New York-based distribution company Grasshopper Film has acquired North American rights to Valentyn Vasyanovych’s sci-fi drama “Atlantis,” Ukraine’s official selection for next year’s Academy Awards.
Represented in international markets by Belgian sales group Best Friend Forever, “Atlantis” played at Toronto, Rotterdam and Venice, where it won the best film award in the Horizons Competition. The critically acclaimed film was also selected for New Directors/New Films.
The movie, which is expected to be released theatrically early next year, is set in 2025. Eastern Ukraine in a desert unsuitable for human habitation and water is an expensive commodity brought by trucks. As a wall is being built on the border, Sergiy, a former soldier, is having trouble adapting to this new reality. He meets Katya while on the Black Tulip mission dedicated to exhuming war corpses. Together, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which...
Represented in international markets by Belgian sales group Best Friend Forever, “Atlantis” played at Toronto, Rotterdam and Venice, where it won the best film award in the Horizons Competition. The critically acclaimed film was also selected for New Directors/New Films.
The movie, which is expected to be released theatrically early next year, is set in 2025. Eastern Ukraine in a desert unsuitable for human habitation and water is an expensive commodity brought by trucks. As a wall is being built on the border, Sergiy, a former soldier, is having trouble adapting to this new reality. He meets Katya while on the Black Tulip mission dedicated to exhuming war corpses. Together, they try to return to some sort of normal life in which...
- 11/17/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Há Terra!I want to apologize for providing this Wavelengths avant-garde preview a little later than I might've liked. Hell, given that it's been over a week since movies died, I'm not exactly sure how much more kindling I can chuck onto the pyre. But I should remark that compared with previous years' iterations of the Tiff Wavelengths series, 2016 does feel a bit...off. I'm chiefly referring to the experimental short films here. (My second part, addressing the Wavelengths features, will be along in a matter of days.) Make no mistake. There's plenty of great work in this year's programs. But I do feel that the disparity this year between the truly exceptional films and the mediocre-to-not-very-good ones is markedly high.I enjoy films, and more than this, I enjoy enjoying them. I hardly get my kicks by being a nattering nabob of negativity. But programmers have to work with what is available to them,...
- 9/13/2016
- MUBI
Since any New York cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Film Society of Lincoln Center
A “Tetratology of Frustrated Love” from the great Manoel de Oliveira, all 35mm, comes to Lincoln Center this weekend. His four-hour Doomed Love will show on Friday and Saturday. Benilde, the Virgin Mother and Past and Present screen this Saturday and Sunday; Francisca shows on the latter day.
Film Forum
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Film Society of Lincoln Center
A “Tetratology of Frustrated Love” from the great Manoel de Oliveira, all 35mm, comes to Lincoln Center this weekend. His four-hour Doomed Love will show on Friday and Saturday. Benilde, the Virgin Mother and Past and Present screen this Saturday and Sunday; Francisca shows on the latter day.
Film Forum
The...
- 2/26/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Chis Marker's Chat écoutant la musiqueThere are dog people and there are cat people, this we know, and there are even people who claim to be of both—though latent sympathies remain unspoken, like with a parent and which child is their favorite. With the Vienna Film Festival welcoming me with a tumbling collection of dog and cat short films spanning cinema's history—the Austrian Film Museum, an essential destination each year collaborating with the Viennale, is hosting a “a brief zoology of cinema” throughout the festivities—it is clear that filmmakers, too, have their preference. Silent cinema decidedly prefers the more easily trained and exhibited canine, with 1907’s surreal favorite Les chiens savants as a certain kind of cruel pinnacle. For the cats, Chris Marker, already the presiding figure over so much in 20th century art, I think we can easily claim is the cine-laureate. One need not know...
