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In Episode 13 of The Curse of Oak Island Season 12, Caissons Ho!, the Lagina brothers and the dedicated Fellowship of the Dig embarked on a pivotal chapter in their quest to unravel the island’s treasure mystery.

The episode dives into a monumental excavation effort in the Money Pit area.

Additionally, intriguing discoveries across Oak Island hinted at connections to historical treasure deposits.

The episode’s centerpiece was the launch of a large-scale dig in the Money Pit, targeting the fabled Chappell Vault. Treasure hunter Frederick Blair and his drilling operator William Chappell first encountered it in 1897 at a depth of 153 feet. It is a seven-foot-high, concrete-encased chest.

After months of groundwork, including core drilling and groundwater testing that revealed man-made workings and precious metals over 150 feet underground, the team pinpointed multiple promising locations.

With Vanessa Lucido from Roc Equipment’s aid, they deployed seven-foot-diameter steel caissons, aiming to bore down over 200 feet if needed.

This is an excerpt of a piece published in Issue 6 of Notebook magazine as part of a broader exploration of the cinema of youth. The magazine is available via direct subscription or in select stores around the world.The Heartbreak KidIllustrations by Emi Ueoka.The leanest, loveliest ending. In a movie filled with good lines—“There’s no insincerity in those potatoes. There’s no deceit in the cauliflower”—Elaine May’s The Heartbreak Kid, written by Neil Simon, finishes honestly, undisguised and plain. Charles Grodin, who plays Lenny Cantrow, a sports equipment salesman stewing with self-starter anxieties and consequently sabotaging his life (and love life) and the lives of others, is sitting on a couch at his own wedding reception, having a conversation with a ten-year-old guest. In a room full of adults, champagne, the future, Lenny’s choice to seek refuge is unadorned and innocent, even if our anti-hero is far from innocent,...

Argentina’s newly created Fondosa Foundation, launched by lawyer-producer Virginia Juárez, is teaming with Brazilian philanthropic org Projeto Paradiso, a mover and shaker on Brazil’s young talent scene, to launch a new program aimed at providing world-class mentorship to women screenwriters.

The program will back the development of one screenplay from Brazil and another from Argentina. The program aims to enrol as screenplay mentors some of Argentina’s foremost writers or writer-directors. Lucrecia Martel, one of the world’s great filmmakers, looks set to become the program’s first mentor.

The Fondosa Foundation’s call for applications looks set to run next February with the two winning screenwriters announced May 2025 and the mentorship initiating in June.

The mentorship is being announced at a Ventana Sur round table focusing on Gender Perspective Initiatives. The partnership with Projeto Paradiso is the first public announcement made by the Fondosa Foundation since its...

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

Film at Lincoln Center

An essential retrospective of Brazil’s L.C. Barreto Productions begins.

Roxy Cinema

Another Woman and The Lords of Flatbush play on 35mm.

Museum of the Moving Image

A retrospective of the Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden begins; The Gleaners and I plays on Saturday; Speed Racer shows on Sunday.

Anthology Film Archives

An honestly titled retrospective, “Essential/Unessential Warhol,” begins.

Film Forum

A Spielberg retrospective begins, featuring E.T. on 35mm; Army of Shadows continues and West Side Story plays on Sunday.

Museum of Modern Art

“Paramount in the 1970s” includes films by Warren Beatty, Elaine May, and Peter Bogdanovich.

IFC Center

Rosemary’s Baby and a 40th-anniversary restoration of Paris, Texas play daily; Caligula: The Ultimate Cut and The Conversation continue; Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Hostel, The Goonies, Mute Witness, and The Vanishing play late.

Metrograph

The Seventh Seal,...

UTA has signed Hong Kong writer-director Tiger Ji for representation in all areas.

Ji first gained recognition at age 19 with his award-winning 2020 short, “Wuhan Driver,” executive produced by Jonathan Sanger. It follows a Chinese Uber driver in New York as he struggles to make ends meet at the onset of the pandemic. For the project, Ji was awarded the filmmaker of the future award at the Rhode Island International Film Festival.

His subsequent 2023 project, “Death & Ramen,” starred Bobby Lee and Matt Jones (“Breaking Bad”). The short premiered at the Palm Springs Shortfest, where it was nominated for best comedy. It follows a ramen chef as he goes on an unintended late night odyssey with the Grim Reaper, sharing a bowl of noodles and discovering what it means to be human.

“Death & Ramen” was picked up by Canal+ for distribution worldwide and racked up more than 1 million views on YouTube in just over a month.

