Tag: The Year of the Everlasting Storm
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Neon acquires Laura Poitras doc ahead of Venice world premiere
Participant film will also play TIFF, NYFF.Neon has acquired North American rights to Laura Poitras’s documentary All The Beauty And The Bloodshed ahead of its Venice world premiere.The company will distribute the Participant film theatrically in North America in autumn followed by ancillary and digital release. The transaction marks the latest acquisition of a Poitras…
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Cannes Film Festival 2021 Critic’s Notebook 5: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Information, context and mystery have been on my mind quite a bit since seeing the two new films that Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul brought to this year’s Cannes: his feature-length, Tilda Swinton-starring, Colombia-set Memoria, and the 13-minute “Night Colonies,” the segment that concludes The Year of the Everlasting Storm omnibus project, which collects seven short…