Lynne Ramsay wird bei Internationalen Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg im November mit dem Grand Iffmh Award ausgezeichnet, Agnieszka Holland widmet das Festival eine Hommage.
Lynne Ramsay wird beim Internationalen Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg mit dem Grand Iffmh Award ausgezeichnet (Credit: Brigitte Lacombe)
Lynne Ramsay wird beim Internationalen Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, dessen 73. Ausgabe von 7. bis 17. November stattfindet, mit dem Grand Iffmh Award ausgezeichnet, mit dem das Festival nach eigenen Angaben „Filmemacher*innen der Gegenwart für ihre eigene, stilprägende Vision von Kino“ würdigt. Das teilt das Festival heute mit. Vor Ramsay hatten Guillaume Nicloux (2021), Alice Winocour (2022) und Nicolas Winding Refn (2023) die mit 10.000 Euro dotierte Auszeichnung erhalten.
Ramsay wird die Ehrung am 9. November im Stadthaus N1 entgegennehmen, wo im Anschluss ihr Neo-Noir-Thriller „A Beautiful Day“ aus dem Jahr 2017 gezeigt wird. Tags darauf gibt Ramsay im Rahmen einem offenen Werkgespräch in der Festivallounge im Karlstorbahnhof Auskunft über ihr Werk. Neben „A Beautiful Day“ zeigt das Iffmh außerdem Ramsays „Ratcatcher...
Lynne Ramsay wird beim Internationalen Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg mit dem Grand Iffmh Award ausgezeichnet (Credit: Brigitte Lacombe)
Lynne Ramsay wird beim Internationalen Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, dessen 73. Ausgabe von 7. bis 17. November stattfindet, mit dem Grand Iffmh Award ausgezeichnet, mit dem das Festival nach eigenen Angaben „Filmemacher*innen der Gegenwart für ihre eigene, stilprägende Vision von Kino“ würdigt. Das teilt das Festival heute mit. Vor Ramsay hatten Guillaume Nicloux (2021), Alice Winocour (2022) und Nicolas Winding Refn (2023) die mit 10.000 Euro dotierte Auszeichnung erhalten.
Ramsay wird die Ehrung am 9. November im Stadthaus N1 entgegennehmen, wo im Anschluss ihr Neo-Noir-Thriller „A Beautiful Day“ aus dem Jahr 2017 gezeigt wird. Tags darauf gibt Ramsay im Rahmen einem offenen Werkgespräch in der Festivallounge im Karlstorbahnhof Auskunft über ihr Werk. Neben „A Beautiful Day“ zeigt das Iffmh außerdem Ramsays „Ratcatcher...
- 10/8/2024
- by Jochen Müller
- Spot - Media & Film
From Ratcatcher to Anacondacatcher? Deadline reports that Daniela Melchior is set to join Paul Rudd and Jack Black in the new Anaconda movie in development at Sony Pictures. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent director Tom Gormican is set to direct the project as well as co-write the script with Kevin Ettin. The project has apparently been in the works since early 2023, going through a lot of rewrites as they try to strike the correct tone.
It’s not known who Melchior will play in the Anaconda movie, but the project won’t be a remake of the ’90s classic that starred Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, and Jon Voight. According to sources, “the new story involves a group of friends facing mid-life crises who are remaking their favorite movie from their youth. They head to the rainforest only to find themselves into a fight for their lives against natural disasters,...
It’s not known who Melchior will play in the Anaconda movie, but the project won’t be a remake of the ’90s classic that starred Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, and Jon Voight. According to sources, “the new story involves a group of friends facing mid-life crises who are remaking their favorite movie from their youth. They head to the rainforest only to find themselves into a fight for their lives against natural disasters,...
- 9/30/2024
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Some five decades separate director Victor Erice’s debut film, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), and his latest, Close Your Eyes. In between these twin professional highlights, there are two other features — El Sur (1983), a work haunted by the fact that filming was halted before a key scene was shot, and the brilliant documentary Dream of Light (1992) — as well as a half dozen or so shorts and anthology contributions, video installations and several potential projects snuffed out before they could start. That first movie, however, had already secured the Spanish...
- 8/26/2024
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
We Need To Talk About Kevin director Lynne Ramsay is finally making her latest film, with filming now underway in Calgary, Canada.
Update 20th August 2024: Filming has now begun on Die, My Love, the fifth film from British director Lynne Ramsay. Kftv reports that production got underway in Calgary, Canada on the 19th August and will run until the 8th October. Starring Jennifer Lawrence (who also produces with Martin Scorsese), it’s said to be about “a woman driven tot he brink of insanity by marriage and motherhood.” Robert Pattinson and Lakeith Stansfield also have major roles.
There’s no word on a release date yet, but 2025 seems likely; perhaps Ramsay will even have the film ready for the Canne Film Festival next May. We’ll bring you more as we get it.
Our original story from the 18th June follows…
The only bad thing about Lynne Ramsay’s...
Update 20th August 2024: Filming has now begun on Die, My Love, the fifth film from British director Lynne Ramsay. Kftv reports that production got underway in Calgary, Canada on the 19th August and will run until the 8th October. Starring Jennifer Lawrence (who also produces with Martin Scorsese), it’s said to be about “a woman driven tot he brink of insanity by marriage and motherhood.” Robert Pattinson and Lakeith Stansfield also have major roles.
There’s no word on a release date yet, but 2025 seems likely; perhaps Ramsay will even have the film ready for the Canne Film Festival next May. We’ll bring you more as we get it.
Our original story from the 18th June follows…
The only bad thing about Lynne Ramsay’s...
- 8/20/2024
- by Ryan Lambie
- Film Stories
With nearly 1,700 titles in their catalog, it’s hard to discern where exactly to start when exploring the Criterion Collection. To celebrate their 40th anniversary, the company has now made it a bit easier as they’ve unveiled CC40, a 40-film, 49-disc collection retailing for around $640 that is now the new go-to gift for that budding cinephile in your life.
“This monumental forty-film box set celebrates forty years of the Criterion Collection by gathering an electrifying mix of classic and contemporary films, and presenting them with all their special features and essays in a deluxe clothbound, slipcased edition,” they note. “CC40’s eclectic selection includes the releases most frequently chosen by the hundreds of filmmakers, actors, writers, and other movie-loving luminaries who have visited Criterion over the years, as documented in our popular Closet Picks video series. Neither a historical survey nor a top-forty compilation, this exciting, personal, unpredictable anthology...
“This monumental forty-film box set celebrates forty years of the Criterion Collection by gathering an electrifying mix of classic and contemporary films, and presenting them with all their special features and essays in a deluxe clothbound, slipcased edition,” they note. “CC40’s eclectic selection includes the releases most frequently chosen by the hundreds of filmmakers, actors, writers, and other movie-loving luminaries who have visited Criterion over the years, as documented in our popular Closet Picks video series. Neither a historical survey nor a top-forty compilation, this exciting, personal, unpredictable anthology...
- 8/8/2024
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
There’s a side of the U.K. that rarely gets screen time in cinema. We see the unreal, prettified version in films like Notting Hill and The Holiday, and we see the grittified version in classics like Lynne Ramsay’s “Ratcatcher” or Ken Loach’s “Kes.” Falling between two stools are the market towns and busy contemporary cathedral cities like York, where ancient architecture houses skincare brands like Kiehl’s. York is the setting for much of “Between the Lights,” a spiritually tinged romance which also dips into the nearby Lake District, including Keswick. The film duly opened the Keswick Film Festival this year, as well as playing Dances With Films in L.A., at which it won the jury prize.
The plot concerns a romance between Alice and Jay. Alice and Jay have good chemistry and are largely compatible, save for one big difference between them: Jay is sensitive to paranormal energies,...
