Tag: Titane
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Best Horror Movies Streaming
According to Stephen King, we use horror movies as a catharsis — a way to act out our nightmares and explore the worst parts of ourselves. Luckily, in the age of streaming, it’s not hard to find some of that release. From gory films like Titane to ghostly scares like The Conjuring, movies that combine…
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The Most Horrifying Movie About Motherhood Isn’t ‘Hereditary,’ It’s This
The horror of motherhood has been a prominent theme in horror films for years, dating back to movies like The Bad Seed, and Rosemary’s Baby in the ’50s and ’60s, and kept up by films like The Babadook, Titane, and most notably, Hereditary. Yet, the film to really capture that feeling of overwhelming anxiety and…
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Clip Unveiled for Tribeca-Bound Biopic of Female Soccer Pioneer ‘Marinette’ (Exclusive)
Pulsar Content and Have a Good One have unveiled an exclusive clip of “Marinette,” Virginie Verrier’s biopic film about the first French female professional soccer player, ahead of its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival.The film stars Garance Marillier, the breakout star of Julia Ducournau’s “Raw” and Palme d’Or winning “Titane,” and is based on…
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Cannes Film Festival Sets Dates for 2024 Edition
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the dates of its 77th edition which will take place May 14-25, 2024.This year’s festival wrapped May 27 with Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” winning the Palme d’Or, Jonathan Glazer’s “A Zone of Interest” take home the Grand Prize, and Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves” nabbing the Jury Prize.…
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‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Wins Palme d’Or at 2023 Cannes Film Festival
Justine Triet’s complex drama “Anatomy of a Fall” has won the Palme d’Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, a jury headed by director Ruben Ostlund announced on Saturday evening in France. Jane Fonda presented the award to Triet, who became only the third woman to win the Palme, after Jane Campion for “The Piano”…
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Trailer Watch: Nina Menkes’s Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
Independent filmmaker Nina Menkes returns with Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power, a documentary that uses clips from hundreds of films to demonstrate the pervasiveness of the male gaze in the dominant cinematic canon—and the real-world misogyny that Menkes believes these depictions abet. Originally conceived as a presentation that the filmmaker gave at film festivals or as stand-alone talks,…
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Neon’s Elissa Federoff on picking films with “social currency”, moving into production and development
Neon’s head of distribution discusses trends in theatrical at Locarno Pro.Neon head of distribution Elissa Federoff was one of the high-profile guests at the Locarno Film Festival’s industry programme Locarno Pro, delivering a keynote at the StepIn think tank and speaking “in conversation” about original language film distribution in the US.Launched in 2017, independent distributor…
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‘Will-o’-the-Wisp’ Review: João Pedro Rodrigues’ Hot, Hilarious Queer Firefighter Fantasia
While the police force faces a massive task of image rehabilitation on screen, these are unexpectedly rich times at the movies for anyone with a firefighter fetish. After an unsurprisingly long wait for one film featuring a team of strapping laddermen in sensual dance formations, two have come along at once. Taking the queer emergency…
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The Best Movies of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, According to 75 Critics
A time of division indeed.The last two editions of Cannes, the critics IndieWire polled were in lockstep with the jury’s picks, at least for Best Film. In 2019, they chose “Parasite” and “Titane,” both winners of the Palme d’Or. In 2022, the critics are shaking things up.This year’s Palme d’Or winner, “Triangle of Sadness,” tied…
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6 Biggest Cannes Winners and Losers — From Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun’ Triumph to George Miller’s Disappointing Genie
The 75th annual Cannes Film Festival reminded the world just why people love going to the movies. And movie theaters received an important endorsement from a powerful A-list ally. “I make movies for the big screen,” Tom Cruise said on May 18, just hours before “Top Gun: Maverick” premiered to a rapturous standing ovation on…