321 films are in contention for this year’s Academy Awards, while 265 features are eligible in the best picture category, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday as it released its annual “reminder list” for members.
To be eligible in the general categories, films (meaning a runtime of more than 40 minutes) must open in a commercial theater in at least one of the following areas: Los Angeles County; the city of New York; the Bay Area; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; and Atlanta, Georgia, between Jan. 1, 2023 and Dec. 31, 2023. Additionally, it must complete a minimum qualifying run of seven consecutive days in the same venue.
To be eligible for the best picture category specifically, the movies must be eligible for the general entry and have “submitted a confidential Academy Representation and Inclusion Standards entry form.” Additionally, the film must meet two of the four standards required, in addition to the theatrical component.
To be eligible in the general categories, films (meaning a runtime of more than 40 minutes) must open in a commercial theater in at least one of the following areas: Los Angeles County; the city of New York; the Bay Area; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; and Atlanta, Georgia, between Jan. 1, 2023 and Dec. 31, 2023. Additionally, it must complete a minimum qualifying run of seven consecutive days in the same venue.
To be eligible for the best picture category specifically, the movies must be eligible for the general entry and have “submitted a confidential Academy Representation and Inclusion Standards entry form.” Additionally, the film must meet two of the four standards required, in addition to the theatrical component.
- 1/8/2024
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Searching for and listening to movie soundtrack music for the year is an active quest of curiosity, discovery, and collage. For those fatigued and pushing through the chilliest season, I hope this mix can provide both energy and warmth, as it did to me in making it.Trends in film music over the last decade are continuing strong in 2023, particularly in the ambition of independent auteurs using complex and unusual scoring. The foundation for this mix is Angela Schanelec's beautiful and aptly titled Music, which provides both diegetic and non-diegetic moments to guide us. Samples range from The Old Oak, in which classical choral choir meets Syrian guitar and words of hope that now hit harder than ever, to a mix of sentimental strings courtesy of the legendary Joe Hisaishi. Abstract experimental sounds by two completely different kinds of artists—Harmony Korine and Thomas Newman—are mixed with sliced...
- 1/4/2024
- MUBI
Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2023, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
It’s been a great year to be a strange little guy. We’ve rolled on from Everything Everywhere All at Once sweeping the Oscars to the auspicious release of Yorgos Lanthimos’ sexy baby drama Poor Things. Our culture’s ever-increasing appetite for horror fueled hype for blockbusters about killer robot girls and homicidal animatronics. Genres were blended and transcended on and off the festival circuit, as major distributors embraced weirdness in films like Bottoms, May December, and the aforementioned Poor Things.
This has also been a year of extremes. In January Skinamarink, a $15,000 indie horror, made $2.1 million at the box office. Every favorite for Best Picture is at least 100 minutes long. Barbenheimer… happened. New heights of camp were achieved on larger scales than ever before. Casting...
It’s been a great year to be a strange little guy. We’ve rolled on from Everything Everywhere All at Once sweeping the Oscars to the auspicious release of Yorgos Lanthimos’ sexy baby drama Poor Things. Our culture’s ever-increasing appetite for horror fueled hype for blockbusters about killer robot girls and homicidal animatronics. Genres were blended and transcended on and off the festival circuit, as major distributors embraced weirdness in films like Bottoms, May December, and the aforementioned Poor Things.
This has also been a year of extremes. In January Skinamarink, a $15,000 indie horror, made $2.1 million at the box office. Every favorite for Best Picture is at least 100 minutes long. Barbenheimer… happened. New heights of camp were achieved on larger scales than ever before. Casting...
- 12/31/2023
- by Lena Wilson
- The Film Stage
Bookmark this page for the latest updates in the territory.
Screen is listing the 2023 release dates for films in the UK and Ireland in the calendar below.
For distributors who wish to add/amend a date on the calendar, please get in touch with Screen here. Screen is also running a calendar for festival and market dates throughout 2023 here.
December
December 31
Berliner Philharmoniker Live: New Year’s Eve Concert 2023 (Trafalgar - event cinema)
Previous releases January
January 6
Piggy (Vertigo), The Enforcer (Vertigo), Alcarràs (Mubi), A Man Called Otto (Sony), Rashomon (BFI), Till (Universal)
January 7
Andre Rieu In Dublin 2023 (Piece of...
Screen is listing the 2023 release dates for films in the UK and Ireland in the calendar below.
For distributors who wish to add/amend a date on the calendar, please get in touch with Screen here. Screen is also running a calendar for festival and market dates throughout 2023 here.
December
December 31
Berliner Philharmoniker Live: New Year’s Eve Concert 2023 (Trafalgar - event cinema)
Previous releases January
January 6
Piggy (Vertigo), The Enforcer (Vertigo), Alcarràs (Mubi), A Man Called Otto (Sony), Rashomon (BFI), Till (Universal)
January 7
Andre Rieu In Dublin 2023 (Piece of...
- 12/30/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
It is meaningful to me to be back here, compiling a list of ten for Dn, following a year off last year. Coming back I feel my list is different to what it may have been without the break, where my film watching, cinema-going and general cinephilia took new forms that are still revealing themselves. Some notes:
There is no inclusion of Enys Men or One Fine Morning, which for me are 2022 films and though released cinematically this year I wish to leave that year well and truly behind me. I’ve only included films where there is a trailer link so there’s no room for Nariman Massoumi’s poetic short doc Pouring Water on Troubled Oil, currently screening at festivals though criminally getting overlooked at many that should show it, John Akomfrah’s stunning installation Arcadia, at The Box in Plymouth until June 2024, or finally, Mark Jenkin’s...
There is no inclusion of Enys Men or One Fine Morning, which for me are 2022 films and though released cinematically this year I wish to leave that year well and truly behind me. I’ve only included films where there is a trailer link so there’s no room for Nariman Massoumi’s poetic short doc Pouring Water on Troubled Oil, currently screening at festivals though criminally getting overlooked at many that should show it, John Akomfrah’s stunning installation Arcadia, at The Box in Plymouth until June 2024, or finally, Mark Jenkin’s...
- 12/29/2023
- by Neil Fox
- Directors Notes
Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2023, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
I love going to the movies every year, but I really loved going to the movies this year. I saw Knock at the Cabin in Providence, I saw May December in Tallinn. I saw Enys Men in a small theater at Village East where it felt like everyone in the audience turned against the film but me. Somehow I liked Equalizer 3 despite loathing the other two. The worst movie I saw in theaters was Fast X, which I watched on an edible that put me to sleep during a set piece. I missed out on seeing Magic Mike’s Last Dance with some friends who wound up running into Christopher Nolan going to see Skinamarink. I loved breaking Yom Kippur fast during The Beast (out next year—I...
