movie Critic, this autumn. It's set in mid-1970s Los Angeles and will center on a female lead; many are speculating the film could be about Pauline Kael. (Recently on Notebook: read Carlos Valladeres on Tarantino's forays into the written word.)Finally, Jacobin reports on VFX-iatse’s efforts to organize visual effects workers, citing...
- 3/14/2023
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI, and sign up for our weekly email newsletter by clicking here.NEWSNo Bears.Jafar Panahi was released on bail last Friday, two days after starting a hunger strike to protest his seven-month imprisonment. “His next fight is to have the cancellation of his sentence officially recognized,” said Michèle Halberstadt, his French distributor. “He’s outside, he’s free, and this is already great.”Recommended VIEWINGPersonal Problems.Maya Cade of the Black Film Archive has chosen 28 films for the 28 days of Black History Month in the US and compiled online streaming links for each. The lineup includes films by Saundra Sharp, Bill Gunn, and many others.Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun (We're All Going to the World's Fair)'s A Self-Induced Hallucination, their archival documentary about the Slenderman, is available for free on Vimeo. For more on the project,...
- 2/7/2023
- MUBI
The 2023 New York Film Festival (NYFF) has confirmed its dates for the fall festival.
Film at Lincoln Center (Flc) announced that the 61st annual NYFF will take place from September 29 through October 15, 2023. Short film submissions may be accepted starting February 27 via FilmFreeway, with the deadline set for May 5.
This year’s New York Film Festival is run by Dennis Lim, artistic director, and Matt Bolish, the newly promoted managing director. Bolish’s role marks a new position for the festival. Bolish has been a member of the Flc staff since 2011 and is currently the organization’s vice president of operations, in addition to serving as NYFF producer since 2016.
Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang was also appointed to the five-member NYFF Main Slate Selection Committee.
“Justin’s love and knowledge of cinema are evident in everything he writes, and I’m excited for him to bring his curiosity, generosity,...
Film at Lincoln Center (Flc) announced that the 61st annual NYFF will take place from September 29 through October 15, 2023. Short film submissions may be accepted starting February 27 via FilmFreeway, with the deadline set for May 5.
This year’s New York Film Festival is run by Dennis Lim, artistic director, and Matt Bolish, the newly promoted managing director. Bolish’s role marks a new position for the festival. Bolish has been a member of the Flc staff since 2011 and is currently the organization’s vice president of operations, in addition to serving as NYFF producer since 2016.
Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang was also appointed to the five-member NYFF Main Slate Selection Committee.
“Justin’s love and knowledge of cinema are evident in everything he writes, and I’m excited for him to bring his curiosity, generosity,...
- 1/18/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
New Release Wall
“Bergman Island” (The Criterion Collection): Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve’s seventh feature is graceful and complex, a story about stories and the sometimes fragile connections between partners and friends. A couple travel to Fårö, Sweden, where Ingmar Bergman lived and worked, in order to work on their own respective filmmaking projects. There they discover more about themselves than they anticipated. The Blu-ray includes an essay from critic Devika Girish; a short film, “Bergman’s Ghosts,” made during production by actor Gabe Klinger; and interviews with Krieps and Hansen-Løve.
Also available:
“Black Adam” (Warner Bros): Dwayne Johnson is the DC Comics anti-hero, freed from his tomb after 5000 years, now ready to deliver his own version of justice.
“Bones and All” (Warner Bros): The latest from “Call Me By Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino is a romantic horror film about cannibals in love — it’s as divisive...
“Bergman Island” (The Criterion Collection): Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve’s seventh feature is graceful and complex, a story about stories and the sometimes fragile connections between partners and friends. A couple travel to Fårö, Sweden, where Ingmar Bergman lived and worked, in order to work on their own respective filmmaking projects. There they discover more about themselves than they anticipated. The Blu-ray includes an essay from critic Devika Girish; a short film, “Bergman’s Ghosts,” made during production by actor Gabe Klinger; and interviews with Krieps and Hansen-Løve.
