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Withdrawal tells the story of a romantic couple, Viv and Jay, who are addicted to heroin. At one point, Viv’s uber-rich parents decide that enough is enough and give her 24 hours to decide if she wants to go to rehab or sever any connection she has with her family. If Viv goes to rehab, she won’t be able to stay with Jay, and if she loses access to her bank account, then the couple won’t survive. So, Viv and Jay decide to go cold turkey, suffer through a night of drug withdrawal, and come out the other end as changed human beings. The movie is harrowing, riveting, and oddly romantic. I sat down with director Aaron Strand for a virtual chat about his style of visual storytelling, how he crafted one of the most uncomfortable scenes put to screen, and more.

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Rohmer Summer has fed into Rohmer Fall: following sold-out screenings of The Green Ray and a shorts program, my screening series Amnesiascope has partnered again with Instagram auteur Rohmer Fits for two special screenings of Éric Rohmer’s 1998 triumph A Tale of Autumn, which will play Sunday, October 13 and Tuesday, October 22 at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research.

Though perhaps the crowning achievement in Rohmer’s Tale of Four Seasons, A Tale of Autumn still seems underappreciated and underseen. A brisk fall evening in close quarters suggests the ideal time to discover or revisit the film––for my money his best take on both the romantic comedy and Shakespearian case of mistaken identity. Our thanks to Janus Films for facilitating these screenings.

Official synopsis is below and tickets are here. We look forward to seeing you.

The concluding installment of the “Tales of the Four Seasons” tetralogy is a breezy...

Three consecutive sold-out screenings of The Green Ray made one thing clear: the people want more Rohmer. Thus I’m thrilled to announce my screening series Amnesiascope returns next Monday, August 19 to the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research for a night of little-seen Éric Rohmer shorts co-presented with my friend (and Instagram sensation) Rohmer Fits.

It’s of course more fun if not to tell you precisely what we’re screening, but––if Letterboxd stats are any indication––it’s safe to say even the most ardent Rohmer fans will find discoveries and surprises, spanning the nascent days of his career to his final years, including rarely considered collaborations. This program runs about 95 minutes, with (per usual) a drinks-and-cigarettes intermission.

Tickets are available here. We look forward to seeing you.

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Margaret Menegoz, the producer of world-famous auteurs such as Michael Haneke and Wim Wenders, has died at the age of 83.

Menegoz was celebrated for her leadership of Les Films du Losange, an acclaimed production and distribution company which she ran for 46 years with an iron fist, guided by her passion for independent filmmaking and new voices.

Born in Hungary in 1941, during WW2, Menegoz grew up in Germany and ventured into the film industry after meeting her husband, Robert Menegoz, and traveled the world with him to shoot documentaries. She joined Les Films du Losange in 1975 and started as an assistant for revered directors Eric Rohmer and Barbet Schroeder who had co-founded the company in 1962. She quickly rose through the ranks and became manager of the company.

Under her helm, Les Films du Losange won an Oscar, three Palmes d’Or at Cannes. The company built a library of about 100 prestige films,...

Margaret Menegoz, the pioneering producer who was a central figure in France’s film industry during a career spanning decades, has died. She was 83.

The Hungarian-born German-French producer served as president of Les Films du Losange from 1975 until 2021, and was president of Unifrance from 2003 to 2008.

During a career that included a key role at the Cesar Academy, Menegoz produced films for directors such as Eric Rohmer, Barbet Schroeder, Wim Wenders, Andrzej Wajda, Agnieszka Holland and Michael Haneke, including the latter’s Palme d’Or-and Oscar-winning Amour in 2012.

After her tenure at Les Films du Losange ended, Menegoz handed over the...

Margaret Menegoz, the pioneering producer who was a central figure in France’s film industry during a career spanning decades, has died. She was 83.

The Hungarian-born German-French producer served as president of Les Films du Losange from 1975 until 2021, and was president of Unifrance from 2003 to 2008.

During a career that included a key role at the Cesar Academy, Menegoz produced films for directors such as Eric Rohmer, Barbet Schroeder, Wim Wenders, Andrzej Wajda, Agnieszka Holland, and Michael Haneke, including the latter’s Palme d’or-and Oscar-winning Amour in 2012.

After her tenure at Les Films du Losange ended, Menegoz handed over the...

