Exclusive: Tioleja Films optioned author Gabriel Souleyka’s novel My Soul Is a Witness for cinematic adaptation. Gabriel will also pen the script and Andrew Dosunmu will direct. Yasmina F. Edwards is attached to produce.
My Soul is a Witness unfolds in the heart of colonial Senegal, moving to the devastating battlefields of Europe during WWII. It tells the poignant story of Awa and Ibrahim, a young couple whose lives are upended by war. Their love story takes a tragic turn when Ibrahim is conscripted and later presumed dead in 1940. Driven by love and hope, Awa embarks on a perilous journey to Paris in January 1942, seeking any trace of Ibrahim.
She finds refuge in the Paris city mosque, alongside Jews evading Nazi persecution. However, her quest leads her to Auschwitz, where, in a twist of fate, she miraculously finds Ibrahim alive. Their reunion in the...
My Soul is a Witness unfolds in the heart of colonial Senegal, moving to the devastating battlefields of Europe during WWII. It tells the poignant story of Awa and Ibrahim, a young couple whose lives are upended by war. Their love story takes a tragic turn when Ibrahim is conscripted and later presumed dead in 1940. Driven by love and hope, Awa embarks on a perilous journey to Paris in January 1942, seeking any trace of Ibrahim.
She finds refuge in the Paris city mosque, alongside Jews evading Nazi persecution. However, her quest leads her to Auschwitz, where, in a twist of fate, she miraculously finds Ibrahim alive. Their reunion in the...
- 12/15/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
I honestly never expected Steven Spielberg in a Criterion Channel series––certainly not one that pairs him with Kogonada, anime, and Johnny Mnemonic––but so’s the power of artificial intelligence. Perhaps his greatest film (at this point I don’t need to tell you the title) plays with After Yang, Ghost in the Shell, and pre-Matrix Keanu in July’s aptly titled “AI” boasting also Spike Jonze’s Her, Carpenter’s Dark Star, and Computer Chess. Much more analog is a British Noir collection obviously carrying the likes of Odd Man Out, Night and the City, and The Small Back Room, further filled by Joseph Losey’s Time Without Pity and Basil Dearden’s It Always Rains on Sunday. (No two ways about it: these movies have great titles.) An Elvis retrospective brings six features, and the consensus best (Don Siegel’s Flaming Star) comes September 1.
While Isabella Rossellini...
While Isabella Rossellini...
- 6/22/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
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Among the many winning qualities of Kasi Lemmons’ Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody is that unlike most musical biopics, which tend to hurtle through frustrating fragments of the hits that leave you wanting more, this one serves up many generous performance interludes. It’s fitting that in a portrait of the woman considered the greatest voice of her generation, we hear that voice in all its full-throated glory. The power, self-possession, the joy and even spiritual wealth in every vocal probably has a lot to do with this feeling less like a tragic rise-and-fall saga than a celebration of an enduring icon to whom fame wasn’t always kind.
That doesn’t mean that Lemmons and screenwriter Anthony McCarten — cornering the market in the musical bio-drama after Bohemian Rhapsody and the Neil Diamond Broadway jukebox assembly A Beautiful Noise — gloss over...
Among the many winning qualities of Kasi Lemmons’ Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody is that unlike most musical biopics, which tend to hurtle through frustrating fragments of the hits that leave you wanting more, this one serves up many generous performance interludes. It’s fitting that in a portrait of the woman considered the greatest voice of her generation, we hear that voice in all its full-throated glory. The power, self-possession, the joy and even spiritual wealth in every vocal probably has a lot to do with this feeling less like a tragic rise-and-fall saga than a celebration of an enduring icon to whom fame wasn’t always kind.
That doesn’t mean that Lemmons and screenwriter Anthony McCarten — cornering the market in the musical bio-drama after Bohemian Rhapsody and the Neil Diamond Broadway jukebox assembly A Beautiful Noise — gloss over...
- 12/21/2022
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ashley Thomas has been cast as the male lead opposite Mia Isaac and Adrienne Warren in Hulu drama series Black Cake, from Women of the Movement creator Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. Additionally, Zetna Fuentes (This Is Us) has been tapped to direct the pilot episode, replacing Andrew Dosunmu.
Written by Cerar based on the book by Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake is a family drama wrapped in a murder mystery with a diverse cast of characters and a global setting that spans decades. The story takes place in Jamaica, Rome, Scotland, England and Southern California.
In the late 1960s, a runaway bride named Covey (Isaac) disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned or a fugitive on the run for her husband’s murder. Fifty years later in California, a widow named Eleanor Bennett loses her battle with cancer,...
Written by Cerar based on the book by Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake is a family drama wrapped in a murder mystery with a diverse cast of characters and a global setting that spans decades. The story takes place in Jamaica, Rome, Scotland, England and Southern California.
In the late 1960s, a runaway bride named Covey (Isaac) disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned or a fugitive on the run for her husband’s murder. Fifty years later in California, a widow named Eleanor Bennett loses her battle with cancer,...