Vuelve la aclamada serie de espías. © Apple TV+

La cuarta temporada de la aclamada serie de espías de Apple TV+, Slow Horses, ya tiene tráiler y póster.

Slow Horses es un drama de espionaje lleno humor negro que sigue a un equipo disfuncional de agentes de inteligencia británicos que trabajan en un “vertedero” del MI5 conocido como La Ciénaga. La cuarta temporada de Slow Horses, dirigida por Adam Randall, adapta La calle de los espías, la cuarta novela de la galardonada saga literaria de Mick Herron, y comienza con la explosión de una bomba que hace saltar por los aires varios secretos personales, sacudiendo los ya inestables cimientos de La Ciénaga.

Gary Oldman interpreta a Jackson Lamb, el brillante e irascible cabecilla de los espías que han acabado en La Ciénaga debido a graves errores profesionales. También protagonizan la serie Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung,...

In the rich and diverse world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, bending is an art form that reflects the culture, philosophy, and physical prowess of its practitioners. Among the four elements water, fire, air, and earth earthbending is known for its stability, resilience, and raw power.

Earthbenders draw strength from the ground beneath their feet, channeling the very essence of the earth to manipulate rocks, soil, and minerals. Within this elemental discipline, one bender stands out as the undisputed master: Toph Beifong. Toph's extraordinary abilities, character development, and unique contributions to the story make her the strongest earthbender in the series.

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Toph's Appearance Was Foreshadowed in Aang's Vision The...

With nearly 1,700 titles in their catalog, it’s hard to discern where exactly to start when exploring the Criterion Collection. To celebrate their 40th anniversary, the company has now made it a bit easier as they’ve unveiled CC40, a 40-film, 49-disc collection retailing for around $640 that is now the new go-to gift for that budding cinephile in your life.

“This monumental forty-film box set celebrates forty years of the Criterion Collection by gathering an electrifying mix of classic and contemporary films, and presenting them with all their special features and essays in a deluxe clothbound, slipcased edition,” they note. “CC40’s eclectic selection includes the releases most frequently chosen by the hundreds of filmmakers, actors, writers, and other movie-loving luminaries who have visited Criterion over the years, as documented in our popular Closet Picks video series. Neither a historical survey nor a top-forty compilation, this exciting, personal, unpredictable anthology...

Vuelve la aclamada serie de espías. © Apple TV+

Ya se conoce cuándo vuelve la aclamada serie de espías de Apple TV+ “Slow Horses” con su cuarta temporada, además de sus primeras imágenes oficiales.

“Slow Horses” es un drama de espionaje lleno humor negro que sigue a un equipo disfuncional de agentes de inteligencia británicos que trabajan en un “vertedero” del MI5 conocido como La Ciénaga. Desde su estreno en 2022, “Slow Horses” ha ganado dos premios BAFTA y cosechado nueve nominaciones más.

La cuarta temporada de “Slow Horses”, dirigida por Adam Randall, adapta “La Calle de los Espías”, la cuarta novela de la galardonada saga literaria de Mick Herron, y comienza con la explosión de una bomba que hace saltar por los aires varios secretos personales, sacudiendo los ya inestables cimientos de La Ciénaga.

Gary Oldman interpreta a Jackson Lamb, el brillante e irascible cabecilla de los espías que han acabado...

Barren Lives.Before I reread it late this past winter, my clearest memory of Graciliano Ramos’s 1938 novel Vidas Secas (Barren Lives), a classic of Brazilian modernism, was of the dog, Baleia. I’d first read the novel in high school, and my teacher, Ivan, had an illustration of Baleia tattooed on his arm. Barren Lives was a favorite even among those pupils who, unlike me, didn’t obsessively read every book assigned. We all adored Baleia; though she is a dog, she has as much of a consciousness and a perspective as any of the human characters in the book. Her tragic death left us all equally moved and indignant.In Brazil, literature is singular and filmmaking is mostly ignored. I saw online that a movie theater in São Paulo not far from where I grew up was playing a rare print of the film adaptation of Barren Lives...

Without hyperbole, "M*A*S*H" is one of the greatest TV shows ever made. Centered on the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War, the anti-war comedy-drama became one of the most-watched shows in history and is continually revered by younger generations discovering it for the first time. The show boasted a phenomenal ensemble cast, with Captain Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce (Alan Alda) serving as the defacto main character. He's the chief surgeon after all, but he's also a bit of a lush. Then again, just about everyone on "M*A*S*H" drank from time to time. This is the show that gave us the iconic line, "War isn't Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse," so it isn't surprising that there'd be a bit of self-medicating happening. But a few years into the series' run, there was a noticeable shift in how...

