Fantastic Fest 2024 kicks off in weather so hot it could make a killer clown melt.
That won’t scare away the right movie lovers from this buzzy genre film event — held every year at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, Texas. It also won’t keep the most game among them from embracing the creepy circus theme tied to the event’s extra freaky 19th edition. However, the residual face paint and sweat could prove its own messy point at opening night’s Mac Sabbath concert.
An eight-day film festival exploring horror, sci-fi, fantasy, cult films, and more, this year’s Fantastic Fest runs from Thursday, September 19 to Thursday, September 26. Founded in 2005 by Tim League, the offbeat festival includes dozens of feature films, several shorts programs, two episodic premieres for TV, a notorious “debate” night (featuring a… boxing element?!), various live performances, and more. Fantastic Games also makes its inaugural...
That won’t scare away the right movie lovers from this buzzy genre film event — held every year at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, Texas. It also won’t keep the most game among them from embracing the creepy circus theme tied to the event’s extra freaky 19th edition. However, the residual face paint and sweat could prove its own messy point at opening night’s Mac Sabbath concert.
An eight-day film festival exploring horror, sci-fi, fantasy, cult films, and more, this year’s Fantastic Fest runs from Thursday, September 19 to Thursday, September 26. Founded in 2005 by Tim League, the offbeat festival includes dozens of feature films, several shorts programs, two episodic premieres for TV, a notorious “debate” night (featuring a… boxing element?!), various live performances, and more. Fantastic Games also makes its inaugural...
- 9/19/2024
- by Alison Foreman and Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Peter Sarsgaard, the veteran character actor who has received some of the best notices of his career this year for his performance on the Apple TV+ drama series Presumed Innocent and in the Paramount film September 5, will receive the Newport Beach Film Festival’s Performer of the Year Award (Actor) and record an episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast live in front of a festival audience, Nbff announced on Tuesday.
Sarsgaard’s award presentation and podcast recording will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 23, during the 25th edition of Nbff, which will run Oct. 17-24.
The fest also announced its film lineup, which includes 112 films from 19 countries, including 16 world premieres, 10 U.S. premieres, 16 North American premieres, 13 West Coast premieres and 10 Southern California Premieres
This year’s Nbff will open on Oct. 17 with the world premiere of Simon West’s Old Guy, with West and star Chrostoph Waltz in attendance,...
Sarsgaard’s award presentation and podcast recording will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 23, during the 25th edition of Nbff, which will run Oct. 17-24.
The fest also announced its film lineup, which includes 112 films from 19 countries, including 16 world premieres, 10 U.S. premieres, 16 North American premieres, 13 West Coast premieres and 10 Southern California Premieres
This year’s Nbff will open on Oct. 17 with the world premiere of Simon West’s Old Guy, with West and star Chrostoph Waltz in attendance,...
- 9/17/2024
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The fall festivals — starting with Venice and through Telluride and Toronto — give us a map of what the rest of the year in movies looks like. These are the films that will dominate year-end discussions, top 10 lists, and, of course, the Oscars and the awards that precede and predict them. These are the movies that maybe you adore or anticipate now, but might get sick of hearing about by March 2, the date of the Oscars. So turns the awards season wheel, but at least the Oscars are closer to February again.
And the tone-setting trifecta of Venice, Telluride, and TIFF isn’t even the half of it, as regional festivals continue to pop up through December and, of course, New York and AFI Fest are still to come. This year’s New York Film Festival is lacking in top-ticket world premieres but still offers a robust greatest-hits selection of the fall fests that were,...
And the tone-setting trifecta of Venice, Telluride, and TIFF isn’t even the half of it, as regional festivals continue to pop up through December and, of course, New York and AFI Fest are still to come. This year’s New York Film Festival is lacking in top-ticket world premieres but still offers a robust greatest-hits selection of the fall fests that were,...
- 9/17/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio, Kate Erbland and David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
If the 2025 Oscars nominations were announced today, what would Gold Derby predict would be the nominees and winners? Our predictions center officially opened on July 1, 2024 and already more than 3,500 people have made their nominations forecasts in the nine top categories for picture, directing, acting, writing and animation. So who’s out front to claim these golden trophies, according to the Gold Derby Oscar predictions 2025?
Below, see a snapshot in time of our Oscar racetrack odds, updated on September 11, 2024.
Now expected to receive a nomination since the last update: “The Brutalist” in Best Picture, Angelina Jolie (“Maria”) and Saoirse Ronan (“The Outrun”) in Best Actress, Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”) and Daniel Craig (“Queer”) in Best Actor, and “Saturday Night” in Best Original Screenplay. Plus, take a gander at the initial lineup for the Best Animated Feature race, where the five expected nominees, as of this writing, are “The Wild Robot,” “Inside Out 2,...
Below, see a snapshot in time of our Oscar racetrack odds, updated on September 11, 2024.
Now expected to receive a nomination since the last update: “The Brutalist” in Best Picture, Angelina Jolie (“Maria”) and Saoirse Ronan (“The Outrun”) in Best Actress, Adrien Brody (“The Brutalist”) and Daniel Craig (“Queer”) in Best Actor, and “Saturday Night” in Best Original Screenplay. Plus, take a gander at the initial lineup for the Best Animated Feature race, where the five expected nominees, as of this writing, are “The Wild Robot,” “Inside Out 2,...
- 9/11/2024
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
"We have over 200 characters in the film and every single one of them has been handmade." This is what sets stop-motion films apart. Everything is handmade by amazing craftspeople! Madman Films in Australia has revealed a series of 5 mini-featurettes for the acclaimed stop-motion animated film called Memoir of a Snail. It's the latest creation from animation maestro Adam Elliot, and it just premiered to rave reviews at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival, with a US release set for October (watch the main trailer). I'm a huge fan of this film! Set in 1970s Australia, it's a bittersweet memoir of a melancholic woman called Grace Pudel – a hoarder of snails, romance novels, and guinea-pigs – and her brother after they're separated. Featuring the voices of Sarah Snook as Grace, with Jacki Weaver, Eric Bana, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Dominique Pinon, Magda Szubanski, with Nick Cave. This one is a winner - I wrote a glowing...
- 9/11/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Jon Bell’s psychological horror The Moogai has scooped the CinefestOZ Film Prize Award of $66,500 – Australia’s most lucrative prize for a local production.
The award was given on Saturday (September 7) at the 17th CinefestOZ Film Festival in Busselton, Western Australia and accepted by co-producer Alex White and actor Meyne Wyatt.
The Moogai marks the feature debut of Indigenous writer/director Bell and follows a young woman, played by Shari Sebbens, who believes an evil spirit is intent on taking her children. It explores the subjects of post-natal depression, transgenerational trauma and indigenous children taken from their parents – known as the stolen generation.
The award was given on Saturday (September 7) at the 17th CinefestOZ Film Festival in Busselton, Western Australia and accepted by co-producer Alex White and actor Meyne Wyatt.
The Moogai marks the feature debut of Indigenous writer/director Bell and follows a young woman, played by Shari Sebbens, who believes an evil spirit is intent on taking her children. It explores the subjects of post-natal depression, transgenerational trauma and indigenous children taken from their parents – known as the stolen generation.
- 9/9/2024
- ScreenDaily
Scaring Up A Big Win
Jon Bell’s “The Moogai” was Saturday named winner of the Film Prize at Western Australia’s CinefestOZ festival. With a cash award of A$100,000, it is one of the richest film festival prizes in the world.
Sarah and Fergus, a hopeful young Aboriginal couple, give birth to their second baby. But what should be a joyous time of their lives becomes sinister when Sarah starts seeing a malevolent spirit that she is convinced is trying to take her baby. Fergus, can’t see it but desperately wants to believe her. He does not know if the child-stealing spirit real or is Sarah is in fact the biggest threat to the safety of their family. The film stars Shari Sebbens and Meyne Wyatt.
It is produced by Kristina Ceyton, Mitchell Stanely and Samantha Jennings and coproduced by Alex White. International sales are handled by the U.
