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Exclusive: French director Vincent Maël Cardona makes his Cannes Official Selection debut with huis-clos thriller No One Will Know, which premieres as a Midnight Screening.

The drama revolves around the clients and staff of the fictitious Le Roi Soleil café in the Paris periphery who unwittingly assist in the killing of an elderly regular just after he discovers he has won €294 million ($320M) in the lottery.

With the life-changing sum in their sights if not their grasp, the disparate group battle with their consciences and one another as they figure out a way to explain the death, as well as whether and how to take possession of the prize.

“They have to agree on a scenario, a fiction and a way of recounting what happened, which is not what happened, in a convincing manner, that stands up to scrutiny,” says Cardona. “They’re doing the work of a screenwriter.”

“But...

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David Valero –podéis leer nuestra entrevista con él aquí–, presenta una historia de acoso adolescente y sus consecuencias, con un enfoque que busca sorprender al espectador al no revelar mucho antes de su estreno. Cristian Checa y Hugo Welzel encarnan a víctima y verdugo, respectivamente –también hablamos con ellos aquí–, y coinciden en una idea: «Tanto el abusado como el abusador necesitan ayuda». La vimos en su estreno en el Festival de Málaga y en nuestra crítica apuntamos que se trata de «una mirada contemporánea al cine quinqui».

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¿Una fantasía sci-fi basada en un relato corto de George R.R. Martin y protagonizada por Milla Jovovich y Dave Bautista? Sí, existe, y se llama Tierras perdidas. Una bruja, un cazador, una misión suicida y un mundo de estética western y punk.

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Mayo ya huele a palomitas, aire acondicionado y salas a rebosar: la temporada de blockbusters ha comenzado oficialmente. La maquinaria de los grandes estudios se pone en marcha con estrenos que buscan dominar la taquilla –una nueva entrega de Destino final para darnos pesadillas, lo ¿último? de Ethan Hunt o Lilo y Stitch en carne y hueso para compensar el traspié de Blancanieves de Disney–, sin dejar del todo de lado las propuestas más personales –el cine español que brilló en el Festival de Málaga–. Y si eres del plan sofá, manta y peli, atento también a los estrenos en plataformas, con un Guy Ritchie explorando el terreno aventurero al más puro estilo Indiana Jones contemporáneo. Estos son los 10 títulos más destacados de este mes:

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This April, Peacock is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the highly anticipated return of Law & Order: Organized Crime to the release of underrated films like Last Night in Soho and Trainspotting. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Peacock this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the seven best films that are coming to Peacock in April 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Face/Off (April 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93% Credit – Paramount Pictures

Face/Off is a sci-fi action thriller film directed by John Woo from a screenplay co-written by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary. The 1997 film follows FBI Special Agent Sean Archer, who catches the dangerous terrorist Castor Troy, but he soon discovers that Castor has planted a bomb. To get more information,...

“Reflection in a Dead Diamond” is a new France-produced surreal spy thriller, written and directed by Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani, starring Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw, Maria de Medeiros, and Thi Mai, with theatrical distribution Tba:

“…’John’ is 70 years old and lives in solitary luxury in a grand hotel on the Côte d’Azur. He becomes intrigued by the woman in the room next door who reminds him of his wild years on the Riviera in the 1960s, back when he was a debonair international spy in a world brimming with peril and promise.

“But when the woman mysteriously disappears, John is beset by flashbacks – or perhaps fantasies – of his glamorous and grotesque past, and the alluring women and dastardly villains who lived and died there.

“John’s reality becomes fragmented as he seeks to unravel the puzzle of his past. Memory, madness and moviemaking become increasingly difficult to separate.

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Ya se ha publicado el primer tráiler de la película Una quinta portuguesa, el segundo largometraje de la directora Avelina Prat tras Vasil, que competirá en la Sección Oficial del 28 Festival de Málaga.

En Una quinta portuguesa, la desaparición de su mujer deja a Fernando, un tranquilo profesor de geografía, completamente desolado. Sin rumbo fijo, se hace pasar por otro hombre como jardinero en una villa portuguesa, donde entabla una inesperada amistad con la propietaria, adentrándose en una nueva vida que no le pertenece.

La película está protagonizada por el ganador del Goya Manolo Solo (El buen patrón), la actriz portuguesa María de Medeiros (Pulp Fiction) y la serbia Branka Katić (The King’s Man).

La cineasta, Avelina Prat, ha dicho: «Tenemos una vida concreta, una sola… Y, sin embargo, nos sentimos fascinados por otras vidas. Vidas de personas que conocemos,...

