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Ishana Shyamalan is stepping up, taking the director’s chair from her dad, M. Night Shyamalan, for a new horror mystery flick called ‘The Watchers’. She’s not new to this game, having worked on ‘The Servant’ series and been an assistant director on movies like ‘Old’ and ‘Knock at the Cabin’. Now at 22, she’s ready to scare us with her own movie.

‘The Watchers’ is grabbing attention already, with New Line Cinema backing it and big names like Dakota Fanning starring. It’s based on a book by A.M. Shine, where a 28-year-old named Mina gets stuck in a creepy forest in Ireland with three others, and they’re all being watched by something eerie. Sounds like a mix of ‘Cabin In The Woods’ and ‘Lost’, right? You can check out the trailer below to get a taste of what’s coming.

The story pulls you in right from the start.

To briefly remind readers of the saga:

Back in June of 2023, it was announced that the leadership behind Turner Classic Movies, a long-beloved curator of cinema from Hollywood's Golden Age and beyond, would be laid off. VP of enterprises and strategic partnerships Genevieve McGillicuddy, senior VP of programming and content strategy Charles Tabesh, executive vice president and general manager Pola Changnon, marketing VP Dexter Fedor, and VP of studio production Anne Wilson all lost their jobs. The future of TCM was suddenly up in the air. This not only outraged fans of classic cinema but threw some of Hollywood's most beloved filmmakers into a panic. Was David Zaslav, the CEO of the beleaguered Warner Bros. Discovery nixing the entire TCM brand the same way he did with so much of the films and TV shows on HBO Max? Perhaps Zaslav, having already accrued a horrendous reputation for a long series of consumer-hostile business decisions,...

First look at the adaptation of Kim Leine’s novel.

France-based sales firm Totem Films has boarded worldwide sales on Kalak, the second feature from Holiday directed Isabella Eklof.

Earlier today the film was announced for a world premiere in competition at San Sebastian International Film Festival.

A first look at the film has been released, above.

Adapted from Kim Leine’s 2007 novel of the same name, Kalak follows a man who, while on the run after being sexually abused by his father, yearns to be part of the open, collectivist culture on Greenland.

Written and directed by Swedish filmmaker Eklof,...

Walking robot who looks like a Nazi youth leader turns out – surprise surprise – to have creepy designs on his owner

As if the future of AI wasn’t already nightmarish enough, along comes this British sci-fi thriller with its storyline about an AI servant becoming dangerously infatuated with his female owner. It’s a creepy premise: a cross between Fatal Attraction and The Servant, Harold Pinter and Joseph Losey’s 1963 drama about a malevolent manservant. Though in the end Tim might be too silly to be scary and yet not sharp enough to work as satire.

Part of the problem is the AI itself, a humanoid robot inoffensively named Tim (short for “technologically integrated manservant”), played by Eamon Farren. There’s no question of keeping us guessing about his intentions: Tim is sinister from the get-go. With his slicked-down blond hair and penetrating blue-eye stare, he looks like a spoof...

Once again, it's every film fanatic’s favorite day of the month, the day The Criterion Collection announces its coming slate of films. This June, the collection will be releasing four films and a nine-film box set, alongside new audio commentaries and interviews with the filmmakers, restored versions, and more for each film. Criterion Collection editions of Medicine for Melancholy, The Servant, The Rules of the Game, Time Bandits, and a box set that is being called Pasolini 101 are now available for pre-order.

Tár writer/director Todd Field discusses a few of his favorite movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

You Only Live Twice (1967) – Dana Gould’s trailer commentary

Tár (2022)

Man With A Movie Camera (1929)

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

The Big Parade (1925)

Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)

The Crowd (1928)

Star Wars (1977)

The Servant (1963)

Parasite (2019) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review, Dennis Cozzalio’s review

The Three Musketeers (1973) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary

Figures In A Landscape (1970)

M (1931)

M (1951)

I Am Cuba (1964)

The Cranes Are Flying (1957) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review

Letter Never Sent (1960)

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)

The Towering Inferno (1974) – George Hickenlooper’s trailer commentary

The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)

The Sting (1973)

The World of Henry Orient (1964) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary

Thelma And Louise (1991)

Murmur Of The Heart (1971)

The Silent World (1956)

Opening Night (1977)

The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie (1976) – Larry Karaszewski’s...

