Throughout history, horror films have always been social activities -- manageable mini-adventures to be experienced in kinship with a friend, a group, a date, a significant other. There's something perennially appealing about sharing a scary and disturbing movie with someone you love, seeing them react alongside you, feeling bound by a collective sense of dread, encouraging each other to shrug off the fight-or-flight instinct, and ride it out when a scene gets too horrifying. A good horror film can even bring people closer. But horror films are seldomly family events.
To be sure, there is a certain logic to watching specific horror movies with family members. The urgency of a survival adventure like "Train to Busan" or "A Quiet Place," the simmering intensity of a creature thriller like "Jaws" or "Alien," the roller-coaster-ride excitement of a game transformed into an exercise in terror in "The Conjuring," or the unspooling mysteries...
To be sure, there is a certain logic to watching specific horror movies with family members. The urgency of a survival adventure like "Train to Busan" or "A Quiet Place," the simmering intensity of a creature thriller like "Jaws" or "Alien," the roller-coaster-ride excitement of a game transformed into an exercise in terror in "The Conjuring," or the unspooling mysteries...
- 5/26/2024
- by Leo Noboru Lima
- Slash Film
A History of Unsimulated Sex Scenes in 17 Cannes Films, from ‘Mektoub’ to ‘Antichrist’ to ‘Caligula’
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in May 2019 and has been updated several times since.
Deserved or not, French cinema has a reputation for being a little racy. From classics like “Belle de Jour” to controversial modern films like “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” French film has consistently pushed the boundaries of sexuality and sensuality onscreen. So it’s perhaps no surprise that the country’s premier film festival Cannes is such an oasis for sexually explicit films, ones that have frequently generated controversy over its history — especially when these films feature unsimulated sexual acts.
Unsimulated sex onscreen at Cannes dates back to at least 1973, when the film “Thriller — a Cruel Picture,” featuring several acts of hardcore unsimulated porn, played at the festival. In the years afterwards, particularly provocative and avant-garde works like “Sweet Movie” and “The Idiots” caused shock at Cannes by presenting audiences with real, unvarnished sexual content.
Deserved or not, French cinema has a reputation for being a little racy. From classics like “Belle de Jour” to controversial modern films like “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” French film has consistently pushed the boundaries of sexuality and sensuality onscreen. So it’s perhaps no surprise that the country’s premier film festival Cannes is such an oasis for sexually explicit films, ones that have frequently generated controversy over its history — especially when these films feature unsimulated sexual acts.
Unsimulated sex onscreen at Cannes dates back to at least 1973, when the film “Thriller — a Cruel Picture,” featuring several acts of hardcore unsimulated porn, played at the festival. In the years afterwards, particularly provocative and avant-garde works like “Sweet Movie” and “The Idiots” caused shock at Cannes by presenting audiences with real, unvarnished sexual content.
- 5/23/2024
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
The Cannes Film Festival is arguably the single most prestigious film festival in all of world cinema. Every year, hundreds descend on the French resort town for two weeks of screenings from some of the film industry’s most respected auteurs. If you want high-quality cinema, or movie star glamour, Cannes supplies all of that in abundance.
But maybe it’s because Cannes is such a shiny beacon atop the cinematic landscape that it’s also so frequently embroiled in massive controversies, in a way that American festivals like, say, Sundance don’t really manage, at least not anymore. It’s not an every year occurrence, but whenever Cannes starts up in May, putting money on something happening to make people very angry is generally the safer bet.
Sometimes, the controversy has to do with the films playing on the Croisette themselves. Take notorious projects like “The Brown Bunny,” a...
But maybe it’s because Cannes is such a shiny beacon atop the cinematic landscape that it’s also so frequently embroiled in massive controversies, in a way that American festivals like, say, Sundance don’t really manage, at least not anymore. It’s not an every year occurrence, but whenever Cannes starts up in May, putting money on something happening to make people very angry is generally the safer bet.
Sometimes, the controversy has to do with the films playing on the Croisette themselves. Take notorious projects like “The Brown Bunny,” a...
- 5/22/2024
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
When most cinephiles think of Francis Ford Coppola, they think of his miracle run in the 1970s. During that decade, he directed four films, all of them five-star masterpieces: The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather, Part II, and Apocalypse Now. Or they think of embarrassments from his for-hire period, including the Robin Williams weepy Jack. Yet those five films hardly encapsulate the entire career of Francis Ford Coppola, which will likely end with the upcoming Megalopolis. Instead the best indication of Coppola as an artist and filmmaker might be found in the most recent movies he’s made, with Coppola having released three self-produced and self-financed pictures every two years between 2007 and 2011: Youth Without Youth, Twixt, and Tetro.
Although they vary in quality, and none top his work from the ’70s, this independent trio captures the experimental and romantic heart that lies at the center of Coppola’s overall oeuvre.
Although they vary in quality, and none top his work from the ’70s, this independent trio captures the experimental and romantic heart that lies at the center of Coppola’s overall oeuvre.
- 5/14/2024
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
On the indie side of filmmaking life, Sean Price Williams has seen it all. He’s worked with the Safdies, Alex Ross Perry, Nathan Silver, Robert Green, and Athina Rachel Tsangari, and often more than once. He’s the premier chronicler of New York City independent movies behind the camera, typically shooting on celluloid, and bringing surreal, gritty poetry to character-driven stories that feel on the ground like portraits of versions of ourselves.
One of the most unabashedly movie-loving cinematographers working today, Williams last year moved to directing for the sprawling, scratchy-edged tale of East Coast youth, “The Sweet East,” which remains in theaters and features stars like Jacob Elordi, Simon Rex, Jeremy O. Harris, and Ayo Edebiri.
But even more recently than that directorial debut, he released a “1000 Movies” book via Metrograph Editions, a simple, unadorned paperback that offers, rather than commentary, pages listing his favorite essential films and...
One of the most unabashedly movie-loving cinematographers working today, Williams last year moved to directing for the sprawling, scratchy-edged tale of East Coast youth, “The Sweet East,” which remains in theaters and features stars like Jacob Elordi, Simon Rex, Jeremy O. Harris, and Ayo Edebiri.
But even more recently than that directorial debut, he released a “1000 Movies” book via Metrograph Editions, a simple, unadorned paperback that offers, rather than commentary, pages listing his favorite essential films and...
- 5/7/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Plot: Dan Lawson, a Chicago detective, travels to Scotland to link up with Scottish Det. Boyd, following the resurgence of a serial killer whose crimes match an unsolved case that he looked into 5 years previous in Chicago.
Review: Ever since David Fincher’s Se7en, I’ve been a fan of the simple premise of a detective hunting down a serial killer. This game of cat and mouse allows for just the right amount of mystery and intrigue that will keep you guessing until the end. I’d argue the big reveal at the end is nearly as synonymous with crime thrillers as cops and criminals. If there’s one thing a good mystery needs, it’s something unexpected. And Damaged certainly has that.
The story follows Detective Lawson (Samuel L. Jackson) as he travels to Scotland to help with a case. Someone is recreating the murders that Lawson investigated back in Chicago five years prior,...
Review: Ever since David Fincher’s Se7en, I’ve been a fan of the simple premise of a detective hunting down a serial killer. This game of cat and mouse allows for just the right amount of mystery and intrigue that will keep you guessing until the end. I’d argue the big reveal at the end is nearly as synonymous with crime thrillers as cops and criminals. If there’s one thing a good mystery needs, it’s something unexpected. And Damaged certainly has that.
The story follows Detective Lawson (Samuel L. Jackson) as he travels to Scotland to help with a case. Someone is recreating the murders that Lawson investigated back in Chicago five years prior,...
