Another another, another addition to the cast list of Kelly Reichardt‘s “The Mastermind.”  This time, it’s Reichardt regular John Magaro joining Josh O’Connor and Alana Haim for the much-anticipated film, with the news courtesy of Deadline.

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Magaro’s entrance makes it three straight Reichardt movies for the actor after “First Cow” and “Showing Up.” He received a Gotham Award nod for Best Actor for his work on Reichardt’s 2019 film, playing a mild-mannered chef who hatches a cooking scheme with a Chinese immigrant in 1820s Oregon country.

Continue reading ‘The Mastermind’: John Magaro Reunites With Kelly Reichardt, Joins Her Upcoming Art Heist Movie at The Playlist.

For years, the self-funded visual epic “The Fall” from director Tarsem (“The Cell,” “Dear Jassi”) was challenging to find. It didn’t stream anywhere, wasn’t available to rent, and physical copies were either rare, out of print, or expensive. The film, a visually gorgeous drama that prioritizes practical effects and was shot in more than 20 countries, became something of a cult classic for those in the know.

Continue reading ‘The Fall’: Lee Pace Talks Re-Release Of Tarsem’s Visual Masterwork & Reflects Back On The Experience Of Making A Cult-Classic at The Playlist.

How’s this for an epic cast list?  Karim Aïnouz‘s “Rosebush Pruning” had enough hype surrounding it already: Elle Fanning as the star; Efthimis Filippou penning a script that adapts the 1965 classic “Fists In The Pocket“; MUBI, The Match Factory, and Fremantle‘s The Apartment footing the bill. But the ensemble Aïnouz cast around Fanning now makes his follow-up to “Motel Destino” one of next year’s most anticipated films.

Continue reading ‘Rosebush Pruning’: Karim Aïnouz’s Dark Satire With Elle Fanning Adds Callum Turner, Riley Keough, Jamie Bell & More at The Playlist.

After years of working in indie film, actor Josh O’Connor had a breakout 2024 thanks to “Challengers” and “La Chimera.” Both films put Hollywood on notice, and O’Connor’s reward? A role in Rian Johnson‘s next “Knives Out” mystery, “Wake Up Dead Man.”

READ MORE: Josh O’Connor Joins Emily Blunt On Steven Spielberg’s Upcoming UFO Blockbuster

But Deadline reports O’Connor’s latest casting sounds more like his recent work with Luca Guadagnino and Alice Rohrwacher.

Continue reading ‘The Mastermind’: Josh O’Connor To Star In Kelly Reichardt’s Upcoming Art Heist Movie at The Playlist.

What’s the worst that could happen making a movie for the first time? In “My First Film,” Zia Anger‘s directorial debut, it’s any number of “firsts” and the fears that come with them. Oh, and an unexpected pregnancy; that’s an easy way for things to spiral out of control.

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Fresh off its world premiere at CPH:DOX earlier this year, Anger’s debut stars Odessa Young as Vita, who sets out to make her first movie with a crew of friends, funded by crowdsourcing.

Continue reading ‘My First Film’ Trailer: Zia Anger’s Feature Debut Hits Theaters On August 30, Streams On MUBI On September 6 at The Playlist.

“Bold, beautifully bonkers.” These are the words Cannes 2024 Jury member and actress Eva Green used when describing French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” and awarding the film the Best Screenplay Prize at the illustrious film festival. Fargeat is known for her 2017 French rape and revenge action thriller “Revenge,” and her latest film, “The Substance,” was not only acclaimed at Cannes but evidently just as audacious.

Continue reading ‘The Substance’ Trailer: Demi Moore & Margaret Qualley Star In The Acclaimed Cannes Body Horror at The Playlist.

French director Quentin Dupieux may be in the busiest period of his career. After two films in 2022 (“Smoking Causes Coughing” and “Incredible But True“), he released two more last year. First up, the faux-biopic “Daaaaaalí!,” which bowed at the Venice Film Festival and still awaits a stateside theatrical release. And then there’s “Yannick,” another film Dupieux quickly released in French theaters last August before screening at the Locarno Film Festival the next day.

Continue reading ‘Yannick’ Trailer: Quentin Dupieux’s Latest Debuts On MUBI On April 5 at The Playlist.

Good news, cinephiles: one of 2023’s buzziest movies now has an official theatrical release date. Radu Jude‘s “Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World” hits theaters next month. And there are several good reasons that MUBI snatched Jude’s film up for distribution. For one, it won the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival last year, where it had its world premiere.

Continue reading ‘Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World’ Trailer: MUBI Releases On Of 2023’s Buzziest Films In Theaters On March 22 at The Playlist.

Is the Western a dead genre? Not if Chilean director Felipe Gálvez has anything to do with it. Gálvez’s “The Settlers,” wowed audiences at the Cannes Film Festival this past May and won the Un Certain Regard FIPRESCI Prize in the process. Now it’s time for American audiences to see what all the fuss is about.

