His Summer of Love: Guadagnino Returns with Perceptive, Tender Sketch of First Love
Presented with an intoxicating combination of old fashioned reticence with bold and vibrant expression is Call Me by Your Name, the latest film from Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino, based on a celebrated 2007 novel by Egyptian born scholar and author Andre Aciman.
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Presented with an intoxicating combination of old fashioned reticence with bold and vibrant expression is Call Me by Your Name, the latest film from Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino, based on a celebrated 2007 novel by Egyptian born scholar and author Andre Aciman.
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- 11/28/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
“Blade Runner 2049” was a financial disappointment for Warner Bros. this fall (it still hasn’t even crossed $90 million domestically), but for many critics and fans it will remain a major artistic achievement for director Denis Villeneuve. After making three acclaimed movies in three years with “Sicario,” “Arrival,” and “2049,” the director is set to take a small break before moving on to revive another ambitious science-fiction property: “Dune.”
Read More:Denis Villeneuve Preps First Love ‘Dune’ as ‘Bond 25’ Beckons
Villeneuve is set to adapt Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel for Legendary Pictures, and he’s already gone on record saying the movie will be “the project of [his] life.” The decision to tackle “Dune” is a risky one, considering the material often gives filmmakers a ton of trouble behind the camera. Alejandro Jodorowsky famously tried and failed to adapt the book in the 1970s, while David Lynch disliked his 1984 adaption so...
Read More:Denis Villeneuve Preps First Love ‘Dune’ as ‘Bond 25’ Beckons
Villeneuve is set to adapt Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel for Legendary Pictures, and he’s already gone on record saying the movie will be “the project of [his] life.” The decision to tackle “Dune” is a risky one, considering the material often gives filmmakers a ton of trouble behind the camera. Alejandro Jodorowsky famously tried and failed to adapt the book in the 1970s, while David Lynch disliked his 1984 adaption so...
- 11/16/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Pink got candid about her past loves and youthful romances on an all new installment of "Carpool Karaoke!"
The "Beautiful Trauma" singer took a ride through the streets of Los Angeles with James Corden on Tuesday's Late Late Show, and she opened up about the first time she ever suffered true heartbreak.
As Pink has mentioned in the past, when she was little she was sure that she would end up marrying Jon Bon Jovi. However, that all came crashing down when the New Jersey rocker ended up marrying Dorothea Hurley in 1989.
"[I was] probably seven or eight," Pink recalled. "I still remember I was in the car coming home from singing lessons and they said on the radio that he married his high school sweetheart Dorothea, and I almost threw up in my mouth."
"I ripped his posters off the wall, threw them out, and didn't come out of my room for days," she continued. "I was...
The "Beautiful Trauma" singer took a ride through the streets of Los Angeles with James Corden on Tuesday's Late Late Show, and she opened up about the first time she ever suffered true heartbreak.
As Pink has mentioned in the past, when she was little she was sure that she would end up marrying Jon Bon Jovi. However, that all came crashing down when the New Jersey rocker ended up marrying Dorothea Hurley in 1989.
"[I was] probably seven or eight," Pink recalled. "I still remember I was in the car coming home from singing lessons and they said on the radio that he married his high school sweetheart Dorothea, and I almost threw up in my mouth."
"I ripped his posters off the wall, threw them out, and didn't come out of my room for days," she continued. "I was...
- 11/15/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Think, “I Was a Teenage Empress.” A trio of movies tell an optimized version of the life of a 19th century Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary. It’s fuzzy history designed to prop up German morale, but the film is graced with the incredible presence of a teenaged Romy Schneider, whose beauty and personality became a sensation in the European film world.
The Sissi Collection:
Sissi
Sissi The Young Empress
Sissi The Fateful Years of an Empress
The Story of Vickie
Blu-ray
Film Movement
1955, 1956, 1957 / Color / 1:78 widescreen & 1:33 flat full frame / 102, 107, 109 min. / Street Date November 14, 2017 / 74.95
Starring: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Uta Franz, Vilma Degischer, Josef Meinrad, Gustav Knuth.
Cinematography: Bruno Mondi
Film Editor: Alfred Srp
Original Music: Anton Profes
Produced by Karl Erlich, Ernst Marischka
Written and Directed by Ernst Marischka
I’m fascinated by National Epics, movies that individual countries might take as a film...
The Sissi Collection:
Sissi
Sissi The Young Empress
Sissi The Fateful Years of an Empress
The Story of Vickie
Blu-ray
Film Movement
1955, 1956, 1957 / Color / 1:78 widescreen & 1:33 flat full frame / 102, 107, 109 min. / Street Date November 14, 2017 / 74.95
Starring: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Uta Franz, Vilma Degischer, Josef Meinrad, Gustav Knuth.
Cinematography: Bruno Mondi
Film Editor: Alfred Srp
Original Music: Anton Profes
Produced by Karl Erlich, Ernst Marischka
Written and Directed by Ernst Marischka
I’m fascinated by National Epics, movies that individual countries might take as a film...
- 11/14/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: In honor of Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird,” what is the best coming-of-age movie ever made?
Siddhant Adlakha (@SidizenKane), Birth.Movies.Death.
While it may not fit the western paradigm of a traditional coming of age film (neither a high school setting nor teenage angst or confusion find themselves the focus), “Lion” holds the distinction of being a rare modern movie that gets to the root of key questions of dual identity, questions that will only become more prominent in the age of globalism. It’s the most extreme version of having your feet in two cultures; Saroo Brierley (Sunny Pawar, Dev Patel) finds himself...
This week’s question: In honor of Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird,” what is the best coming-of-age movie ever made?
Siddhant Adlakha (@SidizenKane), Birth.Movies.Death.
While it may not fit the western paradigm of a traditional coming of age film (neither a high school setting nor teenage angst or confusion find themselves the focus), “Lion” holds the distinction of being a rare modern movie that gets to the root of key questions of dual identity, questions that will only become more prominent in the age of globalism. It’s the most extreme version of having your feet in two cultures; Saroo Brierley (Sunny Pawar, Dev Patel) finds himself...
- 11/6/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
It appears that Once Upon a Time‘s Regina/”Roni” isn’t the only TV character now pulling a paycheck at a bar.
In the first flurry of photos from The Flash‘s Season 4 premiere, Caitlin is slinging cocktails (on the rocks, or #TooSoon?) when Cisco appears to reach out to the onetime team member.
Coming out of the events of the Season 3 finale, in which her menacing metahuman self nearly helped Savitar slay Barry & Co., Caitlin “has done some soul-searching and figured out exactly how to deal with her demons,” exec producer Todd Helbing shared during our Fall Preview Q&A.
In the first flurry of photos from The Flash‘s Season 4 premiere, Caitlin is slinging cocktails (on the rocks, or #TooSoon?) when Cisco appears to reach out to the onetime team member.
Coming out of the events of the Season 3 finale, in which her menacing metahuman self nearly helped Savitar slay Barry & Co., Caitlin “has done some soul-searching and figured out exactly how to deal with her demons,” exec producer Todd Helbing shared during our Fall Preview Q&A.
- 9/19/2017
- TVLine.com
Sunday’s (second) episode of Teen Wolf brought back a familiar face, gave us the family reunion we never wanted, and served up an unexpected death with an even more surprising emotional punch.
