Tag: Moonlight
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Telluride 2023 Produced Many Winners, with One Taking the Oscars Lead
The Telluride Film Festival has launched many Oscar Best Picture winners, from “The King’s Speech” and “Slumdog Millionaire” to “12 Years a Slave” and “Moonlight.” Oscar campaigners bring their films here to build critical reaction and positive buzz, often amplifying awareness at subsequent festivals in Toronto, New York, and London. Last year, “Tár” and “Women…
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‘Janet Planet’ Review: Mom Means the World to an 11-Year-Old in Playwright Annie Baker’s Indelible Debut
It’s almost cosmic, the way kids start out as nothing more than a twinkle in their mother’s eye. Then they’re born into heavenly little bodies, orbiting the adults who made them like tiny moons, until such time that they overcome their parents’ gravitational pull. So it is with “Janet Planet,” one of those intensely personal…
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Gotham Awards Announce Eligibility Changes: Removing Budget Caps Makes for ‘More Inclusive Submission Pool,’ Org Says (Exclusive)
The Gotham Film & Media Institute announced key changes for this year’s 33rd Annual Gotham Awards. The organization has removed the budget cap requirements which they claim will create “a more inclusive submission pool” of potential nominees.In previous years, to be eligible for the Gothams, a film’s budget couldn’t exceed $25 million. Past winners have…
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‘Brother’ Review: Fate Deals an Unforgiving Hand in Director Clement Virgo’s Memorable Debut
The spirit of Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” weighs heavily, both thematically and stylistically, on “Brother,” a drama about two brothers growing up in a low-income Toronto suburb that lacks the grace and eloquence of the 2016 Best Picture Oscar winner. But even if writer-director Clement Virgo, adapting David Chariandy’s 2017 novel, can’t achieve the sustained aura…
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The Best A24 Horror Movies: ‘Talk to Me,’ ‘Lamb,’ ‘X,’ Saint Maud,’ ‘Hereditary,’ ‘Beau Is Afraid,’ and More
In the ten years since it burst onto the scene, A24 has accomplished something virtually unheard of in the film industry: establishing itself as a distributor with a fanbase that rivals those of the biggest directors.Through a carefully curated lineup of acquisitions and original projects (and some seriously impressive marketing strategy), the company has become…
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Gotham Lays Off Longtime Awards Staff and Cancels Project Market
The Gotham Film and Media Institute laid off two key staffers this week after canceling the Project Market, where seminal indie breakouts from “Clerks” to “Moonlight” have gathered early financial resources, for the first time in its 45-year history. The Project Market, formerly known as the Independent Feature Film Market, was called off after the…
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A24, Anuvu in exclusive airlines distribution pact
Partnership includes Past Lives and Talk To Me, The Iron Claw.A24 and Anuvu have agreed an exclusive airlines distribution deal including seven upcoming features, among them Sundance hits Past Lives and Talk To Me.The deal follows the companies’ collaboration on multiple Oscar winners Everything Everywhere All At Once, The Whale, and Moonlight.The seven titles are:…
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‘Chasing Chasing Amy’ Poster Illustrates One Man’s Journey of Self Discovery
For many of us millennial queer kids, representation wasn’t really a thing that we had throughout the ‘90s and into the early aughts. While recent years have seen stories from the LGBTQ+ community told in dramas like Blue is the Warmest Color and Moonlight, horror flicks like They/Them, and even reality shows such as Netflix’s…