Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep (1996) is showing November 30 - December 30, 2017 in the United States and December 6 - January 5, 2018 in most countries around the world.An action movie star from Hong Kong, Maggie Cheung (played by Maggie Cheung) arrives in Paris and right off the airplane, exhausted and jet-lagged, finds herself in the production hell of an arthouse film that she was hired to star in. The movie is a creative (allegedly) remake of Louis Feuillade’s classic silent series Les vampires, helmed by an aging New Wave director René Vidal (Jean-Pierre Léaud). Vidal, way past his prime, doesn’t seem entirely certain about what he is doing and why but he is adamant about his vision of Maggie as Irma Vep (an anagram of ‘vampire’)—an acrobatic thief whose tight black garment is for the remake’s...
- 12/5/2017
- MUBI
Christmas + romance + cute puppies = A recipe for ratings success at Hallmark. The network known for its sappy made-for-tv movies hit it big over the Thanksgiving weekend with five nights of ratings gifts — making for its biggest week in network history. Among total viewers in cable, only “The Walking Dead” (and its companion “Talking Dead”) and NFL football did better than Hallmark’s Friday, Saturday, and Sunday movies.
The film “Switched for Christmas,” starring Candace Cameron Bure as identical twin sisters who swap lives for the holiday, became the most-watched telecast in Hallmark Channel history on Sunday night. The film averaged 5.8 million viewers after three days of DVR and video on demand usage. Mark Deklin, Eion Bailey, and Happy the Dog — see, it ticked all the Hallmark boxes — also starred.
Close behind, Saturday’s “Hallmark Hall of Fame” presentation, “The Christmas Train,” averaged 5.6 million viewers — beating the four broadcast networks on the night.
The film “Switched for Christmas,” starring Candace Cameron Bure as identical twin sisters who swap lives for the holiday, became the most-watched telecast in Hallmark Channel history on Sunday night. The film averaged 5.8 million viewers after three days of DVR and video on demand usage. Mark Deklin, Eion Bailey, and Happy the Dog — see, it ticked all the Hallmark boxes — also starred.
Close behind, Saturday’s “Hallmark Hall of Fame” presentation, “The Christmas Train,” averaged 5.6 million viewers — beating the four broadcast networks on the night.
- 12/2/2017
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Andrzej Żuławski's The Most Important Thing: Love (1975) is showing November 22 - December 22, 2017 in the United States.The DevilKiedy wszedłeś między wrony, musisz krakać jak i one.
(‘When among the crows, caw as they do.’)—Polish sayingAndrzej Żuławski’s That Most Important Thing: Love (1975) is unlike any film he ever made, and was certainly a departure in his visual sensibility relative to the feature films he had made previously in his native Poland: The Third Part of the Night (1971) and The Devil (1972). Narratively and visually, the film is at once an oddity and a turning point in Żuławski’s oeuvre, and in viewing it, it would benefit the viewer to understand the director’s experience with the French cinematic tradition and its effect on his own cinema.Żuławski was born into a well-known family of artists that spanned several generations in Poland,...
(‘When among the crows, caw as they do.’)—Polish sayingAndrzej Żuławski’s That Most Important Thing: Love (1975) is unlike any film he ever made, and was certainly a departure in his visual sensibility relative to the feature films he had made previously in his native Poland: The Third Part of the Night (1971) and The Devil (1972). Narratively and visually, the film is at once an oddity and a turning point in Żuławski’s oeuvre, and in viewing it, it would benefit the viewer to understand the director’s experience with the French cinematic tradition and its effect on his own cinema.Żuławski was born into a well-known family of artists that spanned several generations in Poland,...
- 12/1/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Akihiko Shiota's Wet Woman in the Wind (2016), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from November 24 - December 24, 2017 as a Special Discovery.Much like Hollywood, the Japanese film industry goes to the well as often as possible once it hits a lucky strike. Such was the case with the so-called Roman Porno films of the 1970s, an infamous genre of sexploitation primarily identified with Japan’s oldest major studio, Nikkatsu. Financial trouble necessitated a popular, inexpensive product, and these softcore numbers were just the ticket. This may have been the studio where Kenji Mizoguchi and Shohei Imamura made films early in their careers, but by 1971 the Roman Porno factory was in full swing, producing quick, cheap, titillating product for an audience hungry for female toplessness and a great deal of convulsive thrusting.
- 11/23/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Aleksei German, Jr.'s Under Electric Clouds (2015), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from November 10 - December 10, 2017 as a Special Discovery.All throughout Blade Runner 2049 I kept wondering why more of the film wasn't impressing me, despite so much of it being quite clearly so impressive. The lack came into sharper focus in hindsight. Where are the rest of the people? Where's an actual sense of life in 2049 L.A.? What happens here? What does it mean to live in this smog-ridden hellhole? The more the questions came to me, the more they started to feel like answers handed down by a complimentary and superior work of art. Under Electric Clouds is the film Blade Runner 2049 was attempting to be, give or take a couple of fist fights and explosions.
- 11/9/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Jean-Gabriel Périot's A German Youth (2016), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from October 27 - November 26, 2017 as a Special Discovery.I’ll never accept the tendency of the late capitalistic society, which leads us straight to fascism. You just have to look at what’s happening in the USA.—Gudrun EnsslinIn the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.—Rainer Werner FassbinderWhen fascists began getting punched this summer, and an excited wave of schadenfreude took hold, briefly, of the social-media trashcan, out came the liberal cavalry: in force. Punching Nazis, so went the cry, is at best the first step to moral oblivion and, at worst, already as bad as the people who want you dead. They are nothing if not predictable,...
- 10/27/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) is playing October 1 - 31, 2017 in the United States as part of the series Prelude to Halloween.For all of its social and cinematic influence, its current notoriety as the granddaddy of the contemporary zombie movie (and television show and comic book and videogame), George A. Romero’s 1968 debut, Night of the Living Dead, was a remarkably unassuming production. Shot in mid- through late-1967 on a budget of around $114,000, with a cast and crew of unknown actors and amateur locals, the film went on to accumulate an international gross of more than $30 million, setting the standard for a progressively popular horror sub-genre in the process. One now marvels at its systematic structure, its discerning formal design, its clever manipulation of time and space, and its shrewd exploitation of generic conventions.