Lucrecia Martel, without a doubt, is one of the most celebrated auteurs of our times. In a career spanning over two decades, she has successfully made a mark as a unique voice in the world of contemporary cinema, even though she has made only 4 feature-length films to date. Her 2001 debut La Ciénaga was enough to put her on the world map as someone who not only has great mastery over the craft but also as someone who can effortlessly forge a distinct cinematic world of her own. Her subsequent ventures The Holy Girl (2004) and The Headless Woman (2008) have only strengthened her place as an auteur. The layers at which a Lucrecia Martel film works are multiple and complex; hence, viewing or even trying to analyze her films through a single prism is futile. But one recurring and prominent aspect of her films is how she explores sexual tension between her...

We understand — theoretically, at least — that movies have more oomph when it’s an immersive experience. But though we all have familiarity with the various director cuts of films floating around, we tend to think less of how films play differently thanks to specialized equipment. But Manhattan cinephiles are about to get a big lesson in just that with the launch of the Paris Theater’s “Big and Loud” series.

A hothouse combination of classic cinema and popcorn entertainment, the series hopes to marry a nostalgic, historic setting with Dolby Atmos to make even beloved films a new discovery. Dolby Atmos allows filmmakers and sound designers the opportunity to strategically position specific sounds to come from anywhere in a film auditorium; the newly renovated Paris Theater has accepted that challenge and created the largest Atmos cinema in Manhattan. The Netflix theater’s team spent four months working with Dolby, an acoustician,...

Netflix is bringing the prized Paris Theater back online after major upgrades, including installing a new Dolby Atmos sound system and the technology needed to play 70mm film for the first time in over 15 years, the streamer announced Wednesday.

New York’s iconic art house cinema at 4 W. 58th Street will celebrate the occasion by hosting “Big & Loud,” a program showcasing classics from across the decades, as well as films for the sonically-obsessed. It runs Sept. 1-7.

The 70mm lineup includes 2001: A Space Odyssey, Baraka, Lawrence of Arabia, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Playtime, Roma and Top Gun.

Dolby Atmos Dcp movies being screened in the “Big & Loud” program include Apocalypse Now: Final Cut, Blade Runner: Final Cut, Da 5 Bloods, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Matrix, Memoria — which has never before screened in Atmos — and A Quiet Place. Other offerings include Blow Out, La Ciénaga, The Conversation...

As happened with Eternals and Chloé Zhao's vision, Black Widow could have been a very different film from the rest of the MCU productions if Lucrecia Martel had been chosen to direct it. And it is that the acclaimed Argentine director was part of the shortlist of candidates to bring the story of Scarlett Johansson's character to the screen, but ended up declining the offer.

Multi-award-winning and recognized for films such as Zama or La Ciénaga, Martel is one of the most recognized female directors on the Latin American stage and in the world, however it was a surprise for her that Marvel Studios approached to her to offer such an important project as the prequel centered on Natasha Romanoff, as she confessed back in 2018 speaking with Indiewire:

“What they told me in the meeting was ‘we need a female director because we need someone who is mostly...

The Argentinian filmmaker has been working on her docu-drama ‘Chocobar’ for 12 years.

Argentinian writer-director Lucrecia Martel was candid about her long-in-gestation documentary Chocobar during a masterclass at the Visions du Reel festival in Nyon in Switzerland where she was being honoured for her life’s work - thus far

The work-in-progress was provoked by the 2009 murder, part-captured on YouTube, of Indigenous activist Javier Chocobar in Tucuman in northern Argentina, while trying to stop evictions from his ancestral land. “We’ve been working on it for 12 years,” she acknowledged. “It is very strongly based on facts, although it’s hard to...

Lucrecia Martel, whose films include “La Ciénaga,” “The Holy Girl” and “The Headless Woman,” has been celebrated as guest of honor at the 54th edition of international documentary film festival Visions du Réel, where organizers had to switch to a larger venue to accommodate the large, enthusiastic audience attending her masterclass.

During the three-hour event on Tuesday, the acclaimed Argentinian filmmaker and leading figure of the New Argentine Cinema delved into her body of work and spoke about her upcoming hybrid project, “Chocobar,” her first foray into feature-length non-fiction.

“I am learning as I’m doing, that’s why it’s taking so long,” she quipped, with characteristic self-deprecation. “I am currently on version four of the edit,” she explained of her doc, which focuses on the real-life murder of indigenous leader Javier Chocobar. The film explores the subject of land ownership and indigenous struggles in Latin America, asking what...

