Daniel Radcliffe made some very rare comments about fatherhood in a recent interview.
The 34-year-old Harry Potter star welcomed his first child – a son – with girlfriend Erin Darke in April 2023.
While on the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, Daniel opened up about his little boy and what it was like being a dad.
He opened up about balancing work with parenting duties and concerns for the future when his son understood that he was famous. Daniel even revealed if they would read Harry Potter together in the future.
Keep reading to find out more…
If you were unaware, Daniel is currently starring in the musical Merrily We Roll Along. During the interview, he was asked if his little boy engages with the musical yet.
“My son is too young to be dancing. Although he has started walking and doing something that resembles dancing,” he joked, adding that Daniel prepared...
The 34-year-old Harry Potter star welcomed his first child – a son – with girlfriend Erin Darke in April 2023.
While on the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, Daniel opened up about his little boy and what it was like being a dad.
He opened up about balancing work with parenting duties and concerns for the future when his son understood that he was famous. Daniel even revealed if they would read Harry Potter together in the future.
Keep reading to find out more…
If you were unaware, Daniel is currently starring in the musical Merrily We Roll Along. During the interview, he was asked if his little boy engages with the musical yet.
“My son is too young to be dancing. Although he has started walking and doing something that resembles dancing,” he joked, adding that Daniel prepared...
- 4/12/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
One of the biggest movies of the summer is about to come to home release. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer premiered to great acclaim and huge crowds filed into 70mm IMAX screenings. Universal has now released details for the 4K Uhd, Blu-ray, DVD and digital releases. The epic drama will be available on all of those formats on November 21, 2023.
The press release from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment reads,
“Experience the breathtaking global phenomenon that has captivated audiences around the world. Written for the screen and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer thrusts audiences into the mind of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), whose landmark work on the Manhattan Project created the first atomic bomb. An unprecedented cinematic event, Oppenheimer features an all-star cast that includes Emily Blunt, Oscar® winner Matt Damon, Oscar® nominee Robert Downey Jr., Oscar® nominee Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, and Oscar® winners Casey Affleck, Rami Malek and Kenneth Branagh.
The press release from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment reads,
“Experience the breathtaking global phenomenon that has captivated audiences around the world. Written for the screen and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer thrusts audiences into the mind of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), whose landmark work on the Manhattan Project created the first atomic bomb. An unprecedented cinematic event, Oppenheimer features an all-star cast that includes Emily Blunt, Oscar® winner Matt Damon, Oscar® nominee Robert Downey Jr., Oscar® nominee Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, and Oscar® winners Casey Affleck, Rami Malek and Kenneth Branagh.
- 10/17/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Troubled musicals, like troubled friendships, can often seem like defeats lying in wait, sponging up every last second of loving care, effort and good intention. So Maria Friedman’s smartly tended production of that most troubled of stage properties, the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth backwards musical Merrily We Roll Along deserves all the applause – and ticket-buying business – it’s getting at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre.
Opening tonight, the musical is drawing rapturous audience responses, no doubt in large part because of the splendid performances by three very appealing stars – Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez.
But even if we could, for the sake of argument, put the talents of this delightful trio singing some of Sondheim’s loveliest songs, aside for a moment, the undeniable charm of this production has to be credited to a sort of relief – the relief of knowing that, for the most part, Friedman...
Opening tonight, the musical is drawing rapturous audience responses, no doubt in large part because of the splendid performances by three very appealing stars – Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez.
But even if we could, for the sake of argument, put the talents of this delightful trio singing some of Sondheim’s loveliest songs, aside for a moment, the undeniable charm of this production has to be credited to a sort of relief – the relief of knowing that, for the most part, Friedman...
- 10/10/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Trojan Women: Lopez Crafts Collage of Complicity in Stellar Debut
For her directorial debut Robe of Gems (Manto de gemas), Natalia López Gallardo resists expectations in a chilly narrative of complex intersections. Heretofore celebrated as the editor of critically revered titles from Amat Escalante, Lisandro Alonso and her partner Carlos Reygadas (with whom she co-starred in the underrated 2018’s Our Time – read review), Lopez’s stylistic choices remain self-evident, but there’s an almost harsh reticence in how she continually undermines not only a certain arthouse convention, but the inherent apathy of those balanced precariously in this world on a wire.…...
For her directorial debut Robe of Gems (Manto de gemas), Natalia López Gallardo resists expectations in a chilly narrative of complex intersections. Heretofore celebrated as the editor of critically revered titles from Amat Escalante, Lisandro Alonso and her partner Carlos Reygadas (with whom she co-starred in the underrated 2018’s Our Time – read review), Lopez’s stylistic choices remain self-evident, but there’s an almost harsh reticence in how she continually undermines not only a certain arthouse convention, but the inherent apathy of those balanced precariously in this world on a wire.…...
- 9/19/2023
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
For director Matthew Heineman, that road was a very roundabout one that went across the United States, journeyed into the Mexican drug cartels, ran in and out of Syria, stayed with healthcare workers during the worst days of the Covid-19 pandemic and braved the chaotic Kabul airport during the final days of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan.
But with “American Symphony,” which had its world premiere on Friday at the Telluride Film Festival, Heineman and his cameras settle in with musician Jon Batiste as he prepares for the Carnegie Hall debut of a major composition that mixes a classical orchestra with jazz, folk, blues, gospel and Native American music. Where Heineman’s earlier films were about violence, conflict and death, his new one deals with the creation of art.
There’s more to it than that, of course. “American Symphony” is about the...
For director Matthew Heineman, that road was a very roundabout one that went across the United States, journeyed into the Mexican drug cartels, ran in and out of Syria, stayed with healthcare workers during the worst days of the Covid-19 pandemic and braved the chaotic Kabul airport during the final days of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan.
But with “American Symphony,” which had its world premiere on Friday at the Telluride Film Festival, Heineman and his cameras settle in with musician Jon Batiste as he prepares for the Carnegie Hall debut of a major composition that mixes a classical orchestra with jazz, folk, blues, gospel and Native American music. Where Heineman’s earlier films were about violence, conflict and death, his new one deals with the creation of art.
There’s more to it than that, of course. “American Symphony” is about the...
- 9/1/2023
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Lost in the Night (Amat Escalante).The more familiar one becomes with Cannes, the less one comes to expect anything like aesthetic coherence from it. Even if one accepts its nominal (or self-proclaimed) status as the standard-setter for international arthouse cinema, there’s still a fair amount of variation within its vast program. Which is to say that while one can lament the general calcification of festival-circuit aesthetics, the arbitrary programming decisions of Thierry Frémaux, or the often perplexing set of awards handed out each year, there are always films worth seeking out. In 1982, the French critic Serge Daney remarked that Antonioni’s Identification of a Woman and Godard’s Passion were part of cinema’s “secret factory”: that is, films which wouldn’t receive awards, but from which future directors would draw inspiration in years to come. The challenge with each edition, of course, is to discover which films those are.
