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Bye bye Germany (Sam Garbarski. 2017)

Es war einmal in Deutschland

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La grande attrice tedesca, interprete di film quali Il fidanzato, l’attrice e il ruffiano di Jean-Marie Straub, Effi Briest, Il matrimonio di Maria Braun di Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Falso movimento di Wim Wenders, Un amore in Germania di Andrej Wajda, Storia di Piera di Marco Ferreri, La nina dei tuoi sogni di Fernando Trueba, Terra promessa di Amos Gitai, Ai confini del paradiso di Fatih Akin e molti altri, spegne ottanta candeline. Nata a Konigshutte (l’attuale Katowice, nella Polonia all’epoca invasa dai tedeschi), dopo la giovinezza trascorsa a Monaco di Baviera, intraprende studi filologici. L’incontro con il regista Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) fa maturare la sua passione per il teatro, che la porterà a calcare i palcoscenici per molti anni. Bionda, occhi azzurri, volto dai lineamenti irregolari e fascino magnetico ed enigmatico, esordisce al cinema alla fine degli anni Sessanta nell’anticonvenzionale Il fidanzato, l’attrice e il ruffiano (1968) di Jean-Marie Straub. Tuttavia, sarà nuovamente Fassbinder a condurla verso la maturità artistica riservandole ruoli - da protagonista e non - di notevole spessore, da Il fabbricante di gattini (1969) e Attenzione alla puttana santa (1971) al letterario Effi Briest (1974) e al gelido Il matrimonio di Maria Braun (1979). Grintosa, caparbia, rappresentante di uno stile recitativo rigoroso e senza sbrodolature, dopo una parentesi televisiva di grande successo - Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) -, anch’esso diretto da R. W. Fassbinder, nelle pellicole seguenti viene diretta da altri registi, dando vita a personaggi intensi, contraddistinti da quella stessa anticonvenzionalità che le appartiene anche nella vita fuori dai set. Già giovane compagna di vita nel letterario Falso movimento (1974) di Wim Wenders, è poi un’adultera circondata dai sospetti nel cupo Un amore in Germania (1983) di Andrej Wajda, una madre ninfomane nell’onirico Storia di Piera (1983) di Marco Ferreri, tratto dal libro omonimo di Dacia Maraini, una rigida Magda Goebbels nel suggestivo La niña dei tuoi sogni (1998) di Fernando Trueba, un’ambigua tenutaria di bordello in Terra promessa (2004) di Amos Gitai. In Ai confini del paradiso (2007) di Fatih Akin, è l’anziana Lotte, la quale, in seguito alla perdita della figlia, rimette in discussione tutte le sue convinzioni sulla vita e sul mondo. Fra gli altri film ricordiamo Scene di caccia in bassa Baviera (1969) di Peter Fleischmann, L’amore è più freddo della morte (1969), Dei della peste (1970), Perché il signor R. è colto da follia improvvisa? (1970), Il mercante delle quattro stagioni (1972), Le lacrime amare di Petra von Kant (1972), La terza generazione (1979), Lili Marleen (1981), tutti di Rainer Werner Fassbinder, L’inganno (1981) di Volker Schlondorff, Il mondo nuovo (1982) di Ettore Scola, Passion (1982) di Jean-Luc Godard, Antonieta (1982) di Carlos Saura, Lucida follia (1983) di Margarethe von Trotta, Il futuro è donna (1984) di Marco Ferreri, L’altro delitto (1991) di Kenneth Branagh, Golem - Lo spirito dell’esilio (1992) di Amos Gitai, Cento e una notte (1995) di Agnès Varda, Faust (2011) di Alexandr Sokurov, Avanti (2012) di Emmanuelle Antille, Vijay - Il mio amico indiano (2013) di Sam Garbarski, The Quiet Roar (2014) di Henrik Hellstrom. In epoche più recenti è apparsa in film come Unless (2016) di Alan Gilsenan, Fortunata (2017) di Sergio Castellitto, La Prière (2018) di Cédric Kahn, Il mistero di Henri Pick (2019) di Rémi Besançon, tratto dal romanzo omonimo di David Foenkinos, Tous s’est bien passé (2021) di François Ozon, con Charlotte Rampling, Peter von Kant (2022) di F. Ozon, Povere creature! (2023) di Yorgos Lanthimos. Molto attiva anche in televisione, è apparsa in numerosi film tv - Die Revolte (1969) di Reinhard Hauff, Baal - (1970) di Volker Schlondorff, Il caffè (1970), Il viaggio di Niklashauser (1970), Rio das Mortes (1971), Pionieri a Ingolstadt (1971), La libertà di Brema (1972) e Selvaggina di passo (1972),