Also available:
“Black Adam” (Warner Bros): Dwayne Johnson is the DC Comics anti-hero, freed from his tomb after 5000 years, now ready to deliver his own version of justice.
“Bones and All” (Warner Bros): The latest from “Call Me By Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino is a romantic horror film about cannibals in love — it’s as divisive...
- 1/12/2023
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
As various critics groups and awards bodies dole out their top films of the year, it can be hard to parse which ones are actually worth paying attention to. One such list has arrived today with Film Comment’s annual end-of-year survey. Revealed at a special live talk last night, in an unexpected but welcome surprise, David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future topped the list, which also included Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo, Charlotte Wells’s Aftersun, two by Hong Sangsoo, and more. They also revealed their top undistributed films list, which included David Easteal’s The Plains, Bertrand Bonello’s Coma, and Laura Citarella’s Trenque Lauquen.
“That the winner of this year’s poll is a strange, gory, apocalyptic film about a future where art and humanity are both on the precipice of extinction is a striking reflection of what we’re seeking from cinema in 2022,” said Film...
“That the winner of this year’s poll is a strange, gory, apocalyptic film about a future where art and humanity are both on the precipice of extinction is a striking reflection of what we’re seeking from cinema in 2022,” said Film...
- 12/15/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
From left: Stefano Knuchel, Khesrau Behrouz, Laurie Anderson, and Maya Shenfeld.On our way to Locarno from the airport, a fellow Critics Academy participant told me that he had made a list of 37 films he wanted to see, while I glanced at my own list feeling underprepared. In the end, he didn’t reach that number—none of us did. We had our writings to do, the glittering Lake Maggiore to bask in, and daily necessities, like scurrying between venues and finding time for meals.When the goal of festival-going is to take in as many films as possible, attending a 24-hour long talk on the “Future of Attention” may not seem like the best way to resolve these anxieties. Film festivals run on an attention economy. It was a statistically risky decision for me to pitch this article instead of several smaller film reviews, since I didn’t know...
- 10/19/2022
- MUBI
Two filmmakers renowned for recent works of autofiction, Mia Hansen-Løve and Charlotte Wells, are both riveted by the process of blending details from their lives together with invented artistic elements. At the 60th New York Film Festival last Saturday, the filmmakers convened inside Lincoln Center’s Francesca Beale Theater for an hour-long conversation about their NYFF Main Slate selections.
Presented within the festival’s buzzy Talks section, the “Crosscuts” event — moderated by Film Comment co-deputy editor Devika Girish, who co-programmed this year’s Talks with Maddie Whittle — packed the amphitheater.
Read More: 2022 New York Film Festival Preview: 14 Must-See Movies
In “Aftersun,” Wells’ feature debut, an 11-year-old girl (Francesca Corio) vacations with her father (Paul Mescal) at a Turkish holiday resort in the late 1990s.
Continue reading Mia Hansen-Løve & Charlotte Wells Discuss Fact, Fiction & The Cinema Of Memory [NYFF] at The Playlist.
Presented within the festival’s buzzy Talks section, the “Crosscuts” event — moderated by Film Comment co-deputy editor Devika Girish, who co-programmed this year’s Talks with Maddie Whittle — packed the amphitheater.
Read More: 2022 New York Film Festival Preview: 14 Must-See Movies
In “Aftersun,” Wells’ feature debut, an 11-year-old girl (Francesca Corio) vacations with her father (Paul Mescal) at a Turkish holiday resort in the late 1990s.
Continue reading Mia Hansen-Løve & Charlotte Wells Discuss Fact, Fiction & The Cinema Of Memory [NYFF] at The Playlist.
- 10/13/2022
- by Isaac Feldberg
- The Playlist
Glittering in flowing black sequins, two-time Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett, the second-youngest recipient of Film at Lincoln Center’s coveted 47th Chaplin Award, was ushered to her seat at Alice Tully Hall to resounding applause.
