TIFF People's Choice Award Winner Hamnetdesigned in Cannes Secret agent romcom about the afterlife Eternity have already settled into cinemas for Thanksgiving, and Friday should mark another wave – from Benedict Cumberbatch in The thing with feathers and smaller indie films such as buzzy Sundance documentaries. BLKNWS: Terms of Use And Teen Wasteland, tribute to late songwriter John Prine and Venice premiere The Tale of Silian. Is it usually crowded Zootopia 2 And Evil: For good.
Chloe Zhao Hamnet from Focus Features, winner of the TIFF People's Choice Award and the BFI London People's Choice Award, will play in 100 locations before a modest expansion on December 5th. Adapted from the New York Times bestselling novel by Maggie O'Farrell, Oscar winner Zhao co-wrote the adaptation with O'Farrell and co-edited the film. Jessie Buckley stars as Agnes, William Shakespeare's wife, and Paul Mescal as the Bard in a story of love and loss in which Shakespeare channels his grief over the death of his 11-year-old son Hamnet into creating his most famous play, Hamlet. In his time, the two names were used interchangeably. This is a rare look at Shakespeare as a flesh-and-blood man whose literary genius and family life were intertwined. Rotten tomatoes are certified 87% fresh. See Deadline Reviewwhere, as Pete Hammond says, “two stars and a director reaching new heights of their talent baffled me.”
In anticipation of the film's release, Focus hosted a Book Crawl at four of L.A.'s favorite independent bookstores, where new readers and longtime fans met O'Farrell and the new film edition of the novel, including a standing-room-only Q&A with Zhao moderated by Dennis Lehane. The distributor has also partnered with The Main Street Flower Truck and Brownstone Botanical to host surprise flower truck pop-ups in Los Angeles and New York. Hamnet-Inspired bouquets and custom stationery.
Neon Secret agent from writer/director Kleber Mendonça Filho, released in limited release in New York at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Angelica. The Brazilian political thriller took home the most awards at Cannes this year, where it premiered in competition, winning Best Director, Best Actor for star Wagner Moura and the FIPRESCI International Film Critics Award. Brazil's official Oscar entry also screened at Telluride, TIFF and the New York Film Festival, and Moura won awards in Zurich (GoldenEye), Chicago (Best Actor) and Newport Beach (Best Actor). The film is nominated for Gotham Awards for Best Leading Actor for Moura and Best Original Screenplay; shortlisted for the Critics Choice Awards for Best Cast/Ensemble and Best Costumes; and was nominated for the British Independent Film Awards in the Best International Film category. This is RT certified fresh with a rating of 99% and 87% on Metacritic (must watch). Review deadline here.
The action takes place in Brazil in 1977, during the military dictatorship. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to be reunited with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival, but soon realizes that the city is far from the safe haven he expected.
Expands to Los Angeles on December 5 when AMC Century City hosts a Q&A with Moura and Filho, followed by a slow rollout throughout December.
Romantic comedy A24 Eternity David Frain, co-written with Pat Cunnane, opens in just under 1,500 screens. The premiere took place at TIFF. see deadline overview. Stars Miles Teller, Elizabeth Olsen and Callum Turner in an afterlife love triangle where souls are given one week to decide where and with whom to spend eternity. Joan (Olsen) faces an impossible choice between the man she spent her entire life with (Teller) and her first love (Turner), who died young and waited decades for her to arrive.
With Da'Vine Joy Randolph, John Earley and Olga Merediz. Eternity was among the top films ever tested by A24, which held regional word-of-mouth screenings across the country in partnership with organizations from AARP to Bucketlisters to TripAdvisor.
Starting Friday: Briarcliff Entertainment to release horror drama The thing with feathers in 400 cinemas. Dylan Southern's debut narrative film, an adaptation of Max Porter's story. Grief is a thing with featherswhich premiered at the Sundance and Berlin festivals (see deadline overview). These are the stars Benedict CumberbatchTogether with Richard Boxall and Henry Boxall, being a widower, he left to raise two young sons after the unexpected death of his wife. He finds his life unraveling due to grief, which takes the form of an unwanted guest – a humanoid crow (voiced by David Thewlis), apparently revived through his father's work as an illustrator – who taunts him from the shadows.