READ MORE: ‘The Settlers’ Is A Scorching Western That Examines Chile’s Blood-Soaked National Myth [Cannes Review]

And forget about even the best revisionist Westerns: “The Settlers” is a searing indictment of colonialism and a meditation on how manifest destiny was not a solely North American enterprise.

Continue reading ‘The Settlers’ Trailer: Felipe Gálvez’s Acclaimed Anti-Colonialist Western Is Chile’s International Oscar Entry Pick at The Playlist.

Everyone associates the Cannes Film Festival with its top prize, the Palme d’Or, arguably the most prestigious award on the annual festival circuit. But Cannes’ Un Certain Regard prize is just as sought after by young filmmakers: a prize that provides a daring and innovative film the chance for distribution in French cinemas and a sign of a director to watch on the international front. Past winners include Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Hong Sang-soo, among others.

Continue reading ‘How To Have Sex’ Trailer: Molly Manning Walker’s Un Certain Regard Winner From Cannes 2023 Hits Theaters On February 2, 2024 at The Playlist.

It’s been a good year for Aki Kaurismäki and his latest film “Fallen Leaves” so far. After the movie’s world premiere, it won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival back in May. And as “Fallen Leaves” made its way through the Fall festival circuit, screening at Telluride and TIFF, it also won the Fipresci Grand Prix as the Best Film Of 2023.  

Continue reading ‘Fallen Leaves’ Trailer: Aki Kaurismäki’s Wry Tragicomedy Hits Theaters On November 17 at The Playlist.

“Three and a half years in jail or twenty-five (thousand) in the bank”? That’s the premise, essentially, of the new MUBI dramedy, “The Delinquents,” which was one of the big hits from Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section earlier this year (read our glowing review here). In short, bank workers toiling away for pennies get fed up, know the system well, and think they can pull off a bank heist with minimal interruptions to their lives—some jail time— and meanwhile, they get rich.

Continue reading ‘The Delinquents’ Trailer: Fed-Up Argentine Bank Workers Plan To Steal Their Life Back In Acclaimed New Dramedy at The Playlist.

Given all the sections at the Cannes Film Festival, when you tally it all up, there are probably some 70 or 80 films reviewed in total (in some years, we’ve reviewed over 50 movies). So, how do you stand out at all? Well, dazzle them, obviously, but it helps when you win a big award, too, especially if you’re an unknown commodity. This is what happened to writer/director Molly Manning Walker and her critically acclaimed coming-of-age drama, “How To Have Sex.”

Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section essentially means up-and-comers you may not know and new discoveries you should know.

Continue reading ‘How To Have Sex’ Teaser Trailer: Molly Manning Walker’s Vibrant, Boozy Summer Cannes Hit Comes Soon at The Playlist.

When it comes to “Passages,” Ira Sachs’ witty, wise and very sexy Parisian drama, it all started with Franz Rogowski, who plays the film’s self-absorbed film director, Tomas. “I had seen Michael Haneke’s “Happy End” starring Franz,” remembers Sachs, the auteur of richly textured, grown-up gems such as “Love is Strange,” “Little Men” and “Keep the Lights On,” recently joining me for an interview about his latest, opening in theaters this week.

Continue reading ‘Passages’: Ira Sachs On His New Film’s NC-17 Rating, The Movie’s Intimate Sex Scenes & Finding Pleasure In Men Behaving Badly [Interview] at The Playlist.

An NC-17 rating for a film may as well be a scarlet letter branded on it before release, limiting its audiences and causing certain theaters not to carry it at all. But that branding won’t stop MUBI and Ira Sachs from debuting “Passages,” Sachs’ latest, in theaters next month. Deadline reports the director and distributor will move ahead with their release schedule as planned despite the MPA giving the film an NC-17.

Continue reading ‘Passages’: MUBI Still Plans To Release Ira Sachs’ Latest Film Theatrically Despite NC-17 Rating at The Playlist.

We’ve said it quite a bit over the past few years, but the MUBI streaming service is one of the most underrated subscription services for film fans. Up there with The Criterion Channel, MUBI is a showcase of some of the best films from around the world, featuring selections that you likely wouldn’t be able to see anywhere else. One such film is the forthcoming drama, “Unclenching the Fists.”

READ MORE: ‘Unclenching the Fists:’ A Bleak, Unflinching Russian Coming-of-Age Tale [TIFF Review]

And in honor of “Unclenching the Fists” making its debut on MUBI this week, we’re thrilled to give our readers an exclusive look at the trailer for the film.

Continue reading ‘Unclenching The Fists’ Exclusive Trailer: Kira Kovalenko’s Award-Winning Drama Arrives On MUBI This Week at The Playlist.

Of all the buzzy films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, like “Past Lives,” “Eileen,” and the Grand Jury Prize winner “A Thousand And One,” Ira Sachs‘ “Passages” is undoubtedly the sexiest. And by year’s end, it may rank higher than those other three on critics’ top 10 lists for 2023.

