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martedì 1 agosto 2017

[The Daily] Goings On: Campion, Demme, and More

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New York. The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced that its retrospective Jane Campion’s Own Stories will run from September 8 through 17. “For four decades now, Campion has moved freely across genres—family melodrama (Sweetie), gothic romance (The Piano), literary adaptation (An Angel at My Table, The Portrait of a Lady), farce (Holy Smoke), suspense-thriller (In the Cut)—as well as between cinema and television.” Speaking of which, the occasion is the U.S. premiere of Top of the Lake: China Girl with Elisabeth Moss and Nicole Kidman (above) on SundanceTV this September.

“A loving satire of mating and mores among Park Slope lesbians, Ingrid Jungermann’s Women Who Kill combines romantic comedy and murder mystery, and a dollop of psychodrama, and lightly stirs it into a summer movie treat,” writes Amy Taubin for Artforum. Through August 10 at the IFC Center.

Le Gai Savoir (1969), running at the Quad through Tuesday, “is the blueprint for all of Late Godard,” writes Eric Barroso, “from his 70s essay film work and his sensuous 80s adaptations, all the way to his latest (a friend of mine aptly dubbed it Goodbye to Language 2D).”

Also at Screen Slate, Patrick Dahl offers a severely qualified recommendation, John Boorman’s Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), screening tonight at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn. “Ultimately, the film is equal parts risible, camp colonial fantasy and phantasmagoric rendering of faith crisis. That these two successes are intertwined to the extent that separating them requires a substantial generosity is a shame.”

Meantime, on through Thursday are Shot by Carlo Di Palma, from Rome to New York at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966) at Film Forum.

Los Angeles. Shake It Off is a series of “dance-themed films that celebrate the bodies, the music, the editing, and the superhuman choreography that make the intersection of dance and film electrifying,” and it’s on through August 31. The Hammer Museum is also presenting—tonight—an advance screening of Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis’s Whose Streets?, “which chronicles the powerful public response to the murder of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by police.” And hey, all Hammer programs are free.

In the New Yorker, Anthony Lane finds that Folayan and Davis “hold no brief for even-handedness, and, for those who dominate the screen, any sign of temperance, even in a President, is treated with contempt. When Barack Obama describes the deployment of the National Guard as a matter for state jurisdiction, a fellow named Tory, watching him on TV, asks, ‘Didn’t he teach constitutional law in Harvard? Wasn’t he a constitutional professor? Ain’t no Constitution in Ferguson.’”

Chicago. “How do you convey with such effortlessness so much goofiness and goodness, tell tall tales that capture American optimism and flawed but ever-optimistic Americans? How to be wide-eyed without being a sap?” That’s Ray Pride in Newcity Film on Jonathan Demme’s Melvin and Howard (1980). The Chicago Film Society is presenting a 35 mm print tonight.

For more on screenings in the city, see the new Cine-List.

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Portland. The Northwest Film Center’s thirteenth Top Down: Rooftop Cinema season opens Thursday and runs through August 31.

Toronto. The world premiere of Janus Metz’s Borg/McEnroe with Shia LaBeouf and Stellan Skarsgård will be the opening night gala that kicks off the forty-second Toronto International Film Festival (September 7 through 17).

UK. BFI Thriller will be a multi-platform season running from October 20 through December 10. Among the highlights are a UK-wide re-release of Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs (1991), a new 4K restoration BFI DVD and Blu-ray release of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear (1953), and a special screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation (1974).

San Sebastian. Wim Wenders’s Submergence with James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander will open the sixty-fifth edition of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (September 22 through 30).

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[The Daily] In the Works: Linklater, Leigh, and More

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From Pittsburgh, where he’s currently working on Where’d You Go, Bernadette? with Cate Blanchett and Kristen Wiig, Richard Linklater—seen above directing Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in Before Sunrise way back in 1995—called into the Television Critics Association on Sunday, reports Steve Greene for IndieWire. “I have a script I’m working on now that touches into Texas,” he told the assembled. “It’s a true story that’ll be somewhere down the line that touches on demagoguery, a kind of con man, let’s say. To me, that’s apt for our times.” He’s also been rolling around “a couple ideas” for a series, “one in particular, of a really long-form story that’s so many hours, that it will exist as a TV program . . . I’m thankful we’re in this great era where you can tell five-hour, eight-hour, forty-hour long-form storytelling.”

The centuries-old town of Guildford “is one of a series of historic English locations chosen to stand in for Manchester as the filmmaker Mike Leigh tells the story of the campaign for parliamentary reform leading to the Peterloo massacre of 1819,” reports Vanessa Thorpe for the Guardian. “Parts of Bedfordshire, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Kent and Essex will also serve as backdrops for the director’s most ambitious and expensive film yet. . . . Peterloo, which stars Maxine Peake, continues shooting until late August with a cast of more than 100 actors . . . The subject has long been dear to Leigh.”

