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Hulu is one of the best places to find the best movies and TV shows you can watch on any streaming service. Every month, it adds hundreds of new titles to its content library. For instance, this month, we are getting the much-anticipated Season 2 of Nine Perfect Strangers and a new original film titled Summer of 69, but with that, some titles have to leave the service for a number of reasons. So, today, we are here to tell you about the best film you should watch before it leaves Hulu in May 2025.

Kandahar (May 16) Credit – Open Road Films

Kandahar is a spy action thriller film directed by Ric Roman Waugh from a screenplay by Mitchell Lafortune. The 2023 film is loosely based on true events, and it follows Tom Harris, a freelance undercover operative working for the CIA with his translator.

The isolation of the Wild West, the ever-present danger of starvation, unforgiving terrain, and the rougher way of life in period settings make westerns well suited to the horror genre. Yet it’s not often that the two genres cross paths; the horror western is a niche subgenre compared to horror’s other genre pairings, like the horror-comedy.

Even the horror western’s more well known entries, like Near Dark or Ravenous, don’t appear on streaming often. Luckily, there are plenty of other entries in the horror western category on streaming, some overlooked, that capture the tension, isolation, and danger of the wild frontier.

Here’s where to stream five of them this week.

For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.

Bone Tomahawk – AMC+, Hoopla, Netflix, Pluto TV, Roku Channel

When unseen attackers swoop in one night and steal horses and a few town residents, the town...

Tim Roth's career has been "healthily messy".The 63-year-old actor has starred in a host of well-known movies, including 'Reservoir Dogs', 'Pulp Fiction' and 'The Hateful Eight' - but Tim admits that there's also been a chaotic element to his career.The London-born film star told The Hollywood Reporter: "My feeling is that the career that I was after was anarchy. I always like that - and chaos. "So, I always do a film to finance another film. Because a lot of these films that I love to do, these crazy films I love to do, have no money. They’re the little independent things that are trying and are struggling to be made even more now than ever. So you got to do the ones that finance them. But sometimes they are terrible, and sometimes they are great, and sometimes the little independents don’t work.

British actor Tim Roth drew a big crowd and much applause with a masterclass at the 15th edition of the Luxembourg City Film Festival (LuxFilmFest) last week, in which he discussed such topics as his work with Tupac Shakur, Quentin Tarantino and Werner Herzog and how he prepared for his first TV role as a racist skinhead.

He was one of the big names attending the anniversary edition of the fest, along with the star-studded jury, which was led by Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof and also included Danish actress Trine Dyrholm (The Girl With the Needle, Poison), Austrian actress Valerie Pachner (Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, A Hidden Life), L.A.- and Luxembourg-based VFX expert Jeff Desom (Everything Everywhere All at Once), Spanish director Albert Serra (Afternoons of Solitude), and screenwriter Paul Laverty. The festival has also featured a masterclass by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro Amenábar.

As part of his busy Luxembourg schedule,...

“Divergent” franchise producer Pouya Shahbazian has revealed the investors and the first productions planned for his recently-founded Staircase Studios AI, a film, television, and gaming studio centered on an AI workflow. The venture aims to produce more than 30 projects in the next 3-4 years at budgets under $500,000.

The key members of the team include partner and lead investor Kenneth Lerer, who co-founded The Huffington Post and is managing director emeritus of the venture capital firm Lerer Hippeau. Additional investors are Aryeh Bourkoff, CEO of Liontree; Robert Pittman; Tad Haley of Rafiki Ventures; and venture capital firm Red Sea Ventures.

Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura (“Transformers”) is an advisor to Staircase Studios.

“After packaging and selling 150 projects into the studio system over the past 15 years, I’ve borne witness to far too much inefficiency to continue the status quo,” said Shahbazian, Staircase’s CEO. “The past year, I’ve dedicated myself to...

Less than two years after making Memory, in which Jessica Chastain falls for a man with galloping dementia, Mexican director Michel Franco has once again set her on a romantic obstacle course in which nothing, including her own moral compass, runs smoothly. As the monstrously moneyed patron of arts organizations in both the United States and Mexico, she is involved in a passionate but discreet liaison with a Mexican ballet dancer, Fernando (Isaac Hernandez). Separated by status, money, ethnicity and a border that the footloose Fernando is forbidden to cross, these star-tangled lovers lurch towards an inevitably messy endgame.

Do we care? Not really. As a heartbreaker, Dreams is flat and entirely affectless. We first encounter Fernando walking away from a truck somewhere near the border, one of a gaggle of hopeful braceros who are systematically robbed by the traffickers before being tipped out into the borderland desert. There is...

