[The Daily] NYFF 2017: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Before We Vanish

Before We Vanish, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard program at Cannes, screens tonight (Saturday) and tomorrow (October 1) as part of the Main Slate of this year’s New York Film Festival. “This giddily enjoyable stew of absurdist gore . . . Read More ...

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Watch ‘American Made,’ Then Watch These Movies

By Christopher Campbell Whether for additional context or to complete the Escobar Cinematic Universe, these picks will add to your appreciation of Doug Liman’s latest. Anytime a movie is based on major historical events, there are going to be a lot of other films...

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[The Daily] NYFF 2017: Lucrecia Martel’s Zama

“I have seen Zama, and it does indeed have a llama,” announces Cinema Scope editor Mark Peranson in the new issue. “The mysterious circumstances of the film’s long-overdue birth into this world continue with an out-of-competition slot in . . . Read More ...

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[The Daily] NYFF 2017: Valeska Grisebach’s Western

“Nine years in the making, Western draws its title from [Valeska] Grisebach’s generic source inspiration, the American Western,” wrote Michael J. Anderson in a dispatch back to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art a couple of weeks ago. “Noted for . . . Read More ...

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[The Daily] NYFF 2017: Ruben Östlund’s The Square

“It would seem that curators have replaced bankers as the villains du jour,” writes Jörg Heiser in a piece for frieze that addresses, among other showdowns, one here in Berlin that’s just resulted in the police clearing out occupiers from one . . . Read More ...

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[The Daily] NYFF 2017: Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?

Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? premiered at Sundance in January as a live presentation, with, as Vadim Rizov notes at Filmmaker, director Travis Wilkerson “narrating a complex mixture of slides and video onstage.” Wilkerson will be on hand . . . Read More ...

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[The Daily] NYFF 2017: Serge Bozon’s Mrs. Hyde

Serge Bozon’s Mrs. Hyde premiered in Locarno in August, when we gathered a first round of reviews. It screens once more tomorrow (October 1) as part of the New York Film Festival’s Main Slate, and Bozon and his star, Isabelle Huppert, will be . . . Read More ...

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Marion Cotillard’s Next Movie Sounds Intense

By Sheryl Oh Vanessa Filho’s debut feature already sounds like an intense drama that fits perfectly into Cotillard’s oeuvre. Marion Cotillard, particularly in her recent filmography, usually goes straight for experienced auteurs when planning her next career move....

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Fantastic Fest Review: Benson and Moorhead's Brilliant 'The Endless'

Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead are a filmmaking duo that have quietly made some of the best genre films the indie world has seen in recent memory. Their first film, Resolution, switched up the game when it came to stories about storytelling, and Spring, for...

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Official Trailer for Brazilian Western 'O Matador' From Marcelo Galvão

"When you're born to kill, you have to have an empty mind." Netflix has unveiled an official trailer for a Brazilian western titled O Matador, telling the story of Cabeleira, a feared killer living in the countryside of Pernambuco State in the 1940's. Diogo Morgado...

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‘Flight of the Navigator’ Remake Lands a New Writer

By Farah Cheded Joe Henderson’s attachment is promising news for those that have been hoping this reboot will finally take off. Before Stranger Things, there was 1986’s Flight of the Navigator, which features a similarly thrilling cocktail of cute kids, aliens...

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A Look Back at Ten of The Greatest Face-Offs in Movie History

By Ciara Wardlow Celebrating great movie rivalries in honor of ‘Battle of the Sexes.’ Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ new biopic Battle of the Sexes depicts the rivalry between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs as being mostly for show. Riggs does not really...

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