My screening series Amnesiascope returns to the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research on July 15, 16, and 17 with Éric Rohmer’s The Green Ray, co-presented by The Film Desk, Instagram sensation @rohmerfits, and fragrance auteur Second Edition Olfactive. With the latter two we’ll also celebrate the launch of Le Rayon Vert, their Rohmer-inspired perfume boasting “notes of pear, green florals, and an ocean air accord evoking summer melancholy.” Making these New York’s only repertory screenings that offer a chance to improve your personal hygiene.

Likely The Green Ray, whether you know different subtitle translations by heart or have never seen it, needs little introduction. But let’s say it’s in some Rohmerian spirit that we present this film in an artists-friendly space (one that could’ve been plucked straight from his milieu) with drinks in-hand and cigarette-benevolent rooftop attached––surely a finer, fuller experience than from your couch.

Tickets...

The question of who will continue the legacy of the 4Ks and particularly their successes on the international movie scene is one of the most dominant in the discussions among critics and scholars of Japanese cinema. Following the 2016 Un Certain Regard Jury Prize for “Harmonium”, one of the names that provides an answer to the aforementioned question is that of Koji Fukada. In the following text, we will take a closer and more thorough look at all the elements that make the 1980 born filmmaker a worthy successor of the aforementioned masters, starting from the very beginning of his life.

Born in Tokyo in Tokyo on January 5, 1980, Koji Fukada had a father who was a film buff, which resulted in him growing up in an environment surrounded with hundreds of VHS tapes, and subsequently, to become a cineaste, just like his old man. He watched the movies that inspired him to...

Writer/director Shaun Seneviratne's feature film debut, Ben and Suzanne, A Reunion in 4 Parts, recently hit SXSW and may be heading to a theater or streamer near you soon. The romantic comedy tracks one couple coming to terms with the emotional shifts in their ever-evolving relationship. It’s a touching outing, but in talking to Seneviratne, the filmmaker admits to drawing inspiration for the project from the most curious places. We get how There’s Something About Mary could spark ideas for a romantic comedy. And director Éric Rohmer's wonderful 1986 romp, The Green Ray, too. But The Shining?

“Ben and Suzanne… is not a horror movie,” Seneviratne notes, chuckling, “but I think there's so much tone in The Shining that feels true to this, which is the effects of isolation and how that can make us feel. And how isolation can drive us crazy in many different ways.

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

Film at Lincoln Center

The Mother and the Whore begins a run in its 4K restoration; Scratch plays for free Friday night in Damrosch Park.

Museum of the Moving Image

E.T., The Green Ray, Risky Business, and Blow Out play on 35mm in a summer movie series; The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Great Muppet Caper, and Querelle also screen.

Bam

Juliet Berto’s superb directorial debut Neige begins playing in a long-overdue restoration.

Film Forum

A celebration of Ozu’s 120th birthday continues with a massive series; It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World plays this Sunday.

Roxy Cinema

35mm prints of Portrait of Jason and The Rocky Horror Picture Show screen, while Happy Together plays; “City Dudes” plays on Saturday.

Anthology Film Archives

Buster Keaton and Ken Jacobs screen in Essential Cinema.

IFC Center

The David Lynch...

Du côté d’Orouët (1971).The water is too cold for swimming and there’s the subtle threat of a gale in Jacques Rozier’s 1971 film Du côté d’Orouët. Ostensibly a summer movie, this lackadaisical, two-and-a-half hour dispatch from three girls’ eponymous beachfront holiday nevertheless has trouble fulfilling the hallmarks of a successful vacation. In addition to the especially crummy weather, the beachhouse grows messier and the local patisserie, one of the only eateries, shutters for the impending fall and winter seasons. Such is the liminality of September, where the worst elements of August and October mingle without ever fully committing to one or the other, and these three weeks are the chosen off-time chosen by Caroline (Caroline Cartier), Kareen (Francoise Guégan) and Joëlle (Danièle Croisy). These 21 days equally swirl with torpor and fleetingness, Rozier evincing an impossible relationship between the two to convey both the longueurs and excitability of vacation.

Every country chooses one film to submit to the Oscar race for the Best International Feature category, and many of them make obvious selections, but Spain’s process can be especially unpredictable. While many countries rely on a small committee to make the decision, Spain’s selection stems from a voting process by the 1,500 members of its Academy of Cinematic Arts and Sciences. That has yielded the occasional preference for a commercial title over more celebrated possibilities, such as last year’s decision to submit the Javier Bardem corporate comedy “The Good Boss” over Pedro Almodóvar’s acclaimed “Parallel Mothers,” which still managed to secure a Best Actress nomination for Penelope Cruz.

