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Hayley Atwell has starred in several projects in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where she portrayed Peggy Carter. She even got her own TV show spin-off, Marvel's Agent Carter, which ran on ABC for two seasons.

The actress debuted in 2011's Captain America: The First Avengers and played Steve Rogers' love interest, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Atwell was one of the many names that appeared in 2022's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse, with a brief cameo. However, the actress explained during an appearance on Reign that that sparked an opportunity to stand up for herself on the set of the MCU film, which was directed by Sam Raimi.

At the beginning of the clip, Atwell explained how she found her voice and used it in an instance on the set of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. "There was a moment fairy recently, I bring it...

Grindhouse Releasing’s brand new 4K restoration of the Lucio Fulci horror classic The Beyond is opening in New York City at the IFC Center on October 25, and Bloody Disgusting is excited to debut the release’s official poster courtesy of Italian legend Emanuele Taglietti.

Check out the official poster below and read on for everything you need to know!

Grindhouse Releasing has been working on this new 4K restoration of the Lucio Fulci horror classic since 2016, and it was made using the original Techniscope camera negative.

Their new 4K restoration of The Beyond premiered at this year’s Overlook Film Festival in New Orleans, where the movie was filmed, and is now touring select North American theaters in advance of the 4K Uhd release. The Canadian premiere is October 23 at the Revue Cinema in Toronto.

Grindhouse is also giving away ‘Eerie Eyeballs’ in select cities, as they did back...

Before diving into Spider-Man, The Evil Dead director Sam Raimi briefly returned to the world of the supernatural with The Gift.

Scream Factory will release 2000 mystery-thriller on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on December 3. It’s been newly restored in 4K with Dolby Vision.

Cate Blanchett stars with Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, and Hilary Swank. Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson wrote the script, based on Thornton’s mother’s alleged psychic experiences.

A new commentary track by Bloody Disgusting’s own head critic Meagan Navarro is included among other special features!

Disc 1 – 4K Uhd:

Audio Commentary with Film Critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson (new) Audio Commentary with Film Critic Meagan Navarro (new) Isolated Music & Effects Track

Disc 2 – Blu-ray:

Audio Commentary with Film Critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson (new) Audio Commentary with Film Critic Meagan Navarro (new) Isolated Music & Effects Track Interview with Editors...

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

Evil Dead Figures from Neca

As previewed at San Diego Comic-Con, Neca is making an Evil Dead 7″ scale action figure two-pack featuring bloody Ash and possessed Cheryl — making her toy debut! Due out in January, pre-orders are up for $69.99.

Ash comes with two heads and four hands, while Cheryl has three heads (in various states of decay) and six hands. Other accessories include chainsaw, axe, shovel, fire poker, sketch pad, and grave marker. They’re packaged together in a window box with opening flap.

Drag Me to Hell 4K Uhd from Scream Factory

Scream Factory has revealed the specs for Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray, which will be released...

Italian production designer Paolo Comencini, whose recent credits include the box office hit There’s Still Tomorrow, will be feted with the Campari Passion for Film Award at the 81st Venice International Film Festival.

The ceremony will take place on September 6 to be followed by the Out of Competition screening of Il Tempo Che Ci Vuole by the production designer’s sister Francesca Comencini, which features the production designer’s work.

The father and daughter drama, starring Fabrizio Gifuni and Romana Maggiora Vergano, takes inspiration from their father, the iconic director Luigi Comencini.

Having cut her cinema teeth as an intern on Billy Wilder in Italy, Avanti! in 1978, Comencini began working with her father, before branching out into productions by her sisters and other directors.

Comencini’s more than production designer 50 credits include Michele Placido’s award-winning film Romanzo Criminale for which she received the David di...

The Venice Film Festival will celebrate Italian production designer Paola Comencini with its Campari Passion for Film Award dedicated to film industry figures who, along with the director, contribute to excellence in creating cinematic art.

The long list of feature films and TV series on which Paola Comencini has served as production designer comprises Italy’s smash hit “There’s Still Tomorrow” directed by Paola Cortellesi, groundbreaking TV series “Romanzo Criminale,” and drama “Il tempo che ci vuole,” directed by her sister Francesca Comencini, that will launch from Venice out-of-competition.

The Venice statement described “Il tempo che ci vuole,” which pays homage to their father Luigi Comencini – the Italian master who made Oscar-nominated Cinema Italiano classic “Bread, Love and Dreams,” with Gina Lollobrigida and Vittorio De Sica – as “a film in which the set design is not only a creative and accurate work but an incredible emotional journey.”

“Throughout her lengthy career as an architect,...

Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 has many iconic scenes that have had a lasting impact. None, however, have been as timeless and memorable as the train scene. From fighting Alfred Molina’s Doc Ock on a moving train to stopping the said train and an entire train car full of people hiding Spider-Man’s identity, it is safe to say the scene left an impact. It has become ingrained in the character’s history, and there have been many attempts to recreate it.

Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man stopping a train in Spider-Man 2

Even though the entire sequence was less than ten minutes long, the preparation and thought that went into it are truly impressive. Other than the director, it is impressive just how many hands were involved in making it. Here is an in-depth background on how the scene was shot.

