2020 – Page 143 – Movie Retakes

Christopher Nolan’s Tenet Pushes Theatrical Release

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Christopher Nolan’s Tenet pushes theatrical release

Audiences were finally about to witness the expected majesty that is Christopher Nolan’s mysterious sci-fi espionage blockbuster Tenet, but due to the studio’s commitment to a theatrical release and a spike in cases of the coronavirus across the nation, Warner Bros. has chosen to delay the film’s release once again. (Via Variety)

The film was originally scheduled for a release on July 17 before WB announced two weeks ago that it would be pushed back to the end of July and now the film is slated for release on Wednesday, August 12, with a 10th anniversary re-release of Nolan’s Inception taking over the July 31 date after having originally taken over the July 17 date.

“Warner Bros. is committed to bringing Tenet to audiences in theaters, on the big screen, when exhibitors are ready and public health officials say it’s time,” a Warner Bros. spokesperson said in a statement. “In this moment what we need to be is flexible, and we are not treating this as a traditional movie release. We are choosing to open the movie mid-week to allow audiences to discover the film in their own time, and we plan to play longer, over an extended play period far beyond the norm, to develop a very different yet successful release strategy.”

The most recent Tenet trailer arrived stamped with the tag, “Coming to theaters,” though copy within the YouTube video continued to push the July 17 release. And while everyone at Warner Bros. remained optimistic situations will improve enough for them to release the film and NATO recently confirmed theaters would be open in time, it appears Warner Bros. would rather be safe than sorry by delaying the film by two weeks. Tenet’s success was set to pave the way for other planned releases, including Disney’s Mulan remake on July 24 and Warner Bros.’ Wonder Woman 1984 on August 14, but now that it has been pushed back to August, it’s unclear what will be the next big theatrical success of 2020.

The film is written by Nolan and will utilize a mixture of IMAX and 70mm film, which is something he’s become famous for.

The director first made an impact in 2001 with his indie film Memento. His next film, Insomnia, was also a modest hit. but it wasn’t until Batman Begins hit theaters in 2005 that Nolan became a box office force in his own right. The Prestige was Nolan’s last movie to gross under $200 million worldwide. His other films include The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk.

Nolan is producing Tenet along with his partner Emma Thomas and is currently slated for an August 12 release.

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Chiwetel Ejiofor Returning for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Chiwetel Ejiofor returning for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Though Marvel’s recent push of the highly-anticipated Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness may sting a bit for fans, they do have something to look forward to when the follow-up to the 2016 hit finally debuts as Chiwetel Ejiofor has confirmed that he will indeed be returning as Baron Mordo!

In an interview with Screen Rant to discuss his role in the upcoming Netflix adaptation of Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernández’s comic book The Old Guard, the Oscar nominee revealed he will in fact be returning to his role as the sorcerer who would go on to be a primary adversary of the titular character.

“We’re hoping to start pretty soon is what I can tell you,” Ejiofor said. “So, you know, as soon as possible. We’re all really excited to get going and to get cracking with it. I can’t wait.”

When audiences last saw Mordo, it was in the post-credits scene in the first film in which he visits Benjamin Bratt’s Jonathan Pangborn, who has been using his magical energy to cure his paralysis and live a normal life. Mordo proceeds to steal his energy, leaving Pangborn a paraplegic once again, and states that the problem with the world is it’s filled with too many sorcerers, setting up his villainous future. Mordo was one of the few main characters from the film not to appear in follow-up MCU films, as Strange would appear in Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, Wong would appear in the latter two films in the fight against Thanos, while The Ancient One would appear in Endgame during the time heist.

Benedict Cumberbatch will reprise his role as Stephen Strange, with Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff. Olsen’s upcoming Disney+ series, WandaVision, will also tie into the sequel. Additionally, Marvel’s Kevin Feige has confirmed that the Loki series will be linked to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness as well. Filming was expected to begin in May, but due to global health concerns it has been pushed back to pre-production beginning remotely in June.

The film recently hired Loki head writer Michael Waldron to rewrite the script from Jade Bartlett and has entered talks with Spider-Man‘s Sam Raimi to take over the directorial reigns on the project, much to the joy of fans and Derrickson alike.

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, and Benedict Wong have yet to be confirmed for the sequel. However, it’s likely that they will all return.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will hit theaters on November 5, 2021.

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My 10 Favorite Hans Zimmer Scores

Hans Zimmer needs no introduction. The man is a living legend. Backdraft. The Dark Knight trilogy. The Thin Red Line. Zimmer has produced some of the most iconic scores of the modern era and even ushered in a new wave of electronic film music that has since been knocked off countless times. Yet, with each film, Zimmer always manages to craft something extraordinary. And while no list can ever do him justice, I decided to go ahead and write one anyway.

Without further ado, these are my Top 10 favorite Hans Zimmer film scores. Feel free to list yours in the comments below!

The Thin Red Line

Zimmer’s masterwork is mostly known for the astonishing “Journey to the Line” composition that has been used in any number of trailers since its release 22 years ago. And yet, believe it or not, the soundtrack is actually so much more than this one track. Such is the stunning nature of Zimmer’s score that La-La Land Records saw fit to release a massive 4-CD anniversary edition that allows the listener to fully appreciate the composer’s work in its entirety. Zimmer has said that he labored for nearly two years on Terrence Malick’s acclaimed masterpiece and that the experienced re-shaped the way he approached film scores. The Thin Red Line marked the moment Hans Zimmer became Hans Zimmer. You can order a copy of the movie here!

Backdraft

I’m placing Backdraft near the top of the list for purely selfish reasons. This was my introduction to Zimmer’s world. I remember waiting in line for the Backdraft ride at Universal Studios Hollywood as a wee lad in the early ’90s before the attraction was replaced by Transformers: The Ride. As I zipped around the line procession, I heard Zimmer’s main theme blast over the loudspeakers — and man, what a moment. So captivated was I by its heroic melody that I flocked to the nearest CD Warehouse (which, it turns out, was located on the Universal CityWalk) and found the score used for $5. From that moment on, I was hooked.

As a side, it is interesting to hear certain ideas in Backdraft that Zimmer would later explore. I mean, you can hear the Batman theme throughout the mannequin warehouse fire sequence, which makes the listen all the more interesting. Sadly, we have yet to receive the score in its entirety, save for on YouTube. Can we rectify this, people? You can order a copy of the movie here!

Man of Steel

Hans Zimmer’s score for Man of Steel is pure magic. Rather than reiterate John Williams’ classic theme from Superman: The Movie, Zimmer went in a completely different direction and in so doing crafted one of the more memorable action scores of the modern age. Comprised mostly of drums, louder drums and a little brass, Man of Steel’s soundtrack is loud, enormous, and absolutely incredible. I listened to Zimmer perform Superman’s theme live in concert when he visited Las Vegas during his Hans Zimmer Live tour and let me tell you, I have never again geeked out to the level I geeked out during that moment. It was amazing.

At the risk of sounding like Bill Walton, Man of Steel is a masterclass in action music and somehow remains vastly underappreciated for its ingenuity. You can order a copy of the movie here!

The Dark Knight

Rather than go the traditional route for his first superhero score, Batman Begins, Zimmer opted for something much different. Collaborating with James Newton Howard, the soundtrack to Christopher Nolan’s kickoff to his beloved Dark Knight saga was a smashing success. A riveting, propulsive, atmospheric score that doesn’t feature on this list for one very specific reason: The Dark Knight was better.

That brilliant Joker theme — created by striking razors on a piano wire — opens the soundtrack on a mischievous even diabolical note that never subsides throughout the film’s duration. Batman’s own rising motif, accompanied by the sound of flapping wings, itself a more classically composed bit of music that contrasts nicely to the Joker’s theme, remains a truly haunting, powerful bit of score that stands as one of the best superhero compositions of the modern age. You can order a copy of the movie here!

