Actress Michelle Yeoh will be honored with the 15th annual Kirk Douglas Award For Excellence In Film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. This marks the first time since the passing of screen legend Kirk Douglas that the honor will be awarded.
Ahead of its World Premiere at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival, IFC Films acquired The Lost King by director Stephen Frears. The film stars Golden Globe winning actress Sally Hawkins (The Shape Of Water) in the lead role of Philippa Langley, alongside Steve Coogan (Philomena, The Trip Series) in the role of Philippa’s husband, John Langley.
Here is the official trailer for Catherine Called Birdy, the medieval drama movie written and directed by Lena Dunham, premiering at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.
Fox Searchlight released a new official trailer for The Menu, the horror comedy film starring Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, and Janet McTeer.
The retrospective at San Sebastian Festival’s 70th edition will show thirteen features films directed by French filmmaker Claude Sautet between the years 1956 and 1995.
The Tallgrass Film Festival announced a preview of gala film selections and special presentations for this year’s 20th Anniversary edition of the popular film festival, taking place September 28-October 2. Troma Films legend Lloyd Kaufman will be a recipient of the festival’s Ad Astra Award, and the all-documentary gala presentations will include the world premiere of Daniel Fetherston and Danny Szlauderbach’s documentary, We Were Famous, You Don’t Remember: The Embarrassment, Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed’s All Man: The International Male Story, Bradford Thomason and Brett Whitcomb’s Tribeca hit, Butterfly in the Sky, and Camille Hardman and Gary Lane’s Still Working 9 to 5.
Artist Jesse Krimes secretly created works of arts while locked up for six years in federal prison. Directed by Alysa Nahmias, the documentary Art & Krimes by Krimes will be released by MTV Documentary Films, opening in theaters starting Friday, September 30 at New York at Quad Cinema and Los Angeles at Laemmle Monica Film Center.
Waco’s Deep in the Heart Film Festival announced the award winners for the 6th edition of the film festival led by Aaron Hosé’s One Pint at a Time, which took three awards, including Best Feature Film, Best Documentary, and the Audience Award for Best Feature. Individual awards were led by The Sisters Karras’ Micah Stathis (Best Feature Film Director), and A Place Among the Dead’s’ Juliet Landau (Best Performance – Feature Film).
Neon released the official trailer for Triangle of Sadness, the dark comedy and English-language feature film debut of filmmaker Ruben Östlund, that won the Palme d’Or at this year’s 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
Roadside Attractions debuted the official trailer for The Good House, the comedy-drama film based on the best-selling novel by Ann Leary, starring Sigourney Weaver, Kevin Kline, Morena Baccarin and Rob Delaney.
New York Film Festival (NYFF) announced the 32 films that comprise the Main Slate of the 60th edition of the festival taking place September 30–October 16, 2022.
Dalíland starring Sir Ben Kingsley, Barbara Sukowa, Christopher Briney, Rupert Graves, Alexander Beyer, Andreja Pejic, Mark McKenna, Zachary Nachbar-Seckel, Avital Lvova, and Suki Waterhouse, will have its World Premiere as the Closing Night Gala for the 47th Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, September 17, at Roy Thomson Hall.