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Arranca el rodaje en diversas localizaciones de Barcelona y Berlín (Alemania) de Yo siempre a veces, una serie original de Movistar Plus+, creada por Marta Bassols y Marta Loza y producida por Javier Calvo y Javier Ambrossi.

Yo siempre a veces sigue a Laura (Ana Boga), que se quedó embarazada solo dos meses después de conocer a Rubén (David Menéndez), estando muy ciega de amor y de droga. Cinco meses después del nacimiento de su hijo, Mario, ya se estaban separando y no precisamente en buenos términos. Un libro expedido en el registro civil dice que son una familia; sin embargo, Laura cuida del niño casi sola. Lo hace con inmenso amor, fe, chispa y alegría, aunque a veces no tenga más ideas ni herramientas para cuidar de sí misma.

La serie, compuesta por seis episodios de 30 minutos, está encabezada por...

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This March, Paramount+ is bringing you a ton of entertainment with the much anticipated true crime drama series Happy Face and also the streaming release of the horror comedy film Rumours. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Paramount+ this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 10 best films coming to Paramount+ in March 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Up In The Air (March 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90% Credit – Paramount Pictures

Up in the Air is a comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Sheldon Turner. Based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Walter Kirn, the 2009 film follows Ryan Bingham, a man whose job is to travel places and fire people from their jobs.

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This March, Hulu is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the wacky crime comedy series Deli Boys to the much-anticipated streaming release of Anora. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Hulu this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the ten best films that are coming to Hulu in March 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

High Fidelity (March 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 91% Credit – Touchstone Pictures

High Fidelity is a romantic comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay co-written by D.V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink, John Cusack, and Scott Rosenberg. Based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Nick Hornby, the 2000 film follows Rob, a record store owner who has been unlucky in relationships. However, his bad luck might...

Positive or not, all critical appraisals of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s films inevitably land on the same talking point: their inordinate cinephilia. Rightly so: the Belgian duo’s filmography––an oeuvre now spanning four features and a handful of shorts––teems with nods to a seemingly endless cascade of Italian giallos from the likes of Mario Bava, Sergio Martino, and Dario Argento. You can call that an act of “cinematic rehabilitation,” as Justin Chang once wrote in his review of Let the Corpses Tan––though perhaps that’s only apt to ring true if you think that particular blend of hyper-stylized pulp needs rehabilitating in the first place. Hence the rather simplistic argument: fans of the classics Cattet and Forzani invoke will undoubtedly relish their works while everyone else likely writes them off as hollow tributes––or, to borrow from Stephen Holden’s far less generous take on their 2009 Amer,...

Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani waste no time establishing the freely associative rhythms of their latest film, Reflection in a Dead Diamond. Its opening pair of images, of a fizzing drink dissolving into ocean waves as they wash over a bikini-clad young woman, herald an orgiastic symphony of sensory overload. Right out of the gate, the filmmakers’ filtering of a James Bond-esque espionage tale through a grindhouse sensibility exists in such a state of emphatic stimulation that each shot feels punctuated with an exclamation point.

Cattet and Forzani, who stitch Reflection in a Dead Diamond together from a seemingly endless array of money shots and stylistic flourishes, never take their foot off the accelerator. It feels like an impossible velocity to maintain, so a big question hanging over the film is when a moment will come when viewers will be able to catch their breaths. The answer comes when the...

You’ll almost certainly know Maria de Medeiros as the choppy-bobbed girlfriend, Fabienne, of Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction (1994). But what you might not know is what she’s been up to since — unless you’re a longtime European art house expert, in which case, maybe you do.

The Portuguese actress, now 59, returns to the Berlin Film Festival this year with Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s Italian murder mystery (a genre referred to as giallo), Reflection in a Dead Diamond. The movie follows a retired spy — played by spaghetti Western icon Fabio Testi — residing in a luxurious hotel on the French Riviera. He becomes fascinated by his new neighbor, who rekindles memories of the Riviera’s vibrant days in the 1960s. But when his neighbor vanishes without a trace, Testi’s character is forced to confront his past demons.

Granted, de Medeiros is unable to attend Berlinale in person...

Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, the filmmaking duo behind The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears, and Let the Corpses Tan, are back with a unique spin on the Eurospy subgenre with Reflection in a Dead Diamond.

Below we can exclusively unveil Reflection in a Dead Diamond’s European poster by Gilles Vranckx ahead of the film’s premiere this weekend at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Update: Shudder has acquired the film for premiere later this year.