Crimson Tide

I received the soundtrack to Crimson Tide as a birthday present way back in 1996. I was too young to see the movie (according to my parents) so I had no idea what the score sounded like but asked for it all the same because, well, Zimmer. And while a majority of the soundtrack is comprised mostly of electronic noises and such, the main theme to Tony Scott’s terrific submarine action flick starring Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman remains legendary. Take note of Zimmer’s use of the male choir, which became a staple of his throughout the 90s. You can order a copy of the movie here!

Black Hawk Down

Zimmer brought the creative heft for Ridley Scott’s fantastic war drama and created a unique score packed to the brim with a variety of instruments both electronic and traditional. The main theme is both glorious and heartbreaking; the action rhythms appropriately chaotic. At first listen, the wild structure of Black Hawk Down may leave the listener a tad overwhelmed, as it did me, but that’s purely by design. Zimmer and his team create motifs for both the American and Somalia forces that seem to battle one another for supremacy on the soundtrack; and it works wonders in the film. You can order a copy of the movie here!

The Lion King

Zimmer won his first and only Academy Award for Disney’s powerful animated blockbuster, The Lion King, and rightfully so. While the songs are good, Zimmer’s composition and glorious use of “Lebo M” Morake’s vocals lend the film an incredible power, what with its sweeping themes, and driving African choir. The Lion King remains, perhaps, the greatest animated score of all time — so good, they brought back Zimmer to re-do the music in the 2019 remake. You can order a copy of the movie here!

Gladiator

What we do in life, echoes in eternity. So, it goes for Gladiator, Zimmer’s exciting action masterpiece that introduced the world to Lisa Gerrard. The talented vocalist supplies Ridley Scott’s epic with a formidable dose of the ethereal, leading to one of the more popular musical compositions of the modern age in the tracks, “Elysium” and “Now We Are Free.” You can order a copy of the movie here!

Pirates of Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and At World’s End

While Klaus Badelt is credited for scoring Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Zimmer took the series reins from that point on — well, at least through On Stranger Tides — and crafted one helluva two-parter. Dead Man’s Chest takes the cake because it’s just so much damned fun what with its bouncy themes and that rock-centric Kraken theme. At World’s End is more dramatic, thanks in part to its epic love theme that probably deserved to be in a better movie, but no less fun, especially when Zimmer cuts loose with the track, “I Don’t Think Now is the Best Time.” You can order a copy of the movie here!

Inception

Zimmer’s third collaboration with Christopher Nolan resulted in one of the decade’s most memorable scores. The pounding brass, itself a play on Édith Piaf’s “Non, je ne regrette rien,” which serves a pivotal role in the film, and the use of guitar, as played by Johnny Marr, lends the score a qausi-Bond style that, when mixed with Zimmer’s propulsive orchestrations, is nothing short of spectacular. You can order a copy of the movie here!

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Ron Howard’s Rebuilding Paradise Trailer From National Geographic

Ron Howard's Rebuilding Paradise Trailer From National Geographic

Ron Howard’s Rebuilding Paradise Trailer From National Geographic

National Geographic has released the official trailer for Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard’s upcoming documentary Rebuilding Paradise from Imagine Documentaries. The documentary will be released in select theaters (physical and digital) on July 31, 2020. For every ticket sold, $1 will go to charities supporting the town of Paradise, California. You can check out the trailer now in the player below!

“Now more than ever, we need to remember that when people come together for the greater good we can make a positive change on our shared future. The passion and commitment of the people of Paradise, to one another and to rebuilding their community, is a reminder of the strength and resilience of the human spirit,” stated Howard.

On the morning of Nov. 8, 2018, a devastating firestorm engulfed the picturesque city of Paradise, California. By the time the Camp Fire was extinguished, it had killed 85 people, displaced 50,000 residents and destroyed 95% of local structures. It was the deadliest U.S. fire in 100 years — and the worst ever in California’s history.

As residents faced the damage to their lives, to their homes and to more than 150,000 acres in and around their 141-year-old town, they did something amazing: They worked together to heal. The community members went on to forge a bond stronger than what they had before the catastrophe, even as their hope and spirit were challenged by continued adversity: relocations, financial crises, government hurdles, water poisoning, grief, and PTSD.

From the moment the crisis began, Howard led a filmmaking team to the city and would go on to spend a year with Paradise residents, documenting their efforts to recover what was lost. The Camp Fire and its overwhelming aftermath became a de facto lesson in what we all must do: Protect our environment, help our neighbors, plan for future dangers and remember to preserve the traditions that unite us — just as these resilient citizens did when they began the important task of Rebuilding Paradise.

The film is being released through the leading distributor of documentary films, Abramorama.

Rebuilding Paradise was produced by Brian Grazer, Howard, Xan Parker, Sara Bernstein, and Justin Wilkes; executive produced by Michael Rosenberg, Louisa Velis, Carolyn Bernstein, and Ryan Harrington; co-produced by Lizz Morhaim, with cinematography by Lincoln Else; edited by M. Watanabe Milmore; music by Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe.

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Shudder July 2020 Movie Highlights Announced!

Shudder July 2020 movie highlights announced!

AMC’s horror-tinged streaming service Shudder has unveiled its movie and TV highlights for the month of July, including the upcoming apocalyptic thriller The Beach House, the ’80s-focused documentary In Search of Darkness as well as a number of cult classics! Check out the full calendar for what to watch on Shudder next month!

Shudder July 2020 Original/Exclusive Movies

Metamorphosis (premieres Thursday, July 2)

In this fresh spin on a demonic possession story, Joong-Su, an exorcist, must face a demon he tragically failed to defeat in the past when it targets his brother’s family next. The demon assumes the form of different family members to sow confusion and distrust, destroying the unit from within. With his loved ones in peril, Joong-Su must face the demon again, at the risk of his own life. Starring Bae Sung-Woo, Sung Dong-Il and Jang Young-Nam. Directed by Hong-Seon Kim.

The Beach House (premieres Thursday, July 9)

Escaping to a family’s beach house to reconnect, Emily and Randall find their off-season trip interrupted by Mitch and Jane, an older couple acquainted with Randall’s estranged father. Unexpected bonds form as the couples let loose and enjoy the isolation, but it all takes an ominous turn as increasingly strange environmental phenomena begin to warp their peaceful evening. As the effects of an infection become evident, Emily struggles to make sense of the contagion before it’s too late. Starring Liana Liberato, Noah Le Gros, Jake Weber and Maryanne Nagel, directed by Jeffrey A. Brown.

Lake of Death (premieres Thursday, July 16)

A year after her twin brother died a mysterious death, Lillian and her friends head to the old family cabin to say their goodbyes. But soon after they arrive, eerie and gruesome events begin to occur. As the lines between reality and Lillian’s nightmares blur, she must fight both an external and internal struggle to stay alive. Is a horrific local legend becoming reality, or is the real enemy among them?

Director Nini Bull Robsahm (Amnesia) took inspiration from Norway’s popular 1942 novel (and later film adaptation) of the same name (De dødes tjern), credited with sparking the country’s interest in horror. Robsahm shot Lake of Death on stunning 35mm and brought on Academy Award-winner Bob Murawski (Army of Darkness, Drag Me to Hell, The Hurt Locker) to edit. Starring Iben Akerlie, Jacob Andersen Schøyen, Jonathan Harboe, Sophia Lie and Elias Mun.

