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John C. Reilly will soon appear on the big screen as Buffalo Bill in “Heads or Tails?” a surreal Western by Italian directorial duo Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis (“The Tale of King Crab”). The film is inspired by a true event that took place during Buffalo Bill’s stay in Italy.

Along with the Oscar-nominated U.S. actor – who co-starred with Joaquin Phoenix in Jacques Audiard’s Western “The Sisters Brothers” – the top notch “Heads or Tails?” cast also comprises rising French star Nadia Tereszkiewicz and Italy’s Alessandro Borghi, in lead roles, and Argentina’s Peter Lanzani.

Italian cowboys known as “butteri” –– and hailing from the central Italian plains of northern Lazio up through the coastal Italian region of Maremma into southern Tuscany — have a long-standing connection to Buffalo Bill and the history of America’s Wild West.

Buffalo Bill, born William F. Cody, was a...

This week's episode features:Mariana Di Girolamo (Chile), one of today’s most well-known actresses. After a successful career in television, she made her film debut in 2019 as the protagonist of Pablo Larraín's eighth feature film, Ema, which premiered in the Official Competition at Venice. Her performances have been characterized by a singular dramatic approach to physical and body work and by portraying complex and unpredictable female characters. She has also collaborated on films by director Leonardo Medel, with whom she has explored unusual narrative formats, such as video dance and virtual reality, and original stagings, such as La Verónica, which premiered in San Sebastian.Peter Lanzani (Argentina), an actor who, from a very young age, participated in very popular television productions both in his country and in Latin America. In 2015, he made his film debut as the protagonist of The Clan (El clan), Pablo Trapero's ninth feature film,...

Peter Lanzani, star of some of the greatest films and series to come out of Argentina of late – “Argentina, 1985,” “El Angel,” “The Clan,” “4X4,” “Un Gallo Para Esculapio” – is set to make his directorial debut, helming a biopic of Argentine ‘80s rock icon Luca Prodan. Lanzani will also play Prodan.

Two other movers and shakers on Argentina’s film-tv scene, Argentina’s Armando Bo, an Academy Award winner for the screenplay of Alejandro González Inárritu’s “Birdman, or, Sergio Olguín, Lanzani and Fisner are writing the screenplay.

The big question is what through line they will drive between ‘70s class-bound, punk-energized Britain and an Argentina of the early ‘80s emerging from a bloody dictatorship.

The biopic is set up at Bo’s Rebolución, behind his 2012 Sundance hit, “The Last Elvis,” and his second feature as a director, “Animal,” and Bo’s About Entertainment, founded in 2020 to focus on high quality...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages are Davis’ assessment of the current standings of the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any film or performance. Like any organization or body that votes, each individual category is fluid and subject to change. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

Last Updated: Feb. 21, 2023

2023 Oscars Predictions: Best International Feature Argentina, 1985, from left: Ricardo Darin, Peter Lanzani, 2022. © Amazon Studios / Courtesy Everett Collection

Category commentary: The BAFTA Awards swung the pendulum in the direction of Netflix’s German remake “All Quiet on the Western Front,” crowning it the best film by the British Academy.

“All Quiet” walked away with seven BAFTAs – best film, director (Edward Berger), adapted screenplay,...

The Oscar-nominated Argentina, 1985 shines a light on everyday people doing extraordinary things — real-life superheroes not unlike the fictional tales told by Marvel to much fanfare. The film’s protagonists are based on real-life people led by prosecutors Julio César Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo who took on an unwinable case against Argentina’s military junta for crimes against humanity and put on a fight that inspired a nation.

Ricardo Darín, who portrays Strassera in Amazon Studios’ historical drama from filmmaker Santiago Mitre, credits the crafting of a perfectly written script and layers upon layers of research for the film’s success.

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Whether you caught sight of him in "Devotion" or "Top Gun: Maverick," Glen Powell was last seen flying high as a charming Navy pilot diving headfirst into a dangerous situation. Clearly, a big fan of fighting for his life while trapped in metal machines, Powell has already booked his next big role in a thriller called "Locked," where he stars as a criminal whose car burglary goes terribly wrong.

Per Deadline, "Locked" is "an intense, character-driven thriller about a thief who breaks into a luxury SUV, only to realize that he's stumbled into a complex and deadly trap set by a mysterious figure." And who will Powell star opposite as his thief desperately tries to escape? None other than two-time Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins. While the details of Hopkins' character are a little more mysterious, fingers crossed he plays the sinister figure who set the deadly trap.

If this premise sounds a little familiar,...

Hollywood legend Anthony Hopkins is teaming with Top Gun: Maverick star Glen Powell for Locked, a remake of the Argentinian action thriller 4X4. David Yarovesky directs from a script by Michael Arlen Ross (Oracle), with the original written and directed by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat. The project hails from Zq Entertainment and Raimi Productions.

According to the synopsis for Cohn’s 2019 thriller, 4X4 revolves around a thug who breaks into a specialized car with a unique security system that keeps him trapped inside, with no one being able to hear him crying for help. Cohn’s film starred Peter Lanzani, Ailén Mazioni, and Dady Brieva. I recommend checking out the trailer for 4X4, as it looks intense, brutal, and prone to giving audiences a feeling of claustrophobia.

