Film Movement released a new trailer for the award winning documentary Advocate, a powerful portrait of the controversial Israeli defense attorney Lea Tsemel, directed by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche. The documentary opened in theaters on Friday, January 3, 2020 in New York at Quad Cinema and Los Angeles at Laemmle Royal.
The National Society of Film Critics voted the South Korean film PARASITE as Best Picture of the Year 2019. Parasite also won for Best Screenplay for Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won. The Society, which is made up of 60 of the country’s most prominent movie critics, held its 54th annual awards voting meeting as guests of the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City, using a weighted ballot system.
The new trailer was released for the Icelandic film A White, White Day (Hvítur Hvítur Dagur), the second feature from Hlynur Palmason (Winter Brothers). A White, White Day starring Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Ingi Hilmarsson and Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir premiered in 2020 Cannes Critics Week (La Semaine de la Critique of Festival de Cannes) where Ingvar Sigurdsson won Best Actor. Film Movement will release Palmason’s A White, White Day in select theaters on February 28th, 2020.
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) announced the winners of the 9th AACTA International Awards – winning the Award for Best Film was the South Korean black comedy thriller PARASITE, written and directed by Bong Joon Ho who accepted the Australian Academy’s highest Award. The film also received the AACTA Award for Best Asian Film at the AACTA Awards in Sydney last month.
Sony Pictures Classics released a new trailer for Michael Angelo Covino’s debut The Climb, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard section and won the Jury Coup de Couer Prize. The film starring Kyle Marvin, Michael Angelo Covino, Gayle Rankin, Judith Godréche, George Wendt, Talia Balsam follows best buddies Kyle and Mike who share a close bond until Mike sleeps with Kyle’s fiancée.
The indie comedy Elsewhere from Costa Rican filmmaker Hernan Jimenez, and starring Ken Jeong, Parker Posey, Jackie Tohn, Beau Bridges, Kathleen Munroe, Aden Young, along with Jacki Weaver released the first official trailer. Elsewhere which premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival will be released in select US theaters and on VOD starting January 24th, 2020.
Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood leads the nominations for the Music City Film Critics’ Association 2019 Film Awards with 9 nominations.
Marriage Story, Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Apollo 11, and Monos, are among the films nominated by the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) for the awards for best films of 2019.
Saban Films released the trailer for Will Forbes’ directorial debut, John Henry starring Terry Crews (Deadpool 2, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) and Ludacris (The Fast and Furious franchise, Show Dogs).
Former president Barack Obama shared his list of favorite movies of 2019 which included American Factory, a film from his own production company, Higher Ground, that was recently shortlisted for an Oscar. The list features primarily some of the most critically acclaimed indie films and documentaries of 2019 including Amazing Grace, Apollo 11, Ash Is Purest White and The Last Black Man in San Francisco.
Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women leads the nominations for the Chicago Indie Critics fourth annual film awards with eight nominations. The Irishman, Marriage Story, 1917, and Parasite followed with seven nominations.
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