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The National have shared the next page in their upcoming album First Two Pages of Frankenstein today with the new single “New Order T-Shirt.”

“New Order T-Shirt” begins with a more traditional, folksy sound that might call to mind some of The National’s earlier works, gradually building into a passionate guitar ballad that evokes the intensity of memories shared with someone you miss dearly.

Frontman Matt Berninger brings these bittersweet themes to life with detailed vignettes: “How we wove through the cones walking home/ To the place on Atlantic you shared with your hilarious sister/ Kicking off your black flats, demolished and laughing/ I keep what I can of you.”

The band’s Aaron Dessner adds in a press release: “To me the line ‘I keep what I can of you’ means something about everyone I’ve ever known or loved. There’s a simplicity to ‘New Order T-Shirt...

After cleaning up at the BAFTA Awards on Sunday with seven wins, “All Quiet on the Western Front,” unsurprisingly, is making headway up the Oscar rankings. The war drama has climbed one spot to sixth place in the Best Picture odds and is poised to crack the top five, but how far can it really go?

“All Quiet” moved past another film did well well at BAFTA, “Elvis,” which nabbed four wins, and currently sits behind “TÁR,” which won the Best Actress BAFTA for Cate Blanchett. The top four remains unchanged: “Everything Everywhere All at Once” still sits in first, followed by four-time BAFTA champ “The Banshees of Inisherin,” “The Fabelmans” and “Top Gun: Maverick.” Rounding out the top 10 are “Avatar: The Way of Water,” “Triangle of Sadness” and “Women Talking.”

Among “All Quiet’s” BAFTA haul were the prizes for Best Film and Best Director for Oscar snubbee Edward Berger...

The Sauron-like eye of awards season will shift its beady gaze to London on Feb. 19 for the BAFTAs, arguably the biggest film ceremony outside of the U.S.

Change is afoot for the jewel in the British Academy’s crown, and not just with the increasing diversity of the nominations, which this year saw a total of 45 films given nods and love given to many performances and features snubbed by AMPAS voters, including the likes of Decision to Leave and, perhaps most surprisingly, The Woman King. It should also be noted that AMPAS’ wide-ranging appreciation for The Fabelmans wasn’t matched over the Atlantic, Spielberg’s deeply personal feature only getting an original screenplay BAFTA nomination.

The BAFTAs have also moved venue, shifting from the Royal Albert Hall to its new home at the more contemporary Royal Festival Hall on the banks of the Thames (featuring rather delightful views of...

Canadian singer-songwriter Shania Twain curbs her swearing when she is in the UK. The superstar – who is a new panelist on the UK talent contest ‘Starstruck’ – admits she has a foul mouth. But she tries not to curse as much when she’s this side of the Atlantic, reports Female First UK.

She told Best UK magazine: “It’s very much a sister culture for me, coming from Canada. It doesn’t feel foreign in many ways. I would drink tea in Canada! There’s a much more relaxed sense of humour. We swear more in Canada, so I curb that a bit when I’m here! I always feel very at home here.”

The ‘You’re Still The One’ hitmaker recently revealed her insecurities about her voice and the fact late music icon Prince didn’t allow swearing stopped her from accepting his offer to work together.

As per Female First UK,...

For the past five years in a row, the BAFTA Awards have correctly predicted the Oscar winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, recognizing “Call Me by Your Name,” “BlacKkKlansman,” “Jojo Rabbit,” “The Father” and “Coda.” But that winning streak may have already hit a snag in 2023, as the frontrunner for the Oscar — Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking” — didn’t even earn a nomination on the other side of the Atlantic. In fact, only two of the five Oscar nominees overlap with the BAFTA lineup: “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Living.” Even though the former is tied as the most nominated film in the British academy’s history with 14 citations, could “Living” and its Nobel laureate screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro ultimately prevail?

Our collective users certainly think so, although it looks to be a tight race between the two contenders. According to our combined odds, “Living” holds the lead over “All Quiet” by fewer than 200 predictors.

Peter Schrurs has taken over as interim director for at least three months.