In Yarovesky’s version, Powell plays the thug originally portrayed by Lanzani.

“Dave Yarovesky so elevated the material on Nightbooks, and he...

Argentina, 1985 Review — Argentina, 1985 (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Santiago Mitre, written by Mariano Llinas, Martin Mauregui and Santiago Mitre and starring Ricardo Darin, Peter Lanzani, Norman Briski, Laura Paredes, Susana Pampin, Francisco Bertin, Carlos Portaluppi, Alejo Garcia Pintos and Alejandra Flechner. Filmmaker Santiago Mitre tells a very powerful story in [...]

Continue reading: Film Review: Argentina, 1985 (2022): Lawyers Take On a Historic Case in a Tense, Well-Acted Dramatic Film...

Co-written and directed by filmmaker Santiago Mitre, the Amazon Studios pic Argentina, 1985 is the tale of Argentinian lawyers Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo, who bravely prosecuted members of the country’s former bloody military dictatorship. Under the regime, from 1976 to 1983, an estimated 30,000 people disappeared.

“This was a fundamental time during the democratic reconstruction in Argentina,” Mitre said during Deadline’s Contenders Film: International awards-season panel. “This took place after the bloody dictatorship. It took a lot of courage, especially from the President back then. Democracy had only been established for one year, so it was very fragile.”

Related: The Contenders International – Deadline’s Full Coverage

The thriller debuted in Competition at the Venice Film Festival, where it picked up the Fipresci prize, and it has been selected as Argentina’s entry for the international Oscar race.

Ricardo Darín stars as Strassera and Peter Lanzani is Ocampo. During the panel,...

In 1976 the Argentinian Armed Forces led a coup d’état that would put the country under military dictatorship for seven years. During these seven years an estimated 9,000 to 30,000 civilians, mostly political opponents and their families were abducted and killed by the Military Government. Many were pregnant mothers who were forced to give birth in primitive conditions before their children were taken away and adopted by families loyal to the military.

It was a bloody and brutal chapter in Argentina’s history that only ended with a democratic election in 1983 after which the leaders of the military government faced judicial trial. This ‘Trial of the Juntas’ makes up the backbone of Argentina, 1985, a new historical drama by Santiago Mitre. Focusing on the events surrounding the historic trial and the lives of the prosecution charged with bringing the former government to justice. Taking particular interest in Chief Prosecutor Julio Strassera.

The historical...

During the early morning of March 24, 1976, a radio and TV broadcast informed the Argentinian people that their country was now under rule of Joint Chiefs General of the Armed Forces, who had overthrown Isabel Perón’s government. Less than a week later Jorge Rafael Videla named himself president, announcing the beginning of one of the deadliest military dictatorships in history. By the time democracy was restored and elections were held again it was 1983; more than 30,000 people had disappeared.

A return to democracy, however, assumed that the reign of violence and fear Argentineans lived under for almost a decade had been just another government. Normalcy was expected as President Raúl Alfonsín took over. But can a country be healed if justice isn’t served? That depends on your idea of justice—or so is the thesis of Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985, which chronicles events surrounding what became known as the Trial of the Juntas,...

Argentina, 1985 is a deceptively clever bit of filmmaking that, as long as people are willing to traverse that one-inch barrier of subtitles, should be as embraced by casual moviegoers as seasoned cinephiles. It is a based-on-a-true-story legal drama that largely follows the narrative beats of that genre, long one of Hollywood's most stirring. It is a particularly well-executed version of that formula, earning its moments of swelling emotion, but that formula's guiding hand can nonetheless be felt. It also, however, bears traces of political satire — the bitingly cynical variety, à la 1969's Z, in which it always feels like goodness and competence are doomed to be snuffed out by corruption and ineptitude. In one, justice is revered and virtually assured, as baked into the storytelling as an underdog victory is in the sports movie. In the other, seeking justice is a Sisyphean task, ultimately rendered farce by the systems designed to protect the status quo.

This review originally posted Sept. 3, 2022, for the film’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

Near the rousing climax of Santiago Mitre’s courtroom procedural “Argentina, 1985,” making its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, an affecting phone call between a mother and a son shines as an ideological lighthouse, offering the promise that people’s long-held beliefs can evolve for the better. And if one individual can change, then an entire society can reevaluate its faults to amend them.

This impeccably executed portrait of a country at a crossroads chronicles at length the Trial of the Juntas, a nearly unthinkable opportunity in the mid-1980s for the first government of Argentina’s embryonic democracy to try nine generals and admirals (including dictator Jorge Rafael Videla) for crimes against humanity committed during the military dictatorship in a civil court of law.

Tasked with the titanic task of bringing justice...

Argentina has submitted “Argentina, 1985” for Best International Film at the 95th Academy Awards. Directed by Santiago Mitre, the Fipresci Prize winner from the Venice Film Festival is inspired by the true story of public prosecutors Julio Strassera (Ricardo Darín) and Luis Moreno Ocampo (Peter Lanzani), who dared to investigate and prosecute Argentina’s bloodiest military dictatorship in 1985. Amazon Prime Video will launch the film globally on October 21.

