October is upon us. The leaves are changing. Sweaters are becoming more abundant. Awards contenders are popping up in theaters nationwide. But those are far from the only films opening throughout the coming weeks. Below, you’ll find every planned theatrical release for the month of October, separated out into films with wide runs and limited ones. (Synopses are provided by festivals and distributors.)
Each week, we’ll give you an update with more specific information on where these films are playing. In the meantime, be sure to check our calendar page, where we’ll update releases for the rest of the year. Stay warm and happy watching!
Week of October 7 Wide
The Birth of a Nation
Director: Nate Parker
Cast: Aja Naomi King, Armie Hammer, Gabrielle Union, Jackie Earle Haley, Mark Boone Junior, Nate Parker
Synopsis: Set against the antebellum South and based on a true story, “The Birth...
Each week, we’ll give you an update with more specific information on where these films are playing. In the meantime, be sure to check our calendar page, where we’ll update releases for the rest of the year. Stay warm and happy watching!
Week of October 7 Wide
The Birth of a Nation
Director: Nate Parker
Cast: Aja Naomi King, Armie Hammer, Gabrielle Union, Jackie Earle Haley, Mark Boone Junior, Nate Parker
Synopsis: Set against the antebellum South and based on a true story, “The Birth...
- 10/6/2016
- by Steve Greene and Zipporah Smith
- Indiewire
Simply put, the SXSW Film, Music and Interactive Festival is one of the biggest, most prestigious events in the media calendar. Taking place annually in Austin, Texas, it is beloved by film fans and filmmakers from all over the world, and has reached such heights by building a reputation for showcasing excellent content. This results in a high level of competition, with the Narrative Feature category alone having received 1442 submissions this year, and the documentary feature category having received 1,013.
The 2016 event looks to be particularly exciting, with many world premieres and feature debuts already announced. The Narrative Feature category will include Julia Hart’s Miss Stevens, Debra Eisenstadt’s Before The Sun Explodes, Joey Klein’s The Other Half, and Musa Syeed’s A Stray, among others, while the Headliner category will feature Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some.
The Narrative Spotlight category includes 9 Rides by Matthew A. Cherry; The Waiting...
The 2016 event looks to be particularly exciting, with many world premieres and feature debuts already announced. The Narrative Feature category will include Julia Hart’s Miss Stevens, Debra Eisenstadt’s Before The Sun Explodes, Joey Klein’s The Other Half, and Musa Syeed’s A Stray, among others, while the Headliner category will feature Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some.
The Narrative Spotlight category includes 9 Rides by Matthew A. Cherry; The Waiting...
- 2/10/2016
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
The Tall Man's sphere is aiming its blades at Austin, as Bad Robot's 4K restoration of Don Coscarelli's Phantasm will screen at South by Southwest 2016 as part of the film festival's recently revealed Midnighters lineup:
From SXSW: "Scary, funny, sexy, controversial – provocative after-dark features for night owls and the terminally curious.
Carnage Park
Director/Screenwriter: Mickey Keating
The year is 1978. A team of wannabe crooks botch a small-town bank heist and flee with their hostage deep into the California desert, where they find themselves in a harrowing fight for survival against a psychotic ex-military sniper. Cast: Ashley Bell, Pat Healy, Alan Ruck, Darby Stanchfield, Larry Fessenden, Graham Skipper, James Landry Hebert, Michael Villar
Hush
Director: Mike Flanagan, Screenwriters: Mike Flanagan, Kate Siegel
A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home. Cast: Kate Siegel, John Gallagher Jr., Michael Trucco, Samantha Sloyan (World Premiere)
I Am a Hero...
From SXSW: "Scary, funny, sexy, controversial – provocative after-dark features for night owls and the terminally curious.
Carnage Park
Director/Screenwriter: Mickey Keating
The year is 1978. A team of wannabe crooks botch a small-town bank heist and flee with their hostage deep into the California desert, where they find themselves in a harrowing fight for survival against a psychotic ex-military sniper. Cast: Ashley Bell, Pat Healy, Alan Ruck, Darby Stanchfield, Larry Fessenden, Graham Skipper, James Landry Hebert, Michael Villar
Hush
Director: Mike Flanagan, Screenwriters: Mike Flanagan, Kate Siegel
A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home. Cast: Kate Siegel, John Gallagher Jr., Michael Trucco, Samantha Sloyan (World Premiere)
I Am a Hero...
- 2/9/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 20 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new psychological thriller “As Above, So Below”!