I love going to the movies every year, but I really loved going to the movies this year. I saw Knock at the Cabin in Providence, I saw May December in Tallinn. I saw Enys Men in a small theater at Village East where it felt like everyone in the audience turned against the film but me. Somehow I liked Equalizer 3 despite loathing the other two. The worst movie I saw in theaters was Fast X, which I watched on an edible that put me to sleep during a set piece. I missed out on seeing Magic Mike’s Last Dance with some friends who wound up running into Christopher Nolan going to see Skinamarink. I loved breaking Yom Kippur fast during The Beast (out next year—I...
- 12/28/2023
- by Fran Hoepfner
- The Film Stage
Great horror never gets old. The genre was as alive as ever in 2023, with the year's buzziest titles ranging from the large-scale devastation of "Godzilla Minus One" (yeah, sci-fi monsters bring horror too!) to the gnarly indie frisson of "Talk to Me," from the franchise-galvanizing prowess of "Evil Dead Rise" to the surprising earnestness of "Saw X" (and the whatever-the-heck-that-was of "Infinity Pool"). However, many of the year's best horror offerings did not achieve the levels of buzz generated by the aforementioned flicks.
This list compiles 15 exercises in fear and dread from 2023 which were grossly underrated, in that they received mixed or poor responses from critics and/or audiences. We've honed in on the ones that failed to garner the amount of attention or acclaim that their efforts deserved. Some have a lot in common with each other, and some are wildly different, but all of them are worth watching if you're a horror enthusiast.
This list compiles 15 exercises in fear and dread from 2023 which were grossly underrated, in that they received mixed or poor responses from critics and/or audiences. We've honed in on the ones that failed to garner the amount of attention or acclaim that their efforts deserved. Some have a lot in common with each other, and some are wildly different, but all of them are worth watching if you're a horror enthusiast.
- 12/24/2023
- by Leo Noboru Lima
- Slash Film
For many, it’s that time of year where you’re playing catch up on all the year’s releases before the clock strikes midnight on the 31st. Horror continues to thrive, and that’s never more apparent than when looking beyond the theatrical slate. Between VOD and streaming, it’s been tough to keep up with the sheer volume of new releases this year.
So, this week’s streaming picks are dedicated to a handful of under-the-radar genre titles for all tastes, from gateway horror to mind-bending folk horror.
Here’s where you can stream them this week.
For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.
Enys Men – Hulu
In the spring of 1973, The Volunteer (Mary Woodvine) spends each day on an uninhabited island off the British coast adhering to a specific routine. However, as the April days approach May, The Volunteer’s monotony gets upended by strange...
So, this week’s streaming picks are dedicated to a handful of under-the-radar genre titles for all tastes, from gateway horror to mind-bending folk horror.
Here’s where you can stream them this week.
For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.
Enys Men – Hulu
In the spring of 1973, The Volunteer (Mary Woodvine) spends each day on an uninhabited island off the British coast adhering to a specific routine. However, as the April days approach May, The Volunteer’s monotony gets upended by strange...
- 12/11/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist–moving an audience through a movie […] making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark,” said the late, great Gordon Willis. As our year-end coverage continues, we must pay dues. From talented newcomers to seasoned professionals, we’ve rounded up the examples that have most impressed us this year.
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Jomo Fray)
Raven Jackson’s directorial debut All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt slows down the cycle of life. The camera rests on hands, on backs, on people connected through touch, sound, and smell. There isn’t any rush, any intention to leave these moments. Jackson and cinematographer Jomo Fray find beauty, grace, and life in two people holding hands, dancing, skinning a fish, and the trees passing while a family drives down the road. The film doesn’t just feel like a...
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Jomo Fray)
Raven Jackson’s directorial debut All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt slows down the cycle of life. The camera rests on hands, on backs, on people connected through touch, sound, and smell. There isn’t any rush, any intention to leave these moments. Jackson and cinematographer Jomo Fray find beauty, grace, and life in two people holding hands, dancing, skinning a fish, and the trees passing while a family drives down the road. The film doesn’t just feel like a...
- 12/6/2023
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Andrew Haigh’s acclaimed gay romance All of Us Strangers took home the lion’s share of the honors at the 2023 British Independent Film Awards.
The Searchlight title, starring Andrew Scott, won best British independent film, best director and best screenplay for Haigh, and one of two best supporting performance awards for Paul Mescal. The feature had previously won three BIFA craft awards (cinematography, editing, music supervision), bringing its total to seven.
Meanwhile, Mia Mckenna-Bruce, the breakout star of Molly Manning Walker’s acclaimed debut feature How to Have Sex and The Hollywood Reporter‘s Next Big Thing in Cannes, won best lead performance. Shaun Thomas won best supporting performance for his role in the film, which previously won a BIFA craft award for best casting.
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay were presented with the best joint lead performance award for Femme, Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s revenge thriller,...
The Searchlight title, starring Andrew Scott, won best British independent film, best director and best screenplay for Haigh, and one of two best supporting performance awards for Paul Mescal. The feature had previously won three BIFA craft awards (cinematography, editing, music supervision), bringing its total to seven.
Meanwhile, Mia Mckenna-Bruce, the breakout star of Molly Manning Walker’s acclaimed debut feature How to Have Sex and The Hollywood Reporter‘s Next Big Thing in Cannes, won best lead performance. Shaun Thomas won best supporting performance for his role in the film, which previously won a BIFA craft award for best casting.
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay were presented with the best joint lead performance award for Femme, Sam H Freeman and Ng Choon Ping’s revenge thriller,...
- 12/3/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Andrew Haigh’s “All of Us Strangers” was the big winner at the 2023 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) with seven wins.
“All of Us Strangers” won best British independent film, Haigh won best director and best screenplay and Paul Mescal won best supporting performance, adding to its three craft awards, announced in November, for cinematography, editing and music supervision.
Best lead performance went to Mia McKenna-Bruce in Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature “How to Have Sex” and the film also won the other best supporting performance BIFA for Shaun Thomas, adding to its best casting win.
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay won best joint lead performance for “Femme,” which also won for make-up and hair design and costume design.
Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winning “Anatomy of a Fall” won best international independent film. Best debut director went to Savanah Leaf for “Earth Mama,” while best debut screenwriter...
“All of Us Strangers” won best British independent film, Haigh won best director and best screenplay and Paul Mescal won best supporting performance, adding to its three craft awards, announced in November, for cinematography, editing and music supervision.
Best lead performance went to Mia McKenna-Bruce in Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature “How to Have Sex” and the film also won the other best supporting performance BIFA for Shaun Thomas, adding to its best casting win.
Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay won best joint lead performance for “Femme,” which also won for make-up and hair design and costume design.
Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winning “Anatomy of a Fall” won best international independent film. Best debut director went to Savanah Leaf for “Earth Mama,” while best debut screenwriter...
- 12/3/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Andrew Haigh's All Of Us Strangers garnered four nominations The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) has announced the winners of its ten film craft categories.
Andrew Haigh's tale of a writer drawn back to his past and towards a mysterious new relationship received 16 BIFA nominations and has won the wards for Best Cinematography, for Jaime D Ramsay, Best Editing for Jonathan Alberts and Best Music Supervision for Connie Farr.