tutti di Rainer Werner Fassbibinder, Jacob von Guntern (1971) di Peter Lilienthal, Die Ahnfrau – Oratorium nach Franz Grillparzer (1971) di Peer Raben, Haus am Meer (1973) di Reinhard Hauff, Der Katzensteg (1975) di Peter Meincke, Intermezzo fur funf Hande (1977) di Ludwig Cremer, L’Aide-mémoir (1984) di Pierre Boutron, Barnum - Il re del circo (1986) di Lee Philps, in cui recita con il grande Burt Lancaster a fine carriera, Il veneziano, vita e amori di Giacomo Casanova (1987) di Simon Langton, El verano de la senora Forbes - (1989), Le bel horizon (1994) di Charles L. Bitsch, Absolitude (2001) di Hiner Saleem, Das Unreine mal - (2006) di Thomas Freundner, Clara, une passion française (2009) di Sébastien Grall - ed in alcuni episodi di serie e miniserie - Die Damonen (1977), Il grande palpito (1979) , Pietro il Grande (1986), Me alquilo para sonar (1992), Associations de bienfaiteurs (1995), Angelo nero (1998).

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Irina Palm - Penis Elbow (Marianne Faithfull)

A humourous scene from "Irina Palm" starring Marianne Faithfull as a grandmother desperately needing money for her sick grandson. She becomes a sex worker in Soho and develops an injury.

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Irina Palm (2007), Sam Garbarski.

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Irina Palm

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Es war einmal in Deutschland… (2017) - mehr auf: http://movienized.de/es-war-einmal-in-deutschland-2017/

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Per chi non lo avesse visto, “Irina Palm – Il talento di una donna inglese” è un film del 2007, diretto da Sam Garbarski.

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Miglen MIRTCHEV est NEDIM

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Formé au Conservatoire Supérieur d’ Art Dramatique de Sofia (Bulgarie), Miglen Mirtchev vit en France depuis 1984.

Au théâtre, il a joué notamment sous la direction de : Norma Guevara dans L’Eloge de la Chose de Jean-Daniel Magnin, François Rancillac dans La Nuit au Cirque d’Olivier Py, Jérôme Savary dans La Périchole, Irma la Douce et Demain la Belle, Jean-Michel Bruyère dans Radix, Gilbert Tiberghien dans La mort véridique

de Jeanne d’Arc de St.Tsanev et American Buffalo de David Mamet, Jacques Roux dans Oedipe et Le jardin des délices, Laurent Maklès dans Le Manteau d’après Gogol, Igor Futterer dans Une rose rouge pour un café noir de I. Futterer, Claire Benjamin dans La taverne du Diable, Michèle Harfaut dans AII Rh+, de Nicoleta Esinencu, Sandrinne Lano dans Mais n’te promène donc... de Feydeau, Eram Sobhani dans La tour du roi du grand horloge, de W.B. Yeats...

Au cinéma, il a tourné avec : Christian Carion dans L’Affaire Farewell, Arnaud DesplechindansRoisetReinesetUnContedeNoël, GillesLegranddansLa Jeune Fille et les Loups, Eric Véniard dans Thérapie Russe et Une Affaire qui Roule, Claire Devers dans Les Marins Perdus, Pavel Lounguine dans Familles à Vendre, Aurélia Georges dans L’Homme qui marche, Laurent de Bartillat dans Ce que Mes Yeux ont Vu, Marc Barbé dans La Serre de Glace, Valérie Minetto dans Oublier Cheyenne, Jean-Baptiste Germain dans Dahomey, Carole Garapit dans Potlatch, Sylvain Desclous dans Là bas, Fabien Onteniente dans People, Jet Set 2, Sam Garbarski dans La Dinde, Nathalie Saugeon dans Fils de Justicier, Milka Assaf dans Les Migrations de Vladimir et Karl Zéro dans Le Tronc...

Il a également participé à de nombreux téléfilms et séries télévisées ainsi qu’à beaucoup de fictions radiophoniques et émissions poétiques pour France Culture.

