Comic Con and Official Media Partner ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Join Forces To Welcome Beloved Pop Culture Heroes. He’s also juggling a marriage in a tailspin and an affair with a young employee. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.Need to know…: Included in the National Film Registry in 2007; the marriage of star Gloria Grahame and director Nicholas Ray dissolved during filming, the pair keeping it secret from the studio for fear that one of them would be replaced. This latest entry goes behind the scenes with filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie, brothers who have made their name with a number of singularly chaotic features set in their native New York. Fearless opinion about all things cinema. Mother is working, but father and the couple’s two sons are on the dole.Need to know…: Gary Oldman suffered an eye injury when Tim Roth threw a milk bottle into a fluorescent lighting strip, showering Oldman in glass and requiring a hospital stay; was made for British television, though scored theatrical seasons internationally after critical success at home. Just bring a Xanax.”, A24 will release Uncut Gems on December 13. WINNER - 1949 Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Editing.Plot: Two New York City detectives investigate the death of an attractive young woman. Real cinephile . BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS (Dir: Billy Woodberry, 1984) Stars: Nate Hardman, Kaycee Moore and Angela Burnett. Plot: A working-class family struggles to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. How fitting it is that the season for scary viewing arrives as we teeter on the cusp of a historical moment. Nayman notes that “when somebody calls [Howard] a ‘crazy-ass Jew,’ it’s taken as an affirmation of a peculiar set of superpowers.” The Guardian’s Benjamin Lee found a uniquely Sandlerian humor in both Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love (2002) and Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017), “but it was awkward and intimate, more likely to make one shift in their seat than guffaw. Other recent additions to the programming include MEET THE FILMMAKER: ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI and ADVENTURES IN MOVIEGOING WITH BILL HADER. Money on the Street: A Conversation with the Safdie Brothers. A new 4K restoration of Fellini’s 1954 classic is now playing in virtual theaters from coast to coast. Developed and managed by Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in collaboration with the Criterion Collection, FilmStruck will be the new exclusive streaming home for the critically acclaimed and award-winning Criterion Collection, including the Criterion Channel, a new premium service programmed and curated by the Criterion team. GLORIA (Dir: John Cassavetes; U.S.A., 1980) Stars: Gena Rowlands (pictured, right), Buck Henry and Julie Carmen. CAMERA BUFF (Dir: Krzysztof Kieślowski; Poland, 1979) Stars: Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska and Ewa Pokas. Writing for Sight & Sound, Tom Charity finds the film “falling over itself to tell the tale, the kind of morbid barroom anecdote you can imagine the hoods from Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas sharing.” And, as Charity notes, Scorsese is one of the film’s executive producers. The Criterion Channel continues to provide premium viewing options over the isolation period. Notify me of follow-up comments via email. If Pattinson’s Connie is forever threatening to explode, Sandler’s Howard might implode at any moment. HERO (Dir: Stephen Frears; U.S.A., 1992) Stars Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis and Andy Garcia.Plot: A down-on-his-luck thief tops of a bad day when he loses a shoe while rescuing passengers of a plane crash. There are no comments for this journal entry. Adam Sandler plays Howard Ratner, a jewelry dealer in New York’s diamond district with a gambling habit that has him perpetually and impetuously staking more than he’s got on bets with all but impossible odds. », CRITERION CHANNEL GRILL SAFDIE BROS ON THE FILMS THEY LOVE, I want to leave a comment directly on this site ». The apparent suicide turns out to be murder.Need to know…: One of the first films to list technical credits at the end of the movie; a young photographer named Stanley Kubrick shot behind-the-scenes stills for Look magazine. ... Wowww, what a combination there. Club. WINNER - Otto Dibelius ‘New Cinema’ Film Award at the 1984 Berlin International Film Festival.Plot: Charlie Banks views his chronic unemployment as a spiritual trial, but he can’t sustain a family of five. . Sandler has an underappreciated ability to connect with the uncomfortable aspects of his more fleshed out characters, embarrassingly so at times, and his latest, arguably greatest, delve into drama pushes this to a whole new level.” Howard is “a man so profoundly irritating to almost everyone in his life that he seems on the verge of getting clocked in the face at all times,” writes A. For news and items of interest throughout the day, every day, follow @CriterionDaily. CLOSE-UP (Dir: Abbas Kiarostami, 1990; pictured, right) Stars Hossain Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Abolfazl Ahankhah. In the meantime, when the Safdies were talking with Variety’s Chris Willman in Toronto, the musical performance in the film from Abel Makkonen Tesfaye—The Weeknd—came up, and Josh let on that the brothers would soon be working with him again “on a bigger thing, still to be determined.” Josh added that “he’s a real cinephile, Abel. I am a Freelance Graphic Designer and have worked