- 5/25/2023
- MUBI
The upcoming Broadway revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez will play its first performance at the Hudson Theatre on Tuesday, September 19, producers announced today.
Directed by Maria Friedman, the production played a sold-out Off Broadway run at New York Theatre Workshop last year. The preview date for the strictly limited, 18-week Broadway engagement was announced by producers Sonia Friedman Productions, David Babani, Patrick Catullo, and Jeff Romley.
Merrily We Roll Along features music and lyrics by Sondheim, a book by George Furth, and is based on the original play by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart. The revival is choreographed by Tim Jackson
In addition to the previously announced stars, the production will feature Krystal Joy Brown as Gussie Carnegie, Katie Rose Clarke as Beth Shepard, and Reg Rogers as Joe Josephson.
Directed by Maria Friedman, the production played a sold-out Off Broadway run at New York Theatre Workshop last year. The preview date for the strictly limited, 18-week Broadway engagement was announced by producers Sonia Friedman Productions, David Babani, Patrick Catullo, and Jeff Romley.
Merrily We Roll Along features music and lyrics by Sondheim, a book by George Furth, and is based on the original play by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart. The revival is choreographed by Tim Jackson
In addition to the previously announced stars, the production will feature Krystal Joy Brown as Gussie Carnegie, Katie Rose Clarke as Beth Shepard, and Reg Rogers as Joe Josephson.
- 3/15/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Even for Richard Linklater, who famously shot a little bit of “Boyhood” each year from 2002 to 2013, his “Merrily We Roll Along” is ambitious.
Linklater plans on shooting Stephen Sondheim’s 1981 musical every couple of years for the next 20 years. One sequence that had already been filmed, the concluding number “Our Time,” had to be reshot following Paul Mescal replacing Blake Jenner in the cast. (Beanie Feldstein and Ben Platt are also in the cast.) That means we’re looking at a release for “Merrily We Roll Along” in the early 2040s.
“Merrily” famously tells its story in reverse-chronological order over 20 years, to show how movie producer Franklin Shepard (Mescal) abandons his friends as he moves through Hollywood. And as opposed to a conventional production in which makeup would age or de-age the actors during the course of a typically compressed film shoot, Linklater wants to capture the process of aging,...
Linklater plans on shooting Stephen Sondheim’s 1981 musical every couple of years for the next 20 years. One sequence that had already been filmed, the concluding number “Our Time,” had to be reshot following Paul Mescal replacing Blake Jenner in the cast. (Beanie Feldstein and Ben Platt are also in the cast.) That means we’re looking at a release for “Merrily We Roll Along” in the early 2040s.
“Merrily” famously tells its story in reverse-chronological order over 20 years, to show how movie producer Franklin Shepard (Mescal) abandons his friends as he moves through Hollywood. And as opposed to a conventional production in which makeup would age or de-age the actors during the course of a typically compressed film shoot, Linklater wants to capture the process of aging,...
- 3/6/2023
- by Christian Blauvelt
- Indiewire
Bolivian-Mexican filmmaker Natalia López Gallardo enjoyed tandem careers in editing and acting (“Nuestro Tiempo”), as she made her debut as auteur with the short film “En el cielo como en la tierra.” In her first feature-length project, “Robe of Gems,” she tackles the parallel individual struggles of three women against a backdrop of unrelenting cartel infiltration.
What lured you into directing after careers in editing and acting? Was it a natural progression?
Definitely, yes, it was there, but I think maybe it took time to accumulate the big necessity. I think it’s very important to have that need to do a film. It’s not a desire; it’s not an objective; you have to need it because that impulse that makes you start a film has to last maybe five years with the same power. The necessity has to be big.
“Robe of Gems” not only deals with...
What lured you into directing after careers in editing and acting? Was it a natural progression?
Definitely, yes, it was there, but I think maybe it took time to accumulate the big necessity. I think it’s very important to have that need to do a film. It’s not a desire; it’s not an objective; you have to need it because that impulse that makes you start a film has to last maybe five years with the same power. The necessity has to be big.
“Robe of Gems” not only deals with...
- 2/13/2022
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Supernova
It’s always a noteworthy point of interest when an artist who excels in one film department crosses over into the directors’ chair. Apart from a 2006 Rotterdam selected short (En el cielo como en la tierra), this is Natalia López feature film debut after editing such noteworthy titles as 2007’s Silent Light, 2012’s Post Tenebras Lux, 2013’s Heli, 2014’s Jauja, and 2016’s The Darkness – plus she appeared alongside her hubby Carlos Reygadas in Nuestro tiempo. We didn’t really take notice of the project when it was making the film coin rounds circa 2018, but it was among the projects selected for Venice Gap-Financing in 2020.…...
It’s always a noteworthy point of interest when an artist who excels in one film department crosses over into the directors’ chair. Apart from a 2006 Rotterdam selected short (En el cielo como en la tierra), this is Natalia López feature film debut after editing such noteworthy titles as 2007’s Silent Light, 2012’s Post Tenebras Lux, 2013’s Heli, 2014’s Jauja, and 2016’s The Darkness – plus she appeared alongside her hubby Carlos Reygadas in Nuestro tiempo. We didn’t really take notice of the project when it was making the film coin rounds circa 2018, but it was among the projects selected for Venice Gap-Financing in 2020.…...
- 1/8/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Joe Tippett has boarded Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, a film adaptation of the short story by Stephen King, which writer-director John Lee Hancock, a young boy living in a small town, who befriends older, reclusive billionaire, Mr. Harrigan (Sutherland). The two form a bond over books and an iPhone, but when the man passes away, the boy discovers that not everything dead is gone, and finds himself able to communicate with his...
- 10/25/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The latest 007 adventure, No Time to Die, opens today, but the Bond film is not the only tentpole-scaled entertainment happening of the weekend. The Amazon Prime Video release of the concert documentary Justin Bieber: Our World also qualifies, from the perspective of director Michael D. Ratner.
“We’re living in a time when it’s not just Marvel movies and franchises that are the big tentpole, Hollywood world-changing events, it’s these mega-music projects,” Ratner tells Deadline. “Amazon’s been phenomenal and they’ve had a history of making tentpole, event-ized projects like this.”