Jon Bell’s “The Moogai” was Saturday named winner of the Film Prize at Western Australia’s CinefestOZ festival. With a cash award of A$100,000, it is one of the richest film festival prizes in the world.
Sarah and Fergus, a hopeful young Aboriginal couple, give birth to their second baby. But what should be a joyous time of their lives becomes sinister when Sarah starts seeing a malevolent spirit that she is convinced is trying to take her baby. Fergus, can’t see it but desperately wants to believe her. He does not know if the child-stealing spirit real or is Sarah is in fact the biggest threat to the safety of their family. The film stars Shari Sebbens and Meyne Wyatt.
It is produced by Kristina Ceyton, Mitchell Stanely and Samantha Jennings and coproduced by Alex White. International sales are handled by the U.
- 9/9/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
El Festival se celebra del 20 al 28 de septiembre. © Ssiff
La 72ª edición del Festival de Cine de San Sebastián contará con una notable presencia de cineastas, actores, guionistas y productoras de renombre que se darán cita en la ciudad.
La Sección Oficial será el epicentro de muchas de estas figuras, quienes presentarán sus últimas producciones y participarán en diversas actividades del festival. La inauguración del festival estará marcada por la película Emmanuelle, que llegará acompañada de la directora Audrey Diwan y los actores Noémie Merlant, Will Sharpe, Jamie Campbell Bower y Chacha Huang. Por otro lado, para clausurar el festival, el director John Crowley y el actor Andrew Garfield presentarán We Live In Time (Vivir el momento), una de las películas más anticipadas de esta edición.
El Festival de San Sebastián también recibirá a destacadas personalidades como la directora Gia Coppola y la icónica Pamela Anderson, quienes asistirán a la proyección de The Last Showgirl.
La 72ª edición del Festival de Cine de San Sebastián contará con una notable presencia de cineastas, actores, guionistas y productoras de renombre que se darán cita en la ciudad.
La Sección Oficial será el epicentro de muchas de estas figuras, quienes presentarán sus últimas producciones y participarán en diversas actividades del festival. La inauguración del festival estará marcada por la película Emmanuelle, que llegará acompañada de la directora Audrey Diwan y los actores Noémie Merlant, Will Sharpe, Jamie Campbell Bower y Chacha Huang. Por otro lado, para clausurar el festival, el director John Crowley y el actor Andrew Garfield presentarán We Live In Time (Vivir el momento), una de las películas más anticipadas de esta edición.
El Festival de San Sebastián también recibirá a destacadas personalidades como la directora Gia Coppola y la icónica Pamela Anderson, quienes asistirán a la proyección de The Last Showgirl.
- 9/8/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
The year 2023 was an embarrassment of riches when it came to animation. Movies like “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” became massive commercial successes and crossed the billion-dollar mark at the box office, while movies like “Nimona” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” hit big with audiences and critics. There were films that boasted wildly different aesthetics and showed the power of the animation medium, like “Blue Giant” and “The First Slam Dunk.” We also saw the return of legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki, who gave us his most personal film to date with “The Boy and the Heron.”
That’s a lot for 2024 to live up to — luckily, it seems the year will bring with it a healthy mix of big studio franchises and more grown-up animated fare. There are still big and highly anticipated animated movies slated to be released in 2024. “Inside Out 2,” Pixar’s mega-blockbuster Oscar favorite,...
That’s a lot for 2024 to live up to — luckily, it seems the year will bring with it a healthy mix of big studio franchises and more grown-up animated fare. There are still big and highly anticipated animated movies slated to be released in 2024. “Inside Out 2,” Pixar’s mega-blockbuster Oscar favorite,...
- 9/6/2024
- by Rafael Motamayor and Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Fifteen features will world premiere at the 68th BFI London Film Festival (Lff), including Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s documentary Endurance, and previously announced opening title Steve McQueen’s Blitz.
The festival takes place from October 9-20.
Free Solo and Nyad directing duo Vasarhelyi and Chin direct Endurance alongside Natalie Hewit, which examines the lost ship of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. Further world premieres include Sophie Compton and Daisy-May Hudson’s documentary Holloway, about one of the largest women’s prisons in Europe.
Steven Knight’s Victorian boxing series A Thousand Blows, starring Stephen Graham, will receive its world premiere.
The festival takes place from October 9-20.
Free Solo and Nyad directing duo Vasarhelyi and Chin direct Endurance alongside Natalie Hewit, which examines the lost ship of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. Further world premieres include Sophie Compton and Daisy-May Hudson’s documentary Holloway, about one of the largest women’s prisons in Europe.
Steven Knight’s Victorian boxing series A Thousand Blows, starring Stephen Graham, will receive its world premiere.
- 9/4/2024
- ScreenDaily
El director de ‘Mary and Max’ regresa con una emotiva historia. © IFC Films
Tras conquistar al público y a la crítica con Mary y Max, en 2009, Adam Elliot regresa con su animación stop-motion con Memoir of a Snail, una película que se proyectará en el Festival Internacional de San Sebastián, dentro de la sección Perlak.
Memoir of a Snail se ambienta en la Australia de los años 70. La vida de Grace está marcada por la desgracia y la pérdida. Cuando su unidad familiar se desmorona y es separada de su hermano gemelo, Gilbert, Grace desarrolla una afición a coleccionar adornos de caracoles para calmar su soledad y encuentra esperanza cuando desarrolla una amistad con una anciana excéntrica, Pinky, quien la inspira a salir de su caparazón y dejar de lado las cosas que alborotan su hogar y su mente.
Elliot, quien escribe y dirige la película, ha reunido un impresionante...
Tras conquistar al público y a la crítica con Mary y Max, en 2009, Adam Elliot regresa con su animación stop-motion con Memoir of a Snail, una película que se proyectará en el Festival Internacional de San Sebastián, dentro de la sección Perlak.
Memoir of a Snail se ambienta en la Australia de los años 70. La vida de Grace está marcada por la desgracia y la pérdida. Cuando su unidad familiar se desmorona y es separada de su hermano gemelo, Gilbert, Grace desarrolla una afición a coleccionar adornos de caracoles para calmar su soledad y encuentra esperanza cuando desarrolla una amistad con una anciana excéntrica, Pinky, quien la inspira a salir de su caparazón y dejar de lado las cosas que alborotan su hogar y su mente.
Elliot, quien escribe y dirige la película, ha reunido un impresionante...
- 9/4/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
The 2024 Telluride Film Festival was a success on many fronts, delivering packed screenings (and commensurate turnaways) at the big titles booked in the popular venues, with smaller turnouts for docs and classic titles in the less-frequented theaters. Below, IndieWire lays out the festival hits, commercial breakouts, Oscar contenders, and distribution seekers.
Festival Holdovers
The Telluride movies that played best for audiences were already anointed with credibility from prior festival reviews and/or prizes. That includes Cannes prize-winners “Emilia Pérez”, “Anora”, “All We Imagine as Light”, and “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”, the banned Iranian film submitted for Oscar consideration by Germany. All will be strong Oscar contenders, assuming that “All We Imagine as Light” is submitted by India or France for Best International Film, which is not a foregone conclusion. From Sundance was secret screening “A Real Pain” (Searchlight), starring Kieran Culkin and writer/director Jesse Eisenberg, which played...
Festival Holdovers
The Telluride movies that played best for audiences were already anointed with credibility from prior festival reviews and/or prizes. That includes Cannes prize-winners “Emilia Pérez”, “Anora”, “All We Imagine as Light”, and “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”, the banned Iranian film submitted for Oscar consideration by Germany. All will be strong Oscar contenders, assuming that “All We Imagine as Light” is submitted by India or France for Best International Film, which is not a foregone conclusion. From Sundance was secret screening “A Real Pain” (Searchlight), starring Kieran Culkin and writer/director Jesse Eisenberg, which played...
- 9/3/2024
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
As the 51st Telluride Film Festival winds down and the 81st Venice Film Festival kicks off, both have been – as expected – host to a number of highly anticipated films, a good chunk of which have been met with praise. We already covered the raves for Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night out of Telluride that could thrust it into awards contention, but what else has blown audiences away on the festival circuit over the weekend? Let’s take a look!
