Taken together, three recent films provoke a profound questioning of how and why we guard the border walls separating documentaries from dramatic features. These movies sabotage genre purity; the modes which are supposed to stay apart—as a matter of ethics, as a matter of aesthetics, as a matter of awards business—touch and pollute each other. … Read more
BUNKER STYLE: As part of its ongoing support for the film industry, Chanel has designed costumes for a musical about the end of the world. “The End” marks the feature film debut of Joshua Oppenheimer, known for his Oscar-nominated documentaries “The Act of Killing” and “The Look of Silence” about the Indonesian mass killings of … Read more
LONDON — Club Ciné, the by-invitation-only film club founded by casting director Tom Macklin, is expanding its reach and is launching an editorial arm by turning its Instagram page @clubcine.ig into a magazine format filled with articles and interviews with actors, directors and costume designers. The platform will also introduce a Substack newsletter in early … Read more
Two Winnipeg-spawned filmmakers who have both offered up surreal visions of the Prairie city — albeit almost 20 years apart — talked to a Toronto International Film Festival crowd this week about the reception to their latest movies and what it’s like to try to present Winnipeg to the world in film. Guy Maddin and Matthew Rankin … Read more
When the British filmmaker Mike Leigh was six, his father, a doctor who would oppose his son becoming an artist, told him to quit drawing pictures of people. In a way, Leigh never stopped. In his six decades making movies, the 81-year-old has made some of the most humanistic movies in cinema, many of them … Read more
Aamir Khan is reportedly planning a significant shift in the film industry’s business dynamics. According to a report by PinkVilla, the actor is considering not selling the digital rights of his future films, aiming to prioritize theatrical releases and revive the social comedy genre. Aamir Khan to skip digital releases for future films to boost … Read more
An Iranian children’s film approved by the Islamic Republic is being screened in Israel, so finds an exposé by Iran specialist Dr. Thamar E. Gindin. Gindin’s exposé also revealed that the film has been marketed outside of Iran through a Malaysian company, which apparently masks the export of Iranian media, which is not subject … Read more
Gena Rowlands, hailed as one of the greatest actors to ever practice the craft and a guiding light in independent cinema as a star in groundbreaking movies by her director husband, John Cassavetes, and later charmed audiences in her son’s tear-jerker The Notebook, has died. She was 94. Rowlands’ death was confirmed Wednesday by representatives for … Read more
We’re all guilty of sneaking the odd sweetie into the cinema… right? Amidst the cost-of-living crisis, spending an extra £10 on top of your ticket for a bag of bland popcorn is simply unafforable for most Brits. Therefore, many of us have resorted to bringing our own snacks to feast on, inevitably ddevouring them before … Read more
Mark Wahlberg’s documentary production house is ringing up “the real BlackBerry story.” Wahlberg’s Unrealistic Ideas says it is moving ahead with a feature-length documentary centred around the history of the Waterloo, Ont.-based smartphone maker. The company says the still-untitled BlackBerry doc will tap into interviews with former executives and staff at the company once known … Read more
