With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Beastie Boys Story (Spike Jonze)
Even with its two-hour running time, the experience of watching Spike Jonze’s “live documentary” Beastie Boys Story has the feeling of a breezy, intimate, and perhaps too-short trip through the band’s history. Documenting a live event hosted in Brooklyn by surviving members Mike “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz, the collaboration is a performed extension of their memoir, Beastie Boys Book. Reteaming with the group, Jonze directs this minimal two-man stage show about three guys who were lucky enough to cultivate and sustain a relationship as best friends for years. – John F. (full review)
Where to Stream: Apple...
Beastie Boys Story (Spike Jonze)
Even with its two-hour running time, the experience of watching Spike Jonze’s “live documentary” Beastie Boys Story has the feeling of a breezy, intimate, and perhaps too-short trip through the band’s history. Documenting a live event hosted in Brooklyn by surviving members Mike “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz, the collaboration is a performed extension of their memoir, Beastie Boys Book. Reteaming with the group, Jonze directs this minimal two-man stage show about three guys who were lucky enough to cultivate and sustain a relationship as best friends for years. – John F. (full review)
Where to Stream: Apple...
- 4/24/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Denis Côté's Ghost Town Anthology is exclusively showing April 21 - May 20, 2020 in Mubi's Luminaries series.There is a certain point in any winter where it becomes unending. Long past the picturesque first snow fall, what Canadian author Mavis Gallant wisely calls “the only clean thing in a dirty year,” the snow becomes grey, packed down, blending into the constantly overcast sky. Very little breaks up this eyeline, some barren trees, long snaking highways linking what few towns remain. Northern Quebec is dotted with these landscapes, towns once prosperous and now a shadow of their past selves. Not much happens in these dreary winters of Irénée-les-Neiges, the titular town of Denis Côté’s Ghost Town Anthology. But breaking up the winter is a sudden car crash, and when the life of a young man is taken with it, the...
- 4/15/2020
- MUBI
Denis Côté's Ghost Town Anthology is exclusively playing on Mubi from April 21 - May 20, 2020 in Mubi's Luminaries series.Above: Denis Côté. Photo by Eladio Agudo.INSPIRATIONAt the time of writing and shooting Ghost Town Anthology, my main inspiration was "present-day Quebec, Canada." I feel that people today are very afraid of losing the sense of comfort that my homeland offers. This fear presents itself in various ways—no need to say more about the current Covid-frenzy—and our resistance to change is fierce. The rise of populism in the media, the migrant crisis, the reluctance to be open to other people and identitarian closure are all themes that interest me. Laurence Olivier’s book is a poetic collection of slices of life and disjointed stories, and I tried to keep its spirit. Changes and tears in the social fabric are fascinating phenomena, and I designed a story with holes...
- 4/13/2020
- MUBI
Several international directors join the leading Greek film festival’s lockdown-inspired initiative.
Award-winning filmmakers Jia Zhangke, Radu Jude, Denis Côté and Ildiko Enyedi have joined a lockdown-inspired film series launched by Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Tiff).
The directors, who have all previously attended the leading Greek film festival, will each make a three-minute short on the theme of confinement. The series, titled Spaces, is inspired by the coronavirus quarantine that has seen a third of the world’s population placed under some form of restriction.
Other filmmakers set to participate include Us actor and director John C. Lynch, Dutch filmmaker Nanouk Leopold,...
Award-winning filmmakers Jia Zhangke, Radu Jude, Denis Côté and Ildiko Enyedi have joined a lockdown-inspired film series launched by Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Tiff).
The directors, who have all previously attended the leading Greek film festival, will each make a three-minute short on the theme of confinement. The series, titled Spaces, is inspired by the coronavirus quarantine that has seen a third of the world’s population placed under some form of restriction.
Other filmmakers set to participate include Us actor and director John C. Lynch, Dutch filmmaker Nanouk Leopold,...
- 4/6/2020
- by 307¦Alexis Grivas¦39¦
- ScreenDaily
Skipping school certainly contains its perks. First time actress (and climate change activist) Sara Montpetit has landed the lead role in Sébastien Pilote‘s fourth feature film, Maria Chapdelaine. The young thesp beat out about one thousand plus hopefuls for the role; she’ll be surrounded by Hélène Florent, Sébastien Ricard, Émile Schneider, Antoine-Olivier Pilon (Xavier Dolan’s Mommy), Robert Naylor (Denis Côté’s Ghost Town Anthology), Gilbert Sicotte (who played the lead in Pilote’s Cannes selected Le Vendeur), Gabriel Arcand with additional parts going to Henri Picard, Martin Dubreuil, Danny Gilmore, Arno Lemay, Charlotte St-Martin, Thomas Haché, and Xavier Rivard-Désy.…...