- 9/28/2017
- MUBI
Kate Hudson can't help but smile when talking about her super sweet boyfriend.
Hudson and her beau, Danny Fujikawa, walked the red carpet together at the premiere of her new film, Marshall, at the Urbanworld Film Festival on Saturday, where the cute couple shined as they posed for photos
Photo: J. Countess/Getty Images
Fujikawa rocked a chic black-on-black ensemble, while Hudson shimmered in a stunning, skin-baring Stella McCartney gown.
The 38-year-old actress stopped to talk with Et's Carly Steel, where she praised her boyfriend -- who was nice enough to hold her clutch as she spoke with the press.
Watch: Kate Hudson Kisses New Boyfriend Danny Fujikawa During Red Carpet Debut at 'Snatched' Premiere
"He's standing very nicely, waiting," laughed Hudson as she smiled over at her handsome date. "He's the best! I've known him a long time."
Hudson and Fujikawa -- a singer-songwriter, producer and founder of Lightwave Records -- were first romantically...
Hudson and her beau, Danny Fujikawa, walked the red carpet together at the premiere of her new film, Marshall, at the Urbanworld Film Festival on Saturday, where the cute couple shined as they posed for photos
Photo: J. Countess/Getty Images
Fujikawa rocked a chic black-on-black ensemble, while Hudson shimmered in a stunning, skin-baring Stella McCartney gown.
The 38-year-old actress stopped to talk with Et's Carly Steel, where she praised her boyfriend -- who was nice enough to hold her clutch as she spoke with the press.
Watch: Kate Hudson Kisses New Boyfriend Danny Fujikawa During Red Carpet Debut at 'Snatched' Premiere
"He's standing very nicely, waiting," laughed Hudson as she smiled over at her handsome date. "He's the best! I've known him a long time."
Hudson and Fujikawa -- a singer-songwriter, producer and founder of Lightwave Records -- were first romantically...
- 9/25/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Without Glenn Close, “The Wife” wouldn’t be much to write home about. A reasonably satisfying literary drama that takes the old “great woman behind every great man” trope and turns it inside out, director Björn Runge’s film is a brightly lit, bluntly appealing solid lob right down the middle. It has a couple of nice reversals, two or three good laugh lines, and a caustic but not too acid skewering of cultural institutions. It goes down easy, it’s relatively unmemorable and it’s fine. Close, on the other hand, is exquisite.
The film sets up its central dynamic right from the start, when acclaimed author Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce) is awoken early morning with a call from Sweden — the call from Sweden every economist, scientist and author not named Bob Dylan spends their lives waiting for. And as the man from the Nobel committee reverentially rattles on,...
The film sets up its central dynamic right from the start, when acclaimed author Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce) is awoken early morning with a call from Sweden — the call from Sweden every economist, scientist and author not named Bob Dylan spends their lives waiting for. And as the man from the Nobel committee reverentially rattles on,...
- 9/17/2017
- by Ben Croll
- Indiewire
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Claire Simon's The Graduation (1936) is playing September 11 - October 11, 2017 in the United Kingdom and most countries around the world as part of We Don't Need No Education: A Back-to-School Series.The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.— Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro” “I hope it’s not just the quantity that counts. I said what I have to say.”— Applicant exiting exam hall, The GraduationFilm school: who needs it? In The Graduation (2016), Claire Simon’s account of the protracted admissions process at France’s most prestigious film school, La Fémis, the question is implicit—and the myriad answers are potentially troubling. Writing about the film in the New Yorker earlier this year, Richard Brody remarked: “Seeing, in Simon’s documentary, the directing candidates forced to analyze a scene,...
- 9/12/2017
- MUBI
Pink is using her voice to spread the message of true beauty to her supporters — starting with her daughter.
The 37-year-old singer stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show following her Aug. 27 appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards, where she gave an empowering speech during her acceptance of the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award (which Ellen DeGeneres presented her with).
“Out of the blue, she just said, ‘Mama?’ I said, ‘Yeah, babe?’ She goes, ‘I’m the ugliest girl I know,’ ” Pink recalled of the exchange between herself and daughter Willow Sage, 6, that she spoke of during her speech. “I was like,...
The 37-year-old singer stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show following her Aug. 27 appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards, where she gave an empowering speech during her acceptance of the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award (which Ellen DeGeneres presented her with).
“Out of the blue, she just said, ‘Mama?’ I said, ‘Yeah, babe?’ She goes, ‘I’m the ugliest girl I know,’ ” Pink recalled of the exchange between herself and daughter Willow Sage, 6, that she spoke of during her speech. “I was like,...
- 9/6/2017
- by Jen Juneau
- PEOPLE.com
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Jean Renoir's The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) is playing August 31 - September 30, 2017 in the United States as part of the series Jean Renoir.From the beginning, Jean Renoir embraced dualities. One wants to say he played with them, and that’s often true, but he also took them seriously. When these two things are happening at the same time, his work is imbued with a magic that still casts a spell, just as it did over French New Wave filmmakers of the 1960s who rightly took him as a father figure. A striking example of contrasting impulses, his first film on his own, La fille de l’eau (Whirlpool of Fate, 1925) is one of his open-air works—a heroine’s journey out in the world—but at its heart is a dream sequence and very theatrical. That set Renoir’s aesthetic course.
- 8/31/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Robert Flaherty's Moana with Sound (1926 / 1980) is playing August 30 - September 29, 2017 on Mubi in most countries around the world.Slowly, slowly, the tufunga taps his comb of bone needles into the young man’s lower back. His movements are practiced and precise, each tap marking the young man for the rest of his days. The young man winces in agony, sweat pouring down his face as his relatives wipe away the blood and excess ink with tapa cloth. A witch-woman stokes a fire and burns candlenut stalks to make more soot for the tufunga’s ink. The infernal tapping continues, now on his upper back, now on his flanks, now on his knees—the most painful part of the ceremony. Outside the hut, a crowd of men dance and sing. “Courage to Moana,” they cry, “Courage to Moana!
