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Happy As Lazzaro and In Fabric
Birds Of Passage (Pajaros De Verano)
(Country: Colombia, Denmark; Year: 2018; Director: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra; Writer: Maria Camila Arias, Jacques Toulemonde Vidal; Stars: Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez, Greider Meza, José Vicente, Juan Bautista Martínez, Miguel Viera, Sergio Coen, Aslenis Márquez, José Naider, Yanker Díaz, Víctor Montero, Joaquín Ramón, Jorge Lascarro)
Story of a family who become involved with the drugs trade.
Destroyer
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Karyn Kusama; Writer: Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi; Stars: Sebastian Stan, Nicole Kidman, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany, Bradley Whitford, Scoot McNairy, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, Toby Huss, Beau Knapp, Jade Pettyjohn, Shamier Anderson, James Jordan, Jay Hieron, Zach Villa, Mickey O'Hagan)
An LAPD detective whose undercover work ended in tragedy is faced to confront her past when the leader of the gang she was embedded in re-emerges.
Happy As Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice)
(Country: Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany; Year: 2018; Director: Alice Rohrwacher; Writer: Alice Rohrwacher; Stars: Nicoletta Braschi, Sergi López, Alba Rohrwacher, Natalino Balasso, Tommaso Ragno, Adriano Tardiolo, Luca Chikovani, Leonardo Nigro, Agnese Graziani, Ettore Scarpa, Carlo Massimino, Gala Othero Winter, Nicoletta Braschi, Sergi López, Alba Rohrwacher)
A young nobleman asks a peasant to help fake his own kidnapping.
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Ben Wheatley; Writer: Ben Wheatley; Stars: Joe Cole, Charles Dance, Alexandra Maria Lara, Sam Riley, Neil Maskell, Hayley Squires, Bill Paterson, Doon Mackichan, Peter Ferdinando, Sinead Matthews, Asim Chaudhry, Richard Glover, Mark Monero, Sura Dohnke, Vincent Ebrahim)
A New Year gathering at a country manor is threatened by the arrival of the host's estranged brother.
In Fabric
(Country: UK; Year: 2018; Director: Peter Strickland; Writer: Peter Strickland; Stars: Gwendoline Christie, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Caroline Catz, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Leo Bill, Hayley Squires, Richard Bremmer, Steve Oram, Julian Barratt, Karl Farrer, Gavin Brocker, Susanna Cappellaro, Fatma Mohamed, Sara Dee, Pano Masti)
Two stories about a cursed dress and its victims.
The Old Man & The Gun and Sunset
Joy
(Country: Austria; Year: 2018; Director: Sudabeh Mortezai; Stars: Joy Alphonsus, Mariam Precious Sanusi, Angela Ekeleme)
Drama about a woman caught up in the world of sex trafficking.
The Old Man & The Gun (The Old Man And The Gun)
(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: David Lowery; Writer: David Lowery, based on the New Yorker article by David Grann; Stars: Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tom Waits, Tika Sumpter, Ari Elizabeth Johnson, Teagan Johnson, Gene Jones, John David Washington, Barlow Jacobs, Augustine Frizzell, Jennifer Joplin, Lisa DeRoberts, Carter Bratton)
Based on the story of a man who escaped San Quentin at 70 and went on to commit a string of heists that captivated the public.
Shadow (Ying)
(Country: China; Year: 2018; Director: Zhang Yimou; Writer: Zhang Yimou, Li Wei; Stars: Deng Chao, Sun Li, Zheng Kai, Wang Qianyuan, Wang Jingchun, Hu Jun, Guan Xiaotong, Wu Leo)
The story of a great king and his people, who will be expelled from their homeland and will aspire to claim it.
Sunset (Napszállta)
(Country: Hungary, France; Year: 2018; Director: László Nemes; Writer: László Nemes, Clara Royer, Matthieu Taponier; Stars: Vlad Ivanov, Susanne Wuest, Juli Jakab, Judit Bárdos, Levente Molnár, Evelin Dobos, Urs Rechn, Mónika Balsai, Björn Freiberg, Uwe Lauer, János Kulka, Sándor Zsótér, Mihály Kormos, Dusán Vitanovics, Laurent Winkler)
A young wannabe milliner in Budapest meets a man connected to her past and begins to uncover family secrets.
Full Review
See:
László Nemes in conversation on fairy tales, Murnau's Sunrise, archaic imagery, and resonances beyond Sunset (Napszállta)
, László Nemes in conversation on TS Eliot, caves of darkness, the innocent and ominous in Sunset (Napszállta)
, Venice 2018: The Sisters Brothers, Sunset, Non-Fiction, The Mountain, Dragged Across Concrete, Charlie Say and Vox Lux
, László Nemes in conversation on TS Eliot, caves of darkness, the innocent and ominous in Sunset (Napszállta)
, Venice 2018: The Sisters Brothers, Sunset, Non-Fiction, The Mountain, Dragged Across Concrete, Charlie Say and Vox Lux
Too Late To Die Young
(Country: Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Netherlands, Qatar; Year: 2018; Director: Dominga Sotomayor Castillo; Writer: Dominga Sotomayor Castillo; Stars: Demian Hernández, Antar Machado, Magdalena Tótoro, Matías Oviedo, Andrés Aliaga, Antonia Zegers, Alejandro Goic, Eyal Meyer, Mercedes Mujica, Gabriel Cañas, Michael Silva, Demian Hernández, Antar Machado, Magdalena Tótoro, Matías Oviedo)
Drama about youngsters in an isolated community preparing for New Year, as Chile makes its transition to democracy.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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