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Sundance Film Festival Announces 2023 Features Lineup!

2023 Sundance Film Festival Announces Lineup of 99 Feature Films. Find Out Why All Eyes Are On Independents. In-Person Ticket Packages Now On Sale; Online Ticket Package Sales Begin December 13.  Top L–R: Bravo, Burkina!, Girl, Polite Society, Mami Wata. Center L–R: Going Varsity in Mariachi, The Accidental Getaway Driver, Deep Rising, Cassandro. Bottom L–R:…

Magnolia Pictures to Distribute Mary Harron’s Salvador Dali Film, ‘Dalíland’

Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to Mary Harron’s “Daliland” and is planning a theatrical release in 2023. The biopic about the legendary Surrealist, Salvador Dali, was the closing-night film in the recent Toronto Film Festival. It stars Ben Kingsley as the mature Dali and Ezra Miller as his younger incarnation. Barbara Sukowa plays…

DOC NYC: Fragments of Paradise, A Journey Through The Filmic Poetry Of Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas is known worldwide as the “the godfather of American avant-garde cinema.” The story of the Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist is now crystallised in a beautiful documentary, directed by KD Davidson, that is part of the DOC NYC 2022 line-up. Fragments Of Paradise is divided into chapters that alternate original black and white…

The 11th New York Japan CineFest – 21 short films in 7 days

The 11th New York Japan CineFest  The 11th Anniversary – 21 short films in 7 days Festival dates: November 14 – November 20, 2022 A film festival that introduces Japanese-themed short films, New York Japan CineFest, is celebrating the 11th year and going hybrid for the first time, from November 14th to November 20th.  As…

Film Review – Denmark’s Oscar Submission ‘Holy Spider’ is a Tense and Effective Thriller about Violent Fanaticism 

It should be an agreed-upon concept that murder is not acceptable under any circumstance. Self-defense is a legal argument often used that should, in its truthful application, connote that the act of killing someone to prevent being killed negates its definition as murder. But there are those who believe that they serve a higher purpose,…

The Female Gaze: Women Filmmakers from Japan Cuts and Beyond

Riverside Mukolitta © 2021 ”Riverside Mukolitta” Film Partners THE FEMALE GAZE: WOMEN FILMMAKERS FROM JAPAN CUTS AND BEYOND Selected by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan and Japan Society THE FEMALE GAZE: WOMEN FILMMAKERS FROM JAPAN CUTS AND BEYOND Selected by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan and Japan Society November 11-20, 2022…

DOC NYC, Nov. 9-27, Announces Main Slate; 13th Edition Returns to Theaters and Online w. More Than 200 Films & Events

DOC NYC ANNOUNCES MAIN SLATE LINEUP FOR THIRTEENTH EDITION, NOVEMBER 9-27, 2022FESTIVAL RETURNS TO THEATERS IN NYC AND CONTINUES TO SCREEN ONLINE NATIONWIDE;SLATE INCLUDES 29 WORLD PREMIERES AND 27 US PREMIERES, AMONG MORE THAN 200 FILMS AND EVENTS NEW YORK, Oct. 13, 2022 – DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival — running in-person November 9-17 at IFC Center,…

NYFF Film Review – ‘Till’ is a Powerful Juxtaposition of a Hateful World and a Mother’s Love 

The story of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy from Chicago who was lynched after whistling at a white woman while visiting his cousins in Mississippi in 1955, is a horrific stain on the history of the United States. Only this year was anti-lynching legislation named after Emmett signed into law, and the violence that all…

NYFF Film Review – ‘Master Gardener’ is Paul Schrader’s Latest Incisive Character Study

Certain things have little to no resonance for an average person but may contain a great deal of meaning for someone else. It’s easy to walk through a beautiful garden without appreciating or comprehending the hard work that goes into its upkeep and its very creation, planning carefully for which flowers will eventually bloom and…

Toronto International Film Festival Review – ‘Bros’ is a Thoroughly Enjoyable and Genuinely Funny Gay Romantic Comedy

Our society has evolved to a point of aiming for inclusion, seeking to serve underrepresented audiences and tell their stories in a way that the world can see. Yet such efforts, while typically well-intentioned, don’t always achieve what they mean to be, and often end up undercutting the very populations they aim to showcase in…