“As Above, So Below,” which opens on Aug. 29, 2014, stars Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, François Civil, Marion Lambert, Ali Marhyar, Cosme Castro and Hamid Djavadan from writer and director John Erick Dowdle and writer Drew Dowdle.
To win your free “As Above, So Below” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your odds of winning; this doesn’t intensify your competition!
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“As Above, So Below,” which opens on Aug. 29, 2014, stars Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, François Civil, Marion Lambert, Ali Marhyar, Cosme Castro and Hamid Djavadan from writer and director John Erick Dowdle and writer Drew Dowdle.
To win your free “As Above, So Below” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your odds of winning; this doesn’t intensify your competition!
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- 8/25/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
From the novel of the same name, co-written and directed by the book’s author, Atiq Rahimi, The Patience Stone is named for a Persian folk story about a magical stone that one can confide anything to. In this case, the patience stone is the comatose husband of a beautiful young woman, who finally finds her voice, then rarely loses it, as she builds the strength to share her life’s story with a man who ruled over her as a tyrant.
The woman (Golshifteh Farahani) is never named, nor is her husband (Hamidreza Javdan). As the film opens, the evocative tableau suggests a penitent ideal of womanhood in wartime, an age-old image of the caring wife tending to her heroic and maimed husband. As the bombs shaking their provincial home cease, bringing an eerie calm, it is her voice that finally punctuates the silence. From there on, everything changes,...
The woman (Golshifteh Farahani) is never named, nor is her husband (Hamidreza Javdan). As the film opens, the evocative tableau suggests a penitent ideal of womanhood in wartime, an age-old image of the caring wife tending to her heroic and maimed husband. As the bombs shaking their provincial home cease, bringing an eerie calm, it is her voice that finally punctuates the silence. From there on, everything changes,...
- 4/4/2014
- by Kyle North
- JustPressPlay.net
A beautiful and haunting Afghan film about love, devotion, and a woman’s “duty”; a remarkable feminist story from the unlikeliest place on the planet. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
We don’t know where what we witness is occurring, but it is a place of sand and no running water, of mullahs and burqas, of battle raging nearby and grievously wounded soldiers. One of those soldiers (Hamidreza Javdan) lies comatose in his home, nursed by his much younger wife (Golshifteh Farahani: Body of Lies) to the degree that she is able. It’s getting more difficult now that the pharmacist refuses to give her, on credit, any more of the “serum” her husband needs — as a poor near-widow, her husband unable to support her or their small daughters,...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
We don’t know where what we witness is occurring, but it is a place of sand and no running water, of mullahs and burqas, of battle raging nearby and grievously wounded soldiers. One of those soldiers (Hamidreza Javdan) lies comatose in his home, nursed by his much younger wife (Golshifteh Farahani: Body of Lies) to the degree that she is able. It’s getting more difficult now that the pharmacist refuses to give her, on credit, any more of the “serum” her husband needs — as a poor near-widow, her husband unable to support her or their small daughters,...
- 3/11/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Having turned in an immensely empathetical performance in Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly, talented Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani now stars in a film equally as poignant with yet another absorbing lead performance, in Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone, based on the director’s very own novel. However despite the melancholy that prevails within this drama, there is something uplifting and inspiring about this tale, as watch on as a lonely woman finds her voice in spite of the desolation that surrounds her.
Set in a war torn nation, Farahani plays ‘the woman’ – who devotes her life to caring after her husband (Hamid Djavadan), who lays in a motionless, vegetative state in a derelict room, following a bullet to the neck. Though struggling to make ends meet – also looking after two daughters in the process, the woman finds solace in finally being able to say things she’d never had the courage to say,...
Set in a war torn nation, Farahani plays ‘the woman’ – who devotes her life to caring after her husband (Hamid Djavadan), who lays in a motionless, vegetative state in a derelict room, following a bullet to the neck. Though struggling to make ends meet – also looking after two daughters in the process, the woman finds solace in finally being able to say things she’d never had the courage to say,...
- 12/3/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Somewhere in an unnamed Afghanistan village torn apart by a war, a beautiful unnamed woman (Golshifteh Farahani) watches over her older soldier husband (Hamid Djavadan) in a decrepit room while Taliban-like gangs roam the streets. He is reduced to a vegetative state of because of a bullet in his neck sustained not through battle, but in a barroom brawl over an insult. One day, she begins a solitary confession to this silent man. She talks (and talks and talks) about her childhood, her suffering, her frustrations, her loneliness, and her dreams. She touches him, bathes him, kisses him – things she could never have done before, even though they have been married for 10 years. The paralyzed man becomes the title ‘patience stone’ which, according to myth, when placed in front of a person shields him or her from suffering and unhappiness. In this wait for her husband to come back to life,...
