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 the interwebs. 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 Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (Michael Bay)
For better or worse, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is the purest distillation of Michael Bay’s cinematic voice. Bay’s favorite themes recur here from his brand of cheerleading GI Joe patriotism to righteous bloodlust to endlessly off-color non-sequiturs. And years of carpet bombing criticism targeted at his continued lack of political correctness and subtlety have...
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (Michael Bay)
For better or worse, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is the purest distillation of Michael Bay’s cinematic voice. Bay’s favorite themes recur here from his brand of cheerleading GI Joe patriotism to righteous bloodlust to endlessly off-color non-sequiturs. And years of carpet bombing criticism targeted at his continued lack of political correctness and subtlety have...
- 5/27/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Amir here, to share with you a podcast conversation about my favorite film of 2014. I first watched Jafar Panahi’s Closed Curtain at the Toronto Film Festival almost a full year ago. It was my last film of the festival and I debated long and hard if a late night slot after ten gruelling days of film-watching was a smart idea. Eventually I opted to give my all to the festival. Boy, am I glad I did.
Panahi has been slapped with a 6-year house arrest and a 20-year filmmaking ban in Iran on charges of political dissent but has since twice broken the ban in three years. His first attempt, This Is Not a Film, was a heated, frustrated attempt at circumventing the ban with a Diy documentary made in the confines of his living room, shot partly on an iPhone and reportedly snuck out of Iran on a Usb stick in a cake!
Panahi has been slapped with a 6-year house arrest and a 20-year filmmaking ban in Iran on charges of political dissent but has since twice broken the ban in three years. His first attempt, This Is Not a Film, was a heated, frustrated attempt at circumventing the ban with a Diy documentary made in the confines of his living room, shot partly on an iPhone and reportedly snuck out of Iran on a Usb stick in a cake!
- 8/29/2014
- by Amir S.
- FilmExperience
Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life tops Film Comment's list of the "Best Released Films of 2011," an annual year-end survey of film critics, editors, and past and present contributors — over 120 of them this year — so the magazine has put Kent Jones's beautiful essay from the July/August issue online (even if you don't admire the film as much as he does, you'll know that this is a must-read), and the Film Society of Lincoln Center is screening The Tree of Life through Tuesday.
The "Released" list goes as far as 50; the "Best Unreleased Movies of 2011" list runs to 52. At #1 is Jafar Panahi's This Is Not a Film; #2: Béla Tarr's The Turin Horse. There's been some grumbling among the tweeting set, by the way, that this list is too crowded with films that have scored distribution deals and will indeed be seeing a theatrical run sooner or later.
The "Released" list goes as far as 50; the "Best Unreleased Movies of 2011" list runs to 52. At #1 is Jafar Panahi's This Is Not a Film; #2: Béla Tarr's The Turin Horse. There's been some grumbling among the tweeting set, by the way, that this list is too crowded with films that have scored distribution deals and will indeed be seeing a theatrical run sooner or later.
- 12/17/2011
- MUBI
While Occupy Wall Street goes global, Martha Colburn has made two short films documenting the movement and Cinefoundation launches #OccupyCinema. One of the more popular recent Ows speakers has, of course, been Slavoj Žižek, and Anne Thompson reports that he and Sophie Fiennes have just completed shooting on their followup to The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, the timely Pervert's Guide to Ideology.
Even as This Is Not a Film runs a sort of victory lap through the festival circuit since its triumphant premiere in Cannes, an appeals court in Tehran has upheld the sentence against Jafar Panahi many of those same festivals have been protesting for practically a year now. Laurent Maillard, reporting for the Afp, turns to a government-run newspaper in Iran for confirmation: "The charges he was sentenced for are acting against national security and propaganda against the regime." Maillard: "Panahi was convicted in December last year over...
Even as This Is Not a Film runs a sort of victory lap through the festival circuit since its triumphant premiere in Cannes, an appeals court in Tehran has upheld the sentence against Jafar Panahi many of those same festivals have been protesting for practically a year now. Laurent Maillard, reporting for the Afp, turns to a government-run newspaper in Iran for confirmation: "The charges he was sentenced for are acting against national security and propaganda against the regime." Maillard: "Panahi was convicted in December last year over...
- 10/16/2011
- MUBI
"She is a double victim: my victim, and a victim of the press," says the subject of Laurent Bouzereau's documentary, Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, which saw its world premiere at the Zurich Film Festival last night. Kevin Dolak of ABC News calls this statement Polanski's "first public acknowledgement about Samantha Geimer, the 13-year-old model he sexually assaulted in Los Angeles," even though he goes on to mention the letter of apology Polanski sent to Geimer in 2009. Surely the director would have assumed that this would amount to a public acknowledgment? Regardless, the new documentary evidently consists primarily of interviews Polanski's friend and producer Andrew Braunsberg conducted while the filmmaker was under house arrest in Gstaad and "reportedly shows Polanski's side of the story." IndieWIRE's Nigel M Smith notes that Polanski also discusses his childhood, his work and the violent murder of Sharon Tate.
The premiere capped an...
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- 9/29/2011
- MUBI
Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, who co-directed This Is Not a Film with Jafar Panahi, was all set to fly to Paris and then onto to Toronto on Monday when Iranian authorities pulled his passport and confiscated his baggage, including his laptop and notebooks, at Tehran Airport. Clementine Hugot, head of Wide Management, tells Variety's Nick Vivarelli: "We are very worried about the situation" … Janusz Morgenstern, who, besides directing his own films, also worked with Andrzej Wajda, was 89 … The invaluable journal Senses of Cinema is looking to raise at least $15,000 in order to remain a free online publication … World Cinema Now is a new blog that'll become very active indeed in the run-up to the conference in Melbourne (September 27 through 29) … New DVDs reviewed in Slant: Phil Coldiron on Pedro Costa's Ne change rien and Corneliu Porumboiu's Police, Adjective, Glenn Heath Jr on Lindsay Anderson's If.… and Budd Wilkins on Brian De Palma...
- 9/7/2011
- MUBI
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