- 8/30/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Eduardo Williams' The Human Surge (2016) is playing August 11 - September 10, 2017 on Mubi in most countries around the world as part of the series Direct from Locarno.In the beginning, Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge (2016) feels like a womb—dark, watery, with something moving very quietly within it. It is difficult to know where we really are or what we are being shown until the camera suddenly emerges into daylight and we are then swaying through flooded streets before entering what turns out to be a dimly lit storage room of a supermarket. The film is constantly in movement—it travels from a dark room to a park, it traverses continents, houses, rooms, open spaces, underground spaces, waterfalls and into the darkest private spaces of family homes. There is a constant flux and one doesn’t know whether that is comforting or not.
- 8/24/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Jorge Thielen Armand's La Soledad (2016) will be showing August 19 - 24 at the Ica in London, and playing on Mubi from September 1 - October 1, 2017 in the United Kingdom. “One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.”—A. L. Rowse, The Use of HistoryI. End of Home. End of History.In Jorge Thielen Armand’s La Soledad, the home holds many histories. Belonging to the filmmaker’s great-grandparents, this home, dubbed ‘The Solitude’ by its original owners, is an ancient mansion that, in its dereliction, displays its years like folds in the skin. Each crack creeping down the wall, straggling weed searching up through the paving, or unidentifiable stain spreading across the wallpaper layers the building with historical information; each tiny mark made tells a small part of a larger, continuing story. From the start of his film about this place,...
- 8/18/2017
- MUBI
The news cycle surrounding Woody Allen these days tends to go as follows: Reminder of previous allegations, followed by announcement of new film, followed by talent in new project being asked about allegations, followed by new film receiving either critical acclaim or relative indifference, followed by new reminder of previous allegations.
Right now, we’re in the “announcement of new film” phase, with Tuesday’s casting of Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, and Selena Gomez in Allen’s upcoming untitled feature film. But that same morning, Hulu premiered the most savage takedown yet of not just Woody Allen’s modern day work as an auteur, but the cult of personality around him.
“Difficult People” in general and creator Julie Klausner in particular have never been shy about poking fun at certain topics the rest of Hollywood might consider taboo. Just consider the metric ton of jokes about Kevin Spacey’s sexuality...
Right now, we’re in the “announcement of new film” phase, with Tuesday’s casting of Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, and Selena Gomez in Allen’s upcoming untitled feature film. But that same morning, Hulu premiered the most savage takedown yet of not just Woody Allen’s modern day work as an auteur, but the cult of personality around him.
“Difficult People” in general and creator Julie Klausner in particular have never been shy about poking fun at certain topics the rest of Hollywood might consider taboo. Just consider the metric ton of jokes about Kevin Spacey’s sexuality...
- 8/9/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Hey, Ib Melchoir’s Opus Mars-us is back, in a not-bad new scan and color-grading job. If the nostalgia bug has bitten you deep enough to appreciate a fairly maladroit but frequently arresting space exploration melodrama, this may be the disc for you. Let’s be honest: Nobody can resist the allure of the fabulous Bat-Rat-Spider-Crab, and in glorious Cinemagic, no less.
The Angry Red Planet
Blu-ray
Scream Factory
1960 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 83 min. / Street Date June 27, 2017 / 17.28
Starring: Gerald Mohr, Nora Hayden, Les Tremayne, Jack Kruschen.
Cinematography: Stanley Cortez
Film Editor: Ivan J. Hoffman
Original Music: Paul Dunlap
Written by Ib Melchior from a story by Sid Pink
Produced by Norman Maurer & Sid Pink
Directed by Ib Melchior
Unjust though it may be, not all Savant reviews make the national news feed, but my old 2001 coverage of the pretty miserable MGM DVD of The Angry Red Planet got quoted all over the place,...
The Angry Red Planet
Blu-ray
Scream Factory
1960 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 83 min. / Street Date June 27, 2017 / 17.28
Starring: Gerald Mohr, Nora Hayden, Les Tremayne, Jack Kruschen.
Cinematography: Stanley Cortez
Film Editor: Ivan J. Hoffman
Original Music: Paul Dunlap
Written by Ib Melchior from a story by Sid Pink
Produced by Norman Maurer & Sid Pink
Directed by Ib Melchior
Unjust though it may be, not all Savant reviews make the national news feed, but my old 2001 coverage of the pretty miserable MGM DVD of The Angry Red Planet got quoted all over the place,...
- 7/15/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Jean Cocteau's The Blood of a Poet (1932) is playing July 5 - August 4, 2017 on Mubi in the United States as part of the series Cocteau's Poets.“…images born of cinema with the cosmogony of a poet.”—Henri Langlois on The Blood of a PoetThe films of Jean Cocteau have distinguished themselves among early twentieth-century cinema at large. This is due, arguably, to Cocteau’s works existing best as experiences rather than as proper films, and to their openness to interpretation. This is especially true of Cocteau’s The Blood of a Poet, made in 1930 but not shown publicly until 1932, and one which has inspired as many critical interpretations since the filmmaker’s death in 1963 as Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, or Bergman’s Persona. Like those works, The Blood of a Poet...
- 7/6/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Juho Kuosmanen's The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (2016) is playing July 1 - August 1, 2017 exclusively on Mubi in the United States.The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki is a subtle bait-and-switch of a film, but that’s okay. Certain generic conventions imply that it will head in a certain direction, but I don’t think it’s too much of a spoiler to tell you that it doesn’t. In fact, the refusal of Olli Mäki—the film and the man—to play by the rules is the most interesting thing it has going for it. The man, like the film, has a very clear trajectory mapped out in front of him, and a super-human form of concentration—the kind that makes “winners”—is demanded of him. Instead, Olli prefers to live a life of distraction,...
- 7/1/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Andrew Kötting's Edith Walks (2017) is playing June 29 - July 29, 2017 on Mubi in the United Kingdom.The faster we walk, the more ground we lose.—Iain Sinclair, Lights Out for the TerritoryIf there's a single date in English history that most of the country's population would know, it's 1066: the Battle of Hastings. They would hazily recall from wooden modular classrooms, stifling on a warm summer's afternoon, as they gazed out at heat rising from the tarmac playground, the tale of King Harold II, his cross-country march to war, and the Norman Conquest of the Anglo-Saxon realm. Perhaps the image of Harold as depicted on the Bayeux tapestry, an arrow protruding from his eye, would emerge from the palimpsest of history and linger on the fringes of their memory. The memories are much more immediate and painful for Edith Swan-Neck,...