- 11/8/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
The ghosts did not take long to present themselves. Oliveira's seventh feature, Visita ou Memórias e Confissões, conveys a bevy of autobiographical musings on his family house and himself. Filmed in 1981 when he was 73, yet shelved voluntarily until after his death, Memories and Confessions has since become a kind of talisman for the director, an n+1 variable where the n is his 31-item back catalogue cut short last year. The first character introduced in the movie is a magnolia that blooms twice a year—first in "a rapid blossoming," then in the shape of "a rare star of maturity." Conveniently, the film's structure comprises just what the original title enumerates: a visit, some memories, a handful of confessions. The visitors in question are a man and a woman whom we do not get to see but whose voices we keep hearing off-screen. As they drop in at an empty house...
- 6/3/2015
- by Boris Nelepo
- MUBI
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.Above: Rainer Werner Fassbinder would have turned 70 this week. Can you imagine how many films unfilmed he would have made between 1982, when he died, and now? At his Movie Poster of the Day Tumblr, Adrian Curry has found a fantastic poster for Fassbinder's 1981 film, Lola.fxguide has a terrific exploration of the computer effects used in George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road.Above: Anna Karina and Jean-Luc Godard. From our Tumblr.New York's essential BAMcinamFest, running June 17 - 28, has announced its 2015 lineup, which features such Notebook favorites as Queen of Earth, Stinking Heaven, and Counting, as well as several premieres including a new short film by our friend and contributor C. Mason Wells.Film Comment's Nicholas Rapold has interviewed with Apichatpong Weerasethakul about Cemetery of Splendour, the best film in Cannes this year.
- 6/3/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
The festival stretches its arms today and breaths a big sigh of relief: the Cannes Marché is ending, the business types fleeing the Palais des Festivals, the Croisette and Cannes, far away from any such shuddered utterances as "Apichatpong," "Hou," or "Porumboiu." God forbid! The festival thus empties out a bit, making queues shorter, the time one can sleep in the morning precious minutes longer. The suits are replaced by regular tourists, from cruises or from the country, and the town loses a bit of its charged, schizophrenic character with this exchange, because, let's admit, the commotion money brings with it is usually a spectacle to behold. And without the money, what is Cannes?Romanian New Wave director Corneliu Porumbiou asks something related in The Treasure, one of the festival's best and a real pleasure in these last dwindling days. As slim, funny and diagrammed as a Hong Sang-soo comedy...
- 5/23/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Manoel de Oliveira, the Portuguese auteur behind such works as Francisca, The Cannibals and Belle Toujours, was taken to hospital yesterday after suffering from breathing difficulties, according to news agency Lusa. He is said to be in stable condition.
At 103, Oliveira is the world's oldest working director, with a film coming out later this year and another in pre-production. Despite needing heart surgery two years ago he shows no sign of slacking, and he also undertakes speaking engagements, playing an active role in wider cultural and artistic conversations. He is expected to return to work when he is discharged in the next few days....
At 103, Oliveira is the world's oldest working director, with a film coming out later this year and another in pre-production. Despite needing heart surgery two years ago he shows no sign of slacking, and he also undertakes speaking engagements, playing an active role in wider cultural and artistic conversations. He is expected to return to work when he is discharged in the next few days....
- 7/14/2012
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
BAMcinématek will welcome critic Dave Kehr for a six-day series starting Friday, September 16 entitled "When Movies Mattered: Dave Kehr Selects." The selected films are among those included in Kehr's most recent book, "When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade," which compiles reviews from the 1970s and 1980s. Films Kehr is asking audiences to reconsider include Albert Brooks' "Lost In America," Manoel de Oliveira's "Francisca" and Kenzo Mizoguchi's "The ...
- 8/19/2011
- Indiewire
The 64th Locarno Film Festival’s International Competition (Concorso internazionale) jury will be headed by the Portuguese producer Paulo Branco the winner of the very first Raimondo Rezzonico Prize in 2002. The films produced by him include Francisca by Manoel de Oliveira, 1981; In The White City by Alain Tanner, 1983; Come And Go by João César Monteiro, 2003, and Mysteries Of Lisbon by Raoul Ruiz, 2010. Read More...
- 6/21/2011
- Bollywood Trade
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