RelatedTeen Wolf‘s Ryan Kelley Talks ‘Crazy’ Final Episodes, Laments Parrish and Lydia’s Unexplored ‘Connection’
Let’s start with the familiar face: The series’ penultimate episode — yes, as in the second-to-last episode ever — picked up in Brazil, where Argent was shilling out good money to track down a certain bushy-browed legend by the name of Derek Hale. The former Alpha proved easy enough to locate,...
RelatedTeen Wolf‘s Ryan Kelley Talks ‘Crazy’ Final Episodes, Laments Parrish and Lydia’s Unexplored ‘Connection’
Let’s start with the familiar face: The series’ penultimate episode — yes, as in the second-to-last episode ever — picked up in Brazil, where Argent was shilling out good money to track down a certain bushy-browed legend by the name of Derek Hale. The former Alpha proved easy enough to locate,...
- 9/18/2017
- TVLine.com
Arrow star Stephen Amell on Sunday afternoon was unable to oblige a typical fan event request — though for an understandable reason.
While headlining a solo panel Q&A at the Heroes & Villains FanFest in New Jersey, Amell told the crowd that he was unable to recite Oliver Queen’s famous opening voiceover narration “for a very specific reason. Because me doing the [new Season 6] intro is probably the biggest spoiler that I could possibly drop about the show.
“I would get in so much trouble,” he stressed.
What could Oliver possibly be saying in his voiceover, in the wake of surviving Prometheus...
While headlining a solo panel Q&A at the Heroes & Villains FanFest in New Jersey, Amell told the crowd that he was unable to recite Oliver Queen’s famous opening voiceover narration “for a very specific reason. Because me doing the [new Season 6] intro is probably the biggest spoiler that I could possibly drop about the show.
“I would get in so much trouble,” he stressed.
What could Oliver possibly be saying in his voiceover, in the wake of surviving Prometheus...
- 9/17/2017
- TVLine.com
Things get steamy between Jane and Rafael — or so we’re led to believe — in the just-released trailer for Jane the Virgin Season 4 (premiering Friday, Oct. 13 at 9/8c on The CW).
The first new footage finds Petra (who is uncharacteristically sporting a sweatshirt and unkempt hair!) asking Jane if she is “one hundred percent over Rafael.” In response, Jane says, “One hundred percent is a big number.” (Ooh!) What follows is even more intriguing: a sequence which appears to show Jane readying to join Rafael in the shower.
Noticeably missing from the trailer is Jane’s first love Adam (played...
The first new footage finds Petra (who is uncharacteristically sporting a sweatshirt and unkempt hair!) asking Jane if she is “one hundred percent over Rafael.” In response, Jane says, “One hundred percent is a big number.” (Ooh!) What follows is even more intriguing: a sequence which appears to show Jane readying to join Rafael in the shower.
Noticeably missing from the trailer is Jane’s first love Adam (played...
- 9/16/2017
- TVLine.com
Jane Villanueva is still a mom in Season 4… but her son Mateo looks a little different.
In the new Season 4 poster for The CW’s Jane the Virgin, we see star Gina Rodriguez paired up with a new face: Elias Janssen, who’ll play Jane’s son Mateo in the new season, debuting Friday, Oct. 13 at 9/8c. (Sources tell TVLine that Joseph Sanders, the young actor who played Mateo last season, is busy with school.) Jane looks a little overwhelmed in the poster, with a grinning Mateo sitting on her shoulders and a tagline that reads: “Relationship status: It’s mom-plicated.
In the new Season 4 poster for The CW’s Jane the Virgin, we see star Gina Rodriguez paired up with a new face: Elias Janssen, who’ll play Jane’s son Mateo in the new season, debuting Friday, Oct. 13 at 9/8c. (Sources tell TVLine that Joseph Sanders, the young actor who played Mateo last season, is busy with school.) Jane looks a little overwhelmed in the poster, with a grinning Mateo sitting on her shoulders and a tagline that reads: “Relationship status: It’s mom-plicated.
- 9/15/2017
- TVLine.com
The first season finale of Riverdale proved to be The CW drama’s bloodiest episode yet — particularly for Kj Apa, who took method acting to dangerous new heights. (Or, rather, new lows.)
VideosRiverdale‘s Cole Sprouse Ponders Jughead’s Dark Turn in Season 2, Reflects Fondly Upon First Love Scene
TVLine recently caught up with the show’s leading man on the red black carpet at The CW’s Upfront presentation in New York, where he recalled getting a little too aggressive while filming Cheryl’s big rescue scene.
“That was a gnarly day of shooting, I’ll tell you that much,...
VideosRiverdale‘s Cole Sprouse Ponders Jughead’s Dark Turn in Season 2, Reflects Fondly Upon First Love Scene
TVLine recently caught up with the show’s leading man on the red black carpet at The CW’s Upfront presentation in New York, where he recalled getting a little too aggressive while filming Cheryl’s big rescue scene.
“That was a gnarly day of shooting, I’ll tell you that much,...
- 6/17/2017
- TVLine.com
Is the Hawaii Five-0 team expanding? Is Killjoys hackmod due for an encore? Will Riverdale‘s “sad breakfast club” get a new splash of red? Could Emmy come running’ to The Flash? Read on for answers to those questions plus teases from other shows.
RelatedKilljoys, Dark Matter, Sharknado 5 and Others Get Syfy Premiere Dates
Will Clara (and her awesome gun-arm Alice) return for at least a few episodes of Killjoys Season 3? I still miss Defiance and I loved seeing Stephanie Leonidas pop up last year! —Katie H.
In a statement to Inside Line, the Killjoys bosses tease, “Our schedules conflicted this season,...
RelatedKilljoys, Dark Matter, Sharknado 5 and Others Get Syfy Premiere Dates
Will Clara (and her awesome gun-arm Alice) return for at least a few episodes of Killjoys Season 3? I still miss Defiance and I loved seeing Stephanie Leonidas pop up last year! —Katie H.
In a statement to Inside Line, the Killjoys bosses tease, “Our schedules conflicted this season,...
- 6/8/2017
- TVLine.com
The CW is the second broadcast net to detail its premiere plan for the 2017-18 TV season (following big sister CBS), and for the first time the network will let loose with all the pigeons during a single week.
RelatedThe CW Fall Schedule: Arrow, Riverdale, Jane on the Move
After playing host to the iHeartRadio Musical festival on Wednesday, Oct. 4 and Friday, Oct. 6, The CW will unfurl its fall slate starting Monday, Oct. 9, with the new pairing of Supergirl with the freshman military drama Valor. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Jane the Virgin then close things out, on Friday the 13th :-O...
RelatedThe CW Fall Schedule: Arrow, Riverdale, Jane on the Move
After playing host to the iHeartRadio Musical festival on Wednesday, Oct. 4 and Friday, Oct. 6, The CW will unfurl its fall slate starting Monday, Oct. 9, with the new pairing of Supergirl with the freshman military drama Valor. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Jane the Virgin then close things out, on Friday the 13th :-O...
- 6/8/2017
- TVLine.com
Is Jane the Virgin‘s narrator speaking from the great beyond?
Since the CW dramedy’s debut, the animated, often cheeky mystery voice has guided viewers through Jane’s world. And if fans have been paying attention in that time, then they may have also gleaned some clues about his identity.
