Tea Shop Productions, whose psycho-thriller The Surfer starring Nicolas Cage premiered in Cannes Midnight, has unveiled a dynamic development slate featuring Ruth Paxton and Nicolas Winding Refn projects.
Paxton is lining up her next directing feature after Toronto 2021 title A Banquet with Brock Norman Brock attached to write, while producer Refn and Vertigo are collaborating with Tea Shop on a long-gestating remake of horror classic Witchfinder General.
Also in the pipeline are a co-production with Merman and Searchlight and the debut feature from Jimmy Dean based on the Julia Armfield short story Manti.
Tea Shop, co-founded in 2010 by Los Angeles-based...
Paxton is lining up her next directing feature after Toronto 2021 title A Banquet with Brock Norman Brock attached to write, while producer Refn and Vertigo are collaborating with Tea Shop on a long-gestating remake of horror classic Witchfinder General.
Also in the pipeline are a co-production with Merman and Searchlight and the debut feature from Jimmy Dean based on the Julia Armfield short story Manti.
Tea Shop, co-founded in 2010 by Los Angeles-based...
- 5/20/2024
- ScreenDaily
“Bridgerton” star Phoebe Dynevor and “Aftersun” writer-director Charlotte Wells are among the emerging talents recognized at the British Independent Film Awards’ (BIFA) New Talent categories.
Dynevor has been longlisted in the Breakthrough Performance category for Sky film “The Colour Room” and Wells twice, in the Debut Director and Debut Screenwriter categories.
In all, 28 fiction and 14 documentary features have been longlisted, including in a new category for BIFA’s 25th year, Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary. Eleven first-time fiction feature directors, 16 first-time documentary feature directors, 14 first-time writers, 20 breakthrough producers and 15 new performers have been recognized by BIFA voters for their achievements.
BIFA’s Springboard scheme will provide a tailored program of continuing professional development, with seven of this year’s longlisted filmmakers joining the cohort of 30 filmmakers on the Film4 supported initiative.
The final five nominations in each category will be announced on Nov. 4 and winners will be revealed at the...
Dynevor has been longlisted in the Breakthrough Performance category for Sky film “The Colour Room” and Wells twice, in the Debut Director and Debut Screenwriter categories.
In all, 28 fiction and 14 documentary features have been longlisted, including in a new category for BIFA’s 25th year, Best Debut Director – Feature Documentary. Eleven first-time fiction feature directors, 16 first-time documentary feature directors, 14 first-time writers, 20 breakthrough producers and 15 new performers have been recognized by BIFA voters for their achievements.
BIFA’s Springboard scheme will provide a tailored program of continuing professional development, with seven of this year’s longlisted filmmakers joining the cohort of 30 filmmakers on the Film4 supported initiative.
The final five nominations in each category will be announced on Nov. 4 and winners will be revealed at the...
- 10/24/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The Banquet Photo: Courtesy of London Film Festival
The British Independent Film Awards has announced its New Talent longlists for this year, featuring 28 fiction and 14 documentary features. This year's selection, which marks BIFA's 25th year includes a new category for Best Debut Director - Feature Documentary.
Films receiving multiple nominations include A Banquet, Aftersun and Blue Jean.
The BIFA Springboard scheme is also continuing, offering professional development, peer-to-peer support, mentoring, networking and skills development aimed to nurture emerging talent as they build on the success of their first features. Applications opened in September, with seven of this year's longlisted filmmakers joining the cohort of 30 filmmakers on the Film4 supported programme.
The final five nominations in each category will be announcedon November 4, with the winners revealed at the ceremony on December 4.
The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director)
Ruth Paxton - A Banquet Charlotte Wells - Aftersun Georgia Oakley - Blue Jean...
The British Independent Film Awards has announced its New Talent longlists for this year, featuring 28 fiction and 14 documentary features. This year's selection, which marks BIFA's 25th year includes a new category for Best Debut Director - Feature Documentary.
Films receiving multiple nominations include A Banquet, Aftersun and Blue Jean.
The BIFA Springboard scheme is also continuing, offering professional development, peer-to-peer support, mentoring, networking and skills development aimed to nurture emerging talent as they build on the success of their first features. Applications opened in September, with seven of this year's longlisted filmmakers joining the cohort of 30 filmmakers on the Film4 supported programme.
The final five nominations in each category will be announcedon November 4, with the winners revealed at the ceremony on December 4.
The Douglas Hickox Award (Best Debut Director)
Ruth Paxton - A Banquet Charlotte Wells - Aftersun Georgia Oakley - Blue Jean...
- 10/24/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The final five nominations in each category will be announced November 4.
Georgia Oakley’s Blue Jean, Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun and Jono McLeod’s My Old School and are among the titles that have made the new talent longlists for the 2022 British Independent Film Awards (Bifas), with 28 fiction and 14 documentary features longlisted.
Blue Jean has taken the most nominated spots with five – the Douglas Hickox Award for best debut director, as well as best debut screenwriter for Oakley, best breakthrough performance for Lucy Halliday and Screen Star of Tomorrow 2022 Rosy McEwen and best breakthrough producer for Hélène Sifre.
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Georgia Oakley’s Blue Jean, Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun and Jono McLeod’s My Old School and are among the titles that have made the new talent longlists for the 2022 British Independent Film Awards (Bifas), with 28 fiction and 14 documentary features longlisted.
Blue Jean has taken the most nominated spots with five – the Douglas Hickox Award for best debut director, as well as best debut screenwriter for Oakley, best breakthrough performance for Lucy Halliday and Screen Star of Tomorrow 2022 Rosy McEwen and best breakthrough producer for Hélène Sifre.
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- 10/24/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Hello, everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday weekend (or regular weekend for those of you outside of the States). We’re back today with a brand new round-up of horror and sci-fi home media releases that are headed home today, and it includes quite the array of titles. One of my favorite movies of the year - Everything Everywhere All At Once from The Daniels - is being released to 4K as well as Blu-ray and DVD and if you’re looking to indulge in even more 4K entertainment, Edge of Tomorrow is also getting the 4K treatment, too.
Kino Lorber is keeping busy this week with an array of classic titles headed to Blu, including Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo, Ants! (aka It Happened at Lakewood Manor) and Terror Out of the Sky (aka Revenge of the Savage Bees), and IFC is also releasing Ruth Paxton’s...
Kino Lorber is keeping busy this week with an array of classic titles headed to Blu, including Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo, Ants! (aka It Happened at Lakewood Manor) and Terror Out of the Sky (aka Revenge of the Savage Bees), and IFC is also releasing Ruth Paxton’s...
- 7/5/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
The conference will form the centrepiece of the festival’s industry programme.