Revenge thriller Femme, won craft awards for Buki Ebiesuwa's Costume Design and Marie Deehan's Make Up & Hair. Two awards also went to The Kitchen, which saw Nathan Parker win Best Production Design, and Richard Baker pick up the prize for Best Effects.
Best Original Music went to Kwes for his work on debut director Raine Allen-Miller’s Peckham-set love story Rye Lane.
Mark Jenkin won Best Sound supported by Halo for his 1970s-set remote island mystery Enys Men.
Andrew Haigh's tale of a writer drawn back to his past and towards a mysterious new relationship received 16 BIFA nominations and has won the wards for Best Cinematography, for Jaime D Ramsay, Best Editing for Jonathan Alberts and Best Music Supervision for Connie Farr.
Revenge thriller Femme, won craft awards for Buki Ebiesuwa's Costume Design and Marie Deehan's Make Up & Hair. Two awards also went to The Kitchen, which saw Nathan Parker win Best Production Design, and Richard Baker pick up the prize for Best Effects.
Best Original Music went to Kwes for his work on debut director Raine Allen-Miller’s Peckham-set love story Rye Lane.
Mark Jenkin won Best Sound supported by Halo for his 1970s-set remote island mystery Enys Men.
- 11/20/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
‘Femme’, ‘The Kitchen’ take two prizes each.
Andrew Haigh’s romantic drama All Of Us Strangers led the craft winners for the 2023 British Independent Film Awards (Bifas), converting three of its craft nominations to wins.
The Searchlight Pictures film, which is backed by Film4, took prizes in best cinematography, for Jamie D. Ramsay; best editing for Jonathan Alberts; and best music supervision for Connie Farr – her second Bifa, following a win for Ali & Ava in 2021.
Scroll down for the full list of craft winners
All Of Us Strangers has a further seven nominations in five categories at the 26th Bifa ceremony on Sunday,...
Andrew Haigh’s romantic drama All Of Us Strangers led the craft winners for the 2023 British Independent Film Awards (Bifas), converting three of its craft nominations to wins.
The Searchlight Pictures film, which is backed by Film4, took prizes in best cinematography, for Jamie D. Ramsay; best editing for Jonathan Alberts; and best music supervision for Connie Farr – her second Bifa, following a win for Ali & Ava in 2021.
Scroll down for the full list of craft winners
All Of Us Strangers has a further seven nominations in five categories at the 26th Bifa ceremony on Sunday,...
- 11/20/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Budget cap for the retitled award has risen to £1m.
Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men and Edward Lovelace’s Name Me Lawand are among the 11 films longlisted for the renamed Bifa Maverick award, which has an increased budget cap this year.
Formerly the Raindance Discovery award, the Maverick prize is now open to independent UK features made for up to £1m – up from the previous cap of £500,000.
Scroll down for the full longlist
There is no limit on UK theatrical distribution for the award.
Nine of the 11 films are documentaries, including Screen Star of Tomorrow Ella Glendining’s Is There Anybody Out There?.
Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men and Edward Lovelace’s Name Me Lawand are among the 11 films longlisted for the renamed Bifa Maverick award, which has an increased budget cap this year.
Formerly the Raindance Discovery award, the Maverick prize is now open to independent UK features made for up to £1m – up from the previous cap of £500,000.
Scroll down for the full longlist
There is no limit on UK theatrical distribution for the award.
Nine of the 11 films are documentaries, including Screen Star of Tomorrow Ella Glendining’s Is There Anybody Out There?.
- 10/20/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
You can smell what’s happening in “Starve Acre” before you puzzle the rest of it out. The grassy, peaty dampness of its rural Yorkshire setting seems to hit the olfactory glands without any scratch-and-sniff assistance, only intensifying as the film unearths its literally deep-buried secrets. Daniel Kokotajlo’s impressive second feature unfolds in a vein of British folk horror that has been popular of late — with films from Ben Wheatley’s “A Field in England” to Mark Jenkins’s “Enys Men” all tapping into that retro “Wicker Man” eeriness — but rarely with such rattling sensory specificity or formal refinement. Starring Morfydd Clark and Matt Smith as former townies unprepared for the full burden of lore they inherit with their desolate farmhouse, it’s a tale of quite outlandish fantastical leaps, grounded by the chills it also finds in common weather and wildlife.
Premiering in the main competition at this year’s London Film Festival,...
Premiering in the main competition at this year’s London Film Festival,...
- 10/20/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Dexter Sol Ansell, David Edward-Robertson, Sophia La Porta, Mark Peachey, Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips, Vicki Hackett, Bernard Hill | Written by Paul Thomas | Directed by Chris Cronin
The Moor opens in 1996 as young Claire (Billie Suggett) convinces the even younger Danny to distract a shopkeeper with a story about getting separated from his father while she steals some candy for them. It all goes according to plan until a strange man claims to be the boy’s father and takes him away. A suspect is caught and convicted, but neither Danny’s body nor those of several other missing boys was ever found.
Twenty-five years later Danny’s father Bill contacts Claire He plans to find his son’s body to help keep his killer from being released and he wants her to use her podcast to help document it. Out of her sense of guilt, she agrees.
Bill’s method of...
The Moor opens in 1996 as young Claire (Billie Suggett) convinces the even younger Danny to distract a shopkeeper with a story about getting separated from his father while she steals some candy for them. It all goes according to plan until a strange man claims to be the boy’s father and takes him away. A suspect is caught and convicted, but neither Danny’s body nor those of several other missing boys was ever found.
Twenty-five years later Danny’s father Bill contacts Claire He plans to find his son’s body to help keep his killer from being released and he wants her to use her podcast to help document it. Out of her sense of guilt, she agrees.
Bill’s method of...
- 8/31/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
The Halloween season is almost here, which means a hectic Fall release schedule filled with horror looms just around the corner. Some of the year’s biggest horror releases are still ahead, including The Nun II, Saw X, The Exorcist: Believer, and Five Nights at Freddy’s.
Of course, they join countless movies already released these past eight months. As always, many titles might’ve slipped through the cracks, despite being available to stream now.
Whether you’re looking to get ahead on curating Halloween watchlists or catching up on 2023 horror before the year is through, here are twenty 2023 releases you can stream right now.
65 – Netflix
A high concept sci-fi effort from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the writers behind A Quiet Place and writers/directors of Haunt. Adam Driver and Ariana Greenblatt star as the unlucky pair that find themselves on a hostile planet filled with creatures and obstacles. Driver...
Of course, they join countless movies already released these past eight months. As always, many titles might’ve slipped through the cracks, despite being available to stream now.
Whether you’re looking to get ahead on curating Halloween watchlists or catching up on 2023 horror before the year is through, here are twenty 2023 releases you can stream right now.
65 – Netflix
A high concept sci-fi effort from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the writers behind A Quiet Place and writers/directors of Haunt. Adam Driver and Ariana Greenblatt star as the unlucky pair that find themselves on a hostile planet filled with creatures and obstacles. Driver...
