In writer-director Karen Cinorre’s visually enthralling, stunning debut, Mayday, it’s a semi-Hobbesian “war of all against all,” except the first “all” and the second “all” fall strictly along gender lines, pitting semi-suspecting men, some all-too-eager to play the heroes in their own mind, against a tight-knit group of young women, ferociously skilled fighters one and all, just as eager to prove they don’t need or want men to save them. That most of Mayday is set not in our socially, politically, and culturally stratified world, but in an oneiric, upside-down Oz crossed with Lord of the Flies where a never-ending war resembling World War II rages in and around a sun-drenched coastline. Spoiler: The men don’t stand...
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- 2/6/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Like the Sirens of Greek mythology dolled up in Wes Anderson-esque Girl Scout uniforms, the four young women in Karen Cinorre’s stylish yet surface-level feminist fantasy “Mayday” lure off-screen soldiers to their deaths with invented pleas for help. “They can’t resist a lady in distress,” says Marsha (Mia Goth), coaching newcomer Ana (Grace Van Patten) on how to craft an enticing Sos call. “They like their girls softer, with less authority.”
Debuting at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, “Mayday” joins recent female-revenge fantasies “Promising Young Woman” and “Assassination Nation” in imagining a scenario where women are mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore. Like those films, it’s simultaneously exhilarating and confused, in part because the patriarchy is too big a Goliath to be crippled by a single strident slingshot, no matter how accurate its aim. Still, it’s a thrill to see young filmmakers raging against the status quo,...
Debuting at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, “Mayday” joins recent female-revenge fantasies “Promising Young Woman” and “Assassination Nation” in imagining a scenario where women are mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore. Like those films, it’s simultaneously exhilarating and confused, in part because the patriarchy is too big a Goliath to be crippled by a single strident slingshot, no matter how accurate its aim. Still, it’s a thrill to see young filmmakers raging against the status quo,...
- 2/3/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: It’s A Sin actor Callum Scott Howells has signed with Duncan Millership at Anonymous Content.
The recent graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama plays Colin in Russel T Davies’ lauded new Channel 4/HBO Max AIDS drama, which marks Howells’ first screen role.
The five-part drama follows the joy and heartbreak of four friends growing up in the 1980s as the spread of AIDS tests their lives more than ever before. Also starring are Olly Alexander, Keeley Hawes, Neil Patrick Harris and Stephen Fry.
Howells was recently cast as Romeo in Gary Owen’s play Romeo and Julie, which was a co-production with the National Theatre and the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. He has also toured with Cameron Mackintosh’s production of the hit musical Oliver!, Matthew Bourne’s dance production Lord Of The Flies, and as part of several National Music Youth Theatre shows.
Howells...
The recent graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama plays Colin in Russel T Davies’ lauded new Channel 4/HBO Max AIDS drama, which marks Howells’ first screen role.
The five-part drama follows the joy and heartbreak of four friends growing up in the 1980s as the spread of AIDS tests their lives more than ever before. Also starring are Olly Alexander, Keeley Hawes, Neil Patrick Harris and Stephen Fry.
Howells was recently cast as Romeo in Gary Owen’s play Romeo and Julie, which was a co-production with the National Theatre and the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. He has also toured with Cameron Mackintosh’s production of the hit musical Oliver!, Matthew Bourne’s dance production Lord Of The Flies, and as part of several National Music Youth Theatre shows.
Howells...
- 2/1/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Ana’s (Grace Van Patten) restless sleep is punctuated with all sorts of strange things: nightmares about endless tunnels, worryingly quiet men, vintage bombers laden with airmen, and a clear voice spelling out “M A Y D A Y” via the phonetic alphabet. But all that, strange as it may seem, is at least better than her real life, complete with a dead-end catering job and a sense of invisibility that’s not only in her head. In Karen Cinorre’s fantastical, feminist “Mayday,” Ana shrugs off her earthbound existence for something that, at first, seems like her ticket to fulfillment and happiness. But thorny questions persist, even in the most compelling of dreamscapes, and
Ana’s life in a sterile seaside town isn’t a happy one, and when Cinorre’s feature debut opens, she’s starting another day that seems destined to be just like the ones before it.