- 6/27/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Luis Buñuel's Viridiana (1961) is showing June 17 - July 17 and The Exterminating Angel (1962) is showing June 18 - July 18, 2017 in the United Kingdom.ViridianaIt’s impossible to avoid describing the films of Spanish director Luis Buñuel as “surreal,” and yet to do so is woefully insufficient. This is for two reasons. In the first place, Buñuel never made one kind of film. In the second place, even his strangest films deal with social reality.Early in his career Buñuel did associate himself with the Surrealist art movement. Among his first productions were the infamous Un chien Andalou (1929) and L'âge d'or (1930), experimental narratives co-written by Salvador Dali in which bizarre and violent psychosexual incidents connect via absurd dream logic. It’s worth bearing in mind that the Surrealists never meant “surreal” to act as a mere label for the uniquely strange.
- 6/16/2017
- MUBI
The 2017 Cmt Music Awards took place in Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday, marking one of country music's biggest nights. Aside from superstars Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert taking the stage, A-list presenters included Ashton Kutcher, Hoda Kotb, Jada Pinkett Smith, Katherine Heigl and Reba McEntire.
Check out the list below to see all of tonight's winners as they are announced. (Winners in bold).
News: Luke Bryan and Jason Derulo to Reteam for Cmt Music Awards Performance
Video of the Year:
Carrie Underwood, “Church Bells”
Artists of Then, Now & Forever, “Forever Country”
Cole Swindell, “Middle of a Memory”
Florida Georgia Line, “H.O.L.Y.”
Keith Urban, “Blue Ain’t Your Color” *Winner*
Miranda Lambert, “Vice”
Luke Bryan, "Huntin', Fishin' and Lovin' Every Day"
Male Video of the Year:
Blake Shelton, “Came Here to Forget”
Eric Church, “Record Year”
Jason Aldean, “Lights Come On”
Keith Urban, “Blue Ain’t Your Color” *Winner*
Luke Bryan, “Huntin’, Fishin...
Check out the list below to see all of tonight's winners as they are announced. (Winners in bold).
News: Luke Bryan and Jason Derulo to Reteam for Cmt Music Awards Performance
Video of the Year:
Carrie Underwood, “Church Bells”
Artists of Then, Now & Forever, “Forever Country”
Cole Swindell, “Middle of a Memory”
Florida Georgia Line, “H.O.L.Y.”
Keith Urban, “Blue Ain’t Your Color” *Winner*
Miranda Lambert, “Vice”
Luke Bryan, "Huntin', Fishin' and Lovin' Every Day"
Male Video of the Year:
Blake Shelton, “Came Here to Forget”
Eric Church, “Record Year”
Jason Aldean, “Lights Come On”
Keith Urban, “Blue Ain’t Your Color” *Winner*
Luke Bryan, “Huntin’, Fishin...
- 6/8/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Norma Desmond may be ready for her close up, but Glenn Close wasn’t on Wednesday.
The three-time Tony winner — who has returned to the role of the famous fictional fading silent movie star 23 years after first playing it on Broadway in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s acclaimed musical Sunset Boulevard — stopped the matinee performance of the Broadway revival to scold an audience member who was taking a photo of her, multiple sources confirm to People.
The interruption came nearly halfway through Act I, during Desmond’s ballad “With One Look” — a song in which the cast-aside actress sings about her...
The three-time Tony winner — who has returned to the role of the famous fictional fading silent movie star 23 years after first playing it on Broadway in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s acclaimed musical Sunset Boulevard — stopped the matinee performance of the Broadway revival to scold an audience member who was taking a photo of her, multiple sources confirm to People.
The interruption came nearly halfway through Act I, during Desmond’s ballad “With One Look” — a song in which the cast-aside actress sings about her...
- 5/27/2017
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
This French disc release of the Jacques Tourneur classic gets everything right — including both versions in picture perfect transfers. Devil debunker Dana Andrews locks horns with Niall MacGinnis, a necromancer “who has decoded the Old Book” and can summon a fire & brimstone monster from Hell, no election fraud necessary. Even fans that hate ghost stories love this one — it’s a truly creepy, intelligent highlight of the horror genre.
Night of the Demon
Region A + B Blu-ray + Pal DVD
Wild Side (Fr)
1957 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 95 & 82 min. / Street Date November 27, 2013 / Curse of the Demon, Rendez-vous avec la peur / Available from Amazon UK or Foreign Exchange Blu-ray
Starring: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham,
Athene Seyler
Cinematography: Ted Scaife
Production Designer: Ken Adam
Special Effects: George Blackwell, S.D. Onions, Wally Veevers
Film Editor Michael Gordon
Original Music: Clifton Parker
Written by Charles Bennett and Hal E. Chester
from the...
Night of the Demon
Region A + B Blu-ray + Pal DVD
Wild Side (Fr)
1957 / B&W / 1:66 widescreen / 95 & 82 min. / Street Date November 27, 2013 / Curse of the Demon, Rendez-vous avec la peur / Available from Amazon UK or Foreign Exchange Blu-ray
Starring: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham,
Athene Seyler
Cinematography: Ted Scaife
Production Designer: Ken Adam
Special Effects: George Blackwell, S.D. Onions, Wally Veevers
Film Editor Michael Gordon
Original Music: Clifton Parker
Written by Charles Bennett and Hal E. Chester
from the...
- 5/20/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Miley Cyrus has reinvented herself once again with her new single, “Malibu”. With her new reinvention, Cyrus is looking back at her past and admits she has some regrets. One of those regrets is appearing naked on a wrecking ball in the “Wrecking Ball” music video. Related: Miley Cyrus Opens Up About Close Friendship With Katy […]...
