The Disney+ documentary Elton John: Never Too Late, which explores the life of Elton John, has garnered even more admiration than the film he was presented with at NYFF. When you think about his vast life, it’s impossible to cover his entire music career in less than two hours and make every fan happy at the end,…
@Courtesy of Apple TV + Selected as Closing Film at the 62nd edition of the New York Film Festival, the last movie directed by Steve McQueen tells the story of George, a young boy trying to go back to his mother Rita when London is under the bombs of Nazi aircraft. Born out of wedlock…
Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Matthew Schuchman : In the early 90s, while at the video store with his friends who wanted to rent Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Matthew asked the clerk if they had any copies of Naked Lunch available. A film buff from an…
In the opening scene of Mike Leigh’s Oscar nominated and Golden Palm winner Secrets & Lies (1996), Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s character sings at her adopted mother’s funeral on a lush cemetery. She then played the mild-mannered and soft-spoken optometrist with a contagious smile who searches for her biological mother (Brenda Blethyn). When she now revisits Mike…
@Courtesy of Netflix The ability of Jacques Audiard consists of working inside the genre and at the same time trying to give his interpretation of it. Depending on the film, he decides to follow its rules or surprise the audience with a slightly different tone. His last Emilia Pérez belongs to the latter case: awarded…
Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel In the early 90s, while at the video store with his friends who wanted to rent Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Matthew asked the clerk if they had any copies of Naked Lunch available. A film buff from an early age, he would…
©Courtesy of Together It is no exaggeration to say that the humanitarian crisis involving refugees and migrants is one of the most daunting issues of our day. In the United States, the southern border has become a flashpoint of tension, provoking contentious rhetoric in this year’s presidential election campaign. Abroad, legions of people have been…
Pedro Almodóvar is back at the 62nd New York Film Festival with his first English-language feature film, The Room Next Door, adapted from the novel by Sigrid Nunez, who also wrote the book on which The Friend is based. (You can watch my review of the movie adapting that other book, which also played NYFF,…
If Mary Harron’s 2022 Dalíland — starring Ben Kingsley — took a biographical twist, Quentin Dupieux prefers to embark upon an exercise of style, since his latest work is not a biopic about Salvador Dalí. The French filmmaker’s moving picture — that premiered Out of Competition at the 80th Venice International Film Festival — is…
Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Critic Matthew Schuchman In the early 90s, while at the video store with his friends who wanted to rent Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Matthew asked the clerk if they had any copies of Naked Lunch available. A film buff from an early…
It’s not that often when a movie comes into the September festival season without any distribution but that’s the case with David Siegel and Scott McGehee’s The Friend, starring Naomi Watts, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, then played at the 62nd New York Film Festival. Based on the novel by Sigrid Nunez,…
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