Ana’s life in a sterile seaside town isn’t a happy one, and when Cinorre’s feature debut opens, she’s starting another day that seems destined to be just like the ones before it.
- 1/31/2021
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The island setting’s tangible existentialism made it a key figure for the burgeoning art cinema movement of the early 1960s: Through a Glass Darkly (1961), the first of many Ingmar Bergman films set on Fårö; Naked Island (1960), Kaneto Shindô’s lyrical depiction of a farming family’s hardships; Peter Brook’s adaptation of Lord of the Flies (1963); and Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’avventura (1960). Contra Rossellini, these are all films that marshal considerable aesthetic resources to suggest man’s estrangement from God. Most influentially, Antonioni allows his narrative to unspool when a society woman disappears during a pleasure cruise through the same rocky Aeolian Islands.>> - Max Goldberg...
- 11/18/2014
- Keyframe
The island setting’s tangible existentialism made it a key figure for the burgeoning art cinema movement of the early 1960s: Through a Glass Darkly (1961), the first of many Ingmar Bergman films set on Fårö; Naked Island (1960), Kaneto Shindô’s lyrical depiction of a farming family’s hardships; Peter Brook’s adaptation of Lord of the Flies (1963); and Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’avventura (1960). Contra Rossellini, these are all films that marshal considerable aesthetic resources to suggest man’s estrangement from God. Most influentially, Antonioni allows his narrative to unspool when a society woman disappears during a pleasure cruise through the same rocky Aeolian Islands.>> - Max Goldberg...
- 11/18/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
The Criterion Collection, the entertainment industry's most beloved and respected DVD, Blu-ray and digital release procurer and provider bar none, has just announced a stunning spate of Summer releases coming up in the next several weeks and months, among them new, restored DVD and Blu-ray editions of Peter Brook's visionary The Lord Of The Flies and the 1978 original French film upon which the Tony Award-winning La Cage Aux Folles was originally based.
- 6/17/2013
- by Pat Cerasaro
- BroadwayWorld.com
A couple of key new photos starting with the first photo of Ben Stiller in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. There's also a shot of "Castle" star Nathan Fillion in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, and some more photos from Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring.
Posters for R.I.P.D., Aftershock, The Wolverine, The Heat, Filth, Tarzan 3D, Much Ado About Nothing, The Way Way Back, The Bling Ring, Hummingbird, The Hangover Part III, and The Lone Ranger.
"William Friedkin, the director behind the original 'The Exorcist', says that 'there isn't one sequel to 'The Exorcist' that's worth a bucket of warm spit… I had nothing to do with them. If I had, I would be ashamed'…" (full details)
"Anthony Mackie says his character of Sam 'The Falcon' Wilson will be more than a cameo in the upcoming sequel 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'.
Posters for R.I.P.D., Aftershock, The Wolverine, The Heat, Filth, Tarzan 3D, Much Ado About Nothing, The Way Way Back, The Bling Ring, Hummingbird, The Hangover Part III, and The Lone Ranger.
"William Friedkin, the director behind the original 'The Exorcist', says that 'there isn't one sequel to 'The Exorcist' that's worth a bucket of warm spit… I had nothing to do with them. If I had, I would be ashamed'…" (full details)
"Anthony Mackie says his character of Sam 'The Falcon' Wilson will be more than a cameo in the upcoming sequel 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'.
- 4/16/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Criterion has revealed the following piece of art revealing clues as to what they will be offering in 2013. Commenters have already clued in to a few of the more obvious titles such as Harold Lloyd's Safety Last!, Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone, David Lynch's Eraserhead and Delmer Daves's 3:10 to Yuma as well as speculation on titles such as Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai, Federico Fellini's La Strada, Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata, David Cronenberg's Scanners, Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies and Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast. What titles do you see and what clues match your guesses?...
- 1/1/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Like so much of contemporary pop culture, “The Hunger Games” ravenously consumes ideas from other books and movies and repurposes them for its own needs. Not much digging is required to find plot elements from “The 10th Victim,” “Battle Royale,” “The Truman Show,” “Lord of the Flies,” “The Running Man,” and “Series 7: The Contenders,” alongside design ideas from “A Clockwork Orange” and even the infamously ridiculous “The Apple.” It’s easy to forgive this kind of thievery, however, when the perp actually does something with the stolen goods, and for whatever...