After last month kicked off with Sight and Sound unveiling of their once-in-a-decade greatest films of all-time poll, detailing the 100 films that made the cut that were led by Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, they’ve now unveiled the full critics’ top 250. While the discourse up until now has featured many wondering why certain directors were totally absent and why other films that previously made the top 100 were left out, more clarity has arrived with this update.

Check out some highlights we clocked below, the full list here, and return on March 2 when all ballots and comments will be unveiled.

The films closest to making the top 100 were Rio Bravo, The House Is Black, and Vagabond, which tied for #103. Four directors absent in the top 100––Terrence Malick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Jacques Demy––have two films each in the top 250: The Tree of Life...

The late Wolfgang Petersen's 1984 film "The NeverEnding Story," while ostensibly a fantasy film, lacks the genre's expected sense of lighthearted, dazzling wonderment. Indeed, the film's fantasy sequences bear a tragic note of muddy entropy, and fantastical characters live in a state of resigned abnegation. Despite amazing special effects and myriad imaginative monsters, "The NeverEnding Story" is most notable for its overwhelming ennui. A savvy youth might be so beleaguered by the film's sadness, they may find its final moments of triumph to feel artificial, like the hero may only be imagining his own escape from pain. The film ends with a moment of mourning, of acceptance that a parent is dead. Some find the film uplifting. Others may not.

The plot of "The NeverEnding Story" follows a young boy named Bastian (Barret Oliver) who recently lost his mother and who is beset by bullies at school. When he absconds...

America has officially celebrated Women’s History month since the 1980s when a feminist surge for equal job opportunities and education blossomed out of local celebrations and the International Women’s Day holiday, as well as Women’s History Week. And for the entire month of March, the streaming service HBO Max is celebrating Women’s History Month with programming devoted entirely to stories about women.

HBO Max is stacked with movies and shows that show complex female leads, and along with their spotlight page offerings, HBO is offering a first ever in-app trivia experience to celebrate the event. The HBO Max Women’s History Month Trivia tray allows fans to discover entertainment milestones that all involve women. To reveal the answer, viewers can simply click or tap the tile.

HBO Max has curated a list of films, TV shows and documentaries that reflect empowering and challenging female characters, overlooked and underrated performances,...

Exclusive: Beanie Mania filmmaker Yemisi Brookes, documentarian-cinematographer Christopher Frierson (Dmx: Don’t Try to Understand), director-producer Lisa Cortés (All In: The Fight For Democracy), directors Morgan Pehme and Dan Dimauro (Get Me Roger Stone), Mark Laita’s YouTube channel Soft White Underbelly and The Speed Cubers filmmaker Sue Kim have signed with Black Box Management for representation.

As it announces its new signings, Black Box has two client projects at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival: the documentary TikTok, Boom from director Shalini Kantayya, which looks at the rise and cultural influence of the ubiquitous social media app, and John Patton Ford’s thriller Emily the Criminal, starring Aubrey Plaza.

“These new signs are part of the continued expansion of the Black Box family. From the start we have always been drawn to artists and creators who are disruptive and have something new to say,” said Black Box founders Mike Dill and Lowell Shapiro in a joint statement.

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Sky Deutschland has revealed plans for three new original series, which are part of a wider slate of 60 German and international series that will air in 2022.

“Autobahn,” a 10-part series, will follow a pair of police officer brothers as they keep their cool while chasing suspects at high speed. Shot across Bavaria, the series is from producer Action Concept in association with Sky Studios. The lead writers are Sven Frauenhoff and Andreas Brune. The producers are Heiko Schmidt, Andreas Perzl and Frank Jastfelder.

Set in the year 2036, “Tender Hearts” turns on Mila who orders a humanoid love robot from an advanced tech firm. The eight part series is produced by Odeon Film in association with Sky Studios with Eva Lia Reinegger set to write, with Pola Beck as director. Executive producers are Katja Herzog, Andreas Perzl and Frank Jastfelder.

“Chameleon,” an eight part series, is set in the murky...

If the coronavirus pandemic has been a boon to global streaming services, which saw their subscriber numbers climb in the past year as homebound audiences stayed glued to their screens, that’s only accelerated a trend already taking hold in the Russian VOD space.

According to Tmt Consulting, the Russian VOD market grew by 66% in 2020 to reach a value of 27.8 billion rubles ($384 million), with revenue from subscriptions rising by 87%. This comes as a growing number of media holdings, telecoms, and financial giants enter the streaming fray.

