Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI, and sign up for our weekly email newsletter by clicking here.NEWSKristen Stewart in Olivier Assayas's Personal Shopper (2016).The next film directed by Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson and Dick Johnson is Dead) will star Kristen Stewart as…Susan Sontag. Based on Ben Moser’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Sontag: Her Life, the project will have some hybrid-doc elements, as we might expect from Johnson: according to Screen Daily, Johnson will film an interview with the actress about her preparation for the role at the Berlinale, where Stewart is jury president.Richard Ayoade will direct and star in an adaptation of George Saunders’s The Semplica Girl Diaries, with casting currently underway.New Spanish Cinema luminary Carlos Saura died last week aged 91. His best-known films depicted and critiqued life under the Franco dictatorship, like La Caza...
- 2/15/2023
- MUBI
"Even though he ran an airline, he would get the kids to school. We were a happy five-some…" MTV Doc Films has revealed an official trailer for the indie doc film Last Flight Home, a very personal story from acclaimed doc filmmaker Ondi Timoner. This first premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and just stopped by the prestigious Telluride Film Festival this month. In his final few days, we discover Eli Timoner and an extraordinary life of wild achievements, tragic loss and most of all, enduring love. Last Flight Home shares a stunning verité account of a courageous family confronting life and death. The film is about a man who decides to terminate his own life and in the 15-day waiting period recounts his stories, which Ondi has turned into this doc. "As they open up their lives to offer an enlightening view of a universal experience,...
- 9/11/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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