Bandai Namco Filmworks opened "Sunrise Robot Laboratory," a special website where Sunrise's robots from the past are gathered, on May 8. The press release states that the purpose of the project is “to study and speculate on the Sunrise mechanics created to date from various perspectives, featuring robots that appear in Sunrise works, as part of efforts to communicate the appeal of anime, a Japanese culture, to the rest of the world." As its first effort, the project released an experimental video “Aura Battler Dunbine Side L” on its website, remaking the opening and ending movies of the classic fantasy robot TV anime in 1983-1984, Aura Battler Dunbine , using the latest video technology. Kamikaze Douga, a video production company with a proven track record in animation, and Bandai Namco Filmworks have teamed up to produce the clip. Shigeru Nakahara, who plays the protagonist in the original anime, Sho Zama, and...
- 5/8/2024
- by Mikikazu Komatsu
- Crunchyroll
Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel (“Zama”) was one of several female directors courted by Marvel Studios to direct “Black Widow,” the comic book tentpole centered on Scarlett Johansson’s assassin. Martel revealed in 2018 that she turned down the project after a meeting with Marvel in which the studio told her to focus on character and not the action scenes. In a recent interview with The Film Stage, Martel confessed she never ended up seeing “Black Widow.”
“No, no, no — I didn’t see ‘Black Widow.’ I tried to,” Martel said. “They contacted a great number of female directors. I never would have imagined that Marvel could contact and bring together a pool of directors and I would be a part of it; I never thought that would be possible. I would have loved to make a film with them but I would have had to provide something that I would like to see in that world.
“No, no, no — I didn’t see ‘Black Widow.’ I tried to,” Martel said. “They contacted a great number of female directors. I never would have imagined that Marvel could contact and bring together a pool of directors and I would be a part of it; I never thought that would be possible. I would have loved to make a film with them but I would have had to provide something that I would like to see in that world.
- 6/27/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
The Argentinian filmmaker has been working on her docu-drama ‘Chocobar’ for 12 years.
Argentinian writer-director Lucrecia Martel was candid about her long-in-gestation documentary Chocobar during a masterclass at the Visions du Reel festival in Nyon in Switzerland where she was being honoured for her life’s work - thus far
The work-in-progress was provoked by the 2009 murder, part-captured on YouTube, of Indigenous activist Javier Chocobar in Tucuman in northern Argentina, while trying to stop evictions from his ancestral land. “We’ve been working on it for 12 years,” she acknowledged. “It is very strongly based on facts, although it’s hard to...
Argentinian writer-director Lucrecia Martel was candid about her long-in-gestation documentary Chocobar during a masterclass at the Visions du Reel festival in Nyon in Switzerland where she was being honoured for her life’s work - thus far
The work-in-progress was provoked by the 2009 murder, part-captured on YouTube, of Indigenous activist Javier Chocobar in Tucuman in northern Argentina, while trying to stop evictions from his ancestral land. “We’ve been working on it for 12 years,” she acknowledged. “It is very strongly based on facts, although it’s hard to...
- 4/27/2023
- by Fionnuala Halligan
- ScreenDaily
Now in its 12th edition, the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival brings together a varied, eclectic lineup of cinema from all corners of the world––including a number of films still seeking distribution, making the series perhaps one of your only chances to see these works on the big screen. With the five-day festival kicking off Wednesday, March 15, we’re delighted to exclusively premiere the festival trailer and we’ve also gathered eight essential films to check out. Watch and read on below.
Fremont (Babak Jalali)
In Fremont, Donya (Anaita Wali Zada) is often alone. She lives in a small apartment in Fremont, California, commuting each day to her job in a fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. She has a single friend that works there with her. Donya splits time between her apartment, the factory, and a therapist’s office, in hopes of receiving sleeping pills.
Fremont (Babak Jalali)
In Fremont, Donya (Anaita Wali Zada) is often alone. She lives in a small apartment in Fremont, California, commuting each day to her job in a fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. She has a single friend that works there with her. Donya splits time between her apartment, the factory, and a therapist’s office, in hopes of receiving sleeping pills.
- 3/9/2023
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
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