IFC Midnight debuted the official trailer for A Banquet, a British horror film starring Sienna Guillory, Jessica Alexander, and Ruby Stokes. Directed by Ruth Paxton, the film premiered at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival and opens in theaters and VOD on February 18, 2022.
Magnolia Pictures released the official trailer for A Taste of Hunger, the Danish film starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Katrine Greis-Rosenthal as a power couple sacrificing everything to get a coveted Michelin star for their restaurant in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Liam Neeson stars in the action filmBlacklight along with Emmy Raver-Lampman, Taylor John Smith, Aidan Quinn, Claire van der Boom, Yael Stone and Tim Draxl, opening in theaters on February 11th, 2022. Directed by Mark Williams, Liam Neeson plays to type, starring as a government operative coming to terms with his shadowy past.
This February 2022, American Experience on PBS kicks off its new Winter-Spring season with “Riveted: The History of Jeans,” the fascinating and surprising story of the iconic American garment. Worn by everyone from presidents to supermodels, farmers to rock stars, they’re more than just a pair of pants — America’s tangled past is woven deeply into the indigo fabric. From its roots in slavery to the Wild West, youth culture, the civil rights movement, rock and roll, hippies, high fashion and hip-hop, jeans are the fabric on which the history of American culture and politics are writ large. Written, directed and produced by Anna Lee Strachan and Michael Bicks and executive produced by Cameo George, “Riveted: The History of Jeans” premieres Monday, February 7, 2022, 9:00-10:00 p.m. ET (check local listings) on American Experience on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS Video App.
Here is the official trailer for Last Survivors, the science fiction thriller film starring Drew Van Acker, Alicia Silverstone and Stephen Moyer. Directed by Drew Mylrea the film will be released on February 4, 2022.
Bleecker Street released the official trailer for Sundown, the drama film starring Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Iazua Larios, Henry Goodman, Albertine Kotting McMillan and Samuel Bottomley.
Samuel Goldwyn Films acquired the Bhutanese film Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, which is shortlisted for Best International Film at the 2022 Academy Awards. Written and directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji, the film tells the story of a young teacher sent to teach at the most remote mountain school in the world. Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom premiered at the BFI London Film Festival in 2019 and won the Audience Award at last year’s Palm Springs Film Festival. Samuel Goldwyn Films will announce release information at a later date.
Dekanalog will release Air Doll – the acclaimed cinematic fable by Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters, Still Walking) in U.S. cinemas and on VOD on February 4th.
Here is the new trailer for the Road to Perth, the Australian road-trip movie starring Tommy O’Brien, Hannah Lehmann, Rachel Scott, Ellen Grimshaw, and Katrina Schmidt, which opens theatrically in limited release on January 7.
Lifetime and A&E shared the new extended trailer for JANET, the highly-anticipated Janet Jackson documentary which will debut on both networks on January 28, 2022.
Uncork’d Entertainment will release Breeder, the Danish horror feature film Jens Dahl, a television showrunner-turned-film director who made his directorial debut with 3 Things, featuring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, in 2017.
Following an impressive global film festival run that began with the 70th annual Berlinale and included in MoMA’s 2020 New Directors/New Films festival, The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs (Laila aur satt geet) returns to New York January 12th, 2022 for a week-long run at The Museum of Modern Art.