The Visual Effects Team Had Their Hands Full...

How many great films does it take to designate a director as a historically significant auteur? Jean Vigo only directed a few shorts and one feature, but they were enough to make him a hero to the pioneers of the French New Wave. Actor-turned-helmer Charles Laughton directed just one movie — “The Night of the Hunter” — but it was such a haunting and singular masterpiece that few would argue that Laughton was one of the medium’s masters. Elaine May stopped directing after four movies, but she’d probably be considered one of the greatest directors who ever lived if she had only made “Mikey and Nicky.”

Christina Hornisher is nowhere near as well known as Vigo, Laughton, or May, but she should be — and now, thanks to a pristine restoration of her sole feature, “Hollywood 90028,” perhaps she will. Released in 1974 after Hornisher earned critical accolades for her UCLA film school shorts,...

The First Omen releases in theaters on April 5th, 2024.

I don’t know to what extent The Omen (1976) is considered a classic, but the truth is that it was one of the most profitable films of its respective year, it has one of the most memorable scores of that decade – so much so that it even won an Oscar, something extremely rare considering the genre – and, of course, it spawned several sequels and even a remake over all these years. The First Omen is the sixth installment of the franchise and, as the title indicates, it’s a prequel to the original movie. It’s also the directorial debut of Arkasha Stevenson who also co-writes the screenplay along with Tim Smith and Keith Tomas (Firestarter).

Margaret Daino (Nell Tiger Free) is a young American woman sent to Rome to start a devout life for the church, but she encounters strange...

If you're in the LA area this weekend, you won't want to miss out on a 12-hr horror and cult film marathon, dedicated to Grindhouse Releasing titles, including Pieces, Cannibal Holocaust, and more! Starting at noon at Lumiere Cinema, we have all the details and ticket links:

"Grindhouse Releasing will present a 12-hour horror and cult film marathon this Saturday August 12 at the Lumiere Cinema in Los Angeles.

Starting at noon, the event includes 35mm screenings of Lucio Fulci's The Beyond, Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust, J.P. Simon's chainsaw slasher classic Pieces, and the incredible Trailer Apocalypse, a feature-length compilation exclusive to theaters featuring 4 dozen rare and insane exploitation movie trailers.

Also showing are David Durston's drive-in horror classic I Drink Your Blood; Umberto Lenzi's Eurocrime smash The Tough Ones; the '70s cult classic An American Hippie In Israel, starring Asher Tzarfati and Shmuel Wolf...

Italian production designer Tonino Zera, whose credits include Roman Polanski’s upcoming drama The Palace, will be feted with the Campari Passion Award at the 80th edition of Venice Film Festival, running from August 30 to September 9.

The prize, which was launched at the 75th Venice Film Festival, pays tribute to cinema crafts professionals who have made a “remarkable contribution” to the films on which they have worked.

Previous recipients span U.S. film editor Bob Murawski, Italian cinematographer Luca Bigazzi, U.S. jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, UK production designer Marcus Rowland, and U.S. artist and costume designer Arianne Phillips.

Zera will be presented with the award on September 2 ahead of the Out of Competition world premiere of The Palace in the Sala Grande.

“To receive the prestigious Campari Passion for Film Award during the Venice Film Festival is not only a personal honor, it is also a...

Italian production designer Tonino Zera will receive the Campari Passion for Film Award at this year’s Venice Film Festival. Zera — whose works include production design for Giuseppe Tornatore’s The Unknown Woman (2006), Paolo Virzì’s Like Crazy (2016) and Michele Placido’s Caravaggio’s Shadow (2022) — most recently created the sets for Roman Polanski’s The Place, which will have its world premiere at the 80th Venice Film Festival next month. The dramedy, set in a luxurious Swiss hotel on a fateful New Year’s Eve in 1999, stars Oliver Masucci, Fanny Ardant, John Cleese, Luca Barbareschi and Mickey Rourke. It will screen out of competition in Venice.

Zera will receive his award Sept. 2 ahead of The Palace premiere.

“To receive the prestigious Campari Passion for Film Award during the Venice Film Festival is not only a personal honor, it is also a recognition of the importance of set design in the world of cinema,...

Bloody Disgusting has learned that Grindhouse Releasing is hosting a 12-hour horror and cult film marathon this Saturday, August 12 at the Lumiere Cinema in Los Angeles.

Starting at noon, the event includes 35mm screenings of Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond, Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust, J.P. Simon’s chainsaw slasher classic Pieces, and the incredible Trailer Apocalypse, a feature-length compilation exclusive to theaters featuring 4 dozen rare and insane exploitation movie trailers.

Also showing are David Durston’s drive-in horror classic I Drink Your Blood; Umberto Lenzi’s Eurocrime smash The Tough Ones; the ’70s cult classic An American Hippie In Israel, starring Asher Tzarfati and Shmuel Wolf; and Clu Gulager in the acclaimed short film Vic, directed by Sage Stallone.