As Film at Lincoln Center president Daniel H. Stern intoned the usual litany of praise and tribute to “one of the most versatile and talented actresses working today,” he eventually had to inform the crowd that the two starry presenters of the night, “Carol” filmmaker Todd Haynes and “Nightmare Alley” star Bradley Cooper, couldn’t make the event due to a direct Covid hit, in Haynes’ case. Cooper was under the weather, he said. (A Searchlight source said Cooper’s daughter had Covid.)
But a voice pierced the darkness. “I’m here!,” cried Blanchett. The audience cheered.
Over the course of the night, between videos of former winners and Blanchett stans like fellow-Aussie Hugh Jackman, Martin Scorsese...
As Film at Lincoln Center president Daniel H. Stern intoned the usual litany of praise and tribute to “one of the most versatile and talented actresses working today,” he eventually had to inform the crowd that the two starry presenters of the night, “Carol” filmmaker Todd Haynes and “Nightmare Alley” star Bradley Cooper, couldn’t make the event due to a direct Covid hit, in Haynes’ case. Cooper was under the weather, he said. (A Searchlight source said Cooper’s daughter had Covid.)
But a voice pierced the darkness. “I’m here!,” cried Blanchett. The audience cheered.
Over the course of the night, between videos of former winners and Blanchett stans like fellow-Aussie Hugh Jackman, Martin Scorsese...
- 4/26/2022
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: M. Night Shyamalan on the set of Old (2021). Berlinale has announced that the one and only M. Night Shyamalan will serve as the Jury President for the festival's 2022 edition. In a statement, Shyamalan said: "I have always felt like an independent filmmaker within the system of Hollywood. It is exactly those things in us that are different and unorthodox that define our voice. I have tried to maintain these things in myself and cheer others on to protect those aspects in their art and in themselves. Being asked to be a part of Berlinale is deeply meaningful to me. It represents the highest imprimatur for a filmmaker. Being able to support and celebrate the world’s very best talent in storytelling is a gift I happily accepted.”David Fincher is partnering with Netflix...
- 10/20/2021
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Melvin Van Peebles. (Courtesy of Shadow & Act)We're deeply saddened by the news that the great Melvin Van Peebles has died. A filmmaker, director, novelist, playwright, and composer, Van Peebles was a pioneer of independent cinema, best known for his films Watermelon Man (1970) and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971). In an official statement, Van Peebles' son, filmmaker Mario Van Peebles, states: "He was a pioneer, a maverick and one cool cat." Exiled Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi has published an open letter to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, discussing the struggles faced by refugees whose films are censored, banned, and restricted from being shown to the Academy. Ghobadi proposes "a refugee team of filmmakers; they can have their works viewed by a jury and eventually one movie can be chosen from the refugee team.
- 9/29/2021
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSChameleon StreetThe New York Film Festival has announced an excellent selection for its Revivals section. The roster includes restorations of Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala, John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, Sarah Maldoror's Sambizanga, Wendell B. Harris Jr.'s Chameleon Street, and Michael Powell's Bluebeard's Castle. The 2021 Locarno Film Festival has come to an end, with Indonesian filmmaker Edwin's Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash winning the Golden Leopard. For a full list of this year's award winners, read here. Recommended VIEWINGAhead of premiere, a trailer for the latest Spike Lee joint: the four-part documentary series NYC Epicenters: 9/11 → 2021 ½. The series, which captures twenty years of New York City history from the perspective of its citizens, will premiere on HBO Max August 22. Cinema Guild has released a trailer for Matías Piñeiro's Isabella.
- 8/18/2021
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: The Souvenir Part II. (Courtesy of A24)NYFF has announced its full main slate, which includes Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta, Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir Part II, Julia Ducournau's Titane, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria, and more. A long-gestating epistolary documentary that consists of a dialogue between Jean-Luc Godard and Iranian filmmaker and intellectual Ebrahim Golestan is set to premiere on the international festival circuit. The project consisted of Golestan sending emails with text and no visuals to Godard, who would respond with visuals and aphorisms. Mel Brooks' memoir, My Remarkable Life in Show Business, will be released November 30. The book is said to follow the "peaks and valleys" of Brooks' storied life beginning with his childhood, retold with his signature irreverent humor. Recommended VIEWINGThe official trailer for Andreas Fontana's riveting political thriller Azor,...
