The Traverse City Film Festival, founded by Michael Moore, has come to a close after nearly 20 years. The TCFF board made the decision to end the era of the festival on a high note, with Moore noting that the festival is ending while it is still ahead and no longer in debt. This brings an end to a beloved film festival that has been appreciated by many over the years.
Actor Joe Lo Truglio, star of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, directs the horror film Outpost starring Beth Dover (“Orange is the New Black”) as a woman recovering from a violent assault who takes a job as a fire lookout, but is overwhelmed by her isolation and tragic past.
Sundance Film Festival: London 2023, taking place from 6 to 9 July, will showcase a lineup of 11 feature films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. The festival will close with the UK premiere of You Hurt My Feelings, from filmmaker Nicole Holofcener (Lovely & Amazing, Enough Said). The Brooklyn-set comedy-drama stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep, Seinfeld) and Tobias Menzies (The Crown) as a couple whose marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears his honest reaction to her latest book
Cannes Film Festival will honor actor Michael Douglas with the Palme d’or d’honneur at the upcoming 76th edition of the festival, “in recognition of his brilliant career as well as his engagement for cinema”. The Festival de Cannes will pay a tribute to him during the Opening Ceremony on Tuesday, May 16.
A young girl named Emma slips into a coma and finds herself in a surreal, industrial dream world where she is haunted by a monster in Ryan Stevens Harris’ dark fantasy horror movie, Moon Garden.
The 2023 Tribeca Festival unveiled the lineup for its Talks and Reunions, featuring conversations with iconic artists, critically-acclaimed directors, and multi-hyphenate entertainers.
Actor John C. Reilly will preside over the Un Certain Regard Jury at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, together with French director and screenwriter Alice Winocour, German actress Paula Beer, French-Cambodian director and producer Davy Chou and Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne. Reilly will be in charge of awarding prizes for the Un Certain Regard section, which showcases art and discovery films by young auteurs.
Lionsgate shared the official trailer for Ordinary Angels, the drama film based on an inspiring true story starring Hilary Swank and Alan Ritchson.
Known for The People Vs. George Lucas, Doc Of The Dead, 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene, Memory: The Origins Of Alien, Lynch/Oz and the 2023 SXSW hit You Can Call Me Bill, award-winning cinema historian Alexandre O. Philippe turns his lens on Monument Valley in his documentary The Taking opening in theaters on May 5th.
Rewind & Play, directed by Alain Gomis — known for films including Félicité (Grand Jury Prize winner at the 2017 Berlinale), Aujourd’hui and L’Afrance, will close out this 15th season of AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange on WORLD Channel on Monday, May 1. The documentary presents a snapshot into the personality and talent of pioneering jazz composer and pianist Thelonious Monk by way of a disastrous and often shockingly disrespectful interview he experiences in Paris at the height of his career.
Coming to VOD are four new films, Darcy Weir’s documentary Secret Space UFOs: Fastwalkers, Dennis Devine’s biting new horror film Fangs Out, Anthony Shim’s award-winning drama Riceboy Sleeps, and Cory Choy’s supernatural thriller Esme, My Love
Described as “visually stunning, dreamlike and intimate,” the award-winning documentary film Museum Of The Revolution tells the story of a community living in the remains of an unfinished utopian project in Belgrade.