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Documentary sales firm Cinephil is pitching Margreth Olin’s new project, an untitled horse documentary, to EFM buyers this week.

Viewed through the perspective of a horse, the film will look at how horses perceive their environment, navigate their place within a herd and interact with humans.

The project will also be pitched at next month’s Cph:dox Forum; Olin is preparing to start production this year, with completion scheduled for 2027. The film is supported by the Norwegian Film Institute.

It is the fourth collaboration between Norwegian filmmaker Olin and Cinephil, after Songs of Earth, Norway’s entry to the 2024 Oscars; Goteborg selection Self Portrait,...

Documentary sales firm Cinephil is pitching Margreth Olin’s new project, an untitled horse documentary, to EFM buyers this week.

Viewed through the perspective of a horse, the film will look at how horses perceive their environment, navigate their place within a herd and interact with humans.

The project will also be pitched at next month’s Cph:dox Forum; Olin is preparing to start production this year, with completion scheduled for 2027. The film is supported by the Norwegian Film Institute.

It is the fourth collaboration between Norwegian filmmaker Olin and Cinephil, after Songs of Earth, Norway’s entry to the 2024 Oscars; Goteborg selection Self Portrait,...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for A Complete Unknown.

Bob Dylan went on to create more music after a nearly decade-long break from touring following the events of A Complete Unknown. Starring Timothée Chalamet as the legendary folk singer/songwriter Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknown was released in threats on Christmas Day 2024. The cast of A Complete Unknown also features Elle Fanning, Edward Norton, Monica Barbaro, Dan Fogler, and Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash. While the film is a biopic of the icon's rise to fame, A Complete Unknown changes several true story details about Bob Dylan's real life.

Directed by James Mangold of Ford v. Ferrari and Logan acclaim, A Complete Unknown is widely considered one of the best movies of the year. With a Rotten Tomatoes score of 79% and an audience score of 95%, A Complete Unknown is already in the running for several awards, including three Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture - Drama,...

Some rock albums are legends that top the charts for ages or redefine genres, and some albums peak with the first song and are otherwise forgettable. Sometimes a bad album can completely tank a band's career, like the Clash's final studio album, 1985's Cut the Crap, which failed so badly it led to Joe Strummer dissolving the band.

Then there's that rare bird, the album that's so bad that critics and fans can't stand it, but that a band can somehow recover from. Some of these artists took their failures in stride and made sure to listen to the feedback from their fans, some just took a little time to sweep their mistakes under the rug, and some just continued stumbling on and managed to salvage their careers through sheer dumb luck.

Bob Dylan – Self-Portrait Columbia Records, 1970

For most of the 1960s, it seemed that Bob Dylan could do little wrong musically.

Modern Chinese documentary echoes with radicality, with Wang Bing's “West of the Tracks” (2002) and Liu Jiayin's “Oxhide” (2005) serving as flag bearers. Zhang Mengqi is definitively part of this lineage, with “47km 2020” being the 10th instalment of a colossal documental project titled “Self-Portrait”.

Self Portrait: 47 km 2020 is screening at MoMi, as part of the First Look 2024 program

Let us begin by decoding the enigmatic title. “Self Portrait” implies an exploration of identity, yet it diverges from the self-centered, self-indulgent introspection typical of Western cinema of individuals. Instead, the author seeks to achieve it by scrutinizing her origins and intimately exploring her familial and rural environmental influences. A passive form of self-portrayal in a way. “47km”? At 47 kilometers from Suizhou, Hebei, lies her native village. An anonymous name for an everywhere village. Interesting to note that Diaoyutai village has undergone several name changes over time and now stands as only 42Km,...

Museum of the Moving Image is pleased to announce the complete lineup for the 13th edition of First Look, the Museum's festival of new and innovative international cinema, which will take place in person March 13–17, 2024. Each year, First Look offers a diverse slate of major New York premieres, work-in-progress screenings and sessions, gallery installations, and fresh perspectives on the art and process of filmmaking. This year's festival introduces New York audiences to more than three dozen works from around the world. The guiding ethos of First Look is openness, curiosity, and discovery, aiming to expose audiences to new art, artists to new audiences, and everyone to different methods, perspectives, interrogations, and encounters. For five consecutive days the festival takes over MoMI's two theaters, as well as other rooms and galleries throughout the Museum—with in-person appearances and dialogue integral to the experience. Each night concludes with one of five...

“Luoluo's Youth” is the second documentary by director Luo Ziyue, also known as Luo Luo, following her debut feature “Luo Luo's Fear”, which was selected for the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in 2021. Luo Luo's second work was chosen for the competition in the second edition of the Mint Chinese Film Festival, the first women-organized Chinese film festival in the UK.

Luoluo's Youth is screening at Mint Chinese Film Festival

The film opens with a peculiar sequence of a woman deciding to practice yoga on the floor of her small kitchen. Soon, the viewer realizes that she is not only the protagonist of the documentary but also its director, Luo Luo. The woman spends her life taking care of her elderly father, occasionally looking after her granddaughter, but above all, sharing her experience with the “Folk Memory Project” members. It is essential to briefly explain the nature of this project...

“Behind Your Touch” is a series created by Lee Nam-kyu and starring Han Ji-min, Lee Min-ki, and Suho.

Looking for something different? “Behind Your Touch” is different from its treatment, a laugh-out-loud comedy that suddenly knows how to break its own rhythm to become dramatic and mysterious, all while maintaining its comedic style. . a special one.

A series that revolves around its protagonist, a very special girl with very special powers that make “Behind Your Touch” strangely funny and entertaining.

Although it may not go down in television history, we fear.

Synopsis

The series revolves around Ye-boon, a veterinarian gifted with psychometric abilities, and Jang-yeol, a passionate and determined detective. Together, they form an alliance to tackle minor criminal cases in the picturesque city of Mujin, Chungcheong-do. However, their abilities are put to the test when they become entangled in a perplexing enigma involving a serial killer. Ye-boon is a...

During the Golden Age of Hollywood, which bloomed in the late 1920s and dwindled in the late 1960s, film production and distribution were under the control of the studio system, and everyone, actors, filmmakers, and writers alike, was under strict contract. It is true that movie stars enjoyed worldwide recognition and partook in exclusive, prestigious events, but this glamorous façade came with a high emotional price and was often a front for terrible personal tragedies.

Marilyn Monroe spent her childhood in orphanages and foster homes, was groped and abused throughout her career, and died in circumstances still debated today. Judy Garland was forcibly put on a pill regiment at an early age and her marathonic schedule was ruthlessly controlled by her mother. Rita Hayworth was abused by her father, suffered mental cruelty from her fundamentalist husband, and succumbed to Alzheimer’s.

And then there was Gene Tierney. With her chiseled cheekbones,...