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NYICFF Announces 2023 Audience and Jury Award

THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES ITS 2023 AUDIENCE AND JURY AWARDS This Year’s Jury Includes: Kyle MacLachlan, Uma Thurman, Ira Sachs, Christine Vachon, Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker Nora Twomey (MY FATHER’S DRAGON), NYICFF Award-Winning Animator Huda Razzak, SVA Chair of BFA Animation Hsiang Chin Moe, and Kim Díaz, VP of Creative Development for Sesame Workshop Oscar-qualifying Jury…

The Wonder : Q&A with Actress Florence Pugh

Synopsis : The Irish Midlands, 1862 — a young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year old Anna O’Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months. Is the village…

Pinocchio, Zemeckis Reprises The Classic To Present An Allegory Of Modern Society

In the small Tuscan town of Pescia, at end of the 19th century, a writer called Carlo Collodi published the story about a marionette, in serial form for the Giornale per i bambini. This story eventually became a book: The Adventures of Pinocchio. Little did this Italian author foresee that his fairytale would become the…

The Immaculate Room : Exclusive Interview with Director Mukunda Michael Dewil

Synopsis : The Immaculate Room tells the story of Mike (Emile Hirsch) and Kate (Kate Bosworth), a seemingly perfect couple, join a psychological experiment to compete for 5 million dollars if they can last 50 days in a sleek, white room in complete isolation. No phones, no family — only the Voice of the Immaculate Room…

Exclusive Interview: Donald Elise Watkins, RJ Cyler, and Sebastian Chacon on the Genre-Bending ‘Emergency’

In the film Emergency, which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January, three friends, Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins), Sean (RJ Cyler), and Carlos (Sebastian Chacon), set out to complete a legendary tour of their college party scene. Their night is thrown into chaos when they find a white girl passed out on…

Petite Maman, Magic Realism Pulls Together A Mother And Daughter

After the success of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma returns with a delicate cinematic fable that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality: Petite Maman. Sciamma is known for her films Water Lilies, Tomboy, Girlhood, and the stop-motion animation that she co-wrote: My Life as a Courgette. The French filmmaker has the…

David Cronenberg’s CRIMES OF THE FUTURE – Official Teaser, Poster, Pics : Starring Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart, and Léa Seydoux

Neon has released the teaser trailer and poster of David Cronenberg’s latest outing, Crimes of the Future which is sci-fi body horror film, starring Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart, and Léa Seydoux. It is scheduled to make its world premiere at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival as an Official Selection for its competition category. Cronenberg’s world…

Opening at IFC Center: Keisuke Yoshida’s Blue and Yujiro Harumoto’s A Balance

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  ACA Cinema Project: New Films from Japan presents  “BLUE” A film by Keisuke Yoshida  “A BALANCE” A film by Yujiro Harumoto  IFC Center March 11-17, 2022  March 11-17, 2022    New York, NY (February 17, 2022) – Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan (ACA) announce the third ACA Cinema Project series:…

LUCY AND DESI Directed by Amy Poehler | Official Trailer / A legacy of One of the Most Prolific Power Couples in Entertainment History, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

Presents  AN IMAGINE DOCUMENTARIES  and  WHITE HORSE PICTURES PRODUCTION  IN ASSOCIATION WITH PAPER KITE PRODUCTIONS  and DIAMOND DOCS  LUCY AND DESI  Directed by Amy Poehler Produced by Michael Rosenberg, Justin Wilkes, Jeanne Elfant Festa, Nigel Sinclair, Amy Poehler and Mark Monroe Running time: 1 hour and 42 minutes Rating: PG      Directed by Amy Poehler…

Oscar Nominees Announced – ‘The Power of the Dog’ Leads, ‘Drive My Car’ Makes the Cut in Best Picture

Nominations for the 94th Academy Awards were announced this morning by actors Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross in twenty-three categories. The overall nominations leader is The Power of the Dog with 12 bids, including four acting nominations. Next up was Dune with ten bids, though it missed an expected mention for director Denis Villeneuve,…