In the film, “John D, a septuagenarian living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur, is intrigued by his next-door neighbour who reminds him of the wildest years on the Riviera during the 1960s. At that time, he was a spy in a rapidly developing world full of promise. One day, this neighbour mysteriously disappears… bringing John face to face with his demons: are his former adversaries back to wreak havoc on his idyllic world?...

AMC Networks’ Shudder has bought “Reflection in a Dead Diamond,” Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s supernatural crime film, ahead of its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.

The Shudder acquisition deal covers North America, the U.K. and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, with plans to release the film exclusively on the streamer in 2025.

“Reflection in a Dead Diamond” takes place following the disappearance of a mysterious woman, as a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur gets “confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide,” reads the synopsis.

The film stars Golden Globe-winning Italian actor Fabio Testi, Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw, Maria De Medeiros, Céline Camara and introduces newcomer Thi Mai Nguyen.

“Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani are simply two of the greatest genre filmmakers in the world. Each film, an event,...

Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani — the husband-and-wife filmmaking duo behind Amer, The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears, and Let the Corpses Tan — are back with Reflection in a Dead Diamond.

Watch the teaser trailer for the tribute to 1960s European spy cinema below.

When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d’Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.

Fabio Testi (What Have You Done to Solange?), Yannick Renier, Koen De Bouw (Loft), Maria de Medeiros (Pulp Fiction), and Thi Mai Nguyen star.

The mystery action thriller will have its world premiere in competition at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival later this month.

Italian sales company True Colours acquired the worldwide rights to the film last year. Keep an eye out for US release details.

Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s Reflection In A Dead Diamond has closed sales to a number of key territories ahead of its premiere this month in Berlinale competition and has also exclusively revealed a first look to Screen.

Italian sales agent True Colours has signed deals with Plaion Pictures for German speaking territories and Hishow Entertainment for Mainland China. Further deals with UFO Distribution for France and Cinéart for Belgium and the Netherlands were brokered by the film’s producer Pierre Foulon of Kozak Films.

The film, starring veteran Italian actor Fabio Testi, is an homage to the 1960s...

The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for the 2025 edition, running February 13-23. It’s the first official lineup overseen by new artistic director and former BFI London Film Festival leader Tricia Tuttle, who succeeds Carlo Chatrian and brings her background as an American journalist and curator to the annual German showcase. She’s also working with co-directors of programming, Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz, to help reposition the Berlinale’s profile among the great global film festivals and lure bigger-name filmmakers in the process.

This year’s lineup, announced Tuesday, January 21, features new films from Richard Linklater, Michel Franco, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Hong Sangsoo (“What Does That Nature Say to You”), Radu Jude (“Kontinental ’25”), and Lucile Hadžihalilović (“The Ice Tower”). Already confirmed in the mix are “Mickey 17” from Bong Joon Ho and Ira Sachs’ Sundance premiere “Peter Hujar’s Day,” plus Tom Tykwer’s “The Light” opening the festival.

Following last week’s lineup announcement, the Berlinale 2025 has now fleshed out its slate with the Competition, Special, and Perspectives sections. Highlights include the world premieres of Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Andrew Scott; Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25; Hong Sangsoo’s What Does that Nature Say to You; Michel Franco’s Dreams starring Jessica Chastain; Lucile Hadžihalilović’s The Ice Tower starring Marion Cotillard; and Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Hot Milk with Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, and Vicky Krieps.

The festival will also include international premieres from Julia Loktev, Mary Bronstein, Kahlil Joseph, and more. In terms of omissions for films that potentially could have been a strong fit: there’s no Steven Soderberg’s Black Bag, Wes Anderson’s German production The Phoenician Scheme, nor Berlinale regular Christian Petzold, who wrapped Miroirs No. 3 only a few months ago.

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The Berlin Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled the full list of titles set for its official competition alongside perspective and specials sidebars.

A total of 19 films have been selected for the international competition. It’s a buzzy selection with multiple titles that have been anticipated and boast high-profile names. Highlights include Richard Linklater’s latest feature Blue Moon, starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott. Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco launches his latest title Dreams in competition. The film stars Jessica Chastain, Isaac Hernández and Rupert Friend. Franco last worked with Chastain on the Venice competition title Memory.

Elsewhere, Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude lands in competition with Kontinental ’25. Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Hot Milk starring Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw and Vicky Krieps also secures a spot alongside Hong Sangsoo’s latest What Does that Nature Say to You, and Mumblecore veteran Mary Bronstein returns as a director with If I Had Legs I’d Kick You...

When talking about Pulp Fiction 30 years later, Bruce Willis’ performance is not something that immediately comes up in discussions. Willis’s character Butch was one of the more conventional characters in the film, which was filled with image-breaking performances. However, Willis’ stardom gave a significant boost to the film at the time of its making.