Impetigore (premieres Thursday, July 23)

(Sundance 2020 Official Selection) After surviving a murder attempt in the city, Maya, a down-on-her-luck young woman, learns that she may inherit a house in her ancestral village. With her friend Dini, Maya returns to the village of her birth, unaware that the community there has been trying to locate and kill her to remove the curse that has plagued the village for years. As she begins to discover the complicated reality about her past, Maya finds herself in a fight for her life. Starring Tara Basro, Ario Bayu, Marissa Anita, Christine Hakim, Asmara Abigail, directed by Joko Anwar (Satan’s Slaves, another Shudder Original).

In Search of Darkness (premieres Thursday, July 30)

Tracking major theatrical releases, obscure titles and straight-to-video gems, this four-plus-hour documentary explores ‘80s horror films year-by-year. Topics include groundbreaking practical effects; the home-video revolution; poster art and project marketing; creative and budgetary challenges; sound design and musical scores; the 3-D resurgence; heroes and villains; sex, nudity and “the final girl” controversy; and the pop culture context that fueled the genre. Filled with countless clips and entertaining moments, In Search of Darkness is a nostalgia trip through a game-changing decade, as told by both experts and the icons who influenced the modern landscape of genre cinema.

Featuring Tom Atkins, Doug Bradley, Joe Bob Briggs, Darcy the Mail Girl, Lori Cardille, John Carpenter, Nick Castle, Larry Cohen, Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Sean S. Cunningham, Joe Dante, Keith David, Katie Featherston, Mick Garris, Michael Gingold, Stuart Gordon, Andre Gower, Spencer Hickman, Kane Hodder, Tom Holland, Graham Humphreys, James A. Janisse, Lloyd Kaufman, Eric Kurland , Heather Langenkamp, Don Mancini, Harry Manfredini, Kelli Maroney, Robbi Morgan, Bill Moseley, Greg Nicotero, Phil Nobile Jr., Cassandra Peterson, Mike Redman, James Rolfe, Ken Sagoes, Ben Scrivens, Mark Shostrom, Corey Taylor, Cecil Trachenburg, Ryan Turek, Caroline Williams, Alex Winter, Heather Wixson, Tom Woodruff Jr., and Brian Yuzna. Directed by David A. Weiner.

New Movies for July

July 1

The Burning (Director: Tony Maylam)

When an ill-advised prank misfires, summer camp caretaker Cropsy is committed to hospital with hideous burns. Released after five years, hospital officials warn him not to blame the young campers who caused his disfigurement. But no sooner is Cropsy back on the streets than he’s headed back to camp with a rusty pair of shears in hand, determined to exact his bloody revenge. Starring Brian Matthews, Leah Ayres, Brian Backer, Jason Alexander.

Return of the Living Dead (Director: Dan O’Bannon)

Two employees of a medical supply company accidentally release a toxic gas that raises up the dead. Soon the area is overrun with flesh-eating residents of the local cemetery who are hungry… for human brains. Starring Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathews, Miguel Nunez, Brian Peck and Linnea Quigley.

Sleepaway Camp (Director: Robert Hiltzik)

Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (Director: Michael A. Simpson)

Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (Director: Michael A. Simpson)

Bad campers meet brutal ends in this cult favorite ‘80s slasher series. In the first film, slightly traumatized and painfully shy Angela Baker is sent away to summer camp with her cousin. Not long after Angela’s arrival, things start to go horribly wrong for anyone with ill intentions. Who’s the secret killer? And what’s behind their murderous motivation? Things start out campy but get nastier and nastier until the shocking (and problematic) ending. In the sequel, the grisly murders that terrorized Camp Arawak six years earlier have become beloved ghost stories around Camp Rolling Hills. But as the campers uncover the truth behind the murders, their carefree days at summer camp come to a violent end. And in the series’ third chapter set at a camp for troubled youths, the psychotic killer that has roamed the woods and been the topic of many ghost stories is still lurking about.

July 2

Metamorphosis

July 6

Jeruzalem (Directors: The PAZ Brothers)

In this award-winning supernatural horror, two American girls on vacation follow a mysterious and handsome anthropology student on a trip to Jerusalem. The party is cut short when the trio are caught in the middle of a biblical apocalypse. Trapped between the ancient walls of the holy city, the three travelers must survive long enough to find a way out as the fury of hell is unleashed upon them. Starring Yael Grobglas, Yon Tumarkin, Danielle Jadelyn.

July 9

The Beach House

July 13

Maniac Cop (Director: William Lustig)

Maniac Cop 2 (Director: William Lustig)

Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence (Director: William Lustig)

Two New York policemen (Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell) and a policewoman (Laurene Landon) search for a killer in uniform who should be dead. In the sequel, the “Maniac Cop” is back from the dead and stalking the streets of New York once more. And in part three, when footage is doctored to place blame for a hostage’s death on a comatose officer, the “Maniac Cop” takes it upon himself to exact revenge upon those responsible for smearing her name.

July 16

Lake of Death

July 20

Nina Forever (Directors: Ben & Chris Blaine)

Holly wants to prove she’s not some prude, but when she starts dating the brooding Rob, she’s not expecting a three-way relationship with a rotting corpse. Though the dead-ish Nina’s blood can be washed out of the sheets, the couple have to go to greater lengths to give her soul peace—if that’s even possible. Starring Cian Barry, Abigail Hardingham, Fiona O’Shaughnessy.

The Pool (Director: Ping Lumpraploeng)

In this simple yet surprising film, a young couple find themselves trapped in a 20’-deep swimming pool with no way out—and that’s only the beginning of their problems. Starring Theeradej Wongpuapan, Ratnamon Ratchiratham.

July 23

Impetigore

July 27

Patrick (Director: Richard Franklin)

A comatose patient uses telekinesis to kill in this terrifying Australian horror classic. Lying quietly in his hospital bed, one might mistake Patrick for a hopeless case. But Patrick’s more than meets the eye, and when he becomes fixated on his nurse, he starts using his powers to stop anyone who tries to come between them. Starring Susan Penhaligon, Robert Helpmann, Rod Mullinar.

Turkey Shoot (Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith)

In a dystopian future, a group of prisoners become targets in a state-sponsored hunting game called a “turkey shoot,” where they’ll be preyed upon by evil gun-toting government officials. If the prisoners survive, they’ll be set free. But the prisoners don’t want to take that chance, and soon the totalitarian rulers find themselves with targets on their backs. One of Ozploitation horror king Brian Trenchard-Smith’s greatest films. Starring Steve Railsback, Olivia Hussey, Michael Craig.

July 30

In Search of Darkness

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Bill & Ted Face the Music Coming to Comic-Con@Home

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Bill & Ted Face the Music Coming to Comic-Con@Home

Orion Pictures is bringing Bill & Ted Face the Music to Comic-Con@Home, which runs from July 23-26! Those participating in the panel include cast members Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, William Salder, director Dean Parisot, and writers Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson. The panel will be moderated by filmmaker and fan Kevin Smith.

Bill & Ted Face the Music centers on Bill S. Preston (Winter) and Ted “Theodore” Logan (Reeves), who are now fathers and have yet to fulfill their rock ‘n’ roll destinies. Their lives change when they are visited by a messenger from the future who warns them that only their song can save life as we know it.

Buy both previous Bill & Ted films here.

Joining Winter and Reeves are Samara Weaving (Ready or Not) and Brigette Lundy-Paine (Atypical) as Bill and Ted’s daughters, respectively. The film will also feature Anthony Carrigan (Barry), Jillian Bell (Workaholics), Kristen Schall (Toy Story 4), Holland Taylor (Gloria Bell), Kid Cudi, Erinn Hayes, Jayma Mays, and Beck Bennet. William Sadler is also set to reprise his role as Death alongside franchise returners Amy Stoch and Hal London Jr. Newcomer.