This time, the Spanish Academy went in a more ambitious direction. Many expected the movie industry satire “Official Competition,” which stars Antonio Banderas as a pompous actor and Cruz as his director, to take the spot. Instead, Spain has selected “Alcarrás,...

Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has closed a raft of deals on the animated feature film “Yuku and the Himalayan Flower,” from directors Rémi Durin and Arnaud Demuynck.

The children’s animated feature, with graphics by Paul Jadoul, tells the story of Yuku, a little mouse who lives with her family in the basement of a castle and decides to embark on a quest to find the legendary Himalayan flower.

The film, which premiered at the Annecy fest and played in the Locarno Kids strand of the Locarno Film Festival, is produced by Artémis Prods. (“Mandibules”) and co-produced by Vivement Lundi! (“Flee”), La Boîte Prods. (“March of the Penguins”), Les Films du Nord and Nadasdy Film.

Pic has sold to Germany (Eksystent Distribution), Spain and Andorra (Pack Magic), Poland (Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty), Sweden (Smorgasbord Picture House), Denmark (Angel Films) and Latvia (Riga International Film Festival distribution).

Previous territories sold include...

Laura Linney will return to Broadway this spring in a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn (Proof). The Manhattan Theatre Club production of Summer, 1976 will reteam the writer with his Proof director Daniel Sullivan.

Summer, 1976 will begin previews on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The production was initially intended for an Off Broadway run, but Mtc artistic director Lynne Meadow and exec producer Barry Grove announced today that the play will be staged at Mtc’s Broadway venue instead.

Additional casting, the opening night date and creative team for Summer, 1976 will be announced soon.

Mtc describes Summer, 1976 as a “deeply moving, insightful piece is about connection, memories, and the small moments that can change the course of our lives. Over one fateful summer, an unlikely friendship develops between Diana, a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom, and Alice, a free-spirited yet naive young housewife.

Foreign-language movie titles are typically made less interesting and more vanilla when they’re translated into English, but that is very much not the case with Caroline Vignal’s “Antoinette in the Cévennes” — or as it’s being released in the United States: “My Donkey, My Lover & I.” Each title proves accurate in its own way, but the American one does a better job of capturing the sardonic flavor of this mid-summer trifle about a sweetly pathetic school teacher (the wonderful “Call My Agent” star Laure Calamy) who rides an ass named Patrick across south-central France in pursuit of the man she loves. Who’s on vacation with his wife. And their young daughter. Who just so happens to be one of Antoinette’s students.

(a phrase that I’ve waited my entire life to write), Vignal’s comic tale of self-discovery is as light and gentle as the rolling terrain that it travels,...

After a hiatus as theaters in New York City and beyond closed their doors during the pandemic, we’re delighted to announce the return of NYC Weekend Watch, our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. While many theaters are still focused on a selection of new releases, there’s a handful of worthwhile repertory screenings taking place.

Film at Lincoln Center

Joachim Trier presents favorites and influences, among them The Age of Innocence, The Green Ray, and My Sex Life.

Metrograph

Prints of I’m Not There and Ed Lachman’s Songs for Drella screen in a music series; deemed “essential viewing” by Martin Scorsese, a six-film retrospective of the Hungarian master Miklós Jancsó continues. Films by Panahi, Chris Marker and more play “In the Streets,” while a series of literary adaptations includes Mishima and Crumb.

Museum of Modern Art

“To Save and Project,” one of the most eye-opening series in any given year,...

Charles Gillibert, the thriving French producer behind Leos Carax’s Cannes prizewinning “Annette,” spoke to Variety about his recent acquisition of Les Films du Losange, one of France’s oldest and most revered auteur-driven production and distribution companies.

Gillibert teamed up with French financier Alexis Dantec, former managing director of the film financing group Cofinova, to complete the acquisition deal for Les Films du Losange, which is at Venice with Kavich Neang’s “White Building” playing in the Horizons section.

Les Films du Losange was founded by Barbet Schroeder and Eric Rohmer in 1962 and was under the leadership of Margaret Menegoz since 1975. The award-winning banner, which is also involved in international sales, has been producing cult movies by some of Europe’s best known filmmakers, notably Rohmer, Schroeder, Roger Planchon, Jacques Rivette, Michael Haneke, Jacques Doillon, Mia Hansen-Love.

In total, the company has a library of about 100 prestige films many...