- 8/11/2021
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria.The lineup for the Cannes 2021 official selection has arrived, featuring new titles from Sean Baker, Julia Ducournau, Bruno Dumont, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mia Hansen-Løve, and even Sean Penn. This year's festival will also see the French premiere of F9, the latest of the Fast and Furious franchise, at a public screening. Cannes has also announced its roster for the Directors' Fortnight (which includes Joanna Hogg's The Souvenir Part II!), Critics' Week, and Acid. In collaboration with Kino Lorber, Dedza Films has announced the June 11 release of an international short film omnibus showcasing the works of emerging filmmakers from underrepresented communities. Founded by former Kino Lorber intern Kate Gondwe, Dedza will also be publishing a scrapbook of essays by 10 aspiring film critics on the selection of films. Rob Zombie has confirmed his next film,...
- 6/9/2021
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSWe announced today in IndieWire the upcoming launch of our new original podcast! Hosted by arts and travel reporter Rico Gagliano, the first season of the Mubi Podcast will focus on films that have great importance in their home country, but are lesser known by international audiences and critics. We begin with Paul Verhoeven's second feature Turkish Delight and its unique significance during the counterculture movement in 1970s Holland. The episode feaures exclusive interviews with Paul Verhoeven, Monique van de Ven, and Jan de Bont. Check out the trailer above and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts here.Filmmaker Milton Moses Ginsberg, best known for his debut feature Coming Apart (1969) and the horror comedy film The Werewolf of Washington (1973), has died. The Tribeca Film Festival has announced that Steven Soderbergh's latest, the...
- 5/26/2021
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Killers of the Flower Moon (2021)From Osage News, the first official image from Martin Scorsese’s upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon, featuring Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio. Recommended VIEWINGFollowing the release of his series The Underground Railroad, Barry Jenkins has also released The Gaze, a 50-minute non-narrative video piece that captures the show's background actors in moments of stillness. The film challenges the notion of the "white gaze" by pursuing what Jenkins refers to as "the Black gaze; or the gaze distilled." Shudder has released an official trailer for George A. Romero's The Amusement Park, a restoration of the long-lost 1973 film. Originally a commissioned work by the Lutheran Society, The Amusement Park was shelved for its terrifying depiction of elder abuse. The film will premiere on Shudder on June 8. Over at Ecstatic Static,...
- 5/12/2021
- MUBI
Event will combine in-person, virtual screenings.
The 59th New York Film festival (NYFF) will take place in a hybrid format and runs from September 24-October 10, 2021.
Produced by Film at Lincoln Center, this year’s edition will combine an in-person component with virtual screenings.
In 2020, organisers unveiled a reimagined festival structure under the leadership of new NYFF director Eugene Hernandez and NYFF Director of programming Dennis Lim.
The festival’s selections were streamlined into five sections: Main Slate, Currents, Spotlight, Revivals, and Talks.
This year’s festival selection committee comprises Florence Almozini, K. Austin Collins, Devika Girish, Hernandez, Lim, Aily Nash,...
The 59th New York Film festival (NYFF) will take place in a hybrid format and runs from September 24-October 10, 2021.
Produced by Film at Lincoln Center, this year’s edition will combine an in-person component with virtual screenings.
In 2020, organisers unveiled a reimagined festival structure under the leadership of new NYFF director Eugene Hernandez and NYFF Director of programming Dennis Lim.
The festival’s selections were streamlined into five sections: Main Slate, Currents, Spotlight, Revivals, and Talks.