The project began with an ambitious idea: as 2020 neared an end, the music superstar and his team dreamed of a way to “close out a year unlike any other.” They put together a one-time New Years Eve concert to be staged on the roof of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, marking Bieber’s first live performance in three years.
“We’re living in a time when it’s not just Marvel movies and franchises that are the big tentpole, Hollywood world-changing events, it’s these mega-music projects,” Ratner tells Deadline. “Amazon’s been phenomenal and they’ve had a history of making tentpole, event-ized projects like this.”
The project began with an ambitious idea: as 2020 neared an end, the music superstar and his team dreamed of a way to “close out a year unlike any other.” They put together a one-time New Years Eve concert to be staged on the roof of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, marking Bieber’s first live performance in three years.
- 10/9/2021
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
“Learn it. Know it. Live it!” The best-remembered teen comedy of the ’80s is also an insightful and unabashed look at real attitudes, behaviors and motivations of young people learning to deal with adult issues. Beyond the hilarious Sean Penn and the luscious Phoebe Cates lies a talent squad of notables and stars-to-be like Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold and Robert Romanus, with appearances by Amanda Wyss, Forest Whitaker, Eric Stoltz, Nicolas Coppola and Anthony Edwards. The stunning feature directing debut of Amy Heckerling, from Cameron Crowe’s undercover high school exposé, should be acknowledged as a modern classic.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1075
1982 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 89 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date May 11, 2021 / 39.95
Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus, Brian Backer, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston, Scott Thomson, Vincent Schiavelli, Amanda Wyss, Forest Whitaker, Kelli Maroney, Eric Stoltz, James Russo,...
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1075
1982 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 89 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date May 11, 2021 / 39.95
Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus, Brian Backer, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston, Scott Thomson, Vincent Schiavelli, Amanda Wyss, Forest Whitaker, Kelli Maroney, Eric Stoltz, James Russo,...
- 5/29/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Spain’s Film Factory has acquired international rights on Jaime Rosales’ latest feature “Wild Sunflowers,” a co-production between the director’s own Fresdeval Films, A Contracorriente Films (“The Bookshop”), Oberon Films (Golden Bear winner “The Milk of Sorrow”), and Paris-based production-distribution company Luxbox Films (“Our Time”).
Starring Anna Castillo (“The Olive Tree”) and Oriol Pla (“Petra”), “Wild Sunflowers” follows 22-year-old Julia, a mother of two who falls in love with Oscar, with whom she initiates a powerful and tortuous relationship. However, Julia begins to have doubts about how appropriate a male role model Oscar is for her children before an incident sparks a headlong flight in search of a better future.
“We are pleased to work again with Jaime Rosales, one of the most intimate new filmmakers on the Spanish scene. We are convinced that ‘Wild Sunflowers’ will have a wide international appeal,” said Film Factory’s Vicente Canales in a statement.
Starring Anna Castillo (“The Olive Tree”) and Oriol Pla (“Petra”), “Wild Sunflowers” follows 22-year-old Julia, a mother of two who falls in love with Oscar, with whom she initiates a powerful and tortuous relationship. However, Julia begins to have doubts about how appropriate a male role model Oscar is for her children before an incident sparks a headlong flight in search of a better future.
“We are pleased to work again with Jaime Rosales, one of the most intimate new filmmakers on the Spanish scene. We are convinced that ‘Wild Sunflowers’ will have a wide international appeal,” said Film Factory’s Vicente Canales in a statement.
- 3/4/2021
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Friend and supporter Christian Mungiu hails “meditation on the state of the world”.
Berlin-based Pluto Film has picked up world sales on Hilal Baydarov’s In Between Dying, which will receive its world premiere in competition at the 77th Venice Film Festival in September.
In Between Dying tells the love story of Davud, a young man trying to find his “real” family, who completes his life cycle in a single day. When he does find love, it’s in the place he has always lived. But it may be too late.
Baydarov, a former student of Béla Tarr’s Sarajevo-based film.
Berlin-based Pluto Film has picked up world sales on Hilal Baydarov’s In Between Dying, which will receive its world premiere in competition at the 77th Venice Film Festival in September.
In Between Dying tells the love story of Davud, a young man trying to find his “real” family, who completes his life cycle in a single day. When he does find love, it’s in the place he has always lived. But it may be too late.
Baydarov, a former student of Béla Tarr’s Sarajevo-based film.
- 7/28/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
The Obie Awards, Off Broadway’s most prestigious honor, has rescheduled its prerecorded 65th annual award ceremony for July 14 on YouTube. The original premiere date of June 4 was scratched amid nationwide upheaval following the police killing of George Floyd.
The Obies, presented by the American Theatre Wing and awards founder The Village Voice, will be hosted by comedian, actor and writer Cole Escola. Special guest presenters, all recorded remotely, include Cynthia Erivo, Latanya Richardson Jackson and Heidi Schreck, among others, as well as an encore presentation from the Obie Award-winning production of Fela!. Playwright Michael R. Jackson will share a special performance of “Memory Song” from A Strange Loop.
As previously announced, members of the York Theatre Company revival of Merrily We Roll Along will be joined by members of the original Broadway and 2019 Fiasco Theater revival casts for a special performance of “Our Time...
The Obies, presented by the American Theatre Wing and awards founder The Village Voice, will be hosted by comedian, actor and writer Cole Escola. Special guest presenters, all recorded remotely, include Cynthia Erivo, Latanya Richardson Jackson and Heidi Schreck, among others, as well as an encore presentation from the Obie Award-winning production of Fela!. Playwright Michael R. Jackson will share a special performance of “Memory Song” from A Strange Loop.
As previously announced, members of the York Theatre Company revival of Merrily We Roll Along will be joined by members of the original Broadway and 2019 Fiasco Theater revival casts for a special performance of “Our Time...
- 7/8/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Because of the nature of the business, a cinematographer often has a more eclectic body of work than an actor or a director, and it is not unusual to see their work span continents. Even by these standards, however, Diego García’s filmography is quite impressive: His last four credits are Carlos Reygadas’s Our Time, Gabriel Mascaro’s Divine Love, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Too Old to Die Young, and Yorgos Lanthimos’s short film Nimic—four films produced in four different countries by directors with four different mother tongues. It isn’t surprising, then, to hear that García is particularly attentive to a director’s body of […]...
- 3/3/2020
- by Forrest Cardamenis
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Because of the nature of the business, a cinematographer often has a more eclectic body of work than an actor or a director, and it is not unusual to see their work span continents. Even by these standards, however, Diego García’s filmography is quite impressive: His last four credits are Carlos Reygadas’s Our Time, Gabriel Mascaro’s Divine Love, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Too Old to Die Young, and Yorgos Lanthimos’s short film Nimic—four films produced in four different countries by directors with four different mother tongues. It isn’t surprising, then, to hear that García is particularly attentive to a director’s body of […]...
