Ben Croll World premiering this week at NewImages Festival in Paris before playing at the London Film Festival in early October, the Franco-British-Taiwanese co-production “Missing Pictures Ep.
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“The documentary on the act of making documentaries.” Filmmaker Abel Ferrara perfectly sums up the crux of his new film in the opening seconds of the trailer for “Sportin’ Life.” His succinct description would only be better if he was able to somehow weave in that Willem Dafoe is featured throughout.
But hey, this is an Abel Ferrara film, so you kinda expected Dafoe to appear, right? Continue reading ‘Sportin’ Life’ Trailer: Abel Ferrara & Willem Dafoe Discuss Life & Filmmaking In A New Venice
.Ben Croll World premiering this week at NewImages Festival in Paris before playing at the London Film Festival in early October, the Franco-British-Taiwanese co-production “Missing Pictures Ep.
Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.
Just when you thought Nicolas Cage’s upcoming feature, “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” couldn’t get any more strange, here comes Tiffany Haddish! READ MORE: Paul Schrader Confirms Oscar Isaac, Willem Dafoe & Tiffany Haddish For New Poker Drama According to Deadline, Tiffany Haddish has signed on to star opposite Cage in the meta action-comedy film, “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.” The film gained headlines when it was announced after it was revealed that Cage would be
Guy Lodge Film CriticThere is no writing credit for “Sportin’ Life,” which feels like an omission, but an apt one. On the one hand, this documentary self-portrait by rogue auteur Abel Ferrara feels wholly the product of his eccentric imagination, colored by his voice from beginning to hasty end.
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Arcade Fire‘s Will Butler has shared a new track called ‘Bethlehem’ – listen below.The Canadian multi-instrumentalist is gearing up to release his second solo album ‘Generations’ on September 25 via Merge.Following up on previous cuts ‘Close My Eyes’, and ‘Surrender’, Butler has today (September 16) offered up a punk-inspired, full throttle third taste of his forthcoming record.“This song partly springs from The Second Coming by [Irish poet] William Butler Yeats: ‘What rough beast, its hour
Clare Crawley doesn’t hold anything back in the new Bachelorette promo, which shows the leading lady falling for at least one contestant.“Drama this soon is a little bit crazy,” the hairstylist, 39, said in the teaser released on Monday, September 14, during the season 29 premiere of Dancing With the Stars.At one point during the clip, Crawley says, “I’m so falling in love with you” before telling another man to “get out of here!”The Bachelorette promo also revealed one suitor breaking down in
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Bronx-born, Italian-based filmmaker Abel Ferrara is a character and so is Cypriot independent movie theater owner Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou. “I do it cause it combines two things I like to do,” Nicolaou says in Ferrara’s new documentary “The Projectionist.” “Make money and keep neighborhood theaters alive.
At such a young age, Greta Thunberg has become the face of a worldwide discussion. The teenager found herself at the center of the climate change discussion after she bravely protested in her native Sweden.
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Made as part of an international art project curated by Saint Laurent’s creative director Anthony Vaccarello, Abel Ferrara'sSportin’ Life is a 65-minute trip through the mind of the New York filmmaker, where we find a mixture of the curious and the exasperating. Screened out of competition at Venice, it was filmed and edited between February and September of this fateful year 2020, when the coronavirus brought the world to a halt.
The human voice is Tilda Swinton‘s, but the directorial voice is all Pedro Almodóvar in the Spanish legend’s half-hour, English-language “The Human Voice.” Freely adapting – read: ruthlessly modernizing and thoroughly Almodovarizing – the play by Jean Cocteau (material the director has circled around before, most evidently in “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” and “Law of Desire“), despite its brevity, his new film is deceptively roomy, allowing us to pace through the superbly
Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorSometimes controversial director Abel Ferrara addressed the idea of cancel culture in today’s world and whether it had become more difficult to make the kinds of films he once did. “It’s on the artist to uncancel himself, to come clean with himself,” he said.
shot in Bradford and Leeds – has taken a central role, with the story of Bunton and the “borrowed” Goya portrait of the Duke of Wellington providing laughs at a more subdued, Covid-19-affected festival.Broadbent, 71, said he had been apprehensive about travelling to Venice because of the risks caused by the Covid-19 crisis.
Whenever you hear about a famous meeting of the minds, many people will say they wish they were a fly on the wall to listen in to what was being said.