The event is part of a three-day Grindhouse Celebration to launch Jason Rutherford’s documentary Masters Of The Grind, an epic many years in the making that tells the shocking...

Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach have launched movie fans into excitement with the latest trailer for their new movie, “Barbie.” Gerwig directs the project and she also co-wrote the script with her partner Baumbach. Previously, both scored Oscar nominations in the same year for their work on “Little Women” (Adapted Screenplay for Gerwig) and “Marriage Story” (Original Screenplay for Baumbach). With “Barbie,” the pair of filmmakers could become the first couple to win an Oscar for the same feature film since 2018.

Gerwig and Baumbach would be up for Best Original Screenplay together, while Gerwig could also be up for Best Director, and both could be up for Best Picture (as producers). If they were to win together, they’d become the 19th couple to take home a pair of Oscars for the same movie.

They’d join these 18 joint champs:

Muriel Box and Sydney Box for Best Original Screenplay (1947) — “The Seventh Veil...

The films in the running for the 2023 Best Film Editing Oscar are “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Elvis,” “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “Tar,” and “Top Gun: Maverick.” Our current odds indicate that “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (10/3) is the frontrunner, followed in order by “Top Gun: Maverick” (37/10), “Elvis” (9/2), “The Banshees of Inisherin” (9/2), and “Tar” (9/2).

Five of the six individual cutters competing for the gold this year are first-time nominees, making for the category’s highest newcomer rate since 2018. In that case, Lee Smith emerged victorious on his third bid for “Dunkirk.” The current group of rookies consists of Eddie Hamilton (“Top Gun: Maverick”), Paul Rogers (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”), Monika Willi (“Tar”), and “Elvis” duo Jonathan Redmond and Matt Villa.

Redmond and Villa would be the 18th pair of editors to win this award together and the third to do so within the last decade, after Alfonso Cuarón and...

A likelihood going into the 2023 awards season is that James Cameron will receive at least one Academy Award nomination for “Avatar: The Way of Water,” the highly anticipated follow-up to 2009’s Oscar-winning blockbuster, “Avatar.” Critics have been raving about the film ahead of its December 16 debut, with Bilge Ebiri of Vulture saying it “might be James Cameron’s sweetest, gentlest, most personal film,” and David Ehrlich of IndieWire calling it “easily one of the best theatrical experiences in ages.” So which categories will he be nominated in? There’s lots to choose from, after all, with Cameron serving as the director, co-writer, co-producer and co-editor of 20th Century Studios’ sequel. Since he is likely to be a major player in the upcoming awards season, let’s look back at James Cameron’s six previous Oscar races, three for “Titanic” (1997) and three for “Avatar” (2009), and then discuss where he stands for his latest three-hour blockbuster.

Forty-one years after director Lucio Fulci‘s film The Beyond (watch it Here) was released and embraced as a classic by many horror fans, a new version of the movie is now about to make its way out to theatres across the United States. This new version of The Beyond is called The Composer’s Cut because it features a brand new score composed by Fabio Frizzi – who also composed the movie’s original score.

Starring Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Sarah Keller, Antoine Saint-John, and Veronica Lazar, The Beyond shows what happens when a young woman inherits an old hotel only to find it sits atop a gateway to Hell and all manner of creatures lurk in the darkness.

The film is the second entry in Fulci’s “Gates of Hell” trilogy, which began with City of the Living Dead and ended with The House by the Cemetery.

The Beyond:...

Grindhouse Releasing‘s new 4K restoration of Lucio Fulci‘s horror classic The Beyond, featuring a new music score by the original composer Fabio Frizzi, premiered to enthusiastic response at Beyond Fest and the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. For the Halloween season and beyond, The Beyond: The Composer’s Cut is now touring select theaters across North America.

Grindhouse Releasing has teamed with legendary composer Fabio Frizzi to present this brand-new version of The Beyond, director Lucio Fulci’s 1981 horror masterpiece starring Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck and Cinzia Monreale.

Premiering this fall in theatrical release from Grindhouse, The Beyond: The Composer’s Cut features Fabio Frizzi’s new score for The Beyond with a brand-new 4K presentation of The Beyond newly scanned from the original camera negatives.

The Beyond: The Composer’s Cut premiered in October for Halloween with a nationwide release in November at the Alamo Drafthouse and other theaters across the US.

Bloody Disgusting is excited to exclusively report this morning that Grindhouse Releasing is bringing two Italian horror classics to 4K Uhd, The Beyond and Cannibal Holocaust!

Additionally, we can report that Grindhouse Releasing has teamed with legendary composer Fabio Frizzi to present a brand-new version of The Beyond, director Lucio Fulci’s 1981 horror masterpiece starring Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck and Cinzia Monreale.

Premiering this fall in theatrical release from Grindhouse, The Beyond: The Composer’s Cut features Fabio Frizzi’s new score for The Beyond with a brand-new 4K presentation of The Beyond newly scanned from the original camera negatives.

The Beyond: The Composer’s Cut will premiere in October with a nationwide release in November at the Alamo Drafthouse and other theaters across the US.