- 8/16/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Where has time gone? August is officially here, bringing with it a slew of new titles arriving on streaming. This month also edges us even closer to the Halloween season, which means you can expect the horror programming to start ramping up in earnest.
August offers brand new streaming exclusives and recent releases that’ll give you a chance to catch up on 2022 and 2023 horror.
Here are ten noteworthy horror titles available for streaming in August 2023 on some of the most popular streaming services, along with when/where you can watch them.
Ghastly Brothers – Screambox
It’s Ghostbusters meets Beetlejuice in this gateway horror comedy. In the Screambox exclusive, “Lilith is sent to boarding school where she meets the Ghastly brothers, a pair of strange ghost hunters. Together, they need to rid the school of the demons who have made it their home!”
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead...
August offers brand new streaming exclusives and recent releases that’ll give you a chance to catch up on 2022 and 2023 horror.
Here are ten noteworthy horror titles available for streaming in August 2023 on some of the most popular streaming services, along with when/where you can watch them.
Ghastly Brothers – Screambox
It’s Ghostbusters meets Beetlejuice in this gateway horror comedy. In the Screambox exclusive, “Lilith is sent to boarding school where she meets the Ghastly brothers, a pair of strange ghost hunters. Together, they need to rid the school of the demons who have made it their home!”
Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead...
- 8/2/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
We might be entering the dog days of summer but Hulu isn’t slowing down. The streamer’s list of new releases for August 2023 is a pretty impressive collection of content.
The biggest Hulu original this month is season 3 of true crime comedy Only Murders in the Building on Aug. 8. This time around Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd are joining the already-stacked cast that features Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez. This season’s central murder appears to take place at a theater (outside the building) but I think we’ll let it slide.
That’s far from the only worthwhile original in August as Aug. 2 sees the premiere of the third and final season of superb comedy Reservation Dogs. That will be followed by South Korean sci-fi series Moving on Aug. 9, Solar Opposites season 4 on Aug. 14, and A Murder at the End of the World on Aug. 29. Of course,...
The biggest Hulu original this month is season 3 of true crime comedy Only Murders in the Building on Aug. 8. This time around Meryl Streep and Paul Rudd are joining the already-stacked cast that features Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez. This season’s central murder appears to take place at a theater (outside the building) but I think we’ll let it slide.
That’s far from the only worthwhile original in August as Aug. 2 sees the premiere of the third and final season of superb comedy Reservation Dogs. That will be followed by South Korean sci-fi series Moving on Aug. 9, Solar Opposites season 4 on Aug. 14, and A Murder at the End of the World on Aug. 29. Of course,...
- 8/1/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Clockwise from top left: The Craft (Columbia Pictures), Malignant (Warner Bros. Pictures), Enys Men (British Film Institute), How To Blow Up A Pipeline (Neon)Photo: The A.V. Club
It’s the last full month of summer and Hulu is here to help you escape the heat with some refreshing new titles and genre favorites.
It’s the last full month of summer and Hulu is here to help you escape the heat with some refreshing new titles and genre favorites.
- 7/31/2023
- by Robert DeSalvo
- avclub.com
August is not typically known as a big month for new TV releases, especially since the fall schedule normally kicks into high gear in September. But Hulu is a big exception in 2023, as it has several new seasons of big-name shows coming out to celebrate the arrival of late summer!
Shows like “Reservation Dogs” and “Breeders” will debut their final seasons on the platform in the upcoming month, so fans should prepare to say their bittersweet goodbyes now. But there’s a lot more coming to Hulu in August 2023, so check below for The Streamable’s top five picks!
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When we last left Paul and Ally, their marriage was decidedly on the rocks. Five years later the pair are still together, but their problems haven’t evaporated by any stretch of the imagination.
Shows like “Reservation Dogs” and “Breeders” will debut their final seasons on the platform in the upcoming month, so fans should prepare to say their bittersweet goodbyes now. But there’s a lot more coming to Hulu in August 2023, so check below for The Streamable’s top five picks!
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When we last left Paul and Ally, their marriage was decidedly on the rocks. Five years later the pair are still together, but their problems haven’t evaporated by any stretch of the imagination.
- 7/28/2023
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
Exclusive: WME has signed filmmaker Mark Jenkin (Enys Men) for representation in all areas.
A true multi-hyphenate, who has worked as a director, editor, screenwriter, cinematographer and composer over the course of his career, Jenkin most recently wrote and directed the folk horror film Enys Men, which was picked up for distribution in North America by Neon following its Cannes Directors’ Fortnight world premiere.
Starring Mary Woodvine, Edward Rowe, Flo Crowe and John Woodvine, the experimental feature shot on 16mm follows a wildlife volunteer living on an otherwise uninhabited island off the Cornish coast in 1973, as her daily observations of a rare flower turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is real and what is nightmare.
Jenkin previously broke out with his debut feature Bait, which won the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer in...
A true multi-hyphenate, who has worked as a director, editor, screenwriter, cinematographer and composer over the course of his career, Jenkin most recently wrote and directed the folk horror film Enys Men, which was picked up for distribution in North America by Neon following its Cannes Directors’ Fortnight world premiere.
Starring Mary Woodvine, Edward Rowe, Flo Crowe and John Woodvine, the experimental feature shot on 16mm follows a wildlife volunteer living on an otherwise uninhabited island off the Cornish coast in 1973, as her daily observations of a rare flower turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is real and what is nightmare.
Jenkin previously broke out with his debut feature Bait, which won the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer in...
- 6/15/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Enys Men Photo: Steve Tanner
Following the unprecedented success of Bait, a drama with shades of folk horror set in a Cornish fishing village, British director Mark Jenkin returns with another Cornish set horror, Enys Men. Set in 1973, on an unpopulated island off the Cornish coast, it sees a sole volunteer (Mary Woodvine) become troubled when she begins recording data on an unfamiliar flower. Struggling to discern the difference between reality and nightmare, she comes to question whether the island itself is sentient.
Shot on 16mm film, Jenkin continues to show an awareness of and interest in the form. He majestically contrasts the shades of folk horror in his feature début with Enys Men’s haunting and ambiguous, existential, even metaphysical horror. Presenting more questions than answers, the director avoids the clarity of themes and ideas that gave Bait a political commentary in post-Brexit Britain, and instead retreats into the abstract.
Following the unprecedented success of Bait, a drama with shades of folk horror set in a Cornish fishing village, British director Mark Jenkin returns with another Cornish set horror, Enys Men. Set in 1973, on an unpopulated island off the Cornish coast, it sees a sole volunteer (Mary Woodvine) become troubled when she begins recording data on an unfamiliar flower. Struggling to discern the difference between reality and nightmare, she comes to question whether the island itself is sentient.
Shot on 16mm film, Jenkin continues to show an awareness of and interest in the form. He majestically contrasts the shades of folk horror in his feature début with Enys Men’s haunting and ambiguous, existential, even metaphysical horror. Presenting more questions than answers, the director avoids the clarity of themes and ideas that gave Bait a political commentary in post-Brexit Britain, and instead retreats into the abstract.