RelatedJane the Virgin Ep on Jane’s New Love, [Spoiler]’s Baby Shocker and More
“There are hints throughout” the series, says executive producer Jennie Urman. In fact, a significant one was dropped as recently as last Monday’s season finale, during Xo and Rogelio’s makeshift wedding.
“And Xiomara?...
Since the CW dramedy’s debut, the animated, often cheeky mystery voice has guided viewers through Jane’s world. And if fans have been paying attention in that time, then they may have also gleaned some clues about his identity.
RelatedJane the Virgin Ep on Jane’s New Love, [Spoiler]’s Baby Shocker and More
“There are hints throughout” the series, says executive producer Jennie Urman. In fact, a significant one was dropped as recently as last Monday’s season finale, during Xo and Rogelio’s makeshift wedding.
“And Xiomara?...
- 5/27/2017
- TVLine.com
Well, this doesn’t bode well for Supergirl‘s season-ending proposal.
Floriana Lima, who achieved series-regular status in the CW drama’s second season as Detective Maggie Sawyer, will return for Season 3 in a smaller capacity, TVLine has learned.
RelatedSupergirl Finale Recap: Royal Rumble (Plus, Season 3’s Villain Revealed!)
Of course, in addition to being one of National City’s finest detectives, Maggie is also the girlfriend of Alex Danvers, who ended Monday’s finale by asking Maggie to marry her. But rather than giving Alex an actual answer, Maggie simply smiled — perhaps knowing something the rest of us...
Floriana Lima, who achieved series-regular status in the CW drama’s second season as Detective Maggie Sawyer, will return for Season 3 in a smaller capacity, TVLine has learned.
RelatedSupergirl Finale Recap: Royal Rumble (Plus, Season 3’s Villain Revealed!)
Of course, in addition to being one of National City’s finest detectives, Maggie is also the girlfriend of Alex Danvers, who ended Monday’s finale by asking Maggie to marry her. But rather than giving Alex an actual answer, Maggie simply smiled — perhaps knowing something the rest of us...
- 5/26/2017
- TVLine.com
It’s been exactly one week since Elijah’s fatal encounter with The Hollow on The Originals, but we hope you haven’t spent that time shedding any tears over the Big Easy’s best-dressed bloodsucker.
RelatedLast Week’s Originals Recap: Pendant Pals
“How many deaths has Elijah had?” actor Daniel Gillies asks TVLine. “I haven’t got the count, but I think a few fans do. At this point, we’ve kind of cried wolf.”
But even though Elijah isn’t permanently dead — his spirit is currently chilling in Freya’s pendant — that doesn’t mean Gillies put any...
RelatedLast Week’s Originals Recap: Pendant Pals
“How many deaths has Elijah had?” actor Daniel Gillies asks TVLine. “I haven’t got the count, but I think a few fans do. At this point, we’ve kind of cried wolf.”
But even though Elijah isn’t permanently dead — his spirit is currently chilling in Freya’s pendant — that doesn’t mean Gillies put any...
- 5/26/2017
- TVLine.com
TV trends come and go, but who would’ve thought that, with all the focus on inclusion in the past few years, there would now be an uptick of, as IndieWire’s Michael Schneider puts it, “white dudes in crisis” on TV?
To fill the diversity void, the networks have added actors of color to supporting roles. It’s heartening to see that this has created a more realistic picture on TV of what the world looks like, such as the marriage between Zach Braff’s and Tiya Sircar’s characters on “Alex Inc.” representing the growing number of mixed-race marriages in America. Unfortunately, it’s also disappointing to see so many of these favorite actresses get shunted from one supporting role to the next.
Read More: The 4 Worst New Fall Show Titles and How We’d Fix Them
It’s time for many of these actresses to move out...
To fill the diversity void, the networks have added actors of color to supporting roles. It’s heartening to see that this has created a more realistic picture on TV of what the world looks like, such as the marriage between Zach Braff’s and Tiya Sircar’s characters on “Alex Inc.” representing the growing number of mixed-race marriages in America. Unfortunately, it’s also disappointing to see so many of these favorite actresses get shunted from one supporting role to the next.
Read More: The 4 Worst New Fall Show Titles and How We’d Fix Them
It’s time for many of these actresses to move out...
- 5/26/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
The laid-back, plot challenged non-violent western gets a boost in this folksy comedy about two aging cowboys with less sense than the horses they tame. Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda star together for the first time, leaving behind their older images… they’re too tender-hearted for their own good. If the sex comedy wasn’t quite so dated, Burt Kennedy’s picture might be a classic.
The Rounders
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1965 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 84 min. / Street Date April 18, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Sue Ane Langdon, Hope Holiday, Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan, Kathleen Freeman, Joan Freeman, Denver Pyle, Barton MacLane, Doodles Weaver, Peter Fonda, Peter Ford, Bill Hart, Warren Oates, Chuck Roberson.
Cinematography: Paul Vogel
Film Editor: John McSweeney
Original Music: Jeff Alexander
From the Novel by Max Evans
Produced by Richard E. Lyons
Written and Directed by Burt Kennedy
Producer Richard E. Lyons is...
The Rounders
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1965 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 84 min. / Street Date April 18, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Sue Ane Langdon, Hope Holiday, Chill Wills, Edgar Buchanan, Kathleen Freeman, Joan Freeman, Denver Pyle, Barton MacLane, Doodles Weaver, Peter Fonda, Peter Ford, Bill Hart, Warren Oates, Chuck Roberson.
Cinematography: Paul Vogel
Film Editor: John McSweeney
Original Music: Jeff Alexander
From the Novel by Max Evans
Produced by Richard E. Lyons
Written and Directed by Burt Kennedy
Producer Richard E. Lyons is...
- 4/22/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
MTV on Thursday unveiled the (slightly confusing) list of nominees for its first-ever MTV Movie & TV Awards, which has TV and film competing in many of the same categories.
RelatedGLAAD Media Awards: Shadowhunters, Transparent Among 2017 TV Winners
For instance, The Flash‘s Grant Gustin and Arrow‘s Stephen Amell are competing against Rogue One‘s Felicity Jones (as well as Hidden Figures‘ Taraji P. Henson, who played a real-life person) for Best Hero, while the Oscar-winning Moonlight is pitted against black-ish and Transparent in the race for Best American Story.
Some categories are less confusing than others. Stranger Things, This Is Us...
RelatedGLAAD Media Awards: Shadowhunters, Transparent Among 2017 TV Winners
For instance, The Flash‘s Grant Gustin and Arrow‘s Stephen Amell are competing against Rogue One‘s Felicity Jones (as well as Hidden Figures‘ Taraji P. Henson, who played a real-life person) for Best Hero, while the Oscar-winning Moonlight is pitted against black-ish and Transparent in the race for Best American Story.
Some categories are less confusing than others. Stranger Things, This Is Us...
- 4/6/2017
- TVLine.com
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend basically just wrote a “Dear Joshua Felix Chan” letter to two of its sometime cast members.
The CW musical series has promoted David Hull (who plays White Josh) and Scott Michael Foster (who plays Nathaniel) to series regular status ahead of the upcoming Season 3.
RelatedCrazy Ex Boss on That Wedding Finale Shocker, What It Means for Season 3
The news was announced at a For Your Consideration event for the series Wednesday evening.
Hull first appeared as one of Josh Chan’s friends in the comedy’s second episode; his character eventually developed a relationship with Darryl. Foster joined...