One Shot is a series that seeks to find an essence of cinema history in one single image of a movie. It must have been a familiar scene for actor Patrick Magee. Here he was again playing an aging bachelor, surrounded by audio recording paraphernalia, listening to voices out of the past. The first time was on stage at the Royal Court Theater in 1958: a different room, different audio equipment, playing a different aging bachelor. The play was Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, in which the decrepit, solitary Krapp listens to tape recordings of his younger, sometimes comically confident self. Krapp, caustic and disillusioned, has diminished since making his first recordings, growing ever more contemptuous of his youthful enthusiasms. Though the role was played by many great actors, including John Hurt, Michael Gambon, and Harold Pinter, Beckett wrote the part for Magee, or more specifically for “Magee’s distinctively Irish voice,...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Paris Theater

An all-35mm Jane Campion retrospective is underway, with the director present for The Piano on Sunday.

Metrograph

Films by Varda, Chris Marker, Demy, and Resnais play in a new series on Left Bank cinema; “Metrograph A to Z” returns with Polanski’s Bitter Moon; Heavy Metal, Fantastic Planet, and Perfect Blue screen late.

Museum of Modern Art

A Peter Bogdanovich retrospective has begun, as has a look at the films of Larry Clark.

Roxy Cinema

Prints of Black Orpheus and Pink Narcissus play this weekend.

Film Forum

A new restoration of Joseph Losey’s The Servant begins playing, while Donkey Skin screens on Sunday.

Museum of the Moving Image

As First Look commences the Museum offers “Second Look,” a retrospective of past festivals that includes a print of Chantal Akerman’s Almayer’s Folly and Loznitsa’s Donbass.

Directed by Dae-seung Kim, The Concubine is a South Korean period drama that shows us how rigid the Royal Court was in that country, or how it’s imagined, of course. The Court was as strict, brutal, and corrupt as any other in history, give or take a few murders. The film stars Yeo-Jeong Cho as Hwa-Yeon (she’s listed as Yeo-Jeong Jo here), a woman forced into various circumstances by the men around her. (When are women not?) Specifically, the story takes place during the Joseon Dynasty, a Korean kingdom that lasted for approximately five centuries. We first meet Hwa-Yeon, the daughter of a noble family, with Kwon Yoo...

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Servant: Season 3 Trailer — Apple TV+‘s Servant: Season 3 teaser trailer has been released. The Servant: Season 3 trailer stars Nell Tiger Free, Toby Kebbell, Lauren Ambrose, Rupert Grint, Jason Hurt, Gina Jun, Barry Ratcliffe, and Mike Bufalo. Crew Servant is produced by filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan. Directors for this season [...]

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Few discoveries are quite as joyous as Joseph Losey. Though a wide, dense filmography, his is perhaps best-liked for its selection of thrillers—perfectly attenuated, often subverting expectations for being less about mystery than a creeping dread of what’s surely to come. Few resonate more than The Servant, his domestic cat-and-mouse game that (among other things) served as a key influence on Parasite, and unlike that film knows how to round out its story. A Harold Pinter script can take you far.

Thus there’s joy seeing StudioCanal will release a 4K restoration theatrically and on home video this fall. The ensuing trailer gives sense of Losey’s superb stylings, if not overselling the dramatic thrust a bit—one joy of The Servant is its refusal to surrender to the histrionics à la that score put on top here. Whatever gets audiences aboard, I guess.

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If you’ve been jealous of those across the pond that get access to The British Film Institute’s streaming service BFI Player Classics, one will be delighted to hear it’s now coming to the United States. Launching on May 14, the curated collection––which will have offering distinct from its UK counterpart––will kick off with over 200 British or British co-production films picked by BFI experts.

With work by legendary directors Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell, Ken Russell, and Ken Loach, it also includes a number of ground-breaking British filmmakers who deserve more attention, including Horace Ové, Laura Mulvey, Ron Peck; Menelik Shabazz, Sally Potter, Gurinder Chadha (I’m British But… 1989), Waris Hussein, and John Akomfrah.

“BFI Player Classics brings together a collection of British films – the cinematic DNA of the UK – that is essential for anyone who wants to see and understand the best of British film,” said Robin Baker,...

Exclusive: Writer-director Mark Gill is set to bring the life of legendary Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase to the big screen with Ravens (The Many Deaths of Masahisa Fukase). Filming is set to begin in Japan in the spring of 2022.