The FIlmfest München is traditionally the last opportunity for the German filmmaking community to meet up before the summer break, and this year’s edition has an industry programmed with a pronounced international dimension.
One of this year’s highlights is the two-day Cine CoPro Conference (June 29-30 ), hosted by the Filmfest and the Bavarian regional film fund Fff Bayern, in which around 40 German and UK producers, directors and screenwriters will come together to discuss opportunities for co-production between the two countries.
“he first thing that needs to...
The FIlmfest München is traditionally the last opportunity for the German filmmaking community to meet up before the summer break, and this year’s edition has an industry programmed with a pronounced international dimension.
One of this year’s highlights is the two-day Cine CoPro Conference (June 29-30 ), hosted by the Filmfest and the Bavarian regional film fund Fff Bayern, in which around 40 German and UK producers, directors and screenwriters will come together to discuss opportunities for co-production between the two countries.
“he first thing that needs to...
- 6/23/2022
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
After the 2000s seemingly kickstarted a new wave of independent horror, the 2010s (and beyond) were an exceptional time for new and emerging, as well as established, filmmakers to leave their own mark on the landscape of genre storytelling. One of the most notable aspects, or even trends, that I noticed while doing research for this entire series of retrospectives is how out of all of the decades, it feels like the 2010s was one of the best times for female filmmakers to get the opportunity to take the helm in comparison to other decades. The 1980s had a handful of women directors working in independent horror, but during both the ’90s and ’00s, it felt like the industry as a whole had taken a few steps backwards in providing female filmmakers the opportunity to tell the stories they wanted to tell.
Thankfully, though, the door swung back open in...
Thankfully, though, the door swung back open in...
- 4/30/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
The AMC+ streaming service will be host to new movies every Friday. Films on the service will feature an array of titles from distributors IFC Films, IFC Midnight, Rlje Films and Shudder, serving as the streaming home following the theatrical releases of films from these distributors, AMC Networks announced on Tuesday.
Films will be streaming on AMC+ 90 days after they first hit theaters thanks to a new agreement with AMC Networks Film Group through which AMC+ is the exclusive streaming home of the company’s full slate of films following their theatrical and digital distribution.
While most titles will be streaming 90 days after their theatrical release, select titles will be premiering day-and-date in theaters and on AMC+.
The first film to kick off this new agreement is the IFC Films feature “Clean,” starring Adrien Brody, which will be streaming on AMC+ on Friday, May 6. Additionally, the last Friday of every...
Films will be streaming on AMC+ 90 days after they first hit theaters thanks to a new agreement with AMC Networks Film Group through which AMC+ is the exclusive streaming home of the company’s full slate of films following their theatrical and digital distribution.
While most titles will be streaming 90 days after their theatrical release, select titles will be premiering day-and-date in theaters and on AMC+.
The first film to kick off this new agreement is the IFC Films feature “Clean,” starring Adrien Brody, which will be streaming on AMC+ on Friday, May 6. Additionally, the last Friday of every...
- 4/26/2022
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
IFC Films is moving its first pay television window to AMC+, in a bid by AMC Networks to carve out a weekly exclusive movie premiere every week of the year for its in-house streaming service. Under the new deal, announced on Tuesday, AMC+ will be the exclusive streaming home of movies from AMC Networks Film Group — which includes IFC Films, IFC Midnight and Rlje Films — in the “Pay 1” window, following theatrical and digital distribution.
The films, premiering each Friday on AMC+, will stream 90 days after their initial theatrical release, but select titles will premiere day-and-date in both theaters and simultaneously on AMC+. IFC Films had previously held distribution pacts with Showtime and Hulu.
The new pact starts on May 6, with the streaming premiere of IFC Films’ “Clean,” starring Adrien Brody and RZA. “Clean” was released in theaters on January 28.
As part of the 52-week premiere strategy, the last Friday of...
The films, premiering each Friday on AMC+, will stream 90 days after their initial theatrical release, but select titles will premiere day-and-date in both theaters and simultaneously on AMC+. IFC Films had previously held distribution pacts with Showtime and Hulu.
The new pact starts on May 6, with the streaming premiere of IFC Films’ “Clean,” starring Adrien Brody and RZA. “Clean” was released in theaters on January 28.
As part of the 52-week premiere strategy, the last Friday of...
- 4/26/2022
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Adrien Brody thriller Clean, Keira Knightley comedy horror Silent Night on the roster.
AMC Networks is bulking up its streaming platform and has announced AMC+ will carry weekly streaming premieres of films from sister companies IFC Films, IFC Midnight, Rlje Films and Shudder.
The arrangement starts on May 6 with the streaming premiere of IFC Films’s Adrien Brody thriller Clean. The platform will serve as the exclusive pay 1 partner for AMC Networks Film Group’s stable of IFC Films, IFC Midnight and Rlje Films.
Most of the Friday releases on AMC+ will stream 90 days after their initial theatrical release, with...
AMC Networks is bulking up its streaming platform and has announced AMC+ will carry weekly streaming premieres of films from sister companies IFC Films, IFC Midnight, Rlje Films and Shudder.
The arrangement starts on May 6 with the streaming premiere of IFC Films’s Adrien Brody thriller Clean. The platform will serve as the exclusive pay 1 partner for AMC Networks Film Group’s stable of IFC Films, IFC Midnight and Rlje Films.
Most of the Friday releases on AMC+ will stream 90 days after their initial theatrical release, with...
- 4/26/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
‘BTS Permission to Dance On Stage’ was the number three title across the weekend.
RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Mar 11-13)Total gross to date Week 1. The Batman (Warner Bros) £7.4m £26.5m 2 2. Uncharted (Sony) £1.1m £21.8m 5 3. BTS Permission to Dance On Stage (Trafalgar Releasing) £899,127 £899,127 1 4. Sing 2 (Universal) £818,617 £31.3m 7 5. The Duke (Pathé) £496,681 £3.9m 3
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.31
Warner Bros’ The Batman dominated the UK-Ireland box office for a second weekend, adding £7.4m to its total to reach £26.5m from 10 days in play.
The Batman dropped 44.5% - a relatively steep fall with little competition in the market, although it was coming from a strong start.
RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Mar 11-13)Total gross to date Week 1. The Batman (Warner Bros) £7.4m £26.5m 2 2. Uncharted (Sony) £1.1m £21.8m 5 3. BTS Permission to Dance On Stage (Trafalgar Releasing) £899,127 £899,127 1 4. Sing 2 (Universal) £818,617 £31.3m 7 5. The Duke (Pathé) £496,681 £3.9m 3
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.31
Warner Bros’ The Batman dominated the UK-Ireland box office for a second weekend, adding £7.4m to its total to reach £26.5m from 10 days in play.
