Check out the official trailer for Friends and Strangers, James Vaughan’s gleefully absurdist satire set to open for a one-week exclusive NY engagement at Metrograph In Theater and At Home beginning Friday, February 25.
Friends and Strangers
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FRIENDS AND STRANGERS Trailer. James Vaughan’s Absurdist Australian Satire Opens February 25
Friends and Strangers directed by James Vaughan
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Amalia Ulman’s ‘El Planeta’ will Kick off 50th New Directors/New Films Lineup + Retrospective
Ale Ulman and Amalia Ulman in El Planeta by Amalia Ulman. | photo by Carlos Rigo Bellver. The Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center announced the 50th anniversary edition of New Directors/New Films (ND/NF), available April 28 – May 8 via virtual cinema, with in-person screenings extending through May 13 at FLC. This year’s festival will introduce 27 features and 11 shorts to audiences nationwide in the MoMA and FLC virtual cinemas, and to New Yorkers at Film at Lincoln Center.
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International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 Reveals Competition Lineup – Opens with “Riders of Justice”
Anders Thomas Jensen’s “Riders of Justice” starring Mads Mikkelsen International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2021 will open with the international premiere of absurdist tragicomedy Riders of Justice by Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen, starring Mads Mikkelsen. Riders of Justice with Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas centers on the deployed military man Markus who has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems to be plain bad luck – until the mathematics geek Otto shows up with his two eccentric colleagues, Lennart and Emmenthaler. Otto was also a passenger on the wrecked train. He is convinced someone must have been behind it. As the clues pile up, it becomes clear to Markus that his wife became a random casualty of what looks like a carefully orchestrated assassination.