- 5/17/2017
- by Jordan Appugliesi
- ET Canada
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveriesNEWShttps://tribecafilm.com/stories/tribeca-2017-jury-awardsFilmmaker Ricky D'Ambrose, who has made several excellent video interviews with directors for the Notebook, is kickstarting his feature debut, Notes on an Appearance. Above is a beguiling, cryptic teaser for the project. The Tribeca Film Festival wrapped last week (read our coverage) and the many awards have been announced, including Keep the Change for U.S. Narrative, Son of Sofia for International Narrative, Bobby Jene for Documentary, and Treehugger : Wawona for the immersive storytelling Storyscapes Award.Recommended VIEWINGSpeaking of Tribeca, the festival hosted a The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II reunion and on-stage conversation with director Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and more. Lucky for us, they broadcast and recorded the whole thing.Bill and Turner Ross's stellar documentary 45365, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at SXSW in 2009, is now free to stream online.
- 5/3/2017
- MUBI
Two days after the loss of beloved American filmmaker Jonathan Demme, the “Silence of the Lambs” and “Rachel Getting Married” director was still on the minds of everyone at the Tribeca Film Festival, including his “Philadelphia” star Tom Hanks and the man behind the film’s signature song, Bruce Springsteen.
The pair hit the Beacon Theatre on Friday evening for an hour-long chat as part of the festival’s Tribeca Talks series, and the discussion immediately turned to Demme, as the fest’s executive vice president Paula Weinstein introduced the duo and dedicated the event to Demme.
Read More: Remembering Jonathan Demme: Why He Was One of the Great Filmmakers of Our Time
“I realized what we really want as a festival is to dedicate today’s talk to the brilliant, extraordinary, committed, fabulous filmmaker Jonathan Demme,” Weinstein said. Hanks and Springsteen didn’t miss a beat turning the...
The pair hit the Beacon Theatre on Friday evening for an hour-long chat as part of the festival’s Tribeca Talks series, and the discussion immediately turned to Demme, as the fest’s executive vice president Paula Weinstein introduced the duo and dedicated the event to Demme.
Read More: Remembering Jonathan Demme: Why He Was One of the Great Filmmakers of Our Time
“I realized what we really want as a festival is to dedicate today’s talk to the brilliant, extraordinary, committed, fabulous filmmaker Jonathan Demme,” Weinstein said. Hanks and Springsteen didn’t miss a beat turning the...
- 4/29/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Looking back on this still-young century makes clear that 2007 was a major time for cinematic happenings — and, on the basis of this retrospective, one we’re not quite through with ten years on. One’s mind might quickly flash to a few big titles that will be represented, but it is the plurality of both festival and theatrical premieres that truly surprises: late works from old masters, debuts from filmmakers who’ve since become some of our most-respected artists, and mid-career turning points that didn’t necessarily announce themselves as such at the time. Join us as an assembled team, many of whom were coming of age that year, takes on their favorites.
“Amen” is the first word uttered in Silent Light — an appropriate and reverent punctuation to follow the glory that director Carlos Reygadas unveils in the film’s opening minutes. Beginning in a milky, celestial darkness that then...
“Amen” is the first word uttered in Silent Light — an appropriate and reverent punctuation to follow the glory that director Carlos Reygadas unveils in the film’s opening minutes. Beginning in a milky, celestial darkness that then...
- 4/25/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Theo Angelopoulos's Ulysses' Gaze (1995) is showing April 27 - May 27 and Landscape in the Mist (1988) is showing April 28 - May 28, 2017 in the United States.Landscape in the Mist“We Greeks are dying people. We've completed our appointed cycle. Three thousand years among broken stones and statues, and now we are dying.”—Taxi driver, Ulysses’ GazeIt seems that no essay on the films of Theodoros Angelopoulos can neglect to mention that, despite being recognized as one of cinema’s masters in Europe, he has repeatedly failed to cross over to the United States. A retrospective at the Museum of the Modern Art in 1990, a Grand Prix at Cannes Ulysses’ Gaze in 1995, a Palme d’Or for Eternity and a Day in 1998, and, most recently, a complete 35mm retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image and Harvard Film Archive...
- 4/24/2017
- MUBI
Author: James Kleinmann
An exciting element of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival is the chance to experience current innovations in the realm of Virtual Reality, in terms of storytelling and tech, and get a sense of the medium’s potential.
The Protectors: Walk in the Ranger’s Shoes
A project still from The Protectors: Walk In The Ranger’S Shoes.
Probably the most high profile Vr work receiving its premiere at Tribeca is Oscar-winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow’s The Protectors: Walk in the Ranger’s Shoes. It’s one of 24 projects from six countries in the Virtual Arcade section of the festival, now in its second year at Tribeca.
This National Geographic Vr doc not only informs but also allows the viewer to get a sense of what life is like for several rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Garamba National Park.
Once you put on the Vr headset,...
An exciting element of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival is the chance to experience current innovations in the realm of Virtual Reality, in terms of storytelling and tech, and get a sense of the medium’s potential.
The Protectors: Walk in the Ranger’s Shoes
A project still from The Protectors: Walk In The Ranger’S Shoes.
Probably the most high profile Vr work receiving its premiere at Tribeca is Oscar-winning filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow’s The Protectors: Walk in the Ranger’s Shoes. It’s one of 24 projects from six countries in the Virtual Arcade section of the festival, now in its second year at Tribeca.
This National Geographic Vr doc not only informs but also allows the viewer to get a sense of what life is like for several rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Garamba National Park.
Once you put on the Vr headset,...
- 4/24/2017
- by James Kleinmann
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Director Steve Sekely’s hardboiled film noir leans heavily on the talents of star-producer Paul Henreid and camera ace John Alton — the three of them whip up the best gimmick-driven noir thriller of the late ‘forties. Strained coincidences and unlikely events mean nothing when this much talent is concentrated in one movie. It’s also a terrific show for star Joan Bennett, who expresses all the disappointment, despair and angst of a noir femme who knows she’s in for more misery.
The Scar (Hollow Triumph)
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1948 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 83 min. / Street Date April 18, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks, John Qualen, Mabel Paige, Herbert Rudley, George Chandler, Robert Bice, Henry Brandon, Franklyn Farnum, Thomas Browne Henry, Norma Varden, Jack Webb.
Cinematography: John Alton
Film Editor: Fred Allen
Original Music: Sol Kaplan
Written by Daniel Fuchs from a...