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Barrio Lejano

Este mes, en nuestro club de lectura, Barrio Lejano de Taniguchi Jiro, una obra perfecta para adentrarse en el manga o cómic japonés. La historia nos cuenta cómo Nakahara Hiroshi, hombre de negocios de unos cincuenta años, emprende sin saber muy bien cómo un viaje a Kurayoshi, su ciudad natal.  Allí decide visitar la tumba de su madre y, entre la añoranza y algunos dolorosos recuerdos de su infancia, pierde la consciencia y se embarca misteriosamente en un viaje al pasado, a aquellos años de la secundaria y a los días previos al hecho que marcaría su vida: la desaparición de su padre. ¿Estaba vivo? ¿Qué pudo llevarle a abandonar a su familia si todos eran felices? Y lo más importante, ¿acaso no era esta la ocasión perfecta para evitar que dejara el hogar? Muchos interrogantes que Hiroshi intentará resolver para reconciliarse tanto con su pasado como con su presente.

Taniguchi Jiro (谷口ジロー) es un mangaka o dibujante de cómic japonés nacido en 1947 en un pueblo de la prefectura de Tottori –curiosamente, el lugar donde ocupan los hechos de nuestra historia-. Su reciente fallecimiento en febrero de este 2017 ha supuesto un duro golpe para el mundo del manga en particular y del cómic en general, pues gozaba de gran reconocimiento internacional, y así se ha reflejado en los premios de diversa índole que ha recibido a lo largo de su carrera.

Este éxito se debe en gran parte a que su estilo de dibujo se aleja bastante de los cánones del cómic japonés actual, resultando más atractivo a un público occidental más acostumbrado al cómic europeo y americano. El trazo limpio y bien definido, está en consonancia con sus historias. Argumentos sencillos pero muy atractivos que consiguen en todo momento atrapar al lector, protagonizados generalmente por personajes cercanos y amables con los que es fácil conectar, a pesar de que sus rasgos puedan parecer bastante heterogéneos. Es precisamente su narrativa la responsable de que muchos lo hayan llegado a comparar con Murakami Haruki, pues ambos son capaces de dejar al lector sumido en un trance, en un sueño agridulce que acaba enamorando al público.

Con una trayectoria profesional extensísima, Taniguchi ha creado más de una treintena de obras que se han traducido a más de 20 idiomas, habiéndose publicado en España nada más y nada menos que diecisiete de ellas desde 1992 hasta la actualidad. En este caso es la editorial Ponent Mon quien se encargó de publicar esta obra en el 2009. Taniguchi también ha recibido numerosos galardones como el Premio Tezuka y fue nombrado Caballero de las Artes y las Letras.

Varias de las obras de Taniguchi han tenido una adaptación cinematográfica, y Barrio Lejano ha sido una de ellas. Quartier Lointain es una adaptación francesa de esta obra, dirigida por Sam Garbarski y protagonizada por Pascal Greggory, Jonathan Zaccai y Alexandra Maria Lara, fruto del grandísimo éxito que cosechó esta novela gráfica entre el público francés.

En definitiva, Barrio Lejano es la excusa perfecta para ese público amateur que quiere introducirse poco a poco en el maravilloso mundo del manga, a través de una lectura sencilla y amable que no dejará indiferente a nadie.

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67e Berlinale festival demandez le programme !

Présidé par Paul Verhoeven (Elle, Golden Globe du meilleur film étranger 2017 et meilleur actrice dans un drame) la 67ème édition de la Berlinale se dévoile peu à peu avant d’ouvrir les portes de son ours le 9 février. En parlant d’ours, les posters sont toujours aussi hilarants!

Film d’ouverture : Django - Avant première mondiale du premier film de Etienne Comar sur le pianiste de Jazz Django Reinhart, interprété par Reda Kateb.

