The question of what happens when we die is something that people have debated for centuries. Is there an afterlife or do we end up worm food? Well, for the upcoming film “Wander Darkly,” the answer is a bit more complicated than that.
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Also Read: AFI Fest 2020 to Close With Errol Morris Documentary 'My Psychedelic Love Story'The Grand Jury Award winners for Live Action and Animated Short will be eligible for the 2021 Best Live Action Short and Best Animated Short Academy Awards. Jurors this year include film critic Carlos Aguilar, filmmaker Sophia Nahli Allison and Film Festival Alliance Executive Director Lela Meadow-Conner.AFI Fest 2020 will run from Oct.
15 to Oct. 22.See the full lineup below.World CinemaA collection of
.The question of what happens when we die is something that people have debated for centuries. Is there an afterlife or do we end up worm food? Well, for the upcoming film “Wander Darkly,” the answer is a bit more complicated than that.
Angelique Jackson Rachel Brosnahan fans can rejoice because “I’m Your Woman” is getting a repeat screening as part of the 2020 AFI Fest.The ’70s crime drama, from writer-director Julia Hart, will screen again on Oct. 22 after much demand.
Also Read: Sienna Miller's 'Wander Darkly, 'Belushi' Added to AFI Fest 2020 LineupLionsgate will release “Wander Darkly” in select theaters and on-demand beginning Dec. 11, and the hope is that the film can be an awards play for Miller, who critics have said gives one of her career-best performances.
Grill It Yourself kit. The G.I.Y. kits, launched in lockdown, recently won a Manchester Food and Drink Festival Award and deliver all the ingredients and instructions you need to make your own grilled cheese at home.
Also Read: 'I'm Your Woman' Film Review: Rachel Brosnahan Finds Herself on the Run in 70s-Set ThrillerThis was the first virtual AFI Fest, necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic and by the industry’s desire to find a way to showcase films at festivals and put them before voters by any means they could.
DOC NYC, the documentary film festival set to run Nov. 11-19 in New York City, has unveiled its virtual 2020 edition lineup, with 23 world premieres, including Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker's The Meaning of Hitler and Gong Cheng and Yung Chang's Wuhan Wuhan.
You don’t have to be a fan of rom-coms (and this writer is definitely not a fan) to enjoy “The Proposal.” The film, which stars Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock, has the two performers at the top of their charismatic games in a silly, but genuinely funny rom-com.
A Latino love story that spans decades; a documentary about Billy Tipton, the influential jazz musician who was revealed after his death to have been transgender; and the groundbreaking directorial debut from one of the pioneers of the New Queer Cinema are among the seven LGBTQ films that will be featured at the AFI Festival 2020.
In Jim Cummings' attention-grabbing 2016 short film Thunder Road, which spawned a 2018 feature by the same name, the writer-director played a grief-struck cop dealing with an angry estranged wife and his responsibilities to their young daughter. His role is nearly identical on paper in The Wolf of Snow Hollow, a bloody mystery that shares some of the previous film's uncategorizable edge but is never quite as compellingly strange.
This year’s AFI Film Festival is unlike previous years in a few major ways. Of course, the biggest way is how the event is virtual, with passholders being able to purchase tickets for online screenings of this year’s selections.
The Philadelphia Film Festival has unveiled its 2020 film lineup for an Oct. 23 to Nov.
Dave McNary Film ReporterThe American Film Institute has unveiled its lineup of 124 films, adding notable titles including the documentaries “Belushi,” “Citizen Penn” and “Hopper/Welles” and the Albert and Allen Hughes 1995 thriller “Dead Presidents.”AFI Fest, which is going virtual this year without the usual glitzy Hollywood premieres at the TCL Chinese Theatre, had announced previously that Rachel Brosnahan’s crime drama “I’m Your Woman” had been selected as its opening night title on Oct.
Clayton Davis The American Film Institute announced that its 2020 AFI Awards ceremony, which celebrates the year’s achievements in both film and television, will take place on Feb. 26, 2021.Typically announced in mid-December, with the extension to the eligibility period for the Academy Awards pushed to Feb.
Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorNewFest is hosting a reading of Ang Lee’s groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain at its New York LGBTQ Film Festival on October 18, employing an all-trans cast for the event that commemorates the film’s 15th anniversary.The cast features Leo Sheng (The L Word) as Ennis, Brian Michael Smith (911: Lone Star) as Jack, Jen Richards (Tales of the City) as Alma, Alexandra Grey (Empire) as Lurleen and Disclosure director Sam Feder as the narrator.The original film
Italy's MIA television and film market has unveiled its 2020 lineup, announcing the 50 film and television titles that will present at the industry event in Rome from Oct. 14-18.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday -- because despite the global pandemic and its widespread domino effect on most aspects of daily life, these two annual savings events are going to make for some epic holiday shopping.This is the silver lining we're focusing on ahead of what will surely be a different kind of holiday season.