- 2/17/2020
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Home and Film4 have announce the programme for the fourth annual FilmFear season – the biggest programme yet will comprise six days of horror, extreme cinema, cult favourites and special guests coming to Manchester this October.
Kicking off the season on Tuesday 29 October will be a special preview of The Lighthouse, director Robert Eggers’ much-anticipated follow-up to his folk-horror debut The Witch (2015). Starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as lighthouse keepers battling the elements, isolation, inner demons and more on a remote and mysterious Maine island in the 1890s, the eerie period tale will be on general release in January 2020 making Home audiences amongst the first to see the film in the UK. FilmFear and Home will also tour the film to Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds the following evening.
Following in its wake over the course of six nights through to Sunday 3 November come more previews of highly anticipated films,...
Kicking off the season on Tuesday 29 October will be a special preview of The Lighthouse, director Robert Eggers’ much-anticipated follow-up to his folk-horror debut The Witch (2015). Starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as lighthouse keepers battling the elements, isolation, inner demons and more on a remote and mysterious Maine island in the 1890s, the eerie period tale will be on general release in January 2020 making Home audiences amongst the first to see the film in the UK. FilmFear and Home will also tour the film to Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds the following evening.
Following in its wake over the course of six nights through to Sunday 3 November come more previews of highly anticipated films,...
- 9/6/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Simon died, or perhaps he killed himself. His car raced through a wintry country road, span, crashed. None of the 215 inhabitants of his native Quebecois hamlet of Irénée-les-Neiges would dare to call it a suicide, not even his older brother Jimmy, mother Gisèle, and father Romuald. But the boy’s death was no isolated case. “We lost him in a battle, but we haven’t lost the war,” Irénée’s mayor Simone Smallwood addresses the townspeople at the vigil, where the battle she hints at rekindles the lad’s death to the several suicides the remote town has suffered through the decades. The war, in turn, speaks to something far larger: a small community’s struggle against an outer urban world that concurrently poaches its residents, and pushes those who remain deeper into oblivion.
Denis Côté’s perturbing Ghost Town Anthology pivots on this conflict. It is a haunting portrait...
Denis Côté’s perturbing Ghost Town Anthology pivots on this conflict. It is a haunting portrait...
- 2/19/2019
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
Six titles still to take their places.
Denis Coté’s Ghost Town Anthology has landed on Screen’s Berlin Competition jury grid, taking third place with an average of 2.7 with two scores to come.
The film achieved a top score four (excellent) from The Morning Star’s Rita Di Santo, as well as threes (good) from Frankfurter Allgemeine’s Verena Lueken and Segnocinema’s Paolo Bertolin.
The film follows a grieving family who encounter a series of strangers in an isolated town in the wake of a fatal car crash. Robert Naylor, Josée Deschénes and Jean-Michel Anctil lead the cast.
Denis Coté’s Ghost Town Anthology has landed on Screen’s Berlin Competition jury grid, taking third place with an average of 2.7 with two scores to come.
The film achieved a top score four (excellent) from The Morning Star’s Rita Di Santo, as well as threes (good) from Frankfurter Allgemeine’s Verena Lueken and Segnocinema’s Paolo Bertolin.
The film follows a grieving family who encounter a series of strangers in an isolated town in the wake of a fatal car crash. Robert Naylor, Josée Deschénes and Jean-Michel Anctil lead the cast.
- 2/12/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
A film that’s every bit as bleak and fragmented as its title implies, Denis Côté’s “Ghost Town Anthology” is a pointedly modern portrait of a place that’s come unstuck in time. The fictional hamlet of Irénée-les-Neiges is located in a barren stretch of backwoods Québec, and the 215 people who still live there are almost as dead as the trees in winter, or the local economy since the mine shut down. Simon Dubé, the 21-year-old hockey player who crashes his car into a cement wall in the opening scene, is just a little bit deader than the rest.
His departure sends a destabilizing shiver through everyone who knew him; one of the many characters in Côté’s small mosaic likens the community to a house of cards that won’t be able to sustain itself in Simon’s absence, as if the young man’s suicide violated the...
His departure sends a destabilizing shiver through everyone who knew him; one of the many characters in Côté’s small mosaic likens the community to a house of cards that won’t be able to sustain itself in Simon’s absence, as if the young man’s suicide violated the...
