Sony Pictures Classics will release the golf dramedy The Phantom of the Open, starring Academy Award® winner Mark Rylance, Sally Hawkins, and Rhys Ifans. The heartwarming true story is directed by filmmaker and BAFTA® Cymru Award winning actor Craig Roberts with the screenplay adapted by Simon Farnaby from his own book The Phantom of the Open, co-authored by Scott Murray.
In Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter, it’s all about past decisions coming back to haunt an ex-military soldier as he befriends someone with the same goal in mind.
The Toronto International Film Festival announced the films in the Contemporary World Cinema program at the festival’s 46th edition, plus recently confirmed additional Gala and Special Presentations titles.
Thirteen films from 15 countries will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award at the 69th edition of San Sebastian Festival taking place from September 17-25, 2021.
Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst makes its New York premiere as the Centerpiece selection for the 59th New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on October 1.
A24, known for their unsettling horror catalog, has released the trailer for Lamb, the twisted folktale film directed by Valdimar Jóhannsson. Lamb, which premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard, is about a lonely couple who have a strange experience in their barn and now have to live with the stranger results.
Daniel Farrands, the serial killer thriller Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman will be released via Fathom on August 16 with a US VOD and DVD release to follow on September 3, 2021.
Isabella, the latest addition to Argentine filmmaker Matías Piñeiro’s series on Shakespeare’s female characters, opens on Friday, August 27 at Film at Lincoln Center in New York City, followed by Los Angeles on Friday, September 3 at the Laemmle Royal, before continuing on to other U.S. and Canadian cities.
With Anderson Cooper (Anderson Cooper 360⁰) introducing, CNN will air an anthology of four documentary short films during two Saturdays in July and August.
The 2021 Indy Shorts International Film Festival, presented by Heartland Film (Indy Shorts) concluded its six-day run and announced the winners of the Audience Choice Awards with Ewa Smyk’s “Homebird” the big winner with both the Academy Award®-qualifying Grand Prize and Audience Choice Awards in the Animated category.
Tom Surgal takes us on a trip back in time in Fire Music exploring the free jazz movement during the late 20th century while also including archival footage from artists. The film opens theatrically in New York on Friday, September 10th and Los Angeles on September 17th with a national release to follow.
ArtMattan Films will release the Black radical drama The Sleeping Negro by award-winning filmmaker Skinner Myers that had its world premiere at Slamdance 2021. The film will start its US theatrical run on Dec. 3 at Cinema Village in New York and at the Glendale in LA, before getting a digital and home-video release.