This year’s festival selection committee comprises Florence Almozini, K. Austin Collins, Devika Girish, Hernandez, Lim, Aily Nash,...
- 4/21/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSFilmmaker Bertrand Mandico has illustrated the 70th anniversary cover of Cahier du Cinéma, entitled "Gloria, angel of the history of the cinema." The Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center have announced the lineup for the 50th edition of New Directors/New Films. Screenings will take place from April 28-May 8 through the MoMA and Flc virtual cinemas, and in-person screenings at Flc through May 13. The lineup of 27 features and 11 shorts includes Theo Anthony's All Light, Everywhere, Andreas Fontana's Azor, Alice Diop's We (Nous), and Jane Schoenbrun's We’re All Going to the World’s Fair. Recommended VIEWINGAnother Gaze's free streaming project, Another Screen, has announced two new programmes: Hands Tied, about hands, and Eating the Other, about gendered notions of eating. The first official trailer for Mamoru Hosoda's Belle, which...
- 4/6/2021
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: David Fincher and Gary Oldman on the set of Mank (2020). David Fincher's Mank leads this year's nominations for the Academy Awards. A complete list of all nominations can be found here.Legendary actor Yaphet Kotto, best known for his charismatic presence in films like Alien, Blue Collar, and Live and Let Die has died.Spike Lee will be leading the 2021 Cannes Film Festival Jury, promising to return after the cancellation of last year's festival: "Book my flight now, my wife and I are coming!" After a months-long hiatus, Film Comment has announced its return, marked by a new weekly letter and two new episodes of the Film Comment podcast. Recommended VIEWINGAbove: Mark Rappaport's The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey. Today's the last day to watch two new essay films...
- 3/17/2021
- MUBI
After a months-long hiatus, the Film Comment Podcast is coming back. Film at Lincoln Center, which serves as Film Comment’s publisher, announced on Wednesday that new episodes of the podcast will be published weekly on Tuesday. The first new episode of the podcast, which is available on Soundcloud, iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and Stitcher, is available now. The organization stated that the hiatus was due to the coronavirus pandemic and the “need to ensure its long-term financial viability.”
Film at Lincoln Center has changed in the months since it furloughed half of its full-time staff last spring (most employees have since returned); former editor-in-chief Nicolas Rapold departed last summer after more than a decade with the magazine. Devika Girish and Clinton Krute, who both joined the Film Comment team in 2019 under Rapold’s leadership, are serving as co-deputy editors, overseeing the return of the magazine.
“Devika and I are...
Film at Lincoln Center has changed in the months since it furloughed half of its full-time staff last spring (most employees have since returned); former editor-in-chief Nicolas Rapold departed last summer after more than a decade with the magazine. Devika Girish and Clinton Krute, who both joined the Film Comment team in 2019 under Rapold’s leadership, are serving as co-deputy editors, overseeing the return of the magazine.
“Devika and I are...
- 3/10/2021
- by Tyler Hersko
- Indiewire
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Martha Stewart in In A Lonely Place. Actress Martha Stewart, best known for playing Mildred Atkinson in Nicholas Ray's In A Lonely Place (1950), has died. Check out the new website for listings resource Screen Slate! The website now has sections for specially curated listings and articles, as well as a store featuring surveys and readers. Joaquin Phoenix is officially joining the cast of Ari Aster's next film, Disappointment Blvd. Produced by A24, the film reportedly is “an intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time.” Recommended VIEWINGLingua Franca director Isabel Sandoval's short film Shang-ri Lais the latest of Miu Miu's Women's Tales, now playing on Mubi. The sensual story takes place in California during the Great Depression, and depicts a Filipino farmhand whose strong feelings...
