After years of making low-budget indie films, often with new or lesser-known talent, filmmaker Sean Baker is starting to get his due, thanks to the overwhelming success of his latest film, Anora, beginning with it winning the coveted Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival back in May. Anora stars Mikey Madison from the…
Although he’s been making stop-motion animation for close to thirty years, Australian filmmaker Adam Elliot might not be able to boast of the most prolific output. That’s probably because what he does takes time, and when he does deliver a new movie, it’s usually something special. Many might know Elliot’s work from 2009’s Mary and…
After his previous film, All Quiet on the Western Front, won multiple Oscars, director Edward Berger had many options ahead of him, but he decided to direct an adaptation of Daniel Harris’ bestselling book, Conclave. Adapted by Oscar nominee Peter Straughan (Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy), Conclave stars Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence, who…
Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Titus Kaphar’s Exhibiting Forgiveness is a powerful and moving personal story that the artist-turned-filmmaker made after having conversations with his own father. It stars André Holland (Moonlight) as Tarrell, an artist whose estranged father La’Ron (John Earl Jelks) comes back into his life…
Parker Finn’s high-concept horror film, Smile, was a huge global blockbuster back in 2022, grossing over $217 million worldwide, so it made sense that Paramount Pictures would want a sequel. Sure enough, Finn’s Smile 2 brings the smiling curse back but with a whole new cast and story. Naomi Scott (Aladdin) plays troubled pop star…
Titus Kaphar has achieved quite a few high points as one of the more successful contemporary fine artists, but with Exhibiting Forgiveness, he makes his foray into feature filmmaking. The drama premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January, and it made enough of an impact that it was then programmed as part of…
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,…
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,…
Oscar-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has spent nearly 40 years of making his magnum opus, Megalopolis, a film that mixes modern-day New York City with ancient Rome to create New Rome. In this setting and constantly dreaming of the future is Adam Driver’s Cesar Catalina, a brilliant inventor and architect who is always striving to…
The tragic death of actor Christopher Reeve in 2004 was devastating for those who knew and loved him, both in real life and his millions of fans from playing the pivotal role as Superman in four movies from 1978 to 1987. His death was made worse by the fact that nine years earlier, he became…
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