The Scar (Hollow Triumph)
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1948 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 83 min. / Street Date April 18, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks, John Qualen, Mabel Paige, Herbert Rudley, George Chandler, Robert Bice, Henry Brandon, Franklyn Farnum, Thomas Browne Henry, Norma Varden, Jack Webb.
Cinematography: John Alton
Film Editor: Fred Allen
Original Music: Sol Kaplan
Written by Daniel Fuchs from a...
- 4/22/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Takeshi Kitano's Kikujiro (1999) is showing March 23 - April 22, 2017 in the United Kingdom in the series Kitano x 3.1With each viewing, Takeshi Kitano’s Kikujiro becomes increasingly porous. The gaps are clear: though the film is the story of Masao, a young boy searching for his estranged mother, and Kikujiro, the former yakuza forced to accompany him, they and the strangers they encounter exist without much background. The sleepy-eyed Masao (Yusuke Sekiguchi) speaks only in short murmurs. Meanwhile, Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano) spends most of the film gambling off the two’s spending money at the track cycling racetracks, only to develop a compassion so subtle that he himself does not notice it. Simply put, the film is a blur, or a series of blurs.But these lacks of interconnectedness are why Kikujiro has only gotten better with age,...
- 3/23/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. The retrospective The Many Sins of Walerian Borowczyk is showing February 12 - June 18, 2017 in the United States and in many other countries around the world.As the reverberation of horses fervently neighing and clomping their hooves begins to permeate the opening credit soundtrack of The Beast, one may recall the similarly orchestrated donkey brays that introduce Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar (1966). Or, given its title, and the very basic concept of a young woman becoming enamored with an savage creature, one may be tempted to compare this 1975 feature to the many variations of Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve’s classic fairy tale, La belle et la bête. One would be more than a little confounded, however, by making either inadequate association. If Walerian Borowczyk’s semi-porn-semi-art-semi-monster movie bears any resemblance to another film or story, it would be...
- 3/21/2017
- MUBI
Reviewed by Kevin Scott, MoreHorror.com
Thirst (2015)
Written by Elizabeth Hansen and Greg Kiefer
Directed by Greg Kiefer
Cast: Karl Makinen (Burt), Clare Niederpruem (Courtney), Jes Macallan (Claire), Ryan Zimmer (Luis), Ashley Santos (Meeka), Cardiff Gerhardt (Trapper), John Redlinger (Roth), Bryan Dayley (Wes), Christina Thurmond (Summer)
I keep discovering the benefits of having Amazon Prime. Free shipping seems to be only the tip of the iceberg of perks. A huge perk is the Amazon Prime Video app that has free streaming for Prime members. This app not only has some unconventional titles amidst established classics, but it also has the capability to download films and TV shows to watch offline when time may be on your side, but Wi-Fi availability isn’t. I know other streaming apps have that functionality also, but from personal experience, the Amazon one seems to be the only one that works consistently.
Streaming has revolutionized the way we watch films.
Thirst (2015)
Written by Elizabeth Hansen and Greg Kiefer
Directed by Greg Kiefer
Cast: Karl Makinen (Burt), Clare Niederpruem (Courtney), Jes Macallan (Claire), Ryan Zimmer (Luis), Ashley Santos (Meeka), Cardiff Gerhardt (Trapper), John Redlinger (Roth), Bryan Dayley (Wes), Christina Thurmond (Summer)
I keep discovering the benefits of having Amazon Prime. Free shipping seems to be only the tip of the iceberg of perks. A huge perk is the Amazon Prime Video app that has free streaming for Prime members. This app not only has some unconventional titles amidst established classics, but it also has the capability to download films and TV shows to watch offline when time may be on your side, but Wi-Fi availability isn’t. I know other streaming apps have that functionality also, but from personal experience, the Amazon one seems to be the only one that works consistently.
Streaming has revolutionized the way we watch films.
- 3/17/2017
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Writing out the plot of Catfight makes it sound absolutely insane: The satire stars Sandra Oh as wino trophy wife Veronica and Anne Heche as failed artist Ashley, one-time college frenemies who run into each other years later and end up in a brawl that leaves Veronica comatose. Two years later, she wakes to find that she's lost everything and Ashley is now thriving. The two re-meet, another brawl ensues, Ashley goes into a coma and everything changes...again. There is also a war on terror, a not-so-subtle Trump diss, and a character called the Fart Machine. Then again, when you have a chance to watch the indie film (out March 3), it is that insane. Et sat down with the stars for a freewheeling discussion about their movie, why Oh doesn't want to talk about Grey's Anatomy and losing roles to each other.
Watch: Sandra Oh Says She Has 'No Plans' To Return to 'Grey's Anatomy'
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Watch: Sandra Oh Says She Has 'No Plans' To Return to 'Grey's Anatomy'
Et:...
- 3/2/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Bedirxan's Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (2014) is showing from March 3 - April 2, 2017 as a Special Discovery.One of the most essential documentaries of the last few years, Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Bedirxan’s aggressively personal Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait stands out for its raw directness and pained indirectness. Mohammed is a Syrian living in exile in Paris, and living in exile he has assembled a diary-essay-portrait-biography of the turmoil which has bloodied his country and people since 2011, made of video clips found online. “1001 images of Syria, shot by 1001 Syrians...and me,” he tells us, in text and later a plaintive, occasional voice-over. And if this is a reference to Scheherazade’s heroic storytelling delay tactic, one wonders what each video, each image of Mohammed’s is delaying. The end of the war? His return home?...
- 3/2/2017
- MUBI
One of the definitive joys of covering the Berlinale is combing through the vast program of its sidebar sections. Featuring literally hundreds of movies this side of the glamorous competition, it’s often where programmers get to be creative and screen some of the best-kept secrets of the festival. The queer-licious Panorama section won us over with such titles as God’s Own Country, Close-Knit and Skins. Meanwhile, the more experimental-leaning Forum section served up the expected oddities including Somniloquies and Animals, a trippy mindf*ck from Switzerland/Austria.
The setup seems straightforward enough: Nick (Philipp Hochmair) is a chef, about to take six months off to travel the Swiss countryside and collect regional recipes with wife Anna (Birgit Minichmayr), a children’s book author suffering from a case of jealousy and possibly also writer’s block. On the eve of their departure, Nick brings home a good-looking acquaintance...