as an Art Director, Photographer and Art Teacher . . And that’s before you factor in Daniel Lopatin’s score, a shimmering, ringing chime of synthesizers that evokes light refracting off of precious stones.”, As Adam Nayman suggests at the Ringer, Sandler may not have the range of a Robert Pattinson, but the Safdies know exactly how to channel his persona. Listening to the Safdie brothers and PTA talk about their craft and share stories is possibly the greatest—and cheapest—film education around. THE MIRROR (Dir: Jafar Panahi; Iran, 1997) Stars Mina Mohammad Khani, Aida Mohammadkhani and Kazem Mojdehi. For more information on FilmStruck and The Criterion Channel, please visit http://www.filmstruck.com/press, I have a degree in Visual Communication which included Creative Writing,Graphic Design, Photography, Illustration and Marketing. Plot: When a young girl becomes lost in the hustle and bustle of Tehran, her journey turns into a dazzling exercise on the nature of film itself.Need to know…: Panahi has said that the film was meant to show how "reality and the imagination are intertwined, they are very similar". r/criterion: The Criterion Collection is a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films on home video. @linita_masters, © 2015 The Hollywood 360. FilmStruck’s Criterion Channel-exclusive series Meet the Filmmakers invites exciting contemporary directors to turn the camera on filmmakers that intrigue them, capturing their creative process through genuine, personal encounters, not filmographies or biographies.This latest entry goes behind the scenes with filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie, brothers who have made their name with a … In addition to candid footage from the set of their acclaimed new thriller GOOD TIME, director Michael Chaiken offers an intimate immersion in the Safdies’ world, where family life and filmmaking flow together inseparably. WINNER - Golden Prize and FIPRESCI Prize at the 1979 Moscow International Film Festival. I remember when he was living in Paris for a minute. . FilmStruck is a new subscription on-demand service that offers film aficionados a comprehensive library of films including an eclectic mix of contemporary and classic art house, indie, foreign and cult films. IN A LONELY PLACE (Dir: Nicholas Ray; U.S.A., 1950) Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame and Frank Lovejoy.Plot: A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. Upcoming entries in the Meet the Filmmakers series will include an encounter with legendary American independent filmmaker Charles Burnett (KILLER OF SHEEP, TO SLEEP WITH ANGER) and director-actor Robert Townsend (HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE), and a location-scouting trip to Colombia with Apichatpong Weerasethakul (UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES, CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR) by Connor Jessup. NOMINEE - Cahiers du Cinéma Top 10 Films of 1991 (5th place)Plot: Pretending to be filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a conman enters a middle class home in Tehran, offering a prominent part in a next movie. The Criterion Channel offers the largest streaming collection of Criterion films available, including classic and contemporary films from around the world, interviews and conversations with filmmakers and never-before-seen programming. You can either use the [, RENOWNED ASTROPHYSICIST ANNOUNCED AS SYDNEY SCIENCE FICTION FILM FEST PATRON, PREVIEW: 2020 SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL, REMEMBERING KELLY PRESTON: THE FILMS WE LOVE, REVFEST FINDS ITS GROOVE WITH COUCHED FIRST WAVE, DISNEY PLUS HONOURS STAR WARS ARTISTRY FROM MAY THE FOURTH, THE LIST: EVERY PIXAR MOVIE – WORST TO BEST, GEN-X INFLUENCE CLEAR IN OSCAR NIGHT TALENT ROSTER, JOKER HAS LAST LAUGH WITH ELEVEN 2020 OSCAR NOMINATIONS, THE BEAUTIFUL EYE OF ALLEN DAVIAU, R.I.P. Learn more about our use of cookies: cookie policy, MEET THE FILMMAKERS: JOSH AND BENNY SAFDIE. Celebrity beckons for the petty crook and he plans to take advantage, but then someone else claims credit for it.Need to know…: Mariah Carey originally recorded her hit single, "Hero", for this movie, Sony Records did not think the power ballad was a good fit; Chevy Chase appears uncredited in the Columbia Pictures release because of contractual obligations he had with Warner Bros at the time. MEET THE FILMMAKERS: JOSH AND BENNY SAFDIE, Michael Chaiken, 2017, LENNY COOKE, Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie, 2013, THE BLACK BALLOON, Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie, 2012, JOHN’S GONE, Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie, 2010, DADDY LONGLEGS, Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie, 2009, THE ACQUAINTANCES OF A LONELY JOHN, Benny Safdie, 2008, THE PLEASURE OF BEING ROBBED, Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie, 2008, WE’RE GOING TO THE ZOO, Josh Safdie, 2006, FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO JOIN FILMSTRUCK VISIT HERE. A jewel in their programming crown is Adventures in Moviegoing, the ‘films that inspire me’ series that has gone one-on-one with such talents as Sofia Coppola, Paul Feig, Guillermo del Toro, Brad Bird and Julie Taymor. Some HTML allowed:
, Have a response on your own site? “Their usual cinematographer, the essential New York indie stalwart Sean Price Williams, has been replaced here by the eminent Darius Khondji, who pushes the directors’ usual vision towards new extremes, starting with a switch from Williams's textured 16 mm to a richer, thicker 35 mm.”, Uncut Gems is also relentlessly loud.