- 3/3/2020
- by Forrest Cardamenis
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Following our top 50 films of 2019, we’re sharing personal top 10 lists from our contributors. Check out the latest below and see our complete year-end coverage here.
The end of the decade has spurred reflection on what defined the last ten years in cinema as streaming wars commenced and the future of the theatrical experience was further questioned. It’s still too early to deduce such matters with any long-lasting clarity, so for now, I’ll take a look back at my perspective on the previous year in cinema.
Before we get to new films, my favorite few days inside a cinema in 2019 was at The Nitrate Picture Show at the George Eastman Museum and one can see my 100 favorite new-to-me films throughout the year. After the staggering first viewings of the sprawling masterpieces Berlin Alexanderplatz, Sátántangó, War and Peace, Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, Les Vampires, and Celine and Julie Go Boating,...
The end of the decade has spurred reflection on what defined the last ten years in cinema as streaming wars commenced and the future of the theatrical experience was further questioned. It’s still too early to deduce such matters with any long-lasting clarity, so for now, I’ll take a look back at my perspective on the previous year in cinema.
Before we get to new films, my favorite few days inside a cinema in 2019 was at The Nitrate Picture Show at the George Eastman Museum and one can see my 100 favorite new-to-me films throughout the year. After the staggering first viewings of the sprawling masterpieces Berlin Alexanderplatz, Sátántangó, War and Peace, Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, Les Vampires, and Celine and Julie Go Boating,...
- 1/5/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column (with a special year-end retrospective today) focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats. Oftentimes they fail miserably.
So many posters proved their greatness this year by being bold enough to make interesting choices where composition is concerned. I’m still talking about mid-tier studios (very few of the below twenty-five are advertising movies produced by Hollywood with a capital-h), but even those independent establishments leaning towards artistry above celebrity wasn’t always a guarantee. That they’re using reflections, extreme close-ups, overlapped objects, and uniquely cut windows turning negative space positive is a testament to a willingness of putting craft above commerce.
So many posters proved their greatness this year by being bold enough to make interesting choices where composition is concerned. I’m still talking about mid-tier studios (very few of the below twenty-five are advertising movies produced by Hollywood with a capital-h), but even those independent establishments leaning towards artistry above celebrity wasn’t always a guarantee. That they’re using reflections, extreme close-ups, overlapped objects, and uniquely cut windows turning negative space positive is a testament to a willingness of putting craft above commerce.
- 12/30/2019
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Knocking on doors expecting no one to answer is a daily routine for housekeeping staff at hotels local and remote. Their intense physical labor is unseen and taken for granted, almost as if magically performed outside the vision of its beneficiaries, earns them no glory. Unnoticed, they proceed to the next empty scene in disarray. More than merely dignifying their toil, Lila Avilés’ marvelously honest first feature “The Chambermaid” subtly counteracts such dehumanization.
For her sympathetically achieved big-screen debut, Avilés — who honed her skills as a theater director prior to jumping into the film arena — forged an observational character study on 24-year-old chambermaid Eve, short for Evelia, employed at a lavish Mexico City hotel catering mostly to affluent international visitors.
Of few words but purposefully active in shaping her future, Eve channels internalized resilience to persevere under grueling conditions. Above-average dedication shines through her impeccable cleaning prowess room after room.
For her sympathetically achieved big-screen debut, Avilés — who honed her skills as a theater director prior to jumping into the film arena — forged an observational character study on 24-year-old chambermaid Eve, short for Evelia, employed at a lavish Mexico City hotel catering mostly to affluent international visitors.
Of few words but purposefully active in shaping her future, Eve channels internalized resilience to persevere under grueling conditions. Above-average dedication shines through her impeccable cleaning prowess room after room.
- 6/26/2019
- by Carlos Aguilar
- The Wrap
With Carlos Reygadas‘ admirably bold, intimate new drama Our Time now in theaters and his first three films now streaming on The Criterion Channel (along with a recent extensive conversation), it’s thankfully easier than ever to catch up on the poetic works of the Mexican director. To celebrate, today we’re taking a look at his favorite films of all-time.
As voted on in the latest Sight & Sound poll, the influences of the ten selections can be seen throughout this work, most notably in the spiritual ruminations of Andrei Tarkovsky and Ingmar Bergman, the non-professional acting collaborations of Robert Bresson, as well as the striking patience of Béla Tarr. Speaking to one selection, Aleksandr Sokurov’s Mother and Son, Reygadas has said it would be the one film he’d show an alien if they came to our planet. Surprisingly, however, for those who have seen Silent Light, there is no Ordet.
As voted on in the latest Sight & Sound poll, the influences of the ten selections can be seen throughout this work, most notably in the spiritual ruminations of Andrei Tarkovsky and Ingmar Bergman, the non-professional acting collaborations of Robert Bresson, as well as the striking patience of Béla Tarr. Speaking to one selection, Aleksandr Sokurov’s Mother and Son, Reygadas has said it would be the one film he’d show an alien if they came to our planet. Surprisingly, however, for those who have seen Silent Light, there is no Ordet.
- 6/25/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
There aren’t a lot of sports stars who could claim to be as interesting as Moe Berg, a Major League baseball player who spoke nearly a dozen languages, blew audiences away on quiz shows, and worked as a spy for the United States government during World War II. Berg nearly assassinated German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg. Take that, Dwayne Johnson.
Berg, who got his own biopic last year is now the subject of a major documentary. “The Spy Behind Home Plate.” Written and directed by Aviva Kempner (“The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg”), the film assembles pundits, contemporaries and family members, combining new and archived interview footage to reveal the many incredible facets of Berg’s life.
Nimble and efficient, “The Spy Behind Home Plate” races through that life at a steady clip, unloading one fascinating biographical tidbit after another. The action may be staid — it’s a talking-heads documentary,...
Berg, who got his own biopic last year is now the subject of a major documentary. “The Spy Behind Home Plate.” Written and directed by Aviva Kempner (“The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg”), the film assembles pundits, contemporaries and family members, combining new and archived interview footage to reveal the many incredible facets of Berg’s life.
Nimble and efficient, “The Spy Behind Home Plate” races through that life at a steady clip, unloading one fascinating biographical tidbit after another. The action may be staid — it’s a talking-heads documentary,...
- 6/14/2019
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
Transcending the metaphysical impenetrability of “Post Tenebras Lux” and evading the unrestrained grotesqueness of “Battle in Heaven,” illustrious Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas has spawned his most narratively accessible and emotionally open work to date, “Our Time” (“Nuestro tiempo”), an unhurriedly paced three-hour study of marital anguish caused by idealist parameters of love.