“Fulci fans will definitely want to see this on the big screen for the maximum impact,” said Grindhouse Releasing co-founder Bob Murawski. “It’s...

Ash's macabre medieval adventure is coming to home media like never before in Scream Factory's Collector's Edition 4K Uhd / Blu-ray release of Army of Darkness on October 4th, and we have a look at the full list of bonus features that will be included on the standard release and the Limited Edition Steelbook:

Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Scream Factory™ is releasing Army of Darkness (Collector’s Edition) on 4K Uhd + Blu-Ray™ and in a Limited Edition Steelbook on October 4, 2022. The release of the comedy horror film features a 4K scan of the Original Camera Negative, marking its first-time Ultra High-Definition release. Fans of this third installment of the popular Evil Dead phenomenon can pre-order their copies on ShoutFactory.com and other fine retailers.

Bound in human flesh and inked in blood, the ancient "Necronomicon" – the Book of the Dead – unleashes unspeakable evil upon mankind in director Sam Raimi...

In the wake of the first two Evil Dead movies coming to 4K Ultra HD, Sam Raimi‘s Army of Darkness is getting a 4K upgrade from Scream Factory on October 4, 2022.

Special Features for the release have been revealed today, including…

Disc One (Theatrical Cut – 4K Uhd):

New 2022 4K Scan Of The Original Camera Negative Approved By Director Sam Raimi, Director Of Photography Bill Pope, And Editor Bob Murawski In Dolby Vision (Hdr 10 Compatible) DTS-hd Master Audio 5.1, 2.0

Disc Two (Theatrical Cut – Blu-ray):

New 2022 4K Scan of the Original Camera Negative approved by director Sam Raimi, director of photography Bill Pope, and editor Bob Murawski DTS-hd Master Audio 5.1, 2.0 Medieval Times: The Making of “Army Of Darkness” – A Feature-length Documentary With Over 20 people Interviewed Including Star & Co-Producer Bruce Campbell, Actors Ted Raimi, Bill Moseley, And Patricia Tallman, And Many More… Original Ending Alternate Opening With Optional Commentary By Sam Raimi...

Arianne Phillips will receive the Campari ‘passion for film’ award.

Arianne Phillips, costume designer on Don’t Worry Darling, will receive the Campari Passion for Film award at the 79th Venice Film Festival (August 31 - September 10).

Phillips will be presented with the award on September 5 before a screening of Olivia Wilde’s Out Of Competition title, for which Phillips produced the costumes and helped create the aesthetic. The designer has also worked on Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood, The Crow and A Single Man.

Starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles, Don’t Worry Darling follows a 1950s housewife growing suspicious of...

When audience members take their seats to watch “Bullet Train” in a 4Dx auditorium this weekend, they will be greeted with a choice. Within the armrest lies a small button that allows viewers to toggle between two options: “Water On” and “Water Off.” The device serves as a harbinger – and, to 4Dx novices, perhaps a warning — of the full-tilt sensory experience that is about to unfold as Brad Pitt fights for his life against an army of opposing assassins.

With streaming and other at-home entertainment competing for consumer attention, 4Dx employees see the format as an extra incentive to lure audiences to movie theaters. Korean parent company Cj Group first conceived of the technology as an answer to the question of how to innovate the moviegoing experience and make it more essential in the public’s eyes.

Over the course of “Bullet Train,” Pitt will get socked, stabbed, chucked and...

The latest epic in the Marvel film canon, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, delivers the goods on so many levels one might need the skill of the good doctor himself to be able to navigate them all effectively.

This time around, Stephen Strange finds himself pitted against an adversary intent on unlocking (and subsequently destabilizing) the Multiverse. To stop this cataclysmic event from occurring, Dr. Strange seeks the helps of both old and new allies as he, himself traverses these alternate realities in an effort to restore order to the Multiverse.

Replacing Scott Derrickson (who helmed the first film in 2016) as director, Sam Raimi brings the “horror” vibe in spades to the table with this second film. Fans of Raimi’s “Evil Dead” films will be thrilled with the numerous nods (stay through until the end of the credits) to that series as well as the stylistic flourishes...

He’s been announced as the recipient of the Campari Passion for Film award

Production designer Marcus Rowland, who has worked on films including Last Night In Soho, Rocketman, Baby Driver, Shaun Of The Dead and Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, will receive the Campari Passion for Film award at the 78th Venice Film Festival (September 1-11).

The ceremony for the award will take place on September 4 in Sala Grande (Palazzo del Cinema) before the out-of-competition screening of Last Night In Soho, a film Rowland worked on with his frequent collaborator, director Edgar Wright, and stars Anya Taylor-Joy and the late Diana Rigg.

After forty years of terror, The Evil Dead will be heading back to theaters in honor of the iconic horror movie's 40th anniversary. Hosted by Fathom Events in collaboration with Grindhouse Releasing, the movie will return to the big screen for one night only on the night of Thursday, Oct. 7. The special screening will also include an exclusive introduction from Bruce Campbell, the star of the franchise who plays fan favorite hero Ash Williams.

