The Golden Globe Awards is back, and today the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), dick clark productions (dcp) and NBC announced that the award ceremony will air live coast-to-coast on NBC and Peacock on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT.
HBO shared the official trailer for 38 at the Garden, the documentary short on point guard Jeremy Lin during his landmark 2012 season with the New York Knicks.
Six Red Carpet Premiere films including Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu; the U.S. Premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson; Is That Black Enough for You?!?, directed by Elvis Mitchell; Living, directed by Oliver Hermanus; She Said, directed by Maria Schrader; and The Son, directed by Florian Zeller, will screen at AFI FEST 2022, November 2-6. All films will screen at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre.
Dark Star Pictures will release Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle, the award winning drama based on the true story of Hiroo Onoda, the legendary Japanese soldier who spent 30 years in the Philippine jungle, refusing to surrender because he was convinced World War II had not ended. The film stars Endō Yūya, Tsuda Kanji, Matsuura Yūya, and Chiba Tetsuya.
Filmmaker Carlos Saura, who had planned to present his latest film, The Walls Can Talk (Las paredes hablan), at San Sebastian Festival, will not be able to travel due to a fall suffered at the last minute. The mishap had no serious consequences, but it has prevented him from travelling to San Sebastian.
Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras will be honored with the Retrospective and Top 10 programs at the 35th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam taking place in person from November 9 to 20, 2022. The festival will host two curated focus programs, Around Masculinity and Playing Reality, in addition to the IDFA DocLab theme of Nervous Systems – IDFA’s new media section of in-person digital and XR programming.
Zeitgeist Films will release a brand new 4K remastering of Tales From The Gimli Hospital Redux by Guy Maddin, which had its world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The new 4K digital remaster was supervised by Guy Maddin using original printing elements provided by the TIFF Cinematheque Library and includes the replacement of a long lost scene.
Ahead of its world premiere at Fantastic Fest later this month, RLJE Films acquired the horror/sci-fi film, Kids vs. Aliens, and is expected to release the film in theaters, on demand and digital in early 2023 with a Shudder release to follow later in the year.
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court overturning Roe versus Wade, the timely documentary Battleground is a deep dive into the intersection of abortion and politics in America, following three women who lead anti-abortion organizations.
Florencia Krochik’s The Rest of Us, a feature documentary about DACA kids shot over a decade, won Best Picture at the 13th DTLA Film Festival. Other award winners included director Martin Torrez’ “The Great American Low Rider Tradition,” a feature documentary about the Lowrider culture of East Los Angeles, which took the Audience Favorite Award, and Sophie Galibert, named Best Director for “Cherry,” a narrative dramedy that tackles the hot-button topic of abortion.
The Iranian thriller World War III directed by Houman Seyyedi has been selected as Iran’s entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.
Indie Memphis Film Festival added more films to its 2022 slate including this year’s Centerpiece Presentation, Elegance Bratton’s The Inspection, fresh from its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Jeremy Pope in a breakout performance as a gay black Marine who has been cast out by his mother (Gabrielle Union). This year marks the 25th Anniversary of the Indie Memphis Film Festival, and will run from October 19th through 24th.