Ravens marks the sophomore feature for the Oscar and BAFTA-nominated Gill and will star Tadanobu Asano in the role of the iconic photographer. Asano can be seen in the forthcoming Mortal Kombat feature as Raiden. He also appeared in Marvel Studios’ Thor franchise as Hogun and in Japanese classics such as Ichi the Killer and The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi.

Ravens centers on the tragic love story between Fukase and his charismatic then-wife Yoko, who will be played by up and comer Kumi Takiuchi. The actress has also appeared in Berlinale’s Panorama-selected A Balance. In addition, Toby Kebbell joins the cast...

Sound of Metal writer/director Darius Marder joins Josh and Joe to discuss Lars Von Trier’s Breaking the Waves.

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Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Place Beyond The Pines (2012)

Sound of Metal (2020)

Mank (2020)

Star Wars (1977)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The Father (2020)

Breaking The Waves (1996)

Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986)

Repo Man (1984)

Paris, Texas (1984)

Innerspace (1987)

The Celebration (1998)

The Five Obstructions (2003)

Europa (1991)

The Servant (1963)

The Go-Between (1971)

Dancer In The Dark (2000)

The Idiots (1998)

Dogville (2003)

Manderlay (2005)

Melancholia (2011)

Naked (1993)

Other Notable Items

CNN

Ricky Gervais

Riz Ahmed

Florian Zeller

Roger Ebert

Lars von Trier

Robby Müller

Jim Jarmusch

Daniël Bouquet

David Bowie

Dogme 95

Tomas Vinterburg

The Paprika Steen podcast episode

Emily Watson

Stellan Skarsgård

Joseph Losey

The Kingdom TV miniseries (1994)

Helena Bonham Carter

Bjork

Nicole Kidman

Mikkel E.G. Nielsen

Cannes Film Festival

Mike Leigh

Katrin Cartlidge

Nuart Theatre

Metrograph

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The November 2020 lineup for The Criterion Channel has been unveiled, toplined by a Claire Denis retrospective, including the brand-new restoration of Beau travail, along with Chocolat, No Fear, No Die, Nenette and Boni, Towards Mathilde, 35 Shots of Rum, and White Material.

There will also be a series celebrating 30 years of The Film Foundation, featuring a new interview with Martin Scorsese by Ari Aster, as well as a number of their most essential restorations, including films by Jia Zhangke, Ritwik Ghatak, Luchino Visconti, Shirley Clarke, Med Hondo, and more.

There’s also David Lynch’s new restoration of The Elephant Man, retrospectives dedicated to Ngozi Onwurah, Nadav Lapid, and Terence Nance, a new edition of the series Queersighted titled Queer Fear, featuring a new conversation between series programmer Michael Koresky and filmmaker and critic Farihah Zaman, and much more.

See the lineup below and learn more on the official site.

Leading producer-distributor Studiocanal, which boasts one of the biggest film libraries in the world with more than 5,500 movies, is gearing up for a slew of major theatrical and DVD releases sure to titillate fans of classic cinema, among them Jean-Luc Godard’s beloved 1960 film “Breathless.”

The company has enjoyed recent successes with re-releases of such classics as David Lynch’s 1980 Victorian drama “The Elephant Man,” Volker Schlöndorff’s 1979 Oscar-winning “The Tin Drum” and Mike Hodges’ 1980 sci-fi extravaganza “Flash Gordon.”

Studiocanal is expecting similar success with its newly restored reissues.

“Breathless” is “one of our biggest upcoming catalog releases,” said Juliette Hochart, Studiocanal’s executive VP of library.

The film will be released in theaters in France on Oct. 28, in Germany the following day and in the U.K. on Nov. 13. It will also be reissued in other territories, such as Italy and Japan, in 2021.

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A volatile, symbiotic relationship between the uber-wealthy and the have-nots comes into full display in Parasite, arriving on 4K Ultra HD Digital January 14, 2020 and Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand on January 28, 2020 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and Neon. Proclaimed as “wickedly clever” (GQ) and “the definition of a must-see experience” (The Atlantic) ,PARASITEis a riveting, genre-bending thriller that combines masterful filmmaking with a fresh look at class discrimination, making it “a flat-out masterpiece” (Deadline). Hailed as “the best work yet from master filmmaker Bong Joon Ho” (Awards Circuit), who directed and co-wrote the film alongside Han Jin Won (Okja), fans can now delve deep into the mind of Bong, and the symbolism behind Parasite with an exclusive Q&a bonus feature with the acclaimed director. The captivating Parasite has made history as the first Korean film to be nominated for an Oscar®.It has garnered six Oscar®nominations including Best Picture,...