- 7/5/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Whitney Houston is an American musical icon and one of the most popular recording artists in the history of the medium. Her life is a crushing tragedy of once-in-a-lifetime talent undermined by impossible expectations and a lifestyle forbidden by her religiously conservative family. It is a life that would be very difficult to portray in an authorized manner, if only because the people who currently control her story would never allow her songs to grace a mainstream biopic.
Screenwriter Lena Waithe and director Andrew Dosunmu have presented Netflix with a ballsy workaround in "Beauty." The film centers on a brilliant young African-American singer whose talent...
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Screenwriter Lena Waithe and director Andrew Dosunmu have presented Netflix with a ballsy workaround in "Beauty." The film centers on a brilliant young African-American singer whose talent...
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- 7/2/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Even if a queer drama is about struggle, it shouldn’t require great effort to watch. “Beauty,” an ‘80s-set period piece about a young singer’s conflicts with her sexuality, race, and family strife, feels labored and wary before the film hits its second reel. “Beauty” telling the story of a young starlet on the cusp of fame is not a unique one. While it often places its lesbian relationship centrally in the narrative, any commentary on the difficulty of such a relationship, especially involving people of color, adds very little freshness to the proceedings.
Continue reading ‘Beauty’ Review: Andrew Dosunmu’s Latest Struggles To Say Something About Queerness, Race & Stardom at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Beauty’ Review: Andrew Dosunmu’s Latest Struggles To Say Something About Queerness, Race & Stardom at The Playlist.
- 7/1/2022
- by Leslie Byron Pitt
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Andy Fischel has joined Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s House Eleven10 after spending four years at Netflix on the Original Studio Film team. In the new role, he will oversee production and development for House Eleven10.
“It’s exciting to be able to have someone of Andy’s caliber so early on at House Eleven10,” said Abdul-Mateen. “Andy has great taste, experience developing large scale diverse projects and overall brings a level of expertise that will allow him to come on board and hit the ground running. It felt like a natural fit, and we’re looking forward to getting into the race.”
At Netflix, Fischel shepherded the critically-acclaimed film The Harder They Fall, written and directed by first-time feature director Jeymes Samuel, produced by Shawn Carter and James Lassiter, and starring an ensemble that included Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors and Regina King. He also helped oversee the Chris Hemsworth-led thriller Spiderhead,...
“It’s exciting to be able to have someone of Andy’s caliber so early on at House Eleven10,” said Abdul-Mateen. “Andy has great taste, experience developing large scale diverse projects and overall brings a level of expertise that will allow him to come on board and hit the ground running. It felt like a natural fit, and we’re looking forward to getting into the race.”
At Netflix, Fischel shepherded the critically-acclaimed film The Harder They Fall, written and directed by first-time feature director Jeymes Samuel, produced by Shawn Carter and James Lassiter, and starring an ensemble that included Idris Elba, Jonathan Majors and Regina King. He also helped oversee the Chris Hemsworth-led thriller Spiderhead,...
- 6/30/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
The Lena Waithe-penned film about a young singer on the brink of stardom hiding a relationship with her best friend stumbles with too many wrong notes
Beauty, a coming-of-age music drama written by Lena Waithe and directed by Andrew Dosunmu, purports to tell the story of a fictional young singer in early 1980s New Jersey on the brink of stardom. She is tall, willowy and black, frequently clad in shoulder pads and bright colors, first seen smoking a joint in her bedroom that her older brother warns will damage her voice – a voice which, we’re told, is once in a generation, though we never hear it. Beauty (Gracie Marie Bradley), as she’s oddly called, frequently sings, but the film layers background music or silence over her voice, keeping it at a remove. It’s a central void emblematic of a hollow film which has little to say about anyone or anything,...
Beauty, a coming-of-age music drama written by Lena Waithe and directed by Andrew Dosunmu, purports to tell the story of a fictional young singer in early 1980s New Jersey on the brink of stardom. She is tall, willowy and black, frequently clad in shoulder pads and bright colors, first seen smoking a joint in her bedroom that her older brother warns will damage her voice – a voice which, we’re told, is once in a generation, though we never hear it. Beauty (Gracie Marie Bradley), as she’s oddly called, frequently sings, but the film layers background music or silence over her voice, keeping it at a remove. It’s a central void emblematic of a hollow film which has little to say about anyone or anything,...
- 6/29/2022
- by Adrian Horton
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s Not Right, But It’s Okay: Dosunmu Finds Fame is a Heartbreak Hotel in Familiar Melodrama
Destined to be the oddest entry in Andrew Dosunmu’s filmography is his fourth feature, Beauty, a film initially vaguely described as being about a young Black woman’s overnight rise to fame after signing a recording contract designed to make her a chart crossing icon. The second narrative feature penned by the multifaceted Lena Waithe quickly reveals itself to be a somewhat blatant piece of Whitney Houston fan fiction reorganized into a A Star is Born trajectory, outfitted with all the unmistakable window dressings of a woman whose sexuality was blatantly repressed and whose racial identity was infamously obscured prior to a myriad of issues which would compromise her career and eventually her life.…...