Earlier this year, Russia’s largest mobile operator, Mts, launched the Kion streaming platform, just months after financial giant Sber (formerly known as Sberbank) acquired the leading streaming service Okko as part of its push to reinvent itself as a technology company. Russian search engine and It giant Yandex has seen explosive growth with its KinoPoisk VOD platform, while the Gazprom-backed streamer Premier and platforms such as More.tv,...

In this interview legendary Grindhouse director William Grefe discusses filming in the swamp, snake attacks, signing William Shatner at the airport and the truth about the Florida Yeti.

Did you ever think your films would be given the Blu-ray treatment like this?

In all my emails and Facebook, people from all over the world love this Blu-ray edition. I’m hearing from strangers and people I’ve met over the years – it’s interesting how people love the old grindhouse movies. It’s a lost art. Arrow have called this boxset He Came From The Swamp – they won’t let me out of the Everglades however hard I try!

What was it like filming in the Everglades?

I’ve been out in the Everglades ever since I was a kid, because I was born in Miami… The only film I made which was a nightmare, Sting of Death, the producer had never produced a movie,...

AI (Courtesy of Rei Cine and Viennale)Since her momentous breakthrough feature debut La Ciénaga, writer-director Lucrecia Martel has thrillingly and insightfully reinvented and recombined sound and image into disarming and often disturbing new forms. At their respective peaks, each of Martel’s four fraught psychological dramas verge on the non-realist, and in certain memorable, spectacular sequences they challenge their unsuspecting viewer.In one short film, Pescados (2010), murmuring carp cry upward beyond the fourth wall. In another, Muta (2011), bodies of Amazonian Miu Miu models contort monstrously as designer handbags quiver like flesh and martini glasses are filled to their brim with bleach. In her most recent short work AI, Martel once more explores agency and uneasy subjectivity in an adventurous new way. Commissioned as the trailer for the 2019 Viennale and made between Argentina and Austria, Martel’s AI takes place in a self-consciously artificial, audiovisual representation of mental space, solely...

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.

While the Hollywood studios continue to keep their tentpoles locked up till most American cinemas reopen, indie distributors are releasing a handful of smaller movies with big stars in supporting roles this week.

Can’t wait to see Robert Pattinson in “Tenet”? Well, you can always catch him in the festival-anointed imperialist critique “Waiting for the Barbarians.” While the release date for “Dune” remains in question, Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård leads the well-reviewed Scandinavian drama “Out Stealing Horses,” about a widower’s return to the country. And before Liam Neeson returns to action-hero mode with “Honest Thief,” you can watch him playing opposite real-life son Micheál Richardson in “Made in Italy.”

Ok, those pairings probably aren’t for the same potential audiences at all, but it’s still nice to see versatile actors’ more serious work finding its way to streaming. And not all the week’s movies are minor.

The news that Lucrecia Martel was working on a new feature film — less than three years after premiering 2017’s “Zama” — was excitedly received by world cinema buffs: nine long years had separated “Zama” and her previous feature, “The Headless Woman,” and admirers of the enigmatic Argentine auteur had no reason to expect a suddenly increased work rate.

“Zama,” after all, was a film that reflected its lengthy gestation and repeated delays in its hypnotic style. A scathing post-colonial portrait of a Spanish magistrate in a remote South American colony, spiraling into madness as he awaits a reassignment that never seems to come, the film’s feverish, intoxicated atmospherics bespoke a filmmaker fully immersed and entangled in her own creative process: the type of cinema Lucrecia Martel makes is not conceived, much less made, overnight.

Perhaps, then, Marcel will take the pandemic-induced limbo in which the film industry finds itself more in her stride than most.

If you want to meet a Republican politician who’s the ultimate poster boy for shameless apple-polishing — the kind of eager conservative loyalist who would crawl across broken glass to shine Donald Trump’s shoes — you should watch “The Swamp,” the new HBO documentary, and get a load of Matt Gaetz, a congressman from Florida who got swept into the U.S. House of Representatives by the Trump tidal wave.

Gaetz is a real piece of work. At 38, he’s got the baby-faced, handsome-but-not-too-dashing, smile-by-committee looks and easy-talking facility of a jock bro who was popular in high school and is now a mid-level bank manager. If you had to describe what his job is, the most accurate thing to say might be that Gaetz is a congressman who plays a congressman on TV. With his Chris O’Donnell immaculateness, he’s a constant presence on Fox News and CNN, mouthing his talking points,...