The Match Factory has officially launched sales on Michel Franco’s upcoming movie Dreams at the AFM in Las Vegas, having been attached to the film for the past year.

The second collaboration between Franco and Jessica Chastain, the film is in post-production and Tmf is sharing a first promo with buyers.

Chastain plays socialite and philanthropist Jennifer, whose young ballet dancer lover Fernando leaves everything behind in Mexico to join her in the U.S., narrowly escaping death in the process.

He believes she will support him in his dreams of being internationally recognized and living in the U.S. His arrival disrupts Jennifer’s world, and she will do anything to protect both their futures—and the carefully curated life she’s built.

Isaac Hernández co-stars as the young dancer. He is currently a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre,...

The Match Factory has launched sales for the new feature by acclaimed Mexican director Michel Franco, “Dreams,” at the American Film Market, and made a promo available for buyers. The film marks the second collaboration between the director and Jessica Chastain.

Variety revealed in July that the Match Factory would be the sales agent on the project (here).

Franco’s “Memory,” starring Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, premiered last year in competition at the Venice Film Festival, where Sarsgaard was awarded the Coppa Volpi for best actor.

“Dreams” features Chastain in the leading role, alongside dancer Isaac Hernández. Currently a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre, Hernández has worked with the English National Ballet in London, the San Francisco Ballet, and most of the major ballet companies. He made his acting debut in the film “The King of All the World” (2021). The cast also includes Marshall Bell (“Stand by Me”), and Rupert Friend.

The long-awaited Salem's Lot remake just released its first trailer and the movie now has my full attention. The adaptation of Stephen King's Salem's Lot, directed by Gary Dauberman, promises to be a fairly faithful adaptation of Stephen King's book with some added flourishes. It tells the story of writer Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman), who returns to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot to find inspiration for his next book, which he hopes to find in the local "haunted" house in the town. In my favorite Stephen King trope, Ben soon finds that a creeping, malevolent evil is slowly taking over the town.

I'm really excited to see what the movie has in store, and the first trailer for the Salem's Lot remake has filled me with hope. The vampire Kurt Barlow is one of Stephen King's more terrifying yet underrated villains, and if his appearance in the 2024 remake can...

To the chagrin of many Stephen King fans, Salem’s Lot — the latest movie adaptation of the horror master’s 1975 bestseller — will bypass theaters and debut on Max.

So we’ll be deprived of the big screen experience, and non-subscribers will have a hard time accessing the film.

That’s the bad news.

(Max (YouTube screenshot))

The good news is that early buzz about the project has been ecstatic, and a new trailer released today promises a suitably spine-tingling experience.

Over the familiar strains of Gordon Lightfoot’s “Sundown,” author Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman) “returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book, only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.”

The film also stars Alfre Woodard, Makenzie Leigh, Bill Camp, and William Sadler.

Days Of Our Lives Spoilers For The Week of 9-16-24 Promise An Explosive...

The 1975 Stephen King horror classic Salem’s Lot is coming back to life, with a new feature-length adaptation heading to Max on October 3.

A new trailer, set against the backdrop of Gordon Light’s 1974 song “Sundown,” gives a peak of what happens when killer vampires descend on the sleepy Maine town of Jerusalem’s Lot.

This new adaptation of King’s novel – starring Lewis Pullman, Makenzie Leigh, Bill Camp, Pilou Asbæk, Alfre Woodard, and William Sadler – was written and directed Gary Dauberman, the co-writer on the 2017 adaptation of It and the 2018 sequel It Chapter Two.

When it comes to Stephen King adaptations, it really can go one of two ways. Sometimes you get a Stand By Me, The Shining, or The Shawshank Redemption; and other times you get a Pet Sematary (1989), a Dark Tower, or, well, another Pet Sematary (2019). And after numerous delays and scrapped theatrical release plans stateside, you could be forgiven for thinking that Gary Dauberman's upcoming take on King's vampire classic Salem's Lot — already well adapted before as a miniseries back in 1979 — is bound to be one of those other times. But if the atmospheric new trailer for the It Chapter One and Two writer's sophomore directorial effort is anything to go by, then we may actually have another King-worthy banger on our hands. Check it out below:

"I've always written stories about things that are so terrible you'll run away until your brain won't remember." So says Lewis Pullman's...

