“Force Majeur” director Ruben Östlund took home the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year for “The Square,” a wild art world satire that released an intriguing first trailer today. Swedish actor Claes Bang plays Christian, a gallery owner who becomes embroiled in a series of mishaps after his phone is stolen. But you wouldn’t know that from the trailer, which leaves us with more questions than answers in this first look at Östlund’s creation.
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“Welcome to the jungle,” says a placid British voiceover to a room full of elegantly dressed diners. “Soon you will be confronted by a wild animal. As you all know, the hunting instinct is triggered by weakness. If you show fear, the animal will sense it. If you try to escape, the animal will hunt you down.
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“Welcome to the jungle,” says a placid British voiceover to a room full of elegantly dressed diners. “Soon you will be confronted by a wild animal. As you all know, the hunting instinct is triggered by weakness. If you show fear, the animal will sense it. If you try to escape, the animal will hunt you down.
- 7/10/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
There’s a little something for everyone in “A Gentleman,” Bollywood’s summer action comedy which released a jam-packed trailer yesterday. Starring Sidharth Malhotra and Jacqueline Fernandez, “A Gentleman” follows a simple working man who gets mixed up with high-level criminals in a case of mistaken identity — or is it? The movie also stars Bollywood action favorite Suniel Shetty, though Shetty has been mum on just how big a role he plays.
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The trailer shows a bit of everything one might want in a summer action movie: High-speed car chases, a blossoming romance, nosy parents, and enough jumping out of buildings to make James Bond nod in silent approval. Malhotra removes his shirt in a boat and a car, and Fernandez shows off some pole moves. If we’re going for thrills — mission accomplished.
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The trailer shows a bit of everything one might want in a summer action movie: High-speed car chases, a blossoming romance, nosy parents, and enough jumping out of buildings to make James Bond nod in silent approval. Malhotra removes his shirt in a boat and a car, and Fernandez shows off some pole moves. If we’re going for thrills — mission accomplished.
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- 7/10/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
“Eyes Wide Shut” is turning 18 years old on July 16, and nearly two decades later it remains one of Kubrick’s most mystifying and immersive experience. A brand new video essay from the great Nerdwriter1 puts Kubrick’s last film under the microscope and examines the different strategies the filmmaker used in order to make it one of his most involving movies.
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“We often think of Kubrick as a highly stylized director, which he was, but crucially Kubrick never let us forget what the purpose of style is,” the video essay begins. “Style is a lens that gives the viewer a point of access to the material — it’s about the audience, not the director.” Whereas Kubrick’s style in certain films forced the viewer to take an observational approach, “Eyes Wide Shut” operates in a much more immersive fashion.
The...
Read More: The 20 Cameras and Lenses That Define Stanley Kubrick
“We often think of Kubrick as a highly stylized director, which he was, but crucially Kubrick never let us forget what the purpose of style is,” the video essay begins. “Style is a lens that gives the viewer a point of access to the material — it’s about the audience, not the director.” Whereas Kubrick’s style in certain films forced the viewer to take an observational approach, “Eyes Wide Shut” operates in a much more immersive fashion.
The...
- 7/7/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Daniel Craig is best known for donning the suave looks and sharp tuxedos of James Bond, so the sight of him in a prison uniform with bleach blonde hair and an accent that sounds like a drunkard southern drawl comes as quite a shock in the first extended clip from “Logan Lucky.”
The movie marks the return of Steven Soderbergh after his retirement from feature filmmaking four years ago, and it appears his knack for getting actors to go way against type is still very much intact.
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“Logan Lucky” stars Channing Tatum, Riley Keough and a one-handed Adam Driver as down-on-their-luck siblings who attempt to reverse a family curse by carrying out an extensive robbery during the Coca-Cola 600 race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. To pull off the heist, the siblings turn to...
The movie marks the return of Steven Soderbergh after his retirement from feature filmmaking four years ago, and it appears his knack for getting actors to go way against type is still very much intact.
Read More: ‘Logan Lucky’ First Trailer: Steven Soderbergh Races Back to the Big Screen After A Four-Year Hiatus
“Logan Lucky” stars Channing Tatum, Riley Keough and a one-handed Adam Driver as down-on-their-luck siblings who attempt to reverse a family curse by carrying out an extensive robbery during the Coca-Cola 600 race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. To pull off the heist, the siblings turn to...