To call HBO’s The Swamp a thrilling character-based portrait of three conservative white guys might seem oxymoronic, but in the capable hands and open minds of co-directors Daniel Dimauro and Morgan Pehme (Get Me Roger Stone) it’s a completely apt description. The doc is an unexpected, up-close look at the daily D.C. lives of a trio of House members who few subscribers to HBO would ever conceive of voting for: far right-wingers Matt Gaetz (R-fl 1st District), Thomas Massie (R-ky 4th District), and Ken Buck (R-co 4th District). In other words, it’s exactly the caricature-busting film that progressives (like myself) really need […]...

To call HBO’s The Swamp a thrilling character-based portrait of three conservative white guys might seem oxymoronic, but in the capable hands and open minds of co-directors Daniel Dimauro and Morgan Pehme (Get Me Roger Stone) it’s a completely apt description. The doc is an unexpected, up-close look at the daily D.C. lives of a trio of House members who few subscribers to HBO would ever conceive of voting for: far right-wingers Matt Gaetz (R-fl 1st District), Thomas Massie (R-ky 4th District), and Ken Buck (R-co 4th District). In other words, it’s exactly the caricature-busting film that progressives (like myself) really need […]...

This weekly feature is in addition to TVLine’s daily What to Watch listings and monthly guide to What’s on Streaming.

With more than 530 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

More from TVLineWhat's New on Netflix in August — Plus: Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu & PeacockTV Streaming Service Guide: Disney+, Netflix,...

HBO Max has a lot to offer in August, with titles to look forward to including the premiere of a brand new Seth Rogen movie called “An American Pickle” on Aug. 6, and Christopher Nolan’s 2008 Batman film “The Dark Knight” out Aug. 1.

The nascent streaming service also shares content with HBO, with new films coming like “Jojo Rabbit” out Aug. 1, “Birds of Prey” out Aug. 15, “Richard Jewell” out Aug. 8, and “Queen & Slim,” out Aug. 22. The upcoming series “Lovecraft County,” which mixes fact and fantasy and takes place in 1950s Jim Crow America, arrives Aug. 16.

Leaving throughout the month include, tragically, all eight “Harry Potter” films, which will be gone after Aug. 25. Other absolute classics like “Good Will Hunting,” “You’ve Got Mail,” and both “Kill Bill” movies will be gone after Aug. 31, so watch them while you can.

Below is the full list of everything coming and going in August.

HBO Max is continuing to pull from Warner Bros.’ incredible back catalogue of movies, with August bringing a huge number of new titles to the streaming service. With over 130 new pieces of content, the list of upcoming arrivals encompasses classic films of all kinds, from Oscar winners to comedies, horrors to family pics and, of course, tons of blockbusters.

A highlight for many users will probably be the glut of Batman films coming to HBO Max at the start of the month. Every cinematic outing for the Caped Crusader from 1989’s Batman starring Michael Keaton to 2008’s The Dark Knight with Christian Bale (which just celebrated its 12th anniversary this weekend) are going up on the site. Sticking in Gotham, both seasons of Harley Quinn are also coming to HBO Max, following their original release on DC Universe.

Elsewhere on August 1st, some of the more notable new titles include Before Sunrise and its sequel,...

It’s August 2020 and that can only mean one thing: HBO Max is about to enter Lovecraft Country.

Over the years HBO (and by the transitive property its new HBO Max streaming offshoot) has grown accustomed to debuting a buzzworthy new TV show or limited series every couple of months. For August 2020 that will almost certainly be Southern Gothic horror series Lovecraft Country. The J.J. Abrams and Jordan Peele-produced thriller arrives on August 14 on HBO and HBO Max.

Other strong HBO Max originals arriving in August include the documentary Class Action Park (release date Tbd), Seth Rogen-starring comedy An American Pickle (Aug. 6), and finales for I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Doom Patrol, and Perry Mason.

Of course, HBO Max is designed to house much of WarnerMedia’s content across many mediums. That means some recent movies on note like Jojo Rabbit (Aug. 1), Richard Jewell (Aug. 8), and Birds of Prey (Aug.

Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week […]

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Fear City: New York vs The Mafia

A new Netflix documentary series revisits New York City in the 1970s – an era where the city’s promise of fun was replaced with great fear instilled by the mob, until the FBI decided to go after all five families. “The boss asked me to come into his office,” remembers a man who worked closely on the case. “Said, we want to indite all five families at the same time. I said, what, are you shitting me?” The series details how the FBI...

Perhaps the most interesting moment in the new trailer for the HBO documentary, “The Swamp,” comes at the very end when an off-camera interviewer asks Rep. Matt Gaetz, “What has President Trump done to drain the swamp?” The pause before the unknown answer tells you all you need to know about why you should watch the new doc.