The much talked-about reboot of Stephen Kings Salems Lot is finally hitting Max on October 3 after a lengthy delay, and we now have our first trailer for the new horror adaptation which showcases all the creepy elements weve come to expect from a King film. Set to the tune of Gordon Lightfoots "Sundown," the trailer takes us deep into the heart of the Lot to reveal a barrage of impressive visuals, including a sheet-covered corpse sitting up in the morgue, a child with glowing eyes, and Lewis Pullmans Ben Mears looking back over his shoulder to see a plethora of vampires perched on the rooftops of some local buildings bathed in ominous mist. Check out the full trailer below.

Also starring Makenzie Leigh as Susan Norton, Alfre Woodard as Dr. Cody, Bill Camp as Matthew Burke, and Pilou Asbk as Richard Straker, this will be the third incarnation of Salems...

Max has revealed the official trailer for its new adaptation of Stephen King’s 1975 book, Salem’s Lot.

The story follows Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman), a writer who returns to his hometown of Salem’s Lot in Maine to complete his novel, only to find that the town has been cursed with vampires. The trailer shows various residents of Salem’s Lot attempting to thwart attacks from vampires, end the mysterious curse, and make it out alive. It’s also soundtracked to an eerie rendition of Gordon Lightfoot’s “Sundown,” serving as a reminder of the vampires’ nighttime terrors. Watch the trailer below.

Directed and written by Gary Dauberman (known for his work helming The Conjuring universe), the new film is the first feature adaptation of King’s original novel. Previously, Salem’s Lot was adapted into a two-part miniseries in 1979 as well as in 2004. The new movie has been in the works for over four years,...

There’s no description of Levan Akin’s Crossing that won’t make it sound like the kind of feel-good dramedy which would have taken Sundance by storm in 2006. It has all the key ingredients: an inter-generational friendship forged between a curmudgeonly retired teacher and a young burnout desperate to escape his hometown; an epic road trip where they come to understand each other more; and the older of the two confronting her internal bigotry as they search for her transgender niece. Above all, any description makes this sound like the worst kind of LGBTQ story, which we finally seem to have moved past as a culture––the story of queer people aimed firmly at a straight audience. It’s understandable why anybody would be skeptical of Crossing, or at least consider it outdated if not ill-intentioned, from a distance.

But as with And Then We Danced, his debut that emerged at the 2019 Directors’ Fortnight,...

International rights to “Dreams,” the next film from Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco, whose “Memory” competed at Venice last year, will be sold by his regular partner The Match Factory.

“I usually work with The Match Factory, and we have an ongoing collaboration,” he tells Variety at Karlovy Vary Film Festival. “So, yeah, I like to stick with people [I know]. Why change when things are working out? It’s a great company. And I have certain distributors in certain countries that keep buying my films. And that’s, I think, how you build audiences.”

He says that he is still editing the film, so it may not be ready for Venice. “I don’t think it would be ready. I wouldn’t want to rush it. And I’m here [in Karlovy Vary]. I’m not obsessed with rushing [to finish films].”

“Dreams” will star Jessica Chastain, who also headlined “Memory,” as well as Rupert Friend and Isaac Hernández.

Henry Kissinger may have only died in November, but the controversial politician is already set to get the satirical comedy treatment.

Tim Roth, Robin Wright, Mary-Louise Parker, Lucy Hale, David Cross, Jimmy O. Yang, Rob Corddry and Dylan Penn are in talks to star in the feature film “Kissinger Takes Paris,” set during Kissinger’s younger, pre-Vietnam War years.

Roth (“The Hateful Eight,” “Sundown”) will star as Kissinger, while Jeff Stanzler will direct from his screenplay, and Claude Dal Farra and Brian Keady of Bcdf Pictures (“To Leslie”) are producing along with Stanzler. CAA Media Finance and Concourse Media are co-representing domestic rights, and Concourse is handling international rights, with sales launching at Cannes.

The film — likened to political satires such as “Don’t Look Up” and “Wag the Dog” — is set to tell the (mostly) true story of when Kissinger, described as “a middle-aged, politically washed-up Harvard professor,” traveled to...

Harvey Keitel transforms into a guru named Marpa, who becomes the spiritual guide of a young girl named Mila (played by “Les Miserables” actor Isabelle Allen), in Italian director Louis Nero’s futuristic drama “Milarepa.”

Set in a “no tech” near future, the English-language indie film – with a cast also comprising F. Murray Abraham; Angela Molina; Franco Nero (no relation to the director); Diana Dell’Erba; Mexico’s Iazua Larios (“Sundown”) and Italy-based Japanese actor Hal Yamanouchi (“The Wolverine”) – just wrapped principle photography on the island of Sardinia, where it made ample use of its ancient megalithic stone constructions, dunes and craggy landscapes. See an exclusive first-look image of Keitel above.