- 2/24/2021
- MUBI
Following its initial run last May and June, Sentient.Art Film. has revived the series "My Sight is Lined With Visions: 1990s Asian American Film & Video" as a year-long program, helmed by Sentient.Art.Film Artistic Director Keisha Knight and co-curator Abby Sun. The history of Asian American film and video is shaped by what B. Ruby Rich and Brian Hu describe (in Film Quarterly's recent dossier on fifty years of Asian American cinema) as its "public-ness." Through the initiatives of community-based media arts organizations like the Center for Asian American Media and Visual Communications, burgeoning Asian American filmmakers strove to generate cultural consciousness, just as the term "Asian American" entered the national vocabulary. In the "public" tradition of Asian American cinema, and against the limitations imposed by the pandemic, this series challenges barriers of access by making these hard-to-find titles available online. You can rent the entire selection until...
- 1/29/2021
- MUBI
A recent movement toward unionization by workers at media brands and cultural institutions continued today as staffers at Film at Lincoln Center voted 29 to 4 in favor of forming a guild.
The National Labor Relations Board election included workers in film programming, development, communications and public-facing theater operations.
According to a news release from organizers, four additional employee ballots were set aside due to eligibility questions. The ballots remain unopened and their status will be resolved at a later date.
Film at Lincoln Center recently wrapped up a singular version of its annual New York Film Festival, which conducted screenings online and at drive-in locations outside of Manhattan due to Covid-19 precautions. The pandemic has forced all of Lincoln Center’s tenants to shut their doors in a devastating blow to their finances. In addition to its repertory houses, Flc has also derived revenue from commercial bookings over the past decade...
The National Labor Relations Board election included workers in film programming, development, communications and public-facing theater operations.
According to a news release from organizers, four additional employee ballots were set aside due to eligibility questions. The ballots remain unopened and their status will be resolved at a later date.
Film at Lincoln Center recently wrapped up a singular version of its annual New York Film Festival, which conducted screenings online and at drive-in locations outside of Manhattan due to Covid-19 precautions. The pandemic has forced all of Lincoln Center’s tenants to shut their doors in a devastating blow to their finances. In addition to its repertory houses, Flc has also derived revenue from commercial bookings over the past decade...
- 11/24/2020
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
As the New York Film Festival readies to roll out its 58th edition tomorrow (and running through October 11), IndieWire is pleased to share an exclusive look at the many festival-sponsored Talks which will roll out during this year’s event. HBO serves as the presenting sponsor of Talks, which supplement NYFF’s screenings with a series of free and live panel discussions and in-depth conversations with a wide range of guests.
As announced by festival brass earlier this summer, this year’s NYFF is going to operate differently than it has in previous incarnations. The event will combine a brand-new virtual presence with carefully designed outdoor screenings, including two drive-ins. The Talks are taking a new shape, too, and while they are not available as in-person events, as they have been in years past, the festival is hoping to turn them into “an essential live, online meeting place for audiences,...
As announced by festival brass earlier this summer, this year’s NYFF is going to operate differently than it has in previous incarnations. The event will combine a brand-new virtual presence with carefully designed outdoor screenings, including two drive-ins. The Talks are taking a new shape, too, and while they are not available as in-person events, as they have been in years past, the festival is hoping to turn them into “an essential live, online meeting place for audiences,...
- 9/16/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Lynn Shelton by Fred HayesFilmmaker Lynn Shelton, best known as a pioneer of the mumblecore movement and as a gifted director of television (including the series Glow and Little Fires Everywhere), has died at the age of 54.Luca Guadagnino is set to direct a reboot of Scarface, with a shooting script written by Ethan and Joel Coen that places the story in Los Angeles. Recommended VIEWINGThe official U.S. trailer for Abel Ferrara's Tommaso, which will be arriving to virtual cinemas starting June 5. The film follows Willem Dafoe as an American artist in Rome. Read our interview with Ferrara regarding the film as "personal cinema" here.Netflix has released a trailer for Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods, the story of four African-American Vietnam war veterans who return to Vietnam in search of...
- 5/20/2020
- MUBI
The 58th New York Film Festival announced on Friday a new programming structure and the addition of curatorial members to their teams. For now, the festival will include in-person and digital experiences and will take place Sept. 25 through Oct. 11.