- 4/11/2024
- by Tyler Nichols
- JoBlo.com
The last time our writer interviewed him, the drugged up director dozed off then asked for coke. Now sober, he reflects on #MeToo, Italian fascism and his fight for the final cut
The last time I met Abel Ferrara, he dozed off in the middle of our interview then woke up and asked me to score him some coke. It was 1996, and he was in the UK promoting his gangster drama The Funeral – which the actor Vincent Gallo alleged Ferrara had been too blitzed on crack to direct properly – and his vampire horror The Addiction. He was on a roll, his reputation fortified by King of New York, starring Christopher Walken as a flamboyant crime boss, and the gruelling Bad Lieutenant, with Harvey Keitel as a bent junkie cop. Ferrara was the scuzzball Scorsese: no matter how celebrated he became, he never shed the patina of grime from his...
The last time I met Abel Ferrara, he dozed off in the middle of our interview then woke up and asked me to score him some coke. It was 1996, and he was in the UK promoting his gangster drama The Funeral – which the actor Vincent Gallo alleged Ferrara had been too blitzed on crack to direct properly – and his vampire horror The Addiction. He was on a roll, his reputation fortified by King of New York, starring Christopher Walken as a flamboyant crime boss, and the gruelling Bad Lieutenant, with Harvey Keitel as a bent junkie cop. Ferrara was the scuzzball Scorsese: no matter how celebrated he became, he never shed the patina of grime from his...
- 1/22/2024
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
To the surprise of no one, it sounds like Vincent Gallo is still a creep. Or he’s still interested in the most extreme forms of method acting possible—or some combo of the two. It’s up for the reader to judge here, as IndieWire reports (via Rolling Stone) that three actresses have gone to the Screen Actors Guild to file formal complaints against Gallo for creating a hostile work environment during auditions for the upcoming film “The Policeman.” It sounds, as per usual, that the actor took things too far.
Continue reading ‘The Policeman’: Vincent Gallo Reportedly Encouraged Unsimulated Sex Scenes & “Torture Porn Fantasies” During Auditions For Upcoming Serial Killer Pic at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘The Policeman’: Vincent Gallo Reportedly Encouraged Unsimulated Sex Scenes & “Torture Porn Fantasies” During Auditions For Upcoming Serial Killer Pic at The Playlist.
- 1/12/2024
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Vincent Gallo and his new film The Policeman are being scrutinized by SAG-AFTRA following the emergence of misconduct complaints against Gallo by multiple female actors, Deadline has confirmed.
“We are aware of these complaints and are investigating,” said a spokesperson for the guild. “We extensively engaged with production regarding the complaints and, while shooting has wrapped, we continue to monitor and investigate. We also reaffirm our commitment to ensuring a safe and respectful environment on set. Because our inquiry is ongoing, we cannot respond to specifics of the complaint.”
Written and directed by Jordan Gertner, and co-starring James Franco, The Policeman has Gallo playing Golden State killer Joseph James DeAngelo, a serial murderer and rapist who began terrorizing California residents all the way back in the 1970s, only being brought to justice in 2018. The complaints spotlight sexual comments allegedly made by Gallo, the controversial actor known for projects like The Brown Bunny,...
“We are aware of these complaints and are investigating,” said a spokesperson for the guild. “We extensively engaged with production regarding the complaints and, while shooting has wrapped, we continue to monitor and investigate. We also reaffirm our commitment to ensuring a safe and respectful environment on set. Because our inquiry is ongoing, we cannot respond to specifics of the complaint.”
Written and directed by Jordan Gertner, and co-starring James Franco, The Policeman has Gallo playing Golden State killer Joseph James DeAngelo, a serial murderer and rapist who began terrorizing California residents all the way back in the 1970s, only being brought to justice in 2018. The complaints spotlight sexual comments allegedly made by Gallo, the controversial actor known for projects like The Brown Bunny,...
- 1/11/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
SAG-AFTRA confirms to Variety that it’s investigating the production of Vincent Gallo’s new movie “The Policeman,” in which the controversial star of “The Brown Bunny” and “Buffalo ’66” plays the Golden State serial killer Joseph James DeAngelo. Auditions for the Jordan Gertner-directed film took place in November 2023, and it was filmed in the Portland, Oregon, area in December 2023. According to Rolling Stone, three female actors who auditioned for the film filed a formal complaint to SAG-AFTRA alleging that Gallo was inappropriate toward them.
“We are aware of these complaints and are investigating,” SAG-AFTRA said in a statement. “We extensively engaged with production regarding the complaints and, while shooting has wrapped, we continue to monitor and investigate. We also reaffirm our commitment to ensuring a safe and respectful environment on set.”
According to the complaint, Gallo said lewd comments to the actors during the audition process. The actors...
“We are aware of these complaints and are investigating,” SAG-AFTRA said in a statement. “We extensively engaged with production regarding the complaints and, while shooting has wrapped, we continue to monitor and investigate. We also reaffirm our commitment to ensuring a safe and respectful environment on set.”
According to the complaint, Gallo said lewd comments to the actors during the audition process. The actors...
- 1/11/2024
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Actor allegedly made sexually explicit and unsettling remarks during casting process for serial killer thriller The Policeman
The actor Vincent Gallo is being investigated by the Sag-Aftra union after several women alleged he made inappropriate remarks to them during the casting process for the movie The Policeman.
At least three women reported Gallo to the actors’ union for sexually explicit and unsettling comments he allegedly made during the casting process for the film in November 2023, Rolling Stone first reported.
The actor Vincent Gallo is being investigated by the Sag-Aftra union after several women alleged he made inappropriate remarks to them during the casting process for the movie The Policeman.
At least three women reported Gallo to the actors’ union for sexually explicit and unsettling comments he allegedly made during the casting process for the film in November 2023, Rolling Stone first reported.
- 1/11/2024
- by Gloria Oladipo
- The Guardian - Film News
The Brown Bunny actor Vincent Gallo has been accused of making sexually explicit and threatening comments in auditions with actresses for an upcoming film in a new report in Rolling Stone.
Two actresses who auditioned to play victim roles in The Policeman, a film starring Gallo as so-called “Golden State Killer” Joseph James DeAngelo, filed complaints to actors union SAG-AFTRA after comments that Gallo allegedly made during the casting process. SAG-AFTRA responded by launching an investigation into casting for the film, which is written and directed by Spring Breakers and The Virgin Suicides producer Jordan Gertner and co-stars James Franco in one of his first roles since being accused of sexual and exploitative behavior at his acting school in 2018.
A SAG-AFTRA spokesperson said in a comment to The Hollywood Reporter, “We are aware of these complaints and are investigating. We extensively engaged with production regarding the complaints and, while shooting has wrapped,...
Two actresses who auditioned to play victim roles in The Policeman, a film starring Gallo as so-called “Golden State Killer” Joseph James DeAngelo, filed complaints to actors union SAG-AFTRA after comments that Gallo allegedly made during the casting process. SAG-AFTRA responded by launching an investigation into casting for the film, which is written and directed by Spring Breakers and The Virgin Suicides producer Jordan Gertner and co-stars James Franco in one of his first roles since being accused of sexual and exploitative behavior at his acting school in 2018.
A SAG-AFTRA spokesperson said in a comment to The Hollywood Reporter, “We are aware of these complaints and are investigating. We extensively engaged with production regarding the complaints and, while shooting has wrapped,...
- 1/11/2024
- by Katie Kilkenny
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Vincent Gallo is accused of creating a hostile work environment 20 years after his infamous unsimulated sex scenes in “The Brown Bunny” and allegations on the “Buffalo ’66” set.
Gallo, who is set to portray serial killer and rapist Joseph James DeAngelo Aka the Golden State Killer in the upcoming film “The Policeman,” was at the center of at least three formal actor complaints to the Screen Actors Guild. James Franco, who also has previously been accused of sexual misconduct, co-stars in “The Policeman,” which is written and directed by Jordan Gertner.
