First Run/Icarus Films
…Films (founded in 1978) and First Run Features (founded in 1979) merged their nontheatrical divisions to create a new company. It is owned by the two companies Icarus Films and…
…Films (founded in 1978) and First Run Features (founded in 1979) merged their nontheatrical divisions to create a new company. It is owned by the two companies Icarus Films and…
Rendez-Vous With French Cinema unreels in Lincoln Center February 28-March 10. The 24th annual edition, co-sponsored by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and UniFrance, presents nearly two dozen new French dramas, most having their US or New York premieres. Senior film critic Kurt Brokaw viewed everything available and selects Invisibles (above), Paul Sanchez Is Back!, and Raising Colors as favorites. Read those reviews here.
Director Radu Jude talks to The Independent about how his latest, Aferim!, may seem Shakespearian but actually uses language discovered in archival literary texts and other documents. And if you’re wondering where he’s headed next, it’s into an adaptation of work by novelist Max Blecher, sometimes called Romania’s Kafka.
…Wu, Weixi Chen, and Anonymous. The centerpiece narrative will be “Coming Home Again” by Wayne Wang. Definition Please; Sujata Day; USA; 2020; 91 minutes Monica Chowdry, a former spelling bee…
…the cover of Playboy [June issue]. It’s beyond my wildest dreams. I’m from a Communist country. A Chinese girl comes to America and poses in Playboy? At first I say…
Acclaimed actor Stephen Lang’s impressive career moves easily between indies such as this fall’s hit horror film Don’t Breathe and big studio films such as Public Enemies and Tombstone. Here he tells how his most personal indie project led to his biggest studio movie and how the two remain intertwined to this day.
…in New York and one producer on a first-look housekeeping deal (Shelley Spevakow). Currently, she’s in New York [(212) 727-7123] but will soon move to our L.A. office. How, when,…
…is what leads to your most fruitful work. I am completing the program and participating in Tisch Asia’s historic commencement ceremony this May, and my brother is also now a…
…evil or the details of Steve’s wife’s death. As a result, the finale doesn’t resolve all of the questions raised along the way. Still, I Trapped the Devil’s shortcomings don’t…