"We are thrilled to give horror fans the opportunity to gather together and celebrate the 40th anniversary of Sam Raimi's cult classic The Evil Dead," said Fathom Events CEO, Ray Nutt, in a statement. "Let's kick off the Halloween season with the film that started an amazing franchise."

Grindhouse Releasing co-founder Bob Murawski, who has edited many of Sam Raimi's films including Army of Darkness and Spider-Man1, 2 & 3, added: "We are proud to present this...

Sam Raimi’s “The Evil Dead” Coming to Cinemas Nationwide on Oct. 7 for Its 40th Anniversary: "Los Angeles, CA – July 12, 2021- Fathom Events and Grindhouse Releasing are set to bring writer/director Sam Raimi’s original 1981 horror classic, “The Evil Dead” back to cinemas nationwide for its 40th anniversary. In addition to the movie that spawned a film, TV, and video game franchise, attendees will be treated to an exclusive introduction from Bruce Campbell, who portrayed the film’s iconic lead character, Ashley “Ash” Williams. The seminal film spawned a multimedia franchise including the upcoming feature installment “Evil Dead Rise.”

“The Evil Dead 40th Anniversary” comes to movie theaters nationwide on Thurs., Oct. 7 at 7:30 p.m. (local time).

Tickets for “The Evil Dead 40th Anniversary” are on sale Fri., Aug. 13 at www.FathomEvents.com and through participating cinemas’ box offices. For the most updated list of exhibiting movie theaters,...

Polish-born filmmaker Filip Jan Rymsza, the producer of Venice Film Festival entry “Hopper/Welles,” which he is presenting this week at Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival, will follow his latest directorial outing “Mosquito State” – also a Venice premiere this year – with “Object Permanence,” Rymsza tells Variety. Partially set in Berlin and shot in English, it will be another Polish co-production, most likely with Germany.

“’Object permanence’ is something that people were aware of already, they just didn’t know how to define it: It’s the understanding that objects continue to exist even if you can’t see them or hear them, or otherwise sense them,” he says, adding that while “Mosquito State” looked at the recent past, this will look into the near future.

With another project, set in Japan, currently put on hold due to Covid-19 travel restrictions, Rymsza will once again try to focus on one protagonist.

Producer Filip Jan Rymsza, editor Bob Murawski, along with Peter Bogdonavich and Frank Marshall, surprised the film world in 2018 when they finished Orson Welles’ final project The Other Side of the Wind. Two documentaries about making the film accompanied Wind’s release and a moment in film history was made. We spoke with the team during the New York Film Festival that year and thought their journey was over. So it was a surprise to learn Rymsza and Murawski had a fourth project from the material, debuting at this year’s Venice Film Festival.

Gary Graver, Welles’ cinematographer for Wind, shot nearly five hours of footage on two cameras when Orson Welles met Dennis Hopper for dinner in November 1970. Only thirty seconds of the footage appears in The Other Side of the Wind, but the conversation shows Welles curious about this alleged leader of the New Hollywood, a maverick like Welles,...

The American Film Institute has unveiled its lineup of 124 films, adding notable titles including the documentaries “Belushi,” “Citizen Penn” and “Hopper/Welles” and the Albert and Allen Hughes thriller “Dead Presidents.”

AFI Fest, which is going virtual this year without the usual glitzy Hollywood premieres at the Tcl Chinese Theatre, had announced previously that Rachel Brosnahan’s crime drama “I’m Your Woman” had been selected as its opening night title on Oct. 15. The festival also announced last month that it would close Oct. 22 with “My Psychedelic Love Story,” and host the world premieres of Kelly Oxford’s “Pink Skies Ahead” and Angel Kristi Williams’ “Really Love,” in addition to special presentations of Florian Zeller’s “The Father,” Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer’s “Fireball” and Mira Nair’s “A Suitable Boy.”

“Belushi” is directed by R.J. Cutler and features interviews with John Belushi, Jim Belushi, Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher, Dan Aykroyd and Penny Marshall.

Joyce Chopra and Joyce Carol Oates will discuss Smooth Talk Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Film at Lincoln Center has announced that directors Garrett Bradley (Time); Ephraim Asili (The Inheritance); Valeria Sarmiento (The Tango Of The Widower And Its Distorting Mirror); Nicolás Pereda (Fauna); John Gianvito (Her Socialist Smile); Matías Piñeiro (Isabella); Gianfranco Rosi (Notturno) Heinz Emigholz; Filip Jan Rymsza and Bob Murawski; Tsai Ming-liang (Days), Sam Pollard (MLK/FBI); John Gianvito (Her Socialist Smile), and Christian Petzold (Undine) will participate in Free Talks during the 58th New York Film Festival. In addition, Marie-Claude Treilhou talks with Serge Bozon on Simone Barbes or Virtue; Steve McQueen speaks about The Making of Small Axe, and Joyce Chopra and Joyce Carol Oates will discuss Smooth Talk.

Marie-Claude Treilhou talks with Serge Bozon on Simone Barbes or Virtue Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

“Several roundtable discussions highlight thematic trends within this year’s program: Outside the Canon,...

