HBO’s quest to fill the eventual void left by Game of Thrones is off to a very strong and thoughtful start.
Friday 30 September 2016
13th Review: Ava DuVernay’s Powerful and Timely New Film
Angry and urgent, DuVernay’s unflinching study of the mass incarceration of Black people in the US is one of this year’s timeliest films.
The Windmill - Trailer
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Manchester By The Sea - Trailer
| Manchester By The Sea - Trailer In Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea, the life of a solitary Boston janitor is transformed when he returns to his hometown to take care of his teenage nephew. The story of the Chandlers, a working-class family from a Massachusetts fishing village, is a deeply poignant, unexpectedly funny exploration of the power of familial love, community, sacrifice and hope. After the death of his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler), Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is shocked to learn that Joe he’s been made sole guardian of his nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges). Taking leave of his job, Lee reluctantly returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea to care for Patrick, a spirited 16-year-old, and is forced to deal with a past that separated him from his wife Randi (Michelle Williams) and the community where he was born and raised. Directed by: Kenneth Lonergan Starring: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Lucas Hedges, Kyle Chandler, Gretchen Mol, C.J. Wilson |
Search Engines - Trailer
| Search Engines - Trailer It’s Thanksgiving and family and friends have gathered to celebrate togetherness and gratitude. But all hell breaks loose when the cell reception mysteriously goes dead throughout the neighborhood. Each person must deal with their own crisis with marriages being tested, values questioned and everyone’s future suddenly in doubt all due to a simple technology breakdown! Directed by: Russell Brown Starring: Daphne Zuniga, Connie Stevens, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Barry Watson, Joely Fisher, Michelle Hurd, Ayumi Iizuka, Jonathan Slavin, Michael Muhney, Phillip Karner |
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Watch: First Two Trailers for Russian Alien Arrival Movie 'Attraction'
Whoa! This looks cool. A new teaser trailer has debuted for a Russian alien invasion/arrival movie called Attraction. We've also added the original teaser along with the new trailer, since this is the first time we've encountered this film. There's some awesome footage in this, mainly the original arrival and crash in a city. The ship design is incredibly unique, and I love the way it looks as it crashes down. The film stars Oleg Menshikov, Alexander Petrov, Rinal Mukhametov and Irina Starshenbaum. It's made by the same guy who made Stalingrad and will be presented in IMAX 3D (at least in Russia) when it opens. The newest teaser actually reveals the aliens, which are huge creatures without a discernible face, making me even more intrigued. Along with Guardians, there are some impressive action movies coming out of Russia these days.
Here's the first two teaser trailers (+ poster) for Fedor Bondarchuk's Attraction, direct from YouTube:
After an alien ship crash lands onto a Russian city, many who have saw the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while there are those who demand the aliens to leave Earth. "With this film, we want to give audiences a chance to erase all borders of perception and to immerse completely into the story as only seen through the IMAX Experience" (via IMAX press release). Attraction, or Prityazhenie (Притяжение) in Russian, is directed by Russian actor-turned-filmmaker Fedor Bondarchuk, of the films The Inhabited Island 1 & 2 and the international hit Stalingrad previously. Attraction is scheduled for release in Russia in IMAX 3D starting January 26th, 2017 but doesn't have any official US release date or info yet. We expect it to arrive sometime late 2017. Stay tuned for updates. Who's looking forward to this?
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Movie Poster of the Week: The Posters of the 54th New York Film Festival
Above: US one sheet for Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, USA, 2016).
The 54th New York Film Festival starts tonight, and, as I have done for the past seven years, I have collected all the posters I could find for the films in the festival’s main slate, otherwise billed as “Twenty-five of the most exciting new feature films from around the world.”
I can’t attest to the films themselves yet, but the two best posters of the festival are those for Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight and Ava DuVernay’s 13th. Both posters feature striking and stylized images of African American men, which is fitting for a festival that is kicking off with—in its first documentary opening night ever—DuVernay’s urgent examination into America’s mass incarceration of black men.
None of the other posters are quite as exciting, though I do have a soft spot for the blatantly Photoshopped family gathering in the French poster for Cristi Puiu’s brilliant Sieranevada—the one film in the festival that I have seen so far—which continues the tradition of inappropriate posters for Puiu’s films begun by the Romanian poster for The Death of Mr Lazarescu.
I haven’t been able to find posters for the festival’s centerpiece, Mike Mills’ 20th Century Women, nor its closing night film, James Gray’s The Lost City of Z. And the new poster for Matías Piñeiro’s Hermia and Helena wasn’t quite ready (I’ll add it when it is). But I’ve assembled all the rest which are presented below in alphabetical order.
Above: US one sheet for 13th (Ava DuVernay, USA, 2016).
Above: International festival poster for Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil/France, 2016).
Above: US one sheet for Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, USA, 2016).
Above: French poster for Elle (Paul Verhoeven, France/Germany, 2016).
Above: UK quad for Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi, Italy/France, 2016).
Above: Italian poster for Graduation (Cristian Mungiu, Romania, 2016).
Above: UK quad for I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach, UK, 2016).
Above: International festival poster for Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain, 2016).
Above: US one sheet for Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan, USA, 2016).
Above: US poster for My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea (Dash Shaw, USA, 2016).
Above: Chilean poster for Neruda (Pablo Larraín, Chile/Argentina/France/Spain, 2016).
Above: US one sheet for Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, USA, 2016).
Above: French poster for Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, France, 2016).
Above: US one sheet for The Rehearsal (Alison Maclean, New Zealand, 2016).
Above: French poster for Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu, Romania, 2016).
Above: French poster for Son of Joseph (Eugène Green, France/Belgium, 2016).
Above: French poster for Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie, France, 2016).
Above: French poster for Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve, France/Germany, 2016).
Above: US one sheet for Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, Germany, 2016).
Above: French poster for The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium, 2016).
Above: International festival poster for Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea, 2016).
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