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The Criterion Collection adds another indispensable boxed set to its library with this month’s release of World of Wong Kar Wai, a package of seven essential features, all restored and remastered and accompanied by an abundance of interviews, deleted scenes, and alternate endings. Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love have been released by Criterion before, but the remaining five films – As Tears Go By, Days of Being Wild, Fallen Angels, Happy Together, and 2046 – are new to the label and presented here in vastly superior presentations to prior U.S. home video releases. The early films are […]

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The Criterion Collection adds another indispensable boxed set to its library with this month’s release of World of Wong Kar Wai, a package of seven essential features, all restored and remastered and accompanied by an abundance of interviews, deleted scenes, and alternate endings. Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love have been released by Criterion before, but the remaining five films – As Tears Go By, Days of Being Wild, Fallen Angels, Happy Together, and 2046 – are new to the label and presented here in vastly superior presentations to prior U.S. home video releases. The early films are […]

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Shot in 1938, finished in 2019, Richard Lyford's As The Earth Turns is a standout piece of science fiction from the Silent Age. Lyford was just 20 years old when he made it, and although his confident work with the actors recalls his stage experience, much of what we see elsewhere is sheer invention. It may not look polished - indeed, producer/composer Edmund Hartman, who pieced it back together after it was found by one of Lyford's descendants - elected to refrain from restoring it further so that viewers could appraise the director's work in its raw form - but it is brilliant in what it manages to achieve with the simple tools of the time.

The late Thirties were a pivotal time in the development of cinema. Gone With The Wind was shot at the same time - not just a talkie, but in colour - and the two seem.

We just took a DNA test and it turns out we're 100 percent green with envy over Lizzo's look. The "Truth Hurts" singer took to her Instagram to give her followers a first look at her outfit for the 2021 Grammy Awards on Sunday night. "On my way to the function ya'll," Lizzo casually captioned the glam pic, which showed off her seafoam green Balmain dress. But the real Mvp of her 'fit? The serious bling she was sporting as Lizzo was dripping in Bulgari diamonds. The 32-year-old finished off her look with matching Stuart Weitzman custom-crystalized Olive heels. Yes, even her feet were covered in jewels and, basically, the entire look is "Good As Hell" and has us counting down the...

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Berlinale has developed a new festival format for its 71st edition.

In 2021, the Competition, Berlinale Special & Berlinale Series, Encounters, Berlinale Shorts, Panorama, Forum & Forum Expanded, Generation and Perspektive Deutsches Kino have been reduced in size due to the pandemic.

The majority of the Film Selection will be available for viewing online by industry representatives and accredited members of the press during the Industry Event from March 1–5, 2021.

During the Summer Special from June 9–20, 2021, Berlinale audiences will be able to see the majority of the films selected by all the sections in numerous cinema screenings in the presence of the filmmakers.

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Let’s have a look at the Asian Films in the different sections of the Festival:

Competition:

Ghasideyeh gave sefid (Ballad of a White Cow)

Iran / France

by Behtash Sanaeeha, Maryam Moghaddam *World premiere

Guzen to sozo (Wheel of Fortune...

Exclusive: WME has signed writer-director-actress Carlson Young, who is fresh off of the Sundance premiere of her feature directorial debut, The Blazing World.

Based on Young’s 2018 Sundance short of the same name, the film follows a self-destructive young woman who decades after the accidental drowning of her twin sister, returns to her family home, finding herself drawn to an alternate dimension where her sister may still be alive.

Young stars alongside Dermot Mulroney, Udo Kier, and Vinessa Shaw. The project is the first in the filmmaker’s Saturn Returns trilogy, a series of three thematically and visually connected films that explore the relationship between female identity and trauma recovery.

On the TV side, Young most recently appeared in the new Netflix hit series, Emily In Paris. She had a starring role in Disney Channel’s As The Bell Rings and Scream: The TV Series on MTV and recurred on...

Hong Kong, 2 February 2021 – The Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf) today unveils 21 projects for the fifth edition of its Work-in-Progress section (Wip). Established and emerging filmmakers such as Chang Tso-Chi, Huang Ji, Pierre Sarraf, Tan Chui Mui, and Jessey Tsang will present their latest work, along with 12 first-feature directors.

The Wip section will return to its regular slot this year, running from 15 to 17 March in conjunction with the main Haf programme and the 25th Hong Kong Filmart (Filmart). Given the Covid-19 pandemic’s ongoing restrictions, the event will go online again following its first-ever virtual edition in August 2020.