Picturehouse to release debut documentary The Tale of SilianVenice of North Macedonia and TIFF premiere for international feature film at the IFC Center in New York. Questions and answers on Friday and Saturday with director Tamara Kotevskaya (Honey Country) and cinematographer Jean Dakar. The story of the white stork Silyan and farmer Nikola, whose lives become intertwined when Nikola, abandoned by his family, rescues an injured bird from a landfill. When man and bird are bonded, they find solace and companionship in each other's solitude. With 100% discount on RT 21 reviews. Davis Guggenheim of Concordia Studio (An inconvenient truth) – producer. Expands to two screens in Los Angeles next weekend and 15 more on December 12th.
Documentary Teen Wasteland will open at the Film Forum in New York. The theater is booked directly with directors Jesse Moss and Amanda McBain (Boys State, Girls State). A high school assignment gets real activist when English teacher Fred Issek sends students, armed with VCRs, on an investigative mission to get to the bottom of the brown dirt that has floated to the surface of the local landfill in their upstate New York town. The toxicity they discover manifests itself not only in the landfill, but also in political corruption and environmental injustice in their community. Thirty years later, they return to their film and confront the legacy of that transformative experience in a doc that includes archival footage of their 1996 class project. Trash, gangsters and greedexcerpts, diaries and interviews. With 100% discount on RT, 26 reviews. The premiere took place at the Sundance festival as part of the previous Middletown.
Watermelon Pictures has set up early access weekend screenings for the historical drama set to premiere at TIFF. Palestine 36 at around 50 locations this weekend to coincide with the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Saturday (and ahead of the shortlist vote on December 8). The film, written and directed by Annemarie Jacir, is set in 1936 Palestine as villages rebel against British colonial rule. Stars Karim Daoud Anaya as Yusuf, a young man from the countryside working as a chauffeur in Jerusalem who yearns for a future beyond the growing unrest. But with rising numbers of Jewish immigrants fleeing anti-Semitism in Europe and the Palestinian population uniting in the largest and longest-running uprising against 30 years of British rule, all sides are heading towards an inevitable clash. With Jeremy Irons as British High Commissioner Sir Arthur Wauchope. 100% with RT critics based on 24 reviews.
Rich Spirit debuts at Sundance and Berlin premiere BLKNWS: Terms of Usedebut feature film by artist and director Khalil Josephat nine locations, including the Lumiere Cinema in Los Angeles and IFC in New York, through December 3. Adapted from his acclaimed video art installation from the 2019 Venice Biennale, the film (100% on RT from 17 reviews) is described as “a distinctive cinematic experience that mirrors the sonic textures of the record, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey in which the fictional characters WE B Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph's family and even chat rooms on Twitter in the pursuit of black consciousness.” In addition to installation works, Joseph is known for music videos by Kendrick Lamar, Sampha, Flying Lotus, Beyoncé and others.
Aftershock: The Nicole Bell Story from Faith Media Distribution opens on approximately 200 screens. In a tragic incident that sparked national outrage, unarmed 23-year-old Sean Bell was fatally shot by undercover NYPD officers just hours before his wedding. The 50-bullet barrage that ended his life was a defining moment in the fight for police accountability and reform. Told through the eyes of his fiancee Nicole Poltre Bell: The film chronicles her determination to turn unimaginable pain into purpose and a call for change. The directorial debut of Alesia “Zee” Glidewell, who co-wrote the script with Cas Seegers, stars Raven Ferrell as Nicole Paultre Bell, Bentley Green as Sean Bell and Richard Lawson as Al Sharpton.
Abramorama will play You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prinea concert film in honor of the late songwriter at the Quad in New York City, including a Q&A Saturday with Prine's widow and the project's producer, Fiona Whelan Prine. Director Michael John Warren combines an October 2022 tribute concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville to honor Prine's legacy with performances and behind-the-scenes stories from family, friends and artists Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carlile, Tyler Childers, Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yoakam, Jason Isbell and Bob Weir to celebrate his life and music. Prine passed away in 2020 due to complications from Covid-19.