Above: City HallIt was the first time this year I heard people clap before the film began, and the applause lived on with an energizing aftershock. The theatre was the Lido’s Sala Darsena, the time 19:45, and the film City Hall, Fredrick Wiseman’s new documentary, a foray into the workings of Boston’s city government that would keep us in the theatre for the following four and a half hours. City Hall, which premiered out of competition, follows Wiseman’s previous Venice entry, Monrovia, Indiana (2018), an anguished study of small-town America. But it feels closer in scope and tone to that film’s predecessor, the extraordinary Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017), a journey that shuttled you across the institution’s many branches as they sought to adjust to the digital age. Much of what made that film so stupefying to me was the way Wiseman...

It doesn’t take long to explain a film like Hopper/Welles in relative detail. In 1970, Dennis Hopper took a break from editing The Last Movie and flew to Los Angeles to be interviewed by Orson Welles. Welles was working on what would later––much, much later––become The Other Side of the Wind. During a boozy candlelit dinner party, surrounded by a small group of friends, Welles’ cameras rolled on Hopper for a little over two hours as they discussed politics and filmmaking. This is exactly what we see.

The timing of the interview could hardly be more enticing. By 1970 Welles (who was only turning 55) had already begun to slip into the notorious talk show appearances and novelty roles that would define the late part of his career. Hot on the epoch-shifting success of Easy Rider, Hopper was at the peak of his career, but he was also just...

Dennis Hopper meets Orson Welles: That sounds like an oil-and-water match-up of legendary filmmakers. Welles, for all his renegade gusto, was a defrocked classicist — maybe (or maybe not) the greatest film director who ever lived, and one who became the ultimate high-toned Hollywood dropout. Whereas Hopper, the scraggly counterculture bad boy, launched his career as a director with “Easy Rider,” at which point he had already, in essence, dropped out. (He made dropping out seem the aesthetic cutting edge of the New Hollywood.) Yet for one long, boozy rambling evening in November 1970, these two men who barely knew each other sat around the dingy brick-walled den of a rented home in Beverly Hills, lit by hurricane lamps and a flickering fire, shooting the breeze and sizing each other up as cross-generational kindred spirits.

“Hopper/Welles” is a fascinating curiosity. It’s two hours and 11 minutes long, and the entire...

Orson Welles doesn’t waste time searching for the truth. Moments into “Hopper/Welles,” he declares, “Fuck the audience!” Meanwhile, a bemused Dennis Hopper allows for a dutiful grin. Such are the joys of this glorified behind-the-scenes feature, cobbled together from footage produced for Welles’ long-delayed swan song, “The Other Side of the Wind.” Assembled by producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski one year after they conjured “Wind” from Welles’ archives, this two-hour conversation from 1970 . It’s a long, drunken party conversation that allows you a seat at the table.

With Welles sitting just off-screen, cameraman Gary Graver sticks with Hopper’s bearded face for the duration, and the pair just go at it. The gorgeous black-and-white conversation was one of the many fragments produced for the “Wind” production, much of which takes place over the course of a long party hosted by the Wellesian protagonist and fictional...

You wait the best part of 30 years for one and then two come along at once…Orson Welles movies.

Pieced together from the 1,083 reels of footage for The Other Side Of The Wind (which debuted in 2018), Hopper/Welles is the latest ‘new’ feature from the industry titan, who died in 1985.

Ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, we spoke to producer Filip Jan Rymsza about the backstory behind the movie, on which he re-teamed with The Other Side Of The Wind editor Bob Murawski (The Hurt Locker).

The intimate and revelatory documentary captures a 1970 meeting between the Citizen Kane director and the then-rising star Dennis Hopper, who had just made Easy Rider. The encounter came about when Hopper agreed to a cameo role in Welles’ troubled The Other Side Of The Wind. Welles flew Hopper from New Mexico to Los Angeles, where he cooked him a pasta...

The first major in-person-only film festival to get underway during the pandemic, plans are full steam ahead for Venice Film Festival to kick off this week, taking place September 2 through September 12. While the lineup surely would’ve looked definitely if it was a standard year, festival director Alberto Barbera and team have delivered an impressive-looking slate of premieres. Ahead of our coverage from the festival (which you can follow here), we’ve rounded up our most-anticipated films.

The Book of Vision (Carlo Hintermann)

Executive produced by Terrence Malick, Carlo Hintermann’s The Book of Vision explores a doctor-patient relationship seen through the eyes of a female medical student named Eva as we jump between the present and the 18th century. Led by Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Lotte Verbeek (Outlander), and Sverrir Gudnason (Borg/McEnroe), the first intriguing trailer showcases beautiful cinematography from Jörg Widmer (A Hidden Life) and extravagant production design from David Crank.

Surely one of the buzziest cinephile events in the fall festival season will be the premiere of “Hopper/Welles,” a newly assembled documentary that’s essentially an extended fireside conversation between two rogue directors, Dennis Hopper and Orson Welles. The footage was shot in 1970, a watershed year for the filmmakers as Hopper had just given “Easy Rider” to the world in 1969. Check out a clip below, in which Hopper talks about the perils of editing “Easy Rider,” the late actor/director’s feature debut behind the camera, and a pivotal film for the age of New Hollywood.