Wip began in 2017 as a dedicated platform for later-stage projects seeking completion funding, post-production partners, distributors and sales agents, and film festival support, extending the services of the main Haf programme which is for projects in the pre-production or development stages.

There were 129 submissions from 50 countries and regions this year. Most...

Line-up includes 10 docs and 11 fiction films, mostly from Asia, with several European productions and co-productions.

New works from filmmakers including Chang Tso-chi, Huang Ji, Pierre Sarraf, Tan Chui Mui and Jessey Tsang are among the 21 projects selected for the Work-in-Progress section (Wip) of this year’s Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (Haf).

The Wip projects will be presented online alongside the main programme of Haf (March 15-17) and Hong Kong Filmart (March 15-18). Most are at the post-production stage, with several currently in production. The line-up includes 10 documentaries and 11 fiction films, mostly from Asia, with several European productions and co-productions.

Take a trip and break out of your shell with Barb and Star. From the gals who brought you Bridesmaids (co-stars and co-writers Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo) comes Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar. Lifelong friends Barb and Star embark on the adventure of a lifetime when they decide to leave their small Midwestern town for the first time…ever. Romance, friendship and a villain’s evil plot…

Lionsgate has released a new poster and trailer for the upcoming film.

Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar premieres everywhere you rent movies on February 12 and is directed by Josh Greenbaum.

The film stars Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumolo, Jamie Dornan, Damon Wayans Jr., Fortune Feimster, Wendi McLeandon-Covey, Rose Abdoo, Vanessa Bayer, Phyllis Smith, and Kwame Patterson.

Mark Jonathan Davis as Richard Cheese in Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar. Photo Credit: Cate Cameron

Catch the funny new clip “I Love Boobies”. Btw,...

Yellowstone scene stealer Jen Landon is saddling up for a brand-new role, on FBI: Most Wanted.

TVLine has learned that Landon is set to recur on CBS’ sophomore procedural as Sarah Allen, a horse riding instructor who will work with Special Agent Jess Lacroix’s daughter, Tali (played by Yaya Gosselin).

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TVLine also hears that Sarah in turn is poised to become a prospective love interest for Julian McMahon’s widowed Jess.

In addition to...

Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Yoko Ono were among those remembering the great John Lennon on the 40th anniversary of his tragic death. “A sad sad day,” wrote McCartney, Lennon’s songwriting partner, friend and often artistic rival, “but remembering my friend John with the great joy he brought to the world.”

“I will always be proud and happy to have known and worked with this incredible Scouser!,” McCartney concludes, with a reference to the nickname for folks from Liverpool.

Lennon was shot dead on Dec. 8, 1980, by Mark David Chapman, who remains in custody after repeated requests for parole.

Starr, the only surviving Beatle besides McCartney (George Harrison died in 2001), tweeted today, “Tuesday, 8 December 1980 we all had to say goodbye to John peace and love John. I’m asking Every music radio station in the world sometime today play Strawberry Fields Forever. Peace and love.”

Ono used the occasion to...

Spike Lee has found his next project, a musical that will tell the story of the development and accidental invention of the erectile dysfunction medication Viagra.

Lee will direct the untitled film for Entertainment One from a screenplay he wrote with Kwame Kwei-Armah. The project is based on an article in Esquire by David Kushner from 2018, “All Rise: The Untold Story of the Guys Who Launched Viagra.”

Stew Stewart and Heidi Rodewald, who previously wrote the musical “Passing Strange” that Lee directed a filmed version of, will write original songs and music for the Viagra project.

Matt Jackson’s Jackson Pictures will produce with Lee’s 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. The project will be the next Spike Lee Joint. Joanne Lee of Jackson Pictures and David Kushner will executive produce.

Lee had a lot of people to thank and a lot of excitement for this latest film, which you...

"Love is all a matter of timing." Ain't that the truth... Janus Films has unveiled an official trailer for the retrospective series kicking off this fall officially titled The World of Wong Kar Wai, featuring seven of his finest films restored in glorious 4K. "Films you'll love for 10,000 years, the cinema of Wong Kar Wai is steeped in sensual colors, groundbreaking editing, and heart-wrenching drama. Janus Films is proud to present a touring retrospective that includes brand-new restorations of seven of the master's most dazzling films, including the US premiere of Chungking Express (1994) and the world premiere of newly restored films As Tears Go By (1988), Days of Being Wild (1990), Fallen Angels (1995), Happy Together (1997), a director's cut of The Hand (2004), and on the occasion of its 20th anniversary, a newly restored In the Mood for Love (2000)." Most film fans are familiar with his films already, but if you haven't seen all...