Rolling Stone reported that during the casting process, a trio of actresses alleged Gallo made inappropriate advances and demanded abuse scenes be “fully improvised” have authentic reactions onscreen.
One complaint alleged that Gallo said, “If I say to suck my dick or I will kill you, I want you, you the person, not you the character, not you the actor,...
Gallo, who is set to portray serial killer and rapist Joseph James DeAngelo Aka the Golden State Killer in the upcoming film “The Policeman,” was at the center of at least three formal actor complaints to the Screen Actors Guild. James Franco, who also has previously been accused of sexual misconduct, co-stars in “The Policeman,” which is written and directed by Jordan Gertner.
Rolling Stone reported that during the casting process, a trio of actresses alleged Gallo made inappropriate advances and demanded abuse scenes be “fully improvised” have authentic reactions onscreen.
One complaint alleged that Gallo said, “If I say to suck my dick or I will kill you, I want you, you the person, not you the character, not you the actor,...
- 1/11/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
When Emily* showed up to her callback audition for a new film titled The Policeman starring Vincent Gallo, she knew it would be intense. In The Policeman, Gallo, who has a reputation for acting in controversial and edgy projects, plays serial killer and rapist Joseph James DeAngelo, also known as the Golden State Killer. The actress was auditioning to play one of his female victims who is raped and killed, and she was aware of the nudity and violence involved, as well as the dark nature of the film itself.
- 1/11/2024
- by Krystie Lee Yandoli
- Rollingstone.com
For this month’s installment of “TV Terrors” we revisit the animated series adaptation of Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice,“ which aired from 1989 to 1991 on ABC/Fox Network.
In the eighties and nineties, studios were never shy about taking mature intellectual properties and cashing in on them by giving them their own animated spinoffs for kids. Among the rather extensive list were direct G-rated adaptations like “Rambo,” “Conan,” “Ace Ventura,” and even “Police Academy.” One of the most notable, and more widely celebrated adaptations was of Tim Burton’s 1988 hit film Beetlejuice. While the original movie excelled in being as menacing, bizarre, and raunchy as possible, executive producers Tim Burton and David Geffen opted for a more kid friendly variation of the “Ghost with the Most” for the animated series.
Aimed more for the 8-12 Saturday morning cartoon demographic, the animated show thankfully stuck true to much of what made the movie so entertaining.
In the eighties and nineties, studios were never shy about taking mature intellectual properties and cashing in on them by giving them their own animated spinoffs for kids. Among the rather extensive list were direct G-rated adaptations like “Rambo,” “Conan,” “Ace Ventura,” and even “Police Academy.” One of the most notable, and more widely celebrated adaptations was of Tim Burton’s 1988 hit film Beetlejuice. While the original movie excelled in being as menacing, bizarre, and raunchy as possible, executive producers Tim Burton and David Geffen opted for a more kid friendly variation of the “Ghost with the Most” for the animated series.
Aimed more for the 8-12 Saturday morning cartoon demographic, the animated show thankfully stuck true to much of what made the movie so entertaining.
- 11/28/2023
- by Felix Vasquez Jr
- bloody-disgusting.com
Model, actress, director and author Elisa Sednaoui has been a regular on the Lido red carpet for years, even hosting the Venice Festival’s opening and closing ceremonies in 2015.
As a model, she’s been a muse for Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Louboutin and the face of numerous campaigns for Chanel, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, Roberto Cavalli, Ermanno Scervino, Bucellati, and Lacôme, among others. Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino directed her in a commercial for Missoni perfume and she’s one of only a handful of models to appear in two editions of the Pirelli calendar (in 2011 and 2013).
Off the runway, she’s appeared in such features as Sharunas Bartas’s drug smuggling drama Eastward Drift (2010), alongside Vincent Gallo, in Davide Manuli’s sci-fi western The Legend of Kaspar Hauser (2012) and in the 2014 Italian comedy Soap Opera from director Alessandro Genovesi. Behind the camera, she co-directed, with Martina Gill, the 2012 documentary...
As a model, she’s been a muse for Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Louboutin and the face of numerous campaigns for Chanel, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, Roberto Cavalli, Ermanno Scervino, Bucellati, and Lacôme, among others. Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino directed her in a commercial for Missoni perfume and she’s one of only a handful of models to appear in two editions of the Pirelli calendar (in 2011 and 2013).
Off the runway, she’s appeared in such features as Sharunas Bartas’s drug smuggling drama Eastward Drift (2010), alongside Vincent Gallo, in Davide Manuli’s sci-fi western The Legend of Kaspar Hauser (2012) and in the 2014 Italian comedy Soap Opera from director Alessandro Genovesi. Behind the camera, she co-directed, with Martina Gill, the 2012 documentary...
- 8/30/2023
- by Pino Gagliardi
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sex on film is nothing new, and yet unsimulated intercourse in non-pornographic movies continues to raise eyebrows and draw eyeballs. From Vincent Gallo’s controversial directing for “Brown Bunny” to Robert Pattinson’s masturbatory method acting in”Little Ashes,” genuine intimate encounters captured on film — however staged they may be — can pull audiences into the bigger stories their writers and directors are trying to tell.
Catherine Breillat’s first film in 1976, “A Real Young Girl,” adapts her own controversial novel about a 14-year-old exploring her newfound sexuality. Breillat’s later work, 1999’s “Romance,” tells the story of a woman desperately seeking human connection and featured similar scenes, including sadomasochistic sex play.
“Actors are prostitutes because they’re asked to play other feelings,” Breillat told IndieWire. “This prostitution is not profane; it’s a sacred act that we give them.”
John Cameron Mitchell set out to “honor” sex as a pastime for real people,...
Catherine Breillat’s first film in 1976, “A Real Young Girl,” adapts her own controversial novel about a 14-year-old exploring her newfound sexuality. Breillat’s later work, 1999’s “Romance,” tells the story of a woman desperately seeking human connection and featured similar scenes, including sadomasochistic sex play.
“Actors are prostitutes because they’re asked to play other feelings,” Breillat told IndieWire. “This prostitution is not profane; it’s a sacred act that we give them.”
John Cameron Mitchell set out to “honor” sex as a pastime for real people,...
- 8/12/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson and Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Roxy Cinema
Throughout this weekend we’re proudly presenting Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo on 35mm and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rain People, marking the New York premiere of American Zoetrope’s 4K restoration––further details, including how to get discounted tickets, are here––while Desperately Seeking Susan also plays.
"[The Rain People] is the only time I think of a movie when I'm making a movie. The only one." — Vincent Gallo
We're hosting the New York premiere of American Zoetrope's 4K restoration @RoxyCinemaNYC this weekend, alongside 'Rio Bravo' on 35mm: https://t.co/txwXR32yRm pic.twitter.com/9p6knmwNa8
— The Film Stage (@TheFilmStage) July 27, 2023
Museum of Modern Art
Films by Olivier Assayas, Claire Denis, and Todd Haynes screen on 35mm as part of “Views from the Vault.”
Bam
A series on second features has begun.
IFC...
Roxy Cinema
Throughout this weekend we’re proudly presenting Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo on 35mm and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Rain People, marking the New York premiere of American Zoetrope’s 4K restoration––further details, including how to get discounted tickets, are here––while Desperately Seeking Susan also plays.
"[The Rain People] is the only time I think of a movie when I'm making a movie. The only one." — Vincent Gallo
We're hosting the New York premiere of American Zoetrope's 4K restoration @RoxyCinemaNYC this weekend, alongside 'Rio Bravo' on 35mm: https://t.co/txwXR32yRm pic.twitter.com/9p6knmwNa8
— The Film Stage (@TheFilmStage) July 27, 2023
Museum of Modern Art
Films by Olivier Assayas, Claire Denis, and Todd Haynes screen on 35mm as part of “Views from the Vault.”