The CW musical series has promoted David Hull (who plays White Josh) and Scott Michael Foster (who plays Nathaniel) to series regular status ahead of the upcoming Season 3.
RelatedCrazy Ex Boss on That Wedding Finale Shocker, What It Means for Season 3
The news was announced at a For Your Consideration event for the series Wednesday evening.
Hull first appeared as one of Josh Chan’s friends in the comedy’s second episode; his character eventually developed a relationship with Darryl. Foster joined...
- 4/6/2017
- TVLine.com
Freya and Keelin’s captor/captive dynamic takes an interesting turn on Friday’s episode of The Originals (The CW, 8/7c).
RelatedThe Originals: Are Hayley and Elijah Putting Their Romance on Hold?
Just one week after thwarting Hayley’s attempt to release the Mikaelsons’ werewolf prisoner, Freya has a sudden change of heart in TVLine’s exclusive sneak peek — but like all Mikaelsons, her kind gesture comes with strings attached.
“This is a cure, it’s everything I’ve ever wanted,” Keelin says upon receiving Freya’s gift, an enchanted ring that will grant her control over her werewolf side,...
RelatedThe Originals: Are Hayley and Elijah Putting Their Romance on Hold?
Just one week after thwarting Hayley’s attempt to release the Mikaelsons’ werewolf prisoner, Freya has a sudden change of heart in TVLine’s exclusive sneak peek — but like all Mikaelsons, her kind gesture comes with strings attached.
“This is a cure, it’s everything I’ve ever wanted,” Keelin says upon receiving Freya’s gift, an enchanted ring that will grant her control over her werewolf side,...
- 4/5/2017
- TVLine.com
Double trouble was the theme of Legends of Tomorrow‘s Season 2 finale, as the version of team that just lost Amaya as well as the Spear of Destiny traveled back to 1916 — at risk of interacting with their other selves.
RelatedThe Flash’s Tom Felton Weighs In on Killer Frost Twist, New Team Tensions
But first, they needed Rip and the Waverider, unaware (as was he) that he and the ship had been shrunk to the size of a toy. To solve that problem, they storm S.T.A.R. Labs to get Ray’s exosuit and use it to size-up the ship,...
RelatedThe Flash’s Tom Felton Weighs In on Killer Frost Twist, New Team Tensions
But first, they needed Rip and the Waverider, unaware (as was he) that he and the ship had been shrunk to the size of a toy. To solve that problem, they storm S.T.A.R. Labs to get Ray’s exosuit and use it to size-up the ship,...
- 4/5/2017
- TVLine.com
Fierce, committed and above all, tough — these are the words that collaborators use to describe producer Robin O’Hara, a longtime fixture of the New York independent film scene, who died suddenly last week after complications from cancer treatment.
When O’Hara’s business and life partner Scott Macaulay of Forensic Films posted the sad news on Facebook last Wednesday, hundreds of prominent filmmakers, former crewmembers, and friends from across the independent film world offered an outpouring of condolences, remembrances, and testimonies about O’Hara’s importance in nurturing their art and their careers.
As “Saving Face” director Alice Wu wrote, “She was brilliant and mercurial and hilarious and terrifying. She gave no fucks — unless she did give a fuck — and then she gave everything. Anyone who has been lucky enough to be in her orbit never lets go. She pushed us all … and we became better people.”
Echoing Wu,...
When O’Hara’s business and life partner Scott Macaulay of Forensic Films posted the sad news on Facebook last Wednesday, hundreds of prominent filmmakers, former crewmembers, and friends from across the independent film world offered an outpouring of condolences, remembrances, and testimonies about O’Hara’s importance in nurturing their art and their careers.
As “Saving Face” director Alice Wu wrote, “She was brilliant and mercurial and hilarious and terrifying. She gave no fucks — unless she did give a fuck — and then she gave everything. Anyone who has been lucky enough to be in her orbit never lets go. She pushed us all … and we became better people.”
Echoing Wu,...
- 3/20/2017
- by Anthony Kaufman
- Indiewire
Singing sensation Jubin Nautiyal (of Ok Jaanu and Kaabil fame), has recently released his first ever Gujarati song. The song is a romantic love song called ‘Pehlo Prem’ (First Love). The song has been written and composed by upcoming composer Viraal, and has been produced by Arya Entertainment.
Considering that 99 percent of Bollywood music is written in Hindi, it is great to see such a positive response for a song, that has been written in a different language. The song has been trending at the 7th spot at YouTube, and this is a first for any Gujarati song. The video of Pehlo Prem has been shot in the beautiful snowy locales of Manali.
Check out the video of the song below.
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Considering that 99 percent of Bollywood music is written in Hindi, it is great to see such a positive response for a song, that has been written in a different language. The song has been trending at the 7th spot at YouTube, and this is a first for any Gujarati song. The video of Pehlo Prem has been shot in the beautiful snowy locales of Manali.
Check out the video of the song below.
The post Jubin Nautiyal’s first ever Gujarati song goes viral! appeared first on BollySpice.com.
- 2/14/2017
- by Jem Raj
- Bollyspice
First love has rarely been depicted as beautifully or as movingly as it is in Luca Guadagnino‘s Call Me By Your Name, an adaptation of the André Aciman. Timothée Chalamet, probably best known as bratty Finn Walden from season one of Homeland), has a star-making turn as a teenager exploring his sexual identity. Meanwhile, Armie Hammer, a very good actor who’s been […]
The post ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Review: A Story of First Love Worth Falling Head Over Heels For [Sundance] appeared first on /Film.
The post ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Review: A Story of First Love Worth Falling Head Over Heels For [Sundance] appeared first on /Film.
- 1/24/2017
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Isabelle Huppert is stirring Oscar talk (and she damn well should) for the potent provocation of her acting in Elle, directed by Dutch wildman Paul Verhoeven. But to see her in Things to Come, as a character who is the polar opposite of the powerhouse she plays in that story of rape and revenge, is to cement Huppert's reputation as one of the best actresses on the planet. Written and directed by Mia Hansen-Love (Eden), the film gives the legendary French star the role of Nathalie, a Paris philosophy professor whose academic husband,...
- 1/11/2017
- Rollingstone.com
She’s only been making feature films for less than a decade — and truly only gained international recognition this decade — but it seems as if the talents of Mia Hansen-Løve as a writer-director are already fully formed. This isn’t to discount room for certain growth in her relatively young career, but with Goodbye First Love, Eden, and now Things to Come, her ruminations on life are expressed as if conveyed by an elder master director. Looking at her eclectic list of all-time favorite films — provided for the latest Sight & Sound poll — one can get a glimpse at her impeccable taste and where her formative influences come from.
“All of my films are my versions of Heat,” she recently told us, speaking about one of her picks. “Because Heat is actually a film about melancholy, about action, and it’s action vs. melancholy and self-destruction — action becoming self-destruction. It’s a couple.
“All of my films are my versions of Heat,” she recently told us, speaking about one of her picks. “Because Heat is actually a film about melancholy, about action, and it’s action vs. melancholy and self-destruction — action becoming self-destruction. It’s a couple.