This footage, never before seen in full, was resurrected by producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski, who helped bring Welles’ unfinished “The Other Side of the Wind” to meticulously restored life two years ago. The conversation took place in Los Angeles, in November 1970, after Welles flew Hopper out from New Mexico...

Yes, that headline is correct. Orson Welles, who passed away 35 years ago this fall, has a newly completed film and it’s coming to fall festivals. Hopper/ Welles features never-before-seen footage resurrected by producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski during their dig into the archives to complete The Other Side of the Wind. Featuring a fireside chat between Dennis Hopper and the Citizen Kane director, the first clip has now arrived ahead of premieres at Venice and NYFF.

Also playing at both festivals is Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut, a 30-minute short film adapting Jean Cocteau’s one-act play The Human Voice and starring Tilda Swinton. The gorgeous first clip has landed for the film, which features an isolated Swinton in the kind of vivid garb only the Spanish director could dream up.

Check out the clips below, along with New York Film Festival‘s complete, recently unveiled Spotlight section lineup,...

Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Human Voice Photo: El Deseo / Iglesias Más

Film at Lincoln Center has announced the six Spotlight selections of the 58th New York Film Festival. They are Sofia Coppola’s On The Rocks, starring Rashida Jones, Marlon Wayans and Bill Murray; David Dufresne’s title The Monopoly Of Violence which quotes Max Weber; Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film The Human Voice, his adaptation of the Jean Cocteau play, which centres on Tilda Swinton’s performance, is shot by José Luis Alcaine and is scored by Alberto Iglesias; Hopper/Welles, Orson Welles’ conversation with Dennis Hopper, resurrected by producer Filip Jan Rymsza and editor Bob Murawski; All In: The Fight For Democracy, directed by Lisa Cortés and Liz Garbus, and Spike Lee’s David Byrne’s American Utopia.

David Byrne’s Broadway hit, American Utopia, directed by Spike Lee is a Spotlight selection Photo:...

Sofia Coppola’s “On the Rocks,” Pedro Almodovar’s “The Human Voice,” Spike Lee’s “David Byrne’s American Utopia” and a new documentary film that features Orson Welles have been added to the lineup for the 58th New York Film Festival, Film at Lincoln Center unveiled Thursday.

The movies are part of the festival’s Spotlight Section, which also includes the addition of the documentary “All In: The Fight for Democracy” and David Dufresne’s “The Monopoly of Violence.”

NYFF runs from September 17 to October 11.

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“Prior to the pandemic, Dennis Lim and I spent time talking with each other and the Film at Lincoln Center staff about how we might reshape and focus the New York Film Festival,” Eugene Hernandez, director of NYFF said in a statement.

Terence Blanchard, Oscar and BAFTA-nominated for Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman,” and a Grammy winner for the “Blood and Soil” track from the film’s original soundtrack, will receive the Venice Film Festival’s Campari “Passion for Film” award this year.

Blanchard also composed the score for Lee’s Netflix film “Da 5 Bloods” and Regina King’s “One Night in Miami,” which is playing out of competition at Venice.

The award, instituted two years ago at the 75th Venice Film Festival, seeks to highlight the contribution of the director’s closest collaborators to the fulfilment of the artistic project that each film represents.

American film editor Bob Murawski, Oscar and BAFTA-winner for “The Hurt Locker,” won the inaugural award while Italian cinematographer Luca Bigazzi (“The Grand Beauty”) won last year.

“Not only is Terence Blanchard one of the most important jazz trumpeters of all time, he is also one of...

In today’s Global Bulletin, San Sebastian announces it will screen all eight episodes of Luca Guadagnino’s “We Are Who We Are” and finalizes its competition sections; Venice selects legendary composer Terence Blanchard as its third Campari Passion for Film winner; Big Light Productions gets a new COO; Small World International licenses “Big in Japan” in Russia; and Fugitive signs on as Topic’s international distribution representative.

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HBO has doubled down at this year’s San Sebastian, with Luca Guadagnino’s “We Are Who We Are” set to world premiere alongside HBO España’s original drama series “Patria.” An HBO-Sky co-production, all seven hours and 50 minutes of “We Are Who We Are” will screen at San Sebastian in the festival’s Special Screenings section.

The series was originally selected for the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Cannes but had to be delayed when the festival was cancelled. Two episodes will broadcast before San Sebastian,...

The Venice Film Festival, kicking off September 2, will present composer Terence Blanchard with its Passion for Film Award, which recognizes the contribution given to a director’s closest collaborators.

Blanchard is noted for his collaborations with Spike Lee, from Malcolm X to Inside Man, BlacKkKlansman, and recently Da 5 Bloods. He also composed the score for Regina King’s One Night In Miami, which screens Out of Competition at Venice this year. Alongside his film work, Blanchard is a renowned jazz trumpeter.

