"It's the most wonderful time of the year!" The spooky, Halloween goodness has only just begun! The clothing store Unique Vintage recently teamed up with Nerdist for a Ghoul Gang photo that's featured in today's Horror Highlights. Also: Razor Reel Flanders Film Festival 2017, Coma Ward board game details, Mortal Kombat hits New York Comic Con 2017, Final Girls Berlin Film Fest's call for submissions, and release details and a trailer for Bunnyman Vengeance.
Unique Vintage's Ghoul Gang Photo Shoot: "Bring on the gothic glamour! Leading up to Halloween, Unique Vintage is celebrating the spookiest season with Nerdist for a special photo shoot promoting their Ghoul Gang t-shirt and Creepy Collection of retro clothing. Whether you're the daughter of Dracula or a Mistress of the Dark, this collection has something for you!
Inspired by the best-selling t-shirt, the Ghoul Gang includes: Bizarre States podcast host Jessica Chobot as Morticia Addams; Nerdist Editor-in-Chief...
Unique Vintage's Ghoul Gang Photo Shoot: "Bring on the gothic glamour! Leading up to Halloween, Unique Vintage is celebrating the spookiest season with Nerdist for a special photo shoot promoting their Ghoul Gang t-shirt and Creepy Collection of retro clothing. Whether you're the daughter of Dracula or a Mistress of the Dark, this collection has something for you!
Inspired by the best-selling t-shirt, the Ghoul Gang includes: Bizarre States podcast host Jessica Chobot as Morticia Addams; Nerdist Editor-in-Chief...
- 10/6/2017
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Joachim Trier’s beguiling Norwegian thriller Thelma couldn’t be more up-front about its message, but cinematically, this folkish Carrie-esque hymn dazzles despite simplicity. Brooding religious undertones make for a tale about one girl’s caged heart and the desires she fights; imagery in flocks of birds and slithering serpents. Trier makes no mistake about these symbols, but likewise, supernatural influences suggest telekinetic powers for a very genrefied take on emotional demons. Thoughts repressed, anxiety increased by personal belittling. Expect something more on the heavier side, worth a slower burn that simmers until either acceptance or asylum are reached.
Eili Harboe stars as the titular Thelma, an innocent Christian girl who’s just started university away from her family’s small town. Mother Unni (Ellen Dorrit Petersen) calls her daughter daily, checking to make sure things are going well. For a while, they are – then Thelma experiences a seizure in her school’s library.
Eili Harboe stars as the titular Thelma, an innocent Christian girl who’s just started university away from her family’s small town. Mother Unni (Ellen Dorrit Petersen) calls her daughter daily, checking to make sure things are going well. For a while, they are – then Thelma experiences a seizure in her school’s library.
- 9/30/2017
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Of all the possible twists in the star-crossed -overs genre, falling in love across the chain link fences dividing pro– and anti–death penalty activists is nothing if not novel. Throw in the wrench of sexual awakening, class differences, and the impending death of a parent, and you’ve got a lot of issues to handle in a single movie. The greatest triumph of “My Days of Mercy” is that it handles such heavy subject matter with grace and — mercifully — as light a touch as good taste will allow. Of course, that successful execution only goes so far in a lesbian romance about capital punishment. That’s a tough sell, no matter your politics.
Produced by stars Ellen Page and Kate Mara, along with Killer Films’ Christine Vachon, the film tells the story of a young activist named Lucy (Page) whose life is altered unimaginably by a tragedy that landed her father on death row.
Produced by stars Ellen Page and Kate Mara, along with Killer Films’ Christine Vachon, the film tells the story of a young activist named Lucy (Page) whose life is altered unimaginably by a tragedy that landed her father on death row.
- 9/8/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
It’s beginning to look a lot like fall festival season. On the heels of announcements from Tiff and Venice, the 55th edition of the New York Film Festival has unveiled its Main Slate, including a number of returning faces, emerging talents, and some of the most anticipated films from the festival circuit this year.
