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“Train to Busan” Director Yeon Sang-ho to Direct His First English-Language Film, “35th Street”

© 2019 CJ ENM Corporation All right reserved. Yeon Sang-ho, the prolific Korean director acclaimed for Train to Busan (2016), is poised to make his first English-language film for TriStar Pictures. Titled 35th Street, the movie will also be in the action/horror genre. Yeon will be directing the film and co-writing it with Ryu Yong-jae. No…

Edward Moran

June 6, 2024

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The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52, A Story About The Quest For Connection

The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52 is a documentary written and directed by Joshua Zeman, where the award-winning filmmaker becomes a contemporary Captain Ahab, seeking his own whale. His Moby Dick is the “52 Hertz Whale,” which scientists believe has spent his entire life in solitude, calling out at a frequency that is different…

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi

June 24, 2021

Interviews

‘Flow’ Filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis on His Animated Feature Following the Journey of a Cat (Video Interview)

It’s likely that you’ve never seen an animated feature film quite like Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow, a wordless film that follows the journey of a cat as it first tries to escape a pack of dogs, and then ends up working with a variety of animals to try to survive a massive flood. Having…

Edward Douglas

November 21, 2024

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Bogart: Life Comes In Flashes : Exclusive Interview with Director Kathryn Ferguson

Bogart: Life Comes In Flashes : The first official feature documentary to explore the remarkable life and career of Hollywood legend Humphrey Bogart. For the first time ever, narrated in Bogart’s own words and using previously unseen archives, letters, and interviews from those closest to him, the film definitively explores the impact of one of…

Nobuhiro Hosoki

November 21, 2024

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‘Our Oceans,’ Is A Bewitching Natatory Experience

The five-part Netflix series Our Oceans is executive produced by James Honeyborne, Michelle Obama and Barack Obama, and narrated by the latter. The voice of the 44th President of the United States narrates what life is like in our oceans: Pacific, Indian, Atlantic, Arctic and Southern. Five filmmakers have curated each episode: Rachel Scott, Joe…

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi

November 21, 2024

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‘Flow’ is the Most Immersive and Transfixing Animated Film of the Year

©Courtesy of Janus Films For some, it will be hard to ignore the Biblical implications of this new animated tale. After all, it follows a rag-tag group of animals, who survive a sudden apocalyptic flood aboard a floating sanctuary. Yet, other viewers will see it as a cautionary environmentally-themed beast fable, somewhat in the tradition…

Joe Bendel

November 20, 2024

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“Train to Busan” Director Yeon Sang-ho to Direct His First English-Language Film, “35th Street”

The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52, A Story About The Quest For Connection