Wednesday, 1 November 2017

'Time has created distance': Peru's film-makers take on country's long conflict - The Guardian


The Guardian

'Time has created distance': Peru's film-makers take on country's long conflict
The Guardian
Despite its gritty subject matter, the film has been a surprise hit, vastly exceeding predicted audience numbers with nearly 250,000 viewers. It has become the most successful Peruvian movie in 20 years, and is the most prominent work in a new wave of ...



Triple trouble: why book trilogies are better than film - The Guardian (blog)


The Guardian (blog)

Triple trouble: why book trilogies are better than film
The Guardian (blog)
I was mildly comforted, then, by a new graduate study of film and book trilogies: three-volume novels, it turns out, get better (at least in terms of reviews), while film trilogies get worse (ditto). Perhaps that's why our house isn't slowly collapsing ...



Film News Roundup: Poorna Jagannathan Starring in Pippa Bianco ... - Variety


Variety

Film News Roundup: Poorna Jagannathan Starring in Pippa Bianco ...
Variety
In today's film news roundup, Poorna Jagannathan has booked the lead role in the Untitled Pippa Bianco project, Warner Bros. dates “Crazy Rich Asians,” and ...

and more »


'Lady Macbeth' Leads British Independent Film Awards Nominations – Full List - Deadline


Deadline

'Lady Macbeth' Leads British Independent Film Awards Nominations – Full List
Deadline
William Oldroyd's feature directorial debut Lady Macbeth has scored a leading 15 nominations for this year's British Independent Film Awards. The drama adapted by Alice Birch from the 19th century novel Lady Macbeth Of The Mtsensk, stars Florence Pugh ...
'Lady Macbeth' Tops Nominations for British Independent Film AwardsVariety
'Lady Macbeth' Leads British Independent Film Awards NominationsHollywood Reporter

all 7 news articles »


'Lady Macbeth' Leads British Independent Film Critics Nominations - IndieWire


IndieWire

'Lady Macbeth' Leads British Independent Film Critics Nominations
IndieWire
Let the critics group nominations begin. In the UK, homegrown melodrama “Lady Macbeth” leads the British Independent Film Critics with 15 nominations, followed by “The Death of Stalin” and “I Am Not a Witch” with 13 nominations apiece. Gay romance ...
'Lady Macbeth' Leads British Independent Film Awards NominationsHollywood Reporter

all 4 news articles »


Tokyo Film Review: 'Sveta' - Variety


Variety

Tokyo Film Review: 'Sveta'
Variety
The last thing anyone would expect in a film about a struggling deaf-mute family facing foreclosure on their apartment is for the mother to decide that murder is the one and only solution. But that's precisely the case in “Sveta,” a truly disturbing ...

and more »


Tokyo Film Review: 'The Portrait' - Variety


Variety

Tokyo Film Review: 'The Portrait'
Variety
As lyrics describe the locality's importance in Filipino cultural and intellectual life, the film's images switch from scratchy black-and-white archival footage to muted colors inside the Intramuros house of unmarried, middle-aged sisters Paula (Rachel ...

and more »