Destined to be the oddest entry in Andrew Dosunmu’s filmography is his fourth feature, Beauty, a film initially vaguely described as being about a young Black woman’s overnight rise to fame after signing a recording contract designed to make her a chart crossing icon. The second narrative feature penned by the multifaceted Lena Waithe quickly reveals itself to be a somewhat blatant piece of Whitney Houston fan fiction reorganized into a A Star is Born trajectory, outfitted with all the unmistakable window dressings of a woman whose sexuality was blatantly repressed and whose racial identity was infamously obscured prior to a myriad of issues which would compromise her career and eventually her life.…...
- 6/29/2022
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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The protagonist of the new Netflix film written by Lena Waithe, Beauty, is an enigma. Her facial expressions are no compass for her feelings. Her eyes stay wide, lips perpetually parted. Tonal variations are scarce too: Grace Marie Bradley, the actress who plays the titular character, delivers her lines in a husky, suggestive whisper. It’s difficult to tell how intentional all this mystery is, which makes the occasional raised eyebrow, playful smirk or tear streaming down the face hard to interpret.
You wonder: Who is Beauty? Is she simply a sheltered girl groomed by domineering parents for stardom? A young adult navigating the bounds of a secret relationship with her girlfriend? A gifted singer exclusively interested in honing her musical talents?
And then: What is Beauty? Is it a portrait of a young woman balancing family, love and career? An allegory about...
The protagonist of the new Netflix film written by Lena Waithe, Beauty, is an enigma. Her facial expressions are no compass for her feelings. Her eyes stay wide, lips perpetually parted. Tonal variations are scarce too: Grace Marie Bradley, the actress who plays the titular character, delivers her lines in a husky, suggestive whisper. It’s difficult to tell how intentional all this mystery is, which makes the occasional raised eyebrow, playful smirk or tear streaming down the face hard to interpret.
You wonder: Who is Beauty? Is she simply a sheltered girl groomed by domineering parents for stardom? A young adult navigating the bounds of a secret relationship with her girlfriend? A gifted singer exclusively interested in honing her musical talents?
And then: What is Beauty? Is it a portrait of a young woman balancing family, love and career? An allegory about...
- 6/29/2022
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The fantasy, power, and impact of the music industry has been well-documented in motion pictures. This very minute, audiences can go to a theater and learn all about the highs and lows of musical icon Elvis Presley. It’s difficult to craft something original from a world littered with as many success stories as horror stories, many of them already told (and told again) on screens both big and small.
And it’s even more difficult to do that when your main character — presented as a generational talent deserving of her own cinematic event — never actually sings a song. Such is the case with screenwriter Lena Waithe’s new Netflix musical drama “Beauty.” Though heavily inspired by the life of Whitney Houston, enough that it may well qualify as something of an unauthorized biopic of the massive musical star,
Starting in the late-’70s, Beauty (Gracie Marie Bradley) follows a...
And it’s even more difficult to do that when your main character — presented as a generational talent deserving of her own cinematic event — never actually sings a song. Such is the case with screenwriter Lena Waithe’s new Netflix musical drama “Beauty.” Though heavily inspired by the life of Whitney Houston, enough that it may well qualify as something of an unauthorized biopic of the massive musical star,
Starting in the late-’70s, Beauty (Gracie Marie Bradley) follows a...
- 6/29/2022
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Director Andrew Dosunmu’s latest film “Beauty” has caused quite the excitement after his last three feature films, based on struggling people in N.Y.C., performed with excellence at Sundance. His upcoming visual portrait follows a gifted singer attempting to reach pop stardom while struggling to hang on to her identity and integrity. The ’80s-set film braces “a look...
- 6/15/2022
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
What really is the cost of fame?
The 1980s music industry is explored in Netflix’s “Beauty,” written and produced by Lena Waithe and directed by Sundance Film Festival darling Andrew Dosunmu, who also executive produces the feature. “Beauty” premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Festival and premieres on Netflix June 29.
Gracie Marie Bradley stars as the titular Beauty, a rising singer who struggles to maintain her identity after being offered a lucrative recording deal by an executive, played by Sharon Stone. Niecy Nash and Giancarlo Esposito star as Beauty’s parents, who worry if she’s “ready” for all the spotlight has to bring.
“You know what they do to stars? They build you up just so they can take you down,” Nash says in the trailer, before warning Bradley, “You won’t be real. You’ll be a fantasy.”
Bradley as Beauty states, “I don’t know how to sing Black,...
The 1980s music industry is explored in Netflix’s “Beauty,” written and produced by Lena Waithe and directed by Sundance Film Festival darling Andrew Dosunmu, who also executive produces the feature. “Beauty” premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Festival and premieres on Netflix June 29.
Gracie Marie Bradley stars as the titular Beauty, a rising singer who struggles to maintain her identity after being offered a lucrative recording deal by an executive, played by Sharon Stone. Niecy Nash and Giancarlo Esposito star as Beauty’s parents, who worry if she’s “ready” for all the spotlight has to bring.
“You know what they do to stars? They build you up just so they can take you down,” Nash says in the trailer, before warning Bradley, “You won’t be real. You’ll be a fantasy.”
Bradley as Beauty states, “I don’t know how to sing Black,...