See 2023 Oscars: Best International Feature Predictions [Updated: September 26]

Undeterred by the military’s still considerable influence within their fragile new democracy, Strassera and Moreno Ocampo assembled a young legal team of unlikely heroes for their David-vs-Goliath battle. Under constant threat to themselves and their families, they raced against time to bring justice to the victims of the military junta. Watch the trailer below.

Seven of Argentina’s Oscar submissions have gone on to become nominees for Best International Film in the history of the Academy...

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Argentina has selected Santiago Mitre’s crowd-pleasing courtroom drama Argentina, 1985 as its national contender for the 2023 Academy Awards in the best international feature category.

There are echoes of the Jan. 6 hearings in the film’s true story of the group of heroic lawyers, led by Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo, who engaged in a David vs. Goliath battle to try and prosecute the leaders of Argentina’s military for crimes committed during the country’s bloody dictatorship. More than just a legal battle, the outcome of the case will determine how strong Argentina’s nascent democracy can be.

Argentina, 1985 premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival this year. Starring Ricardo Darín (The Secret In Their Eyes) and Peter Lanzani, Argentina, 1985 is the first Argentina original from Amazon Prime, which will be releasing the film stateside on Oct. 21.

Argentinian films have been...

The film picked up the critics prize at Venice and the audience award at San Sebastian.

Argentina has submitted Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985 as its entry for the best international feature category for the 2023 Academy Awards (March 12).

‘Argentina, 1985’: Venice Review

The Amazon Original title is based on the real events of Argentina’s 1980s ‘Dirty War’ and follows a group of lawyers who risk everything to take on the heads of the country’s military dictatorship. Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani lead the cast.

Argentina, 1985 was selected out 60 other titles by a committee of 250 members.

The film is a...

Argentina has submitted Santiago Mitre’s political drama Argentina, 1985 to the Best International Film Oscar race.

The drama, which debuted in Competition in Venice, winning the Fipresci prize, is inspired by real-life Argentinian lawyers Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo.

Best International Feature Film Oscar Winners

The David and Goliath tale follows how the pair and their young legal team daringly prosecuted members of the former military junta to bring justice to the victims of their deadly regime. Under their rule from 1976 to 1983, an estimated 30,000 people disappeared.

Award-winning actor Ricardo Darin plays Strassera alongside Peter Lanzani as Ocampo with other cast members including

Mitre wrote the screenplay with Mariano Llinás. Producers are Axel Kuschevatzky, Federico Posternak, Agustina Llambi-Campbell, Darín, Mitre, Santiago Carabante, Chino Darín and Victoria Alonso.

Argentina has garnered seven nominations to date for Sergio Renán’s The Truce (1974), Maria Luisa Bemberg’s Camila (1984), Luis Puenzo’s The Official...

The Film Circuit begins with Telluride, a small but perfect film festival in the mountains of Colorado as simultaneously Venice unfurls the films that will soon be released in the wonderful arthouse cinemas of Europe, followed closely by Toronto whose films foretell the coming year’s Oscars nominees. It is a very exciting time to be on the festival circuit.

And simultaneously with these great screenings are sidebars, panel discussions, workshops, master classes and all around great networking for filmmakers around the world.

Venezia 79 Competition

Il Signore Delle Formiche

Director Gianni Amelio

Main Cast Luigi Lo Cascio, Elio Germano, Leonardo Maltese, Sara Serraiocco / Italy / 134’

The Whale

Director Darren Aronofsky

Main Cast Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Samantha Morton, Ty Simpkins / USA / 117’

White Noise

Director Noah Baumbach

Main Cast Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, André L. Benjamin and Lars Eidinger / USA / 136’

L’IMMENSITÀ

Director Emanuele Crialese

Main Cast Penélope Cruz, Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato, Patrizio Francioni / Italy, France / 97’

Saint Omer

Director Alice Diop

Main Cast Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville, Aurélia Petit / France / 123’

Blonde

Director Andrew Dominik

Main Cast Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Xavier Samuel, Julianne Nicholson, Lily Fisher / USA / 166’

TÁR

Director Todd Field

Main Cast Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, Mark Strong / USA / 158’

Love Life

Director Kôji Fukada

Main Cast Fumino Kimura, Kento Nagayama, Atom Sunada / Japan, France / 123’

Bardo, Falsa CRÓNICA De Unas Cuantas Verdades

Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Main Cast Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Iker Sanchez Solano, Andrés Almeida, Francisco Rubio / Mexico / 174’

Athena

Director Romain Gavras

Main Cast Dali Benssalah, Sami Slimane, Anthony Bajon, Ouassini Embarek, Alexis Manenti / France / 97’

Bones And All

Director Luca Guadagnino

Main Cast Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance, André Holland, Chloë Sevigny, Jessica Harper, David Gordon Green, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jake Horowitz / USA / 130’

The Eternal Daughter

Director Joanna Hogg

Main Cast Tilda Swinton, Joseph Mydell, Carly-Sophia Davies / UK, USA / 96’

Shab, Dakheli, Divar (Beyond The Wall)

Director Vahid Jalilvand

Main Cast Navid Mohammadzadeh, Diana Habibi, Amir Aghaee / Iran / 126’