Bam
A series on second features has begun.
IFC...
- 7/28/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
The Film Stage is elated to announce a double feature at New York’s Roxy Cinema: on Friday, July 28 we’ll introduce Francis Ford Coppola’s 1969 film The Rain People––marking the New York premiere of its 4K restoration––and a 35mm print of Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo, both of which continue screening through the weekend.
The Film Stage readers will receive a discounted $12 ticket with mention of our program at the Roxy’s box office. (Don’t be shy––their employees are very nice.) We look forward to seeing you at the movies.
The Rain People—New York Premiere of 4K Restoration
Friday, July 28 at 7:00pm
Saturday, July 29 at 5:45pm
Sunday, July 30 at 8:00pm
“If I could say I could have been in any Coppola film, I would have probably wanted to star in The Rain People.” –– Vincent Gallo
Despite consistent acclaim, The Rain People is...
The Film Stage readers will receive a discounted $12 ticket with mention of our program at the Roxy’s box office. (Don’t be shy––their employees are very nice.) We look forward to seeing you at the movies.
The Rain People—New York Premiere of 4K Restoration
Friday, July 28 at 7:00pm
Saturday, July 29 at 5:45pm
Sunday, July 30 at 8:00pm
“If I could say I could have been in any Coppola film, I would have probably wanted to star in The Rain People.” –– Vincent Gallo
Despite consistent acclaim, The Rain People is...
- 6/27/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Mubi has announced its lineup of streaming offerings for next month, including the exclusive streaming premiere of Lars von Trier’s The Idiots in a new 4K restoration, Céline Devaux’s anti-romcom Everybody Loves Jeanne, and Tyler Taormina’s Happer’s Comet.
Additional selections include three films by Wong Kar Wai, a Robert Altman double feature, four works by Jacques Rivette, plus shorts by Mia Hansen-Løve and Yorgos Lanthimos.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
July 1 – Synecdoche, New York, directed by Charlie Kaufman
July 2 – 2046, directed by Wong Kar Wai | As Time Goes By: Three by Wong Kar Wai
July 3 – The Exiles, directed by Kent MacKenzie
July 4 – Ivansxtc, directed by Bernard Rose
July 5 – Un Pur Esprit, directed by Mia Hansen-Løve | Short Films Big Names
July 6 – Contemporary Color, directed by Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross | Turn It Up: Music on Film
July 7 – The Idiots, directed by Lars von Trier...
Additional selections include three films by Wong Kar Wai, a Robert Altman double feature, four works by Jacques Rivette, plus shorts by Mia Hansen-Løve and Yorgos Lanthimos.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
July 1 – Synecdoche, New York, directed by Charlie Kaufman
July 2 – 2046, directed by Wong Kar Wai | As Time Goes By: Three by Wong Kar Wai
July 3 – The Exiles, directed by Kent MacKenzie
July 4 – Ivansxtc, directed by Bernard Rose
July 5 – Un Pur Esprit, directed by Mia Hansen-Løve | Short Films Big Names
July 6 – Contemporary Color, directed by Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross | Turn It Up: Music on Film
July 7 – The Idiots, directed by Lars von Trier...
- 6/26/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Actor and online influencer Alexis Ren has signed with WME in all areas.
Ren is best known for her breakout performance opposite Antonio Banderas in the 2022 crime thriller The Enforcer, in addition to having a vast online presence. On Instagram alone, Ren carries over 17 million followers. With WME, Ren will seek new opportunities on-screen in television and film alongside digital, fashion and brand partnerships.
Earlier this year, Deadline reported that Ren has signed on to star in Latency, a gamer action thriller written and directed by James Croke. Ren will join Russian model and actor Sasha Luss in the flick, which follows Hana, a professional gamer who suffers from acute agoraphobia. When Hana receives a new game controller that works by interpreting her brain activity, with the help of her best friend Jen, she experiments with this new device only to soon discover the device may, in fact, be controlling her.
Ren is best known for her breakout performance opposite Antonio Banderas in the 2022 crime thriller The Enforcer, in addition to having a vast online presence. On Instagram alone, Ren carries over 17 million followers. With WME, Ren will seek new opportunities on-screen in television and film alongside digital, fashion and brand partnerships.
Earlier this year, Deadline reported that Ren has signed on to star in Latency, a gamer action thriller written and directed by James Croke. Ren will join Russian model and actor Sasha Luss in the flick, which follows Hana, a professional gamer who suffers from acute agoraphobia. When Hana receives a new game controller that works by interpreting her brain activity, with the help of her best friend Jen, she experiments with this new device only to soon discover the device may, in fact, be controlling her.
- 4/17/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
You can always count on horror to test boundaries, so it’s no surprise that the genre has long explored the taboo of cannibalism. Cannibals are most often associated with exploitation horror, leading to a cannibal horror boon in the ’70s and early ’80s, thanks to Italian horror filmmakers like Umberto Lenzi, Ruggero Deodato, and Joe D’Amato. But as the Video Nasty craze came and went and time evolved the genre, so did the depiction of cannibalism.
The ’90s brought horror’s most common depiction of cannibals out of the jungle and into society, largely thanks to The Silence of the Lambs’ Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins). The Academy Award-winning feature adapted Thomas Harris’ 1988 novel and introduced a supporting character so fascinating that he overshadowed the film’s actual antagonist, Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine). Protagonist Clarice Starling gets assigned to interview the incarcerated cannibalistic serial killer in the hopes that Dr.
The ’90s brought horror’s most common depiction of cannibals out of the jungle and into society, largely thanks to The Silence of the Lambs’ Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins). The Academy Award-winning feature adapted Thomas Harris’ 1988 novel and introduced a supporting character so fascinating that he overshadowed the film’s actual antagonist, Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine). Protagonist Clarice Starling gets assigned to interview the incarcerated cannibalistic serial killer in the hopes that Dr.
- 11/23/2022
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Conservative media firm The Daily Wire has optioned exclusive film and TV series rights to develop and produce an adaptation of Ayn Rand’s dystopian 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, the author’s most heralded work.
The company is planning to produce a series adaptation for distribution on its streaming platform, Dailywire+. Daily Wire co-ceo Jeremy Boreing just announced the deal in a livestreamed town hall address.
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Atlas Shrugged, which has sold more than 7 million copies worldwide, depicts a dystopian United States in which private businesses suffer under increasingly burdensome laws and regulations.
The company is planning to produce a series adaptation for distribution on its streaming platform, Dailywire+. Daily Wire co-ceo Jeremy Boreing just announced the deal in a livestreamed town hall address.
Related Story The Daily Wire Staffs Up Kids Division With Hire Of 'Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure' Showrunner As SVP Animation Development & Production Related Story The Daily Wire Will Launch Its First Original Movie 'Shut In' On YouTube For Free Related Story 'Shut In': Release Date, New Trailer & Images Revealed For Daily Wire Thriller With Rainey Qualley, Vincent Gallo
Atlas Shrugged, which has sold more than 7 million copies worldwide, depicts a dystopian United States in which private businesses suffer under increasingly burdensome laws and regulations.
- 11/17/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Eo (2022).It is not often that a film is made with radical sympathy. Too often, movies ignore the longing and pain of people, excluding their existence in form and feeling from storyworlds. And if such things are acknowledged, the movie will tend to make up for this rarity by overplaying misery and desperation. Jerzy Skolimowski's Eo, a tremendously sad but also overwhelmingly beautiful picture, chooses the radical path. The film is devoted, in body and soul, style and spirit, to sympathizing with another creature, and one who suffers a great deal without exploiting either its pathos or the viewer’s emotional reserves. Skolimowski and his co-writer, producer, and wife Ewa, in the spirit of great compassion, tell the story not of a human creature, but of an animal; and better yet, a donkey.Even with Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar (1966) as a precedent, it’s an unexpected subject,...