The setup seems straightforward enough: Nick (Philipp Hochmair) is a chef, about to take six months off to travel the Swiss countryside and collect regional recipes with wife Anna (Birgit Minichmayr), a children’s book author suffering from a case of jealousy and possibly also writer’s block. On the eve of their departure, Nick brings home a good-looking acquaintance...
- 2/27/2017
- by Zhuo-Ning Su
- The Film Stage
Sunday’s 89th Academy Awards are underway at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney took to the stage at the Dolby Theatre in a popular adapted screenplay win for Moonlight as the drama earned its second win of the night.
Moments earlier Kenneth Lonergan accepted the original screenplay award for Manchester By The Sea in the film’s first prize. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon – winners of this award for Good Will Hunting 19 years ago – presented the honour to Lonergan. Damon was a producer on the film.
Meryl Streep used her Oscar show platform to pay subtle homage to the unifying power of film when she joined Javier Bardem on stage at the Dolby Theatre to present the cinematography award.
“Truth is hard to reveal,” Streep said, “but when it happens on the movie screen filmgoers no matter where they are from, feel their hearts soar.”
Sweden’s [link...
Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney took to the stage at the Dolby Theatre in a popular adapted screenplay win for Moonlight as the drama earned its second win of the night.
Moments earlier Kenneth Lonergan accepted the original screenplay award for Manchester By The Sea in the film’s first prize. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon – winners of this award for Good Will Hunting 19 years ago – presented the honour to Lonergan. Damon was a producer on the film.
Meryl Streep used her Oscar show platform to pay subtle homage to the unifying power of film when she joined Javier Bardem on stage at the Dolby Theatre to present the cinematography award.
“Truth is hard to reveal,” Streep said, “but when it happens on the movie screen filmgoers no matter where they are from, feel their hearts soar.”
Sweden’s [link...
- 2/26/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani's The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears (2013) is showing February 4 - March 6 and Dario Argento's Deep Red (1975) is showing February 5 - March 7, 2017 in the United Kingdom in the double feature Giallo/Meta Giallo.“I know it when I see it.” Like film noir, the giallo is one of those genres as easy to pin down as it is difficult to define. More often than not, what constitutes a giallo rests on a given film’s balance of emblematic imagery and an archetypal storyline, while other factors like tone, score, and setting will also play a part in its classification. Arguably no filmmaker has had a more stylish and deftly rigorous hand in establishing these defining traits than Dario Argento. And his 1975 film, Deep Red (Profondo Rosso), is perhaps as good as it gets,...
- 2/26/2017
- MUBI
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
This Past Weekend:
Presidents' Day weekend was an interesting one at the box office, and as with most holiday weekends, it was particularly difficult to figure out how things might fare, other than The Lego Batman Movie, which remained at #1 with almost $45 million over the four-day weekend. Fifty Shades Darker followed with $21.3 million, about a 50% drop. Last week, I thought that the Ice Cub comedy Fist Fight would beat The Great Wall, although it seemed like it could be a close race. Nope. Matt Damon’s action epic came in third place with $21.6 million, which is a couple million more than my original prediction, but The Fist Fight fell short of my prediction by almost $10 million, grossing $14.5 million in its first four days.
This Past Weekend:
Presidents' Day weekend was an interesting one at the box office, and as with most holiday weekends, it was particularly difficult to figure out how things might fare, other than The Lego Batman Movie, which remained at #1 with almost $45 million over the four-day weekend. Fifty Shades Darker followed with $21.3 million, about a 50% drop. Last week, I thought that the Ice Cub comedy Fist Fight would beat The Great Wall, although it seemed like it could be a close race. Nope. Matt Damon’s action epic came in third place with $21.6 million, which is a couple million more than my original prediction, but The Fist Fight fell short of my prediction by almost $10 million, grossing $14.5 million in its first four days.
- 2/22/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Manchester by the Sea
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD
Lionsgate
2016 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 137 min. / Street Date February 21, 2017 / 39.99
Starring – Casey Affleck, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Liam McNeill, C.J. Wilson, Gretchen Mol, Michelle Williams, Matthew Broderick.
Cinematography – Jody Lee Lipes
Film Editor – Jennifer Lame
Original Music – Lesley Barber
Produced by Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Kimberly Steward
Written and Directed by Kenneth Lonergan
A major Oscar contender, Kenneth Longergan’s Manchester by the Sea is certainly sobering, yet is nowhere near as depressing as the initial word on the street would have had us believe. We all know of tragedies that happen all the time, things that we go to sleep at night praying won’t happen to us. Bad things happen to people and not all of it is their own fault — accidents, weather-related calamities, sudden catastrophic health issues. The rule of positive thinking tells us to continue onward like herd animals,...
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD
Lionsgate
2016 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 137 min. / Street Date February 21, 2017 / 39.99
Starring – Casey Affleck, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Liam McNeill, C.J. Wilson, Gretchen Mol, Michelle Williams, Matthew Broderick.
Cinematography – Jody Lee Lipes
Film Editor – Jennifer Lame
Original Music – Lesley Barber
Produced by Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Kimberly Steward
Written and Directed by Kenneth Lonergan
A major Oscar contender, Kenneth Longergan’s Manchester by the Sea is certainly sobering, yet is nowhere near as depressing as the initial word on the street would have had us believe. We all know of tragedies that happen all the time, things that we go to sleep at night praying won’t happen to us. Bad things happen to people and not all of it is their own fault — accidents, weather-related calamities, sudden catastrophic health issues. The rule of positive thinking tells us to continue onward like herd animals,...
- 2/11/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Tom Brady is a machine. We know this. Bill Bellichick is probably the best NFL coach of all-time. We know this too. This is why most people are picking the New England Patriots to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Afc championship game being played at Gilette Stadium tonight. However, I don’t think any Patriots fans out there thinks this is going to be a walk in the park. The Steelers have come on extremely strong in the last few weeks with Laveon Bell establishing himself as the best running back in the league. Forget about the Mike Tomlin commentary
Patriots vs Steelers Afc Championship Predictions: This One’s Gonna Be Close...
Patriots vs Steelers Afc Championship Predictions: This One’s Gonna Be Close...
