It has been a great year for character studies. Half of the films on my best of 2022 are primarily focused on just one or two performances, using longer-than-expected runtimes to dig into what truly makes them tick. From disgraced conductors to larger-than-life sex workers to pathological liars to Melbourne commuters, perhaps the only thing these character studies have in common is a willingness to go deep into the universal condition of what makes us human. It has made for a satisfying year. Complemented by genre pictures, ranging from sci-fi spectacle to eat-the-rich satire to the road movie, 2022 has delighted and surprised, with great films coming in from nine different countries and three different continents. Here are my picks for the 10 best films of the year.
Honourable mentions: Sick of Myself, Elvis, Black Night, Piggy, The Bear Season One, Episode Seven, Argentina vs Holland Quarter Final.
10. Minsk | Boris Guts
Before the...
Honourable mentions: Sick of Myself, Elvis, Black Night, Piggy, The Bear Season One, Episode Seven, Argentina vs Holland Quarter Final.
10. Minsk | Boris Guts
Before the...
- 12/27/2022
- by Redmond Bacon
- Directors Notes
Why do most of us obey the law even when nobody is watching? Rules of one sort or another help to create social frameworks which make interaction safer and more peaceful, but they also affect the way we think and the decisions we make. Some rules are created privately as part of a process of self-discipline or to protect us from temptation. They may not even be conscious, but when somebody suggests breaking them, we realise that they’re there.
Simone (Sol Miranda) deals with one set of rules in class as a law student and with another on the website through which she pays for her studies, working as a cam girl. She also has private rules about what she will and won’t do. These help to keep her safe at work but they bleed over into her personal life. When her girlfriend, who works in the same industry,...
Simone (Sol Miranda) deals with one set of rules in class as a law student and with another on the website through which she pays for her studies, working as a cam girl. She also has private rules about what she will and won’t do. These help to keep her safe at work but they bleed over into her personal life. When her girlfriend, who works in the same industry,...
- 10/24/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Rule 34 Photo: courtesy of Newfest
When I connect with her, Brazilian director Júlia Murat has recently arrived in New York City for this year’s Newfest, where her film Rule 34 (Regla 34) is to screen. It’s the story of Simone (played by Sol Miranda), a young woman who works as a cam girl in order to support herself through law school. When a girlfriend and fellow sex worker tries to persuade her to experiment with pain and bondage, Simone is initially reluctant, not least because of the semiotics of putting herself in that position as a black woman, but as she begins to test boundaries in both her private and professional lives, she embarks on a journey which changes her perspective on the world and the way she interacts with other people.
The idea, Júlia tells me, was to develop a character who is distanced from the world and is in some ways extremely.
When I connect with her, Brazilian director Júlia Murat has recently arrived in New York City for this year’s Newfest, where her film Rule 34 (Regla 34) is to screen. It’s the story of Simone (played by Sol Miranda), a young woman who works as a cam girl in order to support herself through law school. When a girlfriend and fellow sex worker tries to persuade her to experiment with pain and bondage, Simone is initially reluctant, not least because of the semiotics of putting herself in that position as a black woman, but as she begins to test boundaries in both her private and professional lives, she embarks on a journey which changes her perspective on the world and the way she interacts with other people.
The idea, Júlia tells me, was to develop a character who is distanced from the world and is in some ways extremely.
- 10/13/2022
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Brazilian filmmaker Julia Murat’s provocative drama “Rule 34” (“Regra 34”) has shared its trailer exclusively with Variety before its bow at the Locarno Film Festival.
If the trailer is anything to go by, the movie will make the filmmakers behind “50 Shades of Gray” blush. “Rule 34” competes in the official section of the Swiss festival which posts the following disclaimer on its site: “This film features scenes that could shock the sensitivity of some viewers.”
As explained in the Urban Dictionary, Rule 34 refers to “the 34th rule of the Internet, which states that any object, character, or media franchise imaginable has porn associated with it.”
“Rule 34” turns on 23-year-old Simone (played by Sol Miranda) who studies criminal law and advocates for women’s rights. By day she studies law and martial arts; by night she performs in front of a live sex cam in exchange for tokens. One night, while watching a Bdsm film online,...
If the trailer is anything to go by, the movie will make the filmmakers behind “50 Shades of Gray” blush. “Rule 34” competes in the official section of the Swiss festival which posts the following disclaimer on its site: “This film features scenes that could shock the sensitivity of some viewers.”
As explained in the Urban Dictionary, Rule 34 refers to “the 34th rule of the Internet, which states that any object, character, or media franchise imaginable has porn associated with it.”
“Rule 34” turns on 23-year-old Simone (played by Sol Miranda) who studies criminal law and advocates for women’s rights. By day she studies law and martial arts; by night she performs in front of a live sex cam in exchange for tokens. One night, while watching a Bdsm film online,...
- 8/1/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
God’s Time Review — God’s Time (2022) Film Review from the 21st Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Daniel Antebi, starring Ben Groh, Dion Costelloe, Liz Caribel Sierra, Jared Abrahamson, Segun Akande, Bobby Guarino, Ira Hawkins, Sol Miranda, Manuel Penichet, John Pope, Christiane Seidel, Luisa Sofia, Jonathan Tierney, [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: God’S Time: NYC Anxiety Cinema At Its Funniest [Tribeca 2022]...
