The first movies in the lineup for the Montclair Film Festival were unveiled Friday, with the 10th annual New Jersey fest to open with Wes Anderson’s The Last Dispatch on October 21 and close October 30 with Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog.
The fest, which will be in-person with attendees vaccinated and masked, also will feature Jeymes Samuel’s Western The Harder They Fall as its Fiction Centerpiece on October 22, and will host New Jersey native Dionne Warwick and director Dave Wooley for a post-screening Q&a after the Non-Fiction Centerpiece film, Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over.
This year’s festival will also feature a free outdoor screening of The Mitchells vs. The Machines on October 14 and a screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show on October 30 at organizer Montclair Film’s new art house venue The Clairidge.
Tickets for Montclair Film members go on sale...
The fest, which will be in-person with attendees vaccinated and masked, also will feature Jeymes Samuel’s Western The Harder They Fall as its Fiction Centerpiece on October 22, and will host New Jersey native Dionne Warwick and director Dave Wooley for a post-screening Q&a after the Non-Fiction Centerpiece film, Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over.
This year’s festival will also feature a free outdoor screening of The Mitchells vs. The Machines on October 14 and a screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show on October 30 at organizer Montclair Film’s new art house venue The Clairidge.
Tickets for Montclair Film members go on sale...
- 9/17/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Juliet Landau writes, directs and appears in this complex hybrid of fiction and documentary that seeks to investigate our fascination with vampires
‘You’re that girl from Buffy,” someone says to actor-writer-director Juliet Landau at one point in A Place Among the Dead. Landau makes that thumbnail description of herself – she is indeed best known for playing the vampiric Drusilla in multiple episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff Angel – a badge of both honour and shame in this peculiar mockumentary-horror-psychodrama mashup. Depending on the angle of view, it’s either an excoriation of Hollywood narcissism and solipsism, or a product of it. As such, it suggests that Landau is clearly an interesting and complicated character, but her direction here is less compelling, given what a mess it is by the end.
The idea is that Landau, as herself, is making a doc with her husband-cinematographer Dev (real-life...
‘You’re that girl from Buffy,” someone says to actor-writer-director Juliet Landau at one point in A Place Among the Dead. Landau makes that thumbnail description of herself – she is indeed best known for playing the vampiric Drusilla in multiple episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff Angel – a badge of both honour and shame in this peculiar mockumentary-horror-psychodrama mashup. Depending on the angle of view, it’s either an excoriation of Hollywood narcissism and solipsism, or a product of it. As such, it suggests that Landau is clearly an interesting and complicated character, but her direction here is less compelling, given what a mess it is by the end.
The idea is that Landau, as herself, is making a doc with her husband-cinematographer Dev (real-life...
- 11/4/2020
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
The directorial debut from Juliet Landau, known to most of us as the demonic vampire, Drusilla in Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer is making its appearance in time for the Hallowe’en weekend. Landau has stuck to what she knows and what we expect by keeping with the vampire theme, but this time delving in to a more factual exploration of our current fascination with the undead. Landau plays herself in this pseudo-documentary, as she follows up on a serial murder case for her TV show, only to find out that the person behind these murders will lead her to confront her past demons in a society that so often keeps them hidden.
A Place Among the Dead has an almost Eraserhead quality to it, while not quite as jarring, there’s a certain bizarreness that is never really acknowledged; a feeling that you accept as part of the narrative.
A Place Among the Dead has an almost Eraserhead quality to it, while not quite as jarring, there’s a certain bizarreness that is never really acknowledged; a feeling that you accept as part of the narrative.
- 10/30/2020
- by April McIntyre
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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