Des premiers films ont été annoncés pour la compétition :

Mis à jour avec les ajouts du 10 janvier

Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja (On the Beach at Night Alone) - South Korea - De Hong Sangsoo (Nobody's Daughter Haewon, Right Now, Wrong Then)  - Avec Kim Minhee, Seo Younghwa, Jung Jaeyoung, Moon Sungkeun, Kwon Haehyo, Song Seonmi, Ahn Jaehong, Park Yeaju - Avant-première mondiale

El Bar (The Bar) - Spain - De Álex de la Iglesia (Mad Circus, The Day of the Beast, The Oxford Murders) - Avec Blanca Suárez, Mario Casas, Carmen Machi, Terele Pávez, Secun de la Rosa, Alejandro Awada, Joaquín Climent, Jaime Ordóñez - Avant-première mondiale - Out of competition

Helle Nächte (Bright Nights ) - Germany / Norway - De Thomas Arslan (Dealer, Vacation, In the Shadows, Gold) - Avec Georg Friedrich, Tristan Göbel, Marie Leuenberger, Hanna Karlberg  - Avant-première mondiale

T2 Trainspotting - United Kingdom - De Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, The Beach, Slumdog Millionaire)- Avec Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner - Avant-première internationale - Out of competition

Joaquim - Brazil / Portugal - De Marcelo Gomes (Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures, The Man of the Crowd, I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You) - Avec Julio Machado, Isabél Zuaa, Nuno Lopes, Rômulo Braga, Welket Bungué, Karay Rya Pua - Avant-première mondiale

Logan – USA - De James Mangold (Girl, Interrupted, Walk The Line, The Wolverine) - Avec Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Doris Morgado, Sienna Novikov, Elizabeth Rodriguez - Avant-première mondiale - Out of competition

Mr. Long - Japan / Germany / Hong Kong, China / Taiwan - De Sabu (Monday, Chasuke’s Journey)- Avec Chen Chang, Sho Aoyagi, Yiti Yao, Junyin Bai - Avant-première mondiale

Return to Montauk - Germany / France / Ireland - De Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum, Diplomatie)- Avec Stellan Skarsgård, Nina Hoss, Susanne Wolff, Niels Arestrup - Avant-première mondiale

Viceroy’s House - India / United Kingdom - De Gurinder Chadha (Bend it like Beckham, What’s Cooking) - Avec Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Huma Qureshi - Avant-première mondiale - Out of competition

Wilde Maus (Wild Mouse ) - Austria - De Josef Hader - Avec Josef Hader, Pia Hierzegger, Georg Friedrich, Jörg Hartmann, Denis Moschitto  - Avant-première mondiale – First Feature

Teströl és lélekröl (On Body and Soul) - Hungary - De Ildiko Enyedi (My 20th Century, Simon the Magician) - Avec Géza Morcsányi, Alexandra Borbély, Zoltán Schneider - Avant-première mondiale

Ana, mon amour - Romania / Germany / France - De Călin Peter Netzer (Child‘s Pose, Maria) - Avec Mircea Postelnicu, Diana Cavallioti, Carmen Tănase, Adrian Titieni, Vlad Ivanov  - Avant-première mondiale

Beuys - Documentary - Germany - De Andres Veiel (Black Box Germany, Addicted To Acting, If not us, Who) - Avant-première mondiale

Colo - Portugal / France - De Teresa Villaverde (The Major Age, The Mutants, Trance) - Avec João Pedro Vaz, Alice Albergaria Borges, Beatriz Batarda, Clara Jost - Avant-première mondiale 

The Dinner - USA - De Oren Moverman (The Messenger, Rampart) -Avec Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Steve Coogan, Rebecca Hall, Chloë Sevigny - Avant-première mondiale 

Félicité - France / Senegal / Belgium / Germany / Lebanon - De Alain Gomis (L’Afrance, Andalucia, Tey) - Avec Véro Tshanda Beya, Gaetan Claudia, Papi Mpaka - Avant-première mondiale

The Party - United Kingdom - De Sally Potter (Orlando, Yes, Ginger & Rosa) - Avec Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy, Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall - Avant-première mondiale

Pokot (Spoor) - Poland / Germany / Czech Republic / Sweden / Slovak Republic - De Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa, Bitter Harvest, In Darkness) - Avec Agnieszka Mandat, Wiktor Zborowski, Miroslav Krobot, Jakub Gierszał, Patricia Volny, Borys Szyc - Avant-première mondiale

Toivon tuolla puolen (The Other Side of Hope) - Finland - DeAki Kaurismäki (The Match Factory Girl, I Hired A Contract Killer, Juha, Le Havre) - Avec Sakari Kuosmanen, Sherwan Haji - Avant-première internationale

Una Mujer Fantástica (A Fantastic Woman) - Chile / Germany / USA / Spain - De Sebastián Lelio (El Año del Tigre, Gloria) - Avec Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Küppenheim, Amparo Noguera - Avant-première mondiale