News of a third Bill & Ted film has been floating around for years. After Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, original creators Chris Matheson (Imagine That) and Ed Solomon (Men in Black, Now You See Me) have penned the script, with Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest, Fun with Dick and Jane) directing. Scott Kroopf (Limitless) will produce together with Alex Lebovici and Steve Ponce of Hammerstone Studios, with Steven Soderbergh serving as an executive producer alongside Scott Fischer, John Ryan Jr., and John Santilli.

Orion Pictures will release the feel-good family adventure on August 14, 2020.

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New to Stream: The Criterion Channel’s July 2020 Lineup

The Criterion Channel, a streaming service from the niche home video distributor for film aficionados, has unveiled its lineup of programming for the month of July, which will include and Auto Focused double featuring with the Steve McQueen-starring classic Bullitt and ensemble sports drama Grand Prix, along with a large roster of contemporary and classic films!

Wednesday, July 1

Between the Lines

Inspired by director Joan Micklin Silver’s time working at New York’s storied alt weekly the Village Voice, this unsung gem of 1970s slice-of-life seriocomedy offers an incisive, bittersweet look at a shifting media landscape that feels as fresh and relevant as ever. At the offices of a Boston independent newspaper, the staff members—including music critic Max (Jeff Goldblum, in one of his first leading roles), news reporter Harry (John Heard) and photographer Abbie (Lindsay Crouse)—enjoy a positive and open-minded work environment. However, it seems as though their relatively carefree days are numbered when the owner of a major publishing company buys the paper, leading to more money, but big changes.

Thursday, July 2

Young Ahmed

Exclusive streaming premiere, featuring a new introduction by film historian Godfrey Cheshire

Winner of the best director award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the latest social-realist triumph from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne finds the pair applying their patented brand of heartrendingly empathetic humanism to an explosive subject. Under the sway of his radical imam, Ahmed (Idir Ben Addi, in a revelatory debut performance), a thirteen-year-old Muslim boy growing up in a small Belgian town, becomes increasingly enamored with the tenets of violent religious extremism—a rejection of his family and society that has shocking consequences. Resisting both easy answers and the urge to sensationalize, the Dardenne brothers offer a clear-eyed, grippingly naturalistic portrait of a young life in crisis graced with the expansive compassion that has made them among the most consistently lauded cinematic voices of our time.

Friday, July 3

Certain Women: Criterion Collection Edition #893

The expanses of the American West take center stage in this intimately observed triptych from Kelly Reichardt. Adapted from three short stories by Maile Meloy and unfolding in self-contained but interlocking episodes, Certain Women navigates the subtle shifts in personal desire and social expectation that unsettle the circumscribed lives of its characters: a lawyer (Laura Dern) forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother (Michelle Williams) whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a night-school teacher (Kristen Stewart) who forms a tenuous bond with a lonely ranch hand (Lily Gladstone), whose longing for connection delivers an unexpected jolt of emotional immediacy. With unassuming craft, Reichardt captures the rhythms of daily life in small-town Montana through these fine-grained portraits of women trapped within the landscape’s wide-open spaces. SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Interviews with Kelly Reichardt, executive producer Todd Haynes, and author Maile Meloy.

Friday, July 3

Double Feature: Auto Focused

Bullitt and Grand Prix

The roar of the engines, the smell of burning rubber on pavement, and the adrenaline-rush exhilaration of pedal-to-the-metal speed: the kinetic thrill of cool cars in motion is front and center in these two action classics guaranteed to get your motor running. Steve McQueen confirmed his status as the King of Cool with his steely turn in the lean, mean thriller Bullitt, featuring the most iconic car chase ever filmed: a full-throttle pursuit up and down the vertiginous streets of San Francisco. Then, director John Frankenheimer puts you in the driver’s seat in Grand Prix, a sleekly stylized, star-studded technical masterpiece set in the daredevil world of Formula One racing, featuring one of Saul Bass’s most virtuosic title sequences.

Saturday, July 4

Saturday Matinee: Mad Hot Ballroom

Fifth graders from across New York City’s public schools journey into the life-changing world of ballroom dancing in this irresistible documentary from Marilyn Agrelo. Told from the always candid, often hilarious perspectives of the kids themselves, Mad Hot Ballroom traces their journeys from reluctant participants to pint-sized Astaires as they set out to win it all in a citywide competition. Along the way there are trials, tears, life lessons, and, above all, joy—especially when the kids hit the dance floor to strut their stuff.

Sunday, July 5

Western Noir

A new breed of westerns emerged after World War II, stained by film noir’s anxious, disenchanted mood and enriched by its psychological and moral complexity. Romantic myths of the frontier gave way to tougher tales of ruthless outlaws, corrupt cattle barons, gold-crazed prospectors, mercenary gunfighters, and lonely, damaged men obsessively pursuing vengeance for past wrongs. Essential noir actors found a home on the range: Robert Mitchum brings his cool, world-weary pessimism to Blood on the Moon and Man with the Gun, while Robert Ryan’s tortured tension anchors the gripping Day of the Outlaw. Women, long marginalized in westerns, wielded newfound power, but not without getting their hands dirty; the femmes fatales of western noir include Barbara Stanwyck (The Violent Men), Ida Lupino (Lust for Gold) and Marlene Dietrich (Rancho Notorious). From brooding black-and-white dramas like Station West and I Shot Jesse James to the harrowing, elegiac masterpieces of Anthony Mann, the West’s wide-open spaces prove as haunted and dangerous as any dark city.

Blood on the Moon, Robert Wise, 1948

Station West, Sidney Lanfield, 1948

I Shot Jesse James, Samuel Fuller, 1949

Lust for Gold, S. Sylvan Simon, 1949

The Walking Hills, John Sturges, 1949

Devil’s Doorway, Anthony Mann, 1950

Rancho Notorious, Fritz Lang, 1952

The Naked Spur, Anthony Mann, 1953

Man with the Gun, Richard Wilson, 1955

The Violent Men, Rudolph Maté, 1955

Man of the West, Anthony Mann, 1958

Day of the Outlaw, André De Toth, 1959

Monday, July 6

California Typewriter

A love letter to the analogue pleasures of an increasingly niche technology, this thought-provoking documentary is a rich, affectionate portrait of artists, writers, and collectors who remain steadfastly loyal to the typewriter as a tool and muse. Featuring interviews with high-profile enthusiasts like Tom Hanks, Sam Shepard, David McCullough, John Mayer, and others, it also movingly documents the struggles of California Typewriter, one of the last repair shops in America dedicated to keeping the aging contraptions clicking. As the digital age’s emphasis on speed and convenience reshapes our relationship to technology, CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER asks us to consider who’s serving whom: human or machine?

Monday, July 6

Lenny Cooke

In 2001, Lenny Cooke was the most hyped high school basketball player in the country, ranked above future greats LeBron James, Amar’e Stoudemire, and Carmelo Anthony. A decade later, he had never played a minute in the NBA. This quintessentially American documentary by Josh and Benny Safdie tracks the unfulfilled destiny of a man for whom superstardom was only just out of reach.

Tuesday, July 7

Short + Feature: Animal Instincts

Shadow Animals and Attenberg

The innate strangeness of human social rituals is brought to the fore in these brilliantly bizarre anthropological social dramas that double as critiques of cultural norms and niceties. Swedish director Jerry Carlsson’s tense, uncanny short Shadow Animals assumes the point of view of a young girl as it surveys the increasingly weird, sinister goings-on at a nightmarish dinner party. Its vision of human nature as inherently animalistic is taken to the extreme in Greek iconoclast Athina Rachel Tsangari’s international breakout Attenberg, an outré blend of coming-of-age melodrama, oddball musical, and surrealist nature documentary.