The Batman dropped 44.5% - a relatively steep fall with little competition in the market, although it was coming from a strong start.
- 3/14/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
‘BTS Permission to Dance On Stage’ was the number three title across the weekend.
RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Mar 11-13)Total gross to date Week 1. The Batman (Warner Bros) £7.5m £27m 2 2. Uncharted (Sony) £1.1m £21.8m 5 3. BTS Permission to Dance On Stage (Trafalgar Releasing) £899,127 £899,127 1 4. Sing 2 (Universal) £818,617 £31.3m 7 5. The Duke (Pathé) £283,213 £7.2m 3
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.31
Warner Bros’ The Batman dominated the UK-Ireland box office for a second weekend, adding £7.5m to its total to reach £27m from 10 days in play.
The Batman dropped 44.5% - a relatively steep fall with little competition in the market, although it was coming from a strong start.
RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Mar 11-13)Total gross to date Week 1. The Batman (Warner Bros) £7.5m £27m 2 2. Uncharted (Sony) £1.1m £21.8m 5 3. BTS Permission to Dance On Stage (Trafalgar Releasing) £899,127 £899,127 1 4. Sing 2 (Universal) £818,617 £31.3m 7 5. The Duke (Pathé) £283,213 £7.2m 3
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.31
Warner Bros’ The Batman dominated the UK-Ireland box office for a second weekend, adding £7.5m to its total to reach £27m from 10 days in play.
The Batman dropped 44.5% - a relatively steep fall with little competition in the market, although it was coming from a strong start.
- 3/14/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The festival drew to a close yesterday (March 13).
UK director Lizzie MacKenzie won the audience award at Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) for her documentary The Hermit Of Treig, as unveiled as part of the festival’s closing night (March 13).
The film made its world premiere at Gff, which ran from March 2-13 as a hybrid offering, with both in-person and select online screenings and industry events taking place.
Gala premieres were also screened in certain cinemas across the UK, for the first time in the festival’s 18-year history.
Five out of seven of the films nominated for the audience award were directed by women,...
UK director Lizzie MacKenzie won the audience award at Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) for her documentary The Hermit Of Treig, as unveiled as part of the festival’s closing night (March 13).
The film made its world premiere at Gff, which ran from March 2-13 as a hybrid offering, with both in-person and select online screenings and industry events taking place.
Gala premieres were also screened in certain cinemas across the UK, for the first time in the festival’s 18-year history.
Five out of seven of the films nominated for the audience award were directed by women,...
- 3/14/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Indie titles ‘Foscadh’, ‘A Banquet’, ‘Great Freedom’ also out.
Universal Pictures’ US indie drama Red Rocket opens in a busy weekend at the UK-Ireland box office, with 12 new films arriving in cinemas but none on wide release as Warner Bros’ The Batman moves into its second week on screens.
Opening in 171 sites, Sean Baker’s Red Rocket is the biggest release of the weekend. It is about a washed-up porn star who returns to his small Texas hometown where no-one really wants him back. The film premiered in Competition at Cannes 2021, and has since played festivals including Telluride, New York,...
Universal Pictures’ US indie drama Red Rocket opens in a busy weekend at the UK-Ireland box office, with 12 new films arriving in cinemas but none on wide release as Warner Bros’ The Batman moves into its second week on screens.
Opening in 171 sites, Sean Baker’s Red Rocket is the biggest release of the weekend. It is about a washed-up porn star who returns to his small Texas hometown where no-one really wants him back. The film premiered in Competition at Cannes 2021, and has since played festivals including Telluride, New York,...
- 3/11/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
A Banquet is a 2021 British horror film directed by Ruth Paxton and written by Justin Bull. The film stars Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, and Ruby Stokes. The film follows widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) and her two daughters Betsey (Jessica Alexander) and Isabelle (Ruby Stokes) grieving for their loss after their father’s suicide. The story centers on Holly and her eldest daughter Betsy who has a mysterious encounter in the woods which Betsy believes is a supernatural experience. After the incident, Betsy refuses to eat but does not lose weight and she insists that she has been chosen and
Five Movies To Watch When You’re Done With “A Banquet”...
Five Movies To Watch When You’re Done With “A Banquet”...
- 3/10/2022
- by A.E. Oats
- TVovermind.com
Uncanny tale finds a wealthy single-parent family thrown into disarray when teenager Betsey stops eating but mysteriously stays the same weight
Scots film-maker Ruth Paxton makes a very smart feature debut with this genuinely uncanny psychological horror-satire written by Justin Bull, about body image and the eating disorder from hell. Sienna Guillory is excellent as the stylish and well-to-do Holly, a single mum who cares deeply about her two teen daughters Betsey (Jessica Alexander) and Izzy (Ruby Stokes). Holly is maybe a little too caring and controlling: she spends ages creating beautiful meals for the girls and has a slightly cringe-making habit of making sure the loo rolls are laid out neatly, with the end of one folded into a cutesy “sailboat” design.
Just when the family’s life seems entirely picture perfect, a strange, self-questioning malaise sets in: Betsey’s teacher asks her about university plans and what really...
Scots film-maker Ruth Paxton makes a very smart feature debut with this genuinely uncanny psychological horror-satire written by Justin Bull, about body image and the eating disorder from hell. Sienna Guillory is excellent as the stylish and well-to-do Holly, a single mum who cares deeply about her two teen daughters Betsey (Jessica Alexander) and Izzy (Ruby Stokes). Holly is maybe a little too caring and controlling: she spends ages creating beautiful meals for the girls and has a slightly cringe-making habit of making sure the loo rolls are laid out neatly, with the end of one folded into a cutesy “sailboat” design.
Just when the family’s life seems entirely picture perfect, a strange, self-questioning malaise sets in: Betsey’s teacher asks her about university plans and what really...
- 3/9/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
A director’s feature debut is a chance to make a statement and A Banquet from Ruth Paxton does this emphatically.
It is one of the most anticipated films showing at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival.
This physiological-thriller sees a family endure one trauma after another in a story that questions your beliefs. We see a mother-daughter relationship pushed to the extremes all whilst exploring issues of mental health and anxiety.
This screenplay from Justin Bull stars Sienna Guillory alongside Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes as well as Lindsay Duncan in a tense family drama that keeps you on edge.
We caught up with Sienna to talk about peas, dealing with trauma and working with Ben Wheatley again for The Meg 2.
Signature Entertainment presents A Banquet in Cinemas & Digital Platforms 11th March and showing at Glasgow Film Festival on March 5th – tickets are available here
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It is one of the most anticipated films showing at this year’s Glasgow Film Festival.
