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EXCLUSIVE: Arthouse streamer and distributor Mubi is launching a U.S. in-theater offering this month letting members see one film a week that it selects at participating cinemas starting in New York City. It said Mubi Go will roll out nationwide in selected markets with LA next in early 2022. Mubi Go (available in the…

Shown anywhere else other than at the Cannes Film Festival and like-minded environs, Memoria would play as nearly pitch-perfect parody of an art film. Arid, potted with risible minimalist dialogue, positively stewing in its own creative amazingness and with Tilda Swinton, no less, in the leading role, this seventh…

Arthouse sequels are a rare breed, as is British director Joanna Hogg, who brings her distinctive vision to Cannes’ Directors' Fortnight with The Souvenir Part II. A follow up to 2019's lauded, semi-autobiographical drama The Souvenir, it once again stars Honor Swinton Byrne as Julie, now mourning the loss of her…

The Cannes Film Festival's 2021 Competition lineup is a mix of established international filmmakers (many of them French) and some newer faces, and on the whole looks promising with something for all tastes. This is a selection that was about a year and a half in the making given the havoc wrought by the pandemic and…

The controversial casting of Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One in 2016’s Doctor Strange was a mistake, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has admitted. Speaking to Men’s Health for a cover story on Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star Simu Liu, Feige said the uproar over casting Swinton as the Tibetan…

Ten days before Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language film arrives in theaters, Sony Pictures Classics has a released a new trailer for The Human Voice. Watch it above. Clocking in at an attention-span-friendly 30 minutes and starring Tilda Swinton, the pic screened at last year’s Venice, New York and London fests…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one. A24 has boarded world rights to under-the-radar ghost story The Eternal Daughter, starring Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton. Shot in secret in Wales during lockdown, the project re-teams Swinton with director Joanna Hogg after they recently collaborated on lauded Sundance movie The Souvenir and…

It immediately says something about the differences between Jean Cocteau's brilliant 1928 dramatic monologue The Human Voice — as first put on screen in 1948 by Roberto Rossellini with the immortal Anna Magnani — and Pedro Almodovar's new version of it starring Tilda Swinton, that the latter features six costume…

EXCLUSIVE: More than two years after it was announced and after a couple of delays, George Miller’s anticipated fantasy-romance-drama Three Thousand Years Of Longing is now underway in Australia, we can reveal. The Sydney-based production, which is observing numerous on-set Covid safety protocols, is in fact 20 days…

EXCLUSIVE: Keeping intact its long relationship with filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, Sony Pictures Classics has acquired The Human Voice, the 30-minute short film that stars Tilda Swinton that will be unveiled during the New York Film Festival. It’s an adaptation of the Jean Cocteau play La voix humaine. In the short, a…

Pedro Almodovar and Tilda Swinton heated things up at the Venice Film Festival this afternoon, speaking to the press after the screening of the Spanish maestro's first English-langauge project, The Human Voice. "Freely" based on the 1930 Jean Cocteau play, the 30-minute movie was shot after the coronavirus lockdown…

After a day of early press screenings and conferences, the Venice Film Festival officially was declared open this evening by the directors of several major European fests including Venice's own Alberto Barbera and Cannes' Thierry Frémaux. But before they got to the stage of the Sala Grande, there was plenty to remark…