The plot concerns a romance between Alice and Jay. Alice and Jay have good chemistry and are largely compatible, save for one big difference between them: Jay is sensitive to paranormal energies,...
- 7/11/2024
- by Catherine Bray
- Variety Film + TV
Lynne Ramsay’s next film, Die, My Love, is said to be a Sylvia Plath-style tale of grief that will go before cameras later this year.
Lynne Ramsay’s career as a director spans a quarter of a century, yet she only has four films to her name. Still, when those four films are Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar, We Need to Talk About Kevin and 2017’s You Were Never Really Here, you have the kind of filmography that would make many a filmmaker envious.
Despite not being especially prolific, Ramsay is said to have several projects bubbling away at the minute. We’ve heard in the past that she’s planning to work with Joaquin Phoenix again (following their memorable collaboration in You Were Never Really Here) in Polaris, although its been a couple of years this that story first appeared. Then there’s Stone Mattress, a project featuring Julianne Moore,...
Lynne Ramsay’s career as a director spans a quarter of a century, yet she only has four films to her name. Still, when those four films are Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar, We Need to Talk About Kevin and 2017’s You Were Never Really Here, you have the kind of filmography that would make many a filmmaker envious.
Despite not being especially prolific, Ramsay is said to have several projects bubbling away at the minute. We’ve heard in the past that she’s planning to work with Joaquin Phoenix again (following their memorable collaboration in You Were Never Really Here) in Polaris, although its been a couple of years this that story first appeared. Then there’s Stone Mattress, a project featuring Julianne Moore,...
- 4/15/2024
- by Dan Cooper
- Film Stories
Scottish auteur Lynne Ramsay and former Icelandic Film Center (IFC) chief Laufey Guðjónsdóttir received honors from the 10th anniversary edition of Reykjavik’s Stockfish Film & Industry Festival. The awards, presented during a reception on April 11th, celebrate outstanding contributions to the film industry both internationally and domestically.
Known for its intimate atmosphere and ease of networking, the non-profit Stockfish is overseen by the six professional associations of filmmakers in Iceland, members of which comprise the festival board. The festival offers screenings of domestic and international features along with the popular Shortfish, a juried competition for Icelandic shorts in a variety of categories. The festival honors are part of an industry program that includes talks and panels as well as Icelandic works-in-progress.
Citing honoree Ramsay’s unique artistry, Stockfish’s artistic director Hrönn Kristinsdottír praised the director-screenwriter for challenging conventions and pushing boundaries in an industry dominated by male voices. Ramsay,...
Known for its intimate atmosphere and ease of networking, the non-profit Stockfish is overseen by the six professional associations of filmmakers in Iceland, members of which comprise the festival board. The festival offers screenings of domestic and international features along with the popular Shortfish, a juried competition for Icelandic shorts in a variety of categories. The festival honors are part of an industry program that includes talks and panels as well as Icelandic works-in-progress.
Citing honoree Ramsay’s unique artistry, Stockfish’s artistic director Hrönn Kristinsdottír praised the director-screenwriter for challenging conventions and pushing boundaries in an industry dominated by male voices. Ramsay,...
- 4/12/2024
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black sets a new widest UK-Ireland opening record for Studiocanal, starting its run in 719 sites.
The film beats the distributor’s previous record – February release Wicked Little Letters – by 33 venues. It is also the widest opening of the year, beating Warner Bros’ Dune: Part Two by two sites.
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson from a script by Matt Greenhalgh, Back To Black depicts the life of music icon Winehouse, from her early career through her turbulent relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil, and her creation of seminal 2006 album Back To Black.
The film stars 2023 Screen Star of Tomorrow Marisa Abela as Winehouse,...
The film beats the distributor’s previous record – February release Wicked Little Letters – by 33 venues. It is also the widest opening of the year, beating Warner Bros’ Dune: Part Two by two sites.
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson from a script by Matt Greenhalgh, Back To Black depicts the life of music icon Winehouse, from her early career through her turbulent relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil, and her creation of seminal 2006 album Back To Black.
The film stars 2023 Screen Star of Tomorrow Marisa Abela as Winehouse,...
- 4/12/2024
- ScreenDaily
Universal’s “Kung Fu Panda 4” topped the U.K. and Ireland box office with £2.8 million ($3.6 million), according to numbers from Comscore. The film now has a total of £12.7 million after two weekends.
Also in its second weekend, Warner Bros.’ “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” collected £1.9 million in second place for a total of £9.1 million.
In third place, in its third weekend, Sony’s “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” added £1.3 million for a total of £12.1 million. In fourth position, in its sixth weekend, Warner Bros.’ “Dune: Part II” collected £1.1 million for a total of £36.8 million. Universal’s “Monkey Man,” directed by and starring Dev Patel, debuted in fifth place with £810,253.
There were three more top 10 debuts – Disney’s “The First Omen” in sixth place with £521,573, Entertainment Film Distributors’ “Seize Them!” in eighth with £132,207 and Disney’s “Luca” in 10th with £110,964.
There are three mid-week releases on Wednesday, April 10. To coincide with the Eid festival,...
Also in its second weekend, Warner Bros.’ “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” collected £1.9 million in second place for a total of £9.1 million.
In third place, in its third weekend, Sony’s “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” added £1.3 million for a total of £12.1 million. In fourth position, in its sixth weekend, Warner Bros.’ “Dune: Part II” collected £1.1 million for a total of £36.8 million. Universal’s “Monkey Man,” directed by and starring Dev Patel, debuted in fifth place with £810,253.
There were three more top 10 debuts – Disney’s “The First Omen” in sixth place with £521,573, Entertainment Film Distributors’ “Seize Them!” in eighth with £132,207 and Disney’s “Luca” in 10th with £110,964.
There are three mid-week releases on Wednesday, April 10. To coincide with the Eid festival,...
- 4/10/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. To keep up with our latest features, sign up for the Weekly Edit newsletter and follow us @mubinotebook on Twitter and Instagram.NEWSUntil Branches Bend.Amidst a widespread debate on the merit of U.S. state financial incentives for film and television productions, a Georgia bill that would have limited the sale of tax credits was rejected by the Senate Finance Committee. In recent years, those credits have exceeded $1 billion despite findings that the state makes back only 19¢ on the dollar. Four of the thirteen labor guilds bargaining with IATSE have now reached tentative agreements with the AMPTP: Locals 600 (cinematographers), 729 (set painters), 800 (art directors), and 695. IATSE president Matthew Loeb has threatened to strike if a new contract is not in place when the current one expires on July 31.Due to financial constraints, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival will be...
- 3/28/2024
- MUBI
Exclusive: UTA has signed acclaimed actor Rupert Friend for representation in all areas.
Up next, Friend will be seen in buzzy New Line thriller Companion opposite Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, and Lukas Gage, as well as Michel Franco’s Dreams alongside Jessica Chastain and Lucio Castro, 2Am’s After This Death, and Pierre Morel’s Canary Black opposite Kate Beckinsale.
Most recently, he was seen at Sundance in The American Society of Magical Negroes, an acclaimed satire from writer-director Kobi Libii, which hits theaters via Focus Features on March 15.
Previously, Friend starred in the shorts The Swan and Ratcatcher, based on short stories by Roald Dahl, which Wes Anderson directed for Netflix. As a favorite of the filmmaker’s, Friend has also taken on prominent roles in his recent films Asteroid City and The French Dispatch.
Other notable film credits for the actor include The Death of Stalin, A Simple Favor,...
Up next, Friend will be seen in buzzy New Line thriller Companion opposite Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, and Lukas Gage, as well as Michel Franco’s Dreams alongside Jessica Chastain and Lucio Castro, 2Am’s After This Death, and Pierre Morel’s Canary Black opposite Kate Beckinsale.
Most recently, he was seen at Sundance in The American Society of Magical Negroes, an acclaimed satire from writer-director Kobi Libii, which hits theaters via Focus Features on March 15.