Wellington, New Zealand-based visual effects studio Weta Digital has officially begun work on the four sequels to James Cameron’s Avatar, reports Peter Caranicas for Variety.

“It’s been ten years since The Simpsons Movie arrived in theaters and pink donuts arrived in 7-11,” writes Michael Nordine, reporting for IndieWire that director David Silverman has confirmed that a second one is in the works, “though it’s still in ‘the very earliest stages’ of development.”

“Jaume Collet-Serra has been set by Disney to direct Dwayne Johnson in Jungle Cruise,” reports Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. “This means that Collet-Serra will withdraw from Suicide Squad 2, the Warner Bros sequel for which he was top choice. After directing a bunch of hit movies that included last summer’s sleeper The Shallows, Collet-Serra has been poised to take that step to star filmmaker, and numerous studios chased his next slot. He decided that the opportunity to originate a new Indiana Jones-like action-adventure franchise in lockstep with one of the most globally bankable film stars—like Gore Verbinski did with Johnny Depp in The Pirates of the Caribbean—was a better opportunity than continuing a storyline originated by another director.”

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Valeria Bruni Tedeschi will begin shooting Les estivants on August 18, reports Fabien Lemercier for Cineuropa. He notes that “the setting for the story is an enormous, glitzy property on the Côte d'Azur, a place that seems untouched by time and tucked away from the world. Anna arrives with her daughter for a short holiday of just a few days. In the midst of her family, their friends and members of staff, Anna is forced to come to terms with her recent break-up as well as pursue the writing of her next film. Behind all the laughter, the tantrums and the secrets, their power relationships, fears and desires are all starting to seep through. Each of them plugs their ears, blocking out the noise of the world, and must find a way to get by and figure out the mysteries of their own existence.” With Pierre Arditi, Valeria Golino, Noémie Lvovsky, Yolande Moreau, Laurent Stocker, Bruno Raffaelli, and the director’s mother, Marisa Borini.

“Netflix is partnering with the Oscar-nominated team behind Jesus Camp on One of Us, a look inside the world of Hasidic Judaism,” reports Variety’s Brent Lang. “Ewing and Grady spent three years making the picture, shooting in vérité style as they tracked the lives of three individuals. One of Us chronicles their decision to leave the insular ultra-Orthodox community. Their move into the secular world comes at a cost, straining their relationships with their family members and—in one case—threatening their personal safety.”

Bryce Dallas Howard’s first feature as a director will be an adaptation of Matthew Quick’s novel Sorta Like a Rock Star, reports Variety’s Justin Kroll, noting that “the story follows an optimistic high school student, Amber Appleton, who secretly lives in her mom’s school bus during her senior year after an altercation at home.”

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April Reign, creator of the #OscarsSoWhite Twitter campaign protesting the 2016 Academy Award nominations, has launched #NoConfederate in response to the July 19 announcement that Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss’s next project would be Confederate—a show set in a world where southern states have seceded, slavery is still a thing, and a third Civil War is brewing. During Sunday night’s episode of GoT, #NoConfederate was trending at #1 in the U.S. and #2 worldwide. HBO has responded with a statement, which Lesley Goldberg passes along in the Hollywood Reporter: “We have great respect for the dialogue and concern being expressed around Confederate. We have faith that [the writers] will approach the subject with care and sensitivity. The project is currently in its infancy so we hope that people will reserve judgment until there is something to see.”

Michael Schneider for IndieWire: “The Roots founders Questlove and Black Thought are partnering with filmmaker Alex Gibney to explore the untold stories behind hip-hop. AMC Visionaries: Rap Yearbook is one of two new documentary series announced Saturday as part of AMC’s new AMC Visionaries umbrella. Also on tap: AMC Visionaries: Eli Roth’s History of Horror, in which the Hostel producer dives into the history of the genre.” Two more in the series: Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics and James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction.

Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva has more AMC news, a list of eight projects including Rainn Wilson’s “one-hour scripted series that follows an alien entity which takes over the body of a poly-addicted, middle-aged man living in the San Fernando Valley.”

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Back at IndieWire, Michael Nordine’s got the first few photos from Howards End, the limited series that Kenneth Lonergan has written for Starz, adapting the E. M. Forster novel.

THEATER

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art president Kenneth Branagh will direct Tom Hiddleston in a production of Hamlet—and the BBC has details.

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Cinema Studi

martedì 1 agosto 2017

[The Daily] Goings On: Campion, Demme, and More

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