Berlinale Special

Berlinale Special Gala at the Friedrichstadt-Palast

Es war einmal in Deutschland... (Bye Bye Germany) - Germany / Luxembourg / Belgium - De Sam Garbarski (The Rashevski’s Tango, Irina Palm, Quartier Lointain) - Avec Moritz Bleibtreu, Antje Traue, Mark Ivanir, Tim Seyfi, Hans Löw, Anatol Taubman, Pál Mácsai, Vaclav Jakoubek - Avant-première mondiale 

La Reina de España (The Queen of Spain) - Spain - De Fernando Trueba (The Year of Awakening, Belle Époque, The Girl of Your Dreams) Avec Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Chino Darín, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Neus Asensi, Ana Belén - Avant-première internationale

Le jeune Karl Marx (The Young Karl Marx) - France / Germany / Belgium - De Raoul Peck (Sometimes In April, Moloch Tropical, Fatal Assistance) Avec August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps, Hannah Steele, Olivier Gourmet - Avant-première mondiale

Berlinale Special Gala at the Zoo Palast

In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts (In Times of Fading Light) - Germany - De Matti Geschonneck (Boxhagener Platz, Das Zeugenhaus) en collaboration avec Wolfgang Kohlhaase – Avec Bruno Ganz, Hildegard Schmahl, Sylvester Groth, Evgenia Dodina, Natalia Belitski, Alexander Fehling, Gabriela Maria Schmeide - Avant-première mondiale

Berlinale Special at the Kino International

Masaryk (A Prominent Patient) - Czech Republic / Slovakia - De Julius Sevcík (Restart, Normal - The Düsseldorf Ripper) - Avec Karel Roden, Hanns Zischler, Arly Jover, Oldrich Kaiser, Dermot Crowley, Milton Welsch, Eva Herzigova - Avant-première mondiale

Últimos días en La Habana (Last Days in Havana) Cuba / Spain De Fernando Pérez (Life Is to Whistle, Madrigal) Avec Jorge Martínez, Patricio Wood, Gabriela Ramos - Avant-première européenne

Berlinale Special at the Volksbühne

Acht Stunden sind kein Tag (Eight Hours Don't Make a Day) Federal Republic of Germany 1972 – Série TV avec 5 épisodes De Rainer Werner Fassbinder Avec Hanna Schygulla, Gottfried John, Luise Ullrich, Werner Finck, Irm Hermann Avant-première mondiale de la version restaurée

Panorama

Notre sélection préférée , le Panorama a choisi deux thèmes pour sa sélection si importante ayant fait connaitre des films comme Frances Ha, 

In Focus: Reclaiming Black History

Vazante - Brazil / Portugal - De Daniela Thomas - Avec Adriano Carvalho, Luana Nastas, Juliana Carneiro da Cunha, Sandra Corveloni, Roberto Audio - Avant-première mondiale

I Am Not Your Negro - France / USA / Belgium / Switzerland - De Raoul Peck - Narré par Samuel L. Jackson - Avant-première européenne

The Wound -  Film d’ouverture - South Africa / Germany / Netherlands / France - De John Trengove - Avec Nakhane Touré, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay Ncoyini -Avant-première européenne 

Europa Europa

Política, manual de instrucciones (Politics, Instructions Manual) - Spain - De Fernando León de Aranoa - Avant-première européenne

Combat au bout de la nuit (Fighting Through the Night) - Canada - De Sylvain L’Espérance - Avant-première internationale 

Casting JonBenet - USA / Australia - De Kitty Green - Avant-première internationale 

Honeygiver Among the Dogs - Bhutan - De Dechen Roder - Avec Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, Sonam Tashi Choden - Avant-première européenne 

Centaur - Kyrgyzstan / France / Germany / Netherlands - De Aktan Arym Kubat - With Nuraly Tursunkojoev, Zarema Asanalieva, Aktan Arym Kubat - Avant-première mondiale 

Pendular -  Brazil / Argentina / France - De Julia Murat - Avec Raquel Karro, Rodrigo Bolzan - Avant-première mondiale 

Ri Chang Dui Hua (Small Talk) - Taiwan - De Hui-chen Huang - Avant-première internationale