Previously, Friend starred in the shorts The Swan and Ratcatcher, based on short stories by Roald Dahl, which Wes Anderson directed for Netflix. As a favorite of the filmmaker’s, Friend has also taken on prominent roles in his recent films Asteroid City and The French Dispatch.
Other notable film credits for the actor include The Death of Stalin, A Simple Favor,...
- 2/16/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
McCance died aged 53 on December 19 last year, shortly after being diagnosed with cancer.
Colleagues and friends have paid tribute to “free spirit” and “brilliant role model”, Northern Ireland-born, Sweden-based film and TV writer and executive producer Ruth McCance, who has died aged 53 from cancer.
McCance was diagnosed in November of last year with stomach cancer, and died just five weeks later.
During her career she worked on films including Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher, Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love, Soren-Kragh Jakobson’s Skagerrak and Garth Jennings’s Son Of Rambow.
McCance grew up in Belfast. Her mother was a...
Colleagues and friends have paid tribute to “free spirit” and “brilliant role model”, Northern Ireland-born, Sweden-based film and TV writer and executive producer Ruth McCance, who has died aged 53 from cancer.
McCance was diagnosed in November of last year with stomach cancer, and died just five weeks later.
During her career she worked on films including Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher, Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love, Soren-Kragh Jakobson’s Skagerrak and Garth Jennings’s Son Of Rambow.
McCance grew up in Belfast. Her mother was a...
- 1/15/2024
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The recent passing of Terence Davies and the tributes that followed — tales of a steel will, impassioned budgetary battles and a host of dream projects that never materialized — give this highly personal tribute to Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas an extra and very poignant relevance as a similar story, now depressingly familiar to the British film industry, of an uncompromising talent who left us with a tantalizing promise of what might have been. Now largely unknown to the wider world but very dear to the heart of Scotland (despite the fact that he left his homeland at the earliest opportunity), Douglas is the closest thing to a Rosetta Stone in recent British independent and social-realist cinema. From his early home movies through to his last three-hour masterwork Comrades (1986), the director left an indelible imprint that still seems shockingly modern today, leaving traces in everything from Derek Jarman’s early Super-8 works...
- 11/2/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’ Trailer: Roald Dahl Short Is Wes Anderson at His Most Inventive
Wes Anderson‘s “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” is the “Asteroid City” and “Moonrise Kingdom” director at his most visually inventive — and most fetishistic toward the pleasures of devices like dioramas, rear-screen projection, and fourth-wall-breaking in its adaptation of a collection of Roald Dahl shorts.
And “Henry Sugar,” which premiered out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, is the first of four Roald Dahl shorts Anderson has crafted, all of which he’s filmed. This one stars Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Richard Ayoade, and centers on a rich man who learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes and then sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling. IndieWire’s David Ehrlich called it “37 minutes of pure bliss.”
Anderson spoke about his upcoming Roald Dahl films while in Venice to receive the Cartier Glory to...
And “Henry Sugar,” which premiered out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, is the first of four Roald Dahl shorts Anderson has crafted, all of which he’s filmed. This one stars Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, Sir Ben Kingsley, and Richard Ayoade, and centers on a rich man who learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes and then sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling. IndieWire’s David Ehrlich called it “37 minutes of pure bliss.”
Anderson spoke about his upcoming Roald Dahl films while in Venice to receive the Cartier Glory to...
- 9/14/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Ahead of the premiere of his Roald Dahl adaptation “The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar” at the Venice Film Festival, Wes Anderson weighed in on the controversial decision to edit a number of Roald Dahl books to remove language deemed to be offensive. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the “Asteroid City” filmmaker is not a fan.
“If you ask me if Renoir should be allowed to touch up one of his pictures, I would say no. It’s done,” he said during a press conference on Friday. “I don’t even want the artist to modify their work. I understand the motivation for it, but I’m in the school where when the piece of work is done we participate in it. We know it. So I think when it’s done, it’s done. And certainly, no one who is not an author should be modifying somebody’s book. He’s dead.
“If you ask me if Renoir should be allowed to touch up one of his pictures, I would say no. It’s done,” he said during a press conference on Friday. “I don’t even want the artist to modify their work. I understand the motivation for it, but I’m in the school where when the piece of work is done we participate in it. We know it. So I think when it’s done, it’s done. And certainly, no one who is not an author should be modifying somebody’s book. He’s dead.
- 9/1/2023
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
Wes Anderson beamed with joy as his 40-minute short film “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” received a nearly 4-minute standing ovation at its Venice Film Festival premiere.
Prior to the screening, Anderson was given Cartier’s Glory to the Filmmaker Award, which was presented to him by his frequent collaborator Alexandre Desplat. Anderson humbly accepted the honor, remarking that he had researched the award in advance and observed that it had been given to filmmakers “at their premieres of some of their worst movies.”
“I hope I’m not going to repeat that,” he wisecracked.
After the quirky comedy — starring Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch and Dev Patel — played its end credits, it became clear that Anderson had not joined that list of worst movies, but he continued to convey humility, bashfully waving goodbye to the crowd before the applause had fully ceased.
Based on Roald Dahl’s 1977 short story collection,...
Prior to the screening, Anderson was given Cartier’s Glory to the Filmmaker Award, which was presented to him by his frequent collaborator Alexandre Desplat. Anderson humbly accepted the honor, remarking that he had researched the award in advance and observed that it had been given to filmmakers “at their premieres of some of their worst movies.”
“I hope I’m not going to repeat that,” he wisecracked.
After the quirky comedy — starring Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch and Dev Patel — played its end credits, it became clear that Anderson had not joined that list of worst movies, but he continued to convey humility, bashfully waving goodbye to the crowd before the applause had fully ceased.
Based on Roald Dahl’s 1977 short story collection,...
- 9/1/2023
- by Ellise Shafer and Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Wes Anderson has confirmed that his Roald Dahl “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” anthology will eventually include three more short films of the author’s stories: “The Swan,” “Poison” and “The Ratcatcher.”
During the Venice Film Festival press conference for the 37-minute “Henry Sugar” on Friday, Anderson teased the forthcoming “very, very strange” short films.
“There’s another one that’s in the ‘Henry Sugar’ collection that’s called ‘The Swan,’ we’ve done that with Rupert Friend,” Anderson said. “We did a very old one called ‘Poison,’ which is one I always loved… And then we’ve also done a very, very strange one called ‘Ratcatcher,’ which is from a book called ‘Claud’s Dog,’ a kind of obscure Dahl book set in the Eastern part of England. It’s a really rural one, it’s a peculiar story. And they’re all strange. But I don’t...
During the Venice Film Festival press conference for the 37-minute “Henry Sugar” on Friday, Anderson teased the forthcoming “very, very strange” short films.
“There’s another one that’s in the ‘Henry Sugar’ collection that’s called ‘The Swan,’ we’ve done that with Rupert Friend,” Anderson said. “We did a very old one called ‘Poison,’ which is one I always loved… And then we’ve also done a very, very strange one called ‘Ratcatcher,’ which is from a book called ‘Claud’s Dog,’ a kind of obscure Dahl book set in the Eastern part of England. It’s a really rural one, it’s a peculiar story. And they’re all strange. But I don’t...
- 9/1/2023
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Receiving a lifetime achievement award this week at the Sarajevo Film Festival, Scottish director Lynne Ramsay teased a slew of projects currently in the pipeline, heralding her much-anticipated return to the director’s chair since wowing Cannes in 2017 with the Joaquin Phoenix-starring thriller “You Were Never Really Here.”
Among them are a second collaboration with Phoenix, who earned best actor honors on the Croisette for that performance, as well as “Stone Mattress,” a revenge thriller set aboard a luxury Arctic cruise that stars Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh. There’s also “Die, My Love,” starring Jennifer Lawrence, which is based on the novel by Argentinian writer Ariana Harwicz about a woman living in isolation in rural France who loses her mind amid marriage and motherhood.