Australian boy band 5 Seconds of Summer have announced their upcoming No Shame tour dates for 2021. No Shame Tour 2021 // New US, EU & UK Show Dates Are On Sale Now // Get Tickets At https://t.co/Kk8KlvKV4J pic.twitter.com/f5DBQoVETp — 5 Seconds of Summer (@5Sos) July 3, 2020 The band was set to travel through […]

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We’re still waiting here in the States to see Gaspar Noe’s previous collaboration with Saint Laurent, Lux Æterna, which premiered in Cannes in 2019, but the fashion house has just dropped a new short by the French director that’s well worth a late-night watch. Starring Charlotte Rampling and a group of models — Anok Yai, Antonia Przedpelski, Assa Baradji, Aylah Mae Peterson, Clara Deshayes, Grace Hartzel, Kim Schell, Mica Arganaraz, Miriam Sanchez, Sora Choi, and Stefania Cristian — the film begins a model’s frenzied run through crimson-lit woods at night (a not to Suspiria, perhaps, as well as Last House on […]

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We’re still waiting here in the States to see Gaspar Noe’s previous collaboration with Saint Laurent, Lux Æterna, which premiered in Cannes in 2019, but the fashion house has just dropped a new short by the French director that’s well worth a late-night watch. Starring Charlotte Rampling and a group of models — Anok Yai, Antonia Przedpelski, Assa Baradji, Aylah Mae Peterson, Clara Deshayes, Grace Hartzel, Kim Schell, Mica Arganaraz, Miriam Sanchez, Sora Choi, and Stefania Cristian — the film begins a model’s frenzied run through crimson-lit woods at night (a not to Suspiria, perhaps, as well as Last House on […]

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Just weeks after being tapped to head up Banijay’s North America and Latin America operations, Cris Abrego has just been handed another major responsibility: Abrego has been elected as chairman of the Television Academy Foundation, making him the org’s first-ever Latino chair.

Abrego is among the newly-elected board officers of the Television Academy Foundation, all of whom will serve a two-year term starting Jan. 1. Founded in 1959 as the charitable arm of the Television Academy, the org works to preserve legacy of television while also coordinating educational and outreach programs such as The Interviews: An Oral History of Television Project, College Television Awards and Student Internship Program.

As Variety first reported exclusively, Abrego was elevated to the roles of chairman of the Americas, Banijay, and president and CEO, Endemol Shine Holdings, last month following Banijay’s recent acquisition of Endemol Shine Group. Abrego’s oversight includes Endemol Shine North America,...

Roller-coaster ride: Félix Lefebvre and Benjamin Voisin in Summer Of 85 Photo: UniFrance

The nominations for the 26th edition of the Lumière Awards (France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes) have just been revealed by the Foreign Press Association.

The winners will be revealed on 19 January with such titles as Emmanuel Mouret’s Love Stories; Filippo Meneghetti’s Two Of Us (Deux); Charlène Favier’s Slalom; François Ozon’s Summer Of 85 (Été 85); and Albert Dupont’s Bye Bye Morons (Adieu Les Cons) leading the fray. The 77 titles under consideration illustrate the the quality and diversity of French productions and co-productions during the year, it was suggested in a media release from the Academy of the Lumières.

Léa Drucker and Martine Chevallier in Two Of Us Photo: UniFrance

The animated feature Josep also figured prominently with three nominations in different categories.

“The directors Albert Dupontel, Filippo Meneghetti, Emmanuel Mouret, Maïwenn and François Ozon; actresses Laure Calamy,...

Awards ceremony will take place on January 19, 2021.

Italian director Filippo Meneghetti’s debut feature Two Of Us leads the nominations in the 26th edition of France’s Lumière awards, which were unveiled online today (December 14).

The awards, which are voted on by some 130 international correspondents hailing from 40 countries, are France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes.

In spite of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has delayed numerous releases this year, they have retained their traditional time slot and the awards ceremony will take place on January 19, 2021, in line with previous years.

Meneghetti’s Two Of Us is also France’s submission...

November 2020 has been a big month for our nation. The election happened, we’ve got Thanksgiving coming up, and arguably more important than both combined, the American Music Awards returned to ABC on Sunday.

Roddy Ricch and The Weeknd entered this year’s Taraji P. Henson-hosted ceremony with eight nominations each, facing off in several key categories, including Artist of the Year. Other multi-nominated acts included Megan Thee Stallion (five), Bad Bunny (four), DaBaby (four), Doja Cat (four), Justin Bieber (four), Lady Gaga (four) and Taylor Swift (four).