Tuesday, July 7

Documentaries by the Ross Brothers

The richly impressionistic documentaries of Bill Ross IV Turner Ross are wonders of regional American filmmaking made according to an unwavering philosophy: to be completely present in the moment and alive to the ecstatic humanity that passes before their camera. Transforming everyday life into free-flowing poetry through their rhapsodic editing style, the brothers offer an exhilarating look at a single night in New Orleans in Tchoupitoulas and team up with David Byrne to stage a one-of-a-kind performance built around high school color guards in Contemporary Color.

Tchoupitoulas, 2012

Contemporary Color, 2016

Wednesday, July 8

Directed by Sara Driver

Everyday reality slips into surrealist reverie in the uncanny visions of Sara Driver, whose films possess the hallucinatory textures and hypnotic rhythms of a waking dream. A central but often overlooked linchpin of the 1980s downtown New York arts scene, Driver made her directorial debut with You Are Not I, a mesmerizingly eerie adaptation of a Paul Bowles story that was thought lost for decades until it reemerged to take its place as one of the key independent films of the era. In subsequent features Sleepwalk and When Pigs Fly, Driver delved further into the fantastical, crafting modern-day fairy tales whose trancelike spells linger long after the last reel.

You Are Not I, 1981

Sleepwalk, 1986

When Pigs Fly, 1993

The Bowery, 1994

Wednesday, July 8

A Dry White Season: Criterion Collection Edition #953

With this bracing drama, made at the climax of the anti-apartheid movement, director Euzhan Palcy issued a devastating indictment of South Africa’s racist government—and made history in the process, becoming the first black woman to direct a Hollywood studio film. White schoolteacher Ben Du Toit (Donald Sutherland) lives in Johannesburg and remains blissfully incurious about the lives of his black countrymen until a wave of brutal treatment comes crashing down on his gardener (Winston Ntshona), bringing Du Toit face-to-face with harsh political realities. Based on a celebrated novel by André Brink and rooted in the first-hand research the Martinican Palcy did in South Africa into the way black people lived under apartheid, A Dry White Season is unflinching in its depiction of violence and its chronicling of injustice, making for a galvanizing tribute to those willing to sacrifice everything to fight oppression. SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Interviews with Euzhan Palcy and Donald Sutherland, excerpts from a conversation between Palcy and Nelson Mandela, and more.

Thursday, July 9

Scores by Ryuichi Sakamoto

Japanese electronic-music pioneer Ryuichi Sakamoto has been at the cutting edge of both pop and avant-garde music for over four decades. Opening up a brave new world of sound through his work with his influential band Yellow Magic Orchestra, Sakamoto went on to a distinguished international career as a film composer beginning with his entrancing synth score for Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, in which he also costarred with David Bowie. Since then, Sakamoto has worked with auteurs ranging from Bernardo Bertolucci to Pedro Almodóvar to Shirin Neshat, bringing a distinctive experimental edge and stirring sense of atmosphere to some of the most haunting and indelible film music of the last half century.

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Nagisa Oshima, 1983

The Sheltering Sky, Bernardo Bertolucci, 1990

The Handmaid’s Tale, Volker Schlöndorff, 1990

High Heels, Pedro Almodóvar, 1991

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Peter Kosminsky, 1992

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon, John Maybury, 1998

Gohatto, Nagisa Oshima, 1999

Tony Takitani, Jun Ichikawa, 2004

Women Without Men, Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari, 2009

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda, Stephen Nomura Schible, 2017

Friday, July 10

Double Feature: Loving on the Edge

Mala Noche and My Own Private Idaho

Touchstone works in the evolution of the New Queer Cinema movement, these twin tales of aimless youth by Gus Van Sant are swooning expressions of his signature concern: the emotional journeys of young men adrift on the margins of society. While editing his boldly original debut feature Mala Noche, about a romantic deadbeat’s wayward crush on a handsome Mexican immigrant, Van Sant met Mike Parker, a Portland street kid who became the inspiration for the young hustler played by River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho. Further developing the themes of queer identity, transience, and unrequited longing, Van Sant created an intoxicating anthem of outsiderhood that stands as one of the defining independent films of the 1990s.

Saturday, July 11

Saturday Matinee: The White Balloon

Jafar Panahi’s revelatory debut feature is a child’s-eye adventure in which a young girl’s quest to buy a goldfish leads her on a detour-filled journey through the streets of Tehran on the eve of the Iranian New Year celebration. Co-written by Panahi with his mentor Abbas Kiarostami, this beguiling, prizewinning fable unfolds in documentary-like real time as it wrings unexpected comedy, suspense, and wonder from its seemingly simple premise.

Sunday, July 12

Marriage Stories

Bad marriages make great movies, as evidenced by these gloriously messy, cuttingly perceptive portraits of some of the most dysfunctional relationships ever captured on-screen. With raw emotion, dramatic blowups, and soul-baring self-reflection baked into the premise, these tales of marital breakups and shakeups explore everything from jealousy, infidelity, and betrayal to the procedural complexities of divorce and separation to the myriad, sometimes barely perceptible ways in which couples drift apart. They also happen to be vehicles for some of the most personal and revealing statements from major directors like Ingmar Bergman, John Cassavetes, Ida Lupino, Mike Nichols, Noah Baumbach, Lars von Trier, Asghar Farhadi, and others, each of whom brings fresh insight to that most universal of subjects: the mysterious intricacies of human intimacy.

Come Back, Little Sheba, Daniel Mann, 1952

The Bigamist, Ida Lupino, 1953

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Richard Brooks, 1958

La notte, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961

Juliet of the Spirits, Federico Fellini, 1965

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Mike Nichols, 1966

Faces, John Cassavetes, 1968

A Married Couple, Allan King, 1969

Scenes from a Marriage, Ingmar Bergman, 1973

California Suite, Herbert Ross, 1978

Kramer vs. Kramer, Robert Benton, 1979

5×2, François Ozon, 2004

The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach, 2005

Antichrist, Lars von Trier, 2009

Certified Copy, Abbas Kiarostami, 2010

Tuesday, After Christmas, Radu Muntean, 2010

A Separation, Asghar Farhadi, 2011

45 Years, Andrew Haigh, 2015

Monday, July 13

Nostalgia for the Light

Master documentarian Patricio Guzmán travels ten thousand feet above sea level to the driest place on earth: Chile’s Atacama Desert, where astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars in a sky so translucent that it allows them to see to the boundaries of the universe. The Atacama is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human remains intact, including those of political prisoners “disappeared” by the Chilean army after the 1973 military coup. Just as astronomers search for distant galaxies, surviving relatives of the disappeared search for the remains of their loved ones in a quest to reclaim their families’ histories. Melding the celestial and the earthly, Nostalgia for the Light is a gorgeous, moving, and deeply personal odyssey into both Chilean history and the furthest reaches of space.

Tuesday, July 14

Short + Feature: Lost Pets

Pickle and Gates of Heaven

Do all dogs go to heaven? Two documentary filmmakers explore mortality and mourning through the experiences of pet owners. In Pickle, Amy Nicholson profiles a couple of extreme animal lovers, interviewing them about the menagerie they’ve cared for and buried over the years, including paraplegic possums, emaciated cats, and morbidly obese chickens. Errol Morris’s debut feature, Gates of Heaven, immerses viewers in the community surrounding two pet cemeteries in Napa Valley, California, blending sincerity and satire to spin its quirky subject into a surprisingly expansive study of human nature.