This year’s Main Slate showcases a number of films honored at Cannes including Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or–winner “The Square,” Robin Campillo’s “Bpm,” and Agnès Varda & Jr’s “Faces Places.” Other Cannes standouts, including “The Rider” and “The Florida Project,” will also screen at Nyff.
Read MoreTIFF Reveals First Slate of 2017 Titles, Including ‘The Shape of Water,’ ‘Downsizing,’ and ‘Call Me By Your Name’
Elsewhere, Aki Kaurismäki’s Silver Bear–winner “The Other Side of Hope” and Agnieszka Holland’s Alfred Bauer Prize–winner “Spoor” come to Nyff after Berlin bows.
This year’s Main Slate showcases a number of films honored at Cannes including Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or–winner “The Square,” Robin Campillo’s “Bpm,” and Agnès Varda & Jr’s “Faces Places.” Other Cannes standouts, including “The Rider” and “The Florida Project,” will also screen at Nyff.
Read MoreTIFF Reveals First Slate of 2017 Titles, Including ‘The Shape of Water,’ ‘Downsizing,’ and ‘Call Me By Your Name’
Elsewhere, Aki Kaurismäki’s Silver Bear–winner “The Other Side of Hope” and Agnieszka Holland’s Alfred Bauer Prize–winner “Spoor” come to Nyff after Berlin bows.
- 8/8/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Read More: The 2015 Indiewire Cannes Bible Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier is no stranger to the Cannes Film Festival, having premiered his critically acclaimed drama "Oslo, August 31st" at the event in 2011. That movie, the tense day-in-the-life story of a recovering drug addict, came after his similarly well-received debut "Reprise," the story of aspiring writers released by Miramax in 2006. Still, Trier's current Cannes entry "Louder Than Bombs," which premieres at this year's festival in competition, marks a new stage of his career: It's his first feature shot in English with a cast of name actors. The movie, which wrapped production last fall in New York, stars Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, David Strathairn and Amy Ryan. The story takes place in the aftermath of an established photographer's death and its impact on her family. Last fall, midway through the production, Indiewire visited the Brooklyn set and spoke with Trier in.
- 5/17/2015
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
As many of my friends and colleagues get set to navigate the maze of cinephilia that is the Cannes Film Festival, I have once again attempted to give the viewers at home a road map to the proceedings by rounding up as many posters as possible for the films in Competition for the Palme d’Or.This year I have found posters for 13 of the 19 films so far. By far the most buzzed about posters—and deservedly so—are the striking duo unveiled last week for Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster, which show Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz tenderly embracing negative space in striking monochrome.Outside the main slate, the festival has already thrown up another couple of gems in the lovely and mysterious new poster for Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendour, and the near-perfect one sheet for Kent Jones’s Hitchcock/Truffaut, which also makes nice use of negative space.
- 5/13/2015
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Official Selection for 2015 line-up completed with extra titles for Competition, Un Certain Regard, Special Screening and Midnight Screening strands.Click here for the full line-up
The 68th Cannes Film Festival has completed its Official Selection. Headlining the additions are two more Competition titles, taking the number of films in the running for the Palme d’Or up to 19.
The first is Chronic by Mexican director Michel Franco, starring Tim Roth and Bitsie Tulloch (Grimm). The film marks Franco’s English-language debut and centres on a depressed nurse practitioner who assists terminally ill patients and tries to reconnect with the family he abandoned. Wild Bunch handles sales
Franco and Roth decided to work together after meeting at Cannes in 2012, where the film-maker’s previous feature After Lucia won Un Certain Regard and Roth served on the jury.
The Mexican filmmaker was also in the running for Cannes’ Golden Camera in 2009 with his debut feature, Daniel and Ana.
The...
The 68th Cannes Film Festival has completed its Official Selection. Headlining the additions are two more Competition titles, taking the number of films in the running for the Palme d’Or up to 19.