The list of things we wanted this year and did not get is too long and, frankly, despair-inducing to run down, so for the purposes of this article I’ll localize to “World of Wong Kar-wai,” a traveling retrospective of new restorations that was to begin this summer at New York’s Film at Lincoln Center. And then, etc., which has led to a reduced version: the same films, but on whatever home screen you can manage rather than a theater; the same restorations, but victim to compression, Internet connection; no opportunities to make eyes at a beautiful stranger in the lobby afterwards before you both go your separate ways, wondering what may have been.

Janus Films march on all the same, their series commencing with November 25’s virtual opening of In the Mood for Love at Film at Lincoln Center. Marking the occasion is a new trailer that does...

With yet another Friday the 13th upon us, it’s high time to dig into a now fairly-outmoded Hollywood practice, the synergistic soundtrack album, as it pertains to Camp Blood’s least favorite son. Today, we celebrate the Friday The 13th franchise by making a playlist of its top soundtrack slices.

As a series, Friday The 13th has run the musical gamut, kicking off at the tail end of disco (as the opening theme music of Friday The 13th Part III can attest), peaking during the hair metal ’80s, and then quite thoroughly exploring a renaissance in metal at the start of the 21st century.

Is this list solely a product of the personal taste of this horror and metal fan? Of course. As such, you’ll notice that Hot Ice does not make the cut. Several of the top entries in this list did not even occupy any pre-end credits screen time,...

Scottish instrumental post-rockers Mogwai have announced their new album As the Love Continues by dropping the video for the LP’s first single “Dry Fantasy.”

For the album, the quartet reunited with long-time collaborator Dave Fridmann — their producer on 1999’s Come on Die Young, 2001’s Rock Action, and 2017 LP Every Country’s Sun — earlier this year. However, due to the pandemic, Mogwai recorded in Worcestershire, U.K., with Fridmann producing the sessions “separated by an ocean but appearing like an Orwellian oppressor over the sessions,” the band said.

As the...

One of the few A-list stars to emerge the last few years, it’s surprising it has taken this long for a film starring Margot Robbie to finally arrive, but her Dust Bowl drama Dreamland will now be landing next month. Premiering well over a year ago at the Tribeca Film Festival, the film––which follows Robbie as a bank robber on the run––is directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte (As You Are) and now the first trailer has landed.

In his review for Eye on Film, Anton Bitel said the film “comes with a bittersweet vision of America barrelling down a two-lane road to nowhere, where dreams of sun and surf and sex are offset by the harsher realities of dust and mud and blood, and where, as the landscape is inscribed with corruption, ambiguity and guilt, the best kind of life for which one can hope is simply to be remembered,...

Exclusive: Broadway actors have a long history of moonlighting – sunlighting? – on daytime soaps, at least they did in decades past when New York City still had soaps. With theaters now dark, what better time to resurrect the tradition? Tune in today to…As The Curtain Rises.

An ongoing fiction podcast set in backstage Broadway, As The Curtain Rises has recruited a stellar cast from top Broadway productions past and, well, more recently past: Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice), Ariana Debose, Andrew Barth Feldman (Dear Evan Hansen), Tony-winning James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin), Ilana Levine, Lesli Margherita (Matilda The Musical), Mauricio Martinez (On Your Feet!), Ashley Park, George Salazar (Be More Chill), Sarah Stiles, Michael Urie (Grand Horizons) and Tony-winner Lillias White (The Life).

The first episode is available today,...

“Empire” alum and rapper Bryshere Gray was arrested on domestic violence charges in Goodyear, Arizona Monday, after a woman who identified herself as his wife called 9-1-1 to report the former Fox star.

Police responded to the woman’s call, which was placed from a gas station, on Sunday at approximately 10:15 p.m, according to a press release from the Goodyear Police Department. The woman told police she had been assaulted at her home for “several hours” by her husband, who she said was Gray, an actor best known for playing Hakeem Lyon on the recently ended “Empire” for the Fox hip-hop drama’s entire six season run.

According the department, “The victim had numerous visible injuries on her body and also stated that she was strangled at one point by Gray and temporarily lost consciousness. She was taken to a nearby hospital.”