- 12/2/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life,” said Chuck Dederich, the founder of the rehab cult Synanon, whose followers in the 1970s shaved their heads and lived in a totalitarian Southern California commune, beating each other and stockpiling guns. It’s funny how a bromide can have such sinister origins, or for that matter, how something so insincere can be shaped into an insight by the right hands. In fact, the very gifted French writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve (Goodbye First Love, Eden) has made it the cornerstone of her terrifically succinct style. She makes movies about how lives change course through happenstance and how we redefine ourselves without noticing.
Her new film, which bears the apt English title Things To Come, depicts a year or so in the life of one Nathalie Chazeaux (Isabelle Huppert), as the things she has taken for granted disappear or change, beginning...
Her new film, which bears the apt English title Things To Come, depicts a year or so in the life of one Nathalie Chazeaux (Isabelle Huppert), as the things she has taken for granted disappear or change, beginning...
- 12/1/2016
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
It could be said that an introduction to Mia Hansen-Løve is entirely beside the point, given the extent to which her films concern herself and loved ones. Following the portrait of her brother, Eden, she’s centered her fifth feature on her mother. The film is Things to Come, and the woman at its front is Isabelle Huppert — in one of her best performances, which I discussed with the actress here.
I had the good fortune to sit down with Hansen-Løve at this year’s New York Film Festival. The discussion we had two years prior remains one of my favorites, and the consistent ebb and flow between features means this was, in certain ways, a picking-up of where we left off in the fall of 2014. But you don’t have to know her work to find this an engaging read on the nature of art-as-introspection.
The Film Stage: When this movie was in development,...
I had the good fortune to sit down with Hansen-Løve at this year’s New York Film Festival. The discussion we had two years prior remains one of my favorites, and the consistent ebb and flow between features means this was, in certain ways, a picking-up of where we left off in the fall of 2014. But you don’t have to know her work to find this an engaging read on the nature of art-as-introspection.
The Film Stage: When this movie was in development,...
- 11/30/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
There are so many actors that are huge stars in France but whom haven’t really made much of an impact here outside the arthouses. French actress Isabelle Huppert is definitely one who is greatly appreciated by anyone who has had a chance to watch her amazing work with filmmakers like Michael Haneke and others.
Huppert’s exposure is certainly being elevated this year with her starring roles in two very different French films, Elle, a revenge thriller from director Paul Verhoeven based on Phillippe Djian’s book, and Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things To Come, a lighter character drama, both which have been on the festival circuit since February.
In Elle, Huppert plays Michèle Leblanc, the owner of a video game company who is sexually assaulted in her apartment, who proceeds to try to track down her attacker for revenge, while in Things to Come, she plays Nathalie Chazeaux, a philosophy teacher,...
Huppert’s exposure is certainly being elevated this year with her starring roles in two very different French films, Elle, a revenge thriller from director Paul Verhoeven based on Phillippe Djian’s book, and Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things To Come, a lighter character drama, both which have been on the festival circuit since February.
In Elle, Huppert plays Michèle Leblanc, the owner of a video game company who is sexually assaulted in her apartment, who proceeds to try to track down her attacker for revenge, while in Things to Come, she plays Nathalie Chazeaux, a philosophy teacher,...
- 11/29/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Awards season is here, which means it’s time to trade in the cinematic junk food of the summer months in favor of some more nourishing arthouse fare. To extend the metaphor, there’s certainly plenty to chew on in Things To Come, the new film from French director Mia Hansen-Løve (Father Of My Children, Goodbye First Love, Eden). Starring the incomparable Isabelle Huppert as Nathalie, a philosophy professor who thinks she’s got her life all figured out, until her husband announces that he’s leaving her. Singlehood is both terrifying and thrilling for Nathalie, who’s left to figure out who she is after 25 years of marriage.
Things To Come is coming to Chicago on Friday, December 16 after a limited run in New York and L.A. But we’re giving readers of The A.V. Club the chance to see the movie early, on Tuesday ...
Things To Come is coming to Chicago on Friday, December 16 after a limited run in New York and L.A. But we’re giving readers of The A.V. Club the chance to see the movie early, on Tuesday ...
- 11/23/2016
- by Katie Rife
- avclub.com
Anne (Dylan Gelula) is kind of raggedy and unformed. Her neck hangs in a semi-permanent hunch, and her lips are always slightly open, as though she’s constantly looking for a word that she just can’t seem to find. A blue streak runs through her matted brown hair, which sometimes knots into a handful of dreadlocks that dangle off to one side. She’s 17, a virgin, and she’s about to fall in love for the first time. Sasha (Brianna Hildebrand, unrecognizable from her “Deadpool” breakthrough as Negasonic Teenage Warhead ) is a different story — she practically sparkles. The star of her high school’s softball team, she’s prim and proper, with dimples riveted deep into each cheek. She’s also probably a virgin, but Sasha’s not the type of person to talk about such things in public.
Of course, being 17 often means not knowing what type of person you are quite yet,...
Of course, being 17 often means not knowing what type of person you are quite yet,...
- 10/18/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
It’s never a good idea to take public transportation home from a funeral, but sexagenarian philosophy professor Nathalie Chazeaux (Isabelle Huppert) insists on learning that lesson the hard way. Crumpled against the window of a bus as it groans its way through the streets of Paris, Nathalie begins to cry. The teenage girl sitting in the seat across from her eyeballs the scene like she’s resisting the urge to Instagram it, like she has no idea that it’s only a matter of time before we’re all the woman crying on the bus. That’s when Nathalie spies Heinz (Andre Marcon), still technically her husband, walking around town with the young woman who recently inspired him to walk out on his wife of 25 years.
Sometimes, life is subtle — sometimes, it’s so in your face that you just have to laugh. And that’s exactly what Nathalie does,...
Sometimes, life is subtle — sometimes, it’s so in your face that you just have to laugh. And that’s exactly what Nathalie does,...
- 10/4/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve, best known for tales of youth Eden and Goodbye First Love, teams up with iconic actress Isabelle Huppert for Things To Come, a quietly affecting story about a bourgeois middle-aged philosophy teacher and the big changes in her life. Set mostly in the Sarkozy era of domestic reform and government reshuffling, Huppert portrays Nathalie with a subtle wit and optimism, an attitude seemingly inherent from another time entirely. Married to Heinz (André Marcon), a fellow philosophy teacher, and with two grown children, Nathalie is content with life, the relationship to her students and her side work in publishing. She even takes her time with her increasingly difficult and ailing mother Yvette (legendary Edith Scob) in stride. This is not say she...
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- 9/8/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Hugh O'Brian, best known for playing Wyatt Earp on television, died Monday at the age of 91.
"O'Brian passed away peacefully this morning at his home in Beverly Hills," reads a statement posted to the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership (Hoby) website.
The actor starred as the infamous lawman Earp in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp from 1955 to 1961. During his time on the hit series, which is known as one of the first adult Westerns on TV, the performer founded Hoby in 1958 to establish a new generation of leaders in the volunteer and service fields. To date, over 470,000 people have...
"O'Brian passed away peacefully this morning at his home in Beverly Hills," reads a statement posted to the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership (Hoby) website.
The actor starred as the infamous lawman Earp in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp from 1955 to 1961. During his time on the hit series, which is known as one of the first adult Westerns on TV, the performer founded Hoby in 1958 to establish a new generation of leaders in the volunteer and service fields. To date, over 470,000 people have...