Then there’s the long-gestating “Moby Dick” film adaptation that the director has said would transport Herman Melville’s nautical epic into outer space.
Among them are a second collaboration with Phoenix, who earned best actor honors on the Croisette for that performance, as well as “Stone Mattress,” a revenge thriller set aboard a luxury Arctic cruise that stars Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh. There’s also “Die, My Love,” starring Jennifer Lawrence, which is based on the novel by Argentinian writer Ariana Harwicz about a woman living in isolation in rural France who loses her mind amid marriage and motherhood.
Then there’s the long-gestating “Moby Dick” film adaptation that the director has said would transport Herman Melville’s nautical epic into outer space.
- 8/19/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Acclaimed Scottish director Lynne Ramsay will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo award, the lifetime achievement honor of the Sarajevo Film Festival. Ramsay will be presented with the award at this year’s Bosnian festival on Aug. 16 at a gala event followed by the screening of her 2017 feature You Were Never Really Here. The psychological crime drama premiered in Cannes, where it won best screenplay honors for Ramsay and the best actor prize for star Joaquin Phoenix.
Ramsay has been a feature on the international art house scene since 1996, when her student short, Smalls and Death, won the Prix de Jury in Cannes. She repeated the feat in 1998 with Gasman and also brought her 1998 debut Ratcatcher to the French festival, premiering in Un Certain Regard, where it won a special mention from the jury. The drama, a coming-of-age story set in 1970s Glasgow, also won Ramsay a BAFTA for most promising newcomer.
Ramsay has been a feature on the international art house scene since 1996, when her student short, Smalls and Death, won the Prix de Jury in Cannes. She repeated the feat in 1998 with Gasman and also brought her 1998 debut Ratcatcher to the French festival, premiering in Un Certain Regard, where it won a special mention from the jury. The drama, a coming-of-age story set in 1970s Glasgow, also won Ramsay a BAFTA for most promising newcomer.
- 8/8/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Director’s 2017 feature ‘You Were Never Really Here’ to have an open-air screening at the festival.
Scottish director Lynne Ramsay is to receive the honorary Heart of Sarajevo award at the 29th Sarajevo Film Festival (August 11-18).
The award is given “in recognition of her outstanding contribution to film” and Ramsay will receive the award on August 16, ahead of an open-air screening of her 2017 feature You Were Never Really Here, starring Joaquin Phoenix.
You Were Never Really Here premiered at Cannes, where Ramsay won the award for best screenplay and Phoenix picked up best actor prize.
The filmmaker won the...
Scottish director Lynne Ramsay is to receive the honorary Heart of Sarajevo award at the 29th Sarajevo Film Festival (August 11-18).
The award is given “in recognition of her outstanding contribution to film” and Ramsay will receive the award on August 16, ahead of an open-air screening of her 2017 feature You Were Never Really Here, starring Joaquin Phoenix.
You Were Never Really Here premiered at Cannes, where Ramsay won the award for best screenplay and Phoenix picked up best actor prize.
The filmmaker won the...
- 8/8/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Gwar know their own legend. When the self-professed Scumdogs of the Universe dipped through NPR for a Tiny Desk Concert recently, frontman Blöthar the Berserker admitted, “Let’s face it, Gwar’s a little bit lowbrow … sub-brow maybe.” But nevertheless, they performed a four-song, 20-minute set of their special brand of intergalactic dreck for the highbrow, nonprofit news network.
Although they abstained from their usual antics — celebrity murders, spraying everyone with fake semen — the costumed headbangers still brought along beloved maestro Willhelm Fartwrangler to conduct “Sex Cow in G-flat Minor,...
Although they abstained from their usual antics — celebrity murders, spraying everyone with fake semen — the costumed headbangers still brought along beloved maestro Willhelm Fartwrangler to conduct “Sex Cow in G-flat Minor,...
- 7/17/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Us measly Bohabs could never have expected this: Gwar taking over NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series.
Well, it happened, and it was as absurdly awesome as it sounds. The Scumdogs crammed into the crowded confines of the NPR office for a four-song set including the songs “Sex Cow,” “I’ll Be Your Monster,” “Ratcatcher,” and “Phantom Limb.”
The idea was partly conceived via a headline on a parody news website The Hard Times that read: “Gwar asks NPR’s Tiny Desk Staff if They’re Ready to Get Their Assholes Ripped Open.” As it turns out, the NPR staff had already approached Gwar about that very idea.
“My text messages suddenly blew up,” wrote NPR’s Lars Gotrich in the video description. “Is this real? No, it’s literally fake. Can this be real? Little did they know I’d already been talking to one of the group’s...
Well, it happened, and it was as absurdly awesome as it sounds. The Scumdogs crammed into the crowded confines of the NPR office for a four-song set including the songs “Sex Cow,” “I’ll Be Your Monster,” “Ratcatcher,” and “Phantom Limb.”
The idea was partly conceived via a headline on a parody news website The Hard Times that read: “Gwar asks NPR’s Tiny Desk Staff if They’re Ready to Get Their Assholes Ripped Open.” As it turns out, the NPR staff had already approached Gwar about that very idea.
“My text messages suddenly blew up,” wrote NPR’s Lars Gotrich in the video description. “Is this real? No, it’s literally fake. Can this be real? Little did they know I’d already been talking to one of the group’s...
- 7/17/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
[This story contains spoilers for Fast X.]
Four years ago, Daniela Melchior came out of nowhere to land the highly coveted role of Cleo Caza/Ratcatcher 2 in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, and upon the film’s release in August 2021, she immediately became the heart and soul of the superhero pic. Vin Diesel, who voiced Groot in all three of Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy films, agreed with the consensus surrounding Melchior’s performance, so he offered the Portuguese actor a role in Fast X as Isabel, Elena Neves’ (Elsa Pataky) street-racing sister.
Melchior knew that Gunn had forever changed her life when he cast her in April 2019, but receiving a direct offer for Fast X was when she felt it for the first time, career-wise.
“I felt [the impact of Ratcatcher 2] when I met Vin and Vin’s sister, Samantha [Vincent], for the first time, because they made sure that they spoke about Ratcatcher 2 and how they...
Four years ago, Daniela Melchior came out of nowhere to land the highly coveted role of Cleo Caza/Ratcatcher 2 in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, and upon the film’s release in August 2021, she immediately became the heart and soul of the superhero pic. Vin Diesel, who voiced Groot in all three of Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy films, agreed with the consensus surrounding Melchior’s performance, so he offered the Portuguese actor a role in Fast X as Isabel, Elena Neves’ (Elsa Pataky) street-racing sister.
Melchior knew that Gunn had forever changed her life when he cast her in April 2019, but receiving a direct offer for Fast X was when she felt it for the first time, career-wise.
“I felt [the impact of Ratcatcher 2] when I met Vin and Vin’s sister, Samantha [Vincent], for the first time, because they made sure that they spoke about Ratcatcher 2 and how they...
- 5/30/2023
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This post contains spoilers for "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3."
There's a lot going on in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's 32nd film, "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3." Between animal cruelty, kids in cages, grotesque biomechanical creatures, a beheading, a peeled face, and one anti-climactic f-bomb ("Open the f***ing door!"), it's arguably too much. Writer-director James Gunn's belated trilogy ender is all over the place, both tonally and narratively, and it's easy to lose track of what's happening or why, even if you come into it with the best intentions and are still invested in the MCU as it chugs along in Phase Five.
It's been six years since "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2," and while the Guardians have remained active on the big screen in other films, moviegoers who missed "The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special" on Disney+ may be confused by the presence...