The first is Chronic by Mexican director Michel Franco, starring Tim Roth and Bitsie Tulloch (Grimm). The film marks Franco’s English-language debut and centres on a depressed nurse practitioner who assists terminally ill patients and tries to reconnect with the family he abandoned. Wild Bunch handles sales
Franco and Roth decided to work together after meeting at Cannes in 2012, where the film-maker’s previous feature After Lucia won Un Certain Regard and Roth served on the jury.
The Mexican filmmaker was also in the running for Cannes’ Golden Camera in 2009 with his debut feature, Daniel and Ana.
The...
- 4/23/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Join us for Screen’s Cannes line-up live blog…Cannes 2015Full line-upNEWS: Cannes Competition shows attempt to shake things upCOMMENT: surprises and no-shows
Ever so quiet from the film PRs this morning. Is there something going on that we should know about?
Yes, yes, of course….it’s that sacred event: Cannes lineup day!
Time to put to bed weeks of speculation about the chosen few and reveal which films have made it into the most prestigious film festival competition known to man.
You can follow the entries as they come in here or stick with me for some idle speculation and gossip punctuated with genuine near-insight.
[Cannes is currently showing a very jaunty and occasionally stirring promo video of the fest. Very ‘Euro’].
Onto business….
Most prediction stories kept it tight, only mentioning about 75 possible entries. Every auteur from here to Timbuktu seems to have been tipped for a slot…
Screen towers did its own crystal ball gazing in the shape of Melanie Goodfellow’s excellent and comprehensive piece:
In case you don...
Ever so quiet from the film PRs this morning. Is there something going on that we should know about?
Yes, yes, of course….it’s that sacred event: Cannes lineup day!
Time to put to bed weeks of speculation about the chosen few and reveal which films have made it into the most prestigious film festival competition known to man.
You can follow the entries as they come in here or stick with me for some idle speculation and gossip punctuated with genuine near-insight.
[Cannes is currently showing a very jaunty and occasionally stirring promo video of the fest. Very ‘Euro’].
Onto business….
Most prediction stories kept it tight, only mentioning about 75 possible entries. Every auteur from here to Timbuktu seems to have been tipped for a slot…
Screen towers did its own crystal ball gazing in the shape of Melanie Goodfellow’s excellent and comprehensive piece:
In case you don...
- 4/16/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Join us for Screen’s Cannes line-up live blog…Click here for the line-up of titles as they are announced
Ever so quiet from the film PRs this morning. Is there something going on that we should know about?
Yes, yes, of course….it’s that sacred event: Cannes lineup day!
Time to put to bed weeks of speculation about the chosen few and reveal which films have made it into the most prestigious film festival competition known to man.
You can follow the entries as they come in here or stick with me for some idle speculation and gossip punctuated with genuine near-insight.
[Cannes is currently showing a very jaunty and occasionally stirring promo video of the fest. Very ‘Euro’].
Onto business….
Most prediction stories kept it tight, only mentioning about 75 possible entries. Every auteur from here to Timbuktu seems to have been tipped for a slot…
Screen towers did its own crystal ball gazing in the shape of Melanie Goodfellow’s excellent and comprehensive piece:
In case you don’t know Mel...
Ever so quiet from the film PRs this morning. Is there something going on that we should know about?
Yes, yes, of course….it’s that sacred event: Cannes lineup day!
Time to put to bed weeks of speculation about the chosen few and reveal which films have made it into the most prestigious film festival competition known to man.
You can follow the entries as they come in here or stick with me for some idle speculation and gossip punctuated with genuine near-insight.
[Cannes is currently showing a very jaunty and occasionally stirring promo video of the fest. Very ‘Euro’].
Onto business….
Most prediction stories kept it tight, only mentioning about 75 possible entries. Every auteur from here to Timbuktu seems to have been tipped for a slot…
Screen towers did its own crystal ball gazing in the shape of Melanie Goodfellow’s excellent and comprehensive piece:
In case you don’t know Mel...
- 4/16/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
I won't feel like my Scandinavian voyage is over until I a) unpack b) do laundry c) write about it. Here are a few random movie-adjacent thoughts from my journey. Obviously movies weren't the focus but you know I can work them in to any conversation!