Told with his signature epic visuals — wide shots of majestic landscapes captured under stunning natural light — that lend grandeur to the intimate, the film is personal in essence, even if specifics differ from the director’s off-set life. That line between the personal and the autobiographical might blur a bit; “Our Time” was shot on Reygadas’ family ranch in the small Mexican state of Tlaxcala near Mexico City, with him, his wife Natalia López, and their children cast as lead actors.
Before we meet the couple in disarray, a sun-dappled sequence of children and adolescents engaged in rowdy...
Told with his signature epic visuals — wide shots of majestic landscapes captured under stunning natural light — that lend grandeur to the intimate, the film is personal in essence, even if specifics differ from the director’s off-set life. That line between the personal and the autobiographical might blur a bit; “Our Time” was shot on Reygadas’ family ranch in the small Mexican state of Tlaxcala near Mexico City, with him, his wife Natalia López, and their children cast as lead actors.
Before we meet the couple in disarray, a sun-dappled sequence of children and adolescents engaged in rowdy...
- 6/14/2019
- by Carlos Aguilar
- The Wrap
Casting his wife, children and himself in his fifth feature film, Carlos Reygadas explores the tricky negotiations of being in an open relationship and thus takes a amped up view of jealousy, control and a lack of control. The three hour text visits philosophical and moral implications in couplehood. A five country co-production, Our Time (Nuestro tiempo) premiered in Venice, played at Tiff and was most recently shown at Rotterdam and then the filmmaker made a stop in Montreal for a Rétrospective Carlos Reygadas: lumières et ténèbres at the Cinémathèque québécoise. We discussed how he thinks about dialogue when mapped in confining spaces, about how mini screens offer moments of clarity and reprieve, we discussed the role of narration and his working relationship with Diego Garcia.…...
- 6/12/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Love Like Poison: Reygadas Returns with Frustrating but Forthright Marital Drama
Interminable? Yes. Navel-gazing? Perhaps. But furious in its candor? Absolutely. Carlos Reygadas returns for the first time in six years with his sixth narrative feature, a marital drama which features the director, his wife, and their children acting out alternate versions of themselves in the tritely titled Our Time. Taking its precious and painstaking time to reveal the marital discord between ranch owner Juan and his wife Esther, the first third of this three-hour dilemma is certainly a chore to sit through, yawning drastically into the pitfalls of open relationship issues made more strained thanks to its third member being an English speaker with moderate line delivery.…...
Interminable? Yes. Navel-gazing? Perhaps. But furious in its candor? Absolutely. Carlos Reygadas returns for the first time in six years with his sixth narrative feature, a marital drama which features the director, his wife, and their children acting out alternate versions of themselves in the tritely titled Our Time. Taking its precious and painstaking time to reveal the marital discord between ranch owner Juan and his wife Esther, the first third of this three-hour dilemma is certainly a chore to sit through, yawning drastically into the pitfalls of open relationship issues made more strained thanks to its third member being an English speaker with moderate line delivery.…...
- 6/12/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSBarry Jenkins by Liz Seabrook for Little White LiesBarry Jenkins is set to direct a film about the life of the late Alvin Ailey, the choreographer considered one of the most important of the twentieth century. Recommended Viewinga wonderfully lush and eerie trailer for the 4K restoration of Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now, which opens in theaters on July 5. The BFI and the Royal Astronomical Society have uncovered the very first film of a solar eclipse, captured by British magician Nevil Maskelyne in 1900. One century after the solar eclipse was first captured on film, arrives the first trailer for James Gray's Ad Astra, which stars Brad Pitt as an astronaut searching for his missing father—who was involved in a government project on extraterrestrial life—in space. The official trailer for Carlos Reygadas's Our Time,...
- 6/5/2019
- MUBI
Netflix may get most of the attention, but it’s hardly a one-stop shop for cinephiles who are looking to stream essential classic and contemporary films. Each of the prominent streaming platforms — and there are more of them all the time — caters to its own niche of film obsessives. From chilling horror fare on Shudder, to the boundless wonders of the Criterion Channel, and esoteric (but unmissable) festival hits on the newly launched Ovid.tv, IndieWire’s monthly guide will highlight the best of what’s coming to every major streaming site, with an eye towards exclusive titles that may help readers decide which of these services is right for them.
Here’s the best of the best for June 2019.
Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime isn’t offering its subscribers much in the way of exclusives this month, and — for reasons that aren’t entirely clear — the brunt of the platform...
Here’s the best of the best for June 2019.
Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime isn’t offering its subscribers much in the way of exclusives this month, and — for reasons that aren’t entirely clear — the brunt of the platform...
- 6/3/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
"This is the best place on Earth, Juan." Monument has debuted an official Us trailer for the film Our Time, also known as Nuestro Tiempo, the latest from acclaimed Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas. This initially premiered at the prestigious Venice and Toronto Film Festivals last year to much discussion - some think it's a masterpiece, others not so much, but at least people are talking about Reygadas again. The film is about a family that lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a renowned poet, raises the beasts. When Esther becomes infatuated with a horse-breaker, Juan seems incapable to reach his own expectations about himself. Indeed a "soul-searching" drama about life and humanity. Starring Carlos Reygadas as Juan, with Natalia López, Natalia López, Maria Hagerman, and Yago Martínez. Definitely worth a watch. Here's the new official Us...
- 5/30/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
As far as Mexican filmmakers go, film fans often think of people like Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, and Alejandro González Iñárritu, commonly known as the Three Amigos. But as far as acclaimed directors from that country go, you should probably add Carlos Reygadas to that list. Though not as famous as the aforementioned Amigos, Reygadas has garnered worldwide acclaim, with his latest film “Our Time” touring the film festival circuit last year.
Continue reading ‘Our Time’ Trailer: Acclaimed Filmmaker Carlos Reygadas Enlists His Wife’s Help In His Latest Family Drama at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Our Time’ Trailer: Acclaimed Filmmaker Carlos Reygadas Enlists His Wife’s Help In His Latest Family Drama at The Playlist.
- 5/30/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
After wowing audiences with his scorching and personal dramas “Post Tenebras Lux” and “Silent Light,” lauded Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas returns with his most intimate work yet: a film about a crumbling marriage which stars the filmmaker and his own wife, Natalia López, as a couple dealing with the pain of an unfolding affair. The film also features the couple’s three children, starring as the kids of their characters, bull-breaker Juan and his whipsmart wife Esther.