Bero Beyer, director of lead public agency the Netherlands Film Fund, is stepping down temporarily from his post for “work-related health reasons.” Peter Schrurs, a former director of the Vpro, has now started as interim director.

It is not clear when Beyer will return to the fund although a fund spokesperson confirmed to Screen that Schrurs is expected to be at the fund for at least three months. He will be at the helm of the organisation alongside business director George van Breemen.

Schrurs also served as...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSKing Lear.Jean-Luc Godard, groundbreaking French-Swiss filmmaker across six decades, died last week at age 91. In the week since, a number of tributes have been shared: among them, Blair McClendon in n+1, J. Hoberman in The Nation, Manohla Dargis in the New York Times, and Richard Hell in Screen Slate. Alternatively, you can find a 2002 essay on Godard by filmmaker and theorist Peter Wollen on Verso's blog, watch a 1988 conversation between Godard and critic Serge Daney, or read this list Godard contributed to the British film journal Afterimage in 1970. Shadow and Act founder Tambay Obenson is fundraising to launch Akoroko, a new platform devoted to African film and television. The platform intends to combine film journalism with “consultation, cataloging, and curated film streaming.”Two posters (below) for the 61st New York Film Festival feature photographs taken by Nan Goldin.

Katie Sinclair has been named the new head of development at Riff Raff Entertainment, the development and production company co-founded by Oscar-nominated actor Jude Law and creative partner Ben Jackson.

She joins from Blueprint Pictures, where her credits as a development executive include Martin McDonagh’s upcoming “Banshees of Inisherin,” which is seen as a major awards season player and will screen at both the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals; “The Beautiful Game,” directed by Thea Sharrock; and Andrew Haigh’s “Strangers,” which stars Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, and Jamie Bell. Sinclair has worked on “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” for Sony 3000 and Netflix. She has been heavily involved in sourcing and shepherding Blueprint’s slate of feature film projects.

Prior to Blueprint, Sinclair worked for Rose Garnett and Eva Yates at BBC Film. She has previously worked in production and development for BBC Studios, Sugar Films, Disney and Lionsgate,...

Jordan Klepper, a man who has had a front row seat to the Maga circus over the past few years, doesn’t often look surprised when he’s on the road – he’s heard all of the conspiracy theories and complaints.

But at a Donald Trump rally in June, he looked genuinely flabbergasted when a couple of young women seemingly had no knowledge of what happened on January 6, 2021 (see clip below).

“There’s definitely a surprise to be found at every Trump event,” Klepper tells Deadline. “I wish I could say that we went to these places, and we were fishing for people, but that’s not the case, we only talk to anybody who would like to talk to us. More often than not, people want to come in and talk to us. But the fact that they had never heard of January 6, even the terminology around insurrection was...

Van Ewijk: 'They want the same things as we do, but they hardly get the chance to escape poverty and enter Fort Europe' "When shooting the windsurf scenes for Atlantic. almost everybody got seasick once in a while", director Jan-Willem van Ewijk tells me when I meet him shortly before the Dutch premiere of the film - which is on release at cinemas in the UK now. In this brave production that had its first screening in Toronto 2014, a young Moroccan windsurfing fisherman dreams of a future beyond the horizon. On his surfboard he dares to attempt the long and perilous crossing to Europe.

The making of this Dutch production was a big adventure in itself. The the migration theme is presented here in a striking way, combining realism and attention to character details with a poetic touch and impressive images of the wide open ocean. Even before premiering in the Netherlands,...

Industry exec held roles at Les Arcs European Film Festival and Paris Co-production Village.

Vanja Kaludjercic has been appointed head of the Holland Film Meeting, the international industry arm of the Netherlands Film Festival that has a focus on co-production activity within the Dutch and international production sectors.

Kaludjercic replaces Signe Zeilich-Jensen who stood down at the end of Hfm 2015. The next edition of the Holland Film Meeting will run 22-25 September 2016.

Kaludjercic was previously head of industry at Les Arcs European Film Festival in France and worked with the same team on the new Paris Co-production Village in 2014.

