'Supernova': Film Review | San Sebastian 2020

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: UK distribution company Lightbulb Film has added three titles to its release slate.They include Jon Stevenson’s retro horror Rent-A-Pal. Starring Brian Landis Folkins, Kathleen Brady and Wil Wheaton, the film is set in 1990 and follows a lonely bachelor searching for an escape from the day-to-day drudgery of caring for his ageing mother.

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The cinema sector has been hit by a thinning schedule of film releases amid the coronavirus pandemic, with the announcement of the closures of some 127 Cineworld and Picturehouse sites in the UK dealing yet another blow to the ailing industry.

Todd McCarthy Red, White and Blue, the third and final installment of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe quintet of films about racial issues specific to Great Britain being world premiered at the New York Film Festival, zeroes in on the ordeal of a young black Londoner set on helping to definitively break the color barrier at London’s Metropolitan Police Force in the early 1980s.

One of the great joys of the New York Film Festival has been watching Steve McQueen’s new film anthology “Small Axe.” Composed of five works set between the late-’60s and early-’80s, the two recently screened films — “Lovers Rock” and “Mangrove” — are intimate slices of life of a little-represented community, British Black folks from the West Indies, resiliently thriving amidst a racially hostile environment.

One of the great joys of the New York Film Festival has been watching Steve McQueen’s new film anthology “Small Axe.” Composed of five works set between the late-’60s and early-’80s, the two recently screened films — “Lovers Rock” and “Mangrove” — are intimate slices of life of a little-represented community, British Black folks from the West Indies, resiliently thriving amidst a racially hostile environment.

“A Call to Spy,” which tracks the true-life story of how British spies navigated France during World War II, may be set 80 years ago, but its themes of racism, sexism and misogyny feel undeniably, infuriatingly urgent. READ MORE: ‘A Call To Spy’ Trailer: New WWII Film Focuses On Churchill’s Female-Led Spy Agency Director Lydia Dean Pilcher keeps the action moving apace even when the familiar, often formulaic narrative threatens to fold.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment and Cross City Films have pre-sold most international markets on Kindertransport drama One Life at the recent TIFF virtual market, including a deal with Warner Bros in the UK.Aisling Walsh (Maudie) will direct Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins and rising Brit actor Johnny Flynn (Emma) in the feature scripted by Lucinda Coxon (The Danish Girl) and Nick Drake.Currently in pre-production, the project tells the story of Sir Nicholas

(Warning: This post contains spoilers through the Season 1 finale of “Utopia.”)The eight-episode first season of Gillian Flynn’s “Utopia” launched Friday on Amazon Prime Video and if you’ve already finished it and searching for information about its second season, you’ve come to the right place.

Ann-Marie Corvin Jessica Sarah Rinland’s “Collective Monologue” and Elena Martin Gimeno’s “Creature” are among the five projects selected this year at Ikusmira Berriak.The sixth edition of the training program is now in the second segment of its residency at San Sebastian, and a different world awaits its five participants since their first meeting in March.Rinland, an Argentine-British installation artist and filmmaker, said that it was “a small miracle” any of this year’s cohort had made it

David Bowie in Stardust has been released – check it out below.The film, an unauthorised biopic about Bowie in 1971 mapping his infamous US tour and the creation of the Ziggy Stardust persona, has set a UK premiere date at Raindance Film Festival.The first screening will take place at a socially-distanced opening night gala in London on October 28 with the film’s director Gabriel Range in attendance.Check out the new image here:Stardust will not include any of Bowie’s songs, as the musician’s

Andreas Wiseman International EditorThe UK government has published the awaited eligibility criteria and guidelines for its £500M ($646M) film and TV production restart program.The scheme is aimed at helping UK productions that have been suspended and are not able to secure insurance going forward, or are yet to start because of no existing insurance, get back underway before the end of the year.Following industry lobbying, the government committed to an emergency COVID insurance fund back in

gender neutral and totally virtual London Fashion Week, the British Fashion Council has moved forward with the SS21 season as both a digital and physical event.With Covid-19 regulations constantly being re-appraised by the government (the latest social guidelines being the 'rule of six'), and the importance of safety being paramount, the BFC's new hybrid schedule will ensure designers who wish to host small physical events are able to (under strict guidelines), while others can broadcast their

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In his profoundly affecting 2017 feature debut God's Own Country, Francis Lee crafted a queer love story for the ages, carved out of rigorous emotional candor, uninhibited sexuality and an evocative connection between the two men at its center and the land that draws them together. Three years later, the British writer-director returns with Ammonite, an exquisite female companion piece whose transfixing quietness never conceals the roiling undercurrents of feeling beneath its surface.

Francis Lee’s “Ammonite” might be the biggest study in contrasts that you’ll find at the Toronto International Film Festival this year.

Todd McCarthy The temptation will be too great for some critics to resist proclaiming, “Ammonite is dynamite!,” as in some respects it is, specifically in the way it resembles a hand grenade thrown into the midst of an otherwise decorous, serious-minded 19th century British period piece.James Ivory might be proud and even jealous of the way writer-director Francis Lee takes the Anglo art house tradition of quality to an uncustomary level of sexual frankness, an aspect that will remind many