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.
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Memo to Distributors: Buy These 2021 Fall Film Festival Standouts
The bulk of the fall festival season has come to a close, but some of the most exciting films to hit the circuit are still looking for homes. Buy ’em while you can!
‘The Future of VR Is Social’: How a Virtual Reality Showcase in Venice Points to What’s Next for the Medium
With 34 user-generated VR worlds curated by this year’s festival, the medium’s direction has never been more clear.
Venice Film Festival Awards: Golden Lion Goes to Audrey Diwan’s ‘Happening’ (Full List)
The Italian film festival presented its Golden Lion to Audrey Diwan’s film. See the full list of winners out of Venice.
‘Another World’ Review: Vincent Lindon Stars in a Portrait of Ice-Cold Contempt
Venice: Stéphane Brizé follows up “At War” with a caustic, captivating performance unlike anything he has tried before.
Ari Aster Produced ‘Wolf House’ Duo’s Short After Watching Their Debut Three Times in Four Days
Venice: Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña rewrite Chilean history in “Los Huesos,” shooting stop-motion animation on 16mm.
‘The Last Duel’ Review: Forget the Bad Hair, Ridley Scott’s Epic Is Heir to a Tradition of Movies for Adults
A film that’s all too rare on the current field of Hollywood battle, Ridley Scott’s medieval epic more than survives its ghastly hairpieces.
‘Inu-Oh’ Review: Masaaki Yuasa’s Psychedelic Anime Rock Opera Updates a 12th Century Epic
Venice: Not since 1973’s “Belladonna of Sadness” has an anime feature reimagined ancient history in such hypnotically psychedelic fashion.
‘Halloween Kills’ Review: Little More to Offer Than a Jacked Up Body Count on a Bed of Fan Service
The box office success of the 2018 film means that not just a sequel is in order, but a saga — the people of Haddonfield are truly doomed.
‘Django & Django’ Review: Quentin Tarantino Is the Star and Should Have Been the Director
Venice: A documentary about spaghetti Western director Sergio Corbucci benefits greatly from Tarantino’s presence, but not much else.
‘Old Henry’ Review: A Tim Blake Nelson-Starring Western That Does Little with the Genre
A mediocre film might be excused somewhat by the merit of some ambition, but the problem with “Old Henry” is that there isn’t enough of that either.
‘7 Prisoners’ Review: A Harrowing Moral Thriller About Human Trafficking in the Junkyards of Brazil
“Socrates” director Alexandre Moratto returns with a lean and intense moral thriller about a smart kid who finds trouble in São Paulo.
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