- 6/15/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Andrew Dosunmu’s last three feature films are downbeat, visually stunning portraits of struggling people in NYC. And they’ve all been darlings at Sundance, so a new movie from him is cause for excitement. Now, for Dosunmu’s latest film, he follows a gifted singer who struggles to hold onto her identity and integrity as she attempts to break into pop stardom.
Read More: Tribeca 2022 Festival Preview: 24 Films & TV Series To Watch
An homage to Black female powerhouse vocalists like Whitney Houston and Patti LeBelle, this ’80s period piece is a bracing look at art, its commercialism, and black and queer identity.
Continue reading ‘Beauty’ Trailer: Sundance Star Andrew Dosunmu’s Latest Hits Netflix On June 29 at The Playlist.
Read More: Tribeca 2022 Festival Preview: 24 Films & TV Series To Watch
An homage to Black female powerhouse vocalists like Whitney Houston and Patti LeBelle, this ’80s period piece is a bracing look at art, its commercialism, and black and queer identity.
Continue reading ‘Beauty’ Trailer: Sundance Star Andrew Dosunmu’s Latest Hits Netflix On June 29 at The Playlist.
- 6/15/2022
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Mia Isaac (Don’t Make Me Go) has been cast as the lead in Hulu drama series Black Cake, from Women of the Movement creator Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. Up-and-comer Isaac is joining Tony winner Adrienne Warren in the project, written by Cerar based on the book by Charmaine Wilkerson.
Black Cake is a family drama wrapped in a murder mystery with a diverse cast of characters and a global setting that spans decades. The story takes place in Jamaica, Rome, Scotland, England and Southern California.
2022 Hulu Pilots & Series Orders
In the late 1960s, a runaway bride named Covey (Isaac) disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned or a fugitive on the run for her husband’s murder. Fifty years later in California, a widow named Eleanor Bennett loses her battle with cancer, leaving her two estranged children,...
Black Cake is a family drama wrapped in a murder mystery with a diverse cast of characters and a global setting that spans decades. The story takes place in Jamaica, Rome, Scotland, England and Southern California.
2022 Hulu Pilots & Series Orders
In the late 1960s, a runaway bride named Covey (Isaac) disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned or a fugitive on the run for her husband’s murder. Fifty years later in California, a widow named Eleanor Bennett loses her battle with cancer, leaving her two estranged children,...
- 6/2/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Adrienne Warren is set as a lead in Hulu drama series Black Cake, from Women of the Movement creator Marissa Jo Cerar, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. Andrew Dosunmu (Where Is Kyra?) has been tapped to direct the pilot episode of the project, which landed at the Disney streamer with a straight-to-series order last fall.
Black Cake, based on the book by Charmaine Wilkerson, marks a reunion for Warren with Cerar, Kaplan and Disney following their collaboration on Women of the Movement. Warren starred as Mamie Till-Mobley in the ABC limited series, which was created by Cerar and produced by Kapital.
Hulu Pilots & Series Orders
Cerar serves as showrunner on Black Cake, a family drama wrapped in a murder mystery with a diverse cast of characters and a global setting that spans decades. The story takes place in Jamaica, Rome, Scotland, England and Southern California.
Black Cake, based on the book by Charmaine Wilkerson, marks a reunion for Warren with Cerar, Kaplan and Disney following their collaboration on Women of the Movement. Warren starred as Mamie Till-Mobley in the ABC limited series, which was created by Cerar and produced by Kapital.
Hulu Pilots & Series Orders
Cerar serves as showrunner on Black Cake, a family drama wrapped in a murder mystery with a diverse cast of characters and a global setting that spans decades. The story takes place in Jamaica, Rome, Scotland, England and Southern California.
- 5/31/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
As studios meet in Las Vegas to present footage of their upcoming slates to exhibitors, Netflix is showcasing their own slate of future feature films as it has unveiled its upcoming summer slate of original movies. Some of the films receiving new release dates include the Vampire thriller Day Shift starring Jamie Foxx, which is set to bow on August 12, the Kevin Hart-Mark Wahlberg comedy Me Time, bowing on Aug. 26 and the Dakota Johnson drama Persuasion, bowing July 15. The streamer also confirmed dates of some highly-anticipated films that had previously been announced like the Adam Sandler sports pic Hustle, which bows on June 8, the Chris Hemsworth-Miles Teller Thriller Spiderhead, which bows on June 17 and most recently the The Russo Brothers next film The Gray Man, starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans, which will premiere on July 22.
You can find the remaining schedule for the entire summer...
You can find the remaining schedule for the entire summer...
- 4/27/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
World premieres from American indie filmmakers Robert Machoian, Andrew Dosunmu and Andrew Bujalski are just three filmmakers in the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival’s massive line-up. Coming off his masterwork The Killing of Two Lovers, Machoian’s U.S. Narrative Comp selected The Integrity of Joseph Chambers is a psychological drama about a special kind of deer hunting expedition – this stars Clayne Crawford, Jordana Brewster.
In the Spotlight Narrative section we find the gestating Beauty (a Netflix film) by Andrew Dosunmu which has Lena Waithe’s stamp all over it. This is about agifted young Black woman struggles to maintain her voice and identity after she’s offered a lucrative recording contract — it stars Niecy Nash, Aleyshe Shannon, Giancarlo Esposito.…...