The Venice Film Festival is undoubtedly one of the most prestigious festivals out there, so it’s no surprise that some serious Oscar contenders have already had their debuts. With Maria, Angelina Jolie is now an odds-on favorite for at least a nomination, starring as famed soprano Maria Callas. After an eight-minute standing ovation, we can already see her taking home the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. Tabloid gossip was part...
The Venice Film Festival is undoubtedly one of the most prestigious festivals out there, so it’s no surprise that some serious Oscar contenders have already had their debuts. With Maria, Angelina Jolie is now an odds-on favorite for at least a nomination, starring as famed soprano Maria Callas. After an eight-minute standing ovation, we can already see her taking home the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. Tabloid gossip was part...
- 9/2/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Australian stop-motion animator Adam Elliot, who is showing his second stop-motion animation feature aimed at adults, “Memoir of a Snail” at Telluride and Toronto, hasn’t been diagnosed with Ocd, “but I am probably at the very tip of it,” he told IndieWire on Zoom. “I love the number nine.” Thirty years ago, when he was at film school, he thought, “Wouldn’t it be nice to make a trilogy of trilogies? I’ve always loved a triptych of paintings, the number three? And I thought, ‘I’ll do three short shorts, three long shorts, and three features.’ I never thought it would happen. But I’m getting close.”
So far, he has completed seven of the nine films, with two left, including one feature. Elliot, like Guillermo del Toro, is proving that animated films do not have to only be aimed at children. Many of his films deal with outsiders,...
So far, he has completed seven of the nine films, with two left, including one feature. Elliot, like Guillermo del Toro, is proving that animated films do not have to only be aimed at children. Many of his films deal with outsiders,...
- 8/31/2024
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Recently featured on our fall movie preview, Memoir of a Snail marks the long-awaited return to feature filmmaking from Adam Elliot, director of 2009’s Mary & Max and Oscar winner for the short film Harvie Krumpet. Featuring the voices of Sarah Snook, Eric Bana, Jacki Weaver, and Kodi Smit-McPhee, the film won the top prize at Annecy earlier this summer and will now stop by Telluride ahead of an October 25 release from IFC Films. Ahead of the release, the first trailer has arrived.
Here’s the synopsis: “Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her fire-breathing twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst. Despite a continued series of hardships, inspiration and hope emerge when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman named Pinky,...
Here’s the synopsis: “Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her fire-breathing twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst. Despite a continued series of hardships, inspiration and hope emerge when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman named Pinky,...
- 8/30/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence and Stanley Tucci as Cardinal Bellini in ‘Conclave’ (Photo Courtesy of Focus Features. © 2024)
The 51st Telluride Film Festival announced its lineup just days ahead of the festival’s opening on Friday, August 30, 2024. The festival, which runs through Monday, September 2nd, will include the world premieres of Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, Edward Berger’s Conclave, and Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson.
This year’s festival includes 60 feature films, shorts, and revival programs.
“This brief weekend of cinematic bliss reminds us every year that movies really are magic,” stated Telluride Film Festival director Julie Huntsinger. “The process of assembling our line-up is both daunting and rewarding, and it never fails to bring the most fantastic sense of satisfaction once we’re finished. Our anticipation matches that of the audience. We’re delighted to now share what we found to be the most exciting, interesting and...
The 51st Telluride Film Festival announced its lineup just days ahead of the festival’s opening on Friday, August 30, 2024. The festival, which runs through Monday, September 2nd, will include the world premieres of Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, Edward Berger’s Conclave, and Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson.
This year’s festival includes 60 feature films, shorts, and revival programs.
“This brief weekend of cinematic bliss reminds us every year that movies really are magic,” stated Telluride Film Festival director Julie Huntsinger. “The process of assembling our line-up is both daunting and rewarding, and it never fails to bring the most fantastic sense of satisfaction once we’re finished. Our anticipation matches that of the audience. We’re delighted to now share what we found to be the most exciting, interesting and...
- 8/29/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
"I believe in glasses half-full and silver linings..." IFC has revealed the official US trailer for the wonderful stop-motion animated film Memoir of a Snail, the latest creation from animation maestro Adam Elliot. It's set for a US release in October this fall. Adam won an Oscar in 2004 for his short Harvie Krumpet, but he is best known for his exceptional stop-motion film Mary and Max, which premiered at Sundance 2009. He's back again 15 years later with his second feature. A bittersweet memoir of a melancholic woman called Grace Pudel - a hoarder of snails, romance novels, & guinea-pigs. Set in 1970s Australia, her life is troubled by misfortune & loss. After their mom dies during pregnancy, she and her twin brother, Gilbert, are raised by their paraplegic-alcoholic former juggler father, Percy. Despite a life filled with love, tragedy strikes when Percy passes away in his sleep. The siblings are separated and thrust...
- 8/29/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Adam Elliot’s animated feature “Memoir of a Snail” from IFC Films shows off sibling love with a snail’s quirky, whimsical nature in the first trailer ahead of its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, which was announced in today’s lineup.
The stop-motion adult drama took nearly a decade to create and follows the life of Grace Puddle, a lonely misfit with a passion for collecting ornamental snails and a deep love for romance novels. Her life takes a downward turn when she’s separated from her twin brother at a young age. Despite ongoing hardships, Grace perseveres and finds inspiration through a friendship with Pinky, an elderly eccentric woman, as she slowly learns to find confidence and love.
The sweet trailer follows the twins as they grow from babies to teenagers, encountering bullies, rollercoasters, and old ladies in bikinis. With a swell of dramatic music...
The stop-motion adult drama took nearly a decade to create and follows the life of Grace Puddle, a lonely misfit with a passion for collecting ornamental snails and a deep love for romance novels. Her life takes a downward turn when she’s separated from her twin brother at a young age. Despite ongoing hardships, Grace perseveres and finds inspiration through a friendship with Pinky, an elderly eccentric woman, as she slowly learns to find confidence and love.
The sweet trailer follows the twins as they grow from babies to teenagers, encountering bullies, rollercoasters, and old ladies in bikinis. With a swell of dramatic music...
- 8/29/2024
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Telluride Film Festival has announced the line-up before the festival starts on Friday, with world premieres for Edward Berger’s Conclave, RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys, and Robbie Williams musical biopic Better Man.
Also making the cut in the main programme are documentaries Leonardo Da Vinci from Ken Burns, Kevin Macdonald’s One To One: John & Yoko, and R. J. Cutler’s Martha Stewart film.
Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5 and Joshua Openheimer’s The End are in the main programme, alongside Cannes favourites Anora, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, All We Imagine As Light, and Emilia Pérez.
The 51st...
Also making the cut in the main programme are documentaries Leonardo Da Vinci from Ken Burns, Kevin Macdonald’s One To One: John & Yoko, and R. J. Cutler’s Martha Stewart film.
Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5 and Joshua Openheimer’s The End are in the main programme, alongside Cannes favourites Anora, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, All We Imagine As Light, and Emilia Pérez.
The 51st...
- 8/29/2024
- ScreenDaily
Unless you’re a major studio or willing to pay for a rent-spiked ski lodge––and even then––few festivals ring more exclusive than Telluride, which has the distinction / misfortune of firing the starting gun for fall festivals and that ever-deleterious phenomenon we call “Oscar buzz.” Their 2024 lineup nevertheless features some films of note: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson’s Rumours; Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia; Payal Kapadia’s All That We Imagine as Light; Sean Baker’s Anora; and Alfonso Cuarón’s Apple series Disclaimer.
On a repertory end, Kenneth Lonergan’s been anointed this year’s Guest Director and has programmed the following: Arch of Triumph, Barry Lyndon, Doctor Zhivago, Grand Hotel, and My Darling Clementine. And Telluride’s 2024 Special Medallion goes to Les Films du Losange, who will represent Misericordia and have their history celebrated with the following screenings: Beauty and the Beast; Charles, Dead or...
