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‘The Kitchen’ Review: Kibwe Tavares And Daniel Kaluuya’s Urban Sci-Fi Finds An Emotional Arc In A Grim Vision Of The Future – London Film Festival
There's a soaring ambition but only a modest intent in Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya's sober debut The Kitchen, a visually impressive depiction of things to come that simmers with all manner of protest but never hits boiling point. On the one hand, it's a…
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‘Killing Romance’ Director Lee Won-Suk On His Logic-Defying Cult Comedy: “Don’t Ask Why, Just Go With It!” – London East Asia Film Festival
"Incredibly weird — but delightful" was one audience member's indelible comment after the UK premiere of Lee Won-suk's insane comedy Killing Romance on Friday. Starring Lee Hanee, a former Miss Universe recently seen in the sci-fi romp Alienoid, it tells the story of Hwa Yeo-rae, a viral internet star who…
‘The Boys’ Director Chung Ji-Young: “For People Who Have Authority In Korea, I Am Their Public Enemy No. 1” – London East Asia Film Festival
South Korean auteur Chung Ji-Young came to the eighth London East Asia Film Festival on Wednesday night with his latest film The Boys, which opens in its homeland on 1 November. Based on real events, which saw three innocent country boys imprisoned in 1999 for a callous murder-robbery in North Jeolla…
‘Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget’ Review: Refreshing Aardman Sequel Comes With A Playful ‘Mission: Impossible’ Vibe – London Film Festival
By any metric, 23 years is a long time to wait for a sequel to Chicken Run, even when you factor in the fiendishly slow gestation of Aardman Animations' meticulous stop-motion process. Surprisingly, it still feels fresh, not just because of the spring-clean of the core voice cast — Mel Gibson being the…
‘Dear Jassi’ Review: Tarsem Singh Dhandwar’s Tender Story Of Star-Crossed Lovers Lands A Killer Blow – London Film Festival
Dear Jassi arrives with echoes of Madonna's 1989 hit "Dear Jessie" and its sugary promise of pink elephants and lemonade, but none of that turns out to be forthcoming in Tarsem Singh Dhandwar's beautiful and brutal sixth feature. Instead, we have perhaps the most disturbing bait-and-switch since George…
The ‘Nyad’ Team Celebrates Annette Bening’s Tireless Work Ethic: “She Found Her Passion” – Contenders London
Moving out of the documentary space with Nyad — the true but lightly fictionalized story of Diana Nyad, an athlete who swam from Florida to Cuba in her 60s — director Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi came to Contenders London with producer Andrew Lazar and Bonnie Stoll, the real-life inspiration for Jodie…
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The ‘Maestro’ Team On Bringing Leonard Bernstein’s Legacy To Life: “Music Is The Nuclear Energy In The Film’ – Contenders London
Fresh from a victory tour of the fall festivals, four of the key creatives behind Netflix awards favorite Maestro stopped by Contenders London to reveal some of the secrets behind the scenes.
Speaking with Deadline’s Baz Bamigboye, producer Kristie Macosko Krieger, makeup designer Kazu Hiro, costume…
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Toronto Film Festival 2023: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews
UPDATED with latest: The Toronto Film Festival began September 7 in Ontario with opening-night movie The Boy and the Heron, from Oscar-winning filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. It kicked off a lineup for the fest’s 48th edition that included world premieres of GameStop pic Dumb Money, Netflix's Pain Hustlers…
Wes Anderson Talks About Roald Dahl’s ‘The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar’, Teases His Next Movie, And Claims: “I Don’t Have An Aesthetic”
Despite fears for the future of film in the new, seemingly disposable digital era, there are still many auteurs holding on out there in the modern movie landscape. For example, there's Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan and even Michael Bay (for, as director Tarsem said of the latter’s work, "You may…
‘Lee’ Review: Kate Winslet Excels In A Complex Biopic Of A Woman At War On Many Fronts – Toronto Film Festival
A new trend on the fall festival circuit this year is the biopic of the unknown hero, something that seems unthinkable now in the digital age. There's One Life, about the Schindler-like achievements of Nicholas Winton, who saved nearly 700 Jewish children…
‘Royal Hotel’ Director Kitty Green On Seeing The Australian Outback Through A Female Lens — TIFF Studio
ROYAL HOTEL
Section: Gala Presentations
Director: Kitty Green
Screenwriter: Oscar Redding, Kitty Green
Logline: Two American girls (Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick) run out of cash while backpacking around Australia. To get home, they take a job in a rowdy pub in a remote mining…
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‘Aggro Dr1ft’ Director Harmony Korine: “It’s A New Kind Of Film For Me” – TIFF Studio
AGGRO DR1FT
Section: Midnight Madness
Director: Harmony Korine
Screenwriter: Harmony Korine
Logline: In a surreal, dystopian Miami, the world's greatest assassin is pursued by a demonic crime lord.
U.S. Sales Agent: CAA
Panelists: Harmony Korine (director)
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