New Movies: Release Calendar for October 15, Plus Where to Watch the Latest Films
This week’s choices include a grisly new “Halloween,” the ultimate “are men okay?” battle royale, and a delightful Mia Hansen-Løve joint, plus so much more.
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Diane Weyermann, Participant Exec and ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ EP, Remembered by Film Community
The Participant CCO and former director of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program died Thursday of cancer in New York. She was 66.
‘Needle in a Timestack’ Review: John Ridley’s Mushy Time Travel Drama Is Truly Bizarre
A man believes another man is using time travel to steal his wife in this misogynistic clunker that seems to think it’s really a deep romance.
‘Hard Luck Love Song’ Review: A Tender Indie Romance Based on an Alt-Country Tune
Michael Dorman is equal parts Garrett Hedlund and Llewyn Davis in a down-and-out love story about a hustler with a heart of gold.
The Greatest Horror Movies of All Time
From underseen Laird Cregar vehicles to a Russian chiller based on a Nikolai Gogol story, from J-Horror to the Mexican gem “Alucarda,” these are the best horror movies the genre has to offer.
NewFest 2021: 10 Films to See at New York’s Premier LGBTQ Film Festival
IndieWire rounds up what not to miss at this year’s festival, from a “RuPaul’s Drag Race” documentary to the restoration of John Cameron Mitchell’s “Shortbus.”
As a Black-Led Western, ‘The Harder They Fall’ Is Rare, but Don’t Call It an Alternative History
Filmmaker Jeymes Samuel says the movie is a more truthful vision of the Old West, where one in four cowboys were Black.
Hollywood Can Be a Better and Safer Place for Women, but the Hard Work Has Only Just Begun
Still-fledgling organizations like Time’s Up have unveiled a bounty of initiatives and panels over the past few years, but real change for Hollywood’s women is going to take much more.
‘Mayor Pete’ Review: Vérité Doc Offers a Breezy Look Inside Pete Buttigieg’s Historic 2020 Campaign
The same gee-whiz realness that made Buttigieg a popular candidate is also what renders him a flat documentary subject.
Fall Festival 2021 Deals: The Complete List of Telluride/Venice/TIFF/NYFF Purchases So Far
Many of the season’s biggest films arrived at festivals with distribution, but there’s still plenty for distributors to choose from.
James Gunn and Charlie Kaufman Almost Made a Cannibalistic ‘Gilligan’s Island’ Movie
Kaufman and Gunn imagined a version of the classic sitcom “where the islanders, starving and desperate, started killing and eating each other.”
‘United States vs. Reality Winner’ Subject: ‘I Wish This Was Not a Story About Me Every Day’
Winner made her first public appearance during a Q&A at the Double Exposure Film Festival, which screened Sonia Kennebeck’s doc as its opening night film.
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Mick Jagger Gets Snarky About Paul McCartney’s ‘Blues Cover Band’ Dig at Stones’ L.A. Show
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Randy Knew 2021 Would Be His Year
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HFPA Sets Date For Untelevised 2022 Golden Globes
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Golden Globes, Snubbed by NBC, to 'Announce' Next Winners in January
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Sportico Transactions: Moves and Mergers Roundup for Oct. 15