Per the film’s official synopsis, it follows “a family [that] lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the beasts. When Esther becomes infatuated with a horse-breaker, Juan seems incapable to reach his own expectations about himself.”
The film premiered last year at the Venice Film Festival, and went on to screen at Tiff, Havana,...
Per the film’s official synopsis, it follows “a family [that] lives in the Mexican countryside raising fighting bulls. Esther is in charge of running the ranch, while her husband Juan, a world-renowned poet, raises and selects the beasts. When Esther becomes infatuated with a horse-breaker, Juan seems incapable to reach his own expectations about himself.”
The film premiered last year at the Venice Film Festival, and went on to screen at Tiff, Havana,...
- 5/30/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Carlos Reygadas's Battle in Heaven (2005) and Silent Light (2007) are showing April and May, 2019 on Mubi in the United States as part of the series What Is an Auteur?Battle in HeavenEmerging six years after Post Tenebras Lux (2012), Our Time, the latest film from Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas, offers an unsparing account of a marriage in crisis. Starring the director and his real-life spouse Natalia López (and their children), the film depicts a couple navigating the difficult terrain of an open relationship. Characteristically, Our Time disavows many of the conventions of cinema, adopting an approach that mirrors non-fiction filmmaking to capture the beauty and intimacy of the daily life of the couple and their clan. Shifting his gaze from the human drama at the center of the narrative to the rich environment of the family’s ranch and its surroundings, the director asks challenging questions about the nature of romantic...
- 4/21/2019
- MUBI
Nearly two decades after the acclaim it received in Un Certain Regard at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, Carlos Reygadas’ inexplicable debut Japón remains an enigmatic juxtaposition of the sacred and profane. Earning well-deserved comparison to the titans which influenced him, including Tarkovsky and Herzog, Reygadas jumpstarted a post-Mexican New Wave at the dawn of the last century, which would eventually include Michel Franco and favored acolytes, such as Amat Escalante. Unlike the previous batch of lauded Mexican contemporaries, Reygadas has avoided the Hollywood film machine, instead sticking close to home and inveigling himself with contemporary social ills displayed in semi-inscrutable narratives—even avoiding English language characters up until 2018’s Our Time, his most insular and psychologically intimate venture to date.…...
- 4/16/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Karen O and Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton started making noise around the same time, with a similar irreverent zest. In the early 2000s, when Karen was rampaging around the world with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, rocking fishnets-and-lipstick classics like “Maps” and “Y Control,” Danger Mouse rewrote the rulebook with his pioneering Jay-z/Beatles mash-up, The Grey Album. So Lux Prima — a meeting of minds between the punk queen and the shape-shifting avant-funk producer — feels like the work of two kindred spirits. As Karen says, “Brian is as masculine as you get,...
- 3/18/2019
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Ela Bittencourt's column explores South America’s key festivals and notable screenings of Latin films in North America and Europe.Murder Me, Monster“Making a film is close to dreaming,” Carlos Reygadas said in his Master Class at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam. “When you’re dreaming, you’re not thinking is this a traveling or a close-up. Film has a unique logic, it’s not logical.” The last phrase is an oxymoron, but filmmakers can surely be both intuitive and calculating. Reygadas envisions entire scenes before filming them, but goes with the flow on the set. And indeed it’s this mix of the planned and the strange, the utterly unpredictable, perhaps even superfluous, that informs some of the best films in this year’s Neighboring Scenes: Latin American Cinema festival.In addition to Reygadas’s pictorially striking Our Time (2018), which opens the festival, daydreams are also palatable...
- 2/20/2019
- MUBI
The pool of talent attracted to this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam would impress any organizer, but ultimately that doesn’t mean much: access is access if you can get it, little more than bragging rights to those on the outside. Lucky for us, then, that there’s an openness to their programming, evidenced — significantly — by the release of their masterclasses. The most attention will be paid to 90-or-so-minute sit-downs with Claire Denis and Jia Zhangke, respectively present for High Life and Ash is Purest White, though one shouldn’t sleep on three others: Nicole Brenez on Godard and co-editing The Image Book; Roberto Minervini discussing What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?; and Carlos Reygadas, present for Our Time.
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- 1/30/2019
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Acquisitions include Iffr title Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo).
UK art house distributor New Wave Films has confirmed the acquisition of three new Mexican titles including Internatonal Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) regular Carlos Reygadas’ Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo), which has been screening this week in Rotterdam’s Deep Focus section.
The most recent pick-up is The Chambermaid by debut director Lila Avilés, which has been touring major festivals since the autumn, winning several prizes on the way.
Sold by Alpha Violet, this is a drama set behind the scenes in a luxury hotel in Mexico City. Avilés and Tatiana Graullera (Limerencia) produced the project,...
UK art house distributor New Wave Films has confirmed the acquisition of three new Mexican titles including Internatonal Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) regular Carlos Reygadas’ Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo), which has been screening this week in Rotterdam’s Deep Focus section.
The most recent pick-up is The Chambermaid by debut director Lila Avilés, which has been touring major festivals since the autumn, winning several prizes on the way.
Sold by Alpha Violet, this is a drama set behind the scenes in a luxury hotel in Mexico City. Avilés and Tatiana Graullera (Limerencia) produced the project,...
- 1/27/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Madrid — New York-based independent distributor Monument Releasing has secured North American distribution rights to “Our Time,” from Mexico’s Carlos Reygadas, winner of Cannes Jury (“Silent Light”) and Director (“Post Tenebras Lux”) prizes.
Monument Releasing will open “Our Time” in cinema theaters in North America in June 2019, followed by a VOD and home entertainment release.
Struck with Michael Weber’s The Match Factory, the sales agent on the film, as well as one of its co-producers, the deal will give more outlets to a title which world premiered at last year’s Venice Festival, after Reygadas’ first four main features played Cannes.
“Our Time” turns on a couple who live on a ranch in , central Mexico, raising fighting bulls. Esther runs the ranch, Juan, a renown poet, raises the bulls. They have an open relationship, but Juan’s world is thrown out of kilter when Esther becomes infatuated with the estate’s horse trainer.
Monument Releasing will open “Our Time” in cinema theaters in North America in June 2019, followed by a VOD and home entertainment release.
Struck with Michael Weber’s The Match Factory, the sales agent on the film, as well as one of its co-producers, the deal will give more outlets to a title which world premiered at last year’s Venice Festival, after Reygadas’ first four main features played Cannes.
“Our Time” turns on a couple who live on a ranch in , central Mexico, raising fighting bulls. Esther runs the ranch, Juan, a renown poet, raises the bulls. They have an open relationship, but Juan’s world is thrown out of kilter when Esther becomes infatuated with the estate’s horse trainer.