- 9/5/2016
- by Michael Miller, @write_miller
- People.com - TV Watch
Isabelle Huppert might as well be crowned queen of the 2016 festival circuit. Her first film of the year, Mia Hansen-Løve‘s Things to Come, premiered at Berlin, followed by Paul Verhoeven‘s Elle at Cannes; then, at Tiff, she’ll have those two films, as well as the premiere of Bravo Defurne‘s Souvenir. But before that, she’s starring alongside Louis Garrel in Luc Bondy‘s The False Secrets, which will screen at the Locarno Film Festival this weekend.
Today we have a pair of new trailers for two of the films — first from Things to Come, which is one of our favorites of the year. As we said in our review, “While Hansen-Løve certainly deserves credit for writing such a compelling character, it’s difficult to imagine anyone realizing Nathalie as consummately as Huppert, who, even by her exceptionally high standards, pulls off a superlative performance.”
Following that,...
Today we have a pair of new trailers for two of the films — first from Things to Come, which is one of our favorites of the year. As we said in our review, “While Hansen-Løve certainly deserves credit for writing such a compelling character, it’s difficult to imagine anyone realizing Nathalie as consummately as Huppert, who, even by her exceptionally high standards, pulls off a superlative performance.”
Following that,...
- 8/3/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Mia Hansen-Løve fosters no illusion about how her films’ connect to those in her close circle, be it deceased mentors (The Father of My Children), herself (Goodbye, First Love), her brother (Eden) — who, speaking for his family, told me that the experience “is a bit strange, but… I don’t know, we have to deal with it, anyway” — or her mother (the still-to-be-released Things to Come). One territory that has never quite been covered, as far as I can tell, is perhaps the most interesting: her marriage to the great Olivier Assayas, a filmmaker whose influence has been felt more in common narrative and formal interests than the content of stories and traits defining characters.
Perhaps this was only a matter of time: speaking to Screen Daily, Hansen-Løve announced two titles that are in varying states of development, and one of which is “inspired partly” by her husband. (Read: not necessarily some exposé,...
Perhaps this was only a matter of time: speaking to Screen Daily, Hansen-Løve announced two titles that are in varying states of development, and one of which is “inspired partly” by her husband. (Read: not necessarily some exposé,...
- 7/12/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Welcome to every parent’s worst nightmare. A fully erect middle finger to the idea of abstinence-only education, Eva Husson’s “Bang Gang: A Love Story” is the opposite of a cautionary tale — it’s a salaciously soft-core movie about the upside of indiscriminate teen sex. Opening with a permissive Carl Jung quote that speaks to the trajectory of self-improvement (“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious”), Husson’s directorial debut is too derivative of forebears like “Kids” and “The Rules of Attraction” to earn a spot alongside them, but it nevertheless moves along on the strength of its slyly transgressive undertow.
Here is a rare new entry in that smallest of sub-genres: Movies that don’t punish teens for fucking their brains out (surprise surprise: it’s French). Which isn’t to say that the kids get off without any consequences, but rather that their libidos don’t sentence them to an after-school special. Kids, if you value the freedom to make your own mistakes, do everything in your power to prevent your parents from seeing this film.
“Bang Gang” (more on that title later) begins with a flash-forward that’s hard to shake, the camera tracking through an airy house in the affluent coastal city of Biarritz as dozens of naked teenagers hump each other in all manner of positions; the scene is like the orgy sequence from “Eyes Wide Shut” as it might have been shot by Terry Richardson.
But Husson doesn’t let you gawp at all the lithe young bodies for long, as the film soon begins to feel the weight of some unknown heaviness. “It was the year no one could forget,” an anonymous voiceover solemnly intones, genuflecting on some past trauma with the same wistful sense of wisdom with which Leonardo DiCaprio remembered his time on a remote Thai beach.
Not that it matters much, but we’ll later learn that the voice belongs to Alex (the English-born Finnegan Oldfield), a lanky high school senior whose only discernible quality is a general disregard for other people’s feelings. He and his clownish best friend Nikita (Fred Hotier, one of the film’s numerous first-time actors) can often be found smoking a blunt somewhere and streaming videos of porn star Sasha Grey in action. These two boys own several of the opening scenes, but Husson’s attention seems anchored to the first girls with whom we see Alex and Nikita fool around: Laetitia (Daisy Broom) is a virginal brunette with a strict father. George (potential breakout star Marilyn Lima) is a compact blonde who looks like an Olsen twin by way of Vanessa Paradis.
Their roles seem codified by the color of their hair, especially when George and Alex have sex while their two comparatively demure friends watch from the sidelines, but Husson is itching to test your assumptions, and the dynamic between these characters is soon twisted beyond recognition with the introduction of a shy, curly-haired fifth wheel named Gabriel (Lorenzo Lefebvre).
Read More: Two Teens Discuss an Awkward Encounter in Exclusive Clip from ‘Bang Gang: A Love Story’
Betrayal! Anger! Jealousy! All of it shot with the dreamy poeticism of Andrea Arnold and glazed with a blissed-out electronic score by M83 collaborator White Sea. Alex doesn’t care about George — she’s a conquest, and he disposes of her as soon as she’s reaffirmed his self-worth. But George has an idea to ease her pain, an inclusive plan for all their friends that will allow her to view people as interchangeably as Alex does: She calls them “bang gangs,” but they’re basically orgies. Games of truth or dare in which “truth” isn’t an option. These kids are ready to maul each other to begin with, but sprinkle in some throbbing house music and a flurry of cocaine and you’re off to the races.
Each of these characters threaten to make this their movie at some point, and while that lack of focus prevents them from achieving even the slightest whiff of depth, it also endows Husson’s story with the mutability of teenage friendships, which tend to shift with the tides. To some extent, these kids become as interchangeable to us as they are to each other. As the film’s latter half descends into an overlong blur of bang gangs, the anonymity of all that sex increasingly begins to seem like the point, as George and her friends eagerly reduce their bodies to dildos and vessels because they all just want to feel wanted, no matter the cost.
You’ve never seen a high school movie with such a conspicuous absence of body shaming, as these horny teens give each other a satisfaction that they can’t give themselves. “We all have superpowers,” George declares to the camera before getting railed by a half-dozen dudes off-screen (Husson only shows enough of the action to make viewers believe in what’s happening behind closed doors, and her camera ogles the male cast members almost as much as it does the girls). But maybe they shouldn’t be quite so eager to record the sexcapades on their phones — welcome to the age of Chekhov’s YouTube video.
Storm clouds are clearly forming on the horizon from the start, as Husson repeatedly interlaces scenes with radio reports of a gruesome train derailment. It’s a clumsy attempt at illustrating the myopia of her characters, and one that doesn’t work without the sociopolitical heft that “A Bigger Splash” recently used to anchor the same technique. These boys and girls are clearly sticking their heads into the ground (or whatever holes they can find), but their broad tunnel-vision is spread too thin to maintain much of its taste. “Bang Gang” may have a bit more sizzle than Mia Hansen-Løve’s similarly themed “Goodbye, First Love,” but it desperately misses that film’s wonderful sensitivity.
But Husson, to her credit, does succeed in “making the darkness conscious” for these thirsty young fuck buddies. Their story is so whitewashed that it flirts with irresponsibility — there’s no violence, and any STDs contracted can be cured with a pill.
