With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Steve James)
Steve James’ filmography has long been about finding entry into larger conversations through intimate portraits. The director’s landmark debut, Hoop Dreams, and latter-day efforts like 2014’s monument to critic Roger Ebert, Life Itself, don’t have much in common on the surface, but they both use their central characters to tell larger stories about big picture topics like structural dysfunction and the purpose of film criticism.
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Steve James)
Steve James’ filmography has long been about finding entry into larger conversations through intimate portraits. The director’s landmark debut, Hoop Dreams, and latter-day efforts like 2014’s monument to critic Roger Ebert, Life Itself, don’t have much in common on the surface, but they both use their central characters to tell larger stories about big picture topics like structural dysfunction and the purpose of film criticism.
- 9/15/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
As previously announced, Thailand’s Chutimon ‘Aokbab’ Chuengcharoensukying will receive Screen International Rising Star Award.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema announced on Monday the updated roster of honourees at the upcoming 16th New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff).
China’s Duan Yihong and South Korea’s Gang Dong-won will receive the Star Asia Award, South Korea’s Jung Byung-gil will collect the Daniel E. Craft Award for Excellence in Action Cinema, and Eric Tsang will receive the Star Hong Kong Lifetime Achievement Award.
As previously announced, Thailand’s Chutimon ‘Aokbab’ Chuengcharoensukying will receive the Screen International Rising Star Award and stars in opening night selection Bad Genius.
Duan Yihong will receive his Star Asia Award on July 1 in recognition of his entire body of work and will be presented before screenings of Extraordinary Mission and Battle Of Memories.
This is the first time a Star Asia Award has been presented to an actor...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema announced on Monday the updated roster of honourees at the upcoming 16th New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff).
China’s Duan Yihong and South Korea’s Gang Dong-won will receive the Star Asia Award, South Korea’s Jung Byung-gil will collect the Daniel E. Craft Award for Excellence in Action Cinema, and Eric Tsang will receive the Star Hong Kong Lifetime Achievement Award.
As previously announced, Thailand’s Chutimon ‘Aokbab’ Chuengcharoensukying will receive the Screen International Rising Star Award and stars in opening night selection Bad Genius.
Duan Yihong will receive his Star Asia Award on July 1 in recognition of his entire body of work and will be presented before screenings of Extraordinary Mission and Battle Of Memories.
This is the first time a Star Asia Award has been presented to an actor...
- 6/19/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Asian Shadows is handling sales on the festival favourite.
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yang’s Soul On A String.
Hong Kong-based Asian Shadows is selling the film, which premiered at last year’s Shanghai International Film Festival, where it won best cinematography, before playing in Toronto, Busan, Chicago and Tallinn.
The film, which Film Movement plans to release in autumn 2017, follows a Tibetan cowboy who embarks on a mission to return a sacred stone to a holy mountain.
Asian Shadows also handled Zhang Yang’s previous film, Paths Of The Soul, which was released in North America by KimStim and Japan by Moviola in summer 2016.
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yang’s Soul On A String.
Hong Kong-based Asian Shadows is selling the film, which premiered at last year’s Shanghai International Film Festival, where it won best cinematography, before playing in Toronto, Busan, Chicago and Tallinn.
The film, which Film Movement plans to release in autumn 2017, follows a Tibetan cowboy who embarks on a mission to return a sacred stone to a holy mountain.
Asian Shadows also handled Zhang Yang’s previous film, Paths Of The Soul, which was released in North America by KimStim and Japan by Moviola in summer 2016.
- 3/14/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Author: Steven Neish
With the old-fashioned Western having long since ridden off into the proverbial sunset a new day is at last dawning on the genre in the east, and films as diverse as The Rover, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Theeb have wasted little time in exploring this fruitful new frontier. Now there’s another stranger in town, with Zhang Yang transplanting the familiar tropes to Tibet where he lets them intermingle with far less familiar traditions, in cinematic terms at least. Despite the director’s Chinese nationality, which in some quarters might be cause for some controversy amid cries of cultural appropriation, Soul on a String feels richly textured and credibly drawn. It is, after all, co-written by Tibet-born Tashi Dawa and performed entirely in Tibetan.
Soul on a String follows vagrant renegade Tabei (Kimba) on a redemptive pilgrimage to Palm Print Mountain, on a...
With the old-fashioned Western having long since ridden off into the proverbial sunset a new day is at last dawning on the genre in the east, and films as diverse as The Rover, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Theeb have wasted little time in exploring this fruitful new frontier. Now there’s another stranger in town, with Zhang Yang transplanting the familiar tropes to Tibet where he lets them intermingle with far less familiar traditions, in cinematic terms at least. Despite the director’s Chinese nationality, which in some quarters might be cause for some controversy amid cries of cultural appropriation, Soul on a String feels richly textured and credibly drawn. It is, after all, co-written by Tibet-born Tashi Dawa and performed entirely in Tibetan.
Soul on a String follows vagrant renegade Tabei (Kimba) on a redemptive pilgrimage to Palm Print Mountain, on a...
- 3/1/2017
- by Steven Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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