First inaugurated two years ago, recipients of the prize to date have been American film editor Bob Murawski and Italian cinematographer Luca Bigazzi.

“Not only is Terence Blanchard one of the most important jazz trumpeters of all time, he is also one of the most prolific and sought-after composers of film scores,” said Venice director Alberto Barbera. “His artistic career is distinguished by vigorous musical creations inspired by...

The tug-of-war over the 'Snyder cut' of Justice League between fans and Warner Bros. has shone a spotlight on the fraught relationship between studios and filmmakers. This kind of dynamic is not a new thing but has always existed in Hollywood. In an interview, Darkman producer Rob Tapert recalls how Sam Raimi and his crew had to resort to underhanded means to make sure their vision for the 1990 superhero movie was what audiences got to see in theaters rather than a studio-mandated cut.

"Universal sent us away. We came back, and the editor had cut [the film] down from two hours to 85 minutes. We tested that, and it did not test as well as the longer version, which was Sam's cut. I think we went through four or five more test screenings, and each time the score got lower and lower, and we got more depressed.""I don't mind saying this now,...

A groundbreaking entry in the superhero cinema genre, 1990’s Darkman is celebrating its 30th anniversary. While the dark horse hit of a film served as a mainstream breakthrough for Evil Dead horror maestro Sam Raimi and a key headlining gig for star Liam Neeson, it was also the culmination of much behind-the-scenes friction between studio Universal and the filmmakers, who, on this occasion, shed some intriguing light on the experience.

Members of the cast and crew of Darkman participated in an oral history interview with THR commemorating the film’s big 3-0; a conversation that proved revelatory regarding a fateful act of subterfuge perpetrated by eventual Spider-Man director Raimi and company against the wishes of studio Universal to secretly re-edit the film a mere 48 hours before it screened to critics. The film, which hit theaters on August 24, 1990, was a surprise hit (with no bankable filmmaker or stars to tout), topping...

With Telluride Film Festival forced to cancel their yearly event, what is now the first of the major fall festivals, Venice, has announced their complete lineup. Along with Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, which was revealed yesterday, the lineup includes more of our most-anticipated films of the year, including Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wife of a Spy, Gia Coppola’s Mainstream, Abel Ferrara’s Sportin’ Life, Lav Diaz’s Genus Pan, Mona Fastvold’s The World to Come, Kornél Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman, Gianfranco Rosi’s Notturno, and more.

There were also a few surprises in the lineup. Luca Guadagnino has directed a new documentary titled Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, while Alice Rohrwacher and Jr have teamed for the new short film, Omelia Contadina. Quentin Dupieux’s Mandibules will also premiere out of competition.

In perhaps the best surprise of all, a new, recently uncovered film by Orson Welles,...

Update, with more detail: As expected, the Venice Film Festival’s 2020 competition lineup is light on studio titles with only Searchligh’s Nomadland and Sony’s The World To Come figuring. Both of those are directed by women in what is a much stronger year for female filmmakers than in the past. Last year, Venice faced criticism for having just two women in competition while this year, there are women behind eight of the 18 features. Venice chief Alberto Barbera noted they were “selected exclusively on the basis of their quality and not as a result of gender protocols.”

Acknowledging the effects of Covid on Hollywood, Barbera also said in an introductory note, “A few spectacular movies will be missing, blocked by the lockdown which still affects the programming of the most-awaited Hollywood releases.” Venice has had great success as a launchpad in recent years,...

Stars: Patrick Walshe McBride, Ulric von der Esch, Iben Akerlie, Elias Munk, Jonathan Harboe, Sophia Lie, Jakob Schøyen Andersen | Written and Directed by Nini Bull Robsahm

You might not think ‘horror’ if asked about Norwegian cinema but the small European country has produced a few crackers including the Dead Snow movies (we need a third one of those!), the fantastic and original Trollhunter and the excellent Thelma. So Lake of Death is in good company even if it goes down the more traditional sub genre of horror, the slasher.

In Lake of Death we join Lillian a year after her brother has mysteriously died. With her friends she is staying in the family cabin next to a lake. Someone or something is stalking them and Lillian’s mind is making her see some unusual things.

It is a pretty standard horror setting. Cabin in the woods – tick! Group of young adults – tick!

Taking inspiration from Norway’s popular 1942 novel, and later film adaptation of the same name (De dødes tjern), which is credited with sparking the country’s interest in horror, director Nini Bull Robsahm’s (Amnesia) Lake of Death comes to Shudder this this Thursday in the US, UK and Canada. Shot on stunning 35mm and edited by Academy Award-winner Bob Murawski, Lake of Death stars Iben Akerlie, Jacob Andersen Schøyen, Jonathan Harboe, Sophia Lie and Elias Munk…

A year after her twin brother mysteriously disappeared, Lillian and her friends head to the old family cabin to say their goodbyes. But soon after they arrive, eerie and gruesome events begin to occur. As the lines between reality and Lillian’s nightmares blur, she must fight both an external and internal struggle to stay alive. Is a horrific local legend becoming reality, or is the real enemy among them?

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