At one point, a girl refers to the simplicity of her abortion as “a modern day fairytale,” and the same description could be applied to the whole film. But if “Bang Gang” climaxes a bit too cleanly, its moral rings true all the same: Kids have to be kids before they can become adults.
Grade: B
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Here is a rare new entry in that smallest of sub-genres: Movies that don’t punish teens for fucking their brains out (surprise surprise: it’s French). Which isn’t to say that the kids get off without any consequences, but rather that their libidos don’t sentence them to an after-school special. Kids, if you value the freedom to make your own mistakes, do everything in your power to prevent your parents from seeing this film.
“Bang Gang” (more on that title later) begins with a flash-forward that’s hard to shake, the camera tracking through an airy house in the affluent coastal city of Biarritz as dozens of naked teenagers hump each other in all manner of positions; the scene is like the orgy sequence from “Eyes Wide Shut” as it might have been shot by Terry Richardson.
But Husson doesn’t let you gawp at all the lithe young bodies for long, as the film soon begins to feel the weight of some unknown heaviness. “It was the year no one could forget,” an anonymous voiceover solemnly intones, genuflecting on some past trauma with the same wistful sense of wisdom with which Leonardo DiCaprio remembered his time on a remote Thai beach.
Not that it matters much, but we’ll later learn that the voice belongs to Alex (the English-born Finnegan Oldfield), a lanky high school senior whose only discernible quality is a general disregard for other people’s feelings. He and his clownish best friend Nikita (Fred Hotier, one of the film’s numerous first-time actors) can often be found smoking a blunt somewhere and streaming videos of porn star Sasha Grey in action. These two boys own several of the opening scenes, but Husson’s attention seems anchored to the first girls with whom we see Alex and Nikita fool around: Laetitia (Daisy Broom) is a virginal brunette with a strict father. George (potential breakout star Marilyn Lima) is a compact blonde who looks like an Olsen twin by way of Vanessa Paradis.
Their roles seem codified by the color of their hair, especially when George and Alex have sex while their two comparatively demure friends watch from the sidelines, but Husson is itching to test your assumptions, and the dynamic between these characters is soon twisted beyond recognition with the introduction of a shy, curly-haired fifth wheel named Gabriel (Lorenzo Lefebvre).
Read More: Two Teens Discuss an Awkward Encounter in Exclusive Clip from ‘Bang Gang: A Love Story’
Betrayal! Anger! Jealousy! All of it shot with the dreamy poeticism of Andrea Arnold and glazed with a blissed-out electronic score by M83 collaborator White Sea. Alex doesn’t care about George — she’s a conquest, and he disposes of her as soon as she’s reaffirmed his self-worth. But George has an idea to ease her pain, an inclusive plan for all their friends that will allow her to view people as interchangeably as Alex does: She calls them “bang gangs,” but they’re basically orgies. Games of truth or dare in which “truth” isn’t an option. These kids are ready to maul each other to begin with, but sprinkle in some throbbing house music and a flurry of cocaine and you’re off to the races.
Each of these characters threaten to make this their movie at some point, and while that lack of focus prevents them from achieving even the slightest whiff of depth, it also endows Husson’s story with the mutability of teenage friendships, which tend to shift with the tides. To some extent, these kids become as interchangeable to us as they are to each other. As the film’s latter half descends into an overlong blur of bang gangs, the anonymity of all that sex increasingly begins to seem like the point, as George and her friends eagerly reduce their bodies to dildos and vessels because they all just want to feel wanted, no matter the cost.
You’ve never seen a high school movie with such a conspicuous absence of body shaming, as these horny teens give each other a satisfaction that they can’t give themselves. “We all have superpowers,” George declares to the camera before getting railed by a half-dozen dudes off-screen (Husson only shows enough of the action to make viewers believe in what’s happening behind closed doors, and her camera ogles the male cast members almost as much as it does the girls). But maybe they shouldn’t be quite so eager to record the sexcapades on their phones — welcome to the age of Chekhov’s YouTube video.
Storm clouds are clearly forming on the horizon from the start, as Husson repeatedly interlaces scenes with radio reports of a gruesome train derailment. It’s a clumsy attempt at illustrating the myopia of her characters, and one that doesn’t work without the sociopolitical heft that “A Bigger Splash” recently used to anchor the same technique. These boys and girls are clearly sticking their heads into the ground (or whatever holes they can find), but their broad tunnel-vision is spread too thin to maintain much of its taste. “Bang Gang” may have a bit more sizzle than Mia Hansen-Løve’s similarly themed “Goodbye, First Love,” but it desperately misses that film’s wonderful sensitivity.
But Husson, to her credit, does succeed in “making the darkness conscious” for these thirsty young fuck buddies. Their story is so whitewashed that it flirts with irresponsibility — there’s no violence, and any STDs contracted can be cured with a pill.
At one point, a girl refers to the simplicity of her abortion as “a modern day fairytale,” and the same description could be applied to the whole film. But if “Bang Gang” climaxes a bit too cleanly, its moral rings true all the same: Kids have to be kids before they can become adults.
Grade: B
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- 6/15/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Happy birthday to you, Adele! The British songbird turns 28 today, and to celebrate the anniversary of her arrival in this world, we've compiled a list of her lyrics that have given us life through the years. Life, and tears. And happiness. And soul. And where would you get your most heartfelt Instagram captions if not for Adele?! 19 chronicled first love, early disappointments and regrets. 21 is a breakup album. 25 is a make-up album. All three of Adele's hauntingly beautiful albums contain treasure troves of wisdom, from "First Love" to "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)," and there's a lesson to be learned from each song. But we've whittled it down to...
- 5/5/2016
- E! Online
With the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival wrapping up this week, we’ve highlighted our five favorite films from the slate. Make sure to stay tuned in the coming months as we learn about distribution news for the titles. Check out our favorites below, followed by our complete coverage, and one can see the winners here.
Creepy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
One has to appreciate Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s winking self-awareness in calling his new feature Creepy. It’s as if the Coen brothers released a film entitled Snarky, or Eli Roth named his next stomach-churner Gory. Kurosawa, who’s still best known for Cure (1997) and Pulse (2001), two rare outstanding examples of the highly variable J-Horror genre, instills a sense of creepiness into virtually anything he does, regardless of subject matter. His latest, which sees him return to the realm of horror after excursions into more arthouse territory, certainly lives up to its name...
Creepy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
One has to appreciate Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s winking self-awareness in calling his new feature Creepy. It’s as if the Coen brothers released a film entitled Snarky, or Eli Roth named his next stomach-churner Gory. Kurosawa, who’s still best known for Cure (1997) and Pulse (2001), two rare outstanding examples of the highly variable J-Horror genre, instills a sense of creepiness into virtually anything he does, regardless of subject matter. His latest, which sees him return to the realm of horror after excursions into more arthouse territory, certainly lives up to its name...
- 2/24/2016
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
Read More: Berlin Review: In 'L'Avenir,' Isabelle Huppert Takes Stock of Her Life One of the very best films to emerge from this year's Berlinale, the competition entry "Things to Come" was written and directed by the French director Mia Hansen-Løve, with the always-charismatic Isabelle Huppert in the lead role in a gentle, poignant story about a philosophy teacher whose life falls apart when her husband leaves and her mother dies. For Huppert's Nathalie, the only way to cope with it is to let time take its course — something that proves to be both a curse and a blessing at the same time. In a way, the film resonates with the filmmaker's previous work: While "Goodbye, First love" and "Eden" were films about passions of youth that wane with time, in "Things to Come," Nathalie has been in love with philosophy her whole life, but ultimately discovers she loves life even more.