- 11/17/2022
- MUBI
Exclusive: Actor and online influencer Alexis Ren has signed on to star in Latency, a gamer action thriller written and directed by James Croke.
Ren will join Russian model and actor Sasha Luss (Anna) in the flick, which follows Hana, a professional gamer who suffers from acute agoraphobia. When Hana receives a new game controller that works by interpreting her brain activity, with the help of her best friend Jen, she experiments with this new device only to soon discover the device may in fact be controlling her.
The film is currently set to begin production on November 21 in Bangkok. Producers include Scott Clayton, Wych Kaosayananda, Gary A. Hirsch, and Jordan Gertner, best known for producing films like Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo 66, Larry Clark’s Bully, and Spring Breakers directed by Harmony Korine.
Red Sea Media shopped the flick to international buyers at the recent American Film Market. Croke...
Ren will join Russian model and actor Sasha Luss (Anna) in the flick, which follows Hana, a professional gamer who suffers from acute agoraphobia. When Hana receives a new game controller that works by interpreting her brain activity, with the help of her best friend Jen, she experiments with this new device only to soon discover the device may in fact be controlling her.
The film is currently set to begin production on November 21 in Bangkok. Producers include Scott Clayton, Wych Kaosayananda, Gary A. Hirsch, and Jordan Gertner, best known for producing films like Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo 66, Larry Clark’s Bully, and Spring Breakers directed by Harmony Korine.
Red Sea Media shopped the flick to international buyers at the recent American Film Market. Croke...
- 11/14/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Russian model and actor Sasha Luss has signed on to star in Latency, a gamer action thriller written and directed by James Croke.
The film is set to begin production November 21 in Bangkok, Thailand, with international sales handled by Red Sea Media at the upcoming American Film Market.
The flick follows Hana, a professional gamer who suffers from acute agoraphobia. When Hana receives a new device to enhance her game by interpreting her brain activity, she begins to wonder if the device is reading her mind or now actually controlling it. Alexis Ren is also set to star.
Producers include Scott Clayton, Wych Kaosayananda, Gary A. Hirsch and Jordan Gertner, best known for producing films such as Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo 66, Larry Clark’s Bully and Spring Breakers directed by Harmony Korine.
Croke has worked in the Australian film and television industry as a production designer and art director.
The film is set to begin production November 21 in Bangkok, Thailand, with international sales handled by Red Sea Media at the upcoming American Film Market.
The flick follows Hana, a professional gamer who suffers from acute agoraphobia. When Hana receives a new device to enhance her game by interpreting her brain activity, she begins to wonder if the device is reading her mind or now actually controlling it. Alexis Ren is also set to star.
Producers include Scott Clayton, Wych Kaosayananda, Gary A. Hirsch and Jordan Gertner, best known for producing films such as Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo 66, Larry Clark’s Bully and Spring Breakers directed by Harmony Korine.
Croke has worked in the Australian film and television industry as a production designer and art director.
- 10/31/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Toby Amies on Robert Fripp and In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50: “It’s an interrogation into what I find around me and the circumstances in which I find myself and especially the relationships that I observe and I’m involved in.” Photo: Toby Amies
Toby Amies’s perceptive and imaginative In the Court Of The Crimson King: King Crimson At 50, captures the essence of the individual current and former members of King Crimson through candid and forthcoming on-camera interviews, sound checks, and the cost of being on the road. The director pulls the curtain back with precision to give us a distinctive look into Robert Fripp the master himself, the groups leader and disciplinarian.
Toby Amies with Anne-Katrin Titze on In The Court Of The Crimson King: King Crimson At 50: “I was in a very interesting position making this film because on the...
Toby Amies’s perceptive and imaginative In the Court Of The Crimson King: King Crimson At 50, captures the essence of the individual current and former members of King Crimson through candid and forthcoming on-camera interviews, sound checks, and the cost of being on the road. The director pulls the curtain back with precision to give us a distinctive look into Robert Fripp the master himself, the groups leader and disciplinarian.
Toby Amies with Anne-Katrin Titze on In The Court Of The Crimson King: King Crimson At 50: “I was in a very interesting position making this film because on the...
- 10/20/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The femme fatale is alive and well in Los Angeles-set indie “No Way Out,” an old-fashioned noir dressed up in the steamy decadence of an erotic thriller. Trouble is, veteran producer Keith Kjarval’s debut solo screenplay doesn’t provide the kind of memorable characters or sharp plotting needed to punch across a dark crime melodrama. Nor does first-time feature director Azi Rahman’s reasonably stylish walk on the wild side seduce sufficiently as a stylistic exercise, reaching for “Irreversible”-esque shock value without ever seeming very surprising or transgressive.
There’s enough sex and violence here to hold attention for an hour and a half, but the care or conviction to explain why it all happens — let alone why viewers should care — proves elusive. Vertical Entertainment is opening the film on a handful of U.S. theater screens on August 8, simultaneous with release to digital and VOD, where its primary audience will be found.
There’s enough sex and violence here to hold attention for an hour and a half, but the care or conviction to explain why it all happens — let alone why viewers should care — proves elusive. Vertical Entertainment is opening the film on a handful of U.S. theater screens on August 8, simultaneous with release to digital and VOD, where its primary audience will be found.
- 8/10/2022
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Gallo stars in this taste-free complaint about America’s decline in Christian values: paedophilia, meth addiction, single momhood – it’s all here
Donald Trump fan Vincent Gallo is out of acting retirement; he’s swapped his slippers for a syringe to play a seedy meth addict in this ropey survival thriller. It’s produced by conservative news website the Daily Wire, which is diversifying into movies in a bid to take on Hollywood’s so-called liberal bias.
Shut In is not for the squeamish; this is a Christian values movie with an unusually high quota of nasty bits. Rainey Qualley plays single mum of two Jessica, a recovering addict not long out of rehab. Jessica is moving out of the rural farmhouse she inherited from her grandmother, too broke to pay the taxes. The script is at pains here to paint pre-siege Jessica as shrill and unlikeable, constantly snapping at...
Donald Trump fan Vincent Gallo is out of acting retirement; he’s swapped his slippers for a syringe to play a seedy meth addict in this ropey survival thriller. It’s produced by conservative news website the Daily Wire, which is diversifying into movies in a bid to take on Hollywood’s so-called liberal bias.
Shut In is not for the squeamish; this is a Christian values movie with an unusually high quota of nasty bits. Rainey Qualley plays single mum of two Jessica, a recovering addict not long out of rehab. Jessica is moving out of the rural farmhouse she inherited from her grandmother, too broke to pay the taxes. The script is at pains here to paint pre-siege Jessica as shrill and unlikeable, constantly snapping at...
- 5/23/2022
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
In one of analytic philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s most widely shared quotes, he mused that “if a lion could talk, we would not understand him.” The barrier of language and gulf of understanding between man and animal is the subject of the quite wondrous Eo, a true surprise from the great Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski, now enjoying his mid-80s. It is adapted—freely inspired may be a better term—from Robert Bresson’s iconic 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar; from Eo’s opening minutes any memory or sense of that masterpiece’s forbidding stature is banished—we’re dealing with quite a different animal here. No, it isn’t as good. But it’s different, and a companion piece that flatters both that film and itself.
For Bresson—a cruel moralist, but definitely not a sadist—the donkey Balthazar was meant to unveil the human capacity for sin; with intensely...
For Bresson—a cruel moralist, but definitely not a sadist—the donkey Balthazar was meant to unveil the human capacity for sin; with intensely...