Bruce Willis as Butch in a still from Pulp Fiction | Credits: Miramax Films

Interestingly, Willis was not a name that Quentin Tarantino ever had in mind for the role. It was Harvey Keitel, who played the role of Winston Wolfe, who introduced the Die Hard actor to Tarantino. At the time, Willis was one of the only A-listers among the cast.

Bruce Willis Played A Crucial Role In Pulp Fiction‘s Epic Success Bruce Willis in a still from Pulp Fiction | Credits: Miramax Films

Pulp Fiction was snubbed for the Oscars in favor of Forrest Gump 30 years ago.

Happy 30th to Pulp Fiction. Quentin Tarantino made a grand entrance with Reservoir Dogs, but it was 1994’s Pulp Fiction that solidified him as the director to watch with his unique brand of intermingling stories and 70s-inspired aesthetics. For the 30th anniversary, Pulp Fiction is returning to the silver screen in October for special presentations featuring pristine new 35mm prints in select theatres across the U.S. In addition, the film will be released on 4K Ultra HD in a 30th Anniversary Collector’s Edition on December 3, 2024, from Paramount Home Entertainment.

Pulp Fiction was such a milestone that not only did it catapult Tarantino’s career immensely, but the film would also become the comeback for John Travolta and it would be the breakout for Samuel L. Jackson. He would be a standout early on in the film with a Bible verse monologue right before executing an unlucky individual. Jackson...

In celebration of this Quentin Tarantino cinematic masterpieces 30th anniversary, Pulp Fiction will return to the big screen in October for special presentations featuring pristine new 35mm prints in select theatres across the U.S. In addition, the film will be released on 4K Ultra HD in a 30th Anniversary Collectors Edition on December 3, 2024 from Paramount Home Entertainment. In 1994, writer-director Quentin Tarantino blew away audiences and critics with his brazenly brilliant tribute to hard-crime capers, Pulp Fiction. Now, three decades later, the acclaimed and award-winning film continues to thrill new generations of fans with its infinitely quotable dialogue, superb cast, ingenious plot, and chart-topping soundtrack.

Critics and audiences worldwide hailed Pulp Fiction as the star-studded movie that redefined cinema in the 20th century. Writer-director Quentin Tarantino delivers an unforgettable cast of characters including a pair of low-rent hit men (John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson), a gangster's wife (Uma Thurman...

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Quentin Tarantino’s classic crime movie Pulp Fiction next month, the film is getting a new 4K Ultra HD collector’s edition (pre-order here), out December 3rd. What’s more, it will return to select theaters for a limited run.

The limited edition set includes 4K Uhd, Blu-ray, and digital copies of Pulp Fiction, and is housed in a premium slipcase containing a new slipcover with pop-up artwork of John Travolta and Uma Thurman’s iconic dancing scene, lobby card reproductions, photography, and decals. Other extras include featurettes, cast interviews, behind-the-scenes montages, festival footage, and a Tarantino appearance on the Charlie Rose Show.

Pre-order the 30th anniversary collector’s edition here. Alternatively, the standard 4K Uhd release is currently available here.

Meanwhile, Pulp Fiction will be back on the big screen in 35mm at select theaters in Los Angeles, Austin, New York City,...

Did someone order a Royale with Cheese? Quentin Tarantino’s classic crime film Pulp Fiction is approaching its 30th anniversary fast, and Paramount aims to celebrate in style! Pulp Fiction is returning to the silver screen in October for special presentations featuring pristine new 35mm prints in select theatres across the U.S. In addition, the film will be released on 4K Ultra HD in a 30th Anniversary Collector’s Edition on December 3, 2024, from Paramount Home Entertainment.

“30 years later, the acclaimed and award-winning film continues to thrill new generations of fans with its infinitely quotable dialogue, superb cast, ingenious plot, and chart-topping soundtrack,” reads Paramount’s official press release for the upcoming Pulp Fiction event.

The star-studded cast of Pulp Fiction includes John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Maria de Medeiros, Ving Rhames, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken, and Bruce Willis. Each...

Celebrating 30 years of excellency, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction is coming back to cinemas in glorious 4K. More details below.

It’s hard to believe that Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction turns 30 years old, but here we are. We’re still convinced that the film came out only a few years ago, but apparently 1994 was 30 years ago. How time flies.

The film is heading back into UK cinemas to celebrate its landmark birthday and this is your chance to see the film in 4K, too. You can catch Pulp Fiction in cinemas from 23rd August.