- 2/11/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
A chill air blows through the small Quebecois village of Irénée-les-Neiges following a young man’s suicide, bringing with it unexpected and largely unwelcome visitors. Denis Côté’s “Ghost Town Anthology” has superficial parallels to Robin Campillo’s “They Came Back,” in which the dead return, but in keeping with the maverick Canadian’s style, his film is a more intimate, more unsettling work that approaches narrative elliptically: Mysteries remain mysteries, and the value isn’t in finding answers but in emotionally exploring where the questions take you. Shot on 16mm for a suitable graininess, “Ghost Town” is a largely monochrome ensemble piece that muses on, rather than directly addresses, the current hot topics of the “other” and the viability of small-town life. Skirting genre formulas, the film takes a more modest approach than “Vic + Flo Saw a Bear,” and though more universal/accessible, will require intelligent marketing to...
- 2/11/2019
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
There are no scares in Ghost Town Anthology, but a disquieting mood slowly builds as the dead start returning to haunt a rural village shocked out of its stagnant inertia and imperviousness to change. French-Canadian critic-turned-filmmaker Denis Cote's latest occupies a stylistic middle-ground between the gentle observation of his nonfiction cine-essays like Bestiaire and A Skin So Soft on one hand, and his oddball elliptical narratives, like Vic + Flo Saw a Bear, on the other. Probably too subdued for genre fans and too psychologically thin for those with artier inclinations, the low-key mood piece nonetheless has enough ambiguity to keep you watching....
- 2/11/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
There are no scares in Ghost Town Anthology, but a disquieting mood slowly builds as the dead start returning to haunt a rural village shocked out of its stagnant inertia and imperviousness to change. French-Canadian critic-turned-filmmaker Denis Cote's latest occupies a stylistic middle-ground between the gentle observation of his nonfiction cine-essays like Bestiaire and A Skin So Soft on one hand, and his oddball elliptical narratives, like Vic + Flo Saw a Bear, on the other. Probably too subdued for genre fans and too psychologically thin for those with artier inclinations, the low-key mood piece nonetheless has enough ambiguity to keep you watching....
- 2/11/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Eight titles still to take their places.
Teona Strugar Mitevska’s God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya and Agnieska Holland’s Mr Jones have entered Screen’s Berlin jury grid, with the former achieving the better scores of the two.
God Exists currently sits joint top of the grid alongide Wang Quan’an’s Öndög with a 2.8 average, although God Exists has two scores to come which are likely to separate the films. It achieved a mixture of twos and threes, with Paolo Bertolin of Segnocinema giving it top marks of four (excellent).
The film is a drama about a...
Teona Strugar Mitevska’s God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya and Agnieska Holland’s Mr Jones have entered Screen’s Berlin jury grid, with the former achieving the better scores of the two.
God Exists currently sits joint top of the grid alongide Wang Quan’an’s Öndög with a 2.8 average, although God Exists has two scores to come which are likely to separate the films. It achieved a mixture of twos and threes, with Paolo Bertolin of Segnocinema giving it top marks of four (excellent).
The film is a drama about a...
- 2/11/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Seven titles have now taken their spots.
Three new titles have taken their places on the Screen Berlin jury grid, with Wang Quan’an’s Öndög still in first place with an updated score of 2.8.
Berlinale regular Fatih Akin’s The Golden Glove fared just Ok with the jurors, managing an average of 2.0 with one score still to come. It had a mode score of one (poor) from 3 critics, although this was broken up with a three (good) from Film Art’s Anton Dolin and a four (excellent) from Segnocinema’s Paolo Bertolin.
The film is an adaptation of Heinz Strunk’s 2016 novel,...
Three new titles have taken their places on the Screen Berlin jury grid, with Wang Quan’an’s Öndög still in first place with an updated score of 2.8.
Berlinale regular Fatih Akin’s The Golden Glove fared just Ok with the jurors, managing an average of 2.0 with one score still to come. It had a mode score of one (poor) from 3 critics, although this was broken up with a three (good) from Film Art’s Anton Dolin and a four (excellent) from Segnocinema’s Paolo Bertolin.
The film is an adaptation of Heinz Strunk’s 2016 novel,...
- 2/10/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Films Boutique has debuted the first promo trailer for an indie drama titled Ghost Town Anthology, aka Répertoire des villes disparues, set in snowy Quebec. The film takes place in a small and isolated town. A boy named Simon Dubé dies in a car accident. The stunned townspeople are reluctant to discuss the tragedy. From that point on time seems to lose all meaning, and the days stretch on without end. This is premiering at the Berlin Film Festival which is now underway, and it's playing In Competition during the fest. Starring Robert Naylor, Josée Deschênes, Jean-Michel Anctil, Larissa Corriveau, Rémi Goulet, Diane Lavallée, and Hubert Proulx. This is such an odd trailer - playing like an old news reel, and more of a behind-the-scenes look than a real trailer. The film is also in color, not B&W. I'm curious to see this anyway. Here's the first promo trailer...