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Who will win when the 2020 American Music Awards are presented on Sunday night, November 22? Hundreds of Gold Derby users have placed their bets here in our predictions center. Those predictions were combined to generate our official racetrack odds. Scroll down to see our forecasts in 30 categories with nominees listed in order of their likelihood of winning with our projected winners highlighted in gold.

SEE2020 American Music Awards predictions: Justin Bieber, BTS and Bad Bunny among front-runners in artist races

Since the AMAs are decided by fans voting online, these awards are literally a popularity contest. So while rapper Roddy Ricch and R&b chart-topper The Weeknd are the top contenders with eight nominations apiece, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll take home the most hardware. They’re both nominated for Artist of the Year against formidable fan-favorites: Taylor Swift, who holds the record with five Artist of the Year victories; Justin Bieber,...

Boston-based international sales company 34T has picked up Enrique García’s Spanish thriller “Black Stain.”

Set in an isolated Andalusian village in the early 1970s, the story revolves around a family mourning the death of the elderly matriarch and the deep tensions that are reignited with the return of her estranged son Eugenio, who left years earlier. As his three sisters grieve, the dark stain that has long haunted the family resurfaces.

Eugenio’s return reawakens ill feelings among the neighbors, whose livelihood has been devastated by a plague that has destroyed the village’s once fertile olive grove. The family is soon facing the threat of destitution and exile as long buried secrets are revealed.

García, whose previous films include the 2017 thriller “Resort Paraíso” and the 2014 drama “321 días en Michigan,” has described his latest work as “a tragedy with echoes of Lorca, of Shakespeare not to mention Hitchcock’s...

Let's face it. You all have lost your loving feeling for episodic television that goes week to week. At least, given the dismal numbers that we're seeing on the few shows that Are airing weekly.

So, you should be pleased with many things this week, even as some networks still desperately try to get your attention for weekly viewing.

There are binge-watches dropping across multiple platforms and some great new weekly series. There are movies and horror-adjacent and teen dramas galore, with a timely docuseries dropped into the mix, too. Check it out!

Saturday, September 12

8/7c Coastal Elites (HBO)

If you're of a liberal mind and a Trump hater, you should find something to love in HBO's adaptation of Paul Rudnick's play, which was expected to go into production this year, but, well, Covid.

If Bette Midler has the appearance of a screaming shrew on Twitter, she's the perfect...

The new HBO miniseries The Third Day begins with a leisurely, God’s-eye view of a verdant English country road, disturbing music, and the unmistakable sound of Jude Law’s voice in distress saying, “What? Oh, no, no, no, no, no.” It’s early morning, and the character he’s playing, Sam, is already having a terrible day — one that is about to get exponentially worse. His travels then take him to a stream in the woods, where he is just barely in time to rescue a teenage girl named...

One of the fundamental concepts of quantum physics is that objective reality doesn’t exist until we observe it. For example, a photon can be neither here nor there, neither strictly a particle nor strictly a wave, until we measure it. Or, perhaps a better example: The Song of the Summer.

The Song of the Summer is a nebulous nothing that was never really a thing until we all decided, one day, that it was. The Song of the Summer could be anything, this song or that one depending on location,...

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 past round-ups here.

Bad Vacations

I imagine your summer plans didn’t go as expected, but in at least a few films in a new Criterion Channel series, some characters have it worse off than having to quarantine inside. Titled Bad Vacations, the collection includes Bonjour tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958), La collectionneuse (Éric Rohmer, 1967), The Deep (Peter Yates, 1977), House (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977), Long Weekend (Colin Eggleston, 1978), The Green Ray (Eric Rohmer, 1986), The Comfort of Strangers (Paul Schrader, 1990), The Sheltering Sky (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1990), Funny Games (Michael Haneke, 1997), Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001), La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001), Unrelated (Joanna Hogg, 2007), and Sightseers (Ben Wheatley, 2012).

Where to Stream: The Criterion Channel

Epicentro (Hubert Sauper)

“This is utopia, bright and burning.

I’m writing this review from my summer vacation. Loath as I am to invoke the first person, this admission is relevant for two reasons. Like Eva (Itsaso Arana), the main character of Jonás Trueba’s patient, zephyr-like “The August Virgin,” I’ve chosen to stay home during this stifling late-summer heatwave, a decision that can breed ennui the way stagnant water spawns mosquitoes. More importantly, this is the first time in more than two decades that I’ve taken a week off in August, which just goes to show how different the American idea of summer is from that practiced abroad.

