Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film, Broker, was in competition at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Ecumenical Jury Award and the Best Actor Award for Song Kang-ho. During the French kermesse the film received a standing ovation from the audience for 12 minutes. The story is set in Seoul and it begins with…
SYNOPSIS : As she celebrates her 40th birthday in 1877, Elisabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, finds herself lacing her trademark corset ever tighter to remain relevant in a world that is leaving her behind. Once a beloved symbol of the splendor of her empire, Elisabeth has become the object of salacious gossip…
Kristen Stewart will serve as the president of the jury at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival in February. Stewart has been in the spotlight for almost two decades. She landed her breakout role opposite Jodie Foster in David Fincher’s “Panic Room“ and achieved worldwide recognition with a leading role in the “Twilight“ saga, More recent credits like “Clouds of Sils…
East meets West—at least in an apocalyptic future—with the announcement that a Japanese talent agency will be coproducing a new zombie mockumentary with a U.S.-based studio. The deal was sealed this week between Tokyo-based Yoshimoto Kogyo and Los Angeles-based People of Culture Studios. The two companies will be producing Among the Dead, a film written…
Neon has revealed their own official US trailer for a highly anticipated Hirokazu Koreeda’s film “Broker.” Hirokazu Kore-eda made a bit of a departure from Japanese films and tackled his last film, 2019’s “The Truth.” The French film was the director’s first film set outside his native Japan and the first not in his native language….
Poland’s entry for Best International Feature at the 2023 Academy Awards is a wondrous work of cinematic art. EO, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize. The film is inspired by Robert Bresson’s 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar, that was inspired by an extract from…
French-Tunisian director, screenwriter and producer Nadia El Fani has always been an advocate of freedom of expression throughout her cinematic work. She was born in Paris and moved with her family to her father’s homeland, Tunisia. El Fani began her filmmaking path as assistant director to the likes of Roman Polanski, Nouri Bouzid, Romain Goupil…
Japanese mystery writer Kotaro Isaka will soon see his novel Seesaw Monster turned into a Netflix feature starring Anne Hathaway and Selma Hayek Pinault. The novel, which moves between Showa Japan (1926-1989) and the year 2050, is an account of the rivalry between a daughter-in-law and her mother-in-law. While details about the director and plot…
“The Shining“ actress Shelley Duvall is headed back to the big screen via “The Forest Hills“ — an indie horror/thriller film directed by Scott Goldberg, which marks her first project in 20 years. According to a press release of TODAY, the film follows a disturbed man (Rico) who is tormented by nightmarish visions, after enduring head…
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,…
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