LaKeith Stanfield is set to star in a new movie! That’s not the surprise, what is the surprise is that he’s reteaming with The Harder They Fall director The Bullits for a new movie. Not only that but the new movie WON’T be a western. The news is coming from … [Read More]
Synopsis An actor/director is assigned a young woman to drive his Saab 900 Turbo around and about during a film festival. We shall come to find that this luxury automobile is metamorphic. A device symbolizing the drive to shake the past and propel forward. Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story, … [Read More]
The Velvet Underground Todd Haynes, USA, 110 min. ” Austin Film Society will present a Doc Days Opening Night (Oct. 14) presentation of Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground: a look at the cultural, social, musical, artistic and cinematic forces that created one of the world’s most enduring bands. Far … [Read More]
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) is a French historical romance drama released on 18 September, 2019. The film won the award for Best Screenplay at Cannes Film Festival. The story follows a female painter, Marianne, who gets invited to paint a portrait of Hélöise, a newly bride to be. … [Read More]
Thought-Provoking And Controversial Films From The Past Decade Sometimes it’s great to sit down and laugh your way through a comedy, or spend a couple of hours escaping to a galaxy light-years away from present reality, but occasionally a film comes along that stirs up something stronger than mere enjoyment … [Read More]
Source: 007 It takes one look at the newest Oscar Nominees to see that 2020 was a depressing year for the movie industry. Most highly-anticipated premieres were postponed because the pandemic caused production delays or made theatrical releases impossible (or not cost-effective). We made it work, though. Last year was … [Read More]
“A Good Man” is a LGBTQ French film directed by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar. It is a Cannes Official Film Selection with subtitles, but the trailer does not have English subtitles. (Dust off your French from high school or college.) Noemie Merlant, who was so powerful in last year’s “Portrait of a … [Read More]
The 55th Chicago International Film Festival starts Wednesday, opening with Edward Norton directing and starring in the film adaptation of “Motherless Brooklyn” with Bruce Willis co-starring. The book, by Jonathan Lethem, won the New York Book Circle Award some years back and it has been a long time coming to … [Read More]
Spike Lee’s new film “BlacKkKlansman,” winner of the Cannes Grand Prix award in May, is based on the early 1970s true story of Ron Stallworth, who was the first African-American hired by the Colorado Springs Police Force. Ron is played by Denzel Washington’s son, John David Washington, a new face … [Read More]
Michael Kutza: founder of the Chicago International Film Festival in 1964. In 1964, film buff Michael Kutza founded the Chicago International Film Festival, with silent screen star Colleen Moore. The debut of the Chicago International Film Festival (now in its 54th year) was at the Carnegie Theatre at Rush and … [Read More]
The second offering from Chloe Zhao is a confident portrayal of the lives of rodeo cowboys in the South Dakota Sioux. The movie centres around Brady, a young man working the rodeo circuit who has an accident that leaves him not able to ride – or express his feelings about … [Read More]
David Black chats about indie short film nights While the big, classy movie mags tend to concentrate on all the glitz and glamour of prestigious film festivals like Cannes, Raindance and MIFF, the true heart of the industry lies with the myriad of much smaller short movie nights that are … [Read More]