All over Europe — but especially in densely populated places like Paris, London and Madrid — bustling cities practically shut down at the beginning of August as people schedule their vacations at the same time. Like migratory birds, entire populations check out of work and skip town for the month,...

You might still be working your way through the huge haul that just arrived on the site this past Friday, but let’s skip ahead to this coming week all the same and preview what’s headed to Disney Plus on August 21st. It’s nowhere near as big as the lot that’s just arrived, but there are a couple of notable new additions to look forward to.

Here are all six movies and TV shows due on D+ in just a few days:

Back to the Titanic Beauty and the Beast Mars: One Day on the Red Planet Muppets Now – Episode 104 – “Sleep Mode” *Disney+ Original One Day At Disney – Episode 138 – “Heather Bartleson: Holiday Services” *Disney+ Original Weird But True – Episode 302 – “National Parks” *Disney+ Original

The six new titles break down into two National Geographic documentaries, three new episodes of ongoing D+ exclusive series and one major new film...

One of the most entrancing films I’ve seen in the last few years has been Helena Wittmann’s debut feature Drift, screened at New Directors/New Films back in 2018, and beautifully reviewed by our own Leonardo Goi here. The German director is now prepping her follow-up feature and the cast has been announced, along with new details.

Variety reports that Denis Lavant and Angeliki Papoulia will lead the Mediterranean-set feature Human Flowers of Flesh. The 16mm-shot film, featured in Locarno’s The Films After Tomorrow spotlight, follows our heroine Ida, who navigates with an all-male crew along the route of the French Foreign Legion from Marseille to Sidi-Bel-Abbes via Calvi on a contemporary odyssey that is at once political and sensuous. Wittman, who serves as her own cinematographer, has said Claire Denis’ Beau Travail is an inspiration, as well as Éric Rohmer’s The Green Ray.

“It is an...

“Something happened here, something violent,” Jude Law warns in a newly released trailer for HBO’s limited series The Third Day, before asking a young girl, “Is there someone frightening you here on the island?”

Premiering Monday, Sept. 14 at 9/8c, the HBO/Sky co-production consists of six episodes, divided into two parts, “Summer” and “Winter.” The first part stars Law (The New Pope) as Sam, “a man who is drawn to a mysterious island off the British coast where he encounters a group of islanders set on preserving their traditions at any cost,” per the official synopsis. “Isolated from the mainland,...

HBO has released a full-length trailer for its limited series The Third Day, which stars Oscar-nominated actors Jude Law and Naomie Harris, and debuts next month. Created by Felix Barrett and Utopia's Dennis Kelly, The Third Day consists of six episodes that are divided int "Summer" and "Winter." Marc Munden directed “Summer” from a script by Kelly, while Philippa Lowthorpe directed "Winter,” which Kelly co-wrote with Kit De Waal and Dean O’Loughlin. Told over the first three episodes, “Summer” follows Sam (Law), a man who is drawn to a mysterious island off the British coast …...

Jude Law and Naomie Harris play travelers who end up sucked into the mysterious and terrifying ways of a strange island off the British coast in the new trailer for the limited series, The Third Day, premiering September 14th on HBO.

The six-episode series is broken into two parts, “Summer” and “Winter,” each with three episodes. Law stars in “Summer” as a man named Sam who — after experiencing a tragic loss — finds himself drawn to an island where he meets its inhabitants who, per a press release, are “set on...

HBO shared a new trailer for its Jude Law, Naomie Harris limited series “The Third Day” on Friday.

Created by “Utopia” writer Dennis Kelly and Felix Barrett, the six-episode series takes place on a mysterious island off the British coast inhabited by a group of islanders set on preserving their traditions at any cost. The series, premiering Monday, Sept. 14, comprises two halves of three episodes each. The first three, “Summer,” star Law, while the final three, “Winter,” are led by Harris.

Law plays Sam, a man who is drawn to the island until he finds he is unable to leave the idyllic and dangerously enchanting world he has discovered, where the secretive rituals of its inhabitants bring him to grapple with experiences of loss and trauma hidden in his past through the distorted lens of the present.