Continue reading: Film Review: God’S Time: NYC Anxiety Cinema At Its Funniest [Tribeca 2022]...
- 7/2/2022
- by Jacob Mouradian
- Film-Book
Kimmy Schmidt might be unbreakable, but she can also be seriously indecisive — and that’s where you come in.
Netflix on Monday released a full-length trailer for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend, an interactive special that will let viewers decide how Kimmy’s final adventure shakes out.
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Netflix on Monday released a full-length trailer for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend, an interactive special that will let viewers decide how Kimmy’s final adventure shakes out.
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- 4/27/2020
- TVLine.com
Network: Netflix. Episodes: 52 (half-hour). Seasons: Four. TV show dates: March 6, 2015 — January 25, 2019. Series status: Ending. Performers include: Ellie Kemper, Tituss Burgess, Carol Kane, Jane Krakowski, Jon Hamm, Fred Armisen, and Mike Carlsen. TV show description:This off-beat, single-camera comedy series kicks off in 2014, when authorities free four young women from a doomsday cult in Durnsville, Indiana. The Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (Hamm) held Kimmy (Kemper), Cyndee (Sarah Chase), Gretchen (Lauren Adams), and Donna Maria (Sol Miranda) in an underground bunker for fifteen years and convinced them they were the sole survivors of the apocalypse. Read More…...
- 6/2/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Network: Netflix. Episodes: Ongoing (half-hour). Seasons: Ongoing. TV show dates: March 6, 2015 — present. Series status: Has not been cancelled. Performers include: Ellie Kemper, Tituss Burgess, Carol Kane, Jane Krakowski, Jon Hamm, Fred Armisen, and Mike Carlsen. TV show description:This off-beat, single-camera comedy series kicks off in 2014, when authorities free four young women from a doomsday cult in Durnsville, Indiana. The Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (Hamm) held Kimmy (Kemper), Cyndee (Sarah Chase), Gretchen (Lauren Adams), and Donna Maria (Sol Miranda) in an underground bunker for fifteen years and convinced them they were the sole survivors of the apocalypse. Read More…...
- 5/19/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
After living in a cult for fifteen years, Kimmy (Ellie Kemper – The Office) decides to reclaim her life and start over in New York City. Armed with just a backpack, light-up sneakers, and a couple of way-past-due library books, she’s ready to take on a world she didn’t even think existed anymore. Wide-eyed but resilient, nothing is going to stand in her way. She quickly finds a new job (working for 30 Rock’s Jane Krakowski), a new roommate (Tituss Burgess – 30 Rock), and a new beginning. The cast also includes Lauren Adams, Sara Chase, Sol Miranda and Emmy winner Carol Kane (Taxi, The Princess Bride). The new TV [ Read More ]
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- 1/22/2015
- by Rudie Obias
- ShockYa
30 Rock creator Tina Fey’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, a comedy set to star The Office‘s Ellie Kemper, is moving from NBC to Netflix, where it has been pre-emptively renewed for a second season.
NBC originally snagged the comedy, about a woman who escapes from a doomsday cult and starts life over in New York, following a bidding war involving multiple major networks. However, the show, which Fey co-exec produces with her former 30 Rock partner Robert Carlock, was left off the network’s fall slate and never received a time slot, despite having been ordered straight to series.
Said NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt:
“When the opportunity arose for Tina Fey and Robert Carlock to premiere their new show on Netflix with a two-season commitment, we decided this was the best possible scenario to launch this captivating new series. While it was originally developed for NBC, we have a...
NBC originally snagged the comedy, about a woman who escapes from a doomsday cult and starts life over in New York, following a bidding war involving multiple major networks. However, the show, which Fey co-exec produces with her former 30 Rock partner Robert Carlock, was left off the network’s fall slate and never received a time slot, despite having been ordered straight to series.
Said NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt:
“When the opportunity arose for Tina Fey and Robert Carlock to premiere their new show on Netflix with a two-season commitment, we decided this was the best possible scenario to launch this captivating new series. While it was originally developed for NBC, we have a...
- 11/24/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Earlier this year, NBC announced plans to air a new sitcom from Tina Fey and Robert Carlock -- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. The 13 episodes were expected to air sometime later this season.
Now, the show won't air on NBC at all but Netflix has picked up the series and renewed it for a second season of 13 episodes as well. It will debut in March.
The series revolves around a Kimmy (Ellie Kemper), a woman who's escaped from a doomsday cult and starts life over in New York. The rest of the cast includes Jane Krakowski, Tituss Burgess, Lauren Adams, Sara Chase, Sol Miranda and Carol Kane.
NBC Chairman Bob Greenblatt (who also oversees Universal Television), said, "When the opportunity arose for Tina Fey and Robert Carlock to premiere their new show on Netflix with a two-season commitment, we decided this...
Now, the show won't air on NBC at all but Netflix has picked up the series and renewed it for a second season of 13 episodes as well. It will debut in March.
The series revolves around a Kimmy (Ellie Kemper), a woman who's escaped from a doomsday cult and starts life over in New York. The rest of the cast includes Jane Krakowski, Tituss Burgess, Lauren Adams, Sara Chase, Sol Miranda and Carol Kane.
NBC Chairman Bob Greenblatt (who also oversees Universal Television), said, "When the opportunity arose for Tina Fey and Robert Carlock to premiere their new show on Netflix with a two-season commitment, we decided this...
- 11/22/2014
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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