Cinephil Takes ‘Ukraine Is Not a Brothel’
VENICE – “Ukraine Is Not a Brothel,” a docu-feature from Australian Kitty Green which lifts the lid on Ukraine’s seemingly bizarre bare-breast feminist movement, has been acquired for international...
View ArticleDirector Ti West Aims for Mainstream With ‘Sacrament’
Backed by Eli Roth, Worldview Entertainment and IM Global, horror helmer Ti West looks set to make a move toward the mainstream with “The Sacrament,” which world preemed on the Lido.
View Article‘Cannibal’ Builds Buzz Before Toronto Bow
Spain’s Mod Producciones, the producer of Alejandro Amenabar’s “Agora” and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s “Biutiful,” has given Variety in exclusivity a clip from Manuel Martin Cuenca’s “Cannibal,” one...
View ArticleToronto: ‘Oculus’ Director Mike Flanagan Tapped For ‘Somnia’
“Oculus” director Mike Flanagan has re-teamed with Intrepid Pictures to helm horror film “Somnia” with production starting this fall. “Oculus” (pictured above) is centered on a cursed 300-year-old...
View ArticleVenice: Gianfranco Rosi’s ‘Sacro GRA’ Tops Film Festival
VENICE -Italo helmer Gianfranco Rosi’s fresh docu “Sacro GRA,” about people living on the fringe along the ring road around Rome, is the winner of the Venice Film Festival’s 70th edition which wrapped...
View ArticleToronto: Jason Patric Checking Into ‘Hotel 33’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Jason Patric will star in “Hotel 33” with Emmett / Furla / Oasis Films financing and producing and Open Road Films distributing the horror thriller. Tove Christensen of Glacier Films is also producing...
View ArticleVenice Film Review: ‘Home From Home — Chronicle of a Vision’
Edgar Reitz continues his visionary sweep through history with this black-and-white prequel to his "Heimat" juggernaut.
View ArticleVenice Film Review: ‘Little Brother’
Kazakh writer-director Seric Aprymov's drama feels like a gentler-tempered, less sophisticated sibling of the recent "Harmony Lessons."
View ArticleVenice Film Review: ‘How Strange to Be Named Federico: Scola Narrates Fellini’
Ettore Scola's affectionate tribute to Federico Fellini is a magical trip through history and memory, recounting the decades shared by these two deities of cinema.
View Article‘Salvajes,’ ‘Tropics,’ ‘Boy’ Hit San Sebastian
SAN SEBASTIAN –- Sebastian Cordero’s “Such Is Life in the Tropics,” Fernando Guzzoni’s “Nobody Boy” and Adrian Saba’s “Donde suenan los salvajes” are among 16 projects selected for the San Sebastian...
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