“Milarepa” is a co-production between the director’s L’Altrofilm shingle, British producer Jake Seal’s Black Hanger Studio and Louisiana-based Orwo Studio USA. Orwo Distribution is handling international sales.

The executive producers are Zeno Pisani and Giovanna Maddalena.

The story...

In 2021, Daisy Kent appeared in a music video with an up-and-coming rapper. The raunchy lyrics went viral after she joined Season 28 of The Bachelor. The Minnesota native explained why she appeared in the video and if she regrets it. Keep reading for all the details.

Daisy Kent Explains Why She Made Raunchy Music Video

It’s not uncommon for Bachelor Nation fans to do a deep dive into Bachelor and Bachelorette contestants’ social media history. But no one expected Daisy Kent from Joey Graziadei’s season to have such a spicy past.

Even though Daisy is now deaf, she used to be a young woman with aspirations of being a singer. She collaborated with burgeoning rapper Abe$ on the song “Sundown” nearly three years ago and starred in the music video, which went viral for all the wrong reasons.

Daisy Kent/Credit: ABC YouTube

The song includes sexually explicit lyrics.

The Bachelor is nearly over as Joey Graziadei will hand out his final rose this week.

With that, we should also find out who will be the next Bachelorette star.

For weeks there has been a debate about who will get that top spot with most The Bachelor viewers thinking it will be either Maria Georgas or Daisy Kent.

Even Reality Steve has weighed in on who he thinks it will be, and it’s clear that both women are a shoo-in for the leading role.

After all, Bachelor Nation adores Maria but Daisy is in the final two, so if she doesn’t get that final rose, the odds of being cast as The Bachelorette seem to be in her favor.

But one Bachelor alum thinks that Daisy won’t be The Bachelorette and has weighed in on why he feels that way.

Check out what Nick Viall had to say but be warned,...

Nick Viall doesn’t think ABC will choose Daisy Kent as the next Bachelorette after her Nsfw video resurfaces. Keep reading for all the details about the controversial video and why it might matter.

Reality Steve Says ABC Has Next Bachelorette Chosen

Bachelor Nation fans have been waiting for ABC to announce who will be the next Bachelorette. The network confirmed last month that Season 21 will air this summer, followed by the first Golden Bachelorette season in the fall.

Not even Bachelor spoiler guru Reality Steve knows who the network has chosen. However, his sources did reveal to him that a Bachelorette has been picked and will start filming soon.

According to Women’s Health, Reality Steve believes ABC might make an official announcement during the Season 28 After The Final Rose special on Monday. According to Rs, the choice will be between Maria Georgas, Kelsey Anderson, and Daisy Kent, depending...

This review was originally posted during TIFF 2023

Plot: After attending a high school reunion, a woman (Jessica Chastain) is followed home by a man (Peter Sarsgaard) with whom she has a history. Initially upset and thinking he’s a stalker, she learns that he has dementia and that if they have a history together, he can’t remember it.

Review: Michel Franco is a director whose work has grown steadily in stature over the last few years. I became aware of him after watching his class warfare drama New Order in 2020 and then his dark 2021 Tim Roth drama, Sundown. Both of those films were grim, and one might assume Memory, which deals with early onset dementia, sexual assault, and alcoholism, might be the same. While heavy, Franco’s made a profoundly empathetic and unlikely love story brilliantly acted by stars Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard.

Chastain’s Sylvia is a...

Memory, the latest film by Mexican writer/director Michel Franco, is a performance- and character-driven relationship drama that also doubles as a family drama, with hints of the melodrama and thriller genres. Sylvia (Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain), a 40-something care worker and recovering substance abuser, and Saul, a middle-aged man suffering from early onset dementia, meet under the most inauspicious and inappropriate of circumstances: He follows her home after making eye contact with her at a school reunion. She, in turn, rejects his advances and leaves the unwanted visitor outside her door to fend for himself. He doesn’t. She finds him the next morning outside her doorstep, still waiting...

[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...

All roads lead back to Kentucky for Jack Harlow in the first official trailer for No Place Like Home: A VR Concert. The concert and documentary special will premiere on Jan. 4 at 5 p.m. Pst via Meta Horizon Worlds featuring footage captured on the rapper’s third annual run of hometown shows.

In the trailer, Harlow stands in front of a thousands-deep audience while soaking in the love of his greatest champions. His stage production is simple, with few frills decorating the stage or distracting from the performance. At its core,...