Read More: ‘Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn’ Trailer: HBO Doc Explores The Controversial Murder Of A Black Teen

As the title suggests, HBO’s documentary, “The Swamp,” tackles the idea of who actually controls the government and how everyday people fight a battle that they might not be able to win because of special interest groups.

Continue reading ‘The Swamp’ Trailer: HBO’s Doc Spotlights New Republican Politicians & Their Fundraising Efforts at The Playlist.

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.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Marielle Heller)

It sounds almost too perfect: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers, the beloved children’s entertainer. Of course, who else could it be, really? It is so seemingly predestined, in fact, that Hanks’s first onscreen appearance as Fred Rogers elicits knowing laughter from the audience. Yes, Tom Hanks playing Mr. Rogers looks and sounds exactly how you would imagine. Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, however, is much more than an obvious biopic. It’s not really a biopic at all. Nor is it a rehash of 2018’s much-heralded documentary profile of Fred Rogers, Won’t You Be MyNeighbor?...

The Venice Film Festival has named Cate Blanchett the president of the 2020 competition jury. The announcement follows in the footsteps of Cannes, which announced this week that Spike Lee will be leading the jury for its 2020 festival. Blanchett picks up the baton from “Zama” and “La Ciénaga” filmmaker Lucretia Martel, who was the president of 2019 Venice Film Festival jury. Martel and her jurors selected Todd Phillips’ “Joker” as the best of the festival. Blanchett becomes just the eighth woman in Venice’s 77-year history to serve as jury president.

“Every year I look expectantly to the selection at Venice and every year it is surprising and distinct,” Blanchett said in a statement. “Venice is one of the most atmospheric film festivals in the world — a celebration of the provocative and inspirational medium that is cinema in all its forms. It is a privilege and a pleasure to be this year’s jury president.

Buenos Aires – Ventana Sur’s Opening Windows conference series welcomed an esteemed line-up of women in film to Buenos Aires’ Uca campus on Wednesday afternoon for a panel that sought to familiarize the audience with the enormous weight of breaking into a male-dominated industry throughout the years.

Among the panelists was Argentine Producer Lita Stantic, who has been in the industry since she swapped out her career as a journalist in the ‘60s. She recalls, “I was 20 years old, and there were no women in cinema, and I studied journalism because I wanted to be, let’s say, I thought that the only way to be near cinema was to write film criticism.” She then went on to regale the audience with her inspiring foray into film that began when she started creating short films, continuing to have an illustrious career as a producer, working on films like “La Ciénaga,...

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.

3 From Hell (Rob Zombie)

With 3 From Hell, Zombie is intent on ripping out those sutures, grabbing a hold of the blistered flaps made from that fresh incision, and waving a grisly tapestry that may as well have the red, white, and blue colored on the leathery skin of every casualty we’ve taken to make this country great. This is America let loose, with our violence, trauma, and psychopathy sweeping south of the border in a deluge, our arbiters wearing the indigenous garb of those we’ve already slaughtered to make bedrock. – Mike M. (full review)

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La Ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel)

With only a few features,...

When the Venice Film Festival offers Pedro Almodóvar, above, a lifetime achievement award, the festival will be honoring not one, but two careers. Though he’s often shied from the spotlight, producer Agustín Almodóvar has worked in lockstep with his older brother for over 30 years. The siblings founded production house El Deseo in 1986, and together have produced films for Guillermo Del Toro, Isabel Coixet and this year’s Venice jury chief, Lucrecia Martel. Variety spoke with Agustín; Pedro received the award Aug. 28 at the Venice Festival.

Can you share some of your thoughts about the award?

It is both very touching and very rewarding to receive this kind of honor. Working long years in this field means donating large parts of your mental health to film festivals, with all the stresses and pressures they entail. To attend and participate in industry events while submitting your own film to criticism and...

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth puts spotlight on motherhood, female relationships and the nature of cinema itself.

The Venice Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday night (Aug 28) with Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s French-language debut The Truth, starring Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche.

The generally well-received feature made for a fitting opening film amid the ongoing debate over female representation at the festival, spurred by the fact that just two of the 21 films in competition this year are directed by women.

Deneuve plays a steely cinema diva who has put career ahead of friends and family throughout her life, opposite Binoche as her long-suffering,...