- 5/20/2022
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
Fans have been waiting a long while for “Shortbus” to become available on a streaming platform. Yet even 15 years after its initial release and a new 4K restoration, John Cameron Mitchell’s provocative, exuberantly sex-positive 2006 movie has been rejected five times by Amazon Prime Video when submitted by Oscilloscope Laboratories.
The official Prime Video reasoning is that the “captions are out of sync” for the feature, as well as it containing “offensive content.” The subtitle captions reportedly work on every other platform. The formal Prime Video publishing error response reads: “We aren’t making your title available on Prime Video as it violates our Content Policy Guidelines.”
However, there seems to be a double standard afoot for Amazon Prime Video subscribers.
“There’s no shortage of dicks readily available on Amazon, and apparently, there are plenty behind the scenes too,” “Shortbus” distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories president Dan Berger told IndieWire. “The...
The official Prime Video reasoning is that the “captions are out of sync” for the feature, as well as it containing “offensive content.” The subtitle captions reportedly work on every other platform. The formal Prime Video publishing error response reads: “We aren’t making your title available on Prime Video as it violates our Content Policy Guidelines.”
However, there seems to be a double standard afoot for Amazon Prime Video subscribers.
“There’s no shortage of dicks readily available on Amazon, and apparently, there are plenty behind the scenes too,” “Shortbus” distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories president Dan Berger told IndieWire. “The...
- 5/5/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Feature presents view of modern Europe seen through eyes of a donkey.
HanWay Films will launch worldwide sales on the Croisette next month on Jerzy Skolimowski’s Cannes Competition selection Eo presented by Skopia Film and HanWay founder Jeremy Thomas.
The feature, which was announced in the Cannes line-up today, presents a vision of modern Europe through the eyes of a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, and feels the wheels of fate crushing his innocence.
Ewa Piaskowska and Skolimowski co-wrote Eo, which stars Sandra Drzymalska, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo and Mateusz Kosciukiewicz...
HanWay Films will launch worldwide sales on the Croisette next month on Jerzy Skolimowski’s Cannes Competition selection Eo presented by Skopia Film and HanWay founder Jeremy Thomas.
The feature, which was announced in the Cannes line-up today, presents a vision of modern Europe through the eyes of a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, and feels the wheels of fate crushing his innocence.
Ewa Piaskowska and Skolimowski co-wrote Eo, which stars Sandra Drzymalska, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo and Mateusz Kosciukiewicz...
- 4/14/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Creator Sam Levinson and cinematographer Marcel Rév always wanted to shoot their HBO series “Euphoria” on film. But during Season 1 “there were a lot of reasons why we couldn’t do that,” Rév told IndieWire in a recent interview. Rév was happy with the digital look he and Levinson created for the show, but for Season 2 they agreed that film was essential in order to achieve the “deconstruction of memory” that they hoped to achieve. With the intention of finding a new color palette and a grain structure that would give the impression of old photographs, Rev and Levinson tested every possible option when it came to analog film — and ended up reviving an entire format in the process.
“We explored all the available film stocks and all the laboratory tweaks and tricks we could think of,” Rév remembered. “The closest thing to what we had in mind was 16mm Ektachrome,...
“We explored all the available film stocks and all the laboratory tweaks and tricks we could think of,” Rév remembered. “The closest thing to what we had in mind was 16mm Ektachrome,...
- 4/1/2022
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
When Toby Amies emails me the Vimeo press link to his SXSW-premiering documentary on the band King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King, he appends a list of influences. There’s a documentarian (Ross McElwee), a pseudo-documentarian (Christopher Guest), a narrative filmmaker who is a real King Crimson fan (Vincent Gallo) and then a couple of directors whose impact remained a bit puzzling both before and after seeing the film: Ernst Lubitsch and Sam Peckinpah. But perhaps the cinephile (and King Crimson fan) in me was looking too closely, because after watching In the Court of the Crimson King […]
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The post “King Crimson Being a Way of Doing Things as Opposed to a Set Organism”: Director Toby Amies on His SXSW Doc, In the Court of the Crimson King first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/16/2022
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
When Toby Amies emails me the Vimeo press link to his SXSW-premiering documentary on the band King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King, he appends a list of influences. There’s a documentarian (Ross McElwee), a pseudo-documentarian (Christopher Guest), a narrative filmmaker who is a real King Crimson fan (Vincent Gallo) and then a couple of directors whose impact remained a bit puzzling both before and after seeing the film: Ernst Lubitsch and Sam Peckinpah. But perhaps the cinephile (and King Crimson fan) in me was looking too closely, because after watching In the Court of the Crimson King […]
The post “King Crimson Being a Way of Doing Things as Opposed to a Set Organism”: Director Toby Amies on His SXSW Doc, In the Court of the Crimson King first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “King Crimson Being a Way of Doing Things as Opposed to a Set Organism”: Director Toby Amies on His SXSW Doc, In the Court of the Crimson King first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 3/16/2022
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Stars: Rainey Qualley, Jake Horowitz, Vincent Gallo, Luciana VanDette | Written by Melanie Toast | Directed by D.J. Caruso
Shut In is, as I’m sure you’re aware, the new film from Ben Shapiro and his website The Daily Wire. I was initially impressed by the reviews it was getting. Then I noticed how many of them were from sites that, even if they didn’t call themselves conservative, right wing, or even political, had a very obvious point of view. Comments about “beta males”, Hollywood’s “liberal agenda” and complaints about “woke culture” abounded. So, as with their previous. film, Run Hide Fight, I decided to watch it and see if it was a decent thriller or propaganda.
Jessica is a former meth addict struggling to stay straight and raise her two young children. She also wants to sell the house her grandmother left her, move away and start over.
Shut In is, as I’m sure you’re aware, the new film from Ben Shapiro and his website The Daily Wire. I was initially impressed by the reviews it was getting. Then I noticed how many of them were from sites that, even if they didn’t call themselves conservative, right wing, or even political, had a very obvious point of view. Comments about “beta males”, Hollywood’s “liberal agenda” and complaints about “woke culture” abounded. So, as with their previous. film, Run Hide Fight, I decided to watch it and see if it was a decent thriller or propaganda.
Jessica is a former meth addict struggling to stay straight and raise her two young children. She also wants to sell the house her grandmother left her, move away and start over.
- 2/16/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
More than 15 years ago, when riding high as a promising young actress and budding wild child, right around the time the world began to care endlessly about the comings, goings, and naughty shenanigans of teen sensation-turned-tabloid tart Lindsay Lohan, she shelled out $1.975 million for a decrepit apartment situated on a high-floor of the iconic, celeb-packed Sierra Towers building that rises above the border of West Hollywood and Beverly Hills.
Well, don’tcha know the teen queen soon changed her mind and lickety-split the 27th-floor city- and mountain-view aerie returned to the market at $2.85 million.
So the unconfirmed scuttlebutt went back then, Lohan, who never moved in but did gut the place, purchased the apartment as part of an agreement with a magazine. The deal was, allegedly, that the magazine would pay for the renovation and decoration of the apartment and, once it was finished, the publicity magnet was to sit...
Well, don’tcha know the teen queen soon changed her mind and lickety-split the 27th-floor city- and mountain-view aerie returned to the market at $2.85 million.
So the unconfirmed scuttlebutt went back then, Lohan, who never moved in but did gut the place, purchased the apartment as part of an agreement with a magazine. The deal was, allegedly, that the magazine would pay for the renovation and decoration of the apartment and, once it was finished, the publicity magnet was to sit...
- 2/15/2022
- by Mark David, Dirt.com
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After a hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, there’s a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings taking place.
IFC Center
The films of Catherine Breillat are highlighted in an extensive retrospective, while Solaris screens for its 50th anniversary.
