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We’ve come to the final three episodes of The Legend of Vox Machina season 3. I’d love to pound my tankard on the tavern bar and yell, “More. More. More!” But it had to come to an end sooner or later. Let’s take a look:

The Legend of Vox Machina Episode 310: “To the Ends of the World”

Keyleth, upset with how the rest of Vox Machina didn’t listen to her doubts about Raishan, flies away. Then Vex and Vax set out with their plans to finish off Ripley. Pike worries the team is splitting up. She and Grog try bringing Scanlan out of his coma and wonder if they’re unsuccessful because he doesn’t want to wake. Seeing Scanlan’s sheet music gives Pike an idea.

Pike approaches Scanlan’s daughter and shows Kaylie the song he wrote about her. Pike also tells her how...

As part of its 70th anniversary, the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg (Iffmh) is presenting its new Grand Iffmh Award for the first time, honoring two filmmakers at the top of their game, Andrea Arnold and Guillaume Nicloux. Iffmh will also pay tribute to producer Bettina Brokemper and director Claude Lelouch with Homages.

All four will be on hand for this year’s festival, where they will hold masterclasses and discuss their work.

“This year we’re trying to find a balance between tradition and innovation, so with our Homage we are paying tribute to the tradition of cinema with Lelouch, and radical cinema, which Lelouch has done and which Brokemper is also producing,” says Iffmh director Sascha Keilholz.

Keilholz described Brokemper “one of the most important German producers,” in part for her ability to find different solutions to make different types of films. She does not limit herself to only...

Angèle Mac, Clément Penhoat, Ahmed Abdel Laoui and Kylian Larmonie star in the genre film. A production bringing together Les Films du Worso and Unité, sold by Elle Driver. Since 12 April, in the Paris region, Guillaume Nicloux has been filming La Tour d’Assitan, his 16th feature film after, among other titles, Thalasso (in competition at San Sebastian in 2019), To the Ends of the World (Directors’ Fortnight 2018), Valley of Love (in Cannes competition in 2015) and The Nun (in competition in Berlin in 2013). Starring in this film, at the border between fantasy and horror, are Angèle Mac (making her feature film debut), Clément Penhoat (better known under his rapping name Hatik and revealed on screen in the series Validé), Ahmed Abdel Laoui (seen in The Specials and Just Kids) and Kylian Larmonie. Written by the director, the script begins one morning, when the inhabitants of a housing...

Berlinale 2020: From the Guillaume Nicloux's project Soumission to the hybrid film A Winter’s Journey, a great many titles have been added to the line-ups of French companies at the Efm. Beyond the main announcements which came last week at the start of the European Film Market of the 70th Berlinale (read the news), professionals from the French film industry have since revealed during the Berlin event a large array of new titles. We take a tour of the new announcements.Parisian company Incognita Films will produce Soumission by Guillaume Nicloux, an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Michel Houellebecq, which should begin filming next September with Jean-Paul Rouve in the leading role.Mk2 Films has added several titles to its international sales line-up (news): The Love Letter from French director Jérôme Bonnell (in post-production), Petite Solange from Axelle Roppert...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbel Ferrara's SiberiaThe Berlin Film Festival Competition lineup has finally been unveiled, revealing a roster of heavy hitters that includes Ilya Khrzhanovsky's controversial installation project Dau, Abel Ferrara's long-delayed Siberia, Hong Sang-soo's latest The Woman Who Ran, and the anticipated return of Christian Petzold, Rithy Panh, Tsai Ming-liang, Sally Potter, and Philippe Garrel. Actor, writer, and director Terry Jones, best known for his involvement in the Monty Python comedy group and for directing the 1983 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, has died. Recommended VIEWINGGrasshopper Films has released a trailer for Pedro Costa's bold Vitalina Varela, about a woman who arrives in Lisbon from Cape Verde to attend her estranged husband's funeral. Upon its premiere at 2019's Locarno Film Festival, editor Daniel Kasman described it as "a film of fierce determination and paramount resonance.

Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Guillaume Nicloux's To the Ends of the World is showing January and February, 2020 in the series From France with Love.A man, center-frame, despondent and immobile, sits on a bench, his head hanging heavy on his chest. Behind him, a foggy background reveals lightly-dressed soldiers trodding the ground in a casual manner, their movement slowed down to strolling. When Robert Tassen (a gritty Gaspard Ulliel) finally aligns his gaze with the spectator, even framed in long shot, his eyes are piercing, brimming with rage. Guillaume Nicloux’s fourteenth feature, To the Ends of the World, is a febrile film set in the time preceding the First Indochina War and, at once, a meditation on grief and ire, the personal and social overlapping in genesis of a war trauma which turns out to be a festering, often crippling wound.

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.

Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke)

Jia Zhangke focuses on the prism of displacement: social, economic, political, spiritual. Ash Is Purest White, his latest dalliance with genre-inflected cinema, portrays a modern China stimulated and disrupted by the effects of globalism. But even as these changes motivate every aspect of the recursive narrative, they’re adjacent in this dual character study of a gangster and his moll. This film’s interest in time proves more platonic and freely cinematic as these characters travel through a world that’s left them behind. – Michael S.

Where to Stream: Amazon Prime

The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola)

Arriving after her most abstract work,...