In the Spotlight Narrative section we find the gestating Beauty (a Netflix film) by Andrew Dosunmu which has Lena Waithe’s stamp all over it. This is about agifted young Black woman struggles to maintain her voice and identity after she’s offered a lucrative recording contract — it stars Niecy Nash, Aleyshe Shannon, Giancarlo Esposito.…...
- 4/19/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Taking place in its newly minted summer slot of June 8-19, the 2022 edition of Tribeca Festival has now unveiled its film lined up. First, some stats: The features program spans ten categories and showcases 110 feature films and 16 online premieres from 151 filmmakers across 40 countries. The lineup includes 88 world premieres, 2 international premieres, 7 North American premieres, 2 U.S. premieres, and 11 New York premieres. There are 32 directors returning to Tribeca with their latest projects, and 50 first-time directors. More than 64 (81) of the feature films are directed by female, Bipoc, and LGBTQ+ filmmakers––46 (58) female directors, 34 (43) Bipoc directors, 8 (10) LGBTQ+ directors.
As for the films, highlights include Andrew Bujalski’s new feature There There, Ray Romano’s directorial debut Somewhere in Queens, Hannah Marks’ Don’t Make Me Go (pictured above), the Jon Hamm-led Corner Office, Andrew Dosunmu’s Beauty, Alexandre O. Philippe’s Lynch / Oz, which explores Victor Fleming’s 1939 classic through David Lynch’s ouevre,...
As for the films, highlights include Andrew Bujalski’s new feature There There, Ray Romano’s directorial debut Somewhere in Queens, Hannah Marks’ Don’t Make Me Go (pictured above), the Jon Hamm-led Corner Office, Andrew Dosunmu’s Beauty, Alexandre O. Philippe’s Lynch / Oz, which explores Victor Fleming’s 1939 classic through David Lynch’s ouevre,...
- 4/19/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Sharon Stone has optioned the rights to Lisa Barr’s upcoming novel Woman on Fire, inking a deal to produce and star in a film adaptation.
In the novel set for release via HarperCollins on March 1, a savvy, young journalist gets embroiled in a major international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece, and must contemplate whether finding the painting and exposing its dark history is worth her life. The thriller laced with sex, art and history forces readers to question where the line should be drawn between the pursuit of justice and the hunt for revenge.
Stone is a Golden Globe and Emmy winner, and an Oscar nominee known for turns in films including The Laundromat, The Disaster Artist, Bobby, Basic Instinct and Basic Instinct 2, Alpha Dog, Broken Flowers, Catwoman, Cold Creek Manor, Casino, Last Action Hero and Total Recall, among others. Her TV credits include Murderville,...
In the novel set for release via HarperCollins on March 1, a savvy, young journalist gets embroiled in a major international art scandal centered around a Nazi-looted masterpiece, and must contemplate whether finding the painting and exposing its dark history is worth her life. The thriller laced with sex, art and history forces readers to question where the line should be drawn between the pursuit of justice and the hunt for revenge.
Stone is a Golden Globe and Emmy winner, and an Oscar nominee known for turns in films including The Laundromat, The Disaster Artist, Bobby, Basic Instinct and Basic Instinct 2, Alpha Dog, Broken Flowers, Catwoman, Cold Creek Manor, Casino, Last Action Hero and Total Recall, among others. Her TV credits include Murderville,...
- 2/22/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Originally slated for a 2021 release, the Netflix folks appear to have switched their strategy on Andrew Dosunmu‘s fifth feature film. A long time member of the the Sundance Film Fest it would make all the sense in the echo-system if Beauty premieres in Park City. Completed in September of 2019, the New York shot item includes Giancarlo Esposito, Sharon Stone and Aleyse Shannon while it was supported by Lena Waithe and lensed by cinematographer Benoît Delhomme (At Eternity’s Gate).
Gist: This is the tale of Beauty, an up-and-coming young singer with a glamorous career ahead of her, and Jasmine, a butch queer woman who falls for her.…...
Gist: This is the tale of Beauty, an up-and-coming young singer with a glamorous career ahead of her, and Jasmine, a butch queer woman who falls for her.…...
- 11/22/2021
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe and Emmy winning actress Sharon Stone has inked with Artist International Group.
The writer, humanitarian and also author rose to prominence with her breakout role in Paul Verhoeven’s $353M worldwide grossing blockbuster Basic Instinct and she went on to star alongside Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s Casino, a performance that garnered her widespread critical acclaim and a series of awards and nominations including the Oscar nom for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Other notable performances include starring in Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall, Phillip Noyce’s Sliver, Luis Llosa’s The Specialist and Nick Cassavetes’ Alpha Dog, to name a few.
Stone also recently starred in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Ratched and in Steven Soderbergh’s biographical comedy-drama The Laundromat, also on Netflix.
Stone was recently honored with the Golden Icon Award, the highest accolade at the Zurich Film Festival,...