On a repertory end, Kenneth Lonergan’s been anointed this year’s Guest Director and has programmed the following: Arch of Triumph, Barry Lyndon, Doctor Zhivago, Grand Hotel, and My Darling Clementine. And Telluride’s 2024 Special Medallion goes to Les Films du Losange, who will represent Misericordia and have their history celebrated with the following screenings: Beauty and the Beast; Charles, Dead or...
- 8/29/2024
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
The world premieres of “The Piano Lesson,” “Conclave” and “Saturday Night” will take place at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival, which begins on Friday in the Colorado mountain town.
“The Piano Lesson” is an August Wilson adaptation directed by Malcolm Washington and starring Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington; it will be released by Netflix. “Conclave” is a Focus Features drama set admidst the election of a new pope, and the first film for German director Edward Berger since his Oscar-winning “All Quiet on the Western Front.” And Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night,” a Sony release, tells the story of the first episode of the long-running comedy series “Saturday Night Live.”
Other films in this year’s Telluride lineup include “The End,” a dystopian sci-fi musical starring Tilda Swinton and marking the narrative debut of “The Act of Killing” director Joshua Oppenheimer; “Nickel Boys,” a Colson Whitehead adaptation from RaMell Ross; and “The Friend,...
“The Piano Lesson” is an August Wilson adaptation directed by Malcolm Washington and starring Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington; it will be released by Netflix. “Conclave” is a Focus Features drama set admidst the election of a new pope, and the first film for German director Edward Berger since his Oscar-winning “All Quiet on the Western Front.” And Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night,” a Sony release, tells the story of the first episode of the long-running comedy series “Saturday Night Live.”
Other films in this year’s Telluride lineup include “The End,” a dystopian sci-fi musical starring Tilda Swinton and marking the narrative debut of “The Act of Killing” director Joshua Oppenheimer; “Nickel Boys,” a Colson Whitehead adaptation from RaMell Ross; and “The Friend,...
- 8/29/2024
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Edward Berger’s “Conclave,” Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night,” Malcolm Washington’s “The Piano Lesson,” RaMell Ross’s “Nickel Boys,” and Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The End” will world premiere at the 51st edition of the Telluride Film Festival, fest organizers announced on Thursday.
In addition to the world premieres, several expected awards contenders will have North American bows in the small Colorado town over Labor Day weekend, including Pablo Larrain’s “Maria” (which premieres Thursday at the Venice Film Festival), Sean Baker’s “Anora” (this year’s Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner), and Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez” (a Cannes winner for its ensemble of actresses and a jury prize winner at the prestigious event).
In addition to its lineup of features, Telluride organizers also bestow the Telluride Silver Medallion to “a trio of artists who have made significant contributions to the film industry.” This year’s honorees are the French filmmaker Audiard,...
In addition to the world premieres, several expected awards contenders will have North American bows in the small Colorado town over Labor Day weekend, including Pablo Larrain’s “Maria” (which premieres Thursday at the Venice Film Festival), Sean Baker’s “Anora” (this year’s Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner), and Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Perez” (a Cannes winner for its ensemble of actresses and a jury prize winner at the prestigious event).
In addition to its lineup of features, Telluride organizers also bestow the Telluride Silver Medallion to “a trio of artists who have made significant contributions to the film industry.” This year’s honorees are the French filmmaker Audiard,...
- 8/29/2024
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
The 68th BFI London Film Festival has announced the films screening in the Official Competition and contending for the Best Film Award.
From a gripping Irish portrait of deep-rooted generational rivalry to a stop-motion animated tale of self-discovery; a moving portrait of living with deaf parents in Tokyo to a follow-up feature from one of Zambia’s most distinctive voices, the films selected for the Official Competition celebrate and recognize inspiring and inventive global filmmaking.
Established in 2009 and first won by Jacques Audiard for ‘A Prophet,’ recent winners of the Best Film Award include Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Evil Does Not Exist’ in 2023 and Marie Kreutzer’s ‘Corsage’ in 2022.
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The 11 films in Official Competition are:
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Dea Kulumbegashvili’s probing exploration of rural life in Georgia centres on the experiences of a doctor whose moral...
From a gripping Irish portrait of deep-rooted generational rivalry to a stop-motion animated tale of self-discovery; a moving portrait of living with deaf parents in Tokyo to a follow-up feature from one of Zambia’s most distinctive voices, the films selected for the Official Competition celebrate and recognize inspiring and inventive global filmmaking.
Established in 2009 and first won by Jacques Audiard for ‘A Prophet,’ recent winners of the Best Film Award include Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Evil Does Not Exist’ in 2023 and Marie Kreutzer’s ‘Corsage’ in 2022.
Also in news – Asa Butterfield & Molly Windsor added to cast of series ‘Out of the Dust’
The 11 films in Official Competition are:
April
Dea Kulumbegashvili’s probing exploration of rural life in Georgia centres on the experiences of a doctor whose moral...
- 8/29/2024
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
It's an election year, which means everyone and everything is focused on politics—even the season's major festivals. Colorado's Telluride Film Festival just unveiled its 2024 lineup, and it has as much of an eye toward the White House as anything else this time of year.
According to The Hollywood Reporter,...
According to The Hollywood Reporter,...
- 8/29/2024
- by Emma Keates
- avclub.com
Barry Keoghan, Nick Cave, and the voices of Sarah Snook and Eric Bana will feature in the competition lineup of the 68th BFI London Film Festival (Lff), held this fall in partnership with American Express. The Extraordinary Miss Flower, the new film from Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, known for their Cave movie 20,000 Days on Earth, and the Luca Guadagnino-produced April from Georgia’s Dea Kulumbegashvili, whose feminist debut feature Beginning drew rave reviews, will be among the 11 movies competing for the best film award in London.
So will a drama about Islamic inheritance laws and gender dynamics, as well as a film about a Ukrainian family that most cope with the Russian invasion of their home country while away on a beach holiday.
Organizers on Thursday also unveiled such competition titles as Chris Andrews’ Bring Them Down, starring Keoghan and Christopher Abbott, Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,...
So will a drama about Islamic inheritance laws and gender dynamics, as well as a film about a Ukrainian family that most cope with the Russian invasion of their home country while away on a beach holiday.
Organizers on Thursday also unveiled such competition titles as Chris Andrews’ Bring Them Down, starring Keoghan and Christopher Abbott, Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,...
- 8/29/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 68th BFI London Film Festival (Lff) has announced the 11 films selected for its official competition, vying for the best film award at this year’s event. The diverse lineup represents 13 countries and showcases a range of international filmmaking talent.
The selected films include:
“Memoir of a Snail” (Australia) dir. Adam Elliot: A stop-motion animated tale of separated twins in 1970s Australia, blending humor and emotion. Featuring the voices of Sarah Snook, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Eric Bana, it won best film at Annecy earlier this year.
“Bring Them Down” (Ireland-u.K.-Belgium) dir. Christopher Andrews: A portrait of two feuding farming families in rural Ireland, starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott. The film travels from Toronto where it is a special presentation.
“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” (Zambia-u.K.-Ireland) dir. Rungano Nyoni: A story of tradition, abuse and strength within a Zambian family. The film debuted...
The selected films include:
“Memoir of a Snail” (Australia) dir. Adam Elliot: A stop-motion animated tale of separated twins in 1970s Australia, blending humor and emotion. Featuring the voices of Sarah Snook, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Eric Bana, it won best film at Annecy earlier this year.
“Bring Them Down” (Ireland-u.K.-Belgium) dir. Christopher Andrews: A portrait of two feuding farming families in rural Ireland, starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott. The film travels from Toronto where it is a special presentation.
“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” (Zambia-u.K.-Ireland) dir. Rungano Nyoni: A story of tradition, abuse and strength within a Zambian family. The film debuted...
- 8/29/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The 2024 BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its lineup for the films screening in Official Competition and competing for the coveted Best Film Award.
This year, selections include new features from “20,000 Days On Earth” filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Mipo O, and Rungano Nyoni. Actors Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott are among the casts in the curated program of 11 films.