- 7/7/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
“Belle de Jour,” Luis Buñuel’s erotic drama about a bored and troubled housewife who turns to prostitution for titillation, remains one of the great achievements in surrealist and erotic cinema after 50 years. Lucky for cinephiles, the movie is celebrating its semicentennial anniversary by returning to the big screen with a major 4K restoration. Let’s just say Séverine’s fantasies have never looked so sensual or felt more dangerous.
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Catherine Deneuve is front and center as Séverine. She pretty much lives the perfect bourgeois life — she’s married to a wealthy surgeon, has all the time in the world and accrues admirers wherever she goes. But under the surface Séverine is consumed by virulent sexual fantasies that threaten to dissolve her sanity. Behind her husband’s back, she decides to indulge in her fantasies, which range from masochism to bondage. She joins a local high-class brothel,...
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Catherine Deneuve is front and center as Séverine. She pretty much lives the perfect bourgeois life — she’s married to a wealthy surgeon, has all the time in the world and accrues admirers wherever she goes. But under the surface Séverine is consumed by virulent sexual fantasies that threaten to dissolve her sanity. Behind her husband’s back, she decides to indulge in her fantasies, which range from masochism to bondage. She joins a local high-class brothel,...
- 7/6/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
David Lynch is one of the industry’s most visual filmmakers, which makes his love for painting and art history a no-brainer. While he will often pull inspiration from other great directors — just look at the most recent episode of “Twin Peaks” and the way it evoked Kubrick and Malick — his biggest visual influences are works by iconic painters like surrealist René Magritte, realist Edward Hopper and figurative painter Francis Bacon.
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A great new video essay from VoorDeFilm (via No Film School) puts some of Lynch’s most memorable images right next to the paintings that inspired them, and the similarities are uncanny. Each shot finds Lynch twisting the original artist’s style into his own, and the side-by-side comparisons speak greatly to what it is that makes Lynch’s cinematic style so unforgettable.
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A great new video essay from VoorDeFilm (via No Film School) puts some of Lynch’s most memorable images right next to the paintings that inspired them, and the similarities are uncanny. Each shot finds Lynch twisting the original artist’s style into his own, and the side-by-side comparisons speak greatly to what it is that makes Lynch’s cinematic style so unforgettable.
- 7/5/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Different cultures wipe their slate clean at varying points on the Gregorian calendar. For instance, Jews around the world celebrated Rosh Hashanah just over a month ago, while Chinese descendants await their annual New Year festivities this coming February.
For the WWE, last night's Raw represented some kind of fresh start in their cyclical programming, as several superstars either went back to the drawing board and/or returned from hiatus, ready to spark new rivalries and set aside any residual SummerSlam rancor. As always, in the interest of providing a service to you readers,...
For the WWE, last night's Raw represented some kind of fresh start in their cyclical programming, as several superstars either went back to the drawing board and/or returned from hiatus, ready to spark new rivalries and set aside any residual SummerSlam rancor. As always, in the interest of providing a service to you readers,...
- 10/28/2014
- Rollingstone.com
A punk rock film out of Macedonia? The two things may not appear to go together but Vladimir Blazevski's Punk's Not Dead has won a good bit of international praise and from the look of the trailer it's not hard to see why.Protagonists of this black-comedy are punks who deliberately remained at the margins in muddy times of Macedonian transition. The routine of their outsider's survival is disturbed by an offer to make a reunion of their one-time cult punk band and play at some bizarre "multi-cultural-happening", which is to prove the false image of Macedonia as a land with relaxed ethnic tensions.Raw and energetic, this one is not particularly work safe. Check the trailer below....
- 12/22/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Update: The total is now 60 films as Steve Pond at The Wrap informs us the Domenican Republic's submission La hija natural has been accepted. He also says we should expect four or five more films to be added to the list by the time things are said and done. My original post follows...
The deadline for countries to submit films for consideration at this year's Oscars was Monday, October 3 and this year's list is a little lighter than last (so far) as 60 countries have offered up submissions compared to 66 last year and 67 the year before that. Looking over the complete list, which I have included directly below and can always be viewed in my "The Contenders" section right here, there are a few that stand out based on what I've heard, but then again, this is the first year I can ever remember where I haven't seen a single one of the entries.