- 1/14/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe awards season marches on—this morning's BAFTA's nominations highlight more of the usual suspects, meanwhile the Golden Globes embraced mediocrity full-stop this weekend with their crowning of Bohemian Rhapsody as best "Dramatic Motion Picture." You can find the rest of the Hollywood Foreign Press' frequently specious choices here.Recommended VIEWINGNow the good stuff: the trailer for Christian Petzold's latest bold interrogation of history and present, Transit. We also interviewed Petzold about the film and its unique transposition of World War II to modern day Marseille earlier this year.Jafar Panahi is back with a new mosaic of reality and fiction, 3 Faces, a portrait of three actresses personal worlds. Last October, Naomi Keenan O'Shea wrote about how "serves as an exemplary piece from which to reflect upon the continued political pertinence...
- 1/11/2019
- MUBI
In 2018 we've published 70 interviews whose subjects have ranged from old masters to emerging new voices, and including some unexpected conversations, including those with curators (Dave Kehr of the Museum of Modern Art), as well as archival finds (a 1971 talk with Jerry Lewis).Below you will find an index of our conversations throughout the year, listed in order of publication date.Blake Williams (Prototype)Samira Elagoz (Craigslist Allstars)F.J. Ossang (9 Fingers)Jerry LewisAndré Gil Mata (The Tree)Christian Petzold (Transit)Raoul Peck (Young Karl Marx)Ashley McKenzie (Werewolf)Penelope SpheerisTed Fendt (Classical Period)Dominik Graf (The Red Shadow)Blake Williams ("Stereo Visions")Arnaud Desplechin (Ismael's Ghosts)Ruth Beckermann (The Waldheim Waltz)Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias (Cocote)Esther GarrelPhilippe Garrel (Lover for a Day)Jonas MekasJohann Lurf (★)Karim Aïnouz (Central Airport Thf)Juliana Antunes (Baronesa)Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra (Birds of Passage)Wang Bing (Dead Souls)Donal Foreman...
- 12/27/2018
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSFrieze reports that David Lynch, in collaboration with Showtime and Collider games, is set to create a Twin Peaks virtual reality experience: "Twin Peaks Vr will allow players to explore locations from the original series (1990–1991) as well as Twin Peaks: The Return".We're four years removed from Gone Girl and still without a new David Fincher movie—thankfully /Film reports that, despite the radio silence, David Fincher is still set to direct "World War Z 2", which is set to shoot Summer 2019.Recommended VIEWINGClint Eastwood returns both behind and in front of the camera—this time hunted by his protégée Bradley Cooper—in what looks to be a remarkable thriller about lifetimes, borders, and family. The first trailer for The Mule is here:Here is the official trailer for Joseph Kahn's battle-rap comedy Bodied,...
- 10/10/2018
- MUBI
The camera flies over the plains of the Mexican countryside. After crossing a series of clouds, it happens upon a monumental city. The sound tells us that we observe it from an airplane. As this stunning vision reveals itself, Esther (Natalia López), a rancher and mother of three, reads in voice over a statement of her intimate world to Juan (Carlos Reygadas), her husband, a renowned poet lost in a vortex of jealousy because his wife has fallen in love with Phil (Phil Burgers), an American horse trainer. While we experience the airplane’s ordinary landing, a sensory manifestation happens, through a masterful use of sound and image. Of what? Of feelings itself. As in this sequence, the controversial Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas takes us into the intimate, sentimental and psychological universe of his characters in his most recent feature film, Our Time. His epic fifth feature film is more...
- 10/6/2018
- MUBI
San Sebastian — Pablo Fendrik’s “Hermano Peligro,” Jayro Bustamante’s “La Llorona,” Matthias Huser’s “The Jungle” and Clara Roquet’s “Libertad” took one prize a piece at San Sebastian’s 7th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, which wrapped Wednesday night.
Meanwhile, “The Sharks,” the first feature of Uruguay’s Lucia Garibaldi, swept San Sebastian’s Films in Progress.
While awards in the past have sometimes gone to little-known projects, this year saw plaudits shared by four of the strongest projects at the market in terms of director reknown, prestige producer backing or even, in the case of “La Llorona,” a sales market deal.
Winner of the Co-production Forum Best Project Award, “Hermano Peligro,” for instance, comes from a director. Pablo Fendrik, whose first three films, “The Mugger,” “Blood Appears” and “Ardor” have all been selected for the Cannes Festival, before he went on to co-direct two of the most distinguished...
Meanwhile, “The Sharks,” the first feature of Uruguay’s Lucia Garibaldi, swept San Sebastian’s Films in Progress.
While awards in the past have sometimes gone to little-known projects, this year saw plaudits shared by four of the strongest projects at the market in terms of director reknown, prestige producer backing or even, in the case of “La Llorona,” a sales market deal.
Winner of the Co-production Forum Best Project Award, “Hermano Peligro,” for instance, comes from a director. Pablo Fendrik, whose first three films, “The Mugger,” “Blood Appears” and “Ardor” have all been selected for the Cannes Festival, before he went on to co-direct two of the most distinguished...
- 9/26/2018
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Below you will find an index of our coverage from the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff) in 2018, as well as our favorite films.Top Picksdaniel KASMANFeatures:1. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (Roberto Minervini)2. High Life (Claire Denis)3. Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)4. Green Book (Peter Farrelly)5. aKasha (hajooj kuka)6. Rojo (Benjamin Naishtat)7. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)8. Belmonte (Federico Veiroj)9. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)10. Hidden Man (Jiang Wen)Shorts:1. Blue (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)2. Arena (Björn Kämmerer)3. Polly One (Kevin Jerome Everson)4. Colophon (Nathaniel Dorsky)5. Please step out of the frame. (Karissa Hahn)6. Wall Unwalled (Lawrence Abu Hamdan)7. Ada Kaleh (Helena Wittmann)8. Alitplano (Malena Szlam)9. Norman Norman (Sophy Romvari)10. Hoarders without Borders, 1.0 (Jodie Mack)Kelley DONG1. "I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians" (Radu Jude)2. High Life (Claire Denis)3. Our Time (Carlos Reygadas)4. Our Body (Han Ka-Ram)5. A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper...
- 9/25/2018
- MUBI
San Sebastian — Denmark’s Snowglobe is teaming with Argentina’s Rei Cine to produce writer-director Pablo Fendrik’s “Hermano Peligro” (Brother Danger).
Currently at first-draft screenplay, the title weighs is as one of the big potential crossover project propositions at this year’s San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum, which tales place Sunday Sept. 23.
The co-production also links two of the most prestigious and internationally energetic upscale film companies currently working in the Spanish-speaking world.