As a programmer, Kaludjercic has worked with Sarajevo film festival since 2008, while in 2015 she joined Paris-based Cinéma du Réel as head of ParisDOC and worked for Cph:dox as head of studies within the production workshop Cph:lab.

Kaludjercic was in charge of acquisitions at Coproduction Office from 2008 to 2010 before going on to manage the Paris Project of the Paris...

Not all projects should be made or released just because they go through film labs, says Bero Beyer.

The new artistic director of International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr), Bero Beyer, has questioned the role of talent schemes across the industry, saying there is a need to curate “gems” among a glut of “mediocre” features.

Speaking on the second day of CineMart, Iffr’s long-established co-production market, Beyer said: “It seems as if the R&D department of the film industry has moved to funds and festivals, in particular to specialised talent development programs that have grown into alternate financing models for feature films.”

Beyer, previously an independent producer on films such as Paradise Now and Atlantic., said having the weight of a major festival behind a project provided an advantage to features from young filmmakers and was not typical of the indie film process.

“Several schemes have been initiated to create a space for artistic freedom,” he said...

Five films to screen at festival and in more than 36 cinemas/VOD platforms as part of new Rotterdam initiative.

The International Film Festival Rotterdam has added the world premiere of The Sky Above Us to its new Iffr Live programme.

Marinus Groothof makes his feature directorial debut with the story of three Serbian nationals living in fear during the 1999 Nato bombing of Belgrade. Ctm Pictures produces and Doc & Film handles world sales.

The new Iffr Live programme presents five film premieres during the festival to simultaneously screen in more than 36 cinemas and VOD platforms across Europe. That includes launches in the UK, Italy, Spain, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia and the Netherlands (see list of venues below).

For The Sky Above Us, Dutch telecom provider Kpn will stream the film live on interactive TV in The Netherlands timed to its Jan 28 festival launch and offer its subscribers the opportunity to view the film and participate in a live, free...

Director Jan-Willem van Ewijk's second feature film, “Atlantic.” (yes there’s a period in the title) is an elegiac, lyrical tribute to yes, the Atlantic Ocean, and the complicated and deep relationship one man has with the sea. Almost an “All Is Lost” on a windsurfing board, “Atlantic.” features his incredible journey on the ocean, motivated by love and loss. Flashing back and forward in time, the film is a dreamlike, salty slice of life on the Moroccan coast, driven forward by the waves, the wind, and the water. Fettah (Fettah Lamara, a real-life Moroccan windsurfer) is on a strange and inexplicable journey. He’s windsurfing up the Moroccan coast, sleeping at night in his sail, subsisting on nuts and water from his backpack. When he arrives on the rocky shore in Casablanca and meets a friendly fisherman, he explains his journey a bit: he’s going much farther north,...

The 2014 Toronto Film Festival lineup got a lot stronger this morning by adding several new titles to the Special Presentations, Masters, Documentaries, Vanguard and Contemporary World Cinema selection as well as announcing the Mavericks and Discovery Programme picks. Most notable selections begin with Special Presentations additions of The Weinstein's St. Vincent starring Bill Murray and Melissa McCarty and James Franco's The Sound and the Fury. The St. Vincent screening will be a world premiere and suggest Murray will be walking the Tiff red carpet... now that's a get for the fest I'm sure brings a smile to their face. In the Masters selection we have Studio Ghibli's The Tale of Princess Kaguya as well as the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winner, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep. The Vanguard selection has added The Voice, the lastest film from Persepolis helmer Marjane Satrapi and in the Mavericks selection...

Bill Murray starrer St. Vincent will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of this week’s wave of programming that includes Discovery.

The Discovery section includes the upcoming world premiere of Stories Of Our Lives, a portmanteau of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex testimonies by anonymous filmmakers from Kenya.

Selections include first-looks of Ross Katz’s Us comedy Adult Beginners, Sarah Leonor’s French Legion drama The Great Man, Isidora Marras’ Chile-Argentinian psychothriller I Am Not Lorena and UK drama X + Y.