Universal City, California – A volatile, symbiotic relationship between the uber-wealthy and the have-nots comes into full display in Parasite, arriving on 4K Ultra HD Digital January 14, 2020 and Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand on January 28, 2020 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and Neon. Proclaimed as “wickedly clever” (GQ) and “the definition of a must-see experience” (The Atlantic), Parasite is a riveting, genre-bending thriller that combines masterful filmmaking with a fresh look at class discrimination, making it “a flat-out masterpiece” (Deadline). Hailed as “the best work yet from master filmmaker Bong Joon Ho” (Awards Circuit), who directed and co-wrote the film alongside Han Jin Won (Okja), fans can now delve deep into the mind of Bong, and the symbolism behind Parasite with an exclusive Q&a bonus feature with the acclaimed director. The captivating Parasite has made history as the first Korean film to be nominated for an Oscar®. It has garnered six Oscar® nominations including Best Picture,...

Exclusive: More than fifty years after its first publication, British writer Robin Maugham’s controversial 1967 novel The Wrong People is getting a movie adaptation.

Arthouse outfit Peccadillo Pictures, the UK’s foremost distributor of Lgbt movies, is teaming up on the project with veteran UK screenwriter David McGillivray (Schizo), who has adapted the novel and will make his directorial debut.

Set against the backdrop of 1960s Tangier, the thriller tells the story of Arnold Turner, a repressed English schoolmaster on holiday in Morocco, where he meets Ewing Baird, a wealthy American expat with a dark secret. As Turner becomes more involved with Ewing he realizes he has been lured into a dangerous trap.

Maugham’s first explicitly gay-themed novel was critically praised but also garnered controversy. Homosexuality was still illegal in Britain for most of the 1960s.

The book was reprinted several times, including in the Gay Modern Classics series,...

M. Night Shyamalan had one note for composer Trevor Gureckis when it came to the music for his new Apple+ series The Servant: “That’s not weird enough.”

“The instrumentation came through a lot of experimentation with Night,” Gureckis tells Rolling Stone. “It wasn’t different for different’s sake; I wanted to create a world that’s very unusual. The audience should feel unsettled.” The first three episodes of the 10-part series premiered on Thanksgiving.

The show centers around wealthy Philadelphia couple Dorothy (Lauren Ambrose) and Sean Turner (Toby Kebbell) and their baby,...

Rupert Grint is opening up about the close relationship between his Harry Potter costars Emma Watson and Tom Felton.

“There was always something. There was a little bit of a spark,” Grint, 31, told Entertainment Tonight about Watson and Felton while promoting his AppleTV+ series The Servant.

Although Grint said he didn’t want to stir any rumors, he did say he saw “some sparks” while the trio was filming the Harry Potter series.

“But we were kids. It was like any kind of playground romance,” he said, jokingly adding, “I didn’t have any sparks. I was spark-free.”

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“Who directed Rififi? It was Jules Dassin, right? That was the first-place winner. Such a great movie.”

For the past half hour or so, Bong Joon Ho has been turning to his translator for help with his responses; when it comes to talking about his own work, the South Korean writer-director likes to issue considerate, deliberate answers to questions. and admittedly feels more comfortable doing that in his native tongue. When the subject of others’ movies comes up, however, he bypasses his go-between and answers, excitedly and quickly, in English.

The Notebook is covering Tiff with an on-going correspondence between critics Fernando F. Croce, Kelley Dong, and editor Daniel Kasman.The PlatformDear Danny and Kelley,Funny you mention a good night’s sleep in your last piece, Danny, as that’s a friend I have yet to meet during festivals. Fears of being late to screenings or behind on my coverage often keep me from enjoying a truly refreshing slumber, while the adrenaline of the environment keep my eyes wide open during the daily dash from title to title. As a result, there are times when I’m not quite sure if a moment or a scene or a whole movie is real or if I’ve dreamt it. The Platform, for instance, lingers like a nightmare brought on by indigestion. Given that Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s vicious sci-fi parable traffics in food, vertiginous fluctuations and hellish repetition, however, a nightmare...