This past Venice Film Festival saw the premiere of many critically acclaimed films, including Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, David Fincher’s The Killer, and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things. One of the biggest hits of the festival, Memory, saw Peter Sarsgaard beat out several major stars of the festival, including Michael Fassbender, Adam Driver, and Mads Mikkelson to win the highly lauded Best Actor prize. The film follows Sylvia (Jessica Chastain), a social worker, who leads a normal but very structured life, whose world is turned completely upside down after attending her high school reunion and is followed home by her former classmate Saul (Sarsgaard). Frightened at first, she soon realizes that Saul means her no harm but suffers from severe memory loss. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past. From Michel Franco, the director of Sundown and After Lucia, Memory...

It’s the final month of the year, which means much of our attention will be turned to sharing various best-of-2023 rundowns throughout December. The month also brings many of the year’s most noteworthy films, which we’ve rounded up before––some of which will be opening in a more limited capacity and expanding next month.

We should also note some top November picks like The Boy and the Heron and May December are finally getting in front of wider audiences, with the former getting a wide release on December 8 and the latter arriving on Netflix this Friday. For this round-up we’re also not including films getting limited one-week-only runs this month, such as Noora Niasari’s Shayda on December 1 and Ava DuVernay’s Origin and Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera on December 8.

14. Memory (Michel Franco; Dec. 22)

Every year there’s at least one film that premieres at...

Following acclaimed dramas like “New Order,” “Chronic” and “Sundown,” Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco has been gaining more and more international praise. While he’s worked with globally recognized names like Tim Roth, Hollywood has finally come knocking in a big way with his latest film, “Memory” which stars Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, who won the Best Actor Volpi Cup at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.

Continue reading ‘Memory’ Trailer: Jessica Chastain & Peter Sarsgaard Star In Michel Franco’s Acclaimed Drama Due Dec 22 at The Playlist.

"Why did you follow me home from the party?" Ketchup Entertainment (yes their real name) has unveiled the official trailer for an intimate drama titled Memory, the latest film (this one is in English set in NYC) by acclaimed Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco. This premiered at the 2023 Venice Film Festival as one of the final debuts, and it ended up winning Best Actor there. It also played at the AFI, London, San Sebastián, Chicago, and Zurich Film Festivals. Jessica Chastain stars as Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life. Everything changes when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past. Peter Sarsgaard co-stars, joined by Merritt Wever, Elsie Fisher, Brooke Timber, with Jessica Harper, and Josh Charles. Reviews are mostly positive, saying "Chastain & Sarsgaard are extraordinary as...

Slamdance has announced the winners of its annual screenplay competition, with Mike Ackerman’s feature-length script “This End Up” winning the grand prize.

Slamdance announced the awards — recognizing writers across the categories of feature film, horror/thriller, TV pilot, short film and a special mentorship award — during a ceremony held at Los Angeles’s Westwood Landmark Theater on Wednesday night. In total, the organization gave out more than $18,000 in prizes and industry services.

Per the official synopsis of “This End Up,” Ackerman’s winning screenplay follows “a sheltered man who lives his life quite literally, and physically, upside-down. When he finally meets a woman who accepts him as he is, her closed-minded family plants doubt as to whether his condition will stand in the way of her dream of an adventurous lifestyle.”

Anna Lee Lawson, the film festival and screenplay competition manager, commented on Ackerman’s work, saying, “Mike’s...

The race by the AMPTP and the WGA to get a deal done by sundown had plenty of folks thinking back to a very memorable episode of Entourage — Doug Ellin, included.

The creator of the HBO comedy was reminded Sunday on X about how the weekend negotiations between the AMPTP and the WGA sounded “like an Entourage storyline.”

Ellin replied, “And on Yom Kippur it sure does.”

Not sure what he’s talking about? Think back 16 years ago to the season 3 episode dubbed “The Return of the King.” The 2007 episode kicks off with the boys at the race track while Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven) is arriving at temple before the start of Yom Kippur. That’s when he runs into Nick Rubenstein (Adam Goldberg), the neurotic son of movie producer Phil Rubenstein who is making the movie Medellin with Paul Haggis.

The rub: Benecio Del Toro has walked away from...

Memory achieves the singular feat of being a love story we've never really seen before on-screen that, at the same time, feels immediately familiar. Trauma was a pervading theme among the movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival this year, and Memory is no different. Writer and director Michel Franco handles the film's heavy subject matter with care, nurturing the characters, particularly the ones played by Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, as they unravel and reveal their darkest truths to each other. Perhaps more importantly, the film never stops searching for the light, giving us hope in this messed-up world.

Making its North American premiere at TIFF, Memory finds Chastain's Sylvia battling her past after she meets Saul (Sarsgaard) at their high school reunion. A single mother who has just celebrated 13 years of being sober, Sylvia lives modestly and with utmost structure, working at an adult day care for...