There's a lot going on in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's 32nd film, "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3." Between animal cruelty, kids in cages, grotesque biomechanical creatures, a beheading, a peeled face, and one anti-climactic f-bomb ("Open the f***ing door!"), it's arguably too much. Writer-director James Gunn's belated trilogy ender is all over the place, both tonally and narratively, and it's easy to lose track of what's happening or why, even if you come into it with the best intentions and are still invested in the MCU as it chugs along in Phase Five.
It's been six years since "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2," and while the Guardians have remained active on the big screen in other films, moviegoers who missed "The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special" on Disney+ may be confused by the presence...
- 5/4/2023
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
UK director Lynne Ramsay enjoyed international recognition early on in her career after short films Small Deaths and Gasman were invited to the Cannes and won the Jury Prize in its short film competition in 1996 and 1998 respectively.
“That was the first film festival I went to. It was so overwhelming,” Ramsay told a masterclass for the Doha Film Institute this week . “When Gasman won a prize and [Francis Ford] Coppola gave me the prize, that opened the way for me to make other films.”
The film’s reception in L.A., when Ramsay showed them there as part of a British Film Institute talent showcase in the late 1990s, was less enthusiastic.
Revolving around a young girl who slowly discovers a puzzling side to her father’s life during an outing to a Christmas party, Gasman shows the protagonist and other characters from the waist down only in the opening scene and other parts of the film.
“That was the first film festival I went to. It was so overwhelming,” Ramsay told a masterclass for the Doha Film Institute this week . “When Gasman won a prize and [Francis Ford] Coppola gave me the prize, that opened the way for me to make other films.”
The film’s reception in L.A., when Ramsay showed them there as part of a British Film Institute talent showcase in the late 1990s, was less enthusiastic.
Revolving around a young girl who slowly discovers a puzzling side to her father’s life during an outing to a Christmas party, Gasman shows the protagonist and other characters from the waist down only in the opening scene and other parts of the film.
- 3/17/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Scottish filmmaker “hoping” to make Margaret Atwood adaptation ‘Stone Mattress’ this year.
Scottish director Lynne Ramsay is hoping to shoot Margaret Atwood adaptation Stone Mattress later this year, as one of several film projects on which she has provided updates.
Speaking to Screen in Doha, where she is attending the Qumra meeting as a master, Ramsay said that she is “hoping this year” for the film’s shoot dates.
“It’s such a challenge, that film because it’s a boat in the Arctic – it [needs] all the elements aligning,” said Ramsay of the film, which is an adaptation of a...
Scottish director Lynne Ramsay is hoping to shoot Margaret Atwood adaptation Stone Mattress later this year, as one of several film projects on which she has provided updates.
Speaking to Screen in Doha, where she is attending the Qumra meeting as a master, Ramsay said that she is “hoping this year” for the film’s shoot dates.
“It’s such a challenge, that film because it’s a boat in the Arctic – it [needs] all the elements aligning,” said Ramsay of the film, which is an adaptation of a...
- 3/11/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Belgian director Lukas Dhont’s Oscar-nominated drama about two inseparable boys tragically driven apart is a low-key treat
A tale of childhood bonds broken lands a weighty emotional punch in writer-director Lukas Dhont’s Oscar-nominated second film, a heartbreaking coming-of-age picture that represents Belgium in the best international feature category feature category, and which shared the Grand Prix at Cannes last year. Astonishingly natural and engaging performances from young newcomers Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele lend heartfelt authenticity to a film that builds upon the promise of 2018’s Girl, confirming Dhont as a deft and empathetic chronicler of the tumultuous anguish and ecstasy of adolescence.
We meet Léo and Rémi on the cusp of their teenage years, approaching secondary school. Best friends, they are like two sides of a divided soul, locked together in a bubble of play-acting that can transform the world around them into a field of dreams.
A tale of childhood bonds broken lands a weighty emotional punch in writer-director Lukas Dhont’s Oscar-nominated second film, a heartbreaking coming-of-age picture that represents Belgium in the best international feature category feature category, and which shared the Grand Prix at Cannes last year. Astonishingly natural and engaging performances from young newcomers Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele lend heartfelt authenticity to a film that builds upon the promise of 2018’s Girl, confirming Dhont as a deft and empathetic chronicler of the tumultuous anguish and ecstasy of adolescence.
We meet Léo and Rémi on the cusp of their teenage years, approaching secondary school. Best friends, they are like two sides of a divided soul, locked together in a bubble of play-acting that can transform the world around them into a field of dreams.
- 3/5/2023
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Playwright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton, producer David Parfitt, Dune costume designer Jacqueline West and directors Lynne Ramsay and Michael Winterbottom are to set attend the Qatari Doha Film Institute’s ninth talent incubator event Qumra in March.
The meeting, which returns as an in-person event for the first time in four years from March 10-15 after a Covid-19 pandemic hiatus, focuses on nurturing first and second-time filmmakers.
They attend with their projects that have received funding from the Doha Film Institute (Dfi), a major backer of indie cinema in the Middle East and North Africa.
Hampton, Parfitt, West, Ramsay and Winterbottom are participating in the role of the event’s so-called Qumra Masters.
They will give a masterclass and mentor some of the filmmakers in attendance. The full list of attendees and projects will be announced next week.
Oscar-winner Hampton’s participation follows in the wake of The Father, for...
The meeting, which returns as an in-person event for the first time in four years from March 10-15 after a Covid-19 pandemic hiatus, focuses on nurturing first and second-time filmmakers.
They attend with their projects that have received funding from the Doha Film Institute (Dfi), a major backer of indie cinema in the Middle East and North Africa.
Hampton, Parfitt, West, Ramsay and Winterbottom are participating in the role of the event’s so-called Qumra Masters.
They will give a masterclass and mentor some of the filmmakers in attendance. The full list of attendees and projects will be announced next week.
Oscar-winner Hampton’s participation follows in the wake of The Father, for...
- 2/19/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Warner Bros. Discovery has had a rough go of it recently. The newly-formed mega corporation’s decision to callously prune HBO Max’s servers of hours of content has led to mountains of bad PR and billions of dollars in market cap losses. Suffice it to say, a jam-packed list of new HBO Max releases for September 2022 would provide some welcome relief for the “House of the House of the Dragon.”
Unfortunately, HBO Max’s new releases this month are uncommonly light. It’s impossible to say whether this is the result of more Wbd meddling or simply some bad scheduling luck but either way it’s not going to make any executives’ seats less warm. There are only a handful of notable originals this month, led by season 2 of the Spanish language comedy Los Espookys on Sept. 16. That is joined by a pair of documentaries, Escape from Kabul on Sept.
Unfortunately, HBO Max’s new releases this month are uncommonly light. It’s impossible to say whether this is the result of more Wbd meddling or simply some bad scheduling luck but either way it’s not going to make any executives’ seats less warm. There are only a handful of notable originals this month, led by season 2 of the Spanish language comedy Los Espookys on Sept. 16. That is joined by a pair of documentaries, Escape from Kabul on Sept.
- 9/1/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
The future of HBO Max is a bit strange right now, a fact that has been widely documented over the past couple of weeks. A lot of programming, both acquired and original, has been wiped with little warning, and the programming that survives now has a rocky future ahead of it. The decisions being made over at Warner Bros. Discovery regarding these removals have been controversial at the very best, but all we can really do is sit back and watch what happens live.
At the same time, it's hard to deny that the incoming movies and television shows in September look pretty interesting. You've got Warner Bros. theatrical releases finally hitting streaming, season premieres of shows arriving after far too long of hiatuses, and even some programs from the Discovery+ Magnolia Network. Whatever your mood, it's likely that HBO Max will be adding something that tickles your fancy in September.