- 3/20/2012
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Reviewed by Amy R. Handler
(April 2011)
Directed/Written by: Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Stephen Spinella, Jack Plotnick, Wings Hauser and Roxanne Mesquida
Quentin Dupieux’s newest feature about a rogue tire-turned-serial killer — and obsessed stalker — is everything cinema should be but more often is not.
A tire?
Yes. A tire. All this 82-minute powerhouse asks of its audience is to pay strict attention and to keep an open mind.
“Rubber” is the story of a film director/lieutenant, dressed as a small-town sheriff, who is shooting a movie in the desert. His crew and cast consist of a bootlicking production assistant/accountant and several actors portraying deputies. A large audience, one of whom is wheelchair-bound, is given binoculars and told to stand at the top of a hill and await the show.
In the meantime, a tire arises on its own, falters and then steadies itself as it proceeds along a desert road.
(April 2011)
Directed/Written by: Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Stephen Spinella, Jack Plotnick, Wings Hauser and Roxanne Mesquida
Quentin Dupieux’s newest feature about a rogue tire-turned-serial killer — and obsessed stalker — is everything cinema should be but more often is not.
A tire?
Yes. A tire. All this 82-minute powerhouse asks of its audience is to pay strict attention and to keep an open mind.
“Rubber” is the story of a film director/lieutenant, dressed as a small-town sheriff, who is shooting a movie in the desert. His crew and cast consist of a bootlicking production assistant/accountant and several actors portraying deputies. A large audience, one of whom is wheelchair-bound, is given binoculars and told to stand at the top of a hill and await the show.
In the meantime, a tire arises on its own, falters and then steadies itself as it proceeds along a desert road.
- 4/1/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Amy R. Handler
(April 2011)
Directed/Written by: Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Stephen Spinella, Jack Plotnick, Wings Hauser and Roxanne Mesquida
Quentin Dupieux’s newest feature about a rogue tire-turned-serial killer — and obsessed stalker — is everything cinema should be but more often is not.
A tire?
Yes. A tire. All this 82-minute powerhouse asks of its audience is to pay strict attention and to keep an open mind.
“Rubber” is the story of a film director/lieutenant, dressed as a small-town sheriff, who is shooting a movie in the desert. His crew and cast consist of a bootlicking production assistant/accountant and several actors portraying deputies. A large audience, one of whom is wheelchair-bound, is given binoculars and told to stand at the top of a hill and await the show.
In the meantime, a tire arises on its own, falters and then steadies itself as it proceeds along a desert road.
(April 2011)
Directed/Written by: Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Stephen Spinella, Jack Plotnick, Wings Hauser and Roxanne Mesquida
Quentin Dupieux’s newest feature about a rogue tire-turned-serial killer — and obsessed stalker — is everything cinema should be but more often is not.
A tire?
Yes. A tire. All this 82-minute powerhouse asks of its audience is to pay strict attention and to keep an open mind.
“Rubber” is the story of a film director/lieutenant, dressed as a small-town sheriff, who is shooting a movie in the desert. His crew and cast consist of a bootlicking production assistant/accountant and several actors portraying deputies. A large audience, one of whom is wheelchair-bound, is given binoculars and told to stand at the top of a hill and await the show.
In the meantime, a tire arises on its own, falters and then steadies itself as it proceeds along a desert road.
- 4/1/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Robert Rodriguez's Machete -- which stars Danny Trejo, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, and Lindsay Lohan -- nabbed a Sept. 3 release date. The film follows a machete-carrying ex-Federale who is betrayed by a politician. So, friendly family fare for Labor day weekend. [Variety] Gwyneth Paltrow has indeed pulled out of filming The Danish Girl. According to her rep, "she pulled out of the film awhile back because the dates for filming and the location change." [Harper's Bazaar] Cybill Shepherd will join Jennifer Love Hewitt in an untitled Lifetime movie about "a body waxer at a woman's salon who is stunned...