Continue reading ‘Passages’ Teaser: Ira Sachs’ Sexy Sundance Drama With Ben Whishaw, Franz Rogowski & Adéle Exarchopoulous Arrives In Theaters This August at The Playlist.

A young boy comes of age after his father’s sudden death in Christophe Honoré’s “Winter Boy.” A bleak portrait of grief, the film may earn points for crafting an empathetic, subjective portrayal of one boy’s emotional spiral. Yet, the film also makes several odd formal and aesthetic choices that, ultimately, make Honoré’s film feel more hackneyed than resonant. The strangest of which is the decision to allow Lucas (Paul Kircher), an openly gay 17-year-old, to directly address the camera, explaining and contextualizing his feelings to an unseen audience.

Continue reading ‘Winter Boy’ Review: Christophe Honoré’s Latest With Juliette Binoche Is An Affecting & Occasionally Hackneyed Portrait Of Grief at The Playlist.

Winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlinale Festival and Spain’s official selection for Best International Feature at the 95th Academy Awards, Spanish filmmaker Carla Simón’s sun-dappled and deeply moving sophomore film, “Alcarràs” was one of the most acclaimed films of the year from the festival circuit.

Shot in Alcarràs, Catalonia (North Eastern Spain, where they generally don’t speak Spanish), in the Western dialect of the Catalan language, featuring a non-professional cast of actors, the film is a family drama about the disappearance of traditional peach-harvesting activities.

Continue reading ‘Alcarràs’ Trailer: Carla Simón’s Golden Bear Berlin Winner Hits Cinemas January 6 Via MUBI at The Playlist.

For the first time in twenty-five years, Lars Von Trier returns to Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet and his cult TV series “The Kingdom.” And while “The Kingdom Exodus” may be Von Trier’s final edition of the show, MUBI will give its streaming premiere a prestige rollout.  

READ MORE: ‘The Kingdom Exodus’ Review: Lars Von Trier Is Down With The Sickness In Revived Hospital Comedy Series [Venice]

Starting on November 13, MUBI will release remastered director’s cuts of the previous two seasons of “The Kingdom.” All five episodes of “The Kingdom I” hit the streamer this Sunday, while “The Kingdom II” debuts next Sunday, November 20.

Continue reading New ‘The Kingdom Exodus’ Trailer: The Third & Final Installment Of Lars Von Trier’s Cult Show Hits Mubi On November 27 at The Playlist.

As the sun sets on the 2022 film festival season and we head into awards season, we are starting to see many of the films screened making their theatrical and streaming debuts. One of the well-received films we have listed as a 2023 Oscars shortlist contender is “The Box” (previously titled “La Caja”). 

“The Box,” tells the story of Hatzín, an orphaned teenager who lives in Mexico City with his grandmother.

Continue reading ‘The Box’ Exclusive Trailer: An Emotional Story Of A Boy Who Desperately Wants A Father at The Playlist.

Lars von Trier made a triumphant return to filmmaking at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month with “The Kingdom Exodus” as he battles Parkinson’s disease. Now, MUBI has a date set for the third season of von Trier’s series for its exclusive release on the streamer: November 27, with restored versions of the previous two seasons of the show premiering in the weeks beforehand.

Continue reading ‘The Kingdom Exodus’ Trailer: Lars Von Trier’s Third Season Of His TV Series Hits MUBI On November 27 at The Playlist.

It’s been six long years since Park Chan-wook‘s last outing, “The Handmaiden.” But now, the South Korean master director is back with his latest, “Decision To Leave.” And if his Best Director win for the film at the Cannes Film Festival this year is any indication, Park hasn’t lost a step.

READ MORE: ‘Decision To Leave’ Review: Park Chan-Wook Conjures Elusive Illusions & A Seductive Romance [Cannes]

Park’s latest stars Park Hae-il as a detective sent to investigate a suspected murder.

Continue reading ‘Decision To Leave’ Trailer: Park Chan-wook’s Romantic Murder Mystery Hits Theaters On October 14 at The Playlist.

Lars von Trier returned to the Venice Film Festival on Thursday with the third and final season of his “The Kingdom” series, “The Kingdom Exodus.” And the show’s premiere was an overwhelming success, with the crowd reportedly cheering every time von Trier’s name was mentioned or came on screen. But von Trier also brought some sad news to the Lido this year: his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, which the director found out four months ago.

Continue reading Lars Von Trier On Parkinson’s Diagnosis: “I Just Have To Get Used To That I Shake And Not Be Shameful In Front Of People” at The Playlist.

Late last month, Lars Von Trier fans got their first peek at the third and final season of his TV series “The Kingdom Exodus.” It’s Von Trier’s first project since 2018’s divisive serial killer film “The House That Jack Built,” and the first season of “The Kingdom” since 1997. And now, after its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, it will stream exclusively on the global streamer MUBI.

Continue reading ‘The Kingdom Exodus’: MUBI Acquires Lars Von Trier’s Third And Final Season Of His TV Show Ahead Of Its Venice 2022 Premiere at The Playlist.