Wednesday, July 15

Directed by Miranda July

The fearless, brilliantly idiosyncratic films of writer-director-actor and all-around polymath Miranda July combine arrestingly oddball whimsy with astute, emotionally penetrating observations on intimacy, sexuality, loneliness, and human connection. Beginning her career as a performance artist immersed in the riot grrrl scene of 1990s Portland, Oregon, July found her way to film with her pioneering Joanie 4 Jackie project, in which she curated and distributed feminist video “chain letters” of underground movies made by women across the country. With her acclaimed features Me and You and Everyone We Know and The Future, July established herself as one of American independent cinema’s most distinctive voices, a bold, relentlessly imaginative artist who finds cosmic insight in the everyday.

Features

Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda July, 2005

The Future, Miranda July, 2011

Shorts

The Amateurist, Miranda July, 1998

Nest of Tens, Miranda July, 2000

Shorts from Joanie 4 Jackie

Transeltown, Myra Paci, 1992

Dear Mom, Tammy Rae Carland, 1995

The Slow Escape, Sativa Peterson, 1998

Hawai, Ximena Cuevas, 1999

No Place Like Home #1 and #2, Karen Yasinsky, 1999

Gigi (from 9 to 5), Joanne Nucho, 2001

Ophelia’s Opera, Abiola Abrams, 2001

La Llorona, Stephanie Saint Sanchez, 2003

untitled video, Sujin Lee, 2002

Joanie 4 Jackie: A Quick Overview, Shauna McGarry, 2008

Thursday, July 16

Three Starring Jane Fonda

Few actors have dominated an era—for their work both on- and offscreen—the way Jane Fonda did in the 1960s and ’70s, when she emerged as one of the most acclaimed performers of her generation as well as a zeitgeist-defining cultural icon for her fierce political activism. All made at the peak of her career, these three films showcase Fonda’s nuance, impeccable comic timing, and versatility: she’s larger than life as an intergalactic bombshell in the cult sci-fi extravaganza Barbarella; riotously funny as a bourgeois housewife who takes up armed robbery in the barbed slapstick satire Fun with Dick and Jane; and at once prickly and disarming as a divorced woman fighting for custody of her daughter in the Neil Simon–penned ensemble farce California Suite.

Barbarella, Roger Vadim, 1968

Fun with Dick and Jane, Ted Kotcheff, 1977

California Suite, Herbert Ross, 1978

Friday, July 17

Double Feature: Girls and the Gang

Mona Lisa and Gloria

Two gritty 1980s crime classics distinguish themselves with ingredients all too rare for the genre: heart, humor, and strong female protagonists. Set in London’s sordid criminal underworld, Neil Jordan’s Mona Lisa stars Cathy Tyson, Bob Hoskins, and Michael Caine in a surprisingly affecting, romantic neonoir about the complex relationship that develops between a glamorous call girl and a small-time mobster. Then, the great Gena Rowlands goes from gangster’s girlfriend to gun-toting action hero in John Cassavetes’s offbeat, New York-set thriller Gloria, in which she acts as avenging angel for a young boy on the run from the mob.

Saturday, July 18

Saturday Matinee: Miss Annie Rooney

As Shirley Temple grew up before the eyes of America, this delightful comeback vehicle offered her a chance to shine in a new kind of film: a charming teenage romance, complete with jive-talking, jitterbug-mad bobby soxers. She displays her patented pluck (and receives her first on-screen kiss) as starry-eyed fourteen-year-old Annie Rooney, who pines for nerdy classmate Marty (Dickie Moore) even though his wealthy family looks down on her working-class background. When Annie’s father (William Gargan) invents a new form of synthetic rubber, however, it may just be her ticket to love.

Sunday, July 19

100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012

Originally scheduled to begin this month, the Tokyo Olympic Games have been postponed, but you can still celebrate a century of Olympic glory with this monumental collection. Spanning fifty-three movies and forty-one editions of the Olympic Games, 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912–2012 is the culmination of a massive, award-winning archival project encompassing dozens of restorations by the International Olympic Committee. The documentaries collected here cast a cinematic eye on some of the most iconic moments in the history of modern sports, spotlighting athletes who embody the Olympic motto of “Faster, Higher, Stronger”: Jesse Owens shattering world records on the track in 1936 Berlin, Jean-Claude Killy dominating the Grenoble slopes in 1968, Joan Benoit breaking away to win the Games’ first women’s marathon in Los Angeles in 1984. In addition to the impressive ten-feature contribution of Bud Greenspan, this stirring collective chronicle of triumph and defeat includes such documentary landmarks as Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia and Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad, along with captivating lesser-known works by major directors like Claude Lelouch, Carlos Saura, and Miloš Forman. It also offers a fascinating glimpse of the development of film itself, and of the technological progress that has brought viewers ever closer to the action. Traversing continents and decades, reflecting the social, cultural, and political changes that have shaped our recent history, this remarkable movie marathon showcases a hundred years of human endeavor.

The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912, Adrian Wood, 2016

The Olympic Games Held at Chamonix in 1924, Jean de Rovera, 1924

The Olympic Games as They Were Practiced in Ancient Greece, Jean de Rovera, 1924

The Olympic Games in Paris 1924, Jean de Rovera, 1924

The White Stadium, Arnold Fanck and Othmar Gurtner, 1928

The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam, dir. unknown, 1928

The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928, Wilhelm Prager, 1928

Youth of the World, Carl Junghans, 1936

Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations, Leni Riefenstahl, 1938

Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty, Leni Riefenstahl, 1938

Fight Without Hate, André Michel, 1948

XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport, Castleton Knight, 1948

The VI Olympic Winter Games, Oslo 1952, Tancred Ibsen, 1952

Where the World Meets, Hannu Leminen, 1952

Gold and Glory, Hannu Leminen, 1953

Memories of the Olympic Summer of 1952, dir. unknown, 1954

White Vertigo, Giorgio Ferroni, 1956

Olympic Games, 1956, Peter Whitchurch, 1956

The Melbourne Rendez-vous, René Lucot, 1957

Alain Mimoun, Louis Gueguen, 1959

The Horse in Focus, dir. unknown, 1956

People, Hopes, Medals, Heribert Meisel, 1960

The Grand Olympics, Romolo Marcellini, 1961

IX Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1964, Theo Hörmann, 1964

Tokyo Olympiad, Kon Ichikawa, 1965

Sensation of the Century, prod. Taguchi Suketaro, 1966

13 Days in France, Claude Lelouch and François Reichenbach, 1968

Snows of Grenoble, Jacques Ertaud and Jean-Jacques Languepin, 1968

The Olympics in Mexico, Alberto Isaac, 1969

Sapporo Winter Olympics, Masahiro Shinoda, 1972

Visions of Eight, Miloš Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, and Mai Zetterling, 1973

White Rock, Tony Maylam, 1977

Games of the XXI Olympiad, Jean-Claude Labrecque, Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, and Georges Dufaux, 1977

Olympic Spirit, Drummond Challis and Tony Maylam, 1980

O Sport, You Are Peace!, Yuri Ozerov, 1981

A Turning Point, Kim Takal, 1984

16 Days of Glory, Bud Greenspan, 1986

Calgary ’88: 16 Days of Glory, Bud Greenspan, 1989

Seoul 1988, Lee Kwang-soo, 1989

Hand in Hand, Im Kwon-taek, 1989

Beyond All Barriers, Lee Ji-won, 1989

One Light, One World, Joe Jay Jalbert and R. Douglas Copsey, 1992

Marathon, Carlos Saura, 1993

Lillehammer ’94: 16 Days of Glory, Bud Greenspan, 1994

Atlanta’s Olympic Glory, Bud Greenspan, 1997

Nagano ’98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory, Bud Greenspan, 1998

Olympic Glory, Kieth Merrill, 1999

Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory, Bud Greenspan, 2001

Salt Lake City 2002: Bud Greenspan’s Stories of Olympic Glory, Bud Greenspan, 2003

Bud Greenspan’s Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory, Bud Greenspan, 2005

Bud Greenspan’s Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory, Bud Greenspan, 2007

The Everlasting Flame, Gu Jun, 2010

Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory, prods. Bud Greenspan and Nancy Beffa, 2010

First, Caroline Rowland, 2012

Monday, July 20

12 O’Clock Boys

Meet the 12 O’Clock Boys, an infamous urban dirt-bike pack who whiz through the streets of Baltimore. Popping wheelies and weaving at excessive speeds through traffic, the group impressively evades the hamstrung police. Three years in the making, Lotfy Nathan’s wild, dynamic documentary captures their death-defying antics through the eyes of young adolescent Pug, a bright kid from the Westside obsessed with the riders and willing to do anything to join their ranks. Propelled by breathtakingly kinetic footage that takes viewers along for the ride, 12 O’Clock Boys spins a compelling, intimate story of a young boy and his dangerous, thrilling dream.