Headed by Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, and Matías Roveda, Buenos Aires-based Rei Cine, “Hermano Peligro’s” lead producer, has over the last year produced Lucrecia Martel’s “Zama” and Natalia Garagiola’s “Hunting Season,” both 2017 Venice hits, then Sundance-selected “The Queen of Fear,” from Valeria Bertuccelli and Fabiana Tiscornia, and Gonzalo Tobal’s 2018 Venice competition player “The Accused.”
A Copenhagen-located co-producer of some of the highest-profile and boldest Latin American movies in the last two years – Carlos Reygadas’ “Our Time,...
Currently at first-draft screenplay, the title weighs is as one of the big potential crossover project propositions at this year’s San Sebastian Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum, which tales place Sunday Sept. 23.
The co-production also links two of the most prestigious and internationally energetic upscale film companies currently working in the Spanish-speaking world.
Headed by Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, and Matías Roveda, Buenos Aires-based Rei Cine, “Hermano Peligro’s” lead producer, has over the last year produced Lucrecia Martel’s “Zama” and Natalia Garagiola’s “Hunting Season,” both 2017 Venice hits, then Sundance-selected “The Queen of Fear,” from Valeria Bertuccelli and Fabiana Tiscornia, and Gonzalo Tobal’s 2018 Venice competition player “The Accused.”
A Copenhagen-located co-producer of some of the highest-profile and boldest Latin American movies in the last two years – Carlos Reygadas’ “Our Time,...
- 9/23/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
A strong showcase of German cinema was on offer at the Toronto Film Festival with a slew of films tackling such timely issues as sexual violence, the plight of refugees, the end of the Soviet Union and Germany’s recent turbulent history.
This year’s selections included works from such prominent names as Werner Herzog, Margarethe von Trotta, Christian Petzold, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and Sven Taddicken.
In Herzog and André Singer’s doc “Meeting Gorbachev,” the prolific filmmakers offer a portrait of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union, and his lasting impact on world politics.
In “Searching for Ingmar Bergman,” which also unspools in the Tiff Docs sidebar, von Trotta explores the Swedish director’s cinematic legacy.
Von Donnersmarck, who won the foreign-language film Oscar for 2006’s “The Lives of Others,” revisits East Germany in “Never Look Away,” which follows the life of an artist struggling...
This year’s selections included works from such prominent names as Werner Herzog, Margarethe von Trotta, Christian Petzold, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck and Sven Taddicken.
In Herzog and André Singer’s doc “Meeting Gorbachev,” the prolific filmmakers offer a portrait of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union, and his lasting impact on world politics.
In “Searching for Ingmar Bergman,” which also unspools in the Tiff Docs sidebar, von Trotta explores the Swedish director’s cinematic legacy.
Von Donnersmarck, who won the foreign-language film Oscar for 2006’s “The Lives of Others,” revisits East Germany in “Never Look Away,” which follows the life of an artist struggling...
- 9/17/2018
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Ever since he shook the cinematic world with the release of his visionary first feature, “Japón,” and then followed that up with his mesmerizing magnum opus “Silent Light,” director Carlos Reygadas struggled to find the same kind of universal acclaim with his polarizing and mystical 2012 film “Post Tenebras Lux” (a beautifully maddening picture which many adore or loathe in equal measure).
Continue reading ‘Our Time’: Carlos Reygadas Offers A Beautiful, But Deeply Distancing Meta-Experience [Tiff Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Our Time’: Carlos Reygadas Offers A Beautiful, But Deeply Distancing Meta-Experience [Tiff Review] at The Playlist.
- 9/14/2018
- by Jordan Ruimy
- The Playlist
Early into Carlos Reygadas’ Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo), the camera follows Esther (Reygadas’ spouse Natalia López) as she drives home to her ranch, husband Juan (Reygadas himself) and kids. Esther is coming home from a motel where she met and slept with Phil (Phil Burgers), an affair Juan is slowly coming to terms with and will later encourage, in a toxic cuckolding game that will anchor the most part of Our Time’s whopping 173 minutes. The camera stays on her face, and then, as in a magic trick, moves into the car’s engine. It’s a moment of ineffable beauty: Esther drives home, enamored, a mellow tune engulfs the car, and a whole world vibrates inside of it, filling the screen with a cacophony of pistons, valves, and energy. The scene comes at the end of Our Time’s first act—if the word could ever apply to Reygadas...
- 9/7/2018
- MUBI
Those hoping the narrative wackiness of “Post tenebras lux” was an aberration in Carlos Reygadas’ career might long for the earlier film’s Dadaist jumps after watching “Our Time,” a maddeningly over-indulgent bid at self-analysis on screen that even the director’s shrink might find banal. Once again corralling his family into the picture, the director stars as a rancher-poet whose ideas about open marriage are challenged when his wife (naturally played by Reygadas’ wife Natalia López) rather too much enjoys an affair with their American horse-whisperer. Shots of testosterone-charged bulls are flagrantly inserted to ensure audiences get the mundane commentary on masculinity, though they’re far preferable to scenes between husband and wife.
The director’s collaborations with cinematographers have always resulted in visuals of remarkable, unnerving beauty, yet even in this department “Our Time” has less to astonish than in previous films. Die-hard acolytes will argue that the...
The director’s collaborations with cinematographers have always resulted in visuals of remarkable, unnerving beauty, yet even in this department “Our Time” has less to astonish than in previous films. Die-hard acolytes will argue that the...
- 9/5/2018
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
To know Carlos Reygadas is to be perplexed; it’s hard to say exactly what happens in his films, or even if they’re enjoyable. His most recent, “Post Tenebras Lux,” earned him Best Director laurels at Cannes even as it divided everyone who wasn’t on the jury. That elliptical, two-hour exploration of the family unit encompassed everything from an anatomically correct Satan to a little girl getting lost in a field. However, the film also contained moments of great beauty amid the willful abstraction.
“Nuestro tiempo” (“Our Time”), which runs 173 character-building minutes, is likely to be received as another fans-only proposition that converts few but pleases those already inclined to enjoy his work. Those who don’t will sigh to learn that it’s set on a bull ranch (the animals in Reygadas’ films have as difficult a time as the humans), and is another family drama in which the director casts himself,...
“Nuestro tiempo” (“Our Time”), which runs 173 character-building minutes, is likely to be received as another fans-only proposition that converts few but pleases those already inclined to enjoy his work. Those who don’t will sigh to learn that it’s set on a bull ranch (the animals in Reygadas’ films have as difficult a time as the humans), and is another family drama in which the director casts himself,...
- 9/5/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
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