- 5/9/2023
- by Paul Risker
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It’s said that just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you, but in the case of Carmen (Aline Küppenheim), the protagonist of Manuela Martelli’s Chile ’76, paranoia may be a self-fulfilling prophesy. After all, as its title indicates, the film is set during Augusto Pinochet’s right-wing military dictatorship, three years after the coup that toppled Salvador Allende’s democratically elected left‐wing Popular Unity Government.
Carmen is a young grandmother, wife of a hospital administrator (Alejandro Goic), and former Red Cross nurse. She lives a complacent bourgeois life, insulated from anti-communist suspicion but not from her own neuroses, which she self-medicates with a steady intake of pills, alcohol, and cigarettes. When she and her family pay a visit to their seaside vacation house, the local priest, Father Sanchez (Hugo Medina), recruits her to secretly nurse a communist insurgent, Elías (Nicolás Sepúlveda...
Carmen is a young grandmother, wife of a hospital administrator (Alejandro Goic), and former Red Cross nurse. She lives a complacent bourgeois life, insulated from anti-communist suspicion but not from her own neuroses, which she self-medicates with a steady intake of pills, alcohol, and cigarettes. When she and her family pay a visit to their seaside vacation house, the local priest, Father Sanchez (Hugo Medina), recruits her to secretly nurse a communist insurgent, Elías (Nicolás Sepúlveda...
- 5/1/2023
- by William Repass
- Slant Magazine
This week’s streaming premieres bring two documentaries about cultural legends — one more complicated than the other — that bowed at Sundance and will now charm audiences at home. For something a bit more understated, there’s also a trance-inducing horror curio backed by one of the hottest indie distributors around.
The contender to watch this week: “Little Richard: I Am Everything”
Little Richard has long deserved a documentary that explores his hyper-stylized rock ‘n’ roll innovations, which inspired the likes of Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger, and David Bowie. Lisa Cortés (“All In: The Fight for Democracy‘) was up to the task, directing a spirited tour of the “Tutti Frutti” singer’s legacy. It’s not all glitter, though: Little Richard established popular music’s Black, queer roots, only to become a born-again Christian who denounced homosexuality. After opening this year’s Sundance Film Festival, “I Am Everything” is playing in...
The contender to watch this week: “Little Richard: I Am Everything”
Little Richard has long deserved a documentary that explores his hyper-stylized rock ‘n’ roll innovations, which inspired the likes of Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger, and David Bowie. Lisa Cortés (“All In: The Fight for Democracy‘) was up to the task, directing a spirited tour of the “Tutti Frutti” singer’s legacy. It’s not all glitter, though: Little Richard established popular music’s Black, queer roots, only to become a born-again Christian who denounced homosexuality. After opening this year’s Sundance Film Festival, “I Am Everything” is playing in...
- 4/22/2023
- by Matthew Jacobs
- Gold Derby
In director Mark Jenkin’s new Cornish folk horror film Enys Men, pronounced “Ennis Mane,” routine is unsettling. Set in 1973 on the uninhabited, eponymous “Stone Island” — as translated from Cornish — each day a nameless Volunteer (played by Mary Woodvine) starts up a generator, makes tea, checks wildflowers, measures soil temperature, and drops a stone in a mine shaft as she listens to hear it drop below. Then she records “No change” in a journal. But then things do begin to change.
The concept of time begins to fluctuate, even from the film’s early moments for the very observant viewer. Though she is meant to be on the island alone, she begins to encounter, and interact with, either strange visitors, or phantoms. Then there are the lichens. The composite organism appears on the flowers, and begins to appear on her own body. This all takes place as a large stone...
The concept of time begins to fluctuate, even from the film’s early moments for the very observant viewer. Though she is meant to be on the island alone, she begins to encounter, and interact with, either strange visitors, or phantoms. Then there are the lichens. The composite organism appears on the flowers, and begins to appear on her own body. This all takes place as a large stone...
- 4/7/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
The film will have its international premiere at Hot Docs in May.
BFI Distribution has acquired UK-Ireland distribution rights to Name Me Lawand, Edward Lovelace’s documentary about a deaf Kurdish boy who moves from Iraq to the UK, where he learns British Sign Language.
The film debuted at the BFI London Film Festival in October last year in the documentary competition; it will have its international premiere at Hot Docs in Toronto on May 1.
BFI Distribution acquired the rights from producers Pulse Films, and will release the film in cinemas this summer.
Name Me Lawand follows the eponymous Kurdish boy,...
BFI Distribution has acquired UK-Ireland distribution rights to Name Me Lawand, Edward Lovelace’s documentary about a deaf Kurdish boy who moves from Iraq to the UK, where he learns British Sign Language.
The film debuted at the BFI London Film Festival in October last year in the documentary competition; it will have its international premiere at Hot Docs in Toronto on May 1.
BFI Distribution acquired the rights from producers Pulse Films, and will release the film in cinemas this summer.
Name Me Lawand follows the eponymous Kurdish boy,...
- 4/4/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Focus Features’ Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner A Thousand And One opened to a solid $1.8 million at 926 theaters — $1,942 per theater average — supported by a 96% Rotten Tomatoes critics’ score and a B+ CinemaScore. It came no. 7 at the domestic box office, a strong showing for a complex, gritty film in a slow-to-recover specialty market.
“The fantastic critical response coupled with Teyana’s raw, powerhouse performance gives us confidence this film will continue to resonate with audiences across the country,” said Lisa Bunnell, Focus Features President of Distribution.
New York was the top market, overperforming with 18% of sales so far this weekend. Atlanta, D.C., Chicago and Philadelphia also have stronger than usual market shares for the debut feature from video and short film director A.V. Rockewell. Teyana Taylor is stunning as an unapologetic, free-spirited young Black woman, Inez, who kidnaps her six-year-old son Terry from the foster care system. They embark on a life together,...
“The fantastic critical response coupled with Teyana’s raw, powerhouse performance gives us confidence this film will continue to resonate with audiences across the country,” said Lisa Bunnell, Focus Features President of Distribution.
New York was the top market, overperforming with 18% of sales so far this weekend. Atlanta, D.C., Chicago and Philadelphia also have stronger than usual market shares for the debut feature from video and short film director A.V. Rockewell. Teyana Taylor is stunning as an unapologetic, free-spirited young Black woman, Inez, who kidnaps her six-year-old son Terry from the foster care system. They embark on a life together,...
- 4/2/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
“Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” (Paramount) — a franchise reboot, not a remake or sequel — provided the weekend with the fifth straight film to open to over $30 million. While not unprecedented for the month — it last happened in March 2017, with four out of five openings over $40 million, three of those over $85 million — it’s unusual. More importantly, it reflects the steady rebound of 2023.
“D&d” received better-than-expected reviews (70 Metacritic score) and a boost from its SXSW premiere, but credit also goes to built-in interest for the world-building dice game and good word of mouth (A- Cinemascore).