The Banshees Of Inisherin

Director Martin McDonagh

Main Cast Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan / Ireland, UK, USA / 109’

Argentina, 1985

Director Santiago Mitre

Main Cast Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner, Norman Briski / Argentina, USA / 140’

Chiara

Director Susanna Nicchiarelli

Main Cast Margherita Mazzucco, Andrea Carpenzano, Carlotta Natoli, Paola Tiziana Cruciani, Luigi Lo Cascio / Italy, Belgium / 106’

Monica

Director Andrea Pallaoro

Main Cast Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Adriana Barraza, Emily Browning, Joshua Close / USA, Italy / 113’

Khers Nist (No Bears)

Director Jafar Panahi

Main Cast Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaseri, Bakhtiar Panjeei, Mina Kavani, Reza Heydari / Iran / 107’

All The Beauty And The Bloodshed

Director Laura Poitras

USA / 117’

Un Couple

Director Frederick Wiseman

Main Cast Nathalie Boutefeu / France, USA / 64’

The Son

Director Florian Zeller

Main Cast Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath, Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Quarshie / UK / 124’

Les Miens

Director Roschdy Zem

Main Cast Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem, Meriem Serbah, Maïwenn, Rachid Bouchareb, Abel Jafrei, Nina Zem / France / 85’

Les Enfants Des Autres

Director Rebecca Zlotowski

Main Cast Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Callie Ferreira / France / 104’

Toronto is in spite of itself in a civilized sort of way in competition for the premieres with Venice, though the sequential festivals are serving different constituencies. Still, The Whale, for example is premiering in Venice and then traveling to TIFF.

TIFF Gala Presentations:

The Whale directed by Darren Aronofsky, produced and to be distributed in U.S. and actng as international sales agent A24.

TIFF says: “Brendan Fraser gives a career-defining performance in Darren Aronofsky’s arrestingly intimate drama about a reclusive English professor struggling with personal relationships and self-acceptance, adapted from the stage play by Samuel D. Hunter.”

Alice, Darling by Mary Nighy

Also playing are Alice, Darling (Mary Nighy) in which Anna Kendrick captures the anxious psychology of a woman in an abusive relationship as her friends try to reconnect with her while on a cottage getaway.

Black Ice(Hubert Davis) about Black hockey players facing systemic racism in the sport.

The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Peter Farrelly) about man’s story of leaving New York in 1967 to bring beer to his childhood buddies in the Army while they are fighting in Vietnam. An Apple TV+ production.

Butcher’s Crossing (Gabe Polsky) is a frontier epic about an Ivy League drop-out as he travels to the Colorado wilderness, where he joins a team of buffalo hunters on a journey that puts his life and sanity at risk. Based on the highly acclaimed novel by John Williams. Isa Altitude

The Hummingbird (Francesca Archibugi)Hunt (Jung-jae Lee)A Jazzman’s Blues (Tyler Perry)Kacchey Limbu (Shubham Yogi)Moving On (Paul Weitz)Paris Memories (Alice Winocour)Prisoner’s Daughter (Catherine Hardwicke)Raymond & Ray (Rodrigo García)Roost (Amy Redford)Sidney (Reginald Hudlin)The Son (Florian Zeller)The Swimmers (Sally El Hosaini)What’s Love Got to Do With It? (Shekhar Kapur)The Woman King(Gina Prince-Bythewood)

Special PRESENTATIONSAllelujah (Sir Richard Eyre)All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger)The Banshees Of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)Blueback (Robert Connolly)The Blue Caftan (Maryam Touzani)Broker (Hirokazu Kore-eda)Brother (Clement Virgo)Bros (Nicholas Stoller)Catherine Called Birdy (Lena Dunham)Causeway (Lila Neugebauer)Chevalier (Stephen Williams)Corsage (Marie Kreutzer)Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)Devotion (Jd Dillard)Driving (Madeleine Christian Carion)El Suplente (Diego Lerman)Empire of Light...

The film co-stars Peter Lanzani and was directed by Santiago Mitre, a Cannes Critics’ Week winner in 2015 with Paulina (La Patota).

Venice Film Festival competition title Argentina, 1985, about a group of lawyers who risk everything when they take on the country’s military dictatorship, “has massive relevance to the rest of the world” according to its star Ricardo Darin.

The film co-stars Peter Lanzani and was directed by Santiago Mitre, a Cannes Critics’ Week winner in 2015 with Paulina (La Patota).

Based on the real-life legal proceedings that mark the first time a civil tribunal successfully issued judgement on military crimes,...

"If the seniors won't do it…" "Then, we bring the juniors in." Amazon has revealed the main official trailer for an Argentinian film titled Argentina, 1985, which recently premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival in the main competition. It's a legal thriller about the brave people that took on the authoritarian military in court. Argentina, 1985 is inspired by the true story of Julio Strassera, Luis Moreno Ocampo, and their young legal team of unlikely heroes in their David-vs-Goliath battle, in which, under constant threat, they dared to prosecute Argentina’s bloodiest military dictatorship against all odds and in a race against time to bring justice to the victims of the Military Junta. This has earned some rave reviews out of Venice so far, praising the performances above all. "[An] impeccably executed portrait of a country at a cross roads," one review states. The film stars Ricardo Darín as Julio Strassera, Peter Lanzani as Luis Moreno Ocampo,...