Untitled - Austria / Germany - De Michael Glawogger, Monika Willi - Avant-première mondiale 

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BYE BYE GERMANY by Sam Garbarski (Official International Trailer HD)

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Frankfurt, 1946. David Bermann (Moritz Bleibtreu) and his Jewish friends have escaped the Nazi regime and are now dreaming of leaving for America. But how will they get the money in these tough post-war times? The smooth-talking businessman focuses on what the Germans now need most: fine bed linens nicely wrapped in amusing stories! The six talented entertainers go from home to home, praising housewives with ashy chutzpah until the flattered ladies have no choice but to buy their irresistible items. Business flourishes and a bright new future can be seen in the horizon. But questions about Bermann s past catch up with him. Why does he have two passports? What about his visit to Hitler s mountain retreat? Could he have collaborated with the Nazis? The smart and attractive but uncompromising US officer Sara Simon (Antje Traue) refuses to close the interrogation. She wants to get to the heart of Bermann s wartime memories. Sara matches his quick wit with iron severity, but it becomes increasingly difficult for her to escape his charm...

DIRECTOR: Sam Garbarski GENRE: Comedy-Contemporary RUN TIME: 102 minutes

Language: German Subtitles: English Region Code: 1, NTSC Release Date: 7 Aug 2018

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Movie review: ‘Bye Bye Germany’ asserts the power of the human spirit

I urge everyone to seek out director Sam Garbarski's enlightening Holocaust dramedy, "Bye Bye Germany." But the two descendants of immigrants I wish most to see it are Donald Trump and his xenophobic sidekick, Stephen Miller. The chances are slim it would change their closed minds, but one can hope this moving story of Jewish refugees in 1946 Frankfort would convince them that victims of war, especially one as cruel and deadly as World War II, are a traumatized bunch desperately in need of a [...] from Entertainment - Daytona Beach News-Journal Online https://ift.tt/2L4waHv via IFTTT

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What To Watch This Weekend - April 27, 2018

It’s the last weekend of April and the first weekend of summer (which usually starts in May), and one wide release has scared off all comers, because it’s likely to not only dominate this weekend but probably the next three with an absolute oversaturation in theaters across the country.

AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR

I’ve already written enough about this nonsense for one lifetime. I have a ticket to see it on Thursday night, and that’s all that matters. I hope to post my review here on Friday.

There’s nothing else opening wide, so here’s what the Top 10 should look like, bearing in mind that many movies will be losing screens to Marvel’s latest, and general interest on returning films will be greatly diminished…

1. Avengers: Infinity War (Disney/Marvel) - $231.2 million 2. A Quiet Place (Paramount) - $11.5 million -45% 3. Rampage (New Line/WB) - $9.8 million -51% 4. I Feel Pretty (STXfilms) - $8.5 million -47% 5. Super Troopers 2 (Fox Searchlight) - $6.5 million -55% 6. Ready Player One (Warner Bros.) - $4 million -48% 7. Blockers (Universal) - $3.6 million -47% 8. Truth or Dare (Blumnouse/Universal) - $3.3 million -58% 9. Black Panther  (Marvel/Disney) - $2.6 million -48% 10. Traffik (Lionsgate/Codeblack) - $1.9 million -52%

EVERY OTHER MOVIE

Hey, it’s called “What to Watch” for a reason, and now that it’s summer, I’m not going to suggest you go see every studio release, since you’ll probably do so anyway, but here’s a few other options, especially if you live in New York, L.A. or other big cities, and some of these I’ve seen as well.  (Also, if you’re in New York, I’ve written about a bunch of Tribeca Film Festivalmovies worth checking out.)

I’ve written about Miguel Arteta (Beatriz at Dinner) and Alia Shawkat’s Duck Butter (The Orchard) as part of my Tribeca coverage linked above, but Shawkat plays an actress trying to find love in L.A. and on meeting Lala Costa’s Sergio, the two of them decide to spend 24 hours with each other to see if their relationship might work.

Opening at the Metrograph and Lincoln Center is Serge Bozon’s Mrs. Hyde (The Orchard) starring the great Isabelle Hupert as a teacher whose unconventional relationship with a disabled student leads to a number of awkward moments, especially as she starts to exhibit supernatural powers.