- 4/19/2010
- by Kate Ward
- EW.com - PopWatch
Betty White rides again, laughter is back in style, a Hero falls, Lindsay Lohan works, and name that naked torso!
Mad Men was already dead to me with the way they treated Sal, and fortunately it will be dead to the world soon enough, as creator Matt Weiner says he won’t take the critical favorite past six seasons.
Forbes is smoking the good stuff, because they’ve got a list of the hardest working actors in Hollywood, and somehow stuck Seth Rogen at the top of the list, having never heard of Neil Patrick Harris’ four billion projects. They even find Seth to be busier than their #2, Morgan Freeman, and he’s in everything!
Critics seem to appreciate American Idiot, even if it’s not exactly what the New York City theater snobs would call a “musical.” Still, when it opens on Tuesday, they all agree that it will...
Mad Men was already dead to me with the way they treated Sal, and fortunately it will be dead to the world soon enough, as creator Matt Weiner says he won’t take the critical favorite past six seasons.
Forbes is smoking the good stuff, because they’ve got a list of the hardest working actors in Hollywood, and somehow stuck Seth Rogen at the top of the list, having never heard of Neil Patrick Harris’ four billion projects. They even find Seth to be busier than their #2, Morgan Freeman, and he’s in everything!
Critics seem to appreciate American Idiot, even if it’s not exactly what the New York City theater snobs would call a “musical.” Still, when it opens on Tuesday, they all agree that it will...
- 4/19/2010
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
Lord Of The Flies star James Aubrey has died at the age of 62.
The former child actor passed away at his home in Lincolnshire, England on 6 April after losing his battle with pancreatitis.
Born James Aubrey Tregidgo in Austria in 1947, the Brit scored his first role when he was just a schoolboy, handpicked by director Peter Brook to portray Ralph in the classic 1963 movie adaptation.
He went on to carve out a career on the stage and in British television, later landing a part in 1970s U.K. series Bouquet of Barbed Wire and its spin off, Another Bouquet, while his other film credits include 1983's The Hunger and Richard Attenborough's apartheid drama Cry Freedom in 1987.
Aubrey also starred in British detective series Dalziel and Pascoe, Silent Witness and Heartbeat, and appeared briefly as a child on Broadway, in the 1962 theatre flop Isle of Children, which closed after just 11 performances.
He is survived by his sister Janet Fleming, and his daughter Sarah, from a previous marriage, reports the New York Times.
The former child actor passed away at his home in Lincolnshire, England on 6 April after losing his battle with pancreatitis.
Born James Aubrey Tregidgo in Austria in 1947, the Brit scored his first role when he was just a schoolboy, handpicked by director Peter Brook to portray Ralph in the classic 1963 movie adaptation.
He went on to carve out a career on the stage and in British television, later landing a part in 1970s U.K. series Bouquet of Barbed Wire and its spin off, Another Bouquet, while his other film credits include 1983's The Hunger and Richard Attenborough's apartheid drama Cry Freedom in 1987.
Aubrey also starred in British detective series Dalziel and Pascoe, Silent Witness and Heartbeat, and appeared briefly as a child on Broadway, in the 1962 theatre flop Isle of Children, which closed after just 11 performances.
He is survived by his sister Janet Fleming, and his daughter Sarah, from a previous marriage, reports the New York Times.
- 4/18/2010
- WENN
By the New York Times
James Aubrey, a British actor who had his first role when he was an untrained schoolboy, portraying Ralph, the right-minded boy who strove to ward off the savagery of his fellow castaways in the 1963 film "Lord of the Flies," died on April 6 at his home in Cranwell, Lincolnshire, in central England. He was 62. The cause was pancreatitis, said his brother-in-law, David Flemi...
James Aubrey, a British actor who had his first role when he was an untrained schoolboy, portraying Ralph, the right-minded boy who strove to ward off the savagery of his fellow castaways in the 1963 film "Lord of the Flies," died on April 6 at his home in Cranwell, Lincolnshire, in central England. He was 62. The cause was pancreatitis, said his brother-in-law, David Flemi...
- 4/18/2010
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
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