- 1/22/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Miklós Jancsó's The Red and the White (1967) will be showing January 21 - February 20, 2017 in the United States.The opening shot of The Red and the White shows armed riders on horseback rushing gallantly toward the camera in slow motion. It is the type of heroic imagery one associates with a valiant depiction of soldiers heading off to battle, to fight the good fight for a lofty cause. But in this outstanding 1967 film from Miklós Jancsó, one of the great anti-war testaments, such iconic and potentially promotional action is never to be seen again. In its place are the callous and violent vagaries of cold barbarity, overzealously arbitrary authority, and the unremitting movement of people, sometimes strategically, sometimes on an apparently random whim. Made during a politically pivotal and formally transitory period in Jancsó’s career, The Red and the White...
- 1/21/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Lav Diaz's Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution (2011) is playing January 12 - February 10, 2017. Lav Diaz’s Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution is a unique example of how texts inform each other. In the film, elements of the past inform and comprise those of the present, while exposition ultimately informs images of the present. As a viewer, one can reasonably make a case that this was Diaz’s intention given the film’s story and structure: While its premise is relatively simple—a mysterious woman appears in various places in a 20th century city—Diaz tells it primarily with wordless storytelling, mostly images and extended takes. While the viewer gathers that the woman is the titular ‘visitor from the revolution,’ implying that she is from the late 1890s (the Philippine Revolution), it is only late...
- 1/15/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Eric Rohmer's Triple Agent (2004) is showing January 11 - February 9, 2017.Eric Rohmer’s penultimate feature, Triple Agent, is relatively neglected within his oeuvre. Released in 2004, one hardly ever sees it among best-of-00s or even best-of-2004 lists, even though it is certainly one of the great director’s most fascinating and remarkable films.Based on a true story, Triple Agent focuses on an expatriate couple living in late 1930s Paris, right before the outbreak of the Second World War. The husband, Gen. Fyodor Voronin (Serge Renko), is an ex-White Army officer exiled from Russia, working at a White Army veterans organization. The wife, Arsinoé (Katerina Didaskalou) is a painter, originally from Greece, who concerns herself mostly with her art. The two are lovingly devoted to one another, but the election of the Front populaire, a communist-leaning political group in France,...
- 1/13/2017
- MUBI
Gretchen Carlson is working to fight sexual harassment — starting inside her own home.
The 50-year-old former Fox News host graced the cover of Good Housekeeping‘s February issue and opened up about educating her children about sexual harassment.
“One of the most important things to do is to raise our kids in a respectful way with both genders,” Carlson told CNN’s Carol Costello in an exclusive interview with the magazine. “I want to respect women when he gets to the workplace. Whether you work inside or outside the home, it’s important to have that respect.”
Carlson has two children,...
The 50-year-old former Fox News host graced the cover of Good Housekeeping‘s February issue and opened up about educating her children about sexual harassment.
“One of the most important things to do is to raise our kids in a respectful way with both genders,” Carlson told CNN’s Carol Costello in an exclusive interview with the magazine. “I want to respect women when he gets to the workplace. Whether you work inside or outside the home, it’s important to have that respect.”
Carlson has two children,...
- 1/10/2017
- by Char Adams
- PEOPLE.com
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Vittorio de Sica's Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963) is playing January 8 - February 6, 2017 in the United States.Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963), winner of the 1965 Oscar for Best Foreign Film, is a trio of stories directed by Vittorio De Sica in the omnibus fashion so popular at the time (just the year prior, he had contributed to the similarly structured Boccaccio ‘70, alongside Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, and Luchino Visconti). Spearheaded by international super-producer Carlo Ponti—helping to ensure global distribution and award-worthy prestige—the film is, first and foremost, a collaborative compendium of what partially defined the popular perception of its versatile director and its two leads, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.The first short, “Adelina,” was written by Eduardo De Filippo and Isabella Quarantotti, the second, “Anna,” by Bella Billa, Lorenza Zanuso, and one of Italian neorealism’s founding fathers,...
- 1/8/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) is playing January 2 - 31, 2017 in the United Kingdom.“My story is not really connected. I just made it up in an instant.”—Mysterious Object at Noon “Too much like a game. You should at least have a script.”—Mysterious Object at NoonOnce upon a time, dot dot dot. As beginnings go, the silent cinema-style intertitle that opens Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s debut feature, Mysterious Object at Noon, is especially apposite. In terms of both action and theme, the ellipsis is everything: its promise of adventure structures our suspension of disbelief into the very premise of the film. Go with this, it suggests. Or come. The fiction into which it accelerates us is simultaneously one that has already happened and one we have yet to hear. Mixed tenses, and tensions, abound: we fluctuate,...
- 1/5/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Patricio Guzmán's The Pearl Button (2015) is playing December 10, 2016 - January 8, 2017 in the United States.For several years two questions have consumed me: What stories do landscapes tell? and How do landscapes tell these stories? My interest is in examining everyday sites—or their depictions in film and art—and searching for clues that tell about a region’s history. The environments we inhabit frequently, though often quietly, reveal how these places came to be as we know them. They betray the ethics that shaped and continue to shape the land. This is an alternative and useful tool for examining history, politics, and memory.Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán’s poetic 2015 documentary The Pearl Button utilizes this approach to tell several Chilean histories, from the settling of Patagonia over 10,000 years ago to the CIA-backed Augusto Pinochet dictatorship that terrorized the nation for seventeen years.
- 12/22/2016
- MUBI
It’s been a long time between drinks for Blake Shelton — at least if we’re talking about the last time The Voice‘s winning-est coach saw one of his artists take home first prize. Indeed, you’d have to go back to Craig Wayne Boyd’s victory in Season 7 — almost two years ago — for that particular milestone.
RelatedThe Voice Season 11 Performance Finale Recap: The Sundance Also Rises
That might all change during tonight’s season finale (8/7c on NBC), as Blake’s last remaining artist, Sundance Head, holds the advantage on the iTunes charts following Monday’s performance finale.
RelatedThe Voice Season 11 Performance Finale Recap: The Sundance Also Rises
That might all change during tonight’s season finale (8/7c on NBC), as Blake’s last remaining artist, Sundance Head, holds the advantage on the iTunes charts following Monday’s performance finale.
- 12/13/2016
- TVLine.com
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