This physiological-thriller sees a family endure one trauma after another in a story that questions your beliefs. We see a mother-daughter relationship pushed to the extremes all whilst exploring issues of mental health and anxiety.
This screenplay from Justin Bull stars Sienna Guillory alongside Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes as well as Lindsay Duncan in a tense family drama that keeps you on edge.
We caught up with Sienna to talk about peas, dealing with trauma and working with Ben Wheatley again for The Meg 2.
Signature Entertainment presents A Banquet in Cinemas & Digital Platforms 11th March and showing at Glasgow Film Festival on March 5th – tickets are available here
The post Sienna Guillory on A Banquet,...
- 3/4/2022
- by Thomas Alexander
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
It’s that time of year again, and as the Glasgow Film Festival prepares to launch its 18th edition, we look at some of the highlights of this year’s slate. Using a hybrid format this year, the festival offers the chance to see some of this work in all its glory on the big screen, but viewers elsewhere in the UK will have the option of streaming films, and either way, there’s a lot to look forward to.
A Banquet
A Banquet
When her daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) suddenly starts refusing to eat, Holly (Sienna Guillory) is seriously worried. When Betsey doesn’t seem to lose any weight, the situation begins to seem much stranger. As director Ruth Paxton has explained, she used religious imagery to create the impression that Betsey is undergoing a spiritual experience – but is there something supernatural to it, or is this a case of shared psychosis?...
A Banquet
A Banquet
When her daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) suddenly starts refusing to eat, Holly (Sienna Guillory) is seriously worried. When Betsey doesn’t seem to lose any weight, the situation begins to seem much stranger. As director Ruth Paxton has explained, she used religious imagery to create the impression that Betsey is undergoing a spiritual experience – but is there something supernatural to it, or is this a case of shared psychosis?...
- 2/27/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
A Banquet (Ruth Paxton)
It’s a question we ask through the duration of our lives: what’s the point? Maybe you say these words in search of meaning where humanity as a species is concerned. Maybe it’s to find purpose as an individual when nothing seems to be going right. Jason (Richard Keep) wonders what the point of surviving is when his fate has already been sealed. His wife Holly (Sienna Guillory) is being forced into the role of caretaker while also wading through the reality that she’s now a single mother, regardless of breath remaining in his lungs. Is hers and their daughters’ (Jessica Alexander’s Betsey and Ruby Stokes’ Isabelle) suffering worth it? Will ripping the Band-Aid...
A Banquet (Ruth Paxton)
It’s a question we ask through the duration of our lives: what’s the point? Maybe you say these words in search of meaning where humanity as a species is concerned. Maybe it’s to find purpose as an individual when nothing seems to be going right. Jason (Richard Keep) wonders what the point of surviving is when his fate has already been sealed. His wife Holly (Sienna Guillory) is being forced into the role of caretaker while also wading through the reality that she’s now a single mother, regardless of breath remaining in his lungs. Is hers and their daughters’ (Jessica Alexander’s Betsey and Ruby Stokes’ Isabelle) suffering worth it? Will ripping the Band-Aid...
- 2/25/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
What’s going on with Betsey? That’s the crux of Ruth Paxton‘s feature debut, the intense family psychodrama “A Banquet,” for which she, and writer Justin Bull, provide many alluring choices but no definitive answer. Instead, the film—about a family that experiences a major trauma and tragedy and the teenage daughter who is forever, radically altered and “enlightened” afterward—flirts with several compelling subtexts, dresses them up in genre psycho-horror garb, and then rushes to a climax that provides no conclusive key to its central riddle.
Continue reading ‘A Banquet’ Review: Ruth Paxton’s Feature Debut Needs A Little Less Seasoning at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘A Banquet’ Review: Ruth Paxton’s Feature Debut Needs A Little Less Seasoning at The Playlist.
- 2/19/2022
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Jessica Alexander in A Banquet
The story of a mother, Holly (Sienna Guillory), who panics when one of her daughters, Betsey (Jessica Alexander) suddenly stops eating, but whose situation becomes still more disconcerting when the teenager doesn’t seem to be losing weight, A Banquet, which opens in the US on Friday 18 February and will soon be screening as part of the 2022 Glasgow Film Festival, marks the feature début of Ruth Paxton, an Edinburgh-based filmmaker whose work has been on our radar here at Eye For Film for some years. In fact, she tells me when we meet, we gave her her first ever professional review, for 2008’s surreal short She Wanted To Be Burnt. A Banquet is one of my personal favourites of the past year, and I ask her if her short film experience was useful in approaching it given that, structurally, it resembles a short, having an ostensibly.
The story of a mother, Holly (Sienna Guillory), who panics when one of her daughters, Betsey (Jessica Alexander) suddenly stops eating, but whose situation becomes still more disconcerting when the teenager doesn’t seem to be losing weight, A Banquet, which opens in the US on Friday 18 February and will soon be screening as part of the 2022 Glasgow Film Festival, marks the feature début of Ruth Paxton, an Edinburgh-based filmmaker whose work has been on our radar here at Eye For Film for some years. In fact, she tells me when we meet, we gave her her first ever professional review, for 2008’s surreal short She Wanted To Be Burnt. A Banquet is one of my personal favourites of the past year, and I ask her if her short film experience was useful in approaching it given that, structurally, it resembles a short, having an ostensibly.
- 2/17/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, IFC Midnight is bringing first-time filmmaker Ruth Paxton‘s A Banquet to theaters and VOD platforms on February 18. In A Banquet… “Widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer […]
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- 2/16/2022
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
“We’ve all got problems, darling, don’t be the show.” At about the midpoint of A Banquet, a grandmother frames her granddaughter’s mental health crisis as an elaborate psychodrama. June is always on the periphery, undermining her own daughter’s approach to parenting. Underestimating the seriousness, and thinking spending money is the best way to expedite the whole situation, feels like a specifically Baby Boomer solution to a GenZ problem. Three generations of women, their outlook, attitude and crisis-mindset are on naked, acutely uncomfortable display in Ruth Paxton’s debut feature. A Banquet begins the with the strange death of Holly’s husband. He is bedridden with some kind of painful wasting disease, and dies...
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- 2/16/2022
- Screen Anarchy
The 2022 Glasgow Film Festival unveils an exciting programme with the UK premiere of The Outfit kicking it off.
Undoubtedly a highlight in the festival calendar, Gff this year will show 10 world premieres including Monstrous as part of FrightFest and the European premiere of Alan Cumming’s My Old School.
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s Camera D’ or winning, Murina, will close the festival in what will be its UK premiere.
The 18th annual festival will exclusively show the first episode of season six of the worldwide hit series, Outlander. Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta is among the Scottish premieres as well as Ruth Paxton’s A Banquet, to name but a few.
Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta.
In-person events also return with the legendary Armando Iannucci who will look back on his varied career to date.
As well as the 1962 retrospective showing classics including Cape Fear, which we reported here, the festival will...
Undoubtedly a highlight in the festival calendar, Gff this year will show 10 world premieres including Monstrous as part of FrightFest and the European premiere of Alan Cumming’s My Old School.
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s Camera D’ or winning, Murina, will close the festival in what will be its UK premiere.
The 18th annual festival will exclusively show the first episode of season six of the worldwide hit series, Outlander. Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta is among the Scottish premieres as well as Ruth Paxton’s A Banquet, to name but a few.
Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta.
In-person events also return with the legendary Armando Iannucci who will look back on his varied career to date.
As well as the 1962 retrospective showing classics including Cape Fear, which we reported here, the festival will...
- 1/27/2022
- by Thomas Alexander
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The festival takes place from March 2-13.
The 18th edition of the UK’s Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) will open with the UK premiere of Graham Moore’s US title The Outfit, and close with the UK premiere of Croatian director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s Camera d’Or-winning Murina, when the festival runs as an in-person event from March 2-13.
The line-up includes 10 world premieres, four European premieres and 65 UK premieres.
Scroll down for the full list of world premieres
The Outfit will receive its world premiere as a gala screening in Berlin and is the directorial debut of The Imitation Game writer Graham Moore.
The 18th edition of the UK’s Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) will open with the UK premiere of Graham Moore’s US title The Outfit, and close with the UK premiere of Croatian director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s Camera d’Or-winning Murina, when the festival runs as an in-person event from March 2-13.
The line-up includes 10 world premieres, four European premieres and 65 UK premieres.
Scroll down for the full list of world premieres
The Outfit will receive its world premiere as a gala screening in Berlin and is the directorial debut of The Imitation Game writer Graham Moore.
- 1/27/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The festival takes place from March 2-13.
The 18th edition of the UK’s Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) will open with the UK premiere of Graham Moore’s US title The Outfit, and close with the UK premiere of Croatian director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s Camera d’Or-winning Murina, when the festival runs as an in-person event from March 2-13.
The line-up includes 10 world premieres, four European premieres and 65 UK premieres.
Scroll down for the full list of world premieres
The Outfit will receive its world premiere as a gala screening in Berlin and is the directorial debut of The Imitation Game writer Graham Moore.
The 18th edition of the UK’s Glasgow Film Festival (Gff) will open with the UK premiere of Graham Moore’s US title The Outfit, and close with the UK premiere of Croatian director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s Camera d’Or-winning Murina, when the festival runs as an in-person event from March 2-13.
The line-up includes 10 world premieres, four European premieres and 65 UK premieres.
Scroll down for the full list of world premieres
The Outfit will receive its world premiere as a gala screening in Berlin and is the directorial debut of The Imitation Game writer Graham Moore.
- 1/27/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Glasgow Film Festival opening film The Outfit Photo: courtesy of the Glasgow Film Festival
The full line-up for this year’s Glasgow Film Festival has been announced, including 10 world premières and no fewer than 65 UK premières. The festival will open with Graham Moore’s tale of a tailor caught between gangster factions, The Outfit, which stars Mark Rylance and Zoey Deutch. It will close with Murina, in which Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic explores the relationship between a teenager and her controlling father – the winner of last year’s Camera D’Or.
Other highlights of the festival are Ruth Paxton’s compelling exploration of despair and abstinence, A Banquet, Paul Verhoeven’s spiritually complex lesbian nun drama Benedetta, and Sundance award winner Hive, whose director, Blerte Basholli, recently told us how excited she is by how it’s travelling the world.
“‘I can’t begin to describe our joy at being able to have our loyal,...
The full line-up for this year’s Glasgow Film Festival has been announced, including 10 world premières and no fewer than 65 UK premières. The festival will open with Graham Moore’s tale of a tailor caught between gangster factions, The Outfit, which stars Mark Rylance and Zoey Deutch. It will close with Murina, in which Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic explores the relationship between a teenager and her controlling father – the winner of last year’s Camera D’Or.
Other highlights of the festival are Ruth Paxton’s compelling exploration of despair and abstinence, A Banquet, Paul Verhoeven’s spiritually complex lesbian nun drama Benedetta, and Sundance award winner Hive, whose director, Blerte Basholli, recently told us how excited she is by how it’s travelling the world.
“‘I can’t begin to describe our joy at being able to have our loyal,...
- 1/26/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, IFC Midnight is bringing first-time filmmaker Ruth Paxton‘s A Banquet to theaters and VOD platforms next month. Bloody has an exclusive look at brand new art that offers a difficult choice: family or famine? Described as “a slow-burning psychological horror that layers apocalyptic elements underneath familial […]
The post ‘A Banquet’ Poster Could Starve for Family [Exclusive] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
The post ‘A Banquet’ Poster Could Starve for Family [Exclusive] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
- 1/26/2022
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Alone With You: "As a young woman painstakingly prepares a romantic homecoming for her girlfriend, their apartment begins to feel more like a tomb when voices, shadows, and hallucinations reveal a truth she has been unwilling to face."
Starring: Emily Bennett, Emma Myles, Dora Madison and Barbara Crampton
Co-Written and Co-Directed by: Emily Bennett & Justin Brooks
In Theaters - February 4, 2022, On Demand, Digital and DVD - February 8, 2022
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The Last Thing Mary Saw: "Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, unveils today the first trailer and new poster art for the upcoming Shudder Original The Last Thing Mary Saw, premiering exclusively on the platform on Thursday, January 20.
The film stars Rory Culkin, Stefanie Scott (Insidious: Chapter 3) and Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), and is written and directed by Edoardo Vitaletti, making his feature length film debut.
Southold, New York, 1843: Young Mary (Scott), blood trickling...
Starring: Emily Bennett, Emma Myles, Dora Madison and Barbara Crampton
Co-Written and Co-Directed by: Emily Bennett & Justin Brooks
In Theaters - February 4, 2022, On Demand, Digital and DVD - February 8, 2022
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The Last Thing Mary Saw: "Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers and the supernatural, unveils today the first trailer and new poster art for the upcoming Shudder Original The Last Thing Mary Saw, premiering exclusively on the platform on Thursday, January 20.
The film stars Rory Culkin, Stefanie Scott (Insidious: Chapter 3) and Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan), and is written and directed by Edoardo Vitaletti, making his feature length film debut.
Southold, New York, 1843: Young Mary (Scott), blood trickling...
