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Sundance Film Festival 2022 Announces Lineup Will Include New Movies from Lena Dunham, Amy Poehler and Jesse Eisenberg

The Sundance Institute announced today the showcase of new independent work that it has selected to play in the Feature Film, Indie Episodic and New Frontier categories for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The festival is set to take place in a hybrid format, including in-person in Park City, Salt Lake City and the Sundance…

Award Season Coverage : Stillwater / Q&A with Matt Damon and Co-writer-Director Tom McCarthy

Matt Damon has become one of Hollywood’s leading A-list actors in part due to his portrayal of several globe-trotting characters who bend the law to fit their purposes, most notably the title protagonist in the Jason Bourne series, as well as Linus Caldwell in the Ocean‘s trilogy. The Academy Award-winning filmmaker’s latest character who travels…

GKIDS Picks Up North American Rights to Japanese Anime Film Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

GKIDS announced today that it has acquired the North American distribution rights for STUDIO 4°C’s animated Japanese film, Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko. The movie distributor is set to release the feature, which is being helmed by esteemed director Ayumu Watanabe, in theaters early next year. online pharmacy buy xifaxan with best prices today in the…

Japan Society’s “Flash Forward” 20-Film Series : Sadao Yamanaka, Naomi Kawase, Miwa Nishikawa, Masayuki Suo and more!

ACA CINEMA PROJECT   FLASH FORWARD: DEBUT WORKS AND RECENT FILMS BY NOTABLE JAPANESE DIRECTORS December 3-23, 2021   Twenty-film program co-presented by Japan Society and the Agency for Cultural Affairs in association with Visual Industry Promotion Organization (VIPO). Online film series celebrates six prominent Japanese filmmakers of today, pairing directorial debuts and recent films by Naomi…

An Exclusive Interview with Director Radu Jude on the Winner of the Berlin Film Festival, “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn”

Synopsis : Emi, a schoolteacher, finds her reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is uploaded onto the internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender. BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN is a film in three loosely connected parts: a walk in the city of Bucharest, then a…

New York Japan CineFest 2021 Selection

New York Japan CineFest : We all have a role in our lives, So are film festivals. New York Japan CineFest’s mission is clear.  To explore and find unique talent, support their work, vision and cause as we provide creative playground in the most exciting city in the world, New York City. The festival was founded…

Doc NYC Announces Main Slate Line-Up

DOC NYC ANNOUNCES MAIN SLATE LINEUP  FOR TWELFTH EDITION, NOVEMBER 10-28, 2021 FESTIVAL RETURNS TO THEATERS IN NYC  AND CONTINUES TO SCREEN ONLINE NATIONWIDE; SLATE INCLUDES 32 WORLD PREMIERES AND 34 US PREMIERES,  AMONG MORE THAN 200 FILMS AND EVENTS NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2021 – DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival—running in-person November 10-18…

Last Night in Soho : “Downtown (Downtempo)” Performed by Anya Taylor-Joy, Artwork, Featurette, Trailer, Synopsis

Long Synopsis  If you could go back in time, would you? Should you?  The past is another country, they say. One whose borders are locked. But what if that wasn’t entirely true? What if you could experience another time for yourself, in full sensory overload? That’s the situation for Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) in Edgar Wright’s…

New York Film Festival : Parallel Mothers / Press Conference with Director Pedro Almodóvar, Actress Penélope Cruz, Actress Milena Smit 

Synopsis : Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like…

The Rescue :An Exclusive Interview with Academy Award-Winning Filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi 

Synopsis : The Rescue chronicles the enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand. Using a wealth of never-before-seen material and exclusive interviews, E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin keep viewers on the edge of their…