But one question still hanging over New York Film Festival is if it will be able to continue on as it has in the past, as the coronavirus has resulted in more than 20,000 deaths in the state and closed businesses ranging from restaurants to movie theaters.
It’s not clear if life will go back to normal by the fall. If not, the festival might need to go all-virtual due to the pandemic.
“Our city is enduring a devastating crisis right now and there is no question that the 58th New York Film Festival will be different as a result, but New Yorkers are resilient and constraints can inspire new ideas,...
But one question still hanging over New York Film Festival is if it will be able to continue on as it has in the past, as the coronavirus has resulted in more than 20,000 deaths in the state and closed businesses ranging from restaurants to movie theaters.
It’s not clear if life will go back to normal by the fall. If not, the festival might need to go all-virtual due to the pandemic.
“Our city is enduring a devastating crisis right now and there is no question that the 58th New York Film Festival will be different as a result, but New Yorkers are resilient and constraints can inspire new ideas,...
- 5/8/2020
- by Mackenzie Nichols
- Variety Film + TV
As it readies for its 58th edition, the New York Film Festival has announced a number of changes both to its programming structure and curatorial teams that head up both selection and overall advisement. In addition to adding new members in committee and advisory roles, the festival’s programming structure has been streamlined into five distinct sections.
While the state of fall festivals remains unclear in the wake of the pandemic, Nyff representatives said in a statement that “the festival is also exploring a combination of both in-person and digital experiences, as circumstances allow,” adding that Film at Lincoln Center “will determine the format of the festival this summer, maintaining its commitment and responsibility to films and filmmakers while ensuring that the safety and well-being of our audiences and guests remain our utmost priority.”
In an additional statement, new Nyff director Eugene Hernandez addressed the current challenges faced by the festival.
While the state of fall festivals remains unclear in the wake of the pandemic, Nyff representatives said in a statement that “the festival is also exploring a combination of both in-person and digital experiences, as circumstances allow,” adding that Film at Lincoln Center “will determine the format of the festival this summer, maintaining its commitment and responsibility to films and filmmakers while ensuring that the safety and well-being of our audiences and guests remain our utmost priority.”
In an additional statement, new Nyff director Eugene Hernandez addressed the current challenges faced by the festival.
- 5/8/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Currents, Spotlight sections among innovations.
The Film at Lincoln Center hierarchy announced on Friday (May 8) a new programming structure, selection committee and advisory roles at the 58th New York Film Festival (Nyff), set to run from September 25-October 11.
Film at Lincoln Center will determine the form of the festival over the summer, however what is known is there will be five sections: Main Slate, Currents, Spotlight, Revivals, and Talks.
The Main Slate selection committee has been expanded to five members comprising Nyff director of programming Dennis Lim (chair), Florence Almozini, K. Austin Collins, Nyff director Eugene Hernandez, and Rachel Rosen.
The Film at Lincoln Center hierarchy announced on Friday (May 8) a new programming structure, selection committee and advisory roles at the 58th New York Film Festival (Nyff), set to run from September 25-October 11.
Film at Lincoln Center will determine the form of the festival over the summer, however what is known is there will be five sections: Main Slate, Currents, Spotlight, Revivals, and Talks.
The Main Slate selection committee has been expanded to five members comprising Nyff director of programming Dennis Lim (chair), Florence Almozini, K. Austin Collins, Nyff director Eugene Hernandez, and Rachel Rosen.
- 5/8/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
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
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe Cannes Film Festival has announced its official poster, a tribute to the late Agnès Varda. The poster depicts Varda on the set of her very first feature, La pointe courte (1955). We are saddened by the news that the brilliant Swedish actress Bibi Andersson died at the age of 83. Best known for her remarkable turns in The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, and Persona, Ronald Bergan provides a thorough obituary of the timeless artist for The Guardian.Recommended VIEWINGThe first teaser for J.J. Abrams conclusion to the new Star Wars trilogy, Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker. We published an extensive 5-part dialogue conducted last year that wrestles with George Lucas's much contested prequels.Kino Lorber's trailer for the re-release of Frank Simon's The Queen (1968), a documentary about the Miss All-America Camp Beauty Contest,...