I’ve always defended Michel Franco, not that he requires further support from numerous areas of the industry. But he’s been something of a critical punching bag and dartboard target since his rise to relative acclaim, his festival placements and jury awards not translating to similarly good ink, or unignorable theatrical exposure. An important factor is the hangover from Haneke’s reign as the most influential Euro-festival auteur and attendant backlash that arose towards his punitive sensibility, especially those that imitated it. Franco, who first developed his career in the Mexican arthouse world, does indeed initiate a certain type of pain, but also much empathy.

Akin to Östlund, and especially Lanthimos, Franco has begun naturally integrating himself into a transnational mode, skipping between production scales and national tongues at ease. And Jessica Chastain, having now shot a second feature with him (under a SAG-AFTRA waiver), is threatening to become his Emma Stone.

Michel Franco’s heartbreaking drama “Memory” earned a strong eight-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival on Friday night as stars Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard wiped away tears.

Franco, Chastain and Sarsgaard embraced as the audience cheered them on, with each taking their turn in the spotlight to accept the applause. After the crowd clapped for several minutes, Chastain was visibly emotional, dabbing at her eyes as she smiled with pride. Sarsgaard, too, got teary-eyed, and his wife Maggie Gyllenhaal was there to capture it all, taking a video of the ovation.

As she walked into the theater prior to the screening, Chastain signed autographs and took selfies with fans extensively, making sure the desires of nearly everyone in sight were met.

Directed and written by Michel Franco, the film also stars Peter Sarsgaard and Elsie Fisher. “Memory” centers around Sylvia (Chastain),a “social worker who leads a simple and structured life,...

Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. Ketchup Entertainment releases the film in select theaters on Friday, December 22, with expansion to follow on Friday, January 5.

Michel Franco’s “Memory” is in the tradition of movies about broken people coming together, with all the heartbreak and melodrama required.

But “Memory” bucks the tradition of the cold films previously made by the director of the apocalyptic 99-percent-uprising thriller “New Order” and high-school bullying drama “After Lucia.” They’re films that seem calm at the outset, but you wait for the other blood-dipped shoe to drop. That shoe never quite hits the ground in the peculiar and sensitive “Memory,” which stars Jessica Chastain as a 13-years-sober alcoholic who reconnects with a former school classmate, Saul (played by Peter Sarsgaard), at a reunion she doesn’t want to be at anyway.

Saul, as we eventually learn, has a...

Jessica Chastain made an impassioned appeal to U.S. actors, urging them to promote indie movies on Friday at the Venice Film Festival press conference for Michel Franco’s drama “Memory.”

“I was very nervous about coming,” said Chastain, who was wearing a black “SAG-AFTRA on Strike” T-Shirt, revealing that “there were actually some people on my team who advised me against it.”

Chastain then noted that actors are “often made to keep quiet in order to protect future working opportunities, and we are often told and reminded how grateful we should be. And that is the environment that I think has allowed work to be abused, to go unchecked for many decades. And is also the environment that has saddled members of our union with unfair contracts.”

Since “Memory” obtained an interim agreement from SAG-AFTRA, Chastain and co-star Peter Sarsgaard were present at the press conference.

“I am here...

Exclusive: It’s not a given that talent will attend premieres if their movie gets an interim agreement but we can confirm that Oscar winner Jessica Chastain and Emmy nominee Peter Sarsgaard will be on hand to spice up the premieres of new movie Memory both tomorrow in Venice and next week in Toronto.

Both actors are due to tread the red carpets and do press for the movie, which today was officially confirmed for an interim agreement. The movie was one of the last big Toronto and/or Venice movies to be officially confirmed for an interim agreement.

Michel Franco’s film gets its world premiere in Venice tomorrow and its North American premiere in Toronto on September 12th. The movie is among projects which could secure a North American deal out of the festivals.

Chastain will play Sylvia, a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter,...

Who said nothing good comes of high school reunions?

Michel Franco’s upcoming feature “Memory” follows Saul (Peter Sarsgaard) after he reconnects with former classmate Silvia (Jessica Chastain) at their reunion. After Saul stalks Silvia back to her home, the duo are forced to confront their shared past. The film will make its world premiere at 2023 Venice in competition, and has its North American debut at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.

Per TIFF’s synopsis, “Silvia works at a public home in New York City for adults struggling with mental health conditions. She leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. She meets Saul in the worst circumstances, after he has creepily followed her home from their high school reunion party and she finds him dripping wet and freezing outside her door the next morning. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as...