- 2/18/2016
- by Tina Poglajen
- Indiewire
A Quiet Passion. Johan Voets © A Quiet Passion Ltd/Hurricane Films 2016Two films have emerged as Berlin's finest this year intertwined by the fates of festival scheduling. The echoes are simple, but that hardly effaces their power, nor the fact that cinema, an art founded in the magic of images changing over time, can make two films separated by time, in viewing, and history, in setting, part of an enchanted continuum.If Emily Dickinson had lived today, could she perhaps resemble Isabelle Huppert's fair, adult and satisfied philosophy professor, wife and mother in Mia Hanson-Løve's tender contemporary drama Things to Come? Nearly 150 years earlier, the pleading desire for contentment and the strangling despair of disappointment lays upon the American poet, played briefly by Emily Bell young and Cynthia Nixon until death, in Terence Davies' exquisite biopic A Quiet Passion. Yet how an agile female intelligence and a willful...
- 2/16/2016
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Ever since Mia Hansen Love made her debut with Tout est Pardonné (2007) at the age of just 26, it always felt like she was on the verge of something truly special. She followed it up with Father of My Children (2009) before releasing Goodbye First Love (2011) – accomplished endeavours certainly, but nothing truly
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- 2/15/2016
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Mia Hansen-Love’s Berlinale world premiere stars Isabelle Huppert.
Sundance Selects has picked up Us rights from Films du Losange to the Isabelle Huppert starrer following its world premiere in Berlin.
Things To Come tells of a married philosophy professor who gets a new lease of life when her husband leaves her and her overbearing mother dies.
The acquisition marks Sundance Selects’ second collaboration with Films du Losange on a Hansen-Love film and the third from the director after The Father Of My Childen and Goodbye First Love.
Charles Gillibert of CG Cinema served as producer.
Sundance Selects has picked up Us rights from Films du Losange to the Isabelle Huppert starrer following its world premiere in Berlin.
Things To Come tells of a married philosophy professor who gets a new lease of life when her husband leaves her and her overbearing mother dies.
The acquisition marks Sundance Selects’ second collaboration with Films du Losange on a Hansen-Love film and the third from the director after The Father Of My Childen and Goodbye First Love.
Charles Gillibert of CG Cinema served as producer.
- 2/15/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Sundance Selects has acquired the domestic rights to Mia Hansen-Love’s “Things to Come,” the distribution company announced Monday. The film starring Isabelle Huppert had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. The acquisition marks the third Hansen-Love film Sundance Selects has released, following “The Father of my Children” and “Goodbye First Love.” “Things to Come” follows a married philosophy professor whose life revolves around books. When her husband leaves her and her mother passes away, she is left alone with a life full of possibilities. Also Read: IFC Films, Sundance Selects Promotes Lisa Schwartz to Co-President “Anchored by a deeply moving performance.
- 2/15/2016
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Sundance Selects acquired U.S. rights to Things To Come, director Mia Hansen-Love’s film that stars Isabelle Huppert. The deal followed the film’s Berlin Film Festival premiere. This is Sundance Selects’ second collaboration with Films du Losange on Hansen-Love's films. It is also the third film directed by Hansen-Love the company will release following The Father Of My Children and Goodbye First Love. Things To Come tells the story of a married philosophy professor whose…...
- 2/15/2016
- Deadline
The twists and turns of fate and the ways in which individuals react to them constitute the central preoccupations of Mia Hansen-Løve’s cinema. Her exceptional second feature, Father of My Children, observed a film producer’s escalating desperation in the face of snowballing debt, and then considered the impact of his unexpected suicide on the family he left behind. Her disappointing follow-ups, Goodbye First Love and Eden, charted the progressive dissolution of its protagonists’ idealism over a period of several years – a teenage couple’s fanciful notions of love and a DJ’s chimeric aspirations of success, respectively. Considering the largely universal relatability of the former and the fact that the latter represented a fictionalization of her own brother’s / co-writer’s path as a DJ, the tremendous accomplishment of Things to Come, which centers on the emotional tribulations of a woman in late middle-age, suggests that the 35-year-old...
- 2/13/2016
- by Giovanni Marchini Camia
- The Film Stage
Kristen Stewart, James Franco and Helena Bonham Carter are circling the biopic Jt Leroy, a Hollywood-set transgender story. Justin Kelly, who directed James Franco in 2015's I Am Michael, will helm the film from a script he wrote. The true story goes behind the scenes of the hoax of Jt LeRoy, a woman who pretended to be a man who identifies as transgender, tricking the rich and famous in Hollywood, the fashion world and elite literary circles. { "nid": 822486, "type": "news", "title": "Kristen Stewart on Suppressing Emotions and Giving in to First Love", "path": "http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kristen-stewart-
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- 2/8/2016
- by Rebecca Ford, Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Read More: SXSW Review: 'Creative Control' is a Fresh and Exciting Sci-Fi Cautionary Tale After making a huge splash at SXSW last year, where it won a special jury prize for visual excellence and got picked up by Amazon and Magnolia Pictures, "Creative Control" is now ready for public consumption. The distributors have just released a new trailer for the sci-fi drama, which you can check out above, courtesy of The Verge. Written and directed by Benjamin Dickinson ("First Love"), the film takes the on increasingly popular trend of virtual reality. After an executive tries out his company's brand new invention, a pair of glasses known as Augmenta, he suddenly finds himself immersed in a new realm of consciousness. Soon, he uses the glasses for his own professional and personal advantage, carrying out an affair with his best friend's girlfriend. The indie stars Dickinson opposite Nora Zehetner and Reggie Watts.
- 2/2/2016
- by Mike Lown
- Indiewire
Things to Come
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Writer: Mia Hansen-Løve
With four features under her belt, French director Mia Hansen-Løve has become a prolific auteur, following the success of titles such as The Father of My Children (2009), Goodbye First Love (2011) and Eden (2014). For her latest feature, she’s tapped Isabelle Huppert to star in Things to Come (formerly known as L’avenir), where in the prolific actress stars as Nathalie, a philosophy professor who has been married for years to a man in the same profession. One day, her husband announces his love for a younger woman and his plans to move in her with, while Nathalie’s mother dies in the same timeframe. Love’s intention, as indicated by the original title, was an ironic commentary about a woman forced to start a new, unexpected life while heading into her last decades. Of note, Huppert starred as Love’s mother...
Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
Writer: Mia Hansen-Løve
With four features under her belt, French director Mia Hansen-Løve has become a prolific auteur, following the success of titles such as The Father of My Children (2009), Goodbye First Love (2011) and Eden (2014). For her latest feature, she’s tapped Isabelle Huppert to star in Things to Come (formerly known as L’avenir), where in the prolific actress stars as Nathalie, a philosophy professor who has been married for years to a man in the same profession. One day, her husband announces his love for a younger woman and his plans to move in her with, while Nathalie’s mother dies in the same timeframe. Love’s intention, as indicated by the original title, was an ironic commentary about a woman forced to start a new, unexpected life while heading into her last decades. Of note, Huppert starred as Love’s mother...
- 1/14/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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