The festival takes place from October 9 through October 20, with the winner being chosen by the Lff Awards Jury and announced on October 20. The Best Film Award was established in 2009 and first won by Jacques Audiard for “A Prophet.” Recent winners include Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Evil Does Not Exist” in 2023 and Marie Kreutzer’s “Corsage” in 2022.
The program includes “inspiring, inventive and distinctive international filmmaking,” with 13 countries represented across the selection, per the press release.
Highlights include “Bring Them Down,” directed by Christopher Andrews and starring Barry Keoghan and...
This year, selections include new features from “20,000 Days On Earth” filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Mipo O, and Rungano Nyoni. Actors Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott are among the casts in the curated program of 11 films.
The festival takes place from October 9 through October 20, with the winner being chosen by the Lff Awards Jury and announced on October 20. The Best Film Award was established in 2009 and first won by Jacques Audiard for “A Prophet.” Recent winners include Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Evil Does Not Exist” in 2023 and Marie Kreutzer’s “Corsage” in 2022.
The program includes “inspiring, inventive and distinctive international filmmaking,” with 13 countries represented across the selection, per the press release.
Highlights include “Bring Them Down,” directed by Christopher Andrews and starring Barry Keoghan and...
- 8/29/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Thank You For Banking With Us, Four Mothers and The Extraordinary Miss Flower are to world premiere at BFI London Film Festival (October 9-20) as part of the 11-strong competition line-up.
Scroll down for the full list of Lff 2024 competition titles
Palestinian filmmaker Laila Abbas’ feature debut, Thank You For Banking With Us, follows two sisters in a race against time to assure their inheritance as a patriarchal system attempts to get in their way.
Also world premiering is UK biographical film The Extraordinary Miss Flower, directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, the team behind Sundance 2014 title 20,000 Days On Earth.
Scroll down for the full list of Lff 2024 competition titles
Palestinian filmmaker Laila Abbas’ feature debut, Thank You For Banking With Us, follows two sisters in a race against time to assure their inheritance as a patriarchal system attempts to get in their way.
Also world premiering is UK biographical film The Extraordinary Miss Flower, directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, the team behind Sundance 2014 title 20,000 Days On Earth.
- 8/29/2024
- ScreenDaily
After voicing protagonist Grace Puddle in Adam Elliot's feature animation Memoir of a Snail, Sarah Snook is set to headline another Docklands-based production, with the Emmy and Golden Globe winner confirmed to star in and executive produce new suburban thriller series 'All Her Fault'.
The post Peacock series ‘All Her Fault’ to film in Melbourne with Sarah Snook appeared first on If Magazine.
The post Peacock series ‘All Her Fault’ to film in Melbourne with Sarah Snook appeared first on If Magazine.
- 8/18/2024
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Una selección que incluye de lo mejor de los grandes festivales internacionales. © Elástica Films / Universal Pictures / Ssiff
El Festival de Cine de San Sebastián ha anunciado los títulos que forman parte de la sección Perlak de esta 72 edición. Esta sección se compone de películas que han pasado por los grandes festivales de cine internacionales como la Berlinale, Cannes, Venecia o Toronto, y optan al Premio del Público Ciudad de Donostia / San Sebastián, que incluye dos galardones para los distribuidores del filme en España: uno a la mejor película (50.000 €) y otro al mejor filme europeo (20.000 €).
Desde la Berlinale, llega Yeohaengjaui pilyo (A Traveler’s Needs), de Hong Sangsoo, una cinta que obtuvo el Oso de Plata-Gran Premio del Jurado. Protagonizada por Isabelle Huppert, la película sigue la historia de una mujer francesa que se instala en Corea.
De Cannes aterrizan las películas más premiadas de su última edición: la ganadora de la Palma de Oro,...
El Festival de Cine de San Sebastián ha anunciado los títulos que forman parte de la sección Perlak de esta 72 edición. Esta sección se compone de películas que han pasado por los grandes festivales de cine internacionales como la Berlinale, Cannes, Venecia o Toronto, y optan al Premio del Público Ciudad de Donostia / San Sebastián, que incluye dos galardones para los distribuidores del filme en España: uno a la mejor película (50.000 €) y otro al mejor filme europeo (20.000 €).
Desde la Berlinale, llega Yeohaengjaui pilyo (A Traveler’s Needs), de Hong Sangsoo, una cinta que obtuvo el Oso de Plata-Gran Premio del Jurado. Protagonizada por Isabelle Huppert, la película sigue la historia de una mujer francesa que se instala en Corea.
De Cannes aterrizan las películas más premiadas de su última edición: la ganadora de la Palma de Oro,...
- 8/16/2024
- by Marta Medina
- mundoCine
The San Sebastian film festival has cherry-picked the best of Cannes’ competition lineup for its Perlak section this year.
Virtually every film that scooped up an award in Cannes, from Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light (grand prize), Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig (special jury prize) and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (best screenplay) to Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora, will screen in the Spanish festival’s sidebar, and compete for San Sebastian’s audience awards.
Jacques Audiard’s transgender crime musical Emilia Pérez, which won Cannes’ jury prize and the best actress honors for its ensemble cast, will open the Perlak section on Sept. 20.
Other Cannes titles, including Andrea Arnold’s Bird, Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada, Parthenope from Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, and Francis Ford Coppola’s divisive opus Megalopolis, will also screen in the Perlak section. As will...
Virtually every film that scooped up an award in Cannes, from Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light (grand prize), Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig (special jury prize) and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (best screenplay) to Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner Anora, will screen in the Spanish festival’s sidebar, and compete for San Sebastian’s audience awards.
Jacques Audiard’s transgender crime musical Emilia Pérez, which won Cannes’ jury prize and the best actress honors for its ensemble cast, will open the Perlak section on Sept. 20.
Other Cannes titles, including Andrea Arnold’s Bird, Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada, Parthenope from Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, and Francis Ford Coppola’s divisive opus Megalopolis, will also screen in the Perlak section. As will...
- 8/16/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As always, this year's Fantastic Fest is packed with an abundance of genre goodness, from world premieres, to must-see events you can only catch at Fantastic Fest, such as the famous Fantastic Feud. Check out the full press release and line-up below:
Step right up for the greatest show on Earth! That’s right, Fantastic Fest is back for its 19th edition, bringing you a cavalcade of cinematic wonders from around the globe. Featuring 28 World Premieres, 23 International and North American Premieres, and 15 U.S. Premieres that are guaranteed to delight and surprise you, complemented by jaw-dropping events and spectacular special guests. Join us under the big top at the world-famous Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, TX, from September 19th- 26th. Badges are available now at FantasticFest.com.
“The Fantastic Fest team is absolutely elated about this year’s festival. We can’t wait to share the very best new...
Step right up for the greatest show on Earth! That’s right, Fantastic Fest is back for its 19th edition, bringing you a cavalcade of cinematic wonders from around the globe. Featuring 28 World Premieres, 23 International and North American Premieres, and 15 U.S. Premieres that are guaranteed to delight and surprise you, complemented by jaw-dropping events and spectacular special guests. Join us under the big top at the world-famous Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, TX, from September 19th- 26th. Badges are available now at FantasticFest.com.
“The Fantastic Fest team is absolutely elated about this year’s festival. We can’t wait to share the very best new...
- 8/15/2024
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Fantastic Fest returns to Austin, Texas (September 19th- 26th) for its 19th edition, bringing a cavalcade of cinematic wonders from around the globe. Featuring 28 World Premieres, 23 International and North American Premieres, and 15 U.S. Premieres that are guaranteed to delight and surprise you, complemented by jaw-dropping events and spectacular special guests. Badges are available now at FantasticFest.com.
The festival celebrates a wide range of genres but will be highlighted by World Premieres off three major horror titles, including our hotly anticipated Terrifier 3! In addition, Fantastic Fest 2024’s opening night gala will include Lionsgate’s horror psychological thriller Never Let Go, from legendary horror director Alexandre Aja and Oscar-winning star Halle Berry, not to mention the brand new V/H/S tape, V/H/S/Beyond, inserting into Shudder’s service this fall.