At the same time, it's hard to deny that the incoming movies and television shows in September look pretty interesting. You've got Warner Bros. theatrical releases finally hitting streaming, season premieres of shows arriving after far too long of hiatuses, and even some programs from the Discovery+ Magnolia Network. Whatever your mood, it's likely that HBO Max will be adding something that tickles your fancy in September.
- 8/26/2022
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
At around the halfway point of Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere a young girl and her distant father jumped into a swimming pool. The characters’ relationship was fraught, but Coppola had her cinematographer, Harris Savides, film it from underwater; holding on the moment when they mimed a tea party, lost in a world of their own and briefly forgetting the one above. “Ten decisions shape your life,” Julian Casablancas sang on the soundtrack, “you’ll be aware of five about.”
That moment is echoed in Aftersun, another story about a young girl, a distant father, a fraught relationship, and the kind of decisions that shape your life. It’s not the Chateau Marmont this time, but a budget holiday resort in Turkey; the kind that Irish and British people of a certain vintage might find particularly familiar. The director is Charlotte Wells, who was born in Scotland in 1987, and so her film’s soundtrack of Blur,...
That moment is echoed in Aftersun, another story about a young girl, a distant father, a fraught relationship, and the kind of decisions that shape your life. It’s not the Chateau Marmont this time, but a budget holiday resort in Turkey; the kind that Irish and British people of a certain vintage might find particularly familiar. The director is Charlotte Wells, who was born in Scotland in 1987, and so her film’s soundtrack of Blur,...
- 6/2/2022
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
According to HBO Max, "Peacemaker" is currently the #1 show in the world, which means that series creator James Gunn is bound to be given more projects in the Dceu. On an episode of Deadline's Hero Nation podcast, Gunn said that he's potentially working on another "The Suicide Squad" spin-off, and hinted at the possibility of a "Peacemaker" season 2.
While Gunn was dodgy on specifics, there are several great characters from "The Suicide Squad" that could get the spin-off treatment. If there was one character who deserves her own story above the others, though, it's Ratcatcher 2, played by Daniela Melchior, who...
The post Which Suicide Squad Member Should James Gunn Spin Off Next, and Why is It Ratcatcher? appeared first on /Film.
While Gunn was dodgy on specifics, there are several great characters from "The Suicide Squad" that could get the spin-off treatment. If there was one character who deserves her own story above the others, though, it's Ratcatcher 2, played by Daniela Melchior, who...
The post Which Suicide Squad Member Should James Gunn Spin Off Next, and Why is It Ratcatcher? appeared first on /Film.
- 1/27/2022
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
If 2021 has been a calvacade of bad decisions, dashed hopes, and warning signs for cinema’s strength, the Criterion Channel’s monthly programming has at least buttressed our hopes for something like a better tomorrow. Anyway. The Channel will let us ride out distended (holi)days in the family home with an extensive Alfred Hitchcock series to bring the family together—from the established Rear Window and Vertigo to the (let’s just guess) lesser-seen Downhill and Young and Innocent—Johnnie To’s Throw Down and Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons in their Criterion editions, and some streaming premieres: Ste. Anne, Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over, and The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love.
Special notice to Yvonne Rainer’s brain-expanding Film About a Woman Who . . .—debuting in “Female Gaze: Women Directors + Women Cinematographers,” a series that does as it says on the tin—and a Joseph Cotten retro boasting Ambersons,...
Special notice to Yvonne Rainer’s brain-expanding Film About a Woman Who . . .—debuting in “Female Gaze: Women Directors + Women Cinematographers,” a series that does as it says on the tin—and a Joseph Cotten retro boasting Ambersons,...
- 11/21/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
A boy wrapping himself in lace curtains. Garbage bags piled in the streets. Tom Jones on the telly. A filthy canal that doubles as a death trap. A mouse tied to a balloon. Bullies hiding 'round the corner. A house in the country. These images and more form a poetic whole that is Ratcatcher, the first feature film by (now) renowned filmmaker Lynne Ramsay. With a new lease of proverbial life on Criterion, and considering the development and variety of her career, it's a good time to revisit the film that introduced us to her voice. Set during the garbage strike in Glasgow in 1973, it's a coming-of-age film that looks at the turning point in the life of James, 12 years old, still a...
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- 10/27/2021
- Screen Anarchy
After a hiatus where New York’s theaters closed during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings are taking place.
Bam
Recently rediscovered and restored, Wendell B. Harris’ Chameleon Street is now playing. Read our interview with Harris here.
Film Forum
4K restorations of North by Northwest starts up and Ed Lachman’s Songs for Drella have started; Ponyo screens on Sunday.
Roxy Cinema
Three by John Carpenter—The Thing, Halloween, and The Fog—screen this Friday, while prints of Poltergeist and Phantom of the Paradise show on Saturday.
Metrograph
“Get Crazy” offers Cold Water, a 4K restoration of Possession continues, and to celebrate Sisters with Transistors, the series “With Music By…” offers A Clockwork Orange and Forbidden Planet.
Film...
Bam
Recently rediscovered and restored, Wendell B. Harris’ Chameleon Street is now playing. Read our interview with Harris here.
Film Forum
4K restorations of North by Northwest starts up and Ed Lachman’s Songs for Drella have started; Ponyo screens on Sunday.
Roxy Cinema
Three by John Carpenter—The Thing, Halloween, and The Fog—screen this Friday, while prints of Poltergeist and Phantom of the Paradise show on Saturday.
Metrograph
“Get Crazy” offers Cold Water, a 4K restoration of Possession continues, and to celebrate Sisters with Transistors, the series “With Music By…” offers A Clockwork Orange and Forbidden Planet.
Film...
- 10/22/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
After a hiatus where New York’s theaters closed during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings are taking place.
Metrograph
“We Won’t Grow Old Together” includes The Brood and Carol on 35mm; a 4K restoration of Possession is running; two of Clint Eastwood’s greatest films, A Perfect World and White Hunter, Black Heart, screen this Saturday.
Film at Lincoln Center
NYFF’s Revivals winds down with new restorations of Assault on Precinct 13, Ratcatcher, and Ed Lachman’s Songs for Drella.
IFC Center
In anticipation of Bergman Island, films by Mia Hansen-Løve screen side-by-side with Ingmar Bergman; while the 4K restoration of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s masterpiece Cure continues and World of Wong Kar-wai keeps going, Arrebato, Crash, and Mulholland Dr. have showings.
Metrograph
“We Won’t Grow Old Together” includes The Brood and Carol on 35mm; a 4K restoration of Possession is running; two of Clint Eastwood’s greatest films, A Perfect World and White Hunter, Black Heart, screen this Saturday.
Film at Lincoln Center
NYFF’s Revivals winds down with new restorations of Assault on Precinct 13, Ratcatcher, and Ed Lachman’s Songs for Drella.
IFC Center
In anticipation of Bergman Island, films by Mia Hansen-Løve screen side-by-side with Ingmar Bergman; while the 4K restoration of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s masterpiece Cure continues and World of Wong Kar-wai keeps going, Arrebato, Crash, and Mulholland Dr. have showings.
- 10/7/2021
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Jack Hazan and David Mingay’s Rude Boy, starring Ray Gange with The Clash is a 59th New York Film Festival Revival highlight Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Film at Lincoln Center has announced the Revivals of the 59th New York Film Festival will include highlights Michael Powell’s Bluebeard’s Castle; Ed Lachman’s Songs For Drella; Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher; Christopher Petit’s Radio On; Sedat Pakay’s James Baldwin: From Another Place; Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala; Joan Micklin Silver’s Hester Street; Márta Mészáros’ Adoption, and Jack Hazan and David Mingay’s Rude Boy.
59th New York Film Festival Revivals
The other films in the program are John Carpenter’s Assault On Precinct 13; Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga; Melvin Van Peebles’ Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song; Christine Choy’s Who Killed Vincent Chin?; Nina Menkes’ The Bloody Child; Govindan Aravindan’s Kummatty; Miklós Jancsó’s The Round-Up, and...