The 2019 Venice Film Festival officially kicked off with a press conference featuring the event’s chief, Alberto Barbera, and this year’s jury president Lucrecia Martel, the Argentine director behind “La Ciénaga,” “The Headless Woman,” and “Zama.” As reported by Deadline, one of the most pressing topics discussed was the inclusion of Roman Polanski in this year’s competition lineup. The French director is debuting his Dreyfus affair drama “An Officer and a Spy,” starring Emmanuelle Seigner, Louis Garrel, Jean Dujardin, and Mathieu Amalric.

The Venice Film Festival has been under fire for including Polanski in this year’s competition because the director was charged with rape in the 1970s. The #MeToo era has put a new focus on Polanski’s behavior, resulting in his expulsion from the Academy in May 2018. Barbera continued to defend Polanski’s inclusion at Venice 2019 during the opening press conference.

“[I am] convinced that we have to...

Moviegoing Memories is a series of short interviews with filmmakers about going to the movies. Lila Avilés's The Chambermaid is Mubi Go's Film of the Week of July 26, 2019.Notebook: How would you describe your movie in the least amount of words?Lila AVILÉS: The story about Eve, a chambermaid who works in a high-class hotel in Mexico City.Notebook: Where and what is your favorite movie theatre?AVILÉS: Cineteca Nacional, in Mexico City.Notebook: Why is it your favorite?AVILÉS: Because it is the most powerful cinemateque in Mexico. Films come there from everywhere, and are shown at a really low cost, so cinema is for everyone!Notebook: What is the most memorable movie screening of your life?AVILÉS: La Ciénaga, by Lucrecia Martel. When I was young, the place to go and feel cool was the Cinetec Nacional. There I saw a lot of films that gave...

Led by the ‘Zama’ director, the jury will award prizes including the Golden Lion.

Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel will be the president of the Competition jury of the 76th edition of the Venice Film Festival (August 28 – September 7).

The decision was made by Venice board chair Paolo Baratta and festival director Alberto Barbera.

The nine-person Competition jury will award eight prizes, including the Golden Lion for best film, the Silver Lion for best director and the Coppa Volpi for best actor and best actress.

Zama, Martel’s most recent film, made its world premiere in Competition at Venice in 2017.

Martel directed...

Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel has been named the president of the jury at this year’s Venice Film Festival, the event’s 76th edition.

Venice chief Alberto Barbera praised Martel as “Latin America’s most important female director and one of the top female directors worldwide,” adding that she had achieved this status with just “four feature films and a handful of shorts” in less than 20 years.

“In her films, the originality of her stylistic research and her meticulous mise-en-scène are at the service of a worldview free of compromises, dedicated to exploring the mysteries of female sexuality and the dynamics of groups and classes,” Barbera said in a statement.

“It’s an honor, a responsibility and a pleasure to be a part of this celebration of cinema, of humanity’s immense desire to understand itself,” said Martel, who directed Icelandic singer Björk in a theatrical concert production last month at The Shed,...

Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile this June, we ask the filmmaker (this month: Lila Avilés) to identify their all time top ten favorite films. Aviles’ The Chambermaid is receiving its release on Friday, June 26th at the Film Forum in New York City via the Kino Lorber folks. We have a list that exceeds the ten mark, so in no particular order, here are top fourteen films of all time as of June 2019.

Au Hasard Balthazar – Robert Bresson (1966)

Barry Lyndon – Stanley Kubrick (1975)

Drifting Clouds – Aki Kaurismäki (1996) / The Man Without a Past (2002)

Fanny and Alexander – Ingmar Bergman (1982)

Fitzcarraldo – Werner Herzog (1982)

In The Mood For Love – Wong Kar Wai (2000) / Days of Being Wild (1990)

La Ciénaga – Lucrecia Martel (2001)

Love Streams – John Cassavetes (1984)

Nostalgia – Andrei Tarkovsky (1983)

The Salt of the Earth – Wim Wenders (2014)

Songs from the...

“Tell me, why do we require a trip to Mount Everest in order to perceive one moment of reality?” asks Wallace Shawn in “My Dinner with Andre.” “I think if you could become fully aware of what existed in the cigar store next to this restaurant, I think it would just blow your brains out!”

There are no cigar stores in Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma,” but after zipping us through a future dystopia in “Children of Men” and all of outer space in “Gravity,” the director takes us through a far more quotidian version of reality in his gorgeous new film. And it did, admittedly, blow my brains out.

Shot in 65mm black-and-white — please, Netflix, let audiences see this movie projected in 70mm before it hits your streaming service — the film remains mostly housebound to tell us the story of a bourgeois family in Mexico City in the 1970s, mostly as viewed by their housekeeper,...