Here’s the full press release:
“Fantastic Fest 2024 opens with a bang, featuring the world premiere of The Rule Of Jenny Pen...
The festival celebrates a wide range of genres but will be highlighted by World Premieres off three major horror titles, including our hotly anticipated Terrifier 3! In addition, Fantastic Fest 2024’s opening night gala will include Lionsgate’s horror psychological thriller Never Let Go, from legendary horror director Alexandre Aja and Oscar-winning star Halle Berry, not to mention the brand new V/H/S tape, V/H/S/Beyond, inserting into Shudder’s service this fall.
Here’s the full press release:
“Fantastic Fest 2024 opens with a bang, featuring the world premiere of The Rule Of Jenny Pen...
- 8/15/2024
- by Bloody Disgusting Staff
- bloody-disgusting.com
Fantastic Fest is nearly here.
One of the very best, most underrated film festivals of the year, which takes place annually at a single movie theater in Austin, Texas (that’d be the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar), returns on Sept. 19. And ahead of the genre film festival, we’ve got the full lineup, which includes 28 world premieres, 23 international and North American premieres, and 15 U.S. premieres. (You can see the full list below.)
Among the movies playing at Fantastic Fest are “Never Let Go,” the new supernatural thriller from Alexandre Aja and actress Halle Berry; “Apartment 7A,” the “Rosemary’s Baby” prequel from Paramount; the Palme d’Or-winning thriller “Anora” from Sean Baker; A24’s bizarro “A Different Man;” and DreamWorks Animation’s beautiful, touching “The Wild Robot.” Other animated offerings include “Memoir of a Snail” from “Mary and Max” filmmaker Adam Elliot, and “Spermageddon” from “Violent Night” filmmaker Tommy Wirkola.
One of the very best, most underrated film festivals of the year, which takes place annually at a single movie theater in Austin, Texas (that’d be the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar), returns on Sept. 19. And ahead of the genre film festival, we’ve got the full lineup, which includes 28 world premieres, 23 international and North American premieres, and 15 U.S. premieres. (You can see the full list below.)
Among the movies playing at Fantastic Fest are “Never Let Go,” the new supernatural thriller from Alexandre Aja and actress Halle Berry; “Apartment 7A,” the “Rosemary’s Baby” prequel from Paramount; the Palme d’Or-winning thriller “Anora” from Sean Baker; A24’s bizarro “A Different Man;” and DreamWorks Animation’s beautiful, touching “The Wild Robot.” Other animated offerings include “Memoir of a Snail” from “Mary and Max” filmmaker Adam Elliot, and “Spermageddon” from “Violent Night” filmmaker Tommy Wirkola.
- 8/15/2024
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
The Nashville Film Festival (NashFilm) has Wednesday announced its full film program, including special presentations, official selections, and more for its 55th edition, running September 19-25 throughout the city. The selection includes more than 150 films, including 47 feature-length titles and more than 33 U.S., North American, and world premieres. As previously announced, a special opening night double-feature will include “Devo” and “Revel Country,” with “This Is a Film About the Black Keys” closing the festival.
Following the special opening night double-feature screening on September 19, additional notable festival presentations include: Netflix’s “Will & Harper” stars Will Ferrell and his friend Harper Steele, who recently came out as a trans woman, on a road trip to process this new phase of their friendship; Apple Original Films’ “The Last of the Sea Women,” a documentary produced by A24 and executive produced by Malala Yousafzai, follows an extraordinary band of feisty grandmother warriors as...
Following the special opening night double-feature screening on September 19, additional notable festival presentations include: Netflix’s “Will & Harper” stars Will Ferrell and his friend Harper Steele, who recently came out as a trans woman, on a road trip to process this new phase of their friendship; Apple Original Films’ “The Last of the Sea Women,” a documentary produced by A24 and executive produced by Malala Yousafzai, follows an extraordinary band of feisty grandmother warriors as...
- 8/15/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
In the 23 years since the Best Animated Feature category was introduced at the Oscars, Pixar has dominated, racking up an impressive 11 wins from 18 nominations; its last victory was in 2021 for “Soul.” Walt Disney Studios has four trophies to show for its lucky 13 nominations while DreamWorks has gone 2 for 14, including the first-ever Oscar awarded for Best Animated Feature, which went to “Shrek.” Studio Ghibli also has a pair of prizes, and is the reigning champ with “The Boy and the Heron.” (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2025 Oscar predictions for Best Animated Feature.)
That marked the second win for Japanese auteur Hayao Miyazaki, who had prevailed for “Spirited Away” 22 years earlier. He became the seventh two-time winner joining: Brad Bird, Byron Howard, Jonas Rivera, Clark Spencer, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich. Miyazaki is the oldest winner at 83 while Stanton is the youngest, being 38 at the time of “Finding Nemo.” They are...
That marked the second win for Japanese auteur Hayao Miyazaki, who had prevailed for “Spirited Away” 22 years earlier. He became the seventh two-time winner joining: Brad Bird, Byron Howard, Jonas Rivera, Clark Spencer, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich. Miyazaki is the oldest winner at 83 while Stanton is the youngest, being 38 at the time of “Finding Nemo.” They are...
- 7/18/2024
- by Paul Sheehan and Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
IFC Films has announced the U.S. release date for the animated feature “Memoir of a Snail,” directed by Academy Award winner Adam Elliot. This charming stop-motion adult drama took nearly a decade to create and will open in limited release on Oct. 25, with a wider expansion throughout November.
The film follows the life of Grace Puddle, a lonely misfit with a passion for collecting ornamental snails and a deep love for romance novels. Her life takes a downward turn when she’s separated from her twin brother at a young age. Despite ongoing hardships, Grace perseveres and finds inspiration through a friendship with Pinky, an elderly eccentric woman, as she slowly learns to find confidence and love.
“Memoir of a Snail” is Elliot’s second stop-motion feature, following his critically acclaimed “Mary and Max” (2009), which opened at Sundance. An Oscar winner for best animated short for “Harvie Krumpet” (2003), Elliot...
The film follows the life of Grace Puddle, a lonely misfit with a passion for collecting ornamental snails and a deep love for romance novels. Her life takes a downward turn when she’s separated from her twin brother at a young age. Despite ongoing hardships, Grace perseveres and finds inspiration through a friendship with Pinky, an elderly eccentric woman, as she slowly learns to find confidence and love.
“Memoir of a Snail” is Elliot’s second stop-motion feature, following his critically acclaimed “Mary and Max” (2009), which opened at Sundance. An Oscar winner for best animated short for “Harvie Krumpet” (2003), Elliot...
- 7/18/2024
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Filmfare Fame At Last
2022 global hit film, “Rrr” won the award for the best film in the Telugu language at the delayed Filmfare South awards. For their performances in “Rrr,” N.T.R. Jr and Ram Charan were named as winners in the best leading actor category and S.S. Rajamouli won best director.
In the Tamil category, “Ponniyin Selvan Part 1” took the best film award. Its director Mani Ratnam bagged the best director award. Kamal Haasan and Sai Pallavi were honored with the best actor (male) and best actor (female) for their performances in “Vikram” and “Gargi,” respectively.
The winner of the best film award in the Malayalam category was “Nna Thaan Case Kodu,” with its helmer Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval collecting the best director prize.
For Kannada cinema, Kiranraj K. was awarded the best director award for “777 Charlie,” while “Kantara” was named the best film.
The awards were instituted for Hindi-language...
2022 global hit film, “Rrr” won the award for the best film in the Telugu language at the delayed Filmfare South awards. For their performances in “Rrr,” N.T.R. Jr and Ram Charan were named as winners in the best leading actor category and S.S. Rajamouli won best director.
In the Tamil category, “Ponniyin Selvan Part 1” took the best film award. Its director Mani Ratnam bagged the best director award. Kamal Haasan and Sai Pallavi were honored with the best actor (male) and best actor (female) for their performances in “Vikram” and “Gargi,” respectively.
The winner of the best film award in the Malayalam category was “Nna Thaan Case Kodu,” with its helmer Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval collecting the best director prize.