The deadline for countries to submit films for consideration at this year's Oscars was Monday, October 3 and this year's list is a little lighter than last (so far) as 60 countries have offered up submissions compared to 66 last year and 67 the year before that. Looking over the complete list, which I have included directly below and can always be viewed in my "The Contenders" section right here, there are a few that stand out based on what I've heard, but then again, this is the first year I can ever remember where I haven't seen a single one of the entries.
- 10/7/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The full lineup for Pop Punk's Not Dead Tour was announced: New Found Glory, Set Your Goals, The Wonder Years, Man Overboard and This Time Next Year; Man Overboard Will Be Out in Support of their Long-Awaited Rise Records Debut Full-Length Out Sept 27. Full Lineup For Pop Punk's Not Dead Tour: New Found Glory, Set Your Goals, The Wonder Years, Man Overboard and This Time Next Year. Man Overboard will be touring the United States this fall on the Pop Punk's Not Dead Tour along side New Found Glory, Set Your Goals, The Wonder Years and This Time Next Year. The tour will start October 6th, hot on the heels of the release of the band.s...
- 8/15/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Here are a few interesting and/or noteworthy projects that were recently added to IMDbPro's database of development titles.
Mr. Hughes – Christopher Nolan is moving on from billionaire Batman Bruce Wayne to billionaire bat-crazy Howard Hughes with his next film - a pet project based on Michael Drosnin's biography "Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness," which recounts the wealthy aviator's extensive handwritten memoir.
The Look of Love – Diane Keaton and Ed Harris star in the romancer from Arie Posin about a widow who finds herself overcome with emotions when she meets a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.
The Boom Boom Room – Christopher Walken, Shirely MacLaine, Adam Beach and Ashley Greene star in Aussie filmmaker Lian Lunson's fairy tale drama about a pair of desert-dwelling former Vaudeville stars whose lives become intertwined with a young, beautiful girl. Bono and director Wim Wenders serve as the film's executive producers.
Free Ride – Aberration Films' Susan Dynner (Punk's Not Dead) produces this indie project written and directed by Shana Sosin that was recently selected to participate in Film Independent's 10th annual Director's Lab. The film centers on a single mom caught up in the Florida drug trade during the late 1970s as she struggles to make a better life for her two daughters.
The Bridge on the Drina – Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica's latest opus takes place in a Bosnian town and chronicles three centuries of the war-torn region's transformations. Kusturica will adapt the screenplay based on Nobel Prize-winning author Ivo Andric's 1945 novel of the same name.
If you know of something in the works, you can submit it via our online submission form.
Mr. Hughes – Christopher Nolan is moving on from billionaire Batman Bruce Wayne to billionaire bat-crazy Howard Hughes with his next film - a pet project based on Michael Drosnin's biography "Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness," which recounts the wealthy aviator's extensive handwritten memoir.
The Look of Love – Diane Keaton and Ed Harris star in the romancer from Arie Posin about a widow who finds herself overcome with emotions when she meets a guy who bears a striking resemblance to her late husband.
The Boom Boom Room – Christopher Walken, Shirely MacLaine, Adam Beach and Ashley Greene star in Aussie filmmaker Lian Lunson's fairy tale drama about a pair of desert-dwelling former Vaudeville stars whose lives become intertwined with a young, beautiful girl. Bono and director Wim Wenders serve as the film's executive producers.
Free Ride – Aberration Films' Susan Dynner (Punk's Not Dead) produces this indie project written and directed by Shana Sosin that was recently selected to participate in Film Independent's 10th annual Director's Lab. The film centers on a single mom caught up in the Florida drug trade during the late 1970s as she struggles to make a better life for her two daughters.
The Bridge on the Drina – Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica's latest opus takes place in a Bosnian town and chronicles three centuries of the war-torn region's transformations. Kusturica will adapt the screenplay based on Nobel Prize-winning author Ivo Andric's 1945 novel of the same name.
If you know of something in the works, you can submit it via our online submission form.
- 2/19/2011
- by Eric Greene
- IMDbPro News
There have been so many exegeses of punk rock—including the recent documentary American Hardcore—that there wouldn't seem to be much need for Susan Dynner's "people's history" Punk's Not Dead. But Dynner brings a broader perspective. Rather than breaking punk down into its UK, NY, DC, and La golden ages and leaving other scenes and eras out to dry, Dynner treats punk as an ever-evolving, eternally relevant movement that keeps producing great bands and vital scenes. Few would put modern million-selling pop-punkers on the same plane as U.K. Subs or Minor Threat, but Punk's Not Dead rightly notes that for some kids out there now, The Offspring are old-school and The Used changed their lives. Punk's Not Dead starts with the first punk explosion in the late '70s—complete with scenes from tongue-clucking episodes of CHiPs, Donahue, and Quincy—then jumps ahead to Rancid and Green Day,...