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Looking to stay in and watch horror this summer? Scream Factory has you covered with five new Blu-ray announcements for July: Graveyard Shift (based on Stephen King's short story of the same name), the Bruce Dern-starring Tattoo, 1976's The Tenant, the massive monster movie War of the Colossal Beast, and a Collector's Edition of the Hammer horror film Kiss of the Vampire.

Special features for all five releases will be announced in the future, but in the meantime you can check out the announcements and cover art (via Scream Factory's Facebook page) for the upcoming Blu-rays below. Which ones are you planning on adding to your collection?

Graveyard Shift Blu-ray: "A creepy combination of Stephen King and underground terror comes to life in 1990’s horror show Graveyard Shift, clocking in on Blu-ray for the first time in North America.

When an abandoned textile mill is reopened, several employees meet mysterious deaths.

Sad news for dog lovers is coming in today as it's now being reported that another beloved television animal has passed away. Odin the Northern Inuit, the dog seen by millions of Game of Thrones fans across the world when he played Bran Stark's pet direwolf Summer in the very first episode of the hit HBO series, died this week after battling mouth cancer for the past several months. According to his owners, Odin had spent his final days with his family taking walks on the beach and dining on his favorite foods, dying at the age of ten this week when his health took a turn for the worse.

In a social media post confirming Odin's passing, his owners state they adopted the Inuit when he was just a 7-week-old puppy, spending the next ten years with the television dog as a very important part of the family. "Odin's...

Self-isolation offers a chance to catch up on the classics – but that requires a calm it’s currently hard to muster. In the first of a new series, one writer reveals the truth about their coronavirus viewing habits

Last week, the BFI released a list of the films streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime. It’s terrific. It contains several movies I’ve always wanted to see and several I love and want to see again. The weekend was beckoning and the world appeared to be ending. I drafted a timetable of all the great films I would watch.

Now it is Monday and the timetable is in ruins – which is to say that I didn’t watch a single film. What I watched was the BBC news, which is playing as a real-time adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, The Stand. What I watched was five episodes of the French sitcom Call My Agent,...

The Directors Guild of America is out with its DGA Awards nominations for TV series after a false start earlier this week. The shows whose helmers will be vying for the hardware are Game of Thrones, Watchmen, Succession, Barry, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Veep.

See the full list of noms revealed today below.

The DGA had been slated to announce all of its TV nominations earlier this week, but instead it revealed only the TV Movie/Limited Series, Documentary, Variety/Talk/News/Sports and Commercials nominees on Monday. It blamed the delay on “a re-vote related to a newly implemented electronic entry submissions process.”

The guild had announced last week that Jill Soloway — a previous DGA Award winner for her work on Transparent — was left off the ballot because of an internal DGA error. “We regret to inform you that the following entry was inadvertently omitted from the Comedy Series ballot: #165a.

Has it been 35 years since film director Ivan Passer, who died Jan. 9, explained to me why horror movies will never stop getting financed and distributed? “They don’t give their producers any sleepless nights,” the sage Czech maestro quietly, sagely noted, summing up a multitude of film business realities in a simple haiku.

And how many decades ago was it when I was first gripped by Passer’s greatest film, “Cutter’s Way,” a completely uncompromising and richly drawn portrait of young Americans facing down the Masters of War that Bob Dylan sang about?

When did I first marvel at the wit and compassion Passer brought to the screenplays of his great fellow countryman Milos Forman? I saw their unforgettable social satire “The Firemen’s Ball” when it first graced our American shores and scored a best foreign language film nomination in the late ’60s.

Forman’s Czech New Wave classic “Loves of a Blonde,...

Michelle Williams is one striking mom-to-be!

The actress, 39, shone at the 2020 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night, keeping her baby bump under wraps in a one-shoulder peach-colored Louis Vuitton gown (which took 156 hours to create from start-to-finish!) as she walked the red carpet alongside fiancé Thomas Kail. The silk crepe design, inspired by the label’s Spring-Summer 2020 collection, also features an asymmetric and draped body with knotted details across the shoulders and a draped, cinched waistband. The Hamilton director, 42, looked dashing in a traditional suit.

Also on hand to support Williams was her best friend and fellow Dawson’s Creek alum,...

The day before Taylor Swift’s 30th birthday, she summed up the joy, and turmoil, that comes with being one of the biggest artists in the world. She detailed the backlash and skepticism that came with her success, and how she sometimes gave in to her critics by making music to please them. She talked about losing the rights to her master recordings, something she didn’t see coming until it was too late, and how she wants to fight the trend of private equity companies buying up music “as if it is real estate.