Film Forum
A massive Toshiro Mifune retrospective has begun, while the new 35mm print of The Conversation continues its run and Girl Shy plays Sunday.
Roxy Cinema
The truly, absolutely inimitable Vincent Gallo is paid tribute with 35mm screenings of Buffalo ’66, The Brown Bunny, and Trouble Every Day.
Anthology Film Archives
“Homecoming Films” offers work by Lang, Welles, Buñuel, Mekas and more.
Metrograph
Films by Minelli, Lubitsch, Renoir, and Powell & Pressburger screen in “Technicolor Romance.
IFC Center
The films of Catherine Breillat are highlighted in an extensive retrospective, while Solaris screens for its 50th anniversary.
Film Forum
A massive Toshiro Mifune retrospective has begun, while the new 35mm print of The Conversation continues its run and Girl Shy plays Sunday.
Roxy Cinema
The truly, absolutely inimitable Vincent Gallo is paid tribute with 35mm screenings of Buffalo ’66, The Brown Bunny, and Trouble Every Day.
Anthology Film Archives
“Homecoming Films” offers work by Lang, Welles, Buñuel, Mekas and more.
Metrograph
Films by Minelli, Lubitsch, Renoir, and Powell & Pressburger screen in “Technicolor Romance.
- 2/11/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
The Daily Wire wants to make conservative movies to take on liberal Hollywood, which might sound like a lost cause from the start. But today it’s releasing a movie based on a Black List screenplay with a compelling genre hook that almost looks commercial — and just happens to sneak conservative values into the heart of its story.
The right-wing publication sells Leftist Tears travel mugs and hosts a podcaster who believes doctors who perform gender-affirmation surgeries are “treating kids like Frankenstein’s monster.” However, it might be able to succeed where Dinesh D’Souza, Steve Bannon, and other conservative filmmakers failed: Adapt a red-state approach to movies that sublimates politics into the story rather than turning it into obvious propaganda.
Today the site premieres its first original feature, “Shut In,” a thriller from “Disturbia” director DJ Caruso. Rainey Qualley stars as a single mother who, after being locked in her...
The right-wing publication sells Leftist Tears travel mugs and hosts a podcaster who believes doctors who perform gender-affirmation surgeries are “treating kids like Frankenstein’s monster.” However, it might be able to succeed where Dinesh D’Souza, Steve Bannon, and other conservative filmmakers failed: Adapt a red-state approach to movies that sublimates politics into the story rather than turning it into obvious propaganda.
Today the site premieres its first original feature, “Shut In,” a thriller from “Disturbia” director DJ Caruso. Rainey Qualley stars as a single mother who, after being locked in her...
- 2/11/2022
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Conservative media site The Daily Wire has taken the unusual step of launching its first original movie, Shut In, for free on YouTube.
The Black List and BloodList thriller, directed by xXx: The Return Of Xander Cage and Disturbia director D.J. Caruso, will debut on YouTube on the evening of February 10. The stream will only available in the U.S. During the screening, The Daily Wire will also show a first look teaser trailer for its Gina Carano western Terror On The Prairie, and reveal a new movie project it is working on. While ad-supported free movie launches are becoming more popular as the distribution ecosystem evolves, this launch is not ad supported, we are told, but is more of a marketing play. The initial plan was to debut the film for Daily Wire subscribers, but the site’s subs will now get an exclusive window to see the...
The Black List and BloodList thriller, directed by xXx: The Return Of Xander Cage and Disturbia director D.J. Caruso, will debut on YouTube on the evening of February 10. The stream will only available in the U.S. During the screening, The Daily Wire will also show a first look teaser trailer for its Gina Carano western Terror On The Prairie, and reveal a new movie project it is working on. While ad-supported free movie launches are becoming more popular as the distribution ecosystem evolves, this launch is not ad supported, we are told, but is more of a marketing play. The initial plan was to debut the film for Daily Wire subscribers, but the site’s subs will now get an exclusive window to see the...
- 2/3/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
When a young mother is barricaded inside a pantry by her violent ex-boyfriend, she must use ingenuity to protect her two small children from escalating danger while finding an escape.
DJ Caruso directs the script by Melanie Toast and the film stars Rainey Qualley, who previously appeared in “Ocean’s 8” and “Mad Men,” as a young, single mother who draws on faith in her struggle against drug addiction.
Indie film icon and artist Vincent Gallo (...
DJ Caruso directs the script by Melanie Toast and the film stars Rainey Qualley, who previously appeared in “Ocean’s 8” and “Mad Men,” as a young, single mother who draws on faith in her struggle against drug addiction.
Indie film icon and artist Vincent Gallo (...
- 1/18/2022
- QuietEarth.us
Exclusive: The Daily Wire has set a February 10 release date for its first ‘Original’ movie, Shut In.
Today we can also reveal a new trailer and new images for the movie, which will be available in the U.S. exclusively to the conservative media site’s members. Voltage Pictures is handling international sales on the project with overseas releases expected later this year.
The Black List and BloodList thriller, directed by xXx: The Return Of Xander Cage and Disturbia director D.J. Caruso, stars actress and singer Rainey Qualley (Love In The Time Of Corona). As we previously reported, the feature also marks the return of controversial and cult actor-director Vincent Gallo (pictured in the movie below).
Pic centers on a young single mother (Qualley) who is held captive along with her two children by a violent ex as she plots their escape before it’s too late. Caruso filmed the movie around Nashville and Watertown,...
Today we can also reveal a new trailer and new images for the movie, which will be available in the U.S. exclusively to the conservative media site’s members. Voltage Pictures is handling international sales on the project with overseas releases expected later this year.
The Black List and BloodList thriller, directed by xXx: The Return Of Xander Cage and Disturbia director D.J. Caruso, stars actress and singer Rainey Qualley (Love In The Time Of Corona). As we previously reported, the feature also marks the return of controversial and cult actor-director Vincent Gallo (pictured in the movie below).
Pic centers on a young single mother (Qualley) who is held captive along with her two children by a violent ex as she plots their escape before it’s too late. Caruso filmed the movie around Nashville and Watertown,...
- 1/18/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Taiwanese-born American filmmaker Justin Lin has listed a multilevel live-work loft atop a converted factory complex in downtown Los Angeles with an asking price of $7 million.
The celebrated film director, who has helmed a handful of the blockbuster Fast & Furious films, including 2021’s F9, which grossed almost three quarters of a billion bucks in worldwide box office, as well as the next two upcoming installments of the seemingly endless franchise, hopes to turns an impressive profit on the cavernous loft that he scooped up in 2012 for $2.6 million from architecture savvy actor, artist and provocateur Vincent Gallo. So the story goes, Gallo never lived in the loft, at least not full time, and at one point he leased it to Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage.
Lin, who grew up in Orange County’s Buena Park but for at least the last decade has made his primary home in Pasadena, where he owns a couple residential properties,...
The celebrated film director, who has helmed a handful of the blockbuster Fast & Furious films, including 2021’s F9, which grossed almost three quarters of a billion bucks in worldwide box office, as well as the next two upcoming installments of the seemingly endless franchise, hopes to turns an impressive profit on the cavernous loft that he scooped up in 2012 for $2.6 million from architecture savvy actor, artist and provocateur Vincent Gallo. So the story goes, Gallo never lived in the loft, at least not full time, and at one point he leased it to Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage.
Lin, who grew up in Orange County’s Buena Park but for at least the last decade has made his primary home in Pasadena, where he owns a couple residential properties,...
- 1/8/2022
- by Mark David, Dirt.com
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Remember Vincent Gallo? After a steady career acting, Gallo really broke out in 1998 with the release of his indie darling, “Buffalo ‘66.” Five years later, he returned with another directorial effort, the controversial drama, “The Brown Bunny.” But since then, he’s been a bit under the radar, with smaller acting roles and lesser-known directorial gigs. Well, it appears the actor-filmmaker is set to star in his most high-profile film in a decade, “Shut In,” but the feature is already bound to be controversial, well before it hits theaters.