At $38.5 million it landed ahead of pre-release projections, although short of the $40 million that seemed possible after Friday’s returns. Saturday saw a 15 percent drop, a bit above average but hardly cause for worry. With spring or Easter break ahead for many schools, this has a chance to sustain. For exhibitors, that’s short-term good news; for Paramount,...
“D&d” received better-than-expected reviews (70 Metacritic score) and a boost from its SXSW premiere, but credit also goes to built-in interest for the world-building dice game and good word of mouth (A- Cinemascore).
At $38.5 million it landed ahead of pre-release projections, although short of the $40 million that seemed possible after Friday’s returns. Saturday saw a 15 percent drop, a bit above average but hardly cause for worry. With spring or Easter break ahead for many schools, this has a chance to sustain. For exhibitors, that’s short-term good news; for Paramount,...
- 4/2/2023
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
As the new crop of 2023 festival favorites roll out, Focus Features presents A Thousand And One in over 900 carefully curated theaters, testing the appetite for specialty fare at a challenging moment.
Short film and video director A.V. Rockwell’s feature-length debut stars Teyana Taylor as free-spirited Inez, who kidnaps her six-year-old son Terry from the foster care system. Holding onto their secret and each other, mother and son set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity, and stability in a rapidly changing New York City. Reviews are stellar, see Deadline’s. The winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize is at 97% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes, 82% with auds. The fest called it “an elegant ode to the terribly beautiful power of family as an anchor in an ever-changing world, making us into who we are in ways we can only haltingly understand.”
This film, like Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight in...
Short film and video director A.V. Rockwell’s feature-length debut stars Teyana Taylor as free-spirited Inez, who kidnaps her six-year-old son Terry from the foster care system. Holding onto their secret and each other, mother and son set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity, and stability in a rapidly changing New York City. Reviews are stellar, see Deadline’s. The winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize is at 97% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes, 82% with auds. The fest called it “an elegant ode to the terribly beautiful power of family as an anchor in an ever-changing world, making us into who we are in ways we can only haltingly understand.”
This film, like Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight in...
- 3/31/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
We are currently living through an exciting time in the horror genre. It seems that as long as you've got a good enough team on your hands, even the lowest-budget and experimental of movies can secure nationwide theatrical releases. The unexpected success of "Skinamarink" earlier this year proved as such, and it's likely that you will hear Kyle Edward Ball's debut talked about alongside distributor Neon and director Mark Jenkin's new release, "Enys Men." This won't exactly be for undeserved reasons — both movies are period pieces with minimal dialogue, eerie cinematography, and an overarching feeling of wrongness embedded in their very cores.
However, what makes "Enys Men" different from its analog contemporary lies in how far more abstract its message is. In 1973, a woman (Mary Woodvine) is tasked with monitoring the natural surroundings of an island with a devastating history. However, when lichen begins to grow on the island's flowers,...
However, what makes "Enys Men" different from its analog contemporary lies in how far more abstract its message is. In 1973, a woman (Mary Woodvine) is tasked with monitoring the natural surroundings of an island with a devastating history. However, when lichen begins to grow on the island's flowers,...
- 3/31/2023
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
"I can either pull focus, or I can move the camera." Opening in select art house theaters this week is Enys Men, a one-of-a-kind, chilling experimental horror film made by Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkins. It's his follow-up to the festival hit Bait (which is finally getting a US release also this wek) and it premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival last year. In honor of the US opening this weekend, Neon has revealed a 14-minute behind-the-scenes featurette for the film. Set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast, a wildlife volunteer's daily observations of a rare flower slowly turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is real and what is nightmare. The film stars Mary Woodvine as the volunteer working on the island, with a small cast including Edward Rowe and Flo Crowe. This is a fascinating inside look at Jenkins' process,...
- 3/31/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The title of Mark Jenkin’s elegant psychological drama, Enys Men, is Cornish for Stone Island, a reference to the isolated landscape where a woman identified in the credits only as the Volunteer (Mary Woodvine) lives alone in a vine-covered cottage. A monolithic stone nearby, in a roughly human shape and framed in the gateway to the cottage, alludes to the island legend that Jenkin has said he learned in childhood, of girls turned to stone for singing on the Sabbath. Despite its touches of folk horror, though, the film’s ambience is more haunting than terrifying. Past and present are fluid and the woman’s memory and imagination summon people who could not possibly be there. Defying any logical narrative, the film relies on poetic images and associations. It suggests that the most frightening thing in the world can be in your own mind.
Every day, the woman checks...
Every day, the woman checks...
- 3/30/2023
- by Caryn James
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The title is Cornish for “Stone Island,” a forbidding slab of land located off the coast of England’s southern tip. The year is 1973 — the same horror-cinema annus mirabilis of The Wicker Man and Don’t Look Now, for those of you playing along at home. The only current resident seems to be a woman (Mary Woodvine), who is never named; she’s simply referred to as “The Volunteer” in the end credits. Every day, she treks out past the lighthouse and the stone statue that stands in for some vaguely hinted-at collective grief (and which,...
- 3/30/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Today, Neon exclusively premieres a nearly 14-minute featurette with Filmmaker on the making of Cornish writer-director Mark Jenkin’s experimental folk horror film Enys Men. Jenkin and the film’s star, Mary Woodvine, take viewers behind the scenes of the shoot and detail their individual processes while making the film. In his review out of Cannes, Blake Williams summarized the film’s loose plot and stylistic leanings: Set in 1973, Enys Men (Cornish for “Stone Island” and is pronounced—if I recall correctly—Ayn-is Mayn) is an image-forward movie drenched in the kind of dense, thick film grain you can find in e.g. the work of Ben Rivers or […]
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- 3/30/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Today, Neon exclusively premieres a nearly 14-minute featurette with Filmmaker on the making of Cornish writer-director Mark Jenkin’s experimental folk horror film Enys Men. Jenkin and the film’s star, Mary Woodvine, take viewers behind the scenes of the shoot and detail their individual processes while making the film. In his review out of Cannes, Blake Williams summarized the film’s loose plot and stylistic leanings: Set in 1973, Enys Men (Cornish for “Stone Island” and is pronounced—if I recall correctly—Ayn-is Mayn) is an image-forward movie drenched in the kind of dense, thick film grain you can find in e.g. the work of Ben Rivers or […]
The post Watch: The Making of Enys Men (Exclusive Premiere) first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Watch: The Making of Enys Men (Exclusive Premiere) first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/30/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
In theaters this Friday, March 31st (with early access screenings on Wednesday) from Neon is Bait (2019) director Mark Jenkin’s folk horror film Enys Men, set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the British coast where a wildlife volunteer descends into a terrifying metaphysical and ecosophical journey that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
Bloody Disgusting has a haunting exclusive clip in which some sort of artifact appears to be the catalyst to madness.
In Enys Men, “A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace, this provocative and masterful vision of horror asserts Mark Jenkin as one of the U.K.’s most exciting and singular filmmakers.
Bloody Disgusting has a haunting exclusive clip in which some sort of artifact appears to be the catalyst to madness.