- 4/17/2019
- MUBI
Master filmmaker Lee Chang-dong’s ‘Burning’, his first as director since 2010’s ‘Poetry’ is a riveting stunner. ‘Burning’ is the winner of the Fipresci Prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, and South Korea’s Official Oscar® entry for Best Foreign Language Film.
Lee expertly adapts international bestselling author Haruki Murakami’s short story “Barn Burning” in a marvelously cinematic fashion, carefully crafting the tale of the fateful triangle portrayed by Korean star Yoo Ah-In, newcomer Jeo Jong-seo, and international breakout Steven Yeun.
When an alienated young man, Jongsu (Yoo), a frustrated and introverted writer struggling with his first novel, meets an old friend from his small hometown, his already difficult life is complicated by her. Haemi (Jeo), a spirited woman who offers a romantic possibility, asks him to look after her cat while she’s on a trip to Africa. It becomes more complicated when she returns with Ben (Yeun...
Lee expertly adapts international bestselling author Haruki Murakami’s short story “Barn Burning” in a marvelously cinematic fashion, carefully crafting the tale of the fateful triangle portrayed by Korean star Yoo Ah-In, newcomer Jeo Jong-seo, and international breakout Steven Yeun.
When an alienated young man, Jongsu (Yoo), a frustrated and introverted writer struggling with his first novel, meets an old friend from his small hometown, his already difficult life is complicated by her. Haemi (Jeo), a spirited woman who offers a romantic possibility, asks him to look after her cat while she’s on a trip to Africa. It becomes more complicated when she returns with Ben (Yeun...
- 11/27/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
From Glenn in the hit American television series The Walking Dead to Ben in South Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong's latest film Burning (2018), the range of characters that Korean-American Steven Yeun has recently portrayed on screen has been nothing short of unprecedented. Yeun’s character of Glenn Rhee on The Walking Dead felt, at the time, like a watershed moment in Asian-American representation in that Glenn’s minority status as an ethnic Korean was not signposted as a point of difference or foreignness—Glenn was simply Glenn. However, such "race-blind" logic marks what is often the poverty of discourse in film and television regarding diversity: that simply getting to the point of race-blindness, in which Glenn’s racial background is a complete non-factor, is celebrated as an achievement in representation. Yeun’s character K in Bong Joon-ho’s Okja (2017) brings to bear an unusual attention to the complexity of the Asian-American lived experience,...
- 10/26/2018
- MUBI
Welcome, one and all, to the latest installment of The Film Stage Show! Today, Michael Snydel and I are joined by Devika Girish to talk about Josephine Decker’s formally daring Madeline’s Madeline and its depiction of the creative process and mental illness.
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The Film Stage is supported by Mubi, a curated online cinema streaming a selection of exceptional independent, classic, and award-winning films from around the world. Each day, Mubi hand-picks a new gem and you have one month to watch it. Try it for free at mubi.com/filmstage.
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- 9/10/2018
- by Brian Roan
- The Film Stage
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAndré S. Labarthe, critic and producer of the long running Cinéastes de notre temps film series covering famed film directors, has died.In memory of André S. Labarthe, who, with Janine Bazin, created the TV series Cinéastes de notre temps, a historic, inexhaustible trove of filmed portraits of directors and interviews with them and associates (too often only seen as DVD-extra snippets): https://t.co/t7qm8AlT4b— Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow) March 5, 2018Following a report earlier this year, award winning director Kim Ki-duk has been further accused of sexual abuse. The actresses making said claims remain anonymous in fear of being publicly shamed, Yahoo reports.Quentin Tarantino is making moves on his controversial new project, which appears in part to concern the Manson family murders. Variety reports that Brad Pitt has joined the project alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.
- 3/8/2018
- MUBI
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