- 7/16/2008
- by Noel Murray
- avclub.com
Punk's Not Dead
Platform Media Group
NEW YORK -- Coming after several other similarly themed films about the topic, Susan Dynner's documentary about the past 30 years of punk music doesn't exactly break any new ground. But it does offer an entertaining overview that is leavened with humorous philosophical digressions about what it actually means to be punk, especially in an age when its music, fashions and practices have been co-opted by the mainstream. Punk's Not Dead is appropriately playing at a theater in the heart of New York's East Village, where so much of the music began.
Largely eschewing the by now familiar stories of the Ramones, Sex Pistols, etc., the film centers on, in chronological fashion, the historical touchstones of the punk movement, from its beginnings in the late 1970s to its grunge period with Nirvana and the like to the later commercial breakthroughs of such bands as Green Day and the Offspring.
An impressive compendium of talking heads comment on the topic, including the musicians themselves (the ubiquitous Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra, John Doe and many others) and record company executives, managers and journalists. Needless to say, there also is plenty of performance footage on display, of bands iconic and those largely unknown except to aficionados.
Particularly fun is the footage that the filmmaker has dug up detailing early societal revulsion of the punk aesthetic, including a clip from Jack Klugman's Quincy M.E. television series in which the character treats it as something akin to Nazism and a Phil Donahue episode in which the talk-show host attempts in his usual earnest way to get to the root of the problem.
The filmmaker, who spent her early years working as a photographer covering the Washington punk scene, clearly has a passion for her subject. It is perhaps best conveyed in the portrait of the Adicts, the longest-running punk band, who are still on the road, with all their original members, 30 years after they began.
NEW YORK -- Coming after several other similarly themed films about the topic, Susan Dynner's documentary about the past 30 years of punk music doesn't exactly break any new ground. But it does offer an entertaining overview that is leavened with humorous philosophical digressions about what it actually means to be punk, especially in an age when its music, fashions and practices have been co-opted by the mainstream. Punk's Not Dead is appropriately playing at a theater in the heart of New York's East Village, where so much of the music began.
Largely eschewing the by now familiar stories of the Ramones, Sex Pistols, etc., the film centers on, in chronological fashion, the historical touchstones of the punk movement, from its beginnings in the late 1970s to its grunge period with Nirvana and the like to the later commercial breakthroughs of such bands as Green Day and the Offspring.
An impressive compendium of talking heads comment on the topic, including the musicians themselves (the ubiquitous Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra, John Doe and many others) and record company executives, managers and journalists. Needless to say, there also is plenty of performance footage on display, of bands iconic and those largely unknown except to aficionados.
Particularly fun is the footage that the filmmaker has dug up detailing early societal revulsion of the punk aesthetic, including a clip from Jack Klugman's Quincy M.E. television series in which the character treats it as something akin to Nazism and a Phil Donahue episode in which the talk-show host attempts in his usual earnest way to get to the root of the problem.
The filmmaker, who spent her early years working as a photographer covering the Washington punk scene, clearly has a passion for her subject. It is perhaps best conveyed in the portrait of the Adicts, the longest-running punk band, who are still on the road, with all their original members, 30 years after they began.
- 8/10/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- If the following list of groups, bands and acts (The Adicts, Bad Religion, The Damned, The Exploited, GBH, The God Awfuls, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Billy Idol, Minor Threat, My Chemical Romance, Nofx, Offspring, Pennywise, Pogo Atak, The Ramones, Rancid, Henry Rollins, Social Distortion, Stiff Little Fingers, Subhumans, Sum 41, UK Subs, The Used) have somehow found themselves on your turntable or now Ipod then perhaps this doc with plenty of gusto is the perfect outing next to, of course, a live show. Produced by Susan Dynner (Brick) and Todd Traina (Grace is Gone; Black Water Transit), the film features scores of interviews with dozens of artists, and rare and unseen footage from across the spectrum. The film opens theatrically in select cities around the Us, adding cities as audience demand for the film grows.Sprawling and comprehensive, Punk's Not Dead takes the filmgoer into the sweaty underground clubs,
- 7/31/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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