When the colonels enter the courtroom, they clearly think they are in the clear. A military court has spent a year deciding that whatever excesses the Argentinian police, army and whoever else might have committed, these gentlemen were not down in the muck where these things happened, whatever “these things” were. One by one, they rise to announce that, as military men, they do not recognize the authority of the civil court. They are holding back smirks. Perhaps they think they will be free of this nonsense by lunchtime.

Santiago Mitre’s exceptional Venice Film Festival competition political thriller Argentina 1985 pieces together what happened when the fledgling democracy’s justice department was charged with prosecuting nine members of the former junta. Under military rule, which lasted from 1976 to 1983, it was estimated that 30,000 people “disappeared.” Many who did not disappear had survived rape, torture and internment in unspeakable concentration camps.

There...

Venice film festival 2022: Ricardo Darin anchors this courtroom drama as the chief prosecutor bringing military leaders to justice for human rights abuse

There’s a fair bit of Hollywoodised emotion in this true-life courtroom drama, but it is managed with terrific flair and heartfelt commitment, and Ricardo Darin gives a wonderful performance in the lead: witty, wry, careworn but idealistic. He plays Julio Strassera, the Argentinian chief prosecutor in charge of the junta trial in 1985, the biggest event since Nuremberg, though there was no only-following-orders argument: they were ones giving the orders. The event was easily as important as South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation commission 11 years later, although the emphasis was much more toughly on the “truth” part.

Nine top military brass were put in the dock for human rights abuses, and this film shows their haughty refusal to recognise the authority of a civilian court — including Leopoldo Galtieri,...

The American myth-making machine’s love for pumping out heroes, like so many cape-wearing sausages, finds its antithesis in “Argentina, 1985,” that takes the baton from Shakespeare’s idea that “some men have greatness thrust upon them.” This is very much the case for Julio Strassera (Ricardo Darín), a family man who is aghast at his appointment as lead prosecutor in what became known as “The Trial of the Juntas.”

Director Santiago Mitre raises the curtain at a moment in his nation’s history when there is but a glimmer of a possibility of making a break from the military dictatorship that operated from 1976-1983, torturing, kidnapping, and terrorizing anyone it deemed a threat. Mitre presents self-determination as hinging on what kind of trial the nine generals who ruled the military government will experience. With their power still casting a long shadow, they lobby for a military trial where they will...

For Argentina’s Santiago Mitre, his courtroom drama “Argentina 1985,” a Golden Lion contender at the 79th Venice Film Festival, is an examination of the machinations of power from within, as were his past four features. But unlike those films, “Argentina 1985” is based on a real event, the trial of Argentina’s military leaders who ruled with brutal impunity until democracy was finally restored in 1983.

The civil trial is considered one of the most significant in modern world history, along with the Nuremberg trials when defeated Nazi leaders were put on the stand. The difference in this David vs. Goliath story is that Argentina’s military junta still had a grip on power when they were taken to court for their crimes.

Structured like a thriller but with some touches of wry humor, “Argentina 1985” is based on the story of lead prosecutors Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo, and their young...

The Zurich Film Festival has unveiled the first seven titles from its Gala Premieres section, a showcase of some of the year’s hottest auteur films. The films include the star-studded drama “The Banshees of Inisherin” by Oscar-winning director Martin McDonagh, the European premiere of the German film adaptation “All Quiet on the Western Front,” directed by Edward Berger, and the world premieres of Sönke Wortmann’s “Der Nachname” and “Die Goldenen Jahre” by Barbara Kulcsar.

Artistic director Christian Jungen said: “In recent years, the Zurich Film Festival has established itself as a springboard into the awards season. Of the last 10 winners of the Oscar for Best Film, six screened at the festival. This year, we will again present international auteur films that will later play a role in the Oscar race to the more than 120,000 visitors and the 600 accredited media.”

The complete program of the festival will be published on Sept.

Argentina’s Rodrigo de la Serna leads the cast in the latest Paramount+ original film for Latin America, “El Salto de Papá,” based on the memoir of Argentine author-journalist Martin Sivak.

Daniela Goggi, who co-wrote the script with Andrea Garrote, will direct the pic which is set to begin shooting in Argentina in upcoming weeks. Vis, Paramount’s international studio, is producing the drama in association with two of Argentina’s leading producers, Infinity Hill and Rei Cine.

The film is one of multiple Paramount+ original projects underway in Latin America and Spain as the streamer seeks to rev up its local slate. Competition for premium culturally-specific content among streaming giants and studios in Latin America continues to heat up as they source more original productions locally. This June, at its U.K. launch, Paramount+ announced plans to commission more than 150 international originals by 2025.

De la Serna is best known for his role as Palermo,...

Amazon Studios, La Unión de los Ríos, Kenya Films and Infinity Hill have teamed to produce Argentina’s first Amazon Original film, Santiago Mitre’s “Argentina, 1985,” which looks set to become a banner Argentine big fest title and release in 2022.

Headlining arguably the foremost Argentine stars of their generations – Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani (“The Clan”) – the feature film has just started shooting in Argentina.

