Guillermo del Toro - Pinocchio - Imbues story with historical darkness

Of the numerous films Federico Fellini was unable to make in his lifetime, his version of Carlo Collodi’s 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio is perhaps the one he most lamented. Characteristically nonconformist as a kid, Fellini disliked books, which he associated with adults and school, and "school did not seem to be something that opened up the world," he said in I, Fellini, "but something that closed it, something that interfered with my freedom and imprisoned me for the longest and be...

Netflix’s 1899 fails where Dark succeeded - Polygon

1899 fails where Dark succeeded We wanted to love it, we really did [Ed. note: The following contains spoilers for the entirety of 1899 season 1 and Dark.] I love Dark, the German sci-fi show that nearly broke my brain as I worked overtime (literally) keeping track of its multiple timelines and complicated family tree. While many puzzle-box series lose their luster once everything’s been uncovered, after repeated viewings of the ...

Yes, Tár Is Real — Real Boring!

Focus Features The hot topic or mostly joke, on "Film Twitter" (don’t ask) this past week, has been over whether the Todd Field movie Tár, starring Cate Blanchett, is about a real person. The Cut titled their review "No, Lydia Tár Is Not Real," a nice companion piece for the countless explanations for why you’d have to be an idiot for believing that Lydia Tár was real, facetious jokes claiming she is real, and on and on. I can understand the impulse — both to wonder if Ly...

Shuttered Room - The - 1967

Dan Roberts wrote on We Are Cult: ‘The Shuttered Room’ (1967) revisited ❉ The Red Door is opened one more time… [link ] A question to ponder. How many times should you watch a film in order to decide if you like it or not? This is something which has bubbled up recently with a film I first saw in 1981. I was eight years old and completely obsessed with horror films. Mainly old ones. My constant companion at that time was Alan Frank’s Horror Film Handbook and to me it was the King ...

223 Wick

The worst crime any media can commit is being irredeemably dull. Unfortunately, director Sergio Myers’ 223 Wick is sleep-inducing. Written by Jes […] The post 223 Wick first appeared on Film Threat.

Pretty Baby (1978)

"I run a good old-fashioned whore house, monsieur." Synopsis: Just prior to the end of World War I, photographer E.J. Bellocq (Keith Carradine) visits a New Orleans whorehouse run by an aging madame (Frances Faye), and takes artistic portraits of a mother (Susan Sarandon) whose virginal 12-year-old daughter Violet (Brooke Shields) will soon be auctioned off to the highest bidder. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Barbara Steele FilmsDeep SouthHistorical DramaKeith Carradin...

A Compassionate Spy - Review - Steve James Explores a Marriage Built on Nuclear Secrets

Steve James’ "A Compassionate Spy" is ultimately a minor addition to one of documentary cinema’s great bodies of work ("Hoop Dreams," "The Interrupters," "Life Itself"), but it might just contain the one true secret to a happy marriage: Sharing historically significant nuclear secrets. That sure seems to have been a winning strategy for Ted Hall, a young physics student who fell in love with an undergrad named Joan at the University of Chicago in 1947. They seemed like natural soulmates fr...

Horror Movies of the 2010s - Best of

31+ Best Horror Movies of the 2010sSourceURL: https://creepycatalog.com/best-horror-movies-of-the-2010s/The 2010s were transformative years for mainstream horror movies. The decade began by carrying over trends established in the 2000s, trends that were gradually supplanted. Remakes of classic horror movies dominated the 2000s, but unimaginative cash-ins like A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) gave way to some really great remakes like Evil Dead (2013). Similarly, legacy sequels and "requels" l...

Narrative Medicine - and other clips from The New Yorker 22 Aug 2022 print edition

Frank and Penelope

The Boondock Saints actor Sean Patrick Flanery’s feature film debut as a director, Frank & Penelope, is a callback to the rebellious outlaw attitude […] The post Frank & Penelope first appeared on Film Threat.

Terror and Trauma

By Ali Moosavi. I found this character tragic and moving. He had such a traumatic event happen to him and he couldn’t get free of it…. I think that’s something people can identify with…." –Michael Shannon There is a long tradition of movies about a woman or a man psychologically breaking down after living in a what is perceived to be a haunted property. The pinnacle of these movies are Polanski’s Repulsion (1965) and Kubrick’s The Shining (1980). Abandoned is a respectable l...

20best film noirs: From Double Indemnity to Shadow of a Doubt

The phrase film noir was first coined in 1946 by a group of French critics to describe the emerging movement of mainly black and white Hollywood films with dark, pessimistic themes and signature motifs such as alienated antiheroes, rain slicked streets, dark shadows and seductive femme fatales.Borrowing heavily from the hard-boiled but literary detective novels of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, film noir attracted some of cinema’s greatest craftsmen including Orson Welles, Howard Hawk...

The Last Metro - Amber Wilkinson - 17706

"Depardieu's role feels underwritten, although you can't fault Truffaut for an accurate assessment of not just his character but the star when someone describes Bernard as being "a little like Jean Gabin, physical yet gentle"." | Photo: Courtesy of BFI/Jean-Pierre Fizet The confines of a theatre in occupied Paris provide the setting for a stew of stories in Francois Truffaut's The Last Metro - with the theatre a symbol of several types of escape. T...