- 2/8/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
NEWSCharles Burnett's Killer of SheepTwo exciting stories involving two forerunners of the L.A. Rebellion: Charles Burnett is set to direct the film Steal Away, about the escape of former slave-turned-politician Robert Smalls; while Julie Dash will be helming Lionsgate's Angela Davis biopic. GammaRay and Celestial pictures will be hosting a Shaw Brothers movie marathon on Twitch that will continue from February 4 to February 8. The globally-streaming marathon includes 44 full-length features from the Shaw Brothers’ catalog, so make sure to clear your calendars! Recommended VIEWINGThe release of Harmony Korine's long awaited follow-up to his lightening-in-a-bottle movie Spring Breakers is finally near. Here's a new trailer for the Miami-set, Matthew McConaughey-starring odyssey.A lovely miniature play with form: the U.S. trailer for Hong Sang-soo's Hotel by the River. Meanwhile, we are currently running a retrospective of Hong's films in the UK entitled Solving Puzzles: The Cinema of Hong Sang-soo.
- 1/31/2019
- MUBI
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week […]
The post This Week In Trailers: Wild Rose, Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men, Ghost Town Anthology, Drunk Parents, Styx appeared first on /Film.
The post This Week In Trailers: Wild Rose, Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men, Ghost Town Anthology, Drunk Parents, Styx appeared first on /Film.
- 1/27/2019
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
Film is latest from Vic + Flo Saw A Bear director Cote.
Screen can unveil the first trailer for Denis Cote’s Ghost Town Anthology, which has its world premiere In Competition at next month’s Berlin Film Festival.
The film is set in a small and isolated town. When Simon Dubé dies in a car accident, the stunned townspeople are reluctant to discuss the circumstances of the tragedy. From that point on time seems to lose all meaning, and the days stretch on without end.
Ziad Touma produced the feature. Writer/director Cote’s previous credits include 2013 Berlin Competition title Vic + Flo Saw A Bear.
Screen can unveil the first trailer for Denis Cote’s Ghost Town Anthology, which has its world premiere In Competition at next month’s Berlin Film Festival.
The film is set in a small and isolated town. When Simon Dubé dies in a car accident, the stunned townspeople are reluctant to discuss the circumstances of the tragedy. From that point on time seems to lose all meaning, and the days stretch on without end.
Ziad Touma produced the feature. Writer/director Cote’s previous credits include 2013 Berlin Competition title Vic + Flo Saw A Bear.
- 1/25/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Five new titles, including the latest films from Zhang Yimou and Andre Techine, have joined the official selection of this year’s Berlin Film Festival. Adam McKay’s “Vice” has also been added, but will screen out of competition.
“Vice” has already won a Golden Globe for star Christian Bale’s portrayal of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and picked up six BAFTA nominations last week, including for Bale, supporting actor Sam Rockwell and supporting actress Amy Adams. The festival screening will mark its German premiere.
The new additions to the main competition lineup include the world premieres of Zhang’s “One Second” and Nadav Lapid’s “Synonyms.” Techine’s “Farewell to the Night,” which stars Catherine Deneuve, also receives its world premiere at the Berlinale but will play out of competition. Alan Elliott’s documentary “Amazing Grace,” about Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, will screen out of competition as well,...
“Vice” has already won a Golden Globe for star Christian Bale’s portrayal of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and picked up six BAFTA nominations last week, including for Bale, supporting actor Sam Rockwell and supporting actress Amy Adams. The festival screening will mark its German premiere.
The new additions to the main competition lineup include the world premieres of Zhang’s “One Second” and Nadav Lapid’s “Synonyms.” Techine’s “Farewell to the Night,” which stars Catherine Deneuve, also receives its world premiere at the Berlinale but will play out of competition. Alan Elliott’s documentary “Amazing Grace,” about Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin, will screen out of competition as well,...
- 1/17/2019
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
Films by Zhang Yimou and André Téchiné will have world premieres in Berlin.
The final titles for the Berlin International Film Festival Competition and Berlianle Special sections have been announced.
The new competition additions are world premieres of Zhang Yimou’s One Second, André Téchiné’s Farewell To The Night, Nadav Lapid’s Synonyms, the German premiere of Vice, and the European premiere of Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace.
Of the new titles, Farewell To The Night, Alan Elliott’s Amazing Grace and Vice will play out of competition. 17 of the 23 films in the Competition section will be in contention...
The final titles for the Berlin International Film Festival Competition and Berlianle Special sections have been announced.
The new competition additions are world premieres of Zhang Yimou’s One Second, André Téchiné’s Farewell To The Night, Nadav Lapid’s Synonyms, the German premiere of Vice, and the European premiere of Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace.
Of the new titles, Farewell To The Night, Alan Elliott’s Amazing Grace and Vice will play out of competition. 17 of the 23 films in the Competition section will be in contention...
- 1/17/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.