Tuesday, July 21

Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project: Soleil Ô

A furious howl of resistance against racist oppression, the debut from Mauritanian director Med Hondo is a bitterly funny, stylistically explosive attack on Western capitalism and the legacy of colonialism. Laced with deadly irony and righteous anger, Soleil Ô follows a starry-eyed immigrant (Robert Liensol) as he leaves West Africa and journeys to Paris in search of a job and cultural enrichment—but soon discovers a hostile society in which his very presence elicits fear and resentment. Drawing on the freewheeling stylistic experimentation of the French New Wave, Hondo deploys a dizzying array of narrative and stylistic techniques—animation, docudrama, dream sequences, musical numbers, folklore, slapstick comedy, agitprop—to create a revolutionary landmark of political cinema and a shattering vision of awakening black consciousness.

Tuesday, July 21

Short + Feature: A Day in the Life

Fit Model and Cléo from 5 to 7

From 1960s Paris to contemporary New York City, two women juggle careers, relationships, and personal crises over the course of days in which nothing—and everything—happens. Myna Joseph’s elegantly shot, Big Apple–set short Fit Model follows a thirtysomething freelancer who works as everything from a babysitter to a stand-in for fashion models while also dealing with the physical and financial fallout of an accident. Joseph based her character’s city wanderings and fluid, fluctuating identity on Cléo, a singer who whiles away her day while awaiting confirmation of a cancer diagnosis in Agnès Varda’s real-time French New Wave touchstone Cléo from 5 to 7.

Wednesday, July 22

Born in Flames

The film that rocked the foundations of the 1980s underground, this postpunk provocation is a DIY science-fiction fantasia of female rebellion set in America ten years after a social-democratic cultural revolution. When Adelaide Norris (Jean Satterfield), the black revolutionary founder of the Woman’s Army, is mysteriously killed, a diverse coalition of women—across all lines of race, class, and sexual orientation—emerges to blow the system apart. Filmed guerrilla-style on the streets of pregentrification New York, Born in Flames is a Molotov cocktail of feminist futurism that’s both an essential document of its time and radically ahead of it.

Thursday, July 23

Tokyo Olympiad: Criterion Collection Edition #155

A spectacle of magnificent proportions and remarkable intimacy, Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad remains one of the greatest films ever made about sports. Supervising a vast team of technicians using scores of cameras, Ichikawa captured the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo in glorious widescreen images, using cutting-edge telephoto lenses and exquisite slow motion to create lyrical, idiosyncratic poetry from the athletic drama surging all around him. Drawn equally to the psychology of losers and winners—including the legendary Ethiopian marathoner Abebe Bikila, who receives the film’s most exalted tribute—Ichikawa captures the triumph, passion, and suffering of competition with a singular humanistic vision, and in doing so effected a transformative influence on the art of documentary filmmaking. SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: An introduction by film historian Peter Cowie, over eighty minutes of additional material from the Tokyo Games, archival interviews with director Kon Ichikawa, and more.

Friday, July 24

Double Feature: The Hard-Boiled Way

Gun Crazy and The Big Combo

B-movie master Joseph H. Lewis turns the ingredients of dime-store pulp into existentialist poetry in these essential noirs, which stand as two of the most stylish and influential examples of the genre ever made. His innovative camera work and eye for pop iconography made the slam-bang couple-on-the-run thriller Gun Crazy a favorite of the French New Wave upstarts, and its influence is felt in everything from Breathless to Bonnie and Clyde. In The Big Combo, the atmospheric cinematography of shadow painter John Alton, dramatically stylized set pieces, and killer performances from Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, and Jean Wallace come together in a mesmerizingly moody, thematically subversive model of high art wrung from a low budget.

Saturday, July 25

Saturday Matinee: Destroy All Monsters

The original Godzilla team of director Ishiro Honda, special-effects supervisor Eiji Tsuburaya, and composer Akira Ifukube reunited for this kaiju extravaganza, which features no fewer than eleven monsters. Set in the remote future of 1999, when the people of Earth have achieved world peace by confining destructive creatures to Monsterland (until an alien race intervenes), Destroy All Monsters mounts a thrilling display of innovative action sequences and memorable images that have made it a favorite for generations of viewers.

Sunday, July 26

Directed by Atom Egoyan

The formally adventurous and psychologically intricate films of renowned Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan unfold according to complex, time-scrambling structures that heighten their searing emotional impact. Exploring issues of identity (including his own Armenian heritage), loss, alienation, and technology, Egoyan’s films frequently revolve around people struggling to make sense of their own shattered sense of self in the wake of profound personal tragedies. His provocative themes and elliptical style are on display in early critical triumphs like Next of Kin and Calendar and reach new heights of virtuosity in his masterpieces Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter, both of which are widely considered among the greatest Canadian films ever made.

Next of Kin, 1984

Family Viewing, 1987

Speaking Parts, 1989

The Adjuster, 1991

Calendar, 1993

Exotica, 1994

The Sweet Hereafter, 1997

Adoration, 2008

Monday, July 27

Infinite Football

Romanian New Wave leader Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest) directs this at once hilarious and poignant look at an ordinary man’s extraordinary ambitions. Ever since a leg fracture ended his aspirations of becoming a soccer player, Laurentiu Ginghina, now a bureaucrat working in a drab government office, has devoted himself, with single-minded zeal, to reinventing the game, proposing it be radically altered (starting with reimagining the shape of the field as an octagon) in order to reduce player injuries. With both humor and humanity, Porumboiu’s marvelously offbeat, continually surprising documentary introduces us to an unforgettable individual, a self-proclaimed superman whose quixotic quest mirrors the hopes and dreams of his own country.

Tuesday, July 28

Short + Feature: Age of Exploration

Pillars and Girlhood

Young women navigate the fraught terrain of adolescence in these richly immersive coming-of-age snapshots that touch on issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Haley Elizabeth Anderson’s lyrical, atmospheric short Pillars evokes the world of a girl growing up in the American South as she experiences a series of awakenings—some blissful, others brutal—after she receives her first kiss. Half a world away, on the outskirts of Paris, a teenager undergoes a similarly rocky journey toward finding herself in Céline Sciamma’s compassionate, unflinching Girlhood, which captures the rapturous highs and crushing lows of female friendship.