For Kannada cinema, Kiranraj K. was awarded the best director award for “777 Charlie,” while “Kantara” was named the best film.
The awards were instituted for Hindi-language...
- 7/12/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Melbourne International Film Festival has revealed the 10 titles in the running for its $94,500 competition prize.
Debut and second features are eligible for the Bright Horizons competition, which was introduced in 2022.
The line-up includes several Cannes titles; Leonardo Van Dijl’s tennis misconduct drama Julie Keeps Quiet which won the Critics’ Week Sacd award; Mo Harawe’s The Village Next to Paradise, the first Somali film to ever screen at Cannes (in the Un Certain Regard section) this year; and Un Certain Regard animation Flow from Gints Zilbalodis, recently a prizewinner at Annecy.
More Cannes titles are; Rungano Nyoni’s second...
Debut and second features are eligible for the Bright Horizons competition, which was introduced in 2022.
The line-up includes several Cannes titles; Leonardo Van Dijl’s tennis misconduct drama Julie Keeps Quiet which won the Critics’ Week Sacd award; Mo Harawe’s The Village Next to Paradise, the first Somali film to ever screen at Cannes (in the Un Certain Regard section) this year; and Un Certain Regard animation Flow from Gints Zilbalodis, recently a prizewinner at Annecy.
More Cannes titles are; Rungano Nyoni’s second...
- 7/11/2024
- ScreenDaily
The Melbourne International Film Festival has set ten features to play in its Bright Horizons competition section.
They include: India Donaldson’s “Good One”; Luna Carmoon’s “Hoard”; Annie Baker’s “Janet Planet”; Leonardo Van Dijl’s “Julie Keeps Quiet”; Ena Sendijarević’s “Sweet Dreams”; Matthew Rankin’s “Universal Language”; Mo Harawe’s “The Village Next to Paradise”; Gints Zabalodis’ animated “Flow”; Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”; and Australian director Charles Williams’ debut feature “Inside.”
The non-competitive Headliners section, which showcases films that have premiered at other festivals, includes: Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis”; Mumbai-based director Payal Kapadia was recently the first Indian director for 30 years with a film in competition in Cannes presents “All We Imagine as Light”; Coralie Fargeat’s Demi Moore-starring “The Substance”; Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides”; Sebastian Stan in Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man”; Cannes best director-winning Asian odyssey,...
They include: India Donaldson’s “Good One”; Luna Carmoon’s “Hoard”; Annie Baker’s “Janet Planet”; Leonardo Van Dijl’s “Julie Keeps Quiet”; Ena Sendijarević’s “Sweet Dreams”; Matthew Rankin’s “Universal Language”; Mo Harawe’s “The Village Next to Paradise”; Gints Zabalodis’ animated “Flow”; Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”; and Australian director Charles Williams’ debut feature “Inside.”
The non-competitive Headliners section, which showcases films that have premiered at other festivals, includes: Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis”; Mumbai-based director Payal Kapadia was recently the first Indian director for 30 years with a film in competition in Cannes presents “All We Imagine as Light”; Coralie Fargeat’s Demi Moore-starring “The Substance”; Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides”; Sebastian Stan in Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man”; Cannes best director-winning Asian odyssey,...
- 7/11/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Nominations voting is from January 8-12, 2025, with official Oscar nominations announced January 17, 2025. Final voting is February 11-18, 2025. And finally, the 97th Oscars telecast will be broadcast on Sunday, March 2 and air live on ABC at 7:00 p.m. Et/ 4:00 p.m. Pt. We update our picks through awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2025 Oscar predictions.
The State of the Race
“Inside Out 2” (Pixar/Disney) has become the early Oscar favorite as 2024’s surprise box office phenomenon ($388 million in U.S./Canada ticket sales after 12 days), putting the animation powerhouse back on top theatrically after its recent drought. For the follow-up to Pete Docter’s imaginative Oscar winner, newbie director Kelsey Mann tapped into anxiety as the newest and most resonant emotion for 13-year-old Riley (Kensington Tallman), and audiences responded beyond expectations. Voiced brilliantly by Maya Hawke, the hyper-active, orange, and stringy Anxiety mounts a hostile...
The State of the Race
“Inside Out 2” (Pixar/Disney) has become the early Oscar favorite as 2024’s surprise box office phenomenon ($388 million in U.S./Canada ticket sales after 12 days), putting the animation powerhouse back on top theatrically after its recent drought. For the follow-up to Pete Docter’s imaginative Oscar winner, newbie director Kelsey Mann tapped into anxiety as the newest and most resonant emotion for 13-year-old Riley (Kensington Tallman), and audiences responded beyond expectations. Voiced brilliantly by Maya Hawke, the hyper-active, orange, and stringy Anxiety mounts a hostile...
- 6/28/2024
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
"Life's a beautiful tapestry that needs to be experienced... It's small pleasures savored..." You never know when you'll stumble across a film so touching, so profound, so wholesome in every sense, that it will leave a lasting impression that may change the way you live your life. I love animation and always enjoy watching indie animation, as some of the most incredible work can come from anywhere. I still remember back at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, on opening night that year, heading into the screening to watch a film called Mary and Max. Before going in, all the critics were wondering why they had programmed a stop-motion animated film for opening night of the festival. By the time we walked out, we knew exactly why - it was an amazing, one-of-a-kind creation that left many of us wiping away tears (here's my review from back then). Now 15 years later, Mary and Max...
- 6/20/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Inside Out 2 was a litmus test for Pixar and it delivered, grossing a monster $155m estimated bow in North America for the highest opening of the year to date and the second highest three-day launch of all time by an animated film.
After a mighty $140m yield from international markets resulting in a $295m global debut, industry executives will be in a buoyant mood this week at CineEurope. Screen will post a full international report on Monday.
The latest escapades of Joy and her cohorts of core emotions inside the mind of the now adolescent Riley scored the highest...
After a mighty $140m yield from international markets resulting in a $295m global debut, industry executives will be in a buoyant mood this week at CineEurope. Screen will post a full international report on Monday.
The latest escapades of Joy and her cohorts of core emotions inside the mind of the now adolescent Riley scored the highest...
- 6/16/2024
- ScreenDaily
Den Hauptpreis des Annecy Festivals, den Cristal Award für den besten Film, räumte die australische Stop-Motion-Produktion „Memoir of a Snail“ von Adam Elliot ab. „Flow“ von Gints Zilbalodis gewann vier Mal. Und auch der von Fabian & Fred produzierte „Sultanas Traum“ wurde ausgezeichnet sowie eine Produktion der Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf.
„Sultanas Traum”, eine spanisch-deutsche Koproduktion (Credit: Luftkind Filmverleih)
Beim weltweit wichtigsten Filmfestival für Animationsfilmproduktionen, dem Annecy Festival, wurden auch deutsche (Ko)-Produktionen geehrt: Im Contrechamps-Wettbewerb ging der Hauptpreis an den ganz außergewöhnliche Animationstechniken vereinenden „Sultanas Traum“ von Isabel Herguera, der von deutscher Seite von Fabian&Fred (Fabrian Driehorst und Frédéric Schuld) produziert wurde und bereits auf zahlreichen Festivals reüssierte und ausgezeichnet wurde, u.a. in San Sebastián mehrere Preise abräumte sowie z.B. bei den Festivals in Zagreb und Brüssel und auch für den Goya als bester Animationsfilm nominiert war. Die gebürtige Spanierin Herguera, die Professorin an der Khm Köln ist,...
„Sultanas Traum”, eine spanisch-deutsche Koproduktion (Credit: Luftkind Filmverleih)
Beim weltweit wichtigsten Filmfestival für Animationsfilmproduktionen, dem Annecy Festival, wurden auch deutsche (Ko)-Produktionen geehrt: Im Contrechamps-Wettbewerb ging der Hauptpreis an den ganz außergewöhnliche Animationstechniken vereinenden „Sultanas Traum“ von Isabel Herguera, der von deutscher Seite von Fabian&Fred (Fabrian Driehorst und Frédéric Schuld) produziert wurde und bereits auf zahlreichen Festivals reüssierte und ausgezeichnet wurde, u.a. in San Sebastián mehrere Preise abräumte sowie z.B. bei den Festivals in Zagreb und Brüssel und auch für den Goya als bester Animationsfilm nominiert war. Die gebürtige Spanierin Herguera, die Professorin an der Khm Köln ist,...