Pulp Fiction was Tarantino’s second film and arguably lifted the filmmaker from a talent to watch to Hollywood royalty. The film starred John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Maria de Medeiros, Ving Rhames, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken and Bruce Willis and they’re pretty excellent too.

This August, Paramount+ is bringing you a lot of entertainment with the highly anticipated streaming release of the biographical film Bob Marley: One Love and a very weird but humorous and heartfelt film Sasquatch Sunset, which follows the daily lives of a Sasquatch family. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Paramount+ this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 10 best films that are coming to Paramount+ in August 2024 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Airplane! (August 1)

Airplane! is a disaster absurdist comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams, David, and Jerry Zucker. Based on the 1957 drama film Zero Hour! by Arthur Hailey, Hall Bartlett, and John Champion, the 1980 film follows Ted Striker, a former pilot with a fear of flying as he finds himself in the impossible situation of landing a...

This August, Prime Video is bringing you a lot of entertainment with the highly anticipated Season 2 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, an all-new action-comedy film starring John Cena and Awkwafina titled Jackpot!, and an animated Batman series titled Batman: Caped Crusader. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Prime Video this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 10 best films that are coming to Prime Video in August 2024 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Fargo (August 1)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95%

Fargo is a dark comedy crime drama film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The 1996 film follows the story of Jerry, a sales manager who is under a huge debt. To repay his loan he hatches a plan to hire two henchmen to kidnap his wife and...

Italian sales company True Colours has acquired worldwide rights to Reflection In A Dead Diamond from cult genre film directors Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani.

The fourth feature from the Brussels-based duo is an homage to 1960s Euro-spy stories, set in the glamorous, decadent backdrop of the Côte d’Azur. Filming wrapped in December and the film is now in post-production.

Reflection In A Dead Diamond centres on a retired spy who fears his former enemies are back for a final fight when his intriguing next-door neighbour mysteriously disappears.

Known for their unique visual style, Cattet and Forzani’s films blend action,...

El segundo largometraje de Avelina Prat tras ‘Vasil’. © Filmax

Termina el rodaje de “La Quinta”, de Avelina Prat, el segundo largometraje de la directora Avelina Prat tras “Vasil”. La película es una historia sobre cómo los lugares que habitamos y nuestro entorno social configuran quiénes somos.

En “La Quinta”, la desaparición de su mujer deja a Fernando, un tranquilo profesor de geografía, completamente hundido. Sin rumbo fijo, se hace pasar por otro hombre como jardinero de una quinta portuguesa. Allí, entabla una inesperada amistad con la dueña, adentrándose en una nueva vida que no le pertenece.

“La Quinta” está protagonizada por el ganador del Goya Manolo Solo, la actriz portuguesa María de Medeiros y la serbia Branka Katić (“The King’s Man”).

Para el rodaje se utilizaron distintas localizaciones de Barcelona y la Quinta da Aldeia, una auténtica quinta portuguesa situada en Ponte de Lima.

“La Quinta” se estrenará en cines próximamente.

On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.

First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.

Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.

The Pitch: Can You Spoil Something This Surreal?

Few experiences surpass stumbling onto a jaw-dropping moment in film totally unspoiled. The big twist in “One Cut of the Dead.” The Fern Mayo reveal in “Jawbreaker.” Top to bottom, every second of “Titane.” These are scenes across varying genres and eras that live in my bones as electric moments I didn’t expect to see, but that reminded me why I whole-heartedly love the movies when I did. Hence, this column’s spoiler-free/spoiler-filled bifurcation.

Guy Maddin’s “The Saddest Music in the World” contains one such moment,...

The Cannes Film Festival has kicked off its 76th edition Tuesday with the opening ceremony to be followed by the world premiere of Jeanne Du Barry, starring and directed by Maïwenn and featuring the return of Johnny Depp to the big screen.

The premiere was attended by Maïwenn, who stars opposite Depp and alongside Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Richard, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud and India Hair.

Related: Cannes Film Festival 2023: Film Premieres And Parties Gallery

Other guests who attended included Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas, Catherine Deneuve, Uma Thurman, Elle Fanning, Helen Mirren, Mads Mikkelsen, Emmanuelle Béart, Franz Rogowski, Maria de Medeiros, Pom Klementieff and Fan Bingbig.

The film follows the life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis Xv to become his last official mistress.

Other buzzy premieres taking place at the...

Considering Christopher Walken's entire filmography and legendary cadence, it's a little surprising that the infamous watch speech he delivers as Captain Koons in "Pulp Fiction" is, to the best of my recollection, the longest monologue the Oscar-winning actor has ever given on screen. In "True Romance," Walken gives another lengthy speech describing his unparalleled lie-detection skills, but Dennis Hopper's dead man walking history lesson takes the spotlight away from him rather convincingly. 