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Dashboard Confessional have released a cover of Post Malone’s hit song “Circles,” recorded earlier this year at New York’s Electric Lady Studios. It was released on Wednesday in a Spotify Singles package, alongside a new version of the band’s own song “Screaming Infidelities.”

The cover is a faithful rendition of Post Malone’s original track, even including the same “echo” effects heard on the second verse. And Chris Carrabba’s vocals are a match for Posty’s original emotive performance.

“We stopped by the iconic Electric Lady...

Nfi World Sales, the institute’s sales arm, is also introducing buyers to Oscar-winning István Szabó’s latest feature Final Report.

Details have emerged at Berlin’s Efm of the latest investments from the Nfi (National Film Institute Hungary) under new film commissioner Csaba Kael.

The latest Nfi grants have gone to János Szász’s Journey by Moonlight, produced by Mythberg Films and adapted from the Antal Szerb novel; a documentary about three-time Olympic swimming champion Katinka Hosszú, produced by Szupermodern Stúdió; and Áron Gauder’s family animation As Long As the Grass Grows, produced by Cinemon Entertainment, which will...

We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes details on a zombie energy drink, trailers for Ditch Day Massacre and The Dead Inside, and much more:

Zombie Terrors #1 Animated Comic: ”Asylum Press and Visionborne have joined forces to produce a slate of animated comics based on popular Asylum Press titles for the Apple iPad and other mobile devices. After the successful launch of fan-favorite Fearless Dawn #1, Zombie Terrors is the next in the lineup to be released exclusively through the Visionborne app that uses Airmid technology, a process that converts static 2D art into a vibrant 3D animated format that can be read and “experienced” using a reader app on iOS and Android.

Zombie Terrors #1 is available the iTunes store now. It features a gory collection of zombie tales created by an international cast of artistic talent.

Marie-France Pisier in Charles Jarrott's The Other Side of Midnight (top); Pisier with Jean-Pierre Léaud in François Truffaut's Love at Twenty segment "Antoine and Colette" (bottom) Marie-France Pisier, best-known internationally as one of François Truffaut's New Wave muses and as the star of the trashy Hollywood melodrama The Other Side of Midnight, was found dead early morning on Easter Sunday, April 24, in the swimming pool of her home in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer in the South of France. Her death apparently occurred late Saturday night or very early Sunday. Pisier was 66. Her body was discovered by her husband, businessman Thierry Funck-Brentano. The cause of death is unknown, but foul play isn't suspected. Pisier was expected to take part at an homage to Jean-Paul Belmondo, with whom she had co-starred in Gérard Oury's L'as des as / The Ace of Aces (1982), at the Cannes Film Festival next month. Pisier (born on...

French actress Marie-france Pisier has been found dead in the swimming pool at her home in the south of France.

The 66-year-old's lifeless body was discovered in the early hours of Sunday by her husband, Thierry Funk Brentano.

Officials in Toulon, near the couple's villa in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, have launched an investigation to determine the cause of death, but foul play is not suspected.

Pisier began a career as an actress in 1961 when she was cast by director Francois Truffaut in short film Antoine and Colette.

She shot to fame and became recognised as a star of the New Wave era, going on to work with filmmakers such as Luis Bunuel and Andre Techine.

The star scooped two best supporting actress honours at the prestigious Cesar awards - the French equivalent of the Oscars - for her work with Techine in Cousin, Cousine (1976) and Barocco (1977).

Her other notable films included 1982 comedy L'as des as and 1978 romantic thriller, The Other Side of Midnight.

Pisier was due to appear at the Cannes Film Festival in May to honour top French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, her co-star in L'as des as.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has paid tribute to Pisier, hailing her as "a supreme elegance born from the most perfect simplicity".

Berlin has become the epicenter of Europe's vibrant street art scene since the reunification of Germany in 1989. And it's no wonder why artists are drawn here -- with cheap rent, urban decay that inspires and serves as a canvas and fairly lax laws regarding these public spaces, Berlin has allowed artists to explore in a medium that is accessible and espouses anti-capitalist and activist sentiments.

French artist Mto makes movie icons into larger than life street-art symbols -- set on the crumbling backdrop of Berlin's city streets. Judging from his Flickr page though, it seems the artist is getting a few commissions for his portraits, as one image shows a smug Jean-Paul Belmondo as Jo Cavalier in L'as des as, looming over a video store's display cases. While Mto has painted other lesser-known cult icons, he has also paid tribute to the more popular ones including a stunning "triptych" of...