Hush Puppy & Me W/ Aurochs.
Copenhagen
I'll always think of aurochs as the giant pigs that haunted Hushpuppy in Beasts of the Southern Wild but Copenhagen's National Museum tried to wrestle them away from neo movie mythology.
In Denmark the aurochs immigrated after the end of the Ice Age circa 9000 BC these bulls with the largest and most inner dangerous animals in the forest but they could do little against the hunters arrows. The aurochs weighed almost 1000 kg. Old scars on the ribs show that the old giants survived earlier encounters. Three arrowheads lying among the bone suggests that the bull was fatally wounded...
Hush Puppy & Me W/ Aurochs.
Copenhagen
I'll always think of aurochs as the giant pigs that haunted Hushpuppy in Beasts of the Southern Wild but Copenhagen's National Museum tried to wrestle them away from neo movie mythology.
In Denmark the aurochs immigrated after the end of the Ice Age circa 9000 BC these bulls with the largest and most inner dangerous animals in the forest but they could do little against the hunters arrows. The aurochs weighed almost 1000 kg. Old scars on the ribs show that the old giants survived earlier encounters. Three arrowheads lying among the bone suggests that the bull was fatally wounded...
- 6/18/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Here’s the overview of Sundance scuttlebutt:
Still from The Raid
Good:
The Raid: Gareth Evans‘s Indonesian melee film that is a bloody blast to watch The Invisible War: Kirby Dick‘s even-handed take on rape in the U.S. Armed Forces Your Sister’s Sister: Emily Blunt, Mark Duplass and Rosemarie DeWitt in an audience favorite Celeste and Jesse Forever: positive reaction to Rashida Jones flick (which she co-wrote as well) West of Memphis (haven’t heard a bad word about this Amy Berg documentary, the fourth about the West Memphis 3 from the Paradise Lost docs.)
Mixed:
Oslo, August 31st: a paced character study but director Joachim Trier has an accomplished approach Where Do We Go Now?: The winner of the Audience Award at Toronto is a jumbled bag of music and politics from star/director
...
Still from The Raid
Good:
The Raid: Gareth Evans‘s Indonesian melee film that is a bloody blast to watch The Invisible War: Kirby Dick‘s even-handed take on rape in the U.S. Armed Forces Your Sister’s Sister: Emily Blunt, Mark Duplass and Rosemarie DeWitt in an audience favorite Celeste and Jesse Forever: positive reaction to Rashida Jones flick (which she co-wrote as well) West of Memphis (haven’t heard a bad word about this Amy Berg documentary, the fourth about the West Memphis 3 from the Paradise Lost docs.)
Mixed:
Oslo, August 31st: a paced character study but director Joachim Trier has an accomplished approach Where Do We Go Now?: The winner of the Audience Award at Toronto is a jumbled bag of music and politics from star/director
...
- 1/22/2012
- by keithsim
- IMDb Blog - All the Latest
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? We Need To Talk About Kevin Trailer The French had a crack at this, [1] now us Americans have a shot. Director Lynne Ramsay certainly has...
- 11/11/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
Second-highest screen average goes to British gay drama, which grossed £32,500 and is due to hit Brighton this Friday
The arthouse battle
There's no shortage of film journalists who think they know better than the bookers deciding which films to programme in cinemas, especially when it comes to the arthouse sector. Most often, their opinions aren't tethered to market realities. But in the instance of British gay drama Weekend, the critics who for many weeks have been making positive noises about its likely appeal turned out to be right on the money. While leading arthouse chains Picturehouse and Curzon offered scant support to the title on its release date, preferring alternatives such as Miranda July's The Future, reviewers turned cartwheels in print with four- and five-star reviews. The outcome? Weekend proved the top new arthouse release by a convincing margin, despite a rollout compromised by a mixed bag of sites,...