- 1/7/2022
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
IFC Midnight generally has the horror goods, and the distributor is starting the year right with “A Banquet,” a new nightmarish family psychodrama from newcomer Ruth Paxton who makes her feature-length debut with this film. The film was an official selection title at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, received major acclaim and it stars Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes, and Lindsay Duncan.
Continue reading ‘A Banquet’ Trailer: Sienna Guillory Stars In A New Nightmarish Psychodrama For IFC Midnight at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘A Banquet’ Trailer: Sienna Guillory Stars In A New Nightmarish Psychodrama For IFC Midnight at The Playlist.
- 1/6/2022
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
A Banquet Trailer — Ruth Paxton‘s A Banquet (2021) movie trailer has been released by IFC Midnight. The A Banquet trailer stars Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes, Lindsay Duncan, Kaine Zajaz, Rina Mahoney, Jonathan Nyati, Walter van Dyk, Andrew Steele, Hannah Zoé Ankrah, and Suzie Voce. Crew Justin Bull wrote the screenplay for [...]
Continue reading: A Banquet (2021) Movie Trailer: Jessica Alexander May be Called by a Higher Power in Ruth Paxton’s Film...
Continue reading: A Banquet (2021) Movie Trailer: Jessica Alexander May be Called by a Higher Power in Ruth Paxton’s Film...
- 1/6/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"I can feel something inside of me..." IFC Midnight has revealed the official trailer for an indie horror film from the UK titled A Banquet, made by a Scottish filmmaker named Ruth Paxton. This premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year, and hit a bunch of others including Fantastic Fest, Beyond Fest, Montclair, and London. Widowed mother Holly is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith Betsey refuses to eat, but loses no weight. The film stars Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, Ruby Stokes, Lindsay Duncan, & Kaine Zajaz. TIFF adds: "Between discomforting body horror and simmering psychodrama, Paxton skillfully escalates a common [dinner table] dynamic towards the upsetting but profound parental fears of being unable to understand one's own child, what they want or need, and how to protect them from.
- 1/6/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The creepy new trailer has landed for A Banquet.
The movie is in theaters and On Demand February 18.
Ruth Paxton’s women-led horror sees a mother tested when her daughter insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Stars Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander and Ruby Stokes.
https://www.ifcfilms.com/films/a-banquet
The movie had it’s premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
In Ruth Paxton’s spellbinding debut feature, widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) grapples with eldest daughter Betsey’s (Jessica Alexander) disturbing conviction that her body has become a vessel for an unknown higher power, one that has ominously robbed her of any appetite, and which Betsey believes heralds a cataclysmic upheaval.
At first, her condition is suspected to be an act of adolescent rebellion or a psychological break. But despite her refusal to eat, Betsey loses no weight...
The movie is in theaters and On Demand February 18.
Ruth Paxton’s women-led horror sees a mother tested when her daughter insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Stars Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander and Ruby Stokes.
https://www.ifcfilms.com/films/a-banquet
The movie had it’s premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
In Ruth Paxton’s spellbinding debut feature, widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) grapples with eldest daughter Betsey’s (Jessica Alexander) disturbing conviction that her body has become a vessel for an unknown higher power, one that has ominously robbed her of any appetite, and which Betsey believes heralds a cataclysmic upheaval.
At first, her condition is suspected to be an act of adolescent rebellion or a psychological break. But despite her refusal to eat, Betsey loses no weight...
- 1/5/2022
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A mother-daughter bond takes a turn for the possessed and the apocalyptic in Scottish filmmaker Ruth Paxton’s feature directorial debut “A Banquet.” Originally a Toronto International Film Festival premiere in the Discovery section, this horror movie will release in select theaters and on digital platforms on February 18 from the genre folks at IFC Midnight. Exclusive to IndieWire, check out the official trailer for the film below.
Here’s the official synopsis, courtesy of IFC: “Widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.”
The cast of the film includes Sienna Guillory,...
Here’s the official synopsis, courtesy of IFC: “Widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.”
The cast of the film includes Sienna Guillory,...
- 1/5/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
The fund is still to allocate nearly £6m in its pilot year.
Eighteen projects have been awarded a total of £931,656 from the UK Global Screen Fund (Ukgsf) through its international coproduction and international distribution financing strands.
The £7m fund was launched in April by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms) as a one-year pilot initiative to boost international development and distribution opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. It is administered by the British Film Institute (BFI) and is available to companies working in film, TV, documentary, animation and interactive content.
Eighteen projects have been awarded a total of £931,656 from the UK Global Screen Fund (Ukgsf) through its international coproduction and international distribution financing strands.
The £7m fund was launched in April by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms) as a one-year pilot initiative to boost international development and distribution opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. It is administered by the British Film Institute (BFI) and is available to companies working in film, TV, documentary, animation and interactive content.
- 10/5/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The programme is now in its seventh year and will run October 8-11.
The British Film Institute (BFI) Network has announced the 12 filmmakers who will take part in the London Film Festival’s (Lff) annual professional development programme, Network@Lff.
The programme, now in its seventh year, is supported by the BFI with National Lottery funding, and will take place from October 8-11.
The 12 filmmakers were selected from 360 applicants. The BFI said the programme “celebrates difference in approach and perspective, and seeks out filmmakers looking to disrupt conventions”.
This year’s line-up includes Bifa-nominated writer, director and producer Jessi Gutch,...
The British Film Institute (BFI) Network has announced the 12 filmmakers who will take part in the London Film Festival’s (Lff) annual professional development programme, Network@Lff.
The programme, now in its seventh year, is supported by the BFI with National Lottery funding, and will take place from October 8-11.
The 12 filmmakers were selected from 360 applicants. The BFI said the programme “celebrates difference in approach and perspective, and seeks out filmmakers looking to disrupt conventions”.
This year’s line-up includes Bifa-nominated writer, director and producer Jessi Gutch,...
- 10/5/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The programme is now in its seventh year and will run October 8-11.
The British Film Institute (BFI) has announced the 12 filmmakers who will take part in the London Film Festival’s (Lff) annual professional development programme, Network@Lff.
The programme, now in its seventh year, is supported by the BFI with National Lottery funding, and will take place from October 8-11.
The 12 filmmakers were selected from 360 applicants. The BFI said the programme “celebrates difference in approach and perspective, and seeks out filmmakers looking to disrupt conventions”.
This year’s line-up includes Bifa-nominated writer, director and producer Jessi Gutch, whose...
The British Film Institute (BFI) has announced the 12 filmmakers who will take part in the London Film Festival’s (Lff) annual professional development programme, Network@Lff.
The programme, now in its seventh year, is supported by the BFI with National Lottery funding, and will take place from October 8-11.
The 12 filmmakers were selected from 360 applicants. The BFI said the programme “celebrates difference in approach and perspective, and seeks out filmmakers looking to disrupt conventions”.
