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JAPAN CUTS 2024 Program Announced!

©Courtesy of Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JAPAN SOCIETY PRESENTS THE 17TH ANNUAL  JAPAN CUTS: FESTIVAL OF NEW JAPANESE FILM July 10–21, 2024 · Japan Society · New York, NY North America’s largest Japanese film festival presents two weeks of contemporary premieres, including new films from Kei Chika-ura, Takeshi Kitano, Gakuryu Ishii, Shunji…

‘IMPACT-Dick Gregory’ Glorifies The Activist’s Persiflage

The comedian’s analytical wit gets sealed on reel, through a perspicacious documentary directed by Jordan Stone. IMPACT-Dick Gregory  shares with the world the acute mind of a man who began as an entertainer and, through his words, managed to analyse society in a humorous and discerning manner. He was a human and modern Pasquino —…

‘Super Size Me’ Director Morgan Spurlock Died at 53

@Courtesy of film, “Super Size Me” The documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock died yesterday in upstate New York at the age of 53 of cancer complications. His brother Craig announced it with this statement: “It was a sad day, as we said goodbye to my brother Morgan. Morgan gave so much through his art, ideas and…

Goodfellas Has Acquired World Sales Rights for Chie Hayakawa’s Drama Renoir

©Photo: Noriko Hayashi/The New York Times   Goodfellas has taken over the worldwide distribution rights for Japanese director Chie Hayakawa‘s Tokyo-set drama Renoir before its premiere. Hayakawa’s debut film, Plan 75 set in a near future in Japan, focus on the government program Plan 75 which encourages senior citizens to be euthanized to remedy an…

Megalopolis – Official ‘First Look’ Clip

Photo by Mihai Malaimare – © 2024 – American Zoetrope The 120 million-budgeted epic film ‘Megalopolis‘ has released its first clip, following the release of the first official photo earlier this week. A few weeks from now, the film will make its world debut at the Cannes Film Festival, H.G. Wells‘ 1936 film ‘Things to Come’…

CODA’s Siân Heder to Direct ‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ for Paramount

©Courtesy of CODA Siân Heder has been tapped to direct Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow for Paramount Pictures, an adaptation of the eponymous best-selling novel by Gabrielle Zevin. Heder’s CODA won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2022. Mark Bomback will be writing the screenplay based on a draft by Zevin. The film will…

‘The Contestant,’ A Look Into the Origins Of Japanese Reality TV

©Courtesy of Hulu Sensationalism is the bread and butter of today’s media and entertainment industry. The competition for higher sales in the field of communications can be traced back to the circulation war between Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal during the mid-1890s. This gave wave to what was…

DADDIO | Official Trailer (2024) : Starring Dakota Johnson, Sean Penn

©Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Sony Pictures Classics has dropped a new trailer for a single-setting drama feature “Daddio” starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn which sees almost all of the narrative unfold within the confined space of a car. New York City, JFK airport. A young woman jumps into the backseat of a yellow…

Is Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ Turning Into a Megaflopolis?

Is Megalopolis turning into a Megaflopolis? Despite the fact that Francis Ford Coppola’s new movie will kick off the Cannes Film Festival in May, and despite the fact that Coppola has created some of the most iconic films of the past half century, including the three Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the…

Kim’s Video : Exclusive Interview with Yongman Kim

©Drafthouse Films Kim’s Video : Physical media reigns supreme in KIM’S VIDEO, an elegiac tribute to the iconic video store in New York City that inspired a generation of cinephiles before it mysteriously closed its doors and sent its legendary film archive to a small and slightly dubious Sicilian village for “safekeeping.” But what starts…