'The Truffle Hunters': Film Review | Sundance 2020

The annual Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy is to add a works-in-progress section to its Focus Asia industry services for the first time this year.

An immersive political documentary that might be useful as a glass half-full/half-empty personality test, Ramona S.

Lyrical and provocative,Acasă, My Homebrings an intimate slant to age-old questions about the value of conformity, the pleasures and challenges of the natural world versus the comforts and distractions of modernity, and the amorphous but essential matter of what constitutes a good life.

The way religious law penetrates every aspect of Iranian life, from a murder case to how a TV show is run, is probably the most striking aspect of Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness. The perverse logic of temporary marriage, inheritance laws favoring boys and homicide laws stacked against wives, not to mention the practice of paying one’s way out of a hanging with “bloody money” to the victim’s relatives, become casual plot elements in this well-shot, cleverly scripted melodrama.

It's the little indignities that get you. Not that the inciting incident in writer-director Visar Morina's very fine Exil is in any way trivial.

Netflix seriously raised the bar on the true-crime police procedural with Unbelievable, its shattering, forensically detailed miniseries about the hunt for a serial rapist. That standard of excellence does no favors to this poorly scripted feature from the streaming platform, based on the unsolved Long Island Serial Killer case in which more than a dozen sex workers were murdered over a period of almost 20 years.

Playing a security worker (like a TSA agent) at London's Stansted airport whose simmering mental unease finally comes to a rolling boil one day, Ben Whishaw contributes a scalding performance in Surge.This feature debut for director Aneil Karia, who has directed episodes of edgier TV shows such as Top Boy and Pure in the U.K., grew out of an earlier collaboration between Karia, Whishaw and movement coach Laura Williamson Biggson, the short filmBeat.

Everyone has a favorite book that we long to see adapted into a film so more people will know about the book and read it too. At the same time, we also dread the filmmakers will ruin it by misrepresenting or diluting the essence of what makes that book so special.For many people living with autism, their most beloved tome on the subject is The Reason I Jump.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights to Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw's documentary The Truffle Hunters.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights to “The Truffle Hunters” out of the Sundance Film Festival. The pact is for $1.5 million, according to an insider.

By Mike Fleming Jr

Here’s a challenge: Watch the opening moments of “The Truffle Hunters” and try not to fall hard for the immediate flavors of joy it spreads.

The faces in Saudi Runaway are blurred, with one exception: the documentary's subject and (cameraphone) cinematographer.

Lisa Rinna, 55, is stirring the pot yet again! The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star confronted Denise Richards, 47, about rumors that she hooked up with Brandi Glanville, 45, and it didn’t end well. “Denise Richards and Lisa Rinna had a fallout in Rome when Lisa confronted Denise over the rumors involving Brandi Glanville as well as things she and the other ladies heard Denise was saying about them behind their backs,” an insider spills, referencing the ladies’ filmed trip to Italy.

By Andreas Wiseman

Johnny Flynn has been cast opposite Andrew Scott in the upcoming Showtime series based on Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels.