Next month’s lineup at The Criterion Channel has been unveiled, featuring no shortage of excellent offerings. Leading the pack is a massive, 20-film retrospective dedicated to John Huston, featuring a mix of greatest and lesser-appreciated works, including Fat City, The Dead, Wise Blood, The Man Who Would Be King, and Key Largo. (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre will join the series on October 1.)
Also in the lineup is series on the works of Budd Boetticher (specifically his Randolph Scott-starring Ranown westerns), Ephraim Asili, Josephine Baker, Nikos Papatakis, Jean Harlow, Lee Isaac Chung (pre-Minari), Mani Kaul, and Michelle Parkerson.
The sparkling new restoration of La Piscine will also debut, along with Amores perros, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth, Cate Shortland’s Lore, both Oxhide films, Moonstruck, and much more.
See the full list of August titles below and more on The Criterion Channel.
Abigail Harm,...
Also in the lineup is series on the works of Budd Boetticher (specifically his Randolph Scott-starring Ranown westerns), Ephraim Asili, Josephine Baker, Nikos Papatakis, Jean Harlow, Lee Isaac Chung (pre-Minari), Mani Kaul, and Michelle Parkerson.
The sparkling new restoration of La Piscine will also debut, along with Amores perros, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth, Cate Shortland’s Lore, both Oxhide films, Moonstruck, and much more.
See the full list of August titles below and more on The Criterion Channel.
Abigail Harm,...
- 7/26/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
It was 2019 when audiences examined the shifting face of “Modern Love” with Amazon Prime Video’s anthology series, and after everything in the last year that feels like a lifetime ago. But “Modern Love” is back with a second season that aims to examine how we can connect with each other after everything that’s happened.
The new season will star Gbenga Akinnagbe, Lucy Boynton, Tom Burke, Minnie Driver, newcomer Grace Edwards, Dominique Fishback, Zoë Chao, Kit Harington, Garrett Hedlund, Tobias Menzies, Sophie Okonedo, Zane Pais, Anna Paquin, Isaac Powell, Marquis Rodriguez, and Lulu Wilson.
John Crowley, Marta Cunningham, Jesse Peretz, and Andrew Rannells will each direct an episode while Celine Held and Logan George will co-direct an episode. Todd Hoffman, Trish Hofmann, and Anthony Bregman serve as executive producers on Season 2, along with Choire Sicha and Caitlin Roper of The New York Times, with Sean Fogel and Miriam Mintz serving as producers.
The new season will star Gbenga Akinnagbe, Lucy Boynton, Tom Burke, Minnie Driver, newcomer Grace Edwards, Dominique Fishback, Zoë Chao, Kit Harington, Garrett Hedlund, Tobias Menzies, Sophie Okonedo, Zane Pais, Anna Paquin, Isaac Powell, Marquis Rodriguez, and Lulu Wilson.
John Crowley, Marta Cunningham, Jesse Peretz, and Andrew Rannells will each direct an episode while Celine Held and Logan George will co-direct an episode. Todd Hoffman, Trish Hofmann, and Anthony Bregman serve as executive producers on Season 2, along with Choire Sicha and Caitlin Roper of The New York Times, with Sean Fogel and Miriam Mintz serving as producers.
- 7/15/2021
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
“Black Widow” writer Jac Schaeffer first burst on the scene with 2009’s charming, indie sci-fi rom-com “TiMER,” which she wrote and directed, but she’s now ready to take on the big leagues with her latest Marvel script. Directed by Cate Shortland, the film stars Scarlett Johansson as the titular S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and savvy Kgb assassin. “Black Widow” releases May 1, 2020.
“I wasn’t a huge superhero movie fan before starting to work [at Marvel], but now that I’m doing it, there’s just so much opportunity to make big, positive statements,” Schaeffer told Inverse. “Especially something like Captain Marvel and Black Widow, to have these female-centered stories — I just can’t not be involved in that.”
Schaeffer also addressed the internet trolls that slammed this year’s “Captain Marvel,” directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, in anticipation of the backlash that might await her as...
“I wasn’t a huge superhero movie fan before starting to work [at Marvel], but now that I’m doing it, there’s just so much opportunity to make big, positive statements,” Schaeffer told Inverse. “Especially something like Captain Marvel and Black Widow, to have these female-centered stories — I just can’t not be involved in that.”
Schaeffer also addressed the internet trolls that slammed this year’s “Captain Marvel,” directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, in anticipation of the backlash that might await her as...
- 8/3/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Adding to the growing collective of female directors taking on superhero movies, Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent is ready to throw her hat into the Marvel Cinematic Universe ring. During a recent IndieWire interview about her controversial new film “The Nightingale,” now out in select theaters, “The Babadook” director spoke about offers she’s received to take on blockbuster movies. But she has her own ambitions for the Marvel canon, setting her sights on one comic-book character in particular.
“The opportunity has been there if I really wanted to pursue that path and it still probably is to some extent. I am excited by this aboriginal Marvel character, Manifold,” said Kent, referring to the Aboriginal Australian mutant superhero, also known as Eden Fesi, with the power to bend time and space in order to teleport. “Aboriginal culture is the oldest culture in the earth; it’s so sophisticated and deep. It...
“The opportunity has been there if I really wanted to pursue that path and it still probably is to some extent. I am excited by this aboriginal Marvel character, Manifold,” said Kent, referring to the Aboriginal Australian mutant superhero, also known as Eden Fesi, with the power to bend time and space in order to teleport. “Aboriginal culture is the oldest culture in the earth; it’s so sophisticated and deep. It...
- 8/3/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
I wasn’t an immediate fan of Amazon’s popular series Lore, but it did grow on me after a while. We know a lot of you can’t wait to hear when Season 2 will be kicking off; and following yesterday’s San Diego Comic-Con panel with Amazon Studios, we have all the details you need right here, […]
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- 7/21/2018
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
Amazon Prime showed up at San Diego Comic-Con International with the first trailer for Lore season 2. Adapted from the popular podcast series featuring horrific stories based on real-life events, the second season will get even darker and scarier than the first season. Check out the Lore season 2 below, find out when it will […]
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- 7/21/2018
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
The first episode of Amazon’s Tom Clancy adaptation “Jack Ryan” saw its U.S. public debut Friday afternoon in Ballroom 20 at San Diego Comic-Con. And as it happens, the show works pretty well, not only as decent counter-programming for the convention, but if the episode is any guide, for the source material too.
Star John Krasinski turns out to be a very credible fit to play the lode-bearing Clancy-verse character. Co-star Wendell Pierce’s beleaguered, on-his-last-second-chance CIA official James Greer, is a good counterweight to Krasinski’s anxious yet mild-mannered approach to playing Jack Ryan.
On the other hand, given the show’s setting, legitimate concerns can be raised about the kind of roles actors of West Asian descent are offered, and how people from those cultures are portrayed. However, a last-minute reveal that felt askance of the worldview Tom Clancy expressed in his dozens of novels suggests the...
Star John Krasinski turns out to be a very credible fit to play the lode-bearing Clancy-verse character. Co-star Wendell Pierce’s beleaguered, on-his-last-second-chance CIA official James Greer, is a good counterweight to Krasinski’s anxious yet mild-mannered approach to playing Jack Ryan.
On the other hand, given the show’s setting, legitimate concerns can be raised about the kind of roles actors of West Asian descent are offered, and how people from those cultures are portrayed. However, a last-minute reveal that felt askance of the worldview Tom Clancy expressed in his dozens of novels suggests the...
- 7/21/2018
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
Six new tales (some from Aaron Mahnke's Lore and others not yet told on the podcast) will come to life in the second season of Lore, which was featured at Amazon Studios' Comic-Con panel today. Along with the October 19th premiere date announcement, we have a look at the second season's first teaser trailer and creepy key art.
From the Press Release: "San Diego, July 20, 2018 – Amazon Studios this afternoon made a number of announcements during its San Diego Comic-Con panel, as well as debuted exclusive clips and trailers for several highly anticipated series. Among the talent in attendance at the panel held in Ballroom 20 were Carlton Cuse, a showrunner and Executive Producer of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan; The Tick creator Ben Edlund; Sam Esmail director of Homecoming; world-renowned author Neil Gaiman, creator-writer-showrunner of Good Omens; Lore Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd; and Naren Shankar showrunner of The Expanse.
From the Press Release: "San Diego, July 20, 2018 – Amazon Studios this afternoon made a number of announcements during its San Diego Comic-Con panel, as well as debuted exclusive clips and trailers for several highly anticipated series. Among the talent in attendance at the panel held in Ballroom 20 were Carlton Cuse, a showrunner and Executive Producer of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan; The Tick creator Ben Edlund; Sam Esmail director of Homecoming; world-renowned author Neil Gaiman, creator-writer-showrunner of Good Omens; Lore Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd; and Naren Shankar showrunner of The Expanse.
- 7/21/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Frances McDormand will play the voice of God in Amazon’s upcoming drama series “Good Omens.”
Executive producer Neil Gaiman announced the casting Friday during a panel featuring showrunners for several Amazon Studios series and moderated by Variety executive editor Debra Birnbaum. Gaiman called it “the strangest way” he had ever cast anyone.
“We knew God would be a woman,” Gaiman said. “We were talking about great American actresses, because we wanted her to have an American voice. And out the blue one day I got an email from Frances McDormand asking to borrow my house in Scotland.”
Gaiman, whose novel “Good Omens,” co-written with Terry Pratchett, said that in adapting the book to series, “The biggest challenge for me was the absence of Terry Pratchett from this world.”
Carlton Cuse, executive producer of “Jack Ryan,” revealed that Noomi Rapace has been cast in season two of the action drama,...
Executive producer Neil Gaiman announced the casting Friday during a panel featuring showrunners for several Amazon Studios series and moderated by Variety executive editor Debra Birnbaum. Gaiman called it “the strangest way” he had ever cast anyone.
“We knew God would be a woman,” Gaiman said. “We were talking about great American actresses, because we wanted her to have an American voice. And out the blue one day I got an email from Frances McDormand asking to borrow my house in Scotland.”
Gaiman, whose novel “Good Omens,” co-written with Terry Pratchett, said that in adapting the book to series, “The biggest challenge for me was the absence of Terry Pratchett from this world.”
Carlton Cuse, executive producer of “Jack Ryan,” revealed that Noomi Rapace has been cast in season two of the action drama,...
- 7/21/2018
- by Daniel Holloway
- Variety Film + TV
Lore is coming back for its second season on Amazon just a little bit closer to Halloween than last time, Comic-Con learned today with a scary peek at the series.
The hybrid anthology series based on Aaron Mahnke’s popular and often horrifying 2015-launched podcast will return on October 19, six days and a year after Season 1 launched on the Jeff Bezos streaming service
“It is scarier, it is really scarier,” executive producer Gale Anne Hurd told the San Diego Convention Center on Friday as the new Lore trailer (see above) and Season 2 debut date were revealed.
“The scope is much larger but the stories are much more intimate,” The Walking Dead Ep added, noting that along with former Exorcist showrunner Sean Crouch joining Lore’s second season, the likes of Twd alum Alicia Witt and Steven Berkoff are among the cast.
As well as Lore and Comic-Con royalty in Hurd,...
The hybrid anthology series based on Aaron Mahnke’s popular and often horrifying 2015-launched podcast will return on October 19, six days and a year after Season 1 launched on the Jeff Bezos streaming service
“It is scarier, it is really scarier,” executive producer Gale Anne Hurd told the San Diego Convention Center on Friday as the new Lore trailer (see above) and Season 2 debut date were revealed.
“The scope is much larger but the stories are much more intimate,” The Walking Dead Ep added, noting that along with former Exorcist showrunner Sean Crouch joining Lore’s second season, the likes of Twd alum Alicia Witt and Steven Berkoff are among the cast.
As well as Lore and Comic-Con royalty in Hurd,...
- 7/20/2018
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Amazon Studios had a plethora of news coming out of its Comic-Con panel, including numerous teaser trailers, casting news and release dates for some of its biggest and most anticipated shows.
Homecoming
Amazon released its first official trailer for its upcoming show, “Homecoming,” starring Julia Roberts. The trailer has a camera slowly panning through the inside of an expansive building, moving past empty furniture, flickering snack machines, a full kitchen and several hallways before settling on Roberts, who says to someone off screen: “Shall we get started?” She then clicks on a recorder.
Based on the popular podcast of the same name, “Homecoming” is a psychological thriller directed by Sam Esmail (creator of “Mr. Robot”) and from scribes Micah Bloomberg and Eli Horowitz. Heidi Bergman (Roberts) is a caseworker at the Homecoming Transitional Support Center, a Geist Group facility helping soldiers transition back to civilian life. Walter Cruz (Stephan James) is one of these soldiers,...
Homecoming
Amazon released its first official trailer for its upcoming show, “Homecoming,” starring Julia Roberts. The trailer has a camera slowly panning through the inside of an expansive building, moving past empty furniture, flickering snack machines, a full kitchen and several hallways before settling on Roberts, who says to someone off screen: “Shall we get started?” She then clicks on a recorder.
Based on the popular podcast of the same name, “Homecoming” is a psychological thriller directed by Sam Esmail (creator of “Mr. Robot”) and from scribes Micah Bloomberg and Eli Horowitz. Heidi Bergman (Roberts) is a caseworker at the Homecoming Transitional Support Center, a Geist Group facility helping soldiers transition back to civilian life. Walter Cruz (Stephan James) is one of these soldiers,...
- 7/20/2018
- by Ellis Clopton
- Variety Film + TV
Comic-Con panels don’t start until Thursday and they are still unpacking the last of the hardware and memorabilia in the exhibit halls at the San Diego Convention Center. But out on the city’s streets, the battle for eyeballs is already going strong, with FX’s upcoming Mayans M.C., The Walking Dead, Amazon’s Jack Ryan and a deep-bench Marvel positioned to capture the most marketing attention on the jam-packed skyline of the City in Motion.
(Click on the photo above to launch our gallery of posters, installations and more going up in San Diego.)
For sheer size and location, Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter and FX’s September 4-debuting Latino biker series looks to have the edge with a takeover of the front of the Hilton Bayfront, right next to the convention center. Inescapable to anyone down near the action, the Mayans display also looms over...
(Click on the photo above to launch our gallery of posters, installations and more going up in San Diego.)
For sheer size and location, Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter and FX’s September 4-debuting Latino biker series looks to have the edge with a takeover of the front of the Hilton Bayfront, right next to the convention center. Inescapable to anyone down near the action, the Mayans display also looms over...
- 7/19/2018
- by Dominic Patten and Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
When a network plays the San Diego Comic-Con version of the game of thrones, it’s not exactly a “you win or you die” situation, since everyone gets a huge welcome from their fans. But thanks to two extremely popular shows, one network often gets the lion’s share of Sdcc hype, and that network — HBO — is staying home this year.
Last month, the premium cabler announced its shows “Game of Thrones” and “Westworld” will not have panels or public activations at the convention this week, citing production schedules that conflict with the multi-day pop culture event. Their only appearance, as TheWrap exclusively reported, will be at the extremely invitation-only Entertainment Weekly party Saturday night, meaning the Comic-Con hoi polloi won’t see them at all.
But while it’s bad news for fans of the multiple Emmy-nominated shows, it’s good news for networks looking to seize the TV...
Last month, the premium cabler announced its shows “Game of Thrones” and “Westworld” will not have panels or public activations at the convention this week, citing production schedules that conflict with the multi-day pop culture event. Their only appearance, as TheWrap exclusively reported, will be at the extremely invitation-only Entertainment Weekly party Saturday night, meaning the Comic-Con hoi polloi won’t see them at all.
But while it’s bad news for fans of the multiple Emmy-nominated shows, it’s good news for networks looking to seize the TV...
- 7/18/2018
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
A brief romance in the German capital turns into something a lot more sinister
It was meant to be a holiday fling. A crackling connection on the streets of Berlin tumbles into a night of passion, snatched from a packed tourist itinerary. But when Australian photographer Clare (Teresa Palmer) wakes the following morning, she finds that Andi (Max Riemelt) has inadvertently locked her into his apartment. When he returns that night, he is changed – distant, clipped, cold – and she realises he has no intention of letting her go.
Although Cate Shortland (Somersault, Lore) subtly seeds the early part of the film with hints of a threat – Clare’s fascination with Gdr architecture evokes ideas of walls and restrictions on freedom – charming Andi’s true colours still come as a sickening shock. And while the sudden stabs of violence add a genre flavour to this slow-burning thriller, the real discomfort comes...
It was meant to be a holiday fling. A crackling connection on the streets of Berlin tumbles into a night of passion, snatched from a packed tourist itinerary. But when Australian photographer Clare (Teresa Palmer) wakes the following morning, she finds that Andi (Max Riemelt) has inadvertently locked her into his apartment. When he returns that night, he is changed – distant, clipped, cold – and she realises he has no intention of letting her go.
Although Cate Shortland (Somersault, Lore) subtly seeds the early part of the film with hints of a threat – Clare’s fascination with Gdr architecture evokes ideas of walls and restrictions on freedom – charming Andi’s true colours still come as a sickening shock. And while the sudden stabs of violence add a genre flavour to this slow-burning thriller, the real discomfort comes...
- 6/11/2017
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
Cinema has often used female characters as mere victims in service of a plot – but the Australian director’s new film is a fascinating interrogation of vulnerability and sexual desire
For as long as cinema has been around, it has been in thrall to the vulnerability of women. Whether they are tied to railway tracks or being stalked in the night, female characters are often victims in service of plot. But for the protagonist of Cate Shortland’s psychological drama, Berlin Syndrome – a young woman whose victimhood is precisely the point – a woman’s vulnerability is the starting point for a fascinating interrogation of that position.
“I love stories about overcoming hurt and how we get through it: ‘How do we continue?’ I like the idea that we’re not static,” the Australian film-maker says. The female protagonists of Shortland’s two previous films – Somersault (2004) and Lore (2012) – are often made vulnerable,...
For as long as cinema has been around, it has been in thrall to the vulnerability of women. Whether they are tied to railway tracks or being stalked in the night, female characters are often victims in service of plot. But for the protagonist of Cate Shortland’s psychological drama, Berlin Syndrome – a young woman whose victimhood is precisely the point – a woman’s vulnerability is the starting point for a fascinating interrogation of that position.
“I love stories about overcoming hurt and how we get through it: ‘How do we continue?’ I like the idea that we’re not static,” the Australian film-maker says. The female protagonists of Shortland’s two previous films – Somersault (2004) and Lore (2012) – are often made vulnerable,...
- 6/8/2017
- by Christina Newland
- The Guardian - Film News
Women traveling alone are supposed to follow certain rules. Never go anywhere without someone knowing where you are and when you’ll be back. Don’t accept drinks from strange men. Don’t get into a stranger’s car. And no matter what you do, never go home with someone you just met, especially in a new city where you don’t know where you’re going. These rules aren’t always strictly obeyed, of course, particularly when a seemingly gentle man with piercing blue eyes and a charmingly incomplete understanding of the English language is involved. But the little voice in the back of your head is always there, reminding you that every time you sneak back into your hostel still wearing last night’s clothes, you’re lucky to be alive.
Australian director Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome, the follow-up to her 2012 World War II drama Lore ...
Australian director Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome, the follow-up to her 2012 World War II drama Lore ...
- 5/25/2017
- by Katie Rife
- avclub.com
Cate Shortland on the set of 'Berlin Syndrome'..
Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland has only made three features: 2004.s Somersault, 2012.s Lore and now Berlin Syndrome, with the last two both set in Germany.
.Like a lot of people I.m just drawn to the vibrancy of the culture,. says the filmmaker, .and I love living in Berlin..
Shortland.s partner is Australian filmmaker Tony Krawitz (Dead Europe), whose family is German Jew.
.His grandmother is still alive, she.s 102, and she.s from Berlin,. Shortland tells If. .We.ve lived in Berlin on and off for the last six years, our kids went to school there for a while. My German.s still really atrocious but I love living there..
Now the director has shot a feature in the city — adapted by Snowtown.s Shaun Grant from a novel by Melanie Joosten.
Aquarius Films producer Polly Staniford was...
Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland has only made three features: 2004.s Somersault, 2012.s Lore and now Berlin Syndrome, with the last two both set in Germany.
.Like a lot of people I.m just drawn to the vibrancy of the culture,. says the filmmaker, .and I love living in Berlin..
Shortland.s partner is Australian filmmaker Tony Krawitz (Dead Europe), whose family is German Jew.
.His grandmother is still alive, she.s 102, and she.s from Berlin,. Shortland tells If. .We.ve lived in Berlin on and off for the last six years, our kids went to school there for a while. My German.s still really atrocious but I love living there..
Now the director has shot a feature in the city — adapted by Snowtown.s Shaun Grant from a novel by Melanie Joosten.
Aquarius Films producer Polly Staniford was...
- 5/15/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
If you’re prone to summertime sadness or other forms of seasonal affective disorder, perhaps a few screams are in order over the next few months. Here are 10 to get you started as you look toward blockbuster season.
Read More: IndieWire’s Complete 2017 Summer Preview
“Hounds of Love,” May 12
Less than two weeks after being presented an award by IndieWire’s own Eric Kohn at the Overlook Film Festival, writer/director Ben Young’s latest is headed to theaters. The system works! An Aussie abduction thriller, “Hounds of Love” stars Emma Booth as a young woman held captive by a deranged couple whose increasingly fractured relationship represents her only chance of escape. If there’s one thing the “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” opening credits have taught us, it’s that females are strong as hell and she’ll probably make it out alive.
“Alien: Covenant,” May 19
The most frightening “Alien” movie...
Read More: IndieWire’s Complete 2017 Summer Preview
“Hounds of Love,” May 12
Less than two weeks after being presented an award by IndieWire’s own Eric Kohn at the Overlook Film Festival, writer/director Ben Young’s latest is headed to theaters. The system works! An Aussie abduction thriller, “Hounds of Love” stars Emma Booth as a young woman held captive by a deranged couple whose increasingly fractured relationship represents her only chance of escape. If there’s one thing the “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” opening credits have taught us, it’s that females are strong as hell and she’ll probably make it out alive.
“Alien: Covenant,” May 19
The most frightening “Alien” movie...
- 5/10/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Cate Shortland (l) on set.
Imagine you.re a young woman from Brisbane, and you decide to quit your job taking photos for a real estate website, and head overseas for the first time, to the cool city where all the other cool young people seem to be heading —.Berlin. There you meet a really nice guy, you go back to his, you have amazing sex. But fast forward to the morning after and you discover he.s locked you in his creepy apartment, and so begins Berlin Syndrome, a dark fairy-tale of a thriller from Australian director Cate Shortland.
You might remember Cate.s first film, Somersault, which came out in 2004. That film probably rings a bell because you either loved it or hated it — it was dragged into a debate that raged at the time about how Australian cinema was in crisis. It was a particularly ill-informed, mostly...
Imagine you.re a young woman from Brisbane, and you decide to quit your job taking photos for a real estate website, and head overseas for the first time, to the cool city where all the other cool young people seem to be heading —.Berlin. There you meet a really nice guy, you go back to his, you have amazing sex. But fast forward to the morning after and you discover he.s locked you in his creepy apartment, and so begins Berlin Syndrome, a dark fairy-tale of a thriller from Australian director Cate Shortland.
You might remember Cate.s first film, Somersault, which came out in 2004. That film probably rings a bell because you either loved it or hated it — it was dragged into a debate that raged at the time about how Australian cinema was in crisis. It was a particularly ill-informed, mostly...
- 4/24/2017
- by Jason Di Rosso
- IF.com.au
Love becomes a prison in “Berlin Syndrome,” the new film from Cate Shortland (“Somersault,” “Lore“) that unwinds a slow-burn thriller about romantic obsession that runs deadly.
Read More: Cate Shortland’s ‘Berlin Syndrome’ Starring Teresa Palmer Is An Unbearably Intense, Slow Burn Thriller [Sundance Review]
Teresa Palmer leads the film as an Australian journalist in Germany who strikes up a relationship with a charming young man.
Continue reading Teresa Palmer Fights For Freedom In New Trailer For Cate Shortland’s ‘Berlin Syndrome’ at The Playlist.
Read More: Cate Shortland’s ‘Berlin Syndrome’ Starring Teresa Palmer Is An Unbearably Intense, Slow Burn Thriller [Sundance Review]
Teresa Palmer leads the film as an Australian journalist in Germany who strikes up a relationship with a charming young man.
Continue reading Teresa Palmer Fights For Freedom In New Trailer For Cate Shortland’s ‘Berlin Syndrome’ at The Playlist.
- 3/28/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Cate Shortland has left the German settings of “The Berlin Syndrome” behind for a project set in her homeland.
The award-winning Australian filmmaker behind “Somersault” (starring Abbie Cornish) and the German wartime drama “Lore” will be trying her hand at a true crime limited series, reports If.com. The eight-part series, titled “The Monaro,” is a project that Shortland has been mulling over since her days at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
Read More: ‘Berlin Syndrome’ Trailer: Teresa Palmer Becomes Her Lover’s Prisoner in Cate Shortland’s Sundance Thriller
The series is set in the 1830s in the Monaro region of New South Wales, Australia, east of the Snowy Mountains — which is also where the filmmaker shot “Somersault.” That’s all that we know about the plot at the moment.
Shortland has her work cut out for her. “I’m working with this great team of people,...
The award-winning Australian filmmaker behind “Somersault” (starring Abbie Cornish) and the German wartime drama “Lore” will be trying her hand at a true crime limited series, reports If.com. The eight-part series, titled “The Monaro,” is a project that Shortland has been mulling over since her days at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.
Read More: ‘Berlin Syndrome’ Trailer: Teresa Palmer Becomes Her Lover’s Prisoner in Cate Shortland’s Sundance Thriller
The series is set in the 1830s in the Monaro region of New South Wales, Australia, east of the Snowy Mountains — which is also where the filmmaker shot “Somersault.” That’s all that we know about the plot at the moment.
Shortland has her work cut out for her. “I’m working with this great team of people,...
- 3/15/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Aussie feature Undertow has begun pre-production, with shooting to begin in the middle of next month in Geelong and along the Surf Coast.
The thriller will see writer-director Miranda Nation reunite with producer Lyn Norfor, of Emerald Productions, and Dp Bonnie Elliott (Spear)..
The trio previously worked together on Springboard short Perception, which won the Sydney Film Festival's Dendy Award in 2013.
Porchlight's Liz Watts (Animal Kingdom, Lore) is executive producing.
The film, set against the football culture of Geelong, tells the story of Claire, a woman struggling to accept the loss of her baby who becomes suspicious of her husband's relationship with a feisty young woman, Angie..
When she discovers Angie is pregnant, Claire develops an increasingly irrational obsession with the teenager.
The project received development funding from Film Victoria last year. The Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund is also backing, with a Miff 2018 premiere likely.
Nation, who completed...
The thriller will see writer-director Miranda Nation reunite with producer Lyn Norfor, of Emerald Productions, and Dp Bonnie Elliott (Spear)..
The trio previously worked together on Springboard short Perception, which won the Sydney Film Festival's Dendy Award in 2013.
Porchlight's Liz Watts (Animal Kingdom, Lore) is executive producing.
The film, set against the football culture of Geelong, tells the story of Claire, a woman struggling to accept the loss of her baby who becomes suspicious of her husband's relationship with a feisty young woman, Angie..
When she discovers Angie is pregnant, Claire develops an increasingly irrational obsession with the teenager.
The project received development funding from Film Victoria last year. The Melbourne International Film Festival Premiere Fund is also backing, with a Miff 2018 premiere likely.
Nation, who completed...
- 3/15/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
While Cate Shortland came on our radar with 2004’s “Somersault,” she had a healthy TV career prior to that, helming episodes of “The Secret Life Of Us” and “Bad Cop, Bad Cop.” And between “Somersault” and her 2012’s feature “Lore,” she helmed the TV movie “The Silence.” Now, she’s set to embark on her biggest small screen effort yet.
Continue reading Cate Shortland To Direct 8-Part TV Miniseries ‘The Monaro’ at The Playlist.
Continue reading Cate Shortland To Direct 8-Part TV Miniseries ‘The Monaro’ at The Playlist.
- 3/14/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Cate Shortland on the set of 'Berlin Syndrome'.
Berlin Syndrome filmmaker Cate Shortland is prepping an eight-part series for Matchbox Pictures.
Titled The Monaro, the series will focus on six women in the 1830s and is based on a true crime case, the director told If.
Shortland will shoot in the titular region, east of the Snowy Mountains, where she also shot her debut feature, Somersault.
.It.s one of my favourite places in the world to shoot so I wanted to do something again there,. the helmer said..
Shortland is an experienced writer for TV, having written episodes of The Slap, Devil.s Playground, Deadline Gallipoli and The Kettering Incident, but this will mark the first series she has directed since The Secret Life of Us in 2003.
She also helmed TV movie The Silence, starring Richard Roxburgh and co-written by Picnic at Hanging Rock.s Alice Addison,...
Berlin Syndrome filmmaker Cate Shortland is prepping an eight-part series for Matchbox Pictures.
Titled The Monaro, the series will focus on six women in the 1830s and is based on a true crime case, the director told If.
Shortland will shoot in the titular region, east of the Snowy Mountains, where she also shot her debut feature, Somersault.
.It.s one of my favourite places in the world to shoot so I wanted to do something again there,. the helmer said..
Shortland is an experienced writer for TV, having written episodes of The Slap, Devil.s Playground, Deadline Gallipoli and The Kettering Incident, but this will mark the first series she has directed since The Secret Life of Us in 2003.
She also helmed TV movie The Silence, starring Richard Roxburgh and co-written by Picnic at Hanging Rock.s Alice Addison,...
- 3/13/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
If you're a fan of Teresa Palmer (Lights Out, Hacksaw Ridge, Warm Bodies), you're not going to want to miss Berlin Syndrome because she gives her best performance yet. I had a chance to see the movie at Sundance, and I thought it was a solidly made thriller. This is also a really great trailer that perfectly captures what this movie is.
While holidaying in Berlin, Australian photojournalist, Clare meets Andi, a charismatic local man and there is an instant attraction between them. A night of passion ensues. But what initially appears to be the start of a romance suddenly takes an unexpected and sinister turn when Clare wakes the following morning to discover Andi has left for work and locked her in his apartment. An easy mistake to make, of course, except Andi has no intention of letting her go again.
In my review, I said:
"The film is...
While holidaying in Berlin, Australian photojournalist, Clare meets Andi, a charismatic local man and there is an instant attraction between them. A night of passion ensues. But what initially appears to be the start of a romance suddenly takes an unexpected and sinister turn when Clare wakes the following morning to discover Andi has left for work and locked her in his apartment. An easy mistake to make, of course, except Andi has no intention of letting her go again.
In my review, I said:
"The film is...
- 3/2/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Aren’t romantic getaways the best? Well, they are until your lover holds you hostage in their apartment, and Liam Neeson isn’t your father. This means Clare (Teresa Palmer) must use her own wits to try and escape. Helmed by Cate Shortland (Lore), judging from the first international trailer this film looks to tackle seriously the real issues of possession and dominance that are turned into limp kinks in the Fifty Shades series.
We said in our review from Sundance, “While the recent 10 Cloverfield Lane and Room told stories of captivity with various hooks — science-fiction and the process of healing, respectively — Cate Shortland’s approach in her latest, harrowing drama Berlin Syndrome makes room for more nuance and depth. Locked in a Berlin apartment, there is little hope for our protagonist for nearly the entire runtime. And while some of the story’s turns can feel overtly manipulative, Shortland...
We said in our review from Sundance, “While the recent 10 Cloverfield Lane and Room told stories of captivity with various hooks — science-fiction and the process of healing, respectively — Cate Shortland’s approach in her latest, harrowing drama Berlin Syndrome makes room for more nuance and depth. Locked in a Berlin apartment, there is little hope for our protagonist for nearly the entire runtime. And while some of the story’s turns can feel overtly manipulative, Shortland...
- 3/2/2017
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
Five years after her unconventional Nazi drama “Lore,” Cate Shortland is back with “Berlin Syndrome.” Vertical Entertainment has released a new trailer for the thriller starring Teresa Palmer, which first premiered at Sundance in January. Watch below.
Read More: ‘Berlin Syndrome’ Review: Teresa Palmer Elevates Cate Shortland’s Creepy Captivity Thriller — Sundance 2017
Here’s the synopsis: “Australian tourist Clare (Palmer) travels to Berlin to photograph East German architecture and meets Andi (Max Riemelt), a handsome but brooding schoolteacher. After a brief erotic fling, Clare tries to leave, but Andi isn’t ready to let go. She soon finds herself held prisoner in his locked apartment, cut off from the outside world. As her ordeal unfolds, Clare cycles between reasoning with her captor, surrendering to his obsessions, and plotting her escape.”
Read More: Sundance 2017: Netflix, Vertical Acquire ‘Berlin Syndrome’
Matthias Habich and Lucie Aron co-star in the film, for which...
Read More: ‘Berlin Syndrome’ Review: Teresa Palmer Elevates Cate Shortland’s Creepy Captivity Thriller — Sundance 2017
Here’s the synopsis: “Australian tourist Clare (Palmer) travels to Berlin to photograph East German architecture and meets Andi (Max Riemelt), a handsome but brooding schoolteacher. After a brief erotic fling, Clare tries to leave, but Andi isn’t ready to let go. She soon finds herself held prisoner in his locked apartment, cut off from the outside world. As her ordeal unfolds, Clare cycles between reasoning with her captor, surrendering to his obsessions, and plotting her escape.”
Read More: Sundance 2017: Netflix, Vertical Acquire ‘Berlin Syndrome’
Matthias Habich and Lucie Aron co-star in the film, for which...
- 3/2/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
The intensity of new love can often make you blind to the trouble signs, and that’s where things kick off in “Berlin Syndrome,” the new film from the always fascinating filmmaker Cate Shortland (“Somersault,” “Lore“).
Based on the book by Melanie Joosten, and starring Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt, the story follows a young woman who travels to Berlin and falls in love, only to discover the relationship has taken on a sinister edge.
Continue reading Teresa Palmer Is Trapped In New Trailer For Cate Shortland’s ‘Berlin Syndrome’ at The Playlist.
Based on the book by Melanie Joosten, and starring Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt, the story follows a young woman who travels to Berlin and falls in love, only to discover the relationship has taken on a sinister edge.
Continue reading Teresa Palmer Is Trapped In New Trailer For Cate Shortland’s ‘Berlin Syndrome’ at The Playlist.
- 3/1/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Over the last 14 years, Jack Hutchings has edited four short films that have screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival: Yardbird (2012), Jerrycan (2008), Nature’s Way (2006) and Cracker Bag (2003). His latest feature, Berlin Syndrome, is a German-set thriller that premiered at this year’s Sundance. The film concerns an Australian tourist in Berlin who has an erotic fling with a schoolteacher that turns into a tale of captor and prisoner. The film marks the return of director Cate Shortland, whose last film Lore screened at festivals across the world. Below, Hutchings discusses his working dynamic with Shortland, the importance of test screenings and shaping the […]...
- 1/26/2017
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Australian director Cate Shortland brought a penetrating female gaze both to the jailbait protagonist of her lyrical first feature, Somersault, and the conflicted teenage Nazi offspring at the center of her German-language follow-up, Lore. But audiences looking for the illuminating perspective of an intelligent woman director on the kind of sexual-captivity scenario that dates back to The Collector might come away disappointed from Berlin Syndrome. Driven by a compellingly internalized performance from Teresa Palmer as the conflicted prey, this is a case of expert filmmaking craft applied to a familiar story that becomes unrelentingly grim and drawn out after its...
- 1/23/2017
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
He’s a Collector: Shortland Returns to Germany for Simmering Psychological Thriller
Australian director Cate Shortland, most revered for her 2013 sophomore feature Lore, returns once more to Germany for her latest film, Berlin Syndrome, this time in a more contemporary climate adapting from a novel by Melanie Joosten.
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Australian director Cate Shortland, most revered for her 2013 sophomore feature Lore, returns once more to Germany for her latest film, Berlin Syndrome, this time in a more contemporary climate adapting from a novel by Melanie Joosten.
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- 1/22/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Netflix and Vertical Entertainment have acquired the psychological thriller “Berlin Syndrome,” with Vertical handling the North American theatrical release and Netflix getting the streaming rights, Deadline reports. The film was purchased for an amount in the low to mid seven figures and will screen in Sundance’s World Dramatic Competition on Friday, January 20th.
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Directed by Cate Shortland (“Lore”), the film stars Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt. Palmer plays an Australian photographer who has a romantic encounter with a man in Berlin (Riemelt) and soon finds herself locked in his apartment.
The acquisition a week before Sundance begins is just the latest example of distributors buying up movies before festival bidding wars even have a chance to start. Last weekend, A24 purchased a film sight unseen: David Lowery’s “A Ghost Story,” starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara. A...
Read More: Sundance 2017: HBO Acquires War Documentary ‘Cries From Syria’
Directed by Cate Shortland (“Lore”), the film stars Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt. Palmer plays an Australian photographer who has a romantic encounter with a man in Berlin (Riemelt) and soon finds herself locked in his apartment.
The acquisition a week before Sundance begins is just the latest example of distributors buying up movies before festival bidding wars even have a chance to start. Last weekend, A24 purchased a film sight unseen: David Lowery’s “A Ghost Story,” starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara. A...
- 1/13/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
It’s a good time of year to be a movie lover, not only because the best Hollywood has to offer is hitting cinemas, but because January will bring with a whole new batch of films to obsess over. The conversation on what’s next will begin at the Sundance Film Festival, and one movie we have our eye on is “Berlin Syndrome.”
The latest from Cate Shortland (“Lore,” “Somersault“), is based on the book by Melanie Joosten, stars Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt, and follows a young woman whose German vacation takes a dark turn.
Continue reading Sundance Clips: Teresa Palmer Takes A Trip In Cate Shortland’s ‘Berlin Syndrome’ at The Playlist.
The latest from Cate Shortland (“Lore,” “Somersault“), is based on the book by Melanie Joosten, stars Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt, and follows a young woman whose German vacation takes a dark turn.
Continue reading Sundance Clips: Teresa Palmer Takes A Trip In Cate Shortland’s ‘Berlin Syndrome’ at The Playlist.
- 12/6/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Aussie filmmaker Cate Shortland, who has been behind the camera for “Somersault” and “Lore,” is a director we keep a keen eye on. However, we expected her latest film, “Berlin Syndrome,” to have popped up on the festival circuit by now. Shot all the way back in the spring of 2015, not much has been heard about the picture since that time, but we’re very excited that it will be making its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival next month.
Continue reading Sundance First Look: Cate Shortland’s ‘Berlin Syndrome’ Starring Teresa Palmer at The Playlist.
Continue reading Sundance First Look: Cate Shortland’s ‘Berlin Syndrome’ Starring Teresa Palmer at The Playlist.
- 12/1/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Teresa Palmer in 'Berlin Syndrome'.
Cate Shortland.s psychological thriller Berlin Syndrome will make its world debut at the Sundance Film Festival, where it has been selected to screen in the World Cinema Dramatic competition.
The third feature from Shortland (Lore, Somersault) tells the story of Aussie photographer Clare (Teresa Palmer,.Hacksaw Ridge) who meets the charismatic Andi (Max Riemelt, Sense8) on a trip to Berlin. Their attraction is instant, but romance turns sinister when Clare finds Andi has locked her in his apartment..
Shot on location in Berlin and Melbourne, the film is based on Melanie Joosten.s book of the same name. It was adapted for screen by Shaun Grant (Snowtown) and produced by Aquarius Films. Polly Staniford.
Sundance.s strong focus on independent cinema makes it a perfect fit for Berlin Sydnrome's world premiere, said Staniford. Aquarius'.Wish You Were Here also screened at the...
Cate Shortland.s psychological thriller Berlin Syndrome will make its world debut at the Sundance Film Festival, where it has been selected to screen in the World Cinema Dramatic competition.
The third feature from Shortland (Lore, Somersault) tells the story of Aussie photographer Clare (Teresa Palmer,.Hacksaw Ridge) who meets the charismatic Andi (Max Riemelt, Sense8) on a trip to Berlin. Their attraction is instant, but romance turns sinister when Clare finds Andi has locked her in his apartment..
Shot on location in Berlin and Melbourne, the film is based on Melanie Joosten.s book of the same name. It was adapted for screen by Shaun Grant (Snowtown) and produced by Aquarius Films. Polly Staniford.
Sundance.s strong focus on independent cinema makes it a perfect fit for Berlin Sydnrome's world premiere, said Staniford. Aquarius'.Wish You Were Here also screened at the...
- 12/1/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
by Nathaniel R
Apologies that there's no big review this weekend but I do hope you'll check out the Fassbender & Vikander flick. Here are two quick takes on movie options this weekend.
In Theaters
The Light Between Oceans (Derek Cianfrance)
Story: A war veteran (Michael Fassbender) takes a position as a lighthouse keeper where he falls in love with a local girl (Alicia Vikander). Their lives change irrevocably when they discover an orphaned baby in a boat.
Review: A pop quiz. Which is more ravishing?
Real life romantic chemistry that translates intact to movie screens. Romantic dramas that don't stop at sexy but get across how comforting and life-changing love and companionship can be. Picturesque rocky islands and lighthouses softened at their edges by grassy tenderness and the windswept beauty of two definitely cinematic brunettes.
Trick question -- they're all super ravishing! I've heard the complaints that The Light Between Oceans...
Apologies that there's no big review this weekend but I do hope you'll check out the Fassbender & Vikander flick. Here are two quick takes on movie options this weekend.
In Theaters
The Light Between Oceans (Derek Cianfrance)
Story: A war veteran (Michael Fassbender) takes a position as a lighthouse keeper where he falls in love with a local girl (Alicia Vikander). Their lives change irrevocably when they discover an orphaned baby in a boat.
Review: A pop quiz. Which is more ravishing?
Real life romantic chemistry that translates intact to movie screens. Romantic dramas that don't stop at sexy but get across how comforting and life-changing love and companionship can be. Picturesque rocky islands and lighthouses softened at their edges by grassy tenderness and the windswept beauty of two definitely cinematic brunettes.
Trick question -- they're all super ravishing! I've heard the complaints that The Light Between Oceans...
- 9/3/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Shoot is underway in Berlin on The Lives Of Others director’s third film.
German sales agent Beta Cinema has reunited with the Oscar-winning director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck on his third feature, Werk Ohne Autor [Work Without Author], after having handled international sales on his debut The Lives Of Others in 2006.
In psychological thriller Work Without Author, young artist Kurt Barnert (Tom Schilling) has fled to West-Germany, but he continues to be tormented by the experiences he made in his childhood and youth in the Nazi years and during the Gdr-regime.
When he meets the student Ellie (Paula Beer), he is convinced that he has met the love of his life and begins to create paintings that mirror not only his own fate, but also the traumas of an entire generation.
Sebastian Koch, who was catapulted into the international spotlight after his lead role in The Lives of Others, has also been cast as one of the leads in [link...
German sales agent Beta Cinema has reunited with the Oscar-winning director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck on his third feature, Werk Ohne Autor [Work Without Author], after having handled international sales on his debut The Lives Of Others in 2006.
In psychological thriller Work Without Author, young artist Kurt Barnert (Tom Schilling) has fled to West-Germany, but he continues to be tormented by the experiences he made in his childhood and youth in the Nazi years and during the Gdr-regime.
When he meets the student Ellie (Paula Beer), he is convinced that he has met the love of his life and begins to create paintings that mirror not only his own fate, but also the traumas of an entire generation.
Sebastian Koch, who was catapulted into the international spotlight after his lead role in The Lives of Others, has also been cast as one of the leads in [link...
- 6/21/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Harrison Feldman and Bethany Whitmore in Girl Asleep.
Four Australian works have been selected for the 2016 Berlinale..
Goalpost Pictures' six-part Cleverman, South Australian feature Girl Asleep, and two shorts - Alice Englert's The Boyfriend Game and Bryn Chainey's Kill Your Dinner.- will screen during the festival.
.We are so proud of the Cleverman team,. Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason said. .The inclusion in Berlinale is an incredible coup for the Australian television industry and a tremendous boost for Indigenous storytelling..
.The Berlinale Special Series is selected by Dieter Kosslick, the festival director", Cleverman producer Rosemary Blight said. "There are six series chosen from around the world and to be one of them is such an honour. It.s nerve-wracking and wonderful at the same time..
Cleverman is joined by theatre director Rosemary Myers. stylish feature debut Girl Asleep, which makes its international premiere as the opening night film in Generation 14plus.
Four Australian works have been selected for the 2016 Berlinale..
Goalpost Pictures' six-part Cleverman, South Australian feature Girl Asleep, and two shorts - Alice Englert's The Boyfriend Game and Bryn Chainey's Kill Your Dinner.- will screen during the festival.
.We are so proud of the Cleverman team,. Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason said. .The inclusion in Berlinale is an incredible coup for the Australian television industry and a tremendous boost for Indigenous storytelling..
.The Berlinale Special Series is selected by Dieter Kosslick, the festival director", Cleverman producer Rosemary Blight said. "There are six series chosen from around the world and to be one of them is such an honour. It.s nerve-wracking and wonderful at the same time..
Cleverman is joined by theatre director Rosemary Myers. stylish feature debut Girl Asleep, which makes its international premiere as the opening night film in Generation 14plus.
- 1/25/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Mfi reveals first pre-sales on Cate Shortland’s third feature.
UK Distributor Artificial Eye has acquired Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome, starring Teresa Palmer as a backpacking photojournalist whose holiday romance takes a sinister turn when she is imprisoned by her new lover.
The Paris-based Memento Films International, which is unveiling a teaser at the Afm, has also sold the film to Turkey (Bir Film), ex-Yugoslavia (Megacom), South Korean (Yejilim), Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia (Queen), and the Middle East (Falcon).
The company has also released a first image of Palmer on the U-Bahn, or underground, in Berlin where the production has just finished shooting exteriors before heading to the studio in Melbourne for the interiors.
Much-in-demand Palmer also has upcoming roles in Mel Gibson’s World War Two drama Hacksaw Ridge, the James Wan-produced horror thriller Lights Out and Nicholas Sparks’ adaptation The Choice.
Berlin Syndrome is Australian Cate Shortland’s third feature after the...
UK Distributor Artificial Eye has acquired Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome, starring Teresa Palmer as a backpacking photojournalist whose holiday romance takes a sinister turn when she is imprisoned by her new lover.
The Paris-based Memento Films International, which is unveiling a teaser at the Afm, has also sold the film to Turkey (Bir Film), ex-Yugoslavia (Megacom), South Korean (Yejilim), Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia (Queen), and the Middle East (Falcon).
The company has also released a first image of Palmer on the U-Bahn, or underground, in Berlin where the production has just finished shooting exteriors before heading to the studio in Melbourne for the interiors.
Much-in-demand Palmer also has upcoming roles in Mel Gibson’s World War Two drama Hacksaw Ridge, the James Wan-produced horror thriller Lights Out and Nicholas Sparks’ adaptation The Choice.
Berlin Syndrome is Australian Cate Shortland’s third feature after the...
- 11/5/2015
- ScreenDaily
Company also reveals first pre-sales on Cate Shortland’s third feature.
Memento Films International (Mfi) has released a first image of rising Australian actress Teresa Palmer in Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome, in which she plays a backpacking photojournalist whose holiday romance takes a sinister turn when she is imprisoned by her new lover. The production recently finished shooting exteriors in Berlin and has now moved to Melbourne for interiors.
The Paris-based sales company also revealed a first round of pre-sales to Turkey (Bir Film), ex-Yugoslavia (Megacom), South Korean (Yejilim), Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia (Queen), and the Middle East (Falcon). Much-in-demand Palmer also has upcoming roles in Mel Gibson’s World War Two drama Hacksaw Ridge, the James Wan-produced horror thriller Lights Out and Nicholas Sparks’ adaptation The Choice.
Berlin Syndrome is Australian Cate Shortland’s third feature after the award-winning 2012 World War Two drama Lore and Somersault, which starred...
Memento Films International (Mfi) has released a first image of rising Australian actress Teresa Palmer in Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome, in which she plays a backpacking photojournalist whose holiday romance takes a sinister turn when she is imprisoned by her new lover. The production recently finished shooting exteriors in Berlin and has now moved to Melbourne for interiors.
The Paris-based sales company also revealed a first round of pre-sales to Turkey (Bir Film), ex-Yugoslavia (Megacom), South Korean (Yejilim), Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia (Queen), and the Middle East (Falcon). Much-in-demand Palmer also has upcoming roles in Mel Gibson’s World War Two drama Hacksaw Ridge, the James Wan-produced horror thriller Lights Out and Nicholas Sparks’ adaptation The Choice.
Berlin Syndrome is Australian Cate Shortland’s third feature after the award-winning 2012 World War Two drama Lore and Somersault, which starred...
- 11/5/2015
- ScreenDaily
Cate Shortland's untitled feature film starring Teresa Palmer will begin filming at Docklands Studio, Melbourne this week.
The film, directed by Shortland, was written by Shaun Grant, who wrote Justin Kurzel.s Snowtown and is based on Melanie Joosten.s book Berlin Syndrome,.
It sees Palmer (Warm Bodies, Wish You Were Here and the upcoming Point Break), return to Australia to star alongside Max Riemelt (Sense8).
Shortland.s film tells the story of an Aussie photojournalist Clare (Palmer), who travels to Berlin and meets a charismatic local named Andi (Riemelt)..
Their attraction is instant, and after a day wandering the streets of Berlin together, a night of passion ensues..
But what initially appears to be the start of a romance suddenly takes an unexpected and sinister turn when Clare wakes the following morning to discover Andi has left for work and locked her in his apartment..
An easy mistake to make,...
The film, directed by Shortland, was written by Shaun Grant, who wrote Justin Kurzel.s Snowtown and is based on Melanie Joosten.s book Berlin Syndrome,.
It sees Palmer (Warm Bodies, Wish You Were Here and the upcoming Point Break), return to Australia to star alongside Max Riemelt (Sense8).
Shortland.s film tells the story of an Aussie photojournalist Clare (Palmer), who travels to Berlin and meets a charismatic local named Andi (Riemelt)..
Their attraction is instant, and after a day wandering the streets of Berlin together, a night of passion ensues..
But what initially appears to be the start of a romance suddenly takes an unexpected and sinister turn when Clare wakes the following morning to discover Andi has left for work and locked her in his apartment..
An easy mistake to make,...
- 11/4/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Berlin-based One Two Films is making its first foray into Stateside production as the co-producer on Jennifer Fox’s fiction feature debut The Tale, which begins shooting at locations in Louisiana today (Oct 20).
The $3.5m investigative thriller is being produced by Blackbird Films and A Luminous Mind Productions, with Lawrence Inglee and Laura Rister as producers and Oren Moverman serving as executive producer.
The autobiographical story has a cast headed up by Laura Dern, with Ellen Burstyn, Isabelle Nélisse, Elizabeth Debicki and Jason Ritter.
One Two Films’ Sol Bondy - who was a Screen Future Leader at Cannes 2013 - told ScreenDaily he had been introduced to The Tale as a project when he and Fox took part in the 2013/14 edition of the Transatlantic Film Partners programme.
He subsequently brought public broadcaster Zdf and Arte to the project which is being handled internationally by Mongrel International and is set to wrap principal photography in December.
From Helsinki...
The $3.5m investigative thriller is being produced by Blackbird Films and A Luminous Mind Productions, with Lawrence Inglee and Laura Rister as producers and Oren Moverman serving as executive producer.
The autobiographical story has a cast headed up by Laura Dern, with Ellen Burstyn, Isabelle Nélisse, Elizabeth Debicki and Jason Ritter.
One Two Films’ Sol Bondy - who was a Screen Future Leader at Cannes 2013 - told ScreenDaily he had been introduced to The Tale as a project when he and Fox took part in the 2013/14 edition of the Transatlantic Film Partners programme.
He subsequently brought public broadcaster Zdf and Arte to the project which is being handled internationally by Mongrel International and is set to wrap principal photography in December.
From Helsinki...
- 10/20/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Bec Cubitt has joined Aquarius Films as development and production executive after three years in the UK.
The hire marks a period of rapid expansion at the production company founded by Angie Fielder and Polly Staniford.
Cate Shortland is directing Berlin Syndrome, a thriller about a holiday romance that turns sinister, scripted by Shaun Grant and starring Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt , in Germany and Melbourne.
Expat Aussie Kate Hickey (an editor on Lena Dunham.s Girls) is helming Roller Dreams, a feature documentary about the Venice Beach roller dancing scene from 1978 until now, financed through Screen Australia.s Signature Documentary Fund.
Garth Davis is on post on Lion, the true life drama starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and Nicole Kidman, which Aquarius is producing with See-Saw Films.
Most recently Cubitt was development executive in the London office of Rooks Nest Entertainment. Before that she completed a Screen Australia placement...
The hire marks a period of rapid expansion at the production company founded by Angie Fielder and Polly Staniford.
Cate Shortland is directing Berlin Syndrome, a thriller about a holiday romance that turns sinister, scripted by Shaun Grant and starring Teresa Palmer and Max Riemelt , in Germany and Melbourne.
Expat Aussie Kate Hickey (an editor on Lena Dunham.s Girls) is helming Roller Dreams, a feature documentary about the Venice Beach roller dancing scene from 1978 until now, financed through Screen Australia.s Signature Documentary Fund.
Garth Davis is on post on Lion, the true life drama starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and Nicole Kidman, which Aquarius is producing with See-Saw Films.
Most recently Cubitt was development executive in the London office of Rooks Nest Entertainment. Before that she completed a Screen Australia placement...
- 9/21/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Screen Australia has provided $170,000 funding for eight filmmakers to work as .attachments. on a range of screen projects..
The investment will help develop the skills, contacts and expertise of some of Australia.s gifted screen practitioners, and connect them into the local and international film industry.
Screen Australia senior development executive, Nerida Moore, said talent development was one of the most important aspects Screen Australia's work.
"It.s wonderful to be able to support it in a tangible and meaningful way," she said..
"This funding is very specific . it will enable particular people to work on projects that suit their unique talents and pathways..
"Film is a global industry and it.s important that we help Australian filmmakers find opportunities here and internationally. We look forward to seeing where these opportunities take them!.
Producer Michael Cody (Ruin, Hail) will work across the development, financing, production and distribution slate of Plan B Entertainment (The Departed,...
The investment will help develop the skills, contacts and expertise of some of Australia.s gifted screen practitioners, and connect them into the local and international film industry.
Screen Australia senior development executive, Nerida Moore, said talent development was one of the most important aspects Screen Australia's work.
"It.s wonderful to be able to support it in a tangible and meaningful way," she said..
"This funding is very specific . it will enable particular people to work on projects that suit their unique talents and pathways..
"Film is a global industry and it.s important that we help Australian filmmakers find opportunities here and internationally. We look forward to seeing where these opportunities take them!.
Producer Michael Cody (Ruin, Hail) will work across the development, financing, production and distribution slate of Plan B Entertainment (The Departed,...
- 7/30/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
“Speak low, darling speak low”, the Kurt Weill/ Ogden Nash song as sung first by himself and finally by Nelly, the protagonist of this film, played by Nina Hoss, is the thematic refrain that weaves through this deeply moving movie entitled “Phoenix”.
Kurt Weill sings “Speak Low” from 1948’s “One Touch of Venus” by Odgen Nash and S.J. Perelman starring Ava Gardne.
Arising from the ashes of Auschwitz and Berlin, a ghost of a woman returns to claim her inheritance and her husband if he is still alive. Aided by Lene, a Jewish attorney and c a kindred spirit from her past, who escaped the Shoah by fleeing to London and Nelly who experienced it to the farthest reaches of horror, together might start anew in Israel; Lene has already found the apartment for them there.
Nelly’s face, destroyed and then reconstructed after she was shot and left for dead, makes her unrecognizable. She seeks and finds her husband who tries to make this woman into the Nelly he knew. She knows but he does not. A fleeting reminiscence of Almodovar’s movie here, “ The Skin I Live In ” where a renowned plastic surgeon reconstructs the face of his wife upon someone he has abducted, so Johnny tries to remake his wife but holds back his near falling in love with what he believes to be his own creation.
This film is rife with references. If you recall “One Touch of Venus” whence cometh this Kurt Weill song, the statue of Venus comes alive when kissed. In “Phoenix” as well, the Jewish former cabaret singer returns to life when she finds the beloved husband she left behind but remembered every day as her reason for living through the camps.
However, his kiss is a Judas kiss as this dark story unfolds to the point where she sings “Speak low”. This is a complex, Hitchcockian tale of a nation’s tragedy and a woman’s search for answers which builds toward an unforgettable, heart-stopping climax. Again a reference, this time to “ Vertigo” where the switching of women strikes a chord.
See Nina Hoss singing here .
The classic, 2014 Academy Award winning “Ida” by Pawel Pawlikowski’s also pairs two women together in their search for post-war answers in Poland. Ida finds her own way as her aunt – and Lene as well – in Lene’s words “feel more drawn to our dead than to the living.”
For all these points of reference and comparison which came to my mind as I watched “Phoenix” with bated breath, this film is unique in expressing how these survivors attempt to rebuild their lives which have been horribly broken by death, suffering and loss.
Christian Petzold directed Nina Hoss previously in “Barbara” and “Jerichow” along with her screen-husband Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld) a gorgeous actor able to charm and curse simultaneously. We hate him but we also love him. Ronald Zehrfeld says, “…when Johnny sees Nelly in front of him, you think, Ok, now he has to recognize her! But either he doesn’t trust his feelings or doesn’t allow himself to feel these emotions. Because ‘It’s impossible! She’s dead! And I won’t allow myself to fee this because my future depends on me passing her off as my wife. ‘ For him, it’s clear that, if he ever wants to breathe again, feel himself again or make music again, then he has to get out of Germany. And that’s possible only with Nell’s help – with the help of Nelly’s imposter, as he sees her. And on the other hand there are his feelings of guilt ….”
The rapport of the director with his actors is apparent in the patient unfolding of both characters with their traumas, their hopes, their guilt as they try to process the horrors they have survived.
Nina plays a woman who is vulnerable and fragile at the same time as she is defiant and stubborn. In the throes still of trauma of surviving the concentration camp and being shot in the face which must be reconstructed, without a vocabulary to describe all she has experienced, she seeks her husband in the burnt-out city of Berlin. She feels that only he can bring her back to life. In her search to find him, she finds herself again and tells her only friend Lene, ‘Johnny made me back into Nelly. Sometimes I get really jealous of myself – of how happy I was.
Interview with Christian Petzold and Nina Hoss by Nikolay Nikitin, hosted by the Goethe Institut in Toronto during its international debut at Tiff 2014 is here.
Aside from “The Third Man” which takes place in postwar Vienna and the 2012 film by Australian Cate Shortland, “ Lore”, and “Ida” which actually takes place in the 60s, there are not many outstanding films about what happened in Germany (and Austria) after the war.
“Phoenix” is an instant classic which will withstand the judgement of time. We’ll see if it is the German submission for Academy Award nomination, a well-deserved accolade. It could well win the Oscar for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film.
The film has played in the 2014 film festivals of Toronto, Vancouver, London, Romeand Seattle.
Sundance Selects opened “Phoenix” on July 24 in New York. It will open in L.A. on Friday, July 31 and then rolls out nationwide. International sales agent, The Match Factory, has licensed the film
Argentina - Alfa Films S.A
Australia - Madman Entertai
Austria - Stadtkino-Filmv
Benelux - A-Film Benelux
Brazil - Imovision
Canada - Films We Like
Canada - Eyesteelfilm
Denmark - Camera Film A/S
Finland - Future Film Oy/
France - Diaphana
Germany - Piffl Medien Gm
Germany - The Match Facto
Greece - Seven Films
Hungary - Cirko Film Kft.
Italy - Bim Distribuzio
Japan - New Select Co.
Latin Ameri- Palmera Interna
Norway - Arthaus
Poland - Aurora Films
Portugal - Leopardo Filmes
Slovenia - Demiurg
Spain - Golem Distribuc
Sweden - Folkets Bio
Switzerlan - Look Now! Filmd
Taiwan - Swallow Wings F
Turkey - Calinos Films
U.K. - Soda Pictures
U.S. - IFCFilms/ Sundance Selects...
Kurt Weill sings “Speak Low” from 1948’s “One Touch of Venus” by Odgen Nash and S.J. Perelman starring Ava Gardne.
Arising from the ashes of Auschwitz and Berlin, a ghost of a woman returns to claim her inheritance and her husband if he is still alive. Aided by Lene, a Jewish attorney and c a kindred spirit from her past, who escaped the Shoah by fleeing to London and Nelly who experienced it to the farthest reaches of horror, together might start anew in Israel; Lene has already found the apartment for them there.
Nelly’s face, destroyed and then reconstructed after she was shot and left for dead, makes her unrecognizable. She seeks and finds her husband who tries to make this woman into the Nelly he knew. She knows but he does not. A fleeting reminiscence of Almodovar’s movie here, “ The Skin I Live In ” where a renowned plastic surgeon reconstructs the face of his wife upon someone he has abducted, so Johnny tries to remake his wife but holds back his near falling in love with what he believes to be his own creation.
This film is rife with references. If you recall “One Touch of Venus” whence cometh this Kurt Weill song, the statue of Venus comes alive when kissed. In “Phoenix” as well, the Jewish former cabaret singer returns to life when she finds the beloved husband she left behind but remembered every day as her reason for living through the camps.
However, his kiss is a Judas kiss as this dark story unfolds to the point where she sings “Speak low”. This is a complex, Hitchcockian tale of a nation’s tragedy and a woman’s search for answers which builds toward an unforgettable, heart-stopping climax. Again a reference, this time to “ Vertigo” where the switching of women strikes a chord.
See Nina Hoss singing here .
The classic, 2014 Academy Award winning “Ida” by Pawel Pawlikowski’s also pairs two women together in their search for post-war answers in Poland. Ida finds her own way as her aunt – and Lene as well – in Lene’s words “feel more drawn to our dead than to the living.”
For all these points of reference and comparison which came to my mind as I watched “Phoenix” with bated breath, this film is unique in expressing how these survivors attempt to rebuild their lives which have been horribly broken by death, suffering and loss.
Christian Petzold directed Nina Hoss previously in “Barbara” and “Jerichow” along with her screen-husband Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld) a gorgeous actor able to charm and curse simultaneously. We hate him but we also love him. Ronald Zehrfeld says, “…when Johnny sees Nelly in front of him, you think, Ok, now he has to recognize her! But either he doesn’t trust his feelings or doesn’t allow himself to feel these emotions. Because ‘It’s impossible! She’s dead! And I won’t allow myself to fee this because my future depends on me passing her off as my wife. ‘ For him, it’s clear that, if he ever wants to breathe again, feel himself again or make music again, then he has to get out of Germany. And that’s possible only with Nell’s help – with the help of Nelly’s imposter, as he sees her. And on the other hand there are his feelings of guilt ….”
The rapport of the director with his actors is apparent in the patient unfolding of both characters with their traumas, their hopes, their guilt as they try to process the horrors they have survived.
Nina plays a woman who is vulnerable and fragile at the same time as she is defiant and stubborn. In the throes still of trauma of surviving the concentration camp and being shot in the face which must be reconstructed, without a vocabulary to describe all she has experienced, she seeks her husband in the burnt-out city of Berlin. She feels that only he can bring her back to life. In her search to find him, she finds herself again and tells her only friend Lene, ‘Johnny made me back into Nelly. Sometimes I get really jealous of myself – of how happy I was.
Interview with Christian Petzold and Nina Hoss by Nikolay Nikitin, hosted by the Goethe Institut in Toronto during its international debut at Tiff 2014 is here.
Aside from “The Third Man” which takes place in postwar Vienna and the 2012 film by Australian Cate Shortland, “ Lore”, and “Ida” which actually takes place in the 60s, there are not many outstanding films about what happened in Germany (and Austria) after the war.
“Phoenix” is an instant classic which will withstand the judgement of time. We’ll see if it is the German submission for Academy Award nomination, a well-deserved accolade. It could well win the Oscar for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film.
The film has played in the 2014 film festivals of Toronto, Vancouver, London, Romeand Seattle.
Sundance Selects opened “Phoenix” on July 24 in New York. It will open in L.A. on Friday, July 31 and then rolls out nationwide. International sales agent, The Match Factory, has licensed the film
Argentina - Alfa Films S.A
Australia - Madman Entertai
Austria - Stadtkino-Filmv
Benelux - A-Film Benelux
Brazil - Imovision
Canada - Films We Like
Canada - Eyesteelfilm
Denmark - Camera Film A/S
Finland - Future Film Oy/
France - Diaphana
Germany - Piffl Medien Gm
Germany - The Match Facto
Greece - Seven Films
Hungary - Cirko Film Kft.
Italy - Bim Distribuzio
Japan - New Select Co.
Latin Ameri- Palmera Interna
Norway - Arthaus
Poland - Aurora Films
Portugal - Leopardo Filmes
Slovenia - Demiurg
Spain - Golem Distribuc
Sweden - Folkets Bio
Switzerlan - Look Now! Filmd
Taiwan - Swallow Wings F
Turkey - Calinos Films
U.K. - Soda Pictures
U.S. - IFCFilms/ Sundance Selects...
- 7/27/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Melanie Joosten was eight and living in Ballarat when the Berlin Wall fell. Some 14 years later while backpacking through Europe she visited the city.
That made such an impression on the Melbourne author she entitled her debut novel Berlin Syndrome, a tale of obsessive love.
The publisher pitched the project at Books at Miff (BaM) day at the Miff 37ºSouth Market in 2012, Aquarius Films. Polly Staniford and Angie Fielder read it and optioned the rights.
They hired Shaun Grant (who was hot off Snowtown) to write the screenplay and director Cate Shortland came on board after reading the first draft.
Screen Australia and Film Victoria are investing in the psychological thriller and shooting is due to begin in Berlin and Australia in the second half of this year, with Staniford producing and Fielder as an Ep. Shortland cast Teresa Palmer as Claire, an Australian photographer who meets a Berliner named...
That made such an impression on the Melbourne author she entitled her debut novel Berlin Syndrome, a tale of obsessive love.
The publisher pitched the project at Books at Miff (BaM) day at the Miff 37ºSouth Market in 2012, Aquarius Films. Polly Staniford and Angie Fielder read it and optioned the rights.
They hired Shaun Grant (who was hot off Snowtown) to write the screenplay and director Cate Shortland came on board after reading the first draft.
Screen Australia and Film Victoria are investing in the psychological thriller and shooting is due to begin in Berlin and Australia in the second half of this year, with Staniford producing and Fielder as an Ep. Shortland cast Teresa Palmer as Claire, an Australian photographer who meets a Berliner named...
- 5/14/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Making the leap from writing movies to directing them is a big step, but with scripts for "Iron Man 3" and "Mission: Impossible 5" under his belt, Drew Pearce is now ready to call the shots on set. Chernin Entertainment and Fox have snagged "The Long Run," a spec script by Pearce, which he is lined up direct as well. There are no plot details available just yet, but it will be an action comedy, which sounds about right. And in case you forgot, Pearce has already dipped his toes into directing with the Marvel short "All Hail The King." [Deadline] The gifted Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland ("Somersault," "Lore") is getting a new movie together. She's going behind camera for "Berlin Syndrome." Penned by Shaun Grant, the story will follow "a photojournalist trapped in an apartment after a holiday romance." [The Sydney Morning Herald/The Australian] If going from writing to directing is hard, then...
- 7/24/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
UK producer Kevin Loader joins comedy drama B Model, to be directed by actor Rachel Griffiths.
Now that it is likely to be set up as a UK/Australian co-production, prolific UK producer Kevin Loader (In the Loop, Hyde Park on Hudson, Le Week-End) has become part of the team behind the comedy drama B Model, to be directed by actor Rachel Griffiths.
Griffiths has directed two shorts, Roundabout and Tulip and this will be her first feature – providing the money can be raised.
Australian producer Louise Smith was reluctant to provide details of the project precisely because it is yet to be financed. The current draft of the script is being written by Samantha Stauss, co-creator of the series Dance Academy.
B Model is included in a list of 18 features that Screen Australia has injected a total of Us$500,000 worth of development money into in the last four months.
One of the...
Now that it is likely to be set up as a UK/Australian co-production, prolific UK producer Kevin Loader (In the Loop, Hyde Park on Hudson, Le Week-End) has become part of the team behind the comedy drama B Model, to be directed by actor Rachel Griffiths.
Griffiths has directed two shorts, Roundabout and Tulip and this will be her first feature – providing the money can be raised.
Australian producer Louise Smith was reluctant to provide details of the project precisely because it is yet to be financed. The current draft of the script is being written by Samantha Stauss, co-creator of the series Dance Academy.
B Model is included in a list of 18 features that Screen Australia has injected a total of Us$500,000 worth of development money into in the last four months.
One of the...
- 7/23/2014
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
If there is one defining characteristic about composer Max Richter, is that he refuses to stay within any preconceived boundaries. Classically trained at Edinburgh University and finishing his studies under the tutelage of avant-garde composer Luciano Berio in Florence, from there Richter’s career went in a variety of directions. He did traditional compositional work, collaborated with acts as varied as The Future Sound Of London, Roni Size and Vashti Bunyan, and issued his own complex and acclaimed solo work. So it was only a matter of time until the movies came calling for Richter’s unique, soulful and avant work, and the last decade has seen him contribute to films such as the animated “Waltz With Bashir,” the Wwi drama “Lore,” the sci-fi “Last Days On Mars,” the intimate “Wadjda” and many more. But always looking for a further challenge, Richter has now tackled his first TV gig with...
- 6/30/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
You wouldn’t think of a barren, sun-scorched movie like David Michod’s “The Rover” having much in the way of recognizable music in it. And it doesn’t really. The movie has an original score by Antony Partos (“Animal Kingdom”) that’s said to be droning, discordant and moodily ambient. But the movie also includes score, sound design and song pieces from Sam Petty, the sound designer/musician on Michod’s “Animal Kingdom” and projects like "Hesher," "Lore" and "The Grandmaster." And so, the realist post-apocalyptic film (read our review here), may be bleak, stark and set in inhospitable conditions, but there are traces of “songs” and pop music in it too. Not traditional songs mind you, but “songs” nonetheless, though most from an incredibly experimental bent. Talk has died down on “The Rover,” starring Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson, partly because it’s not in Competition in Cannes...
- 5/23/2014
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
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