In one of their festival announcements, Toronto International Film Festival have unveiled some of the most exciting international offerings of the year with Wavelenghts. Featuring Jean-Luc Godard’s posthumous short Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars, Pedro Costa’s Daughters of Fire, Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Bas Devos’ Here, Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge 3, Phạm Thiên’s Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, Angela Schanelec’s Music, and much more, it’s quite an eclectic lineup.

“Wavelengths is a testament to the range of cinema celebrated at TIFF,” stated Anita Lee, Chief Programming Officer, TIFF. “It is also evidence that artist-driven experimental films are thriving and growing a new generation of cinephiles.”

“The increasing necessity to support artists willing to take risks, break rules, and challenge the status quo — especially in our over-saturated media landscape — bears repeating,...

The Toronto Film Festival has unveiled its Wavelengths program for artist-driven experimental work that includes films by avant garde directors Denis Côté, Radu Jude, the late Chantal Akerman and Wang Bing.

There’s selections for Isiah Medina’s He Thought He Died, an experimental heist film; Angela Schanelec’s Music, a retelling of the Oedipus myth; and Denis Côté’s Mademoiselle Kenopsia, which stars Larissa Corriveau and will first bow at the Locarno Film Festival.

Wavelengths also booked fiction debuts with Rosine Mbakam’s Mambar Pierrette, a portrait of a Cameroonian seamstress; and Phạm Thiên Ân’s Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, the Vietnamese director’s hypnotic first feature about a man haunted by past memories when returning to his hometown that picked up the Caméra d’Or in Cannes.

“The increasing necessity to support artists willing to take risks, break rules and challenge the status quo — especially in our over-saturated media landscape — bears repeating,...

A 4K uncut restoration of Chen Kaige’s 1993 Palme d’Or winner “Farewell My Concubine” is a highlight of the Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF) Classics strand while Jean-Luc Godard’s last film will feature in Wavelengths.

The Classics strand also includes Canadian producer-director Brigitte Berman’s Oscar-winning feature documentary “Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got” (1985), portraying the life of the clarinettist and bandleader, and, after decades of oblivion Jacques Rivette’s New Wave classic “L’amour fou” (1969), whose original celluloid elements were damaged in a fire. A 50th anniversary screening of “Touki Bouki” (1973), from Sengal’s Djibril Diop Mambéty and Ousmane Sembène’s “Xala” (1975), presented in 4K, complete the program. Classics is curated by Robyn Citizen, director of programming and platform lead, with contributions from Andréa Picard.

The Wavelengths strand has 12 feature films and 19 shorts, as well as a suite of four restored early films by...

Classics includes restored version of Jacques Rivette’s New Wave film L’amour Fou.

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has announced selections in the Wavelengths and Classics programmes ahead of the festival (September 7-17).

The expanded Wavelengths section offers 11 features and 19 shorts including the world premiere of Canadian artist and filmmaker Isiah Medina’s deconstructed heist tale He Thought He Died (pictured), Denis Côté’s Mademoiselle Kenopsia, and Angela Schanelec’s retelling of the Oedipus myth, Music.

“Wavelengths is a testament to the range of cinema celebrated at TIFF,” said Anita Lee, TIFF’s chief programming officer. “It is also evidence...

The Toronto International Film Festival has added an additional 17 films to its 2023 lineup, with the new entries the work of a variety of bold international directors, from Radu Jude and Kleber Mendonca Filho to the late Jean-Luc Godard and Chantal Akerman.

The Wavelength section contains 12 features, two films paired in a single program and 19 shorts grouped in three separate programs. It is devoted to “artist-driven experimental films,” in the words of TIFF Chief Programming Officer Anita Lee. “Wavelengths continues to be a celebration of subversion, personal expression, and the vast, inexhaustible capabilities of cinema to enlighten, inspire, awe, resist, disrupt, and propose new ways of seeing and being in the world.”

Films in the section include “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World” from the fiery Romanian satirist Radu Jude, “Here” from Belgian director Bas Devos,” the “Oedipus” retelling “Music” from Angela Schanelec, Brazilian Kleber Mendonca...

Carlos Reygadas is currently in production on his sixth feature film, Estela de sombra. We suspect that filming in taking place in his native Mexico. We had reported that Reygadas had received some coin and could possibly film portions of his next film in Poland. We conclude that the titled next project Wake of Umbra and Estela de sombra are one of the same – when translated it means “trail of shadow.”

Cristina Velasco who was a producer on Peter Greenaway’s Eisenstein in Guanajuato, and more recently Michel Franco’s last Venice preemed pair in New Order (2020) and Sundown (2021) will produce for Paloma Negra Films.…...