This year’s line-up includes Bifa-nominated writer, director and producer Jessi Gutch, whose...
- 10/5/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
At over sixty years old now and screening over three hundred movies over the course of two weeks, the London Film Festival is a huge event on the film festival calendar. And it’s no surprise that female-directed horror movies will be ever present at this year’s London Film Festival. Not only has Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor taken the festivals by storm this year but in the last five year’s or so, Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation, Julia Ducournau’s Raw, Anna Biller’s The Love Witch, Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge and many other great genre movies have been well received and made viewers take a closer look at female directors.
With that in mind, two debut features and a returning genre director will be at this year’s festival.
She Will, directed by Charlotte Colbert, stars both Malcom McDowell and John McCrea but it’s experienced actor...
With that in mind, two debut features and a returning genre director will be at this year’s festival.
She Will, directed by Charlotte Colbert, stars both Malcom McDowell and John McCrea but it’s experienced actor...
- 9/28/2021
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
The latest Talk is held in partnership with the Dinard Festival of British Film.
The latest in our series of ScreenDaily Talks will discuss the rise of genre filmmaking in the UK by women directors.
Filmmakers such as Corinna Faith (The Power), Prano Bailey Bond (Censor), Ruth Platt (Martyrs Lane), Ruth Paxton (The Banquet), Romola Garai (Amulet) and Rose Glass (Saint Maud) are playing with horror and genre tropes to probe a series of female-led issues and garnering arthouse plaudits as they do so.
The Talk will explore what is driving the flare in female genre filmmaking, the local and international market for these films,...
The latest in our series of ScreenDaily Talks will discuss the rise of genre filmmaking in the UK by women directors.
Filmmakers such as Corinna Faith (The Power), Prano Bailey Bond (Censor), Ruth Platt (Martyrs Lane), Ruth Paxton (The Banquet), Romola Garai (Amulet) and Rose Glass (Saint Maud) are playing with horror and genre tropes to probe a series of female-led issues and garnering arthouse plaudits as they do so.
The Talk will explore what is driving the flare in female genre filmmaking, the local and international market for these films,...
- 9/23/2021
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Following its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, UK horror film A Banquet has sold to Signature for the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
The deal was negotiated between Signature’s Elizabeth Williams and Hanway’s Nicole Mackey. Release is set for 2022.
A Banquet follows widowed mother Holly (played by Resident Evil actress Sienna Guillory) who is pushed to breaking point when her daughter Betsey develops an extreme eating disorder. She claims she has experienced a profound enlightenment where her body is in service to a higher power. Tormented by Betsey’s illness, her family are faced with an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, and Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own belief. Also starring are Ruby Stokes (Bridgerton) and Lindsay Duncan (About Time).
The movie will next play at the BFI London Film Festival in the Cult strand.
The deal was negotiated between Signature’s Elizabeth Williams and Hanway’s Nicole Mackey. Release is set for 2022.
A Banquet follows widowed mother Holly (played by Resident Evil actress Sienna Guillory) who is pushed to breaking point when her daughter Betsey develops an extreme eating disorder. She claims she has experienced a profound enlightenment where her body is in service to a higher power. Tormented by Betsey’s illness, her family are faced with an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, and Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own belief. Also starring are Ruby Stokes (Bridgerton) and Lindsay Duncan (About Time).
The movie will next play at the BFI London Film Festival in the Cult strand.
- 9/16/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Existing somewhere at the crossroads of Jack Ketchum’s “The Box” and Rose Glass’s Saint Maud lies A Banquet. A strange affliction wreaks havoc on the lives of a family still on the mend from tragedy. Ruth Paxton’s feature debut favors a slow simmering atmosphere in a psychodrama that sees a family in psychological deterioration. One that can test the […]...
- 9/11/2021
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
There’s a lot going on in “A Banquet,” an atmospheric horror about a family who’s put to the test while attempting to heal from tragedy. Compelling themes centered on anxiety, possession, motherhood, nourishment (and the lack thereof), doomsday dread, hysteria and faith are funneled through the lens of multi-generational feminine trauma. And while having myriad plates spinning is perfectly pleasing in this cinematic buffet, director Ruth Paxton and screenwriter Justin Bull bite off more than they can chew, struggling to bring their salient commentary into focus.
Holly (Sienna Guillory) is slowly approaching her wits’ end. Still reeling from the shocking suicide of her terminally-ill husband months prior, the worried widow is trying to get her family’s life back in order, maintaining some semblance of normalcy despite the slow drain of the family’s finances. Her eldest daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) is also having a tough go at...
Holly (Sienna Guillory) is slowly approaching her wits’ end. Still reeling from the shocking suicide of her terminally-ill husband months prior, the worried widow is trying to get her family’s life back in order, maintaining some semblance of normalcy despite the slow drain of the family’s finances. Her eldest daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) is also having a tough go at...
- 9/11/2021
- by Courtney Howard
- Variety Film + TV
It’s a question we ask through the duration of our lives: what’s the point? Maybe you say these words in search of meaning where humanity as a species is concerned. Maybe it’s to find purpose as an individual when nothing seems to be going right. Jason (Richard Keep) wonders what the point of surviving is when his fate has already been sealed. His wife Holly (Sienna Guillory) is being forced into the role of caretaker while also wading through the reality that she’s now a single mother, regardless of breath remaining in his lungs. Is hers and their daughters’ (Jessica Alexander’s Betsey and Ruby Stokes’ Isabelle) suffering worth it? Will ripping the Band-Aid off now render their ability to cope with his loss easier? Easy answers don’t exist.
They don’t when it comes to love, either—we are creatures of the moment. We...
They don’t when it comes to love, either—we are creatures of the moment. We...
- 9/11/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
A psychological horror tale built around a mysterious eating disorder and unusually fraught mother-daughter dynamics, Ruth Paxton’s feature debut, A Banquet, shares key ingredients with several much-discussed recent indies by and/or about women, from Swallow to, in its end-of-everything theme, Amy Seimetz’s arresting She Dies Tomorrow.
Paxton acquits herself well, making the most of Sofia Stocco’s chilly interiors and some committed performances from stars Jessica Alexander and Sienna Guillory. But Justin Bull’s screenplay comes up short, failing to adequately capture the depth of its teen’s encounter with the abyss — her anorexia is the aftermath of an apocalyptic revelation — and to integrate ...
Paxton acquits herself well, making the most of Sofia Stocco’s chilly interiors and some committed performances from stars Jessica Alexander and Sienna Guillory. But Justin Bull’s screenplay comes up short, failing to adequately capture the depth of its teen’s encounter with the abyss — her anorexia is the aftermath of an apocalyptic revelation — and to integrate ...