Wednesday, July 29

My Twentieth Century

Hungarian trailblazer Ildikó Enyedi’s award-winning first feature is a luminous, unconventional fairy tale. Two twins, Lili the anarchist and Dóra, a luxurious woman of loose morals (both played by Dorota Segda), are separated as young girls. Their lives proceed on opposing tracks until their paths reconnect on the Orient Express with Mr. Z (Tarkovsky mainstay Oleg Yankovsky), who loves them jointly. Defiantly in pursuit of happiness and in retreat from the “mass murdering century,” they are all entranced by Thomas Edison’s inventions and drunk on the miracle of existence. Among the greatest of cinematic debuts, My Twentieth Century introduced the world to Enyedi (On Body and Soul), who remains a vital, distinctive artist into the twenty-first century.

Thursday, July 30

The Loft Cinema Presents: Arizona Dream

Serbian visionary Emir Kusturica (Underground) gate-crashed Hollywood with this singular, marvelously loopy surrealist comedy featuring a remarkable cast that includes Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway, Jerry Lewis, Lili Taylor, and Vincent Gallo. When his uncle (Lewis) in Arizona invites him to come work at the family car dealership, Axel Blackmar (Depp), a young man from New York obsessed with Eskimos and fish (and, specifically, their dreams), heads West, where he encounters lusty romance with a wealthy widow (Dunaway) and a series of oddball exploits involving turtles, a DIY flying machine, and a strikingly convincing recreation of an iconic set piece from North by Northwest. Like its title implies, Arizona Dream takes place on its own hallucinatory wavelength, a delirious, anything-goes vision of America as seen through the eyes of one of cinema’s great magic makers.

Friday, July 31

Double Feature: From Art House to Grindhouse

The Virgin Spring and The Last House on the Left

Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring, an Oscar-winning tale of savagery in medieval Sweden, served as a direct influence on Wes Craven’s notoriously nasty debut feature, The Last House on the Left. But despite sharing similar premises, these harrowing dramas about rape, murder, and revenge are the results of two vastly different directorial visions: the earlier film is a powerful interrogation of faith and morality, while Craven’s spin is a shocking work of grindhouse depravity that was banned around the world for its graphic violence and helped usher in a new era of exploitation horror cinema.

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HBO Films Unveils Showbiz Kids Trailer & Premiere Date

HBO Films unveils Showbiz Kids trailer & premiere date

HBO Documentary Films has unveiled the first full trailer for the upcoming project Showbiz Kids, which offers an unvarnished look at the high risk, high reward business of working as a child actor in the entertainment industry. The trailer for the documentary, which is set to premiere on HBO on July 14 at 9 p.m. EST, can be viewed in the gallery below!

The film chronicles the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a child. Those who know the industry best, including several successful child actors and two aspiring hopefuls, unpack their own complicated experiences as they reconcile the hardships they’ve faced and sacrifices they’ve made on their way to finding success in show business.

Showbiz Kids is written and directed by former child actor Alex Winter (Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure), who relies on the perspectives of many of his peers to explore the complexities of growing up under the glare of Hollywood’s spotlight, refusing to shy away from the more difficult truths about the industry. Winter’s commitment to creating an honest representation of a complicated industry stems from his own childhood in show business, beginning as a child actor on Broadway at the age of ten.

“This is a story I’ve been wanting to tell for many years,” Winter said in a statement. “Having grown up in the business I’ve never seen the experiences of a child actor, from their early career through to the transition into adulthood, told from the perspective of those involved. I’m honored that these talented actors trusted me with their very personal stories.”

Highlighting the shared experiences of prominent former child stars, SHOWBIZ KIDS features a wealth of intimate, revealing interviews with Henry Thomas, who starred in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial at the age of 11, Mara Wilson, who first appeared in Mrs. Doubtfire at the age of 6, Todd Bridges, who was featured in TV’s Diff’rent Strokes beginning at age 13, Milla Jovovich, who made her screen debut at age 13 in The Night Train To Kathmandu, Evan Rachel Wood, who starred in Thirteen at the age of 14, the late Cameron Boyce, star of Disney TV’s Jessie at age 12, Jada Pinkett Smith, who starred in A Different World and is also a mother to young child actors, Wil Wheaton, who starred in Stand by Me at the age of 14 and the late Diana Serra Cary (Baby Peggy), who became a huge silent film star at the age of 2 in 1920.

In contrast to the celebrity actors, the film also follows two aspiring young hopefuls: Demi Singleton, an up and coming teenage performer looking to book her next big Broadway show and Marc Slater, a young unknown from Florida who moved to Los Angeles with his mother for pilot season. The young actors and their parents work tirelessly to break into the highly competitive business while struggling to balance the demands of auditioning, working and maintaining a healthy childhood with friends and family.

Through film footage, behind the scenes clips, and rare audition tapes, the documentary offers a glimpse into life on set for these young professionals. The actors discuss the challenges of navigating the industry at such a young age and the lasting effect that the public’s gaze has on self-esteem and feelings of isolation. Many also speak to the complicated relationships they have with their parents, the pressures of balancing grueling work schedules with life beyond set, and the disturbing prevalence of abuse and exploitation in the industry.

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CS Video: Irresistible Interview with Chris Cooper & Mackenzie Davis!

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CS Video: Irresistible interview with Chris Cooper & Mackenzie Davis!

ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with Oscar winner Chris Cooper (Adaptation, Little Women) and Terminator: Dark Fate star Mackenzie Davis to discuss their work in the upcoming political comedy Irresistible. The interview can be viewed in the player below!

From writer/director Emmy winner Jon Stewart (Rosewater, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report) comes the comedy of a Democrat political consultant (Steve Carell) who helps a retired ex-Marine colonel (Chris Cooper) run for mayor in a small Wisconsin town.

Irresistible stars Academy Award nominee Steve Carell (Foxcatcher, The Office, Battle of the Sexes), Golden Globe nominee Rose Byrne (Damages, Mrs. America, Spy), Academy Award winner Chris Cooper (Adaptation., August: Osage County, Homecoming), Topher Grace (BlacKkKlansman, Under the Silver Lake, The Hot Zone), Golden Globe nominee Natasha Lyonne (Russian Doll, Orange Is the New Black, American Pie), and Mackenzie Davis (Halt and Catch Fire, Terminator: Dark Fate, The Turning).

The movie is produced by Plan B Entertainment, Stewart, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Lila Yacoub and is set to hit digital platforms tomorrow!

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Max Reload and the Nether Blasters Trailer Unveiled

Max Reload and the Nether Blasters trailer unveiled

MVD Entertainment Group has unveiled the first trailer for the upcoming video game-based horror comedy Max Reload and the Nether Blasters featuring nerdy icons Kevin Smith (Jay and Silent Bob Reboot) and Greg Grunberg (Heroes). The trailer can be viewed in the player below!

Written and directed by Scott Conditt and Jeremy Tremp, the film follows small-town video game store clerk Max Jenkins as he discovers the only-known copy of Nether Dungeon, the legendary lost installment of the Nether Game series and accidentally unleashes the ancient “Curse of the Ages,” which turns his friends and family into possessed ghouls hell-bent on destroying civilization. It’s up to Max and his best friends Reggie and Liz, along with old-school gaming gurus Eugene Wylder (Grunberg) and Barton Garbowski (Joseph D. Reitman, Happy!) to figure out how to beat the dark forces of The Nether before it’s Game Over for humanity.

The film’s cast is led by Tom Plumley (Dimension 404), Joey Morgan (Critters: A New Binge) and Hassie Harrison (Yellowstone) and also features Smith, Grunberg, Reitman, Lin Shaye (The Grudge), Martin Kove (The Karate Kid), Jesse Kove (VFW) and Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation).

The horror comedy is produced by Conditt, Tremp and Grunberg and is executive produced by Rob Edwards, Charles Irion, Brian McKeaney, Tom Peterson, Daniel Floreani and Jaime Gangi.

Max Reload and the Nether Blasters is set to hit select theaters on August 7 followed by a VOD release on August 11.

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