Gregg Araki‘s first film in a decade is newsworthy enough, but casting arguably the world’s biggest current pop superstar in it? That’s a whole other level of hype. And that’s exactly what Araki has done, as Charli XCX is the latest to join the cast of his upcoming “I Want Your Sex.” Is it any surprise that this is how the British music icon caps off “Brat Summer”?

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After making his debut in “Licorice Pizza,” it appears Cooper Hoffman has a bright future ahead. Not only did he appear in “Wildcat” just last year, but he has two films likely to come out over the next six months, “The Old Guy” and the highly anticipated “Saturday Night.” Now, it appears he’s landed a lead role in the forthcoming drama, “I Want Your Sex.”

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According to Black Bear, Cooper Hoffman is expected to star opposite Olivia Wilde in Gregg Araki’s new film, “I Want Your Sex.” If you’re a fan of Araki’s work, it should come as no surprise that “I Want Your Sex” is being described as a “provocative film.” The plot follows a young guy (Hoffman) who gets a job working for a renowned artist (Wilde).

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Where to start with Gregg Araki‘s “Nowhere“? The culminating film of the director’s “Apocalypse” trilogy, the movie has always been hard to track down for various reasons. For one, it never received a proper DVD release, only VHS and Laserdisc. But it’s also the most hedonistic of Araki’s early work, with the MPAA and Fine Line Features (the film’s distributor) demanding that Araki cut out explicit sequences after its 1997 premiere at Sundance.

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While your future planning probably only extends to Thanksgiving, the Sundance Film Festival is already thinking ahead to January, the 2023 edition of their festival. Today,  the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced today the first two films in the lineup for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and they are the 25th Anniversary and digital restoration screening of “SLAM” and the uncensored director’s cut and restoration of “The Doom Generation.”

Directed by Marc Levin and written by Levin, Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn, and Richard Stratton, “SLAM” was first introduced to audiences at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, where it premiered in the U.S.

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In this streaming-enabled era of Peak TV, when nearly every show is impeccably made and overly long, it’s hard to stumble over good, wholesome trash. Even teen TV has leaned into prestige, with artistic, poignant shows like “13 Reasons Why” and “Sex Education” snapping up staggering viewership numbers. If you’re a millennial who, like me, raised yourself on delicious bilge like “Gossip Girl,” “90210,” “Pretty Little Liars,” or “Teen Wolf,” it can be hard to adjust to this squeaky-clean world of budgetless studios and uninhibited creation.

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Sometimes the Sundance Film Festival takes a few weeks to take shape. This year, the festival has taken off like a rocket with its announcements and has already unveiled the bulk of its lineup. Still, that said, there’s always more to come. Today, the festival unveiled works selected across the Indie Episodic, Shorts, and Special Events sections of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

Highlights include new projects from filmmakers like Stephen Frears, Amy Berg and Gregg Araki’s new work with executive-producer Steven Soderbergh.

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Review: Gregg Araki's Dreamlike, Unique 'White Bird In A Blizzard' With Shailene Woodley And Eva Green

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Watch: New Trailer For Gregg Araki's 'White Bird In A Blizzard' Starring Shailene Woodley, Eva Green And More

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Sundance Review: Gregg Araki’s 'White Bird In A Blizzard' Starring Shailene Woodley, Eva Green & More

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Ben Foster Prepping Directorial Debut With Oren Moverman Producing, Gregg Araki's Next Is Cop Thriller 'The Womb'

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Kicking off with a strange, clue-laden dream, the absurd rom-com/murder mystery stars Thomas Dekker as Smith, a bisexual Californian college student about to go down a rabbit hole of cults, conspiracies and general weirdness.

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The Contemporary World Cinema program has certainly grabbed our attention with a number of high-profile films catching our eye. Receiving North American premieres are two highly anticipated titles (at least by us anyway), Kelly Reichardt’s gritty western tragedy “Meek’s Cutoff” and Tom Tykwer’s “Three.” A couple of intriguing titles making their World Premiere are Icíar Bollaín’s post-modern “Even The Rain” starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Bent Hamer’s (“Kitchen Stories”) latest “Home For Christmas.” The inconsistent but always fascinating Tsui Hark will unveil “Detective Dee And The Mystery Of The Phantom Flame” to North American audiences while a selection of films that played Cannes earlier this year including Feng Xiaogang’s “Aftershock,” Pablo Trapero’s “Carancho,” Oliver Schmitz’s “Life, Above All,” Sergei Loznitsa’s “My Joy” and, pretty much already a lock for a Best Foreign Film Oscar nomination (the critics loved this one at Cannes), Xavier Beauvois’ “Of Gods And Men.”

The Masters program also offers a selection of titles from some established auteurs led by Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s head-scratching wonder “Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall Past Lives,” Ken Loach’s Iraq war drama “Route Irish,” Jean-Luc Godard’s total mindfuck “Film Socialisme.” Other titles of note include Jerzy Skolimowski’s Vincent Gallo-as-terrorist film “Essential Killing,” Catherine Breillat’s latest take on a fairy tale, “Sleeping Beauty,” Lee-Chang Dong’s “Poetry” and Jia Zhang-ke’s total snoozefest “I Wish I Knew.”

Over in the Vanguard section are a number of titles from new talents on the horizon.

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Well, the winners have been announced, and while for the most part it’s pretty much everything we would’ve expected, Tim Burton and the rest of the jury saved the biggest surprise for the top honor.

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Arguably, that’s always been the case, but it’s even more pronounced this year.

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Here’s our 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 picks.

In creating and arguing over all our lists, 2005 was easily the most difficult year (yes, we’re going to say that about every year) and it’s perhaps fitting that the mid-way point of the decade yielded the best crop of pictures. We could have easily listed 20 films here, but once again, stuck to 10, uh sort of… (and since we’ve saved documentaries for another feature, it helps give us breathing room).

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Despite a lead of Anna Faris (who was actually quite excellent in the otherwise mediocre film) and supporting roles by Adam Brody, Danny Masterson, John Krasinski and Jane Lynch, “Smiley Face,” did not connect with mainstream audiences and basically came and went taking in a pittance of $179, 000 worldwide (First Look Pictures — ahem, the same small studio putting out Werner Herzog’s “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” — put that one out and obviously didn’t have the juice to push it at all).

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Then it got bumped to late summer, then bumped again and then eventually got shelved to a straight-to-DVD release. However, at the last minute it made it into a few select theaters in NYC and L.A. and it gained some glowing reviews.

The Village Voice loved it, Premiere’s Glen Kenny called it, “mind-bogglingly funny” (he placed it as 19 on his top 25 list of ’07) and we all of a sudden became intrigued.

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Let’s face it, his films aren’t great and polarizing at best (loathsome to many), but he’s always had some choice noisy and shoe-gaze-y soundtracks, which we’ve always loved him for (and we’re likely going to do a Soundtrack Series volume on him one of these days, but not likely anytime soon.

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