- 9/10/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A psychological horror tale built around a mysterious eating disorder and unusually fraught mother-daughter dynamics, Ruth Paxton’s feature debut, A Banquet, shares key ingredients with several much-discussed recent indies by and/or about women, from Swallow to, in its end-of-everything theme, Amy Seimetz’s arresting She Dies Tomorrow.
Paxton acquits herself well, making the most of Sofia Stocco’s chilly interiors and some committed performances from stars Jessica Alexander and Sienna Guillory. But Justin Bull’s screenplay comes up short, failing to adequately capture the depth of its teen’s encounter with the abyss — her anorexia is the aftermath of an apocalyptic revelation — and to integrate ...
Paxton acquits herself well, making the most of Sofia Stocco’s chilly interiors and some committed performances from stars Jessica Alexander and Sienna Guillory. But Justin Bull’s screenplay comes up short, failing to adequately capture the depth of its teen’s encounter with the abyss — her anorexia is the aftermath of an apocalyptic revelation — and to integrate ...
- 9/10/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Filmmaker Ruth Paxton makes her feature debut with psychological horror film “A Banquet,” set to world premiere at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival. The Scottish helmer has already won accolades for her short films, and she is developing feature “The Flaming Heart.” HanWay reps worldwide rights to “A Banquet,” which will be released by IFC Midnight in the U.S. In the film, widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) is pushed to the limit when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences a supernatural enlightenment, and insists that her body is no longer her own but in service to a higher power. Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight as the family wrestles with questions of faith and manipulation. Paxton gives her producers tons of credit for the success they shot during the pandemic as well. ‘A Banquet’ screens Sept. 10 at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival.
What was the genesis of the film?...
What was the genesis of the film?...
- 9/10/2021
- by Carole Horst
- Variety Film + TV
It’s hard to know what to call Ruth Paxton’s female-led horror pic A Banquet.
Yes, the Scottish filmmaker’s debut feature is a discomforting body horror movie, but it has no jump scares or ghosts or demons in the ether. More of a slow-burn psychological thriller, Paxton uses an apparent eating disorder to convey the anxiety and paranoia that descends on a once-healthy family.
The indie, based on a screenplay by Justin Bull and bowing at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 10 as part of the Discovery program, tells the story of a widowed mother, Holly (Sienna Guillory), who struggles to ...
Yes, the Scottish filmmaker’s debut feature is a discomforting body horror movie, but it has no jump scares or ghosts or demons in the ether. More of a slow-burn psychological thriller, Paxton uses an apparent eating disorder to convey the anxiety and paranoia that descends on a once-healthy family.
The indie, based on a screenplay by Justin Bull and bowing at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 10 as part of the Discovery program, tells the story of a widowed mother, Holly (Sienna Guillory), who struggles to ...
- 9/10/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s hard to know what to call Ruth Paxton’s female-led horror pic A Banquet.
Yes, the Scottish filmmaker’s debut feature is a discomforting body horror movie, but it has no jump scares or ghosts or demons in the ether. More of a slow-burn psychological thriller, Paxton uses an apparent eating disorder to convey the anxiety and paranoia that descends on a once-healthy family.
The indie, based on a screenplay by Justin Bull and bowing at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 10 as part of the Discovery program, tells the story of a widowed mother, Holly (Sienna Guillory), who struggles to ...
Yes, the Scottish filmmaker’s debut feature is a discomforting body horror movie, but it has no jump scares or ghosts or demons in the ether. More of a slow-burn psychological thriller, Paxton uses an apparent eating disorder to convey the anxiety and paranoia that descends on a once-healthy family.
The indie, based on a screenplay by Justin Bull and bowing at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 10 as part of the Discovery program, tells the story of a widowed mother, Holly (Sienna Guillory), who struggles to ...
- 9/10/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The 65 British Film Institute (BFI) London Film Festival has unveiled its full program and the headline galas include several films that have been gaining fame recently.
Among the galas are Pablo Larrain’s “Spencer,” with Kristen Stewart; Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” with Benedict Cumberbatch; Reinaldo Marcus Green’s “King Richard,” with Will Smith; and Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” featuring a host of stars including Timothée Chalamet, Tilda Swinton and Léa Seydoux.
The galas also include Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast,” Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta,” Eva Husson’s “Mothering Sunday,” Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter,” Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir: Part II” and Sarah Smith and Jean Philippe-Vine’s “Ron’s Gone Wrong.”
Special presentations include Clio Barnard’s “Ali & Ava,” Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car,” Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Memoria,” Julia Ducournau’s “Titane,” Jacques Audiard’s “Paris, 13th District,...
Among the galas are Pablo Larrain’s “Spencer,” with Kristen Stewart; Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” with Benedict Cumberbatch; Reinaldo Marcus Green’s “King Richard,” with Will Smith; and Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” featuring a host of stars including Timothée Chalamet, Tilda Swinton and Léa Seydoux.
The galas also include Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast,” Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta,” Eva Husson’s “Mothering Sunday,” Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter,” Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir: Part II” and Sarah Smith and Jean Philippe-Vine’s “Ron’s Gone Wrong.”
Special presentations include Clio Barnard’s “Ali & Ava,” Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car,” Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Memoria,” Julia Ducournau’s “Titane,” Jacques Audiard’s “Paris, 13th District,...
- 9/7/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
This year’s fall festival season features a tapestry of in-person, virtual, and hybrid programming from Telluride, Venice, TIFF, and NYFF. One throughline: many of the most anticipated premieres — from “Dune” to “The Power of the Dog” — are arriving to festivals with distribution in hand.
Though the festivals have pared down the size of their lineups amid the pandemic, there’s still plenty for buyers to choose from, from discovery titles to those with bankable elements. Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn’s “Official Competition” features Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz in a rare appearance on screen together; it still has North American rights available ahead of its Venice premiere. In “Lakewood,” Phillip Noyce directs Naomi Watts as a mother racing to her child during an active-shooter incident, it premieres at TIFF. And “Beba,” a personal documentary from first-time feature director Rebeca Huntt, is catching early buzz as a potential TIFF breakout.
Though the festivals have pared down the size of their lineups amid the pandemic, there’s still plenty for buyers to choose from, from discovery titles to those with bankable elements. Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn’s “Official Competition” features Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz in a rare appearance on screen together; it still has North American rights available ahead of its Venice premiere. In “Lakewood,” Phillip Noyce directs Naomi Watts as a mother racing to her child during an active-shooter incident, it premieres at TIFF. And “Beba,” a personal documentary from first-time feature director Rebeca Huntt, is catching early buzz as a potential TIFF breakout.
- 9/2/2021
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
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