It focuses on an extraordinary but real life event of which Argentineans can feel proud: the true story of how a public prosector, Julio Strassera, a young lawyer, Luis Morena Ocampo, and their inexperienced legal team dared to prosecute the heads of Argentina’s bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time, braving bomb and death threats.

The so-called Trial of the Juntas is described as the biggest prosecution process for war crimes since the 1946 Nuremberg Trails after WWII.

“Argentina,...

4x4 is a taut and claustrophobic bit of thriller. A thief (Peter Lanzani) attempts to steal a vehicle, the eponymous automobile. It does not go well. It is a snare. Not just the faux-fox badger-like badge on the grille like a challenge to a Duel, there's a decal marked Predator on the side. It'd be tempting to suggest the silver SUV was the Aristotlean unities with a trans-axle and limited-slip differentials, but that's slightly more pithy than accurate. Tragedy and, at times, comedy will follow, but the scale is a mite bigger than the four walls upon those four wheels. We can see either end of a quiet Argentinian street, from corner to T-Junction, dumpster to billboards.

There is a movie poster for an (as yet nonexistent) sequel - an Easter Egg, as The Man Next Door (properly El hombre de al lado) shares a director and producer with this.

A car thief gets more than he bargained for when the ride he's trying to steal becomes a high-tech death trap in the new movie 4x4, out now on Digital and VOD from Red Hound Films.

Directed by Mariano Cohn from a screenplay co-written by Cohn and Gastón Duprat, 4x4 stars Peter Lanzani, Dady Breva, and Luis Brandoni.

To learn more, visit 4x4 on Apple TV / iTunes:

http://apple.co/3akg5La

Synopsis: "When petty thief Ciro (Peter Lanzani) tries to rob an ordinary-looking car, he finds out that his target is actually a high-tech machine - one that's determined to trap him inside unless he can find a way to escape. To make matters worse, someone on the outside is in control of the car, and they seem to have a plan."



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Happy February, everyone! We’re officially in a new month as of today, which means we have a bunch of new digital and VOD releases to look forward to over the next few weeks. So, if you’re looking to escape those wintry temperatures outside and beat the doldrums that often come along this time of year, perhaps some great horror and sci-fi entertainment will help to keep you busy this month.

Check out February’s digital genre releases below and happy streaming!

A Ghost Waits (Arrow) - Exclusively on Arrow February 1st

Tasked with renovating a neglected rental home, handyman Jack quickly finds out why the tenants keep leaving in droves - this house is haunted. The ghost in question is Muriel, herself employed from beyond the veil to keep the home vacant. Against the odds, Jack and Muriel find they have a lot in common… pulse notwithstanding. Having...

A Film by Mariano Cohn Starring Peter Lanzani, Dady Breva, Luis Brandoni Based On True Events Synopsis When petty thief Ciro (Peter Lanzani) tries to rob an ordinary-looking car, he finds out that his target is actually a high-tech machine – one that’s determined to trap him inside unless he can find a way to …

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Taglines: "Welcome aboard." 4x4 is a Spanish language film from Argentina. As a work in progress, 4x4 debuted at Ventana Sur in 2018. Following this debut, the film had its World Premiere at Fantastic Fest in 2019. Now, this feature is prepping a U.S. launch later in 2021. In the film, a petty thief breaks into a high-tech automobile. He is trapped inside as other go about their day. With no way out, this thief's hourglass is running out of sand. 4x4 has been picked up by Red Hound Films for distribution in North America. As well, Red Hound Films expects to show the film theatrically in early 2021. Fans of claustrophobic thrillers can view the film's trailer here, with more release details set to announce soon. Release Date: 2021. Director: Mariano Cohn. Writers: Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat. Cast: Peter Lanzani, Ailén Mazioni, Dady Breva, Fabio Alberti. The film's Spanish language trailer: More at...

The Special, Halloween Party also on shopping list.

Blue Fox Subsidiary Red Hound Films has acquired North American rights to Mariano Cohn’s Argentinian locked-in-a-car thriller 4x4 as part of a five-film shopping spree.

4x4 caused a stir as soon as it played as a work in progress at Ventana Sur 2018 and went on to premiere at Fantastic Fest last year.

Cohn (The Distinguished Citizen) directed the story about a petty thief (Peter Lanzani) who gets trapped inside a high-tech car where nobody can hear his cries for help.

Cohn and co-wrote the screenplay with Gastón Duprat, who served as...

This October, Grimmfest, Manchester’s International Festival of Fantastic Film, celebrated its eleventh anniversary with its biggest line-up of film premieres ever, along with audiences to match. Now the Festival Jury’s votes are all in, and the audience ballots all tallied up, Grimmfest have revealed this year’s award-winners:

Horror Channel Achievement in Horror Award

Jen And Sylvia Soska

Best Feature (Sponsored by M2 MediaPost) Why Don’T You Just Die!

With Special Mention for Extra Ordinary Best Director (Sponsored by M2 MediaPost) Kirill Sokolov, Why Don’T You Just Die!