One of the benefits of having a writer-director on set is being fairly confident that the dialogue you're memorizing and delivering won't be cut out of the final edit. Walken's speech chronicling how a family heirloom was carried down through three generations of soldiers is not only hilariously epic, it's also a crucial plot detail. Koons is telling the story to Butch (Bruce Willis) as a young boy in the early 1960s. Cutting to present day,...

The segments that form Pulp Fiction have been the subject of a variety of theories, and one in particular adds to Butch Coolidge’s (Bruce Willis) story and gives a deeper meaning to the gold watch story. Quentin Tarantino has explored a variety of genres in his movies since the release of Reservoir Dogs in 1992, but even after all these years and many more successful projects, his second movie, Pulp Fiction, continues to be considered his masterpiece and keeps being analyzed by critics and viewers, making way for different interpretations of certain themes, scenes, and characters, and for a variety of theories as well.

Pulp Fiction is divided into segments famously arranged in non-chronological order, each one led by one or two characters, and among them is Butch, a boxer who dared to double-cross Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Butch’s segment is titled “The Gold Watch”, but in preparation for it,...

To mark the 4K release of Pulp Fiction, we’ve been given a 4K Ultra HD copy to give away to 3 winners.

A touchstone of postmodern film, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction is a must-have for every film fan’s collection. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, the film also won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature and the Academy Award® for Best Original Screenplay. The film features a star-studded cast, including John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Maria de Medeiros, Ving Rhames, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken and Bruce Willis.

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A 4K Steelbook! Haven’t seen this show lately, and discovered that it holds up remarkably well. Mr. Qt’s sophomore outing made an indelible mark on American movies — the darling of hipster crime filmmaking dazzled viewers with showcase set-piece scenes, entertainingly profane dialogue and ultra-hip inside-out time-shuffling narrative tricks. Add to that genuine star turns, especially Uma Thurman and John Travolta’s iconic dance scene. It’s old-fashioned movie-going in an avant-garde pattern, with raw violence and even rougher language. The stars include Samuel L. Jackson, Harvy Keitel, Ving Rhames, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer and Bruce Willis.

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1994 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 154 min. / Street Date December 6, 2022 / Available from Amazon / 30.99

Starring: Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Frank Whaley, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Rosanna Arquette, Eric Stoltz, Uma Thurman, Steve Buscemi, Emil Sitka, Christopher Walken, Maria de Medeiros,...

For the first time ever, Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film “Pulp Fiction” is being released on 4K Blu-ray, and we at TheWrap have a few copies to give away.

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Not the Usual Mindless Boring Getting to Know You Chit ChatHere are Some Facts on the Fiction Enhanced Trivia Track (subtitle file)

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Not the Usual Mindless Boring Getting to Know You Chit Chat Here Are Some Facts on the Fiction Pulp Fiction: The Facts – Documentary Deleted ScenesBehind the Scenes MontagesProduction Design Featurette Siskel & Ebert “At the Movies”- The Tarantino Generation Independent Spirit Awards Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or...

Fred Ward, who starred in films including “Henry and June,” “Tremors,” “The Right Stuff” and “The Player,” died May 8, his publicist confirmed to Variety. He was 79.

Among his other prominent roles were parts in “Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins,” “Miami Blues” and “Short Cuts.”

There was a certain retro quality to the actor’s persona that made Ward seem more akin to Humphrey Bogart or John Garfield (although not quite with those actors’ level of charisma) than to his contemporaries, and it did not seem at all affected. He appeared to be the sort of fellow who hailed from the South Side of Chicago or Hell’s Kitchen, but he was actually from San Diego.

Ward most recently appeared in the second season of HBO’s “True Detective” as Eddie Velcoro, the retired cop father of Colin Farrell’s Det. Ray Velcoro.

He recurred on NBC’s “ER” as the...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSZhang Yimou's One Second (2020)China has released a new five-year film plan. Spanning from 2021 to 2025, the plan includes goals such as the release of 10 "major" films a year, new cinemas in rural areas, a stronger presence at international film festivals like Cannes, and more. The Cinemateca Portuguesa has announced that the Cinemateca Brasileira will be reopening after a prolonged closure, in a first step towards a full recovery of the institution and its staff. Shooting has begun on Lisandro Alonso's long-awaited four-part film Eureka. The film is said to "examine the indigenous peoples of the Americas and how they’ve inhabited their specific environments across the centuries." The first part takes place on the US-Mexico border in 1870 and stars Viggo Mortensen and Maria de Medeiros. Chiara Mastroianni will also star in the film in a still undisclosed part.

Women trying to find their voice in society, facing existential struggles, in the early half of 20th century Europe, providing a window into their lives is Mario Barroso’s Portugese movie Moral Order. It had its World Premiere in the World Panorama section of 51st International Film Festival of India (Iffi).

In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho, heiress and owner of a prominent newspaper, abandons and runs away with a chauffeur 22 years younger than her, seeking to escape from the social, cultural and family luxury in which she had been living. Maria’s role has been played by noted Portugese actor Maria de Medeiros.

Actor Vera Moura who plays the role of a maid serving the protagonist Maria, said, “The film is largely about women trying to find their voice in 20th century European society. It is based on a true story which happened in Portugal. It is about woman’s freedom...

Since his striking, transportive drama Jauja in 2014, we’ve been waiting for Lisandro Alonso’s follow-up. News first arrived in 2018 as we learned of Eureka, an ambitious project spanning a time period between 1870 and 2019, with a focus on Native American culture and locations spanning across the world.

The story, made up of four parts, will “make the link between times and continents.” “I would like to film places, people, and cultures that I regret not to see today on big or small screens,” Alonso said. “I would be very curious to know what happened to those who then embodied the Amerindian community, how they live today, how they survive. I would really like to understand what it is like to be a Native American nowadays.”

While the production was already underway and then halted in Portugal when the pandemic hit, Variety now reports more details and the first casting news.

Following his star turn in “Jauja,” a major hit at the 2014 Cannes Festival, Viggo Mortensen will re-team with Argentine director Lisandro Alonso on “Eureka,” one of the boldest upcoming art films from Latin America.

Mortensen, who takes the lead role in “Eureka’s” first part, will be joined by France’s Chiara Mastroianni, a Cesar Award best actress nominee this year for “On a Magical Night,” and Portugal’s Maria de Medeiros (“Pulp Fiction”).

In a nod towards “Jauja,” Mortensen once more takes the role of a father, here Murphy, searching for a daughter, again played by Denmark’s Viilbjørk Malling Agger, who has been kidnapped in “Eureka” by an outlaw, Randall. Despite the actors reprising similar roles, the film is not a sequel.

In addition, the setting for Part 1 of “Eureka,” entitled “Western,” is no longer Argentina’s Patagonia but a lawless township in 1870 on the U.S.-Mexico border,...

While they likely aren’t even recorded, one can only dream of the delight it would bring to listen to the jury deliberations when it comes to the major film festivals around the world. Sometimes, details on why one film came out victorious over the others are spilled in a post-awards press conference, but often more times than not, the jury stays buttoned up and if we learn anything, it’s years after the fact. Tied with this year’s canceled edition of Cannes, the French outlet Liberation asked a selection of jury members of years past to dish on their process and one fascinating bit of history surfaced.

Olivier Assayas, who was on the competition jury in 2011 with Jude Law, Uma Thurman, Martina Gusmán, Nansun Shi, Linn Ullmann, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Johnnie To, and jury president Robert De Niro, revealed that The Tree of Life was very close to not taking the Palme d’Or.

As we have seen in a number of documentaries recently, Myanmar is one of the most troubled countries in the world, particularly due to the issue with the Rohingya refugees and the drug smuggling that takes place throughout the country. Barbet Schroeder, in the film that concludes his “trilogy of evil” (the other two docs deal with Idi Amin Dada and Jacques Verges), deals with yet another significant issue, that of intense racism and particularly Islamophobia, which is focused and driven from the Burmese Buddhist monk, Ashin Wirathu.

Schroeder creates a rather thorough portrait of the leader of the Buddhist extremist, presenting his life story and his current status, through interviews with various journalists, researchers and activists (both local and foreign), Wirathu’s own words and footage of the events that shaped and were driven by him. Through a rather captivating narration, we learn of how he came to become a monk,...

Exclusive: Paul Auster novel In The Country Of Last Things is getting a Spanish-language movie adaptation from Argentine filmmaker Alejandro Chomski (Asleep In The Sun).

Shoot is underway at Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios on the feature starring Argentine newcomer Jazmín Diz, Mexican actor-singer Christopher Von Uckermann and Maria De Medeiros (Pulp Fiction). Funding comes from Caribbean outfit Lantica. Above is a first look at Diz in the film.

Set in a devastated city that was once a thriving metropolis, the dystopian story follows Anna (Diz) who is searching for her brother, a journalist who is missing. In her quest to find him, she meets and falls in love with Sam (Von Uckermann), another journalist. Chomski adapted Auster’s novel, which has been translated into more than forty languages.