In Enys Men, “A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace, this provocative and masterful vision of horror asserts Mark Jenkin as one of the U.K.’s most exciting and singular filmmakers.
- 3/29/2023
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
There’s a palpable tactility to the 16mm films of Mark Jenkin, the Cornish director whose Bait and Enys Men are boldly edited, transportive journeys with a sense of impressionistic storytelling that feels radical in today’s era. In his 1973-set feature, which premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight last year, Mary Woodvine plays The Volunteer, a woman immersed in studying the environment on an isolated island and starts experiencing strange happenings as it’s related to the history of her location, evolving into hallucinatory Cornish folk horror.
Ahead of Enys Men‘s U.S. bow, which is paired with Bait‘s long-overdue release, I spoke with Jenkin about how he trusts his audience, why his films wouldn’t be considered experimental in the 1970s, the influence of Jerzy Skolimowski, how nature doesn’t care about humanity, crafting his Sight and Sound top 10 list, and his experience with Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse.
Ahead of Enys Men‘s U.S. bow, which is paired with Bait‘s long-overdue release, I spoke with Jenkin about how he trusts his audience, why his films wouldn’t be considered experimental in the 1970s, the influence of Jerzy Skolimowski, how nature doesn’t care about humanity, crafting his Sight and Sound top 10 list, and his experience with Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse.
- 3/29/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The old, familiar adage defining insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result feels at home in writer/director Mark Jenkin’s abstract folk horror feature Enys Men. Mundane, repetitive tasks eventually give way to an unhinged voyage without easy answers. While Jenkin embraces a cryptic narrative, the strong form of visual storytelling draws you into this patient, enigmatic reality bender.
In the spring of 1973, The Volunteer (Mary Woodvine) spends each day on an uninhabited island of the British coast adhering to a specific routine. She treks from her vine-covered home to observe a mound of rare flowers growing on the cliffside, takes the soil temperature, stops by an abandoned mineshaft to drop stones, then heads home to record her unchanged findings in a journal. However, as the April days approach May, The Volunteer’s monotony gets upended by strange visions that increase with haunting regularity.
In the spring of 1973, The Volunteer (Mary Woodvine) spends each day on an uninhabited island of the British coast adhering to a specific routine. She treks from her vine-covered home to observe a mound of rare flowers growing on the cliffside, takes the soil temperature, stops by an abandoned mineshaft to drop stones, then heads home to record her unchanged findings in a journal. However, as the April days approach May, The Volunteer’s monotony gets upended by strange visions that increase with haunting regularity.
- 3/29/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
The biggest new release for the week is Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which brings various monsters from the long-running property to the big screen beginning on Thursday night, and it’s joined by several brand new horror movies in the coming days.
Here’s all the new horror releasing March 28 – April 2, 2023!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
Up first, BayView Entertainment and Vipco have released Skarecrow: A Curse Never Dies today, which looks to be an ultra-low-budget indie film centered on a killer scarecrow.
In the film, “When the vile James Brothers murder an innocent woman to take over her land, her dying breath places a curse on the family through a scarecrow. Years later, a descendent of the James family has taken his friends to the old cabin for the weekend. They soon find the curse and the scarecrow are still wanting blood.
Here’s all the new horror releasing March 28 – April 2, 2023!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
Up first, BayView Entertainment and Vipco have released Skarecrow: A Curse Never Dies today, which looks to be an ultra-low-budget indie film centered on a killer scarecrow.
In the film, “When the vile James Brothers murder an innocent woman to take over her land, her dying breath places a curse on the family through a scarecrow. Years later, a descendent of the James family has taken his friends to the old cabin for the weekend. They soon find the curse and the scarecrow are still wanting blood.
- 3/28/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Neon is bringing Bait (2019) director Mark Jenkin’s folk horror film Enys Men to theaters this Friday, but Bloody Disgusting is giving away (20) free pairs of tickets to see the film with the director in attendance on Saturday, April 1st at 7:30 Pm at the Nuart Theatre.
All you have to do is Email rsvp@neonrated.com to RSVP. Winners will be picked at random and contacted directly.
The film is set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the British coast where a wildlife volunteer descends into a terrifying metaphysical and ecosophical journey that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
In Enys Men, “A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace,...
All you have to do is Email rsvp@neonrated.com to RSVP. Winners will be picked at random and contacted directly.
The film is set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the British coast where a wildlife volunteer descends into a terrifying metaphysical and ecosophical journey that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
In Enys Men, “A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace,...
- 3/28/2023
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
In theaters this Friday, March 31st (with early access screenings on Wednesday) from Neon is Bait (2019) director Mark Jenkin’s folk horror film Enys Men, which Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive batch of new images from.
The film is set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the British coast where a wildlife volunteer descends into a terrifying metaphysical and ecosophical journey that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
In Enys Men, “A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace, this provocative and masterful vision of horror asserts Mark Jenkin as one of the U.K.’s most exciting and singular filmmakers.”
Jenkin wrote and directed, with the...
The film is set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the British coast where a wildlife volunteer descends into a terrifying metaphysical and ecosophical journey that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
In Enys Men, “A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace, this provocative and masterful vision of horror asserts Mark Jenkin as one of the U.K.’s most exciting and singular filmmakers.”
Jenkin wrote and directed, with the...
- 3/28/2023
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Although he is rightly judged as being in the vanguard of British independent cinema, Mark Jenkin nonetheless seems out of place in such company. Unlike his contemporaries—Peter Strickland, Lynne Ramsay, Andrea Arnold, Clio Barnard, and Jonathan Glazer, among others—he is a strict formalist, creating expressions through the rhythms and combinations of images and sounds rather than through conventional narratives or theatrical gestures. And what makes him yet more unique, both in the UK and internationally, is the breadth of his creative abilities: he writes, directs, shoots, edits, produces, and scores each of his films, and sometimes even develops the film himself, as with his BAFTA-winning debut feature, “Bait.” Like “Bait,” his latest work, “Enys Men,” is rather difficult to categorize.
Continue reading ‘Enys Men’: Director Mark Jenkin Talks ‘Bait,’ Robert Bresson & His Upcoming Time Travel Movie at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Enys Men’: Director Mark Jenkin Talks ‘Bait,’ Robert Bresson & His Upcoming Time Travel Movie at The Playlist.
- 3/28/2023
- by Oliver Weir
- The Playlist
At long last, Mark Jenkin‘s buzzy sophomore feature “Enys Men” gets a US theatrical release later this month. The movie made waves with its British folk horror trappings and 16mm visuals at the Cannes Film Festival last year. Now, to build off that buzz, Neon readies Jenkin’s debut feature “Bait” for a theatrical release, too.
Read More: ‘Enys Men’ Review: Mark Jenkin Crafts A Wicked, Witchy Folk Freak Horror That Defies Genre [Cannes]
Like “Enys Men,” “Bait” shares a specific maritime sensibility, and uses its black-and-white 16mm camera to track a troubled fisherman’s reckoning with his family’s history and his home harbor gradually becoming a tourist trap.