With Special Mention for Rob Grant (Harpoon) Best Screenplay (Sponsored by Final Draft and InkTip) Harpoon

With Special Mention for A Serial Killer’S Guide To Life Best Cinematography (Sponsored by One Bright Dot) 4×4

With Special Mention for Why Don’T You Just Die! Best Score (Sponsored by Grimmfest Films) Artik

With Special Mention for Tone-deaf Best Actor Peter Lanzani,...

‘Karli’ won the horror festival’s first work-in-progress award.

Kirill Sokolov’s Why Don’t You Just Die! has won a hat-trick of awards at Manchester horror festival Grimmfest, including best feature.

As well as the top prize, the dark comedy won best director for Sokolov and best SFX. It also received a special mention for cinematography and in the audience award category.

The team behind the Russian feature has been awarded £80,000 worth of post-production services from M2 MediaPost, which can be used as finance against a future film production.

The film, which marks Sokolov’s debut feature, is set...

Round up of the buzz Argentinian titles out to tempt buyers.

4x4

Dir. Mariano Cohn

Thriller 4x4 was the talk of Ventana Sur in Buenos Aires last December and has already landed distribution deals in France (Ugc), South Korea (Cree Pictures) and Argentina, where Buena Vista International will release. Cohn, Gaston Duprat’s co-director on The Distinguished Citizen, makes his solo feature directorial debut on the story about a car thief trapped inside a luxury SUV. Peter Lanzani, Dady Brieva and Luis Brandoni star.

Contact: Juan Torres, Latido Films

After Hitler’s Steps

Dir. Tbd

Keen to move deeper into...

Buenos Aires — Ugc Distribution has beaten out all other suitors to clinch what had became by Friday morning the most anticipated deal of this year’s Ventana Sur market: All rights to France on Argentine Mariano Cohn’s “4 x 4,” sold by Latido Films and distributed throughout Argentina by Disney.

After mounting speculation about which distributor would finally win out on France, the deal was closed by Ugc’s Thierry Decourcelle and Latido Films Juan Torres.

The sale vindicates Latido and the producers’ decision to bring “4 x 4” onto the market at a private screening at Ventana Sur, attended this year by more than 100 French executives.

Stoking the drama of Thursday’s screening, it took place in torrential rain, but top-class screening conditions.

One of the biggest new titles at Ventana Sur, sitting in the mid-ground between arthouse and mainstream – it’s a thriller but makes caustic social comment about the vindictiveness...

Bernardo Zupnik, one of the Argentine film industry’s most senior figures, has been voted in as the president of Argentina’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Cecilia Roth, famed for her performances in early Pedro Almodovar films, will serve as vice-president, and producer-turned-director Juan Vera, who has just debuted behind the camera with Ricardo Darín starrer “An Unexpected Love,” is the Academy’s new second vice-president.

The appointment marks the latest career turn for Zupnik, one of Argentina’s most famous independent distributors who headed for years, along with his daughter Paula Zupnik, Distribution Co., which released many of the largest U.S. independent and Argentine titles, such as 2009 Oscar winner “The Secret in Their Eyes,” which grossed $9.3 million domestically. He has also held public sector positions such as deputy director of the Argentine Film Institute (Incaa).

His appointment comes as Incaa is under increasing fiscal pressure,...

Latido Films’ selling spree continues at San Sebastian, where the Spanish sales agent has closed with Beijing-based distributor Lemon Tree Chinese rights to two Argentine high profile titles, Mariano Cohn’s thriller “4X4” and Carlos Sorin’s drama “Joel.”

Both titles head a raft of new deals clinched by Latido in San Sebastian, and come a week after reporting 23 higher-profile deals across seven titles struck from Cannes through Toronto.

Teaming Gaston Duprat and Cohn’s Buenos Aires-based Television Abierta with Spain’s Mediapro, and toplining Peter Lanzani (“The Clan”), “4 x 4” kicks-off with a luxury 4 x 4 stationed in a Buenos Aires district. A petty car thief enters the vehicle. But when he tries to get out, can’t. The doors, windows won’t open. He’s trapped.

The thriller marks Cohn’s follow-up to “The Distinguished Citizen” which won Oscar Martínez a Volpi Cup best actor award at 2016’s Venice Festival,...

The Argentine Film Academy announced on Wednesday that Luis Ortega's El Angel will be the country's submission to the Oscars in the foreign-language film category.

Premiered in Cannes, El Angel is based on the life of Carlos Robledo Puch, one of the most notorious serial killers in Argentine history, who came to be known as the “the angel of death” at the time of his arrest in 1972, after committing 11 murders as well as several thefts, all before turning 20. First-timer Lorenzo Ferro plays Puch, with Chino Darin (A 12-Year Night) and Peter Lanzani (The Clan) ...

The Argentine Film Academy announced on Wednesday that Luis Ortega's El Angel will be the country's submission to the Oscars in the foreign-language film category.

Premiered in Cannes, El Angel is based on the life of Carlos Robledo Puch, one of the most notorious serial killers in Argentine history, who came to be known as the “the angel of death” at the time of his arrest in 1972, after committing 11 murders as well as several thefts, all before turning 20. First-timer Lorenzo Ferro plays Puch, with Chino Darin (A 12-Year Night) and Peter Lanzani (The Clan) ...

