The Internet Film Critics Society (IFCS) announced their winners of the best film honors of 2021, awarding the honor of Best Drama to C’mon C’mon by Mike Mills, Best Comedy to Licorice Pizza by Paul Thomas Anderson and Best Horror or Science Fiction for Titane by Julia Ducournau.
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.
Palm Springs International Film Society has canceled the upcoming 2022 Palm Springs International Film Festival which was set to take place this year from January 7-17, 2022.
The 4K Restoration of Dennis Hopper’s Out of the Blue (timed to its 40th Anniversary) will expand into theaters in January 2022 to cities including Los Angeles, Toronto, Vancouver, Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, New Orleans, Nashville and more (updated list below).
Peacock released the official trailer for Joe Montana: Cool Under Pressure, the sports documentary series premiering on Thursday, January 6, 2022.
The winner of the 2021 Whistler Film Festival (WFF) Audience Award is Drinkwater, directed by Stephen Campanelli, which received its National Festival VOD Premiere at the 21st edition of the festival.
The first trailer debuted for First Oscar by Sergey Mokritskiy (Battle for Sevastopol), the new Russian WWII drama starring Tikhon Zhiznevsky, Anton Momot, Darya Zhovner, Andrey Merzlikin and Nikita Tarasov.
Ferroequinology, literally meaning the study of iron horses, is a feature-length documentary with luminous black and white cinematography, directed by Alex Nevill about the passion and artistry of railroad photography. Having made its World Premiere at Chichester Film Festival (UK) in August 2021, Ferroequinology comes Stateside for its North American Premiere at 2022 Slamdance Film Festival. The film will screen virtually from January 27-Feburary 6, 2022.
Film at Lincoln Center will present The Films of Márta Mészáros, a retrospective of the feminist screenwriter and director’s filmography, January 21-26, 2022.
Following Sundance Film Festival’s announcement, Slamdance Film Festival 2022 is also responding to increasing concerns around the Omicron variant by canceling the in-person portion of the upcoming festival and moving completely virtual. The festival will now start a week later on January 27 and run through February 6, 2022.
Sony Pictures Classics released the official trailer for Compartment No. 6, the Finnish arctic road movie which has been short-listed for the Best International Feature Film Oscar, as well as nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and the Golden Globe in their International Feature categories.