- 10/4/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Chicago – Despite any manmade restrictions through governments, religion, commerce or trumped-up morality, the truth has a way of mightily conquering all. “The Patience Stone” is a perfect example of that luxurious truth, and it is an important contemporary fairy tale.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Through the most simplest of premises – a war victim is stuck caring for her vegetative husband – there emerges the passion of what is essential for human beings. Being authentic, unburdening the soul and coming to what is necessary in our lives to fully engage – that is what the film unleashes. The war zone depicted in the story is a Middle East-type setting, but is never named, and provides a presence to the native suffering that is occurs in perpetual conflict. The marginalization of women in these traditionally religious territories is another grand theme of the narrative, and speaks to the broader context of narrowing the humanity of females in general.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Through the most simplest of premises – a war victim is stuck caring for her vegetative husband – there emerges the passion of what is essential for human beings. Being authentic, unburdening the soul and coming to what is necessary in our lives to fully engage – that is what the film unleashes. The war zone depicted in the story is a Middle East-type setting, but is never named, and provides a presence to the native suffering that is occurs in perpetual conflict. The marginalization of women in these traditionally religious territories is another grand theme of the narrative, and speaks to the broader context of narrowing the humanity of females in general.
- 9/6/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Title: The Patience Stone Director: Atiq Rahimi Starring: Golshifteh Farahani, Hamid Djavadan, Hassina Burgan, Massi Mrowat Atiq Rahimi’s “The Patience Stone” is a unique, intimately scaled and enormously affecting dissection of patriarchal culture. The French-Afghan filmmaker’s drama, which debuted at last year’s Toronto Film Festival and was Afghanistan’s Best Foreign Language Academy Award submission, serves as a wonderful showcase for star Golshifteh Farahani, and if there’s any justice will deliver even more success her way. The film’s story is extraordinarily plain, yet still gripping. In contemporary, war-torn Afghanistan, a young wife (Farahani) and mother of two children, after around a decade of marriage, tends to her wounded husband (Hamid Djavadan), [ Read More ]
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- 8/23/2013
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Stone Faced: Rahimi’s Concept Bogged Down By Transparency
As he did with his 2004 film, Earth and Ashes, Afghan filmmaker Atiq Rahimi adapts one of his own novels, The Patience Stone, for his latest feature. A situational drama inspired by a native fable concerning the titular stone, Rahimi proposes a ‘what if’ scenario that unfortunately gets repetitively tiresome, even if its locale grants it a certain compelling fervor. What if a Muslim woman could speak her mind truthfully without fear of consequence, relay her innermost thoughts and emotions to a catatonic spouse that’s kept her under the harsh thumb of his oppression for a decade? Whatever agency our lead protagonist is able to establish for herself, there’s an arid hue of hopelessness surrounding her specific situation, and its dubious streak of fortune makes this feel like science fiction.
In an unspecified Afghan city set during the country’s recent upheaval,...
As he did with his 2004 film, Earth and Ashes, Afghan filmmaker Atiq Rahimi adapts one of his own novels, The Patience Stone, for his latest feature. A situational drama inspired by a native fable concerning the titular stone, Rahimi proposes a ‘what if’ scenario that unfortunately gets repetitively tiresome, even if its locale grants it a certain compelling fervor. What if a Muslim woman could speak her mind truthfully without fear of consequence, relay her innermost thoughts and emotions to a catatonic spouse that’s kept her under the harsh thumb of his oppression for a decade? Whatever agency our lead protagonist is able to establish for herself, there’s an arid hue of hopelessness surrounding her specific situation, and its dubious streak of fortune makes this feel like science fiction.
In an unspecified Afghan city set during the country’s recent upheaval,...
- 8/16/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Title: The Patience Stone Sony Pictures Classics Director: Atiq Rahimi Screenwriter: Jean-Claude Carriére, Atiq Rahimi from his novel Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Hamidrez Javdan, Hassina Burgan, Massi Browat, Hamid Djavadan, Massi Mrowat Screened at: Sony, NYC, 8/8/13 Opens: August 14, 2013 The expression “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” applies mightily in Atiq Rahimi’s “The Patience Stone.” In fact while that bon mot might best apply to the women of oppressive countries like Iran and Afghanistan, the quote comes strangely enough from William Congreve’s “The Mourning Bride,” written in 1697, from a country where compared to what women undergo in much of the profoundly sexist world, Britain must have [ Read More ]
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- 8/9/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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