The writer, humanitarian and also author rose to prominence with her breakout role in Paul Verhoeven’s $353M worldwide grossing blockbuster Basic Instinct and she went on to star alongside Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s Casino, a performance that garnered her widespread critical acclaim and a series of awards and nominations including the Oscar nom for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Other notable performances include starring in Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall, Phillip Noyce’s Sliver, Luis Llosa’s The Specialist and Nick Cassavetes’ Alpha Dog, to name a few.
Stone also recently starred in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series Ratched and in Steven Soderbergh’s biographical comedy-drama The Laundromat, also on Netflix.
Stone was recently honored with the Golden Icon Award, the highest accolade at the Zurich Film Festival,...
- 11/15/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Fox’s Our Kind of People expands its cast with the addition of Ginny & Georgia alum Kyle Bary. He will take on a series regular role in the series from writer/executive producer Karin Gist and executive producer Lee Daniels and will act alongside Yaya DaCosta, Morris Chestnut and LeToya Luckett.
Written by Gist inspired by Lawrence Otis Graham’s provocative, critically praised book Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class, the series takes place in the aspirational world of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, a historical stronghold where the rich and powerful Black elite have come to play for more than 50 years. Our Kind of People follows strong-willed single mom Angela Vaughn (DaCosta) as she sets out to reclaim her family’s name and make an impact with her revolutionary haircare line that highlights the innate, natural beauty of Black women. But she soon discovers...
Written by Gist inspired by Lawrence Otis Graham’s provocative, critically praised book Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class, the series takes place in the aspirational world of Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, a historical stronghold where the rich and powerful Black elite have come to play for more than 50 years. Our Kind of People follows strong-willed single mom Angela Vaughn (DaCosta) as she sets out to reclaim her family’s name and make an impact with her revolutionary haircare line that highlights the innate, natural beauty of Black women. But she soon discovers...
- 6/22/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Winston Duke is in talks to star as the renowned political activist Marcus Garvey in “Marked Man,” a political actioner package that Amazon Studios has picked up, according to an individual with knowledge of the project.
Andrew Dosunmu will direct and executive produce the film. Jesse Williams and DeWanda Wise (“She’s Gotta Have It”) are also in talks to star.
“Marked Man” is partly inspired by Colin Grant’s biography, “Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey,” who was a key figure of Black nationalism in the 20th century. The studio also holds rights to the book.
Acclaimed playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah wrote the screenplay, which Esther Douglas developed with the support of the BFI Film Fund. He will also serve as an executive producer.
Set in the 1920s, “Marked Man” follows a young black man who joins J. Edgar Hoover’s Bureau of Investigation, and then...
Andrew Dosunmu will direct and executive produce the film. Jesse Williams and DeWanda Wise (“She’s Gotta Have It”) are also in talks to star.
“Marked Man” is partly inspired by Colin Grant’s biography, “Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey,” who was a key figure of Black nationalism in the 20th century. The studio also holds rights to the book.
Acclaimed playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah wrote the screenplay, which Esther Douglas developed with the support of the BFI Film Fund. He will also serve as an executive producer.
Set in the 1920s, “Marked Man” follows a young black man who joins J. Edgar Hoover’s Bureau of Investigation, and then...
- 2/26/2021
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Amazon Studios has set Winston Duke (Black Panther) to star as Marcus Garvey in Marked Man. Garvey was a political activist who was a key figure of Black nationalism in the 20th century. Andrew Dosunmu will direct the drama, and Jesse Williams (Little Fires Everywhere) and DeWanda Wise (She’s Gotta Have It) are in talks to star.
The film is partly inspired by the Colin Grant biography Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey. The script is by acclaimed playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah, which Esther Douglas developed with the support of the BFI Film Fund.
Mark Gordon (Ray Donovan) of Mark Gordon Pictures is producing with Jackson Pictures’ Matt Jackson (The Trial of the Chicago 7), Glendon Palmer and Douglas. Robert Teitel, Kwei-Armah and Jackson Pictures’ Joanne Lee will be executive producers, along with Kwei-Armah.
Set in the 1920s, Marked Man follows a young black man...
The film is partly inspired by the Colin Grant biography Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey. The script is by acclaimed playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah, which Esther Douglas developed with the support of the BFI Film Fund.
Mark Gordon (Ray Donovan) of Mark Gordon Pictures is producing with Jackson Pictures’ Matt Jackson (The Trial of the Chicago 7), Glendon Palmer and Douglas. Robert Teitel, Kwei-Armah and Jackson Pictures’ Joanne Lee will be executive producers, along with Kwei-Armah.
Set in the 1920s, Marked Man follows a young black man...
- 2/26/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Synonymous with Sundance as all of his works have premiered there, Andrew Dosunmu‘s could technically see his fourth feature land in the Premiere section portion of the fest and essentially follow in the footsteps of a beautiful body of work in Restless City (2011), 2013’s Mother of George (read review) and Where Is Kyra? (2017). A queer, romantic drama is based on a screenplay by the one and only Lena Waithe, Beauty features Gracie Marie Bradley and Aleyse Shannon (2019’s Black Christmas) with supporting players in Giancarlo Esposito and Sharon Stone. Production began in the fall of 2019 in New York City, and somewhere along the way, the project landed on Netflix’s doorstep.…...