Guillaume Nicloux’s “To the Ends of the World,” Erwan Le Duc’s “The Bare Necessity” and Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel’s “Jessica Forever” are among the ten French and French-language films set to compete at the 10th edition of MyFrenchFilmFestival, the online film showcase created by UniFrance.

Ira Sachs, the American director whose latest film “Frankie” competed at Cannes, will preside over the international jury which will comprise of the French actress Agathe Bonitzer (“Isadora’s Children”), Guatemaltec director Jayro Bustamante (“Ixcanul”), American actor-turned-director Brady Corbet (“Vox Lux”), Belgian director Judith Davis (“My Revolution”) and Czech director Michaela Pavlatova (“My Sunny Maad”). The other jury is made up of members of the international press.

“To the Ends of the World,” which world premiered at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight last year, stars Gaspard Ulliel (“Saint Laurent”) as a young French soldier in Indochina, in 1945, who survives a brutal massacre in which...

The French director will chair the competition jury at the 11th Les Arcs Film Festival, while the world-famous actress will be the patron of the Talent Village. The ten features duking it out for the Crystal Arrow at the 11th Les Arcs Film Festival (14-21 December 2019) will be weighed up by a jury chaired by French filmmaker Guillaume Nicloux. The identities of the other jury members and the festival’s programme will be unveiled in Paris on 4 November. Meanwhile, the second edition of the Talent Village, which supports young filmmakers in their endeavours to make their feature debuts (see the news), will be blessed with a patron with an undeniable aura of prestige in the form of Isabelle Huppert, who will come along to share her experience and talk to them about their projects.As...

An investigation into claims of rape and sexual assault against actor Gerard Depardieu has been closed without charge in France, authorities said Tuesday. Last August, a 22-year-old French actress filed a complaint alleging that the Oscar nominee sexually assaulted and raped her that same month at one of his homes. The Paris prosecutor’s office subsequently opened an inquiry, but said today that “the numerous investigations carried out within the framework of this procedure did not make it possible to characterize the offenses alleged in all of their individual elements.”

At the time of the allegations, Depardieu’s attorney, Hervé Temime, told Afp that the actor “absolutely denies any attack, any rape” and said he regretted “the public nature of this process which poses a major prejudice to Gérard Depardieu, whose innocence I am convinced will be recognized.”

One of France’s most famous actors, Depardieu was nominated for a...

C’est Extra

France’s Guillaume Nicloux begins his fifteenth feature film C’est Extra by reuniting with two of his previous headliners, Michel Houellebecq and Gerard Depardieu. Produced by Sylvie Pialat and Benoit Quainon of Les Films du Worso, Nicloux’s title will also be co-produced by Wild Bunch. Nicloux has steadily been directing features since 1991, but has come into international renown over the past five years or so. Previously competing in Locarno with 1992’s La Vie Crevee (The Dead Life), Nicloux competed in Berlin with his 2013 remake of Rivette’s The Nun and took home a Best Screenplay win in Tribeca for The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq.…...

Gérard Depardieu has been accused of rape by a 22-year-old French actress, judicial sources confirm (via BBC News). French news channel Bfm reports the accusation against the 69-year-old actor was made on Monday.

The unnamed actress alleges Depardieu raped her at one of his Paris homes this month. The two allegedly knew each other before the reported crime took place. Bfm reports the woman was studying at a school where Depardieu gives classes (via Variety). Depardieu’s lawyer released a statement saying the actor denies the accusation “absolutely.” The assault was first reported to police in Lambesc, France, after which it was passed to prosecutors in the capital.

Depardieu is a wildly prolific French actor, having starred in over 150 movies since his film debut in 1972. The actor recently appeared in the television series “Marseille,” which streamed on Netflix, and appeared in the films “The End” and “Tour de France.” Depardieu...

Offering up a bleak and rather brutal French riff on Apocalypse Now, To The Ends of the World (Les Confins du monde) follows a tormented Gallic soldier who reaches his own heart of darkness in 1940s Indochina. Co-written and directed by Guillaume Nicloux, this skillfully crafted and superbly shot war movie suffers from some familiar plot mechanics and an overwhelming sense of doom, yet remains a compelling look at a conflict seldom depicted in French cinema. A world premiere in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight should spark interest both at home and overseas.

Nicloux has an extremely eclectic filmography, ranging from...

Nicolas Cage's and Gerard Depardieu’s latest are among the films set for the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Guillaume Nicloux’s Les Confins du Monde (To the Ends of the World), which sees him working again with his regular collaborator Depardieu, and Cage-starrer Mandy, directed by Panos Cosmatos and co-starring Andrea Riseborough, are among the lineup titles.

The 1983-set Mandy is one of two films in the sidebar that premiered at Sundance, along with Oscar nominee Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace.

Oscar-nominee Ciro Guerra’s highly anticipated Pajaros de Verano (Summer Birds) co-directed with Cristina Gallego, will be ...

Nicolas Cage's and Gerard Depardieu’s latest are among the films set for the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Guillaume Nicloux’s Les Confins du Monde (To the Ends of the World), which sees him working again with his regular collaborator Depardieu, and Cage-starrer Mandy, directed by Panos Cosmatos and co-starring Andrea Riseborough, are among the lineup titles.

The 1983-set Mandy is one of two films in the sidebar that premiered at Sundance, along with Oscar nominee Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace.

Oscar-nominee Ciro Guerra’s highly anticipated Pajaros de Verano (Summer Birds) co-directed with Cristina Gallego, will be ...