- 6/16/2024
- by Barbara Schuster
- Spot - Media & Film
The Annecy Animation Festival, the most important eight days of the year for the global animation industry, wraps up tonight, so we’re looking back at 10 themes that dominated the dialogue around this year’s event.
Annecy is Hollywood’s Favorite Animation Showcase
In interviews held before this year’s festival, several representatives from Hollywood studios, speaking on background, told us that Annecy has now replaced Comic-Con as their most important promotional event of the year for animation.
During a backstage interview with Variety at a “Transformers: One” panel, festival artistic director Marcel Jean explained that building that reputation wasn’t a quick or easy process. “It’s a long-term work to convince the studios that Annecy is a place to be for them,” he said. “I think we are building a very strong relationship with Paramount, and it’s the same with most of the studios now.”
Paramount...
Annecy is Hollywood’s Favorite Animation Showcase
In interviews held before this year’s festival, several representatives from Hollywood studios, speaking on background, told us that Annecy has now replaced Comic-Con as their most important promotional event of the year for animation.
During a backstage interview with Variety at a “Transformers: One” panel, festival artistic director Marcel Jean explained that building that reputation wasn’t a quick or easy process. “It’s a long-term work to convince the studios that Annecy is a place to be for them,” he said. “I think we are building a very strong relationship with Paramount, and it’s the same with most of the studios now.”
Paramount...
- 6/15/2024
- by Jamie Lang and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Adam Elliot’s oddball Aussie feature Memoir of a Snail has won the Cristal award for best feature film at the 2024 Annecy Film Festival, the world’s leading international animation fest.
The dark dramedy, about a lonely, snail-obsessed hoarder — voiced by Succession star Sarah Snook — recounting her life story to one of her beloved gastropods, is Elliot’s first feature since 2009’s Mary and Max, which also won the top honor at Annecy. An impressive group of Australian A-listers, including Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jacki Weaver, Eric Bana and Nick Cave provide supporting voice work. IFC Films picked up North American rights to Memoir of a Snail ahead of the festival.
Flow, a drama from Latvian animator Gints Zilbalodis (Away), which follows a cat that survives a world-destroying deluge on a boat with a collection of other animals, won this year’s jury award and audience prize, voted on by Annecy attendees.
The dark dramedy, about a lonely, snail-obsessed hoarder — voiced by Succession star Sarah Snook — recounting her life story to one of her beloved gastropods, is Elliot’s first feature since 2009’s Mary and Max, which also won the top honor at Annecy. An impressive group of Australian A-listers, including Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jacki Weaver, Eric Bana and Nick Cave provide supporting voice work. IFC Films picked up North American rights to Memoir of a Snail ahead of the festival.
Flow, a drama from Latvian animator Gints Zilbalodis (Away), which follows a cat that survives a world-destroying deluge on a boat with a collection of other animals, won this year’s jury award and audience prize, voted on by Annecy attendees.
- 6/15/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Annecy Animation Festival hosted its closing ceremony on Saturday, where there were two clear winners from the main feature film competition. Adam Elliot’s “Memoir of a Snail” took Annecy’s top award, the Cristal for best feature, and Gints Zilbalodis’ “Flow” scooped just about everything else.
Australian stop-motion feature “Memoir of a Snail” is the latest from Elliot, an Academy Award winner who scored the animated short statue in 2004 with his stop-motion film “Harvie Krumpet.” This time around, the director offers the heartstring-pulling story of Grace Pudel, a lonely misfit who loves collecting snails.
“There’s a magic to 100%-CG-free stop-motion, with its cellophane flames and tears made of sexual lubricant,” wrote Variety Chief Film Critic Peter Debruge in his review of the film. “Don’t be surprised if ‘Memoir’ has you shedding real ones in your seat.”
Zilbalodis’ “Flow” won a four-pack of honors at this year...
Australian stop-motion feature “Memoir of a Snail” is the latest from Elliot, an Academy Award winner who scored the animated short statue in 2004 with his stop-motion film “Harvie Krumpet.” This time around, the director offers the heartstring-pulling story of Grace Pudel, a lonely misfit who loves collecting snails.
“There’s a magic to 100%-CG-free stop-motion, with its cellophane flames and tears made of sexual lubricant,” wrote Variety Chief Film Critic Peter Debruge in his review of the film. “Don’t be surprised if ‘Memoir’ has you shedding real ones in your seat.”
Zilbalodis’ “Flow” won a four-pack of honors at this year...
- 6/15/2024
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Adam Elliot with Grace. He says: 'I've always made films about the underdog and people who are misunderstood or perceived as being different' Adam Elliot’s fans have had to wait a long time for his feature follow up to his 2009 “clayography” Mary And Max, with Memoir Of A Snail finally premiering at Annecy International Animation Film Festival last week. The stop-motion animation is in the same tragicomic vein as the rest of his work and charts a series of unfortunate events that befalls young Grace Pudel (pronounced “puddle”) from childhood to middle age. After the death of her paraplegic dad Percy - in the sort of kind of funny, kind of sad circumstances Elliot is a master of, Grace (Sarah Snook) and her pyromaniac twin brother Gilbert (Kodi Smit-McPhee) are sent to foster homes on opposite sides of Australia.
While Gilbert has to contend with a family of cult-like Bible-bashing apple farmers,...
While Gilbert has to contend with a family of cult-like Bible-bashing apple farmers,...
- 6/15/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
As a small child, motherless Grace started keeping snails in a jar, writing names on their shells and watching their life cycle — mate, breed, die — with loving fascination. “They were my friends,” she muses in voiceover in Memoir of a Snail, which this week had its premiere at the Annecy International Animation Festival. “I knew they’d never leave me, hurt me — or die.” Moments before, we saw Gracie’s huge ovoid eyes, spill over with tears as the aged Pinkie, her only human companion, breathed her final death rattle. “I’m so alone,” says Grace, not for the first time. “Goddamn life! Such a stupid, stupid puzzle!”
Pathos laid on with a shovel, you may be thinking — but you would be wrong. Following 2009’s Mary and Max, Memoir of a Snail is only the second Claymation feature from Australia’s Adam Elliot, who won an Oscar for his short...
Pathos laid on with a shovel, you may be thinking — but you would be wrong. Following 2009’s Mary and Max, Memoir of a Snail is only the second Claymation feature from Australia’s Adam Elliot, who won an Oscar for his short...
- 6/14/2024
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
Good afternoon Insiders. We’ve been all over Europe this week, so here’s Max Goldbart, back in the London-shaped saddle, to walk you through the major stories of the past seven days. Scroll on. And sign up here.
Animation Nation
Annecy proves its place: The weather may have been unseasonably chilly and drizzly at France’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival this past week, but spirits weren’t dampened. With Despicable Me 4, which made its French premiere at the festival on Thursday night ahead of its July 3 launch in the U.S., predicted to hit a $100 million opening, animation is one of the bright spots at an ailing global box office right now. Annecy’s 16,000 attendees were treated to sneak peaks of some of the most anticipated animated studio movies and series of the year including Transformers One, The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim and Moana 2,...
Animation Nation
Annecy proves its place: The weather may have been unseasonably chilly and drizzly at France’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival this past week, but spirits weren’t dampened. With Despicable Me 4, which made its French premiere at the festival on Thursday night ahead of its July 3 launch in the U.S., predicted to hit a $100 million opening, animation is one of the bright spots at an ailing global box office right now. Annecy’s 16,000 attendees were treated to sneak peaks of some of the most anticipated animated studio movies and series of the year including Transformers One, The Lord Of The Rings: The War Of The Rohirrim and Moana 2,...
- 6/14/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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