American Cinema Editors has spliced together its nominations for the 70th annual Ace Eddie Awards, which recognize outstanding editing in 11 categories of film, television and documentaries. The honorary society will dole out its hardware during the January 17 ceremony at the Beverly Hilton.

Final balloting opens December 16 and closes January 6. Check out the list below.

For the first time, three foreign-language films are among the Eddie Awards nominees — The Farewell, I Lost My Body and Parasite — despite there not being a specific category for films predominantly in a foreign language.

Last year’s big winner on the feature side was Bohemian Rhapsody, which went on to score the Oscar for John Ottman.

Here are the nominees for the 70th annual Ace Eddie Awards:

Best Edited Feature Film (Drama)

Ford v Ferrari

Michael McCusker, Ace & Andrew Buckland

The Irishman

Thelma Schoonmaker, Ace

Joker

Jeff Groth

Marriage Story

Jennifer Lame, Ace

Parasite

Jinmo Yang...

The Costume Designers Guild announced their nominations for the 22nd Cdga Awards on Tuesday. Among the nominees are Arianne Phillips for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Mayes C. Rubeo for “Jojo Rabbit” and Mitchell Travers for “Hustlers.” “The Irishman” is notably absent from the field.

The Costume Designers Guild celebrates excellence in film, television and short-form costume design. As previously announced, this year’s host will be Emmy-nominated writer, producer, author, director and actor Mindy Kaling, while the honorees will include Mary Ellen Fields (distinguished service award), Michael Kaplan (career achievement award), Adam McKay (distinguished collaborator award) and Charlize Theron (spotlight award).

“On behalf of the Costume Designers Guild, I’d like to congratulate all of our 22nd Cdga nominees. This year is a particularly exciting year for television as we have updated our rules of submission. Designers now submit a single episode that best represents their work on a series.

Angel Olsen appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform two songs, “Chance” and “Summer.” The tracks come off the singer’s recent album, All Mirrors, which dropped in October, and Olsen gave each its own emotional aesthetic for her performance. Backed by a band, Olsen offered a sultry rendition of “Chance” while “Summer” took on a pulsating synth-pop vibe.

All Mirrors is Olsen’s fourth album and she told Rolling Stone earlier this year that it’s the first time she’s allowed herself to fully be on an album.

During the four seasons The O.C. was on the air for, the teen drama made a habit of spotlighting different holidays. The first season alone featured Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day, and Passover with big parties, family gatherings, and plenty of drama.

Related: The O.C.: 10 Worst Things Summer Roberts Ever Did

With fourteen episodes built around holidays, there was a lot of opportunity for the drama of heartbreak, comedic hijinks, and some signature Ryan Atwood slow motion sequences. Not every holiday episode could be a standout hour, so they’ve been ranked from the worst to the best.

Alec Bojalad Dec 2, 2019

Spencer Grammer, the voice of Summer Smith on Rick and Morty, talks about spending the next 70 episodes with the Smith/Sanchez family.

Rick and Morty is three episodes into its long-awaited fourth season. Those three episodes, however, represent just 4% of the output that Adult Swim expects for the beloved animated sci-fi comedy in the coming years.

Back in 2018, Adult Swim came to terms with Rick and Morty creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon on a new deal that included an order of 70 new episodes! To fans, that means many new Rick and Morty adventures await. To the cast and crew, it means that and more.

“It's a blessing,” Spencer Grammer, who plays Morty’s older sister Summer, says. “It's the greatest because as an actor you're constantly hoping that you're going to do something that's going to stand the test of time.”

Grammer has been acting since...

The games play on. ABC has renewed its slate of game shows for Summer 2020. As previously announced, Holey Moley will return for a second season. The $100,000 Pyramid (season five), Card Sharks (season two), Celebrity Family Feud (season six), Match Game (season five), Press Your Luck (season two), and To Tell the Truth (season five) have now also been renewed.

Here's the ABC press release:

ABC Renews ‘Summer Fun & Games’ for 2020

More Prizes, More Laughs, More Fun! ABC Picks Up New Seasons Of Hit ‘Summer Fun & Games’ Shows ‘The $100,000 Pyramid,’ ‘Card Sharks,’ ‘Celebrity Family Feud,’ ‘Match Game,’ ‘Press Your Luck’ And ‘To Tell The Truth’

Shows Join Previously Announced Sophomore Season of ‘Holey Moley’

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