- 11/16/2020
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The New York Times put prestigious specialty home-video distributor The Criterion Collection under a microscope late last week, and the headline said it all: “How the Criterion Collection Crops Out African-American Directors.” The report looked at all 22 years and more than 1,000 titles in the Criterion’s revered selection of Blu-rays and DVDs of films, finding that only four African Americans are represented: Oscar Micheaux (“Body and Soul”); William Greaves; Charles Burnett (“To Sleep With Anger”); and Spike Lee (“Do the Right Thing” and “Bamboozled”).
It’s a glaring omission for a company that prides itself on licensing and releasing what it describes as “important classic and contemporary films,” but also reflective of an industry-wide practice of shutting out Black filmmakers.
Despite America’s changing demographics, the industry’s most powerful leaders have been slow to respond to a demand for films that reflect cultural and racial shifts that have long been underway.
It’s a glaring omission for a company that prides itself on licensing and releasing what it describes as “important classic and contemporary films,” but also reflective of an industry-wide practice of shutting out Black filmmakers.
Despite America’s changing demographics, the industry’s most powerful leaders have been slow to respond to a demand for films that reflect cultural and racial shifts that have long been underway.
- 8/25/2020
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
In the early days of Hollywood’s adaptation of digital cinematography, there were those artists, like Michael Mann and cinematographer Dion Bebe, or David Fincher and Harris Savides, who explored the unique properties of the medium, rather than simply try to make it look like celluloid. Even in 1080 HD-shot movies like “Zodiac” we saw how in low light and a night setting we could peer into this low contrast edge of exposure. While digital couldn’t, and still doesn’t, approach the incredible dynamic range that film negative can produce in rounding out an image’s highlights, there was incredible latitude filmmakers could find in the “toe” of exposure of a digital file.
There is one cinematographer, in particular, who has not only continued to explore the dark edges of the digital image, but used it as a canvas to paint. Bradford Young’s remarkable body of work this decade started off shooting on film,...
There is one cinematographer, in particular, who has not only continued to explore the dark edges of the digital image, but used it as a canvas to paint. Bradford Young’s remarkable body of work this decade started off shooting on film,...
- 12/3/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
At the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Ava DuVernay launched a tiny distribution company. Nine years later, it’s part of a multimedia empire contained in a sprawling Los Angeles compound. The gated property in Echo Park, which includes two buildings separated by a courtyard, is a physical manifestation of DuVernay’s own rising stardom. It contains distribution, arts, and advocacy collective Array, post-production facilities (where DuVernay’s longtime editor Spencer Averick cuts DuVernay’s film and TV projects), and the “Queen Sugar” writers’ room.
It’s an impressive achievement, but the next step in the compound’s buildout is a state-of-the-art, 50-seat theater that will screen the half-dozen Array titles it plans to release in 2019 and work by local artists, and will be made available for rental. Located west of downtown Los Angeles — a part of the city that doesn’t house many media moguls — it’s also the area’s only independent theater.
It’s an impressive achievement, but the next step in the compound’s buildout is a state-of-the-art, 50-seat theater that will screen the half-dozen Array titles it plans to release in 2019 and work by local artists, and will be made available for rental. Located west of downtown Los Angeles — a part of the city that doesn’t house many media moguls — it’s also the area’s only independent theater.
- 4/15/2019
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Filmmaker Paul Harrill from Light From Light is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...
- 2/1/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Filmmaker Tayarisha Poe from Selah and the Spades is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...
- 1/27/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Cinematographer Ashley Connor from The Death of Dick Long is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...
- 1/26/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Filmmaker Alistair Banks Griffin from The Wolf Hour is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next Section selected films.…...
- 1/26/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Production Designer Kaet McAnneny from Alistair Banks Griffin’s The Wolf Hour is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...
- 1/26/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Filmmaker Rashaad Ernesto Green from Premature is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...
- 1/26/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Co-writer and actress Zora Howard from Premature is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...
- 1/26/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Actor Joshua Boone from Rashaad Ernesto Green’s Premature is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...
- 1/26/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Added to the Sundance film festival at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with our Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next Section selected films. Paradise Hills filmmaker Alice Waddington is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected.
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2018 discoveries”.…...
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2018 discoveries”.…...
- 1/26/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Actress Danielle Macdonald from Paradise Hills is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...
- 1/26/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Producer Núria Valls from Paradise Hills is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...
- 1/26/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Actress Anna Margaret Hollyman from Sister Aimee is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...
- 1/26/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Filmmaker Marie Schlingmann from Sister Aimee is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...
- 1/26/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Filmmaker Samantha Buck from Sister Aimee is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo.We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...
- 1/25/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Director Rhys Ernst from Adam is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...
- 1/25/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Actor Leo Sheng from Adam is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo.We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...
- 1/25/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Producer George Rush from Give Me Liberty is among the voices, faces and creative folks that are a part of the ten films selected for our favourite section at the Sundance Film Festival. Added to the fest at the beginning of the decade, over time, the Next section (formerly referred to as “<=>”) has unearthed some of the best voices in micro American indie film projects with the likes of Sebastian Silva, Josh Mond, Rick Alverson, Anna Rose Holmer, Andrew Dosunmu, Craig Zobel, David Lowery and Janicza Bravo. We return with Sundance Trading Card Series focusing on the 2019 Next section selected films and personalities.…...