Producers on the long-gestating project, which was originally developed as an English-language film, are Alexandra Stone of UK-based Streetcar Productions, Capa Pictures...

“Pasolini” is not a biopic of the late Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (played here by Willem Dafoe). The complicated director of “The Gospel According to St. Matthew,” “Teorema” and “Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom” (a scene involving its editing opens the film) was more personality than a 90-minute movie could handle. Any filmed biography presuming to grapple with the whole of his life would beg to be, at least, a limited TV series.

This is, perhaps, one reason why director Abel Ferrara (“Bad Lieutenant”) has scripted a 24-hour ticking clock that mostly ignores chronology and backstory. It’s the final day of Pasolini’s life, presented as part historical detail and part imagined glimpse into the man’s mind, and it culminates, as it must, in his brutal murder at age 53.

Fittingly, to touch on the life of a man who was a writer, a filmmaker, a philosopher,...

Emily Mortimer star of Isabel Coixet's The Bookshop dedicated to John Berger Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Isabel Coixet's The Bookshop, loosely based on the novel by Penelope Fitzgerald and starring Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy and Patricia Clarkson (who starred in Learning To Drive with Ben Kingsley) is dedicated to John Berger. Isabel also dedicated her 2005 film The Secret Life of Words, starring Sarah Polley and Tim Robbins, to Berger. In 2010, Isabel created From I to J an audio-installation of Berger's letters in From A to X at Casa Encendida in Madrid with readings from Tilda Swinton, Penélope Cruz, Isabelle Huppert, Monica Bellucci, Sophie Calle, Maria de Medeiros, Clarkson, and Polley.

Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) at Violet Gamart's (Patricia Clarkson) fête Photo: Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment

Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and she won for her novel Offshore in 1979. John Berger won in 1972 for his novel G.

Brazil’s Directors’ Fortnight entry “Los Silencios” typifies a growing breed of Brazilian films, shot in multiple locations and in co-production with one or more countries. Beatriz Seigner’s cross-border drama about a Colombian family fleeing the armed conflict in their native country was co-produced by Seigner’s Miriade Filmes and Leonardo Mecchi’s Enquadramento Prods. (“The Trial”), along with France’s Cine-Sud Promotion and Colombian shingle Dia-fragma.

“We shot mainly in Colombia so the key crew members were Colombian — and mostly women,” says Cine-Sud’s Thierry Lenouvel, who is co-producing Anita Rocha’s next film, “Medusa,” with Vania Catani’s Bananeira Filmes and is boarding two other Brazilian films in development: Dezenove’s Vietnam-set “The Paths of My Father” by Mauricio Osaki and BossaNovaFilms’ “To Our Children,” by actress-helmer Maria de Medeiros.

Co-producing Argentine helmer Lucrecia Martel’s acclaimed period drama “Zama” “was a lot of work but the rewards were high,...

Current Mpm Film and Premium Films sales executives Ricardo Monastier and Leslie Saussereau will combine forces on the international sales front.

Paris-based auteur-focused Mpm Film and shorts specialist Premium Films have joined forces to create a single sales entity called Mpm Premium, combining their industry know-how and network.

Under the new structure, current Mpm Film and Premium Films sales executives Ricardo Monastier and Leslie Saussereau will combine forces on the international sales front.

Mpm Film founding chief Marie-Pierre Macia and producer Claire Gadéa and Premium Films founder Jean-Charles Mille will oversee management of the company.

“The market is evolving and we have to adapt. The fusion allows us more flexibility and better reactivity thanks to a bigger team, with complementary abilities and a wide expertise. We plan to optimise our investments and be more present on the international markets,” Macia, Gadéa and Mille said in a joint statement.

“It’s more and more difficult for auteur films to find...

In this edition of Canon Of Film, we look back on Quentin Tarantino‘s modern masterpiece, ‘Pulp Fiction‘. For the story behind the genesis of the Canon, you can click here.

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino based on stories by Quentin Tarantino and Steve Avery

‘Pulp Fiction,’ is possibly the most influential movie made in my lifetime. It’s certainly the most important film made in the ‘90s. You might be able to argue better movies, but none are as influential and important at ‘Pulp Fiction‘. Watching it again recently, for the, whatever-nth time it’s been, I realize the movie gets more enjoyable with every viewing. The first viewing, I remember just being confused. I respected, and admired, and even liked a lot, but I didn’t quite realize the pure joy the movie brings. It’s fun. There’s a love of filmmaking that’s...