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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker moves from her usual home on the stage to the screen with her critically acclaimed feature directorial debut, A24’s “Janet Planet.” The coming-of-age drama, set in early ’90s rural Western Massachusetts, follows mother-and-daughter duo Janet and Lacy one summer as three strangers enter their orbits, changing their lives and coloring young Lacy’s imagination. Starring Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler, “Janet Planet” will be available to stream beginning Friday, Nov. 1 exclusively on Max. You can watch with Subscription to Max.

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The feature directorial debut of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker, the coming-of-age drama “Janet Planet” is set in rural Western Massachusetts in the summer of 1991 and follows Janet (Julianne Nicholson), a magnetic acupuncturist, and her 11-year-old daughter,...

As always, Max continues to offer a plethora of quality films on its streaming service, and next month is no different. As November quickly approaches, the movies slated to hit the platform will undoubtedly keep audiences entertained all month long. No matter what kind of genre audiences prefer, theyre guaranteed to find something worth watching.

With a coming-of-age film, a beloved holiday classic, a wildly popular franchise, and a biographical gangster movie, the streaming platform is unlikely to disappoint any of its subscribers. Whether viewers want to dive into the holiday season a bit early or lose themselves in an immersive world of science fiction, Max has them covered.

Janet Planet Stream on Nov. 1

Janet Planet is a coming-of-age drama about an 11-year-old girl named Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) who spends the summer of 1991 at home in rural Western Massachusetts with her mother, Janet (Julianne Nicholson). Completely enthralled by her own imagination,...

Lacy's summer is disrupted by her mother Janet, setting off a series of events full of quiet humor and contemplation. Janet and Lacy's relationship is at the heart of "Janet Planet" - a serene drama that transcends universal themes of family. Through subtle moments and interactions, the film explores the complexity of motherhood and the hidden frequencies between Janet and Lacy.

Nestled somewhere between the rocky coasts of New England and the rolling mountains of the Berkshires lives Janet (Julianne Nicholson), an unassuming hippie-adjacent acupuncturist who lives with her 11-year-old daughter Lacy (Zoe Ziegler). It's the summer of 1991 and Lacy has been sent off to camp, but not for long. At the start of the film, Lacy calls her mother and tells her that she'll kill herself if she isn't picked up from camp. When Janet arrives and all of Lacy's bunkmates are sad to see her go, Lacy...

A24 has grown into a leading production company, with a diverse slate of innovative films set for release in 2024. Emerging directors like Rose Glass and Jane Schoenbrun are contributing fresh voices to A24's lineup of groundbreaking films. Janet Planet, MaXXXine, Sing Sing, and A Different Man showcase A24's dedication to artistic storytelling and fostering new talent.

A24 has transformed from a small independent entertainment company into one of the industry's leading film and television production and distribution companies, with several projects set for release in 2024. Founded in 2012, A24 started as a boutique distributor focused on bringing unique indie films to audiences. However, in the past decade, it has quickly grown into a powerhouse studio responsible for some of the most acclaimed and influential films in recent years. Movies like Moonlight, Lady Bird, The Florida Project, Hereditary, and the best movie of the 2020s, Everything Everywhere All at Once...

Andrew Haigh‘s Oscar hopeful had a wonderful night at the British Independent Film Awards on Sunday as it took home seven gongs including Best Picture, the most of any film. Haigh won two awards — Best Director and Best Screenplay. Paul Mescal won Best Supporting Performance alongside “How to Have Sex” actor Shaun Thomas while it also won Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Music Supervision.

“Rye Lane” won a trio of prizes: Raine Allen Miller was Best Debut Director while Vivian Oparah was awarded Best Breakthrough Performance. It also won Best Original Music.

Mia McKenna-Bruce won Best Lead Performance for “How to Have Sex” in a stacked gender-neutral category that also included Jodie Comer (“The End We Start From”), Tia Nomore (“Earth Mama”), Nabhaan Rizwan (“In Camera”), Andrew Scott (“All of Us Strangers”), and Tilda Swinton (“The Eternal Daughter”). And Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay shared in Best Joint Lead Performance for “Femme.

“Rye Lane”, “Scrapper”, “All of Us Strangers”, “How to Have Sex” y “Femme” encabezan las nominaciones a los premios BIFA.

El jueves se anunciaron los nominados a los premios BIFA (British Independent Film Awards). Estos premios son galardones cinematográficos que se otorgan en el Reino Unido para destacar y honrar las películas independientes británicas. Los ganadores de los premios BIFA 2023 se darán a conocer el 3 de diciembre. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los nominados de esta edición:

Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente BRITÁNICA

All Of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh

Femme, Sam H Freeman & Ng Choon Ping

How To Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker

Rye Lane, Raine Allen-Miller

Scrapper, Charlotte Regan

Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente Internacional

Anatomy Of A Fall, Justine Triet

Fallen Leaves, Aki Kauriskmäki

Fremont, Babak Jalali

Monster, Hirokazu Kore-eda

Past Lives, Celine Song

Mejor DIRECCIÓN

Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane

Sam H Freeman & Ng Choon Ping, Femme

Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers...

Playwright Annie Baker has developed a distinctive style in which silences often speak louder than words, the words themselves mean more than what’s actually said, and routine conversations and events have the power of earth-shattering revelations. It’s an approach to drama that demands us to pay close attention to every line of dialogue and every flicker of emotion on an actor’s face, lest we miss crucial details. In some ways, that’s a deeply cinematic approach to dramaturgy, recalling the economy of Robert Bresson and Harold Pinter’s work, except that Baker’s is far more emotionally immediate.

The plot of Baker’s quiet and often moving feature directorial debut, Janet Planet, details the bond between 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) and her acupuncturist mother, Janet (Julianne Nicholson), in rural Western Massachusetts in the summer of 1991 just before Lacy enters the sixth grade. The closest that the film...

In a city where you can discover a film festival every weekend of the year, perhaps the most unique of such offerings is located in Rockaway, Queens. Taking place just a few blocks from the beach, the 6th edition of the Rockaway Film Festival will occur August 19-August 27, and we’re pleased to exclusively debut the lineup of award-winning documentaries, premieres, live music and dance performances, shorts programmes, and rare repertory screenings.

Organized by Sam Fleischner and Courtney Muller and sponsored by Blundstone®, Istic Illic Pictures, and NYC Ferry, this year’s edition will open at their flagship outdoor theater, Arverne Cinema (constructed using scraps of boardwalk that were destroyed during Hurricane Sandy), with Disney’s famous feature masterpiece Fantasia. There will be a program of shorts preceding it by cine-magician Oskar Fishinger, whose groundbreaking animations changed the cinematic frontier. The festival will also present the New York Premiere of...

Carnation

We’re beginning to think Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s Carnation is driftwood at sea as it wrapped up back in 2019. The Australian filmmaker with film splash showings at Sundance, Cannes and Venice might be still chiselling down his latest feature as we happened to notice it’s advertised at over two and a half hours. This filmed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma with producers Abby Harri, John Baker, Kate Laurie, Chris Luscri, Freeman Trebilcock backing the project.

Gist: In the American South, two lovers forge an all-consuming love as their physical and spiritual worlds are pushed to the limits of time and space.…...