- 1/24/2019
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Following our top 50 films of 2018, it’s time to zero in on the best performances of the year. Rather than divide categories into supporting or lead–or even male or female–we’ve written about our thirty favorite performances, period. Check out our countdown below and start watching the ones you’ve missed here.
30. Michelle Pfeiffer (Where is Kyra?)
A pervading sense of isolation and despair runs through Where is Kyra? and Michelle Pfeiffer carries it all with an emotionally resonant performance of subtlety and deep ache. The story of a woman struggling to make ends make following the death of her mother, Andrew Dosunmu’s drama is keenly attuned to the pressures of living in a city that doesn’t care whether you’re there or not. Bradford Young’s distinct eye for solitude also painstakingly paints Pfeiffer’s character into the desolate corners of her locale until there...
30. Michelle Pfeiffer (Where is Kyra?)
A pervading sense of isolation and despair runs through Where is Kyra? and Michelle Pfeiffer carries it all with an emotionally resonant performance of subtlety and deep ache. The story of a woman struggling to make ends make following the death of her mother, Andrew Dosunmu’s drama is keenly attuned to the pressures of living in a city that doesn’t care whether you’re there or not. Bradford Young’s distinct eye for solitude also painstakingly paints Pfeiffer’s character into the desolate corners of her locale until there...
- 12/24/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
In his second year at the helm as artistic director of the Africa Intl. Film Festival (Afriff), Newton Aduaka said his goal when curating this year’s edition, which unspools Nov. 11-18 in Lagos, was “to present a rigorously selected program with an international gaze.”
It’s an acknowledgment by the Paris-based filmmaker, who was born in Lagos but left more than 30 years ago, that the inward-looking Nigerian industry stands to benefit from exposure to “a wider international aesthetic of filmmaking.” Said Aduaka, “There has to be room for other kinds of cinema, other kinds of voices.”
Eight years after Afriff’s founding, the festival will present more than 140 features, shorts, documentaries and animated films from across Africa and the rest of the world. For Nigerian filmmakers, said Aduaka, the selection presents an opportunity to “shift the gaze” away from cinema as a means of popular entertainment – as evidenced by...
It’s an acknowledgment by the Paris-based filmmaker, who was born in Lagos but left more than 30 years ago, that the inward-looking Nigerian industry stands to benefit from exposure to “a wider international aesthetic of filmmaking.” Said Aduaka, “There has to be room for other kinds of cinema, other kinds of voices.”
Eight years after Afriff’s founding, the festival will present more than 140 features, shorts, documentaries and animated films from across Africa and the rest of the world. For Nigerian filmmakers, said Aduaka, the selection presents an opportunity to “shift the gaze” away from cinema as a means of popular entertainment – as evidenced by...
- 11/8/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
As 2018 winds down, like most cinephiles, we’re looking to get our hands on the titles that may have slipped under the radar or simply gone unseen. With the proliferation of streaming options, it’s thankfully easier than ever to play catch-up for those films you missed in a theater (or never came to your town), and to assist with the process, we’re bringing you a rundown of the best titles of the year available to watch.
Curated from the Best Films of 2018 So Far list we published for the first half of the year, it also includes films we’ve enjoyed the past few months and some we’ve recently caught up on. This is far from a be-all, end-all year-end feature (that will come at the end of the year), but rather something that will hopefully be a helpful tool for readers to have a chance to seek out notable,...
Curated from the Best Films of 2018 So Far list we published for the first half of the year, it also includes films we’ve enjoyed the past few months and some we’ve recently caught up on. This is far from a be-all, end-all year-end feature (that will come at the end of the year), but rather something that will hopefully be a helpful tool for readers to have a chance to seek out notable,...
- 10/24/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
From Dee Rees’ “Pariah” to David Lowery’s “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints,” to the films of Ava Duvernay (“Middle of Nowhere”) and Andrew Dosunmu (“Mother of George”), no cinematographer in recent memory brings a visual boldness and mastery of craft to independent film quite like Bradford Young. And while Young has demonstrated the ability to work on a larger canvas — most notably with his Oscar-nominated cinematography for Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival” — signing up for a franchise film like “Solo: A Star Wars Story” didn’t necessarily seem like a natural career trajectory.
“I still consider myself an independent, low-budget filmmaker,” said Young. “‘Star Wars’ is like a once in a lifetime, unexpected opportunity that you take because [there] might be space for your voice in there, but it’s not something I was asking for, or even envisioned for myself.”
Young made it clear he would never pitch Lucasfilm anything...
“I still consider myself an independent, low-budget filmmaker,” said Young. “‘Star Wars’ is like a once in a lifetime, unexpected opportunity that you take because [there] might be space for your voice in there, but it’s not something I was asking for, or even envisioned for myself.”
Young made it clear he would never pitch Lucasfilm anything...
- 4/9/2018
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
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