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Feb232025 by cineverseNo Comments

Dreams (Sex Love)’ Wins the Berlin Film Festival, While ‘The Blue Trail’ Earns Grand Jury Prize

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By Peter Debruge According To The variety The 75th anniversary edition of the Berlin Film Festival — and the first under the leadership of its new chief, Tricia Tuttle — drew to a close Saturday night, as the jury awarded the Golden Bear to Dag Johan Haugerud’s “Dreams (Sex Love).” There’s a special poetry to this film — the portrait of a teenage girl with a passionate imagination who pours her intense feelings toward a teacher into a transformative personal essay — taking the festival’s top prize, since it marks the third installment in the Norwegian writer-director’s “Dream Sex Love” trilogy. The first, “Sex,” premiered a year earlier in the Panorama section of the 2024 Berlin Film Fest, while “Love” debuted in competition at Venice late last summer. The film...

Feb232025 by cineverseNo Comments

Yes, It Can Happen Here. And the Movies Warned Us

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By Owen Gleiberman According To The variety A couple of months ago, I had a movie experience that truly shook me up. It was early December, and I was in the middle of my end-of-the-year marathon, catching up with the big prestigious awards-season films I’d missed. One of them was “I’m Still Here,” Walter Salles’ acclaimed true-life drama, set in Brazil in 1970, about a family whose exuberant and loving existence falls off a cliff when the father, Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello), is taken in for police questioning by the country’s military dictatorship. His wife, Eunice (Fernanda Torres), is told that it’s a routine interrogation, and that he’ll be back within a matter of hours. But that doesn’t happen. The hours stretch into days, then weeks, and then months. He is never heard fro...

Feb222025 by cineverseNo Comments

George Armitage, ‘Grosse Pointe Blank’ and ‘Miami Blues’ Director, Dies at 83

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By Pat Saperstein According To The variety George Armitage, who directed, wrote and produced films including “Grosse Pointe Blank” and “Miami Blues,” died Saturday in Playa del Rey, his son Brent confirmed. He was 83. Raised in Hartford, Conn., Armitage started out in the 20th Century Fox mailroom before becoming associate producer on the long-running series “Peyton Place” in the 1960s. He met Roger Corman on the Fox lot and moved into feature films, writing the Corman-produced 1970 comedy “Gas! – Or – It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.” He continued making films for Corman and his brother Gene Corman, moving into directing with “Private Duty Nurses.” The 1972 Blaxploitation film “Hit Man,” which he directed and co-wrote, starred Pam Grier and Bernie Cas...

Feb222025 by cineverseNo Comments

Captain America: Brave New World’ Director Julius Onah Explains Those Cameos, Reveals What the Reshoots Replaced and Defends Harrison Ford: ‘He Was an Utter Professional

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By Adam B. Vary According To The variety SPOILER WARNING: This story discusses multiple plot developments in “Captain America: Brave New World,” currently playing in theaters. marathon three years working on the film. That included extensive additional photography in 2024 that replaced several sequences with new ones featuring When director Julius Onah called Variety on Feb. 13, he was in New York, in transit between promotional events for his Marvel Studios film “Captain America: Brave New World.” The day before, he had a packed day of press opportunities in Washington, D.C. — the main setting for film’s confrontation between the new Cap, Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), and the new American president, Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (Harrison Ford). ...

Feb222025 by cineverseNo Comments

Osgood Perkins on Making ‘The Monkey’ With Guts Cannons, Gallons of Blood and a Personal Touch

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By Jenelle Riley According To The variety Osgood Perkins has guts – literally and metaphorically. The filmmaker knew it wouldn’t work to be precious when adapting “The Monkey,” a short story by Stephen King, hitting theaters Friday. So Perkins held nothing back. “You can’t worry about offending an audience; you can’t focus on honoring it too closely,” he notes. “There’s no pandering going on. There’s no timid storytelling. You have to have the guts to execute it.” He means it physically as well — his effects artists developed objects referred to as “guts cannons” and trucks loaded full of blood to kill people in increasingly gory and creative ways.It’s a faster pace for Perkins, who has mastered the art of discomfort with slow-burn, atmospheric films like last year’s hit “Long...

Feb192025 by cineverseNo Comments

Spring Night’ Review: Kang Mi-ja Returns With a Compact Co-Dependency Drama

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By Siddhant Adlakha According To The variety The second feature from Kang Mi-ja — and her first after a gap of 17 years — “Spring Night” is a tender, compact relationship drama about ships passing in the night, buoyed by a pair of stellar performances working in completely different modes. Adapted from Kwon Yeo-sun’s novel, its tale of an alcoholic woman and an arthritic man meeting in middle age has a fairytale-like quality, and an oblique telling that skips through time in both unique and familiar ways. While this temporal hopscotch helps it re-create intriguing sensations, it prevents the film from completely connecting, despite the occasionally shattering moments its actors createThe way Kang introduces her characters has a definitive quality bordering on prescriptive, but...

Feb192025 by cineverseNo Comments

All Quiet on the Berlin Deals Front but EFM Still Serves as an Efficient Marketplace, Buyers Report

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By Leo Barraclough According To The variety It’s all quiet on the Berlin deals front as the sales agencies wind down their operations at the European Film Market. By Monday, many offices and stands were almost completely deserted. Deals are being reported but it’s more of a “steady flow” than a gush. That said, most sales agents remain happy that the EFM continues to be an “efficient” place to do business. AGC Studios’ Stuart Ford tells Variety, “Overseas business has been very solid. International buyers are taking their time, but we’ve been seeing a steady flow of deals closing and fully expect that trend to continue apace, particularly on Bill Condon’s ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ and Noah Hawley’s ‘Nowhere Fast.’” Oliver Berben, head of German production and distributi...