Continue reading ‘Bait’ Trailer: Neon Releases Mark Jenkin’s Feature Debut In Select Theaters On March 31 at The Playlist.
Read More: ‘Enys Men’ Review: Mark Jenkin Crafts A Wicked, Witchy Folk Freak Horror That Defies Genre [Cannes]
Like “Enys Men,” “Bait” shares a specific maritime sensibility, and uses its black-and-white 16mm camera to track a troubled fisherman’s reckoning with his family’s history and his home harbor gradually becoming a tourist trap.
Continue reading ‘Bait’ Trailer: Neon Releases Mark Jenkin’s Feature Debut In Select Theaters On March 31 at The Playlist.
- 3/24/2023
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Looks like summer is starting early again with franchises galore this March. Studios are trying to hit the ground running as Oscar season finally comes to a close and theaters desperately look for safe, brand-name IP to get patrons through their doors to purchase the rapidly growing trend of alcoholic beverages. Seems to be working so far with Regal still keeping most of its announced closures open for business well past their shutter dates.
All the more reason to try and wow audiences with a good campaign that sets you apart from the rest like Brian Hung’s Walk Up—once again releasing his new poster with only a couple weeks to spare and thus well after I already set my picks for this feature. Especially in small-to-medium markets like my own here in Buffalo, I’ve never seen so many independent films filling the marquees here. Theaters seem to...
All the more reason to try and wow audiences with a good campaign that sets you apart from the rest like Brian Hung’s Walk Up—once again releasing his new poster with only a couple weeks to spare and thus well after I already set my picks for this feature. Especially in small-to-medium markets like my own here in Buffalo, I’ve never seen so many independent films filling the marquees here. Theaters seem to...
- 3/3/2023
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Island settings, such as Enys Men and The Banshees of Inisherin, speak of the isolation and helplessness we feel in this era of pandemic and sociopolitical division
If cinema is anything to go by, it stands to reason that the further a place is from the regular thrum of civilisation, the more obscure everything becomes. The spiritual world feels closer, and supernatural phenomena more likely if nobody is around to interfere. And when there are fewer distractions to contend with, memories are replayed, minds wander, dreams contort into reality.
This, no doubt, is part of the reason why Mark Jenkin’s latest film Enys Men sees him venture offshore to a largely uninhabited island whose only resident is an unnamed volunteer (Mary Woodvine) tasked with monitoring the local plant life. Her routine becomes embellished with rituals of her own, like dropping a stone down a disused mine shaft, driven seemingly...
If cinema is anything to go by, it stands to reason that the further a place is from the regular thrum of civilisation, the more obscure everything becomes. The spiritual world feels closer, and supernatural phenomena more likely if nobody is around to interfere. And when there are fewer distractions to contend with, memories are replayed, minds wander, dreams contort into reality.
This, no doubt, is part of the reason why Mark Jenkin’s latest film Enys Men sees him venture offshore to a largely uninhabited island whose only resident is an unnamed volunteer (Mary Woodvine) tasked with monitoring the local plant life. Her routine becomes embellished with rituals of her own, like dropping a stone down a disused mine shaft, driven seemingly...
- 2/14/2023
- by Megan Williams
- The Guardian - Film News
Bait (2019) director Mark Jenkin’s next is the folk horror film Enys Men, and Neon has announced that they’ll be bringing the film to select theaters on March 31, 2023.
The film is set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the British coast where a wildlife volunteer descends into a terrifying metaphysical and ecosophical journey that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Check out the trailer below.
In Enys Men, “A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace, this provocative and masterful vision of horror asserts Mark Jenkin as one of the U.K.’s most exciting and singular filmmakers.”
Jenkin wrote and directed, with the original story...
The film is set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the British coast where a wildlife volunteer descends into a terrifying metaphysical and ecosophical journey that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Check out the trailer below.
In Enys Men, “A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Evoking the feeling of discovering a reel of never-before-seen celluloid unspooling in a haunted movie palace, this provocative and masterful vision of horror asserts Mark Jenkin as one of the U.K.’s most exciting and singular filmmakers.”
Jenkin wrote and directed, with the original story...
- 2/13/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Taking the fashionable genre as a starting point, Ric Rawlings’ film tries to elevate amateurism in three creepy rural stories but it just looks inept
Those interested in the concept of rewilding, a form of environmental conservation that seeks to restore land to a more natural state as popularised by the book by Isabella Tree, should be well advised that this film has nothing to do with that. Rather, it is an almost endearingly amateurish package, written and directed by Ric Rawlins, that is an exercise in something that’s almost as fashionable these days: folk horror. There’s lashings of folk horror about these days, some of it, like Enys Men, very good. Rewilding, however, is not very good, if we are being honest. But it’s as folky as you get, telling three disconnected stories set in the West Country and Wales revolving around such folky elements as spooky coastal caves,...
Those interested in the concept of rewilding, a form of environmental conservation that seeks to restore land to a more natural state as popularised by the book by Isabella Tree, should be well advised that this film has nothing to do with that. Rather, it is an almost endearingly amateurish package, written and directed by Ric Rawlins, that is an exercise in something that’s almost as fashionable these days: folk horror. There’s lashings of folk horror about these days, some of it, like Enys Men, very good. Rewilding, however, is not very good, if we are being honest. But it’s as folky as you get, telling three disconnected stories set in the West Country and Wales revolving around such folky elements as spooky coastal caves,...
- 1/31/2023
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
‘Babylon’ lands third overall in UK-Ireland box office chart.
RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Jan 20-22)Total gross to date Week 1. Avatar: The Way Of Water (Disney) £2.8m £67.6m 6 2. M3GAN (Universal) £1.4m £4.7m 2 3. Babylon (Paramount) £1.32m £1.32m 1 4. Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Sony) £766,097 £9.6m 4 5. Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (Sony) £661,279 £25.8m 9
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.24
This weekend’s highest-grossing new opener at the UK-Ireland box office is Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, taking £1.32m for Paramount, and landing third in the weekend’s overall chart.
La La Land and Whiplash filmmaker Chazelle depicts the hedonistic days of the pre-sound film industry,...
RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Jan 20-22)Total gross to date Week 1. Avatar: The Way Of Water (Disney) £2.8m £67.6m 6 2. M3GAN (Universal) £1.4m £4.7m 2 3. Babylon (Paramount) £1.32m £1.32m 1 4. Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Sony) £766,097 £9.6m 4 5. Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (Sony) £661,279 £25.8m 9
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.24
This weekend’s highest-grossing new opener at the UK-Ireland box office is Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, taking £1.32m for Paramount, and landing third in the weekend’s overall chart.
La La Land and Whiplash filmmaker Chazelle depicts the hedonistic days of the pre-sound film industry,...
- 1/23/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.
For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmaker’s Podcast #318: Enys Men – Making Bafta winning BFI films with...
For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmaker’s Podcast #318: Enys Men – Making Bafta winning BFI films with...
- 1/23/2023
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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