Sofia Coppola, Emerald Fennell, Yorgos Lanthimos, Pablo Larrain, Michel Franco and Bradley Cooper could all be on the Lido.

Alberto Barbera is closing in on his Venice Film Festival selection, with buzz around Yorgos Lanthimos’ sci-fi Poor Things, starring Emma Stone, Matteo Garrone’s migrant drama Io Capitano and Pablo Larrain’s dark comedy El Conde about Augusto Pinochet for the Competition.

Also potentially Lido-bound are Michael Mann’s Ferrari with Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz, David Michod’s comedy Wizards! with Pete Davidson, Naomi Scott and Orlando Bloom, and Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers starring Zendaya and Josh O’Connor.

Michel Franco,...

A live album by prolific Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who died on May 1 at age 84, will be released July 14.

At Royal Albert Hall is being billed as his final album, and was recorded at Lightfoot’s seventh appearance at London’s treasured venue in 2016. The double album includes many of his biggest hits, including “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Early Morning Rain,” “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” and more. Songs that have never appeared on previous live records, including “Beautiful” and “Don Quixote” are also featured, with performances by Rick Haynes on bass,...

Billy Joel paid tribute to the late Gordon Lightfoot by performing the Canadian songwriting legend’s “Sundown” Friday at the Piano Man’s monthly visit to Madison Square Garden.

“You might know him from the hit records he had,” Joel told the audience before launching into a minute-long rendition of the 1974 single, one of Lightfoot’s most revered tracks. “I want to say ‘thank you,’ and rest in peace Gordon Lightfoot.”

Joel then dedicated his own “The Downeaster ‘Alexa'” to Lightfoot, who Joel pictured singing the track when he wrote the Storm Front single.

Ottawa, May 2 (Ians) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a statement honouring legendary folk singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who died on Monday (U.S. Time) at the age of 84, reports ‘Variety’.

In his statement, Trudeau recalls meeting Lightfoot as a child, when his father Pierre was prime minister in the 1970s and ’80s. “I was deeply saddened to hear of the passing yesterday of Gordon Lightfoot, one of Canada’s greatest singer-songwriters,” Trudeau said, according to ‘Variety’.

“Mr Lightfoot gave us so many special moments over the years,” Trudeau added. “With a career that spanned over half a century, Mr Lightfoot’s music told stories that captured the Canadian spirit, none more so than his iconic ‘Canadian Railroad Trilogy’, which will forever be a part of our country’s musical heritage.”

A legend in his home country, notes ‘Variety’, Lightfoot’s biggest U.S. successes came in the 1970s. He topped...

Gordon Lightfoot, whose lyrics and vocals made him one of the most prominent folk singers of his era, passed away yesterday. He was 84.

Gordon Lightfoot remains best known for his 1976 song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, which chronicled the sinking of the titular freighter that left all 29 crew dead. That song reached #2 on the Billboard hot 100 and stands as one of the greatest story songs ever, thanks to lyrics like The captain wired in he had water comin’ in / And the good ship and crew was in peril / And later that night when his lights went outta sight / Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

But that was hardly Gordon Lightfoot’s only hit. Throughout his career, the singer-songwriter earned four Grammy nominations, including two for “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, losing Song of the Year to the Barry Manilow-penned “I Write the Songs” and Best Pop Vocal...

Gordon Lightfoot, the honey-voiced Canadian singer-songwriter who had giant U.S. hits with “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” died today at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. He was 84.

His longtime publicist Victoria Lord revealed the news to Canadian media outlets including the CBC but did not provide a cause of death. Revered in Canada, Lightfoot had been scheduled to play Los Angeles-area clubs several times during the past two years but had postponed the dates at least twice.

Born on November 17, 1938, in Orillia, Ontario, Lightfoot had been part of the Canadian folk scene for several years before he burst onto the international music charts in late 1970 with with “If You Could Read My Mind,” a gorgeous, ethereal track featuring his acoustic guitar and supple but assured vocal. The song hit No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 drawn from his Reprise LP Sit Down Young Stranger,...

Gordon Lightfoot — a genius-level Canadian singer-songwriter whose most enduring works include “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown,” “Carefree Highway,” “Early Morning Rain,” and “Rainy Day People” — died on Monday, the CBC confirmed. He was 84.

Lightfoot’s deceptively simple songs, which fused folk with pop and country rock, have been covered by everyone from Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash to the Grateful Dead, Barbra Streisand, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Buffett, and the Replacements.

He scored a series of hits in his native Canada throughout the Sixties,...