The arthouse battle
There's no shortage of film journalists who think they know better than the bookers deciding which films to programme in cinemas, especially when it comes to the arthouse sector. Most often, their opinions aren't tethered to market realities. But in the instance of British gay drama Weekend, the critics who for many weeks have been making positive noises about its likely appeal turned out to be right on the money. While leading arthouse chains Picturehouse and Curzon offered scant support to the title on its release date, preferring alternatives such as Miranda July's The Future, reviewers turned cartwheels in print with four- and five-star reviews. The outcome? Weekend proved the top new arthouse release by a convincing margin, despite a rollout compromised by a mixed bag of sites,...
- 11/8/2011
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
Amir reporting again from The Toronto International Film Festival where I saw something I frankly can't recall ever seeing on the big screen before: Toronto history.
Edwin Boyd
I’d watched Edwin Boyd only a couple of hours after Rampart (covered yesterday), but the review had to wait. Scott Speedman plays the titular character, a serial bank robber in the post-war Canada of the 50s. Boyd, if you haven’t heard of him, is something like a Canadian John Dillinger figure. But I assure you this film is miles better than Public Enemies.
I’d heard the film was a total crowd-pleaser and the reports were true. It’s a clichéd film that uses all the tricks of the gangster genre – bursts of action sequences, romantic subplots, pretty girls, crazy sidekicks – but it doesn’t misuse them. Sure, you’ve seen this stuff before, and yes, the film feels too...
Edwin Boyd
I’d watched Edwin Boyd only a couple of hours after Rampart (covered yesterday), but the review had to wait. Scott Speedman plays the titular character, a serial bank robber in the post-war Canada of the 50s. Boyd, if you haven’t heard of him, is something like a Canadian John Dillinger figure. But I assure you this film is miles better than Public Enemies.
I’d heard the film was a total crowd-pleaser and the reports were true. It’s a clichéd film that uses all the tricks of the gangster genre – bursts of action sequences, romantic subplots, pretty girls, crazy sidekicks – but it doesn’t misuse them. Sure, you’ve seen this stuff before, and yes, the film feels too...
- 9/15/2011
- by Amir S.
- FilmExperience
My apologies straightaway that this week's Q & A is so late. A particularly nasty bout of insomnia derailed me for over a day. I was without rail. Back on track now and the time has come to answer your questions, 10 of them at any rate.
BBats: What young director (3 or less films) are you most excited about seeing over the next decade?
Nathaniel: This is a great question but difficult because then you have to really stop and think about who made which pictures when and you have to set aside people you've been rooting for forever that will seemingly be 70 before they birth a third feature (I'm talking to you Jonathan Glazer and Kimberly Peirce). It'd be weird to say John Cameron Mitchell since he's been making great movies for a decade now but in fact he's only made three. Still it's hard to argue with that diverse, unique...
BBats: What young director (3 or less films) are you most excited about seeing over the next decade?
Nathaniel: This is a great question but difficult because then you have to really stop and think about who made which pictures when and you have to set aside people you've been rooting for forever that will seemingly be 70 before they birth a third feature (I'm talking to you Jonathan Glazer and Kimberly Peirce). It'd be weird to say John Cameron Mitchell since he's been making great movies for a decade now but in fact he's only made three. Still it's hard to argue with that diverse, unique...
- 9/1/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
- Just because your last name is Trier and you happen to be from Denmark, doesn't mean that you have a free-pass into the film industry. Joachim Trier is in fact a distant relative of the ambitious and illustrious director and inventor of Dogme95, Lars von Trier (Dogville, Breaking the Waves), but this Norwegian-Danish filmmaker has built his cinematic success without such assistance. Trier started out at The European Film College in Denmark, quickly moving on to the National Film & Television School in Beaconsfield, England. The helmer made some noise in the film world with the short Still in 2001, which traveled heavily throughout the festival circuit. But it was his next short, Proctor, which made an even bigger impression on the festival scene, winning a multitude of awards, among them Best Short at the Edinburgh Film Festival and a nomination for best European Short at the European Film Awards. The helmer's feature debut,
- 5/16/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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