5 Great Underrated Steampunk Sci-Fi Movies

5 Great Underrated Steampunk Sci-Fi Movies https://gamerant.com/best-underrated-steampunk-sci-fi-movies/amp/Steampunk is more of a niche science fiction subgenre, but any sci-fi fan should check out these films.

Armageddon Time - film review

There are any number of memorable images from James Gray’s "Ad Astra," a singularly introspective space adventure in which Brad Pitt journeys to the outer limits of our solar system just to hear Daddy Lee Jones tell him that he doesn’t care, but none have stayed with me quite like the shot of Pitt’s astronaut landing on the Moon — the very first stop on his interstellar voyage into the heart of darkness. Once the ultimate symbol of humanity’s possibility and the nearest proof of our species’ ...

I Am A Camera on Blu-ray

Win I Am A Camera on Blu-ray STUDIOCANAL has announced the release of a newly-restored version of the risqué comedy-drama, I Am A Camera. Available to own on Blu-Ray for the very first time, I AM A CAMERA is based on both the 1945 novel, ‘The Berlin Stories’ by Christopher Isherwood and its adaptation for the stage (also called ‘I Am a Camera’). The play was subsequently developed by Fred Ebb and John Kander as the iconic musical ‘Cabaret’ which celebrates its 50th annivers...

Larry Legend

Larry Fessenden in Habit. Image courtesy Glass Eye Pix.    In Kelly Reichardt’s    Wendy and Lucy (2008), Michelle Williams’ road-tripping heroine has a harrowing nighttime encounter with a derelict played by Larry Fessenden—a witty bit of casting calling back to the latter’s starring role in Reichardt’s 1994 debut, River of Grass. There, a leaner, lankily handsome Fessenden essayed an Everglades variation on Martin Sheen, except that instead of a charismatic crackshot, his character Lee is ...

CAPSULE: THE UNKNOWN MAN OF SHANDIGOR (1967)

L’inconnu de Shandigor 366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. DIRECTED BY: Jean-Louis Roy FEATURING: Daniel Emilfork, Marie-France Boyer, Marcel Imhoff, erge Gainsbourg PLOT: After Swiss scientist Herbert Von Krantz develops a method for nullifying nuclear explosions, various world powers plot to steal his secret. [link ]COMMENTS: I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that this film is quite an oddity. It feature...

Cheesy But Endearing Sci-Fi Movies From The 1960s

Home Lists 7 Cheesy But Endearing Sci-Fi Movies From The 1960s 7 Cheesy But Endearing Sci-Fi Movies From The 1960s By Kristy Ambrose Published 1 day ago     Good practical effects tend to age much better than bad CGI, as evidenced by these cheesy yet endearing sci-fi movies from the swinging sixties. The 1960s was an interesting time in the world of movies. Special effects were starting to advance, with creative ...

Has anyone else seen Wag the Dog? Was this movie a wink to Stanley Kubrick?

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Past Performance: Reviving Reenactment

This article appeared in the March 24, 2022 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Framing Agnes (Chase Joynt, 2022) Reenactment has seen an exciting resurgence in nonfiction cinema in the last decade or so. But for most of the second half of the 20th century, it was viewed with suspicion and marginalized as a practice. The reason, according to documentary scholar Stella Bruz...

Moon Knight: When and Where to Watch Online

A new chapter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is beginning with the arrival of Moon Knight, a show (and indeed a superhero) unlike any other. The series is the first Marvel project to arrive on the small screen since the Jeremy Renner-starring Hawkeye bowed last December, and it certainly looks like it will be one to watch for MCU fans and newbies alike. Moon Knight is only the first of many new Phase 4 releases planned for 2022. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will hit theate...

Karmalink - Andrew Robertson - 17480

"This film bears strange and delightful fruit without affecting its sweetness, its surprise." | Photo: Robert Leitzell/Courtesy of Glasgow Film Festival The machinery upon the red carpet recalls Bacon's triptych, Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion. I was minded of them having seen Second Version of Triptych 1944 (1988) at the Royal Academy earlier this year. I was minded of them because those paintings appear in Memory: The Origins Of Ali...

Classic Movies that Almost Had Different Endings

10 Classic Movies That Almost Had Different Endings | CBR - CBR - Comic Book Resources Cinema necessitates multiple cooks in the kitchen. Combined with the need for revision inherent to the creative process, many films end up different from how they were originally envisioned. RELATED: 10 Decent Movies With Amazing Last Acts There are 10 famous films with alternate endings conceived, scripted, or even filmed which differed from the final product, along with t...

‘Sputnik’: Designing an Alien Inspired by Snakes and Komodo Dragons in a Rare Russian Sci-Fi — Spoilers

‘Sputnik’: Designing an Alien Inspired by Snakes and Komodo Dragons in a Rare Russian Sci-Fi — SpoilersSourceURL: https://www.indiewire.com/2020/08/sputnik-alien-egor-abramenko-breaks-down-creature-1234580283/ [Editor’s Note: The following story contains spoilers for IFC Midnight’s "Sputnik," now available on VOD, digital, and in select theaters.] While a space traveler’s greatest fear is typically what’s waiting out there in the great unknown, what they bring back to Earth could be ...