"We all have a destiny." The Orchard has unveiled an official Us trailer for the Argentinian crime biopic El Angel, which first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year. The film also played at the Sarajevo and Toronto Film Festivals, and will next stop by Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX. El Angel tells the story of one of Argentina's most notorious criminals, a boy known as "The Angel of Death" because of his cherubic looks. It all starts with Carlitos at age 17, when he meets a friend in his high school named Ramón and together they form a dangerously charming duo. The young man with the golden curls and the deadly aim was arrested in 1972, having just turned 20, with 11 homicides and over 40 thefts to his name. Starring Lorenzo Ferro as Carlos, along with Chino Darín, Daniel Fanego, Mercedes Morán, Luis Gnecco, Peter Lanzani, and Cecilia Roth. This looks like...

Serial killer crime drama debuted in Cannes, will open in North America through The Orchard. Film Factory handles sales.

August 13 Update: Luis Ortega’s The Angel (El Angel), based on the exploits in the 1970s of Buenos Aires serial killer Carlitos Robledo Puch, has scored the highest ever debut for a local production in local currency in Argentina.

The Argentina-Spain crime drama from Fox International Productions, K&S Films and Pedro Almodovar’s El Deseo opened at the weekend on a $1.52m on 354 screens via Fox International.

Fox executives said the 41.98m Argentinian Pesos gross beat the former record-holder, Pablo Trapero’s El Clan,...

Serial killer crime drama debuted in Cannes, will open in North America through The Orchard. Film Factory handles sales.

Luis Ortega’s The Angel (El Angel), based on the exploits in the 1970s of Buenos Aires serial killer Carlitos Robledo Puch, has scored the highest ever debut for a local production in local currency in Argentina.

The Argentina-Spain crime drama from Fox International Productions, K&S Films and Pedro Almodovar’s El Deseo opened at the weekend on a $1.52m on 354 screens via Fox International.

Fox executives said the 41.98m Argentinian Pesos gross beat the former record-holder, Pablo Trapero’s El Clan,...

Distributor’s second acquisition from Cannes after Birds Of Passage.

The Orchard has acquired North American rights to Argentinian crime drama El Angel following its well received premiere in Cannes in Un Certain Regard last month.

Luis Ortega directed the feature from Pedro and Agustin Almodovar and K&S Films starring newcomer Lorenzo Ferro as Carlos Robledo Puch, the serial killer whose theft and murder spree in the early 1970s terrorised Buenos Aires.

Puch remains in jail after more than 45 years and is the longest-serving prisoner in Argentina’s penal history.

Chino Darin, Mercedes Moran, Daniel Fanego, Neruda star Luis Gnecco,...

Luis Ortega’s “El Ángel” is set to world premiere Friday at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it plays in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard. Variety has been granted access to the first exclusive clip of the upcoming serial killer origin story.

Sold by Film Factory, produced by Argentina’s K & S and Pedro and Agustin’s El Deseo and co-produced by Argentine broadcast network Telefe – a quartet behind “Wild Tales” and “The Clan” – “El Ángel” also marks an incursion as a producer into feature film production of Underground Producciones, of one of Argentina’s foremost drama series production houses (“El Marginal”).

“El Ángel” explores the dark beginnings of Argentina’s longest-serving prisoner and one of its most brutal killers, Carlos Robledo Puch. Dubbed the “Angel of Death” because of his angelic blonde curls, Carlos started experimenting with petty crime in early adolescence. In time his ambitions escalated...

Argentina-Spain crime thriller is in post.

Ugc Distribution has acquired French rights from Film Factory to Luis Ortega upcoming Argentina-Spain crime thriller The Angel (El Angel) that reunites K&S Films with Pedro Almodovar’s El Deseo.

The film, in post-production, centres on the case of the teenage serial killer known as The Angel of Death who remains in jail and has earned the dubious distinction of being Argentina’s longest serving prisoner.

Newcomer Lorenzo Ferro in the lead role as Carlos Robledo Puch, who was a baby-faced malfeasant and thief when he embarked on a thieving and killing spree...

Federico Cueva may be making his directorial debut with upcoming action comedy You Only Live Once (Solo Se Vive Una Vez) but he is no stranger to the industry. A highly in demand vfx and stunt coordinator for more than twenty years, Cueva has been a go-to collaborator for high profile talent such as Alex de la Iglesia and Santiago Segura for ages now and it is clear that he has learned a thing or two while on set over the years. A broad scale action comedy, You Only Live Once stars Peter Lanzani as a small time con forced to go on the run and in hiding as an Orthodox Jew when it turns out his plan to film wealthy businessmen having sex with...

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The Clan (El Clan) Fox International Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya d-based on Rotten Tomatoes Grade: B+ Director: Pablo Trapero Written by: Pablo Trapero, Esteban Student Cast: Guillermo Francella, Peter Lanzani, Antonia Bengoechea, Gastón Cocchiarale, Stefanía Koessl Screened at: Fox, NYC, 2/22/16 Opens: March 18, 2016 This year as in every other, horror films will be introduced to the big screen, each trying to equal or excel the originality and tension of classics like “Carrie” and “The Exorcist.” “The Clan” is billed as a biopic, part thriller, part political (though Republican politics can be viewed as horror as it is by some now in the U.S.), but is not [ Read More ]

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