Next up is two movies I walked out of at TIFF (mostly out of boredom and because I had better things to do): Bleecker Street is releasing Disobedience, the drama from Oscar-winning Chilean filmmaker Sebastian Lelio (A Fantastic Woman), which stars Rachels Weisz and McAdams as two Orthodox Jewish women, childhood friends, whose attraction towards each other has gotten them shunned from the community. It’s based on Naomi Alderman’s book, and it co-stars Alexandro Nivola.

Speaking of foreign filmmakers making less-than-impressive English follow-ups to Oscar-nominated foreign films, Mustang director Deniz Gamze Ergüven takes on the L.A. riots in Kings (also released by the Orchard?!?), which stars Daniel Craig and Halle Berry as two people in the South Central L.A. community trying to contend with the riots following the release of the four police officers that beat Rodney King. It’s supposed to get a “nationwide” release Friday, but I’m not sure that it’s more than 200 theaters.

French filmmaker Claire Denis’ latest drama Let the Sunshine In(Sundance Selects), a comedy starring Juliette Binoche as Isabelle, an artist in Paris who encounters a variety of people. The film is loosely inspired by Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse, and it will open in New York and L.A. 

Next is a movie I sadly missed at TIFF last year, only because I don’t normally get to the Midnight Madness movies. Premiering on Shudder Thursday and having a few midnight screenings over the weekend is Downrange, the new thriller from Japanese genre filmmaker Ryuhei Kitamura involving six college students driving across country when the tire on the car is shot out and they become the targets for a crazed sniper.

Saban Films’ latest genre film The Escape of Prisoner 614stars the great Ron Perlman as a corrupt sheriff who sends his two deputies to catch an escaped convict. This Western is directed by Zach Golden, and like most Saban Films, it will open in select cities and On Demand.

After that, there’s a lot of odds and ends…

Peter Loivisi’s adaptation of Peter Bognanni’s novel House of Tomorrow (Shout! Studios) stars Ellen Burstyn, Nick Offerman, Asa Butterfield, Alex Wolff and Maude Apatow. Butterfield plays a sheltered teen raised inside a dome who meets a rebellious kid and the two of them form a punk band. So it’s essentially like most of Butterfield’s movies.

Theo James (Divergent) and Sir Ben Kingsley stars in Per Fly’s Backstabbing for Beginners (A24/DirecTV), the Oscar-winning actor’s second almost straight to VOD movie about a young UN employee who discovers a global conspiracy surrounding the grisly murder of his predecessor. Based on Michael Soussman’s novel, it opens in a bunch of cities and On Demand following its DirecTV premiere last month.

Opening at the Quad Cinema in New York is Sadaf Foroughi’s semi-autobiographical Ava (Grasshopper Films), which played TIFF last year and the recent New Directors New Film. It’s about a teen living with her rich parents in Tehran, who rebels against everything when her mother questions a relationship she begsin with a boy.

Also opening Friday is Sam Garbarski’s WWII comedy Bye Bye Germany (Film Movement); Daniel Jerome Gill’s musical rom-com Modern Life is Rubbish(Cleopatra Entertainment); Michael Arlen Davis’ The Test and the Art of Thinking (Abramorama) about the debate over SAT and ACT exams; Egyptian filmmaker Tamer El Said’s debut In the Last Days of the City (Big World Pictures), which also played at New Directors; and Zack Knutson’s Supercon (Archstone Distribution), which stars Ryan Kwanten and comedian Russell Peters as a couple comic-con denizens who are banned from a large comic convention by its biggest draw. Also, Janus will reissue Olivier Assayas’ little-seen 1995 film Cold Water.

For those Netflix and chilling this weekend, Adam Sandler and Chris Rock reteam for the wedding comedy The Week Of, which actually looks kind of fun. Fresh off their Tribeca Film Festival premieres are the docs The Rachel Dividefrom director Laura Brownson and Dawn Porter’s Bobby Kennedy for President. Brownson’s film is about NAACP leader Rachel Dolezai who created a media firestorm when she was outed as a white woman. Robert F. Kennedy had no bones about being a white man supporting the Civil Rights movement before being assassinated at the age of 42. All three films stream on Netflix starting Friday.

That’s it for now… more next week (hopefully!)

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Tak for besøget til Sam Garbarski, der åbnede TYSKE FILMDAGE med ES WAR EINMAL IN DEUTSCHLAND (Farvel til Tyskland). Ekstravisning tirsdag 16.40. (her: Grand Teatret)