“Christopher Nolan, Steve McQueen, Lynne Ramsay and David Gordon Green all presented their first features in our Discovery section,” said Tiff artistic director Cameron Bailey. “It’s a great place to spot new talent first.”

Besides St. Vincent, Festival Additions includes concert film cum road movie Roger Waters The Wall, while the world premiere of Krzysztof Zanussi’s Foreign Body takes its place among the Masters strand.

Tiff Docs arrivals...

Fortissimo Films has added two Last Summer from Italy and Atlantic from the Netherlands to its Cannes slate.

Fortissimo Films is to begin pre-sales at the Cannes market on Italian feature Last Summer and Dutch film Atlantic. Both are currently in post-production and slated for festival launches later this year.

Fortissimo will handle worldwide sales for both outside their respective countries of origin and will introduce the films to buyers during the Marche with exclusive footage.

Last Summer marks the feature debut of London-based Italian commercials and short film director Leonardo Guerra Seragnoli.

Starring Rinko Kikuchi (Babel), the English and Japanese language film also introduces child actor Ken Brady. Produced by Elda Ferri (Jean Vigo Italia), Luigi Musini (Cinemaundici) and Rai Cinema, the film was written by Seragnoli and Igort. Acclaimed Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto is a contributing writer on the film.

The film is partially set on a luxury yacht anchored off the coast of Apulia...

Boost! is a cooperation between the Hubert Bals Fund, Iffr's CineMart, Binger Filmlab and Nfdc of India and supported by Media Mundus. Yearly five projects selected for Hubert Bals Fund Script and Project Development support are offered the opportunity to further develop their project at Binger Filmlab as part of the Binger On Demand programme. At Binger Filmlab, the filmmakers are offered coaching based on the specific needs of the project and filmmaker. Strange but True by Michel Lipkes (Mexico) and Days of Cannibalism by Teboho Edkins (South Africa) are the final two Hbf supported projects that will receive a special coaching trajectory from the Binger Filmlab.

Strange but True tells the love story of two young trash collectors working under the despotic direction of Mr.Clean. Tragedy ensues when they find a corpse of a wealthy man and Mr. Clean takes terrible decisions.

Days of Cannibalism is a three-part feature film in three parts, stylistically a Western, set in contemporary Africa. It is a film about man-eat-man, from the business of globalised trade in China, to a band of smugglers in Lesotho to the violence of a cattle raid deep in the high mountains.

Selected earlier this year were:

Silver Shadow by Pablo Stoll (Uruguay/Argentina)

The Load by Ognjen Glavonic (Serbia)

The Fourth Direction by Gurvinder Singh (India)

Their first coaching sessions already took place in Berlin, Amsterdam and Mumbai. All Boost! projects will be presented at CineMart during the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where they will be offered special pitching and project development sessions prior to taking one-to-one meetings at the co-production market.

Boost!-project taking part in Rotterdam Lab 2013:

- The Fourth Direction / Gurvinder Singh / India

Check out Boost! on the Web

Additional Binger Filmlab News:

Eurimages is supporting Land. by writer/director Jan-Willem van Ewijk with Eur 230.000! Current Lab participant Meikeminne Clinckspoor has won 7 prices in the Cinekid Festival edition of the 48 hour project with Gewoon Ongewoon. Milo, by Berend and Roel Boorsma, has taken another prize: MovieSquad Best International Children’s Movie at the Cinekid Festival. Miro Bilbrough's Being Venice developed in the 2006 Writers Lab, had it's international premiere at The International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg. Writers and Creative Producers Lab participants Arno Dierickx & Joram Willink have received support from the Netherlands Film Fund for their current lab project The Circle. Raf Reyntjes also received support for Paradise Trips from the Netherlands Film Fund. Parts of a Family by Diego Gutierrez Coppe, developed in the Binger Doc Lab, premiered at the Morelia Iff in Mexico. Niles Atallah and Lucie Kalmar have been granted a Production Award of Eur 70.000 at the Torino Film Lab Meeting Event for Rey.