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- 12/2/2021
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Cult and controversial actor-director Vincent Gallo is returning to acting after a near decade-long absence from features.
Quietly, Gallo took on one of the lead roles in D.J. Caruso’s movie thriller Shut In, which is the first original movie from conservative media outlet-turned film producer The Daily Wire, which just revealed the casting.
The project marks Gallo’s first feature acting role since 2013 film The Human Trust. The actor-filmmaker, now 60, is best known for directing controversial indie movie The Brown Bunny (2003) with Chloe Sevigny and Christina Ricci starrer Buffalo 66 (1998). In 2010 he won the best actor prize at the Venice Film Festival for his turn in Jerzy Skolimowski’s well-received movie Essential Killing.
Gallo is also known for making incendiary and provocative comments. His website — described by The Daily Wire as “satirical” — has come under fire for discriminatory passages. As an avowed Trump fan and a political conservative,...
Quietly, Gallo took on one of the lead roles in D.J. Caruso’s movie thriller Shut In, which is the first original movie from conservative media outlet-turned film producer The Daily Wire, which just revealed the casting.
The project marks Gallo’s first feature acting role since 2013 film The Human Trust. The actor-filmmaker, now 60, is best known for directing controversial indie movie The Brown Bunny (2003) with Chloe Sevigny and Christina Ricci starrer Buffalo 66 (1998). In 2010 he won the best actor prize at the Venice Film Festival for his turn in Jerzy Skolimowski’s well-received movie Essential Killing.
Gallo is also known for making incendiary and provocative comments. His website — described by The Daily Wire as “satirical” — has come under fire for discriminatory passages. As an avowed Trump fan and a political conservative,...
- 12/1/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Influential director Monte Hellman, whose 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop starring musicians James Taylor and Dennis Wilson became a counterculture cult classic, died Tuesday. He was 91.
His death at Eisenhower Health hospital in Palm Desert followed a fall at his home, his daughter, producer Melissa Hellman, told The New York Times.
While not as well known as other directors of the New Hollywood of the late ’60s and early ’70s, Hellman was nonetheless influential. His sparse Two-Lane Blacktop , a post-Easy Rider character study about two street racers became a cornerstone among American existentialist road movies.
Hellman worked with the best actors of that New Hollywood generation, including Jack Nicolson and Warren Oates. He made his feature debut like so many other filmmakers of his generation – on a Roger Corman film, in his case called Beast From Haunted Cave.
His death at Eisenhower Health hospital in Palm Desert followed a fall at his home, his daughter, producer Melissa Hellman, told The New York Times.
While not as well known as other directors of the New Hollywood of the late ’60s and early ’70s, Hellman was nonetheless influential. His sparse Two-Lane Blacktop , a post-Easy Rider character study about two street racers became a cornerstone among American existentialist road movies.
Hellman worked with the best actors of that New Hollywood generation, including Jack Nicolson and Warren Oates. He made his feature debut like so many other filmmakers of his generation – on a Roger Corman film, in his case called Beast From Haunted Cave.
- 4/21/2021
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Photo: ‘Buffalo ‘66’/Lions Gate Films ‘Buffalo ‘66’ Synopsis Around thirty-years-old, the protagonist, Billy Brown, played by Vincent Gallo, is released out of jail after completing a five-year sentence after being found guilty of theft. As his hunched, butt-cracked-out body awaits in the cold at the bus stop, not a single soul arrives to save him from his disarray. While in desperate need of a restroom to release himself, he ventures around the nearby town, appearing as a helpless child about to wee himself. He finds himself in a dance studio with failed attempts and closed toilets where he encounters and kidnaps Layla, played by Christina Ricci, a teenage ballet major dressed in tap shoes and ocean blue eyeshadow. Laya is taken hostage by Billy, who orders her to portray her as his wife so that he can present her and appear as successful to his clueless and awful parents.
- 3/10/2021
- by Isabella Brownlee
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Tripping with Nils Frahm is having its world premiere on Mubi on December 3, 2020.With Nils Frahm's new concert film premiering today, the German musician, who scored Sebastian Schipper's Victoria and the multi-screen Cate Blanchett art work Manifesto, has generously shared a list of his favorite film music. Featuring scores by Miles Davis (Elevator to the Gallows), Eleni Karaindrou (Eternity in a Day), Vincent Gallo (Buffalo 66), and Air (The Virgin Suicides), the selection is eclectic and inspiring, cutting across genres, decades, and music styles. Frahm writes:"I have always respected and admired filmmakers. I believe no other type of artist generally works harder than the director. A good director is like a great musician, since films are like long songs or albums, only even more complicated.
One could add: a musician is even more like a filmmaker, so his or her compositions respect the art of storytelling, timing, and the change of atmosphere.
One could add: a musician is even more like a filmmaker, so his or her compositions respect the art of storytelling, timing, and the change of atmosphere.
- 12/2/2020
- MUBI
While they are giants in the world of French filmmaking and recognized as international talents, it seems strange to think that the first time Juliette Binoche and filmmaker Claire Denis worked together was only in 2017 on “Let The Sunshine In.” They quickly followed that up with “High Life” in 2018 starring Robert Pattinson and perhaps they’re now making up for lost time as Binoche will now star in a third upcoming film from the filmmaker known for “White Material” with Isabelle Huppert, and “Trouble Every Day” with Vincent Gallo among others.
Continue reading Juliette Binoche Reunites With Claire Denis Again For ‘Radioscopie’ With Vincent Lindon at The Playlist.
Continue reading Juliette Binoche Reunites With Claire Denis Again For ‘Radioscopie’ With Vincent Lindon at The Playlist.
- 11/26/2020
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
Actor/Producer David Arquette joins Joe & Josh to discuss the movies that made him.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Scream (1996)
Never Been Kissed (1999)
3,000 Miles To Graceland (2001)
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Spree (2020)
Gremlins (1984)
Muppets From Space (1999)
It’s A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
Unforgiven (1992)
The World According To Garp (1982)
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)
Slap Shot (1977)
The World of Henry Orient (1964)
Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961)
Insomnia (2002)
One Hour Photo (2002)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Last House On the Left (1972)
The Tripper (2006)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)
The Wizard of Oz (1925)
Funny Bones (1995)
There’s Something About Mary (1998)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981)
Wild Style (1982)
The Shining (1980)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
Dreamscape (1984)
Brainstorm (1983)
The Dead Zone (1983)
The Warriors (1979)
Commando (1985)
Somewhere In Time (1980)
Escape From New York (1981)
Being There (1979)
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
Targets (1968)
Pleasantville (1998)
Hidden Agenda...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Scream (1996)
Never Been Kissed (1999)
3,000 Miles To Graceland (2001)
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Spree (2020)
Gremlins (1984)
Muppets From Space (1999)
It’s A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
Unforgiven (1992)
The World According To Garp (1982)
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)
Slap Shot (1977)
The World of Henry Orient (1964)
Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961)
Insomnia (2002)
One Hour Photo (2002)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Last House On the Left (1972)
The Tripper (2006)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)
The Wizard of Oz (1925)
Funny Bones (1995)
There’s Something About Mary (1998)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981)
Wild Style (1982)
The Shining (1980)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
Dreamscape (1984)
Brainstorm (1983)
The Dead Zone (1983)
The Warriors (1979)
Commando (1985)
Somewhere In Time (1980)
Escape From New York (1981)
Being There (1979)
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
Targets (1968)
Pleasantville (1998)
Hidden Agenda...
- 8/18/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
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