Film at Lincoln Center has announced the Revivals of the 59th New York Film Festival will include highlights Michael Powell’s Bluebeard’s Castle; Ed Lachman’s Songs For Drella; Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher; Christopher Petit’s Radio On; Sedat Pakay’s James Baldwin: From Another Place; Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala; Joan Micklin Silver’s Hester Street; Márta Mészáros’ Adoption, and Jack Hazan and David Mingay’s Rude Boy.
59th New York Film Festival Revivals
The other films in the program are John Carpenter’s Assault On Precinct 13; Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga; Melvin Van Peebles’ Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song; Christine Choy’s Who Killed Vincent Chin?; Nina Menkes’ The Bloody Child; Govindan Aravindan’s Kummatty; Miklós Jancsó’s The Round-Up, and...
- 8/18/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Groundbreaking works by John Carpenter, Mira Nair, Melvin Van Peebles, Nina Menkes and Michael Powell will be featured in the Revivals lineup of the 59th New York Film Festival. These films, which range from historical dramas to pulpy crime thrillers, have been digitally remastered and restored.
Films being highlighted this year include a 4K restoration of Carpenter’s “Assault on Precinct 13,” Powell’s “Bluebird’s Ghost,” Menkes’s “The Bloody Child,” Nair’s “Mississippi Masala” and Van Peebles’s “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.”
“One of the biggest satisfactions of programming Revivals within this festival is looking back at cinematic treasures of the past and seeing their continuity and relevance with today’s cinema,” said Florence Almozini, Flc Senior Programmer at Large. “We think this selection is both a celebration and a thought-provoking adventure, and we hope audiences will enjoy exploring it, whether they are seeing these films for the first or 20th time.
Films being highlighted this year include a 4K restoration of Carpenter’s “Assault on Precinct 13,” Powell’s “Bluebird’s Ghost,” Menkes’s “The Bloody Child,” Nair’s “Mississippi Masala” and Van Peebles’s “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.”
“One of the biggest satisfactions of programming Revivals within this festival is looking back at cinematic treasures of the past and seeing their continuity and relevance with today’s cinema,” said Florence Almozini, Flc Senior Programmer at Large. “We think this selection is both a celebration and a thought-provoking adventure, and we hope audiences will enjoy exploring it, whether they are seeing these films for the first or 20th time.
- 8/17/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
It was 11 months ago that HBO Max announced a streaming series to be spun off of the big-budget DC movie The Suicide Squad. If have you now have seen the James Gunn movie, which is both in theaters and on HBO Max, we (again) ask:
Is the spinoff you’re getting the spinoff you most want?
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- 8/17/2021
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Arriving today in theaters and on HBO Max is James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, a follow-up to 2016’s Suicide Squad and also a reboot of the DC property for Warner Bros. Pictures.
If that sounds a little confusing, well, it is. The 2016 origin movie, directed by David Ayer (and subsequently recut by the studio), was a massive box office hit with $747 million worldwide in its coffers when all was said and done.
But critics and even fans were less positive, despite the movie being one of the Dceu’s most lucrative, so Warner Bros. abandoned plans for a direct sequel and eventually corralled Gunn — fresh off his then-dismissal (subsequently retracted) from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 — to write and direct a brand new iteration of Task Force X, a request that even Gunn found a little perplexing at first.
“ definitely was worried about the whole thing confusing people,...
If that sounds a little confusing, well, it is. The 2016 origin movie, directed by David Ayer (and subsequently recut by the studio), was a massive box office hit with $747 million worldwide in its coffers when all was said and done.
But critics and even fans were less positive, despite the movie being one of the Dceu’s most lucrative, so Warner Bros. abandoned plans for a direct sequel and eventually corralled Gunn — fresh off his then-dismissal (subsequently retracted) from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 — to write and direct a brand new iteration of Task Force X, a request that even Gunn found a little perplexing at first.
“ definitely was worried about the whole thing confusing people,...
- 8/6/2021
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Stars: Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, John Cena, Idris Elba, Michael Rooker, John Ostrander, Nathan Fillion, Sylvester Stallone, David Dastmalchian, Jai Courtney, Flula Borg, Mayling Ng, Pete Davidson, Sean Gunn, Daniela Melchior | Written and Directed by James Gunn
After the first attempt to bring The Suicide Squad failed 5 years ago, the film has now been placed in the hands of Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, who seems to understand every projects he’s thrown at. The formal this time has some similarities to his other tangle with comic book characters and also a lot of similarities to his other movies, Super and Slither.
It’s James Gunn’s understanding of the task in front of him that leads to the newest instalment of The Suicide Squad becoming a success and a lot of fun at that. I can’t remember the last time I watched a live...
After the first attempt to bring The Suicide Squad failed 5 years ago, the film has now been placed in the hands of Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn, who seems to understand every projects he’s thrown at. The formal this time has some similarities to his other tangle with comic book characters and also a lot of similarities to his other movies, Super and Slither.
It’s James Gunn’s understanding of the task in front of him that leads to the newest instalment of The Suicide Squad becoming a success and a lot of fun at that. I can’t remember the last time I watched a live...
- 8/2/2021
- by Alex Ginnelly
- Nerdly
One of the most wildly anticipated films of the summer hits theaters and on HBO Max on August 6, director James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad.
Gunn, along with actors Margot Robbie and John Cena, joined Jimmy Kimmel’s guest host Anthony Anderson about their new movie and Cena “stealing” his costume. Gunn also talked about working with Sylvester Stallone, why he put “Ratcatcher” in the movie, the craziest stunts that he had Robbie and Cena do on set, Anderson’s former co-worker Steve Agee playing the Shark in a motion capture suit for the film, and the upcoming Peacemaker show on HBO Max.
Gunn says of his latest film, “I wanted to do the ultimate all-time comic book movie!”
The best part of the visit was Robbie’s story of sleeping with a cardboard cutout of John in the room for two years, followed by the surprise for Cena with...
Gunn, along with actors Margot Robbie and John Cena, joined Jimmy Kimmel’s guest host Anthony Anderson about their new movie and Cena “stealing” his costume. Gunn also talked about working with Sylvester Stallone, why he put “Ratcatcher” in the movie, the craziest stunts that he had Robbie and Cena do on set, Anderson’s former co-worker Steve Agee playing the Shark in a motion capture suit for the film, and the upcoming Peacemaker show on HBO Max.
Gunn says of his latest film, “I wanted to do the ultimate all-time comic book movie!”
The best part of the visit was Robbie’s story of sleeping with a cardboard cutout of John in the room for two years, followed by the surprise for Cena with...
- 7/23/2021
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Back in 2016, David Ayer presented to the world his vision of the DC supervillain story of The Suicide Squad; unfortunately, that film didn’t go down to well with critics or audiences. Fast forward to 2021, having brought the Guardians of the Galaxy filmmaker, James Gunn on board for a reboot, this ragtag of villains gets an ultra-violent and pretty gruesome make-over.
In Gunn’s vision, which sees Margot Robbie returning as Harley Gunn, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang and the ever-brilliant Viola Davis as agent Amanda Waller, we are introduced to a whole new array of villains with big hearts and let’s just say at least one is “packing”. The list of names goes on and on but with Idris Elba as Bloodsport, John Cena as Peacemaker and Sylvester Stallone as King Shark, this new injection of blood and humour is all set to be riotously bonkers.
In Gunn’s vision, which sees Margot Robbie returning as Harley Gunn, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang and the ever-brilliant Viola Davis as agent Amanda Waller, we are introduced to a whole new array of villains with big hearts and let’s just say at least one is “packing”. The list of names goes on and on but with Idris Elba as Bloodsport, John Cena as Peacemaker and Sylvester Stallone as King Shark, this new injection of blood and humour is all set to be riotously bonkers.
