Tag: Girl
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Connext 2023 line-up includes Adil & Bilall project; Lukas Dhont to curate rising talent initiative
‘Girl’ and ’Close’ director Dhont will select five emerging filmmaking talents for The Future Five.Flanders Image’s annual film and TV showcase Connext (October 9-10) will present new work from the region’s creatives including Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, and see Lukas Dhont curate the first edition of new talent showcase The Future Five.Girl and…
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TrustNordisk secures deals on WWII drama ‘Before It Ends’; ‘Birthday Girl’ for UK (exclusive)
Pilou Asbaek stars in ‘Before It Ends’ as a headmaster whose high school is turned into a refugee camp.TrustNordisk has signed key deals on two buzzy Danish films: Anders Walter’s Before It Ends and Michael Noer’s upcoming Birthday Girl.Second World War drama Before It Ends has sold to Twelve Oaks Pictures for Spain. The film…
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Harrison Ford Is at His Most Charming in This 80s Rom Com
Harrison Ford’s cinematic career reached new heights in the 1980s, where he delivered memorable performances as Indiana Jones, Han Solo, and Rick Deckard. But amidst these era-defining movies, Ford also starred in a less well-known romantic comedy alongside Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver. Working Girl (1988) foregrounds the lovable and comedic side to Ford that…
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Best Horror Movies Set in Asylums
Asylums and mental health hospitals, for all the good they might do in real life, are often synonymous with horror movies. The setting can lend itself to multiple kinds of horror, from being held prisoner by cruel staff to being unfairly deemed insane, by way of haunted halls and cruel ghosts. However, outside of horror…
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“The Opposite To Many Depictions of Glasgow”: Dp Tasha Back on Girl
In Girl, the feature debut from writer-director Adura Onashile, 11-year-old Ama (Le’Shantey Bonsu) begins to pull away from the co-dependent relationship fostered by her loving 24-year-old mother Grace (Déborah Lukumuena). This instantly drives a wedge between them, one that will only pull them further apart if Grace doesn’t come to terms with a traumatizing incident…
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Glasgow Film Festival to open with Adura Onashile’s ‘Girl’, sets first industry events
The industry programme runs from March 6-9, with the festival taking place from March 1-12.Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) will open its 2023 edition with Screen Star of Tomorrow 2021 Adura Onashile’s debut feature, the Glasgow-shot Girl, following its world premiere at Sundance.The feature follows a woman named Grace (Divines star Déborah Lukumuena in her first…
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‘Girl Picture’ Review: An Upbeat but Curiously Low-Stakes Finnish Coming-of-Ager
Cropped out of “Girl Picture” are the angsty awkwardness and crippling self-doubt that usually plague cinema’s teens as the training wheels of adolescence are removed. In a way, that makes director Alli Haapasalo’s up-tempo light drama a refreshing spin on a familiar genre, as it presents an attractively bouncy, perhaps even aspirational portrait of not-terribly-painful…
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Sundance unveils 2023 line-up
Selection includes new work from directors Nicole Holofcener, Davis Guggenheim, Sophie Bathes, Brandon Cronenberg.Established and new filmmakers will take a bow at 2023 Sundance as festival organisers announced 99 features including new work from Holy Spider star Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Cynthio Erivo, We Are Ladyparts creator Nida Manzoor, and directors Nicole Holofcener, Davis Guggenheim,…
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The Best Horror Movies: Maika Monroe, Jennifer Tilly, and More Scream Queens Share Their Picks
From the carefully considered outline of a Final Girl to the intoxicating nebulousness of the Scream Queen moniker, women are the bloody, brooding, beating heart of the horror genre.On screen and off, women have long proved an essential linchpin to the success of scary movies. Actresses have served as horror’s marquee-topping centerpieces since even before…
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Ritu Arya Borrowed A Trick From Angelina Jolie To Prep For The Umbrella Academy
Ritu Arya gives an incredible performance as the thrill-seeking assassin Lila Pitts in “The Umbrella Academy.” Lila’s mischievous attitude, cynical worldview, and choppy bangs closely resemble Angelina Jolie’s character in “Girl, Interrupted,” and as it turns out, Jolie’s preparation for her role influenced Arya’s own process on the set of “Umbrella Academy.”At first glance, “Girl,…