- 7/22/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sometimes it takes more than a decade for a feature to be added to the Criterion Collection. Other times, it could be 60-plus years. And on the rare occasion, only about two years. This October, Criterion runs the gamut of release dates, with new additions like “Uncut Gems,” “Ratcatcher,” and “Onibaba,” just to name a few.
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That’s right, less than two years after its debut, The Safdie Brothers’ breakout feature, “Uncut Gems,” is heading to the Criterion Collection.
Continue reading ‘Uncut Gems,’ Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Ratcatcher’ & More Join The Criterion Collection In October at The Playlist.
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That’s right, less than two years after its debut, The Safdie Brothers’ breakout feature, “Uncut Gems,” is heading to the Criterion Collection.
Continue reading ‘Uncut Gems,’ Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Ratcatcher’ & More Join The Criterion Collection In October at The Playlist.
- 7/15/2021
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Troll Court / WaterTower Music today released the track “So This Is the Famous Suicide Squad (from The Suicide Squad)” – the 1st track fans can hear from writer/director James Gunn’s upcoming superhero action adventure film The Suicide Squad, which features a collection of the most degenerate delinquents in the DC lineup. “So This Is the Famous Suicide Squad (from The Suicide Squad)” is the first track to be made available from British film composer John Murphy’s album The Suicide Squad (Score from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), which is scheduled to be released in its entirety on August 6, in conjunction with the film’s release.
“‘So This Is the Famous Suicide Squad’ was actually the first thing I wrote for the film. James [Gunn] and I wanted the score to have attitude. And because of the characters we were being introduced in this scene, all I could hear in my head was this crunchy,...
“‘So This Is the Famous Suicide Squad’ was actually the first thing I wrote for the film. James [Gunn] and I wanted the score to have attitude. And because of the characters we were being introduced in this scene, all I could hear in my head was this crunchy,...
- 7/8/2021
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Check out the newest trailer for The Suicide Squad and watch writer-director James Gunn breaks down the latest trailer for his Dceu movie.
From writer/director James Gunn comes Warner Bros. Pictures’ superhero action adventure “The Suicide Squad,” featuring a collection of the most degenerate delinquents in the DC lineup.
Welcome to hell—a.k.a. Belle Reve, the prison with the highest mortality rate in the US of A. Where the worst Super-Villains are kept and where they will do anything to get out—even join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X. Today’s do-or-die assignment? Assemble a collection of cons, including Bloodsport, Peacemaker, Captain Boomerang, Ratcatcher 2, Savant, King Shark, Blackguard, Javelin and everyone’s favorite psycho, Harley Quinn. Then arm them heavily and drop them (literally) on the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese. Trekking through a jungle teeming with militant adversaries and guerrilla forces at every turn,...
From writer/director James Gunn comes Warner Bros. Pictures’ superhero action adventure “The Suicide Squad,” featuring a collection of the most degenerate delinquents in the DC lineup.
Welcome to hell—a.k.a. Belle Reve, the prison with the highest mortality rate in the US of A. Where the worst Super-Villains are kept and where they will do anything to get out—even join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X. Today’s do-or-die assignment? Assemble a collection of cons, including Bloodsport, Peacemaker, Captain Boomerang, Ratcatcher 2, Savant, King Shark, Blackguard, Javelin and everyone’s favorite psycho, Harley Quinn. Then arm them heavily and drop them (literally) on the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese. Trekking through a jungle teeming with militant adversaries and guerrilla forces at every turn,...
- 6/22/2021
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Lynne Ramsay has her sights set on a reunion with her “You Were Never Really Here” star Joaquin Phoenix. During a visit to the Valencia International Film Festival (a.k.a. Cinema Jove), where she was presented with the Luna de Valencia Award, Ramsay revealed Phoenix will lead one of her upcoming new movies. Details on the project remain scarce, although El Espanol (via The Film Stage) reports the movie is to be titled “Polaris” and Rooney Mara is attached to co-star.
“He’s crazy, but he’s the best actor I’ve ever met. Everything he does on the set has a reason,” Ramsay said at the festival. “It’s much more difficult when you come up with an original idea like this, but it’s impossible not to get excited when you’re preparing a movie with Joaquin.”
Ramsay and Phoenix earned great acclaim with “You Were Never Really Here,...
“He’s crazy, but he’s the best actor I’ve ever met. Everything he does on the set has a reason,” Ramsay said at the festival. “It’s much more difficult when you come up with an original idea like this, but it’s impossible not to get excited when you’re preparing a movie with Joaquin.”
Ramsay and Phoenix earned great acclaim with “You Were Never Really Here,...
- 6/21/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Ahead of its August 6th release in theaters, IMAX, and HBO Max via Warner Bros., James Gunn's The Suicide Squad is teased in a new trailer packed with superpowered mayhem.
"From writer/director James Gunn comes Warner Bros. Pictures’ superhero action adventure “The Suicide Squad,” featuring a collection of the most degenerate delinquents in the DC lineup.
Welcome to hell—a.k.a. Belle Reve, the prison with the highest mortality rate in the US of A. Where the worst Super-Villains are kept and where they will do anything to get out—even join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X. Today’s do-or-die assignment? Assemble a collection of cons, including Bloodsport, Peacemaker, Captain Boomerang, Ratcatcher 2, Savant, King Shark, Blackguard, Javelin and everyone’s favorite psycho, Harley Quinn. Then arm them heavily and drop them (literally) on the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese. Trekking through a jungle teeming with...
"From writer/director James Gunn comes Warner Bros. Pictures’ superhero action adventure “The Suicide Squad,” featuring a collection of the most degenerate delinquents in the DC lineup.
Welcome to hell—a.k.a. Belle Reve, the prison with the highest mortality rate in the US of A. Where the worst Super-Villains are kept and where they will do anything to get out—even join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X. Today’s do-or-die assignment? Assemble a collection of cons, including Bloodsport, Peacemaker, Captain Boomerang, Ratcatcher 2, Savant, King Shark, Blackguard, Javelin and everyone’s favorite psycho, Harley Quinn. Then arm them heavily and drop them (literally) on the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese. Trekking through a jungle teeming with...
- 3/26/2021
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Following on from James Gunn revealing the poster for the upcoming ‘The Suicide Squad’, the movies first trailer has landed for our viewing pleasure.
The part-sequel/part-reboot will see Rick Flag, Bloodsport, Peacemaker, Captain Boomerang, Ratcatcher 2, Savant, King Shark, Blackguard, Javelin and Harley Quinn armed and dropped into the enemy-infused jungle island of Corto Maltese.
With militant adversaries and guerrilla forces at every turn, the Squad is on a search-and-destroy mission while Amanda Waller’s techies track their every movement and threaten to kill them if they get out of line.
The film’s cast includes Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, and Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang all reprise their roles from David Ayers 2016 offering. Additional cast members include Idris Elba is playing Bloodsport, Alice Braga is playing Sul Soria, Pete Davidson is playing Blackguard, Michael Rooker is playing Savant,...
The part-sequel/part-reboot will see Rick Flag, Bloodsport, Peacemaker, Captain Boomerang, Ratcatcher 2, Savant, King Shark, Blackguard, Javelin and Harley Quinn armed and dropped into the enemy-infused jungle island of Corto Maltese.
With militant adversaries and guerrilla forces at every turn, the Squad is on a search-and-destroy mission while Amanda Waller’s techies track their every movement and threaten to kill them if they get out of line.
The film’s cast includes Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, and Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang all reprise their roles from David Ayers 2016 offering. Additional cast members include Idris Elba is playing Bloodsport, Alice Braga is playing Sul Soria, Pete Davidson is playing Blackguard, Michael Rooker is playing Savant,...
- 3/26/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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