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Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA wins big at NYFCC The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) has chosen ROMA as the best film of 2018 with Alfonso Cuarón also taking the prizes for Best Director and Best Cinematography.   For his performance of a deeply troubled priest being torn apart by his past and the overwhelming dread of the world, Ethan Hawke (First …

Rene Russo and Jake Gyllenhaal in Velvet Buzzsaw The winter festival is also set to world premiere new films starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Lupita Nyong’o, Allison Janney and Viola Davis Highly anticipated titles like Zac Efron’s Ted Bundy drama Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile from Joe Berlingers and Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler follow-up Velvet Buzzsaw, which reunites Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene …

Neon gives you your first look at Academy Award winner Natalie Portman singing the original song “Wrapped Up” written by Sia and Greg Kurstin in the new trailer for Vox Lux Vox Lux begins in 1999 when teenage sisters Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) and Eleanor (Stacy Martin) survive a seismic, violent tragedy.  The sisters compose and perform a song about their …

Green BookA Star Is Born Green Book has won the National Board of Review (NBR) prize for Best Film of 2018, also scooping up the Best Actor prize for Viggo Mortensen.  The organization is made up of film enthusiasts, industry professionals, academics, and filmmakers.  A Star Is Born was the field best winner today with three: Best Director for Bradley …

If Beale Street Could Talk (Annapurna Pictures) Annapurna Pictures has released the final trailer and a new poster for If Beale Street Could Talk, the first English-language adaptation of a James Baldwin work and the follow to Barry Jenkins’ Oscar-winning Moonlight.  Set in early-1970s Harlem, If Beale Street Could Talk is a timeless and moving love story of both a couple’s unbreakable …

Chloé Zhao’s The Rider The 2018 Gotham Awards are happening tonight, live from Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.  Chloé Zhao’s The Rider was the surprise winner of Best Feature at the IFP Gotham Awards tonight, beating out heavy hitters like First Reformed, The Favourite and If Beale Street Could Talk. The Rider, which was released in the US last …

From left: Yalitza Aparicio and Marina de Tavira in Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA (image courtesy of Netflix) Yalitza Aparicio never in her wildest dreams thought she’d be in a movie but hers is a classic Hollywood story by way of Oaxaca, Mexico. It’s not quite Rita Hayworth discovered in a malt shop but it’s a classic discovery nonetheless. Aparicio was studying …

Season 2 premieres Friday, January 11, only on Hulu Season two of Hulu’s Future Man from Seth Rogen (who makes a cameo here) picks up in 2162, and Josh, Wolf, and Tiger learn that their season one mission to stop the cure from getting out didn’t work. In this timeline, Stu Camillo is now in power, having created the cure, and launched …

SFFILM, in partnership with the Westridge Foundation, announced today the projects that will receive a total of $100,000 in funding in the latest round of SFFILM Westridge Grants. Five filmmaking teams were granted funding to help support the screenwriting and project development stages of their narrative feature films. SFFILM Westridge Grants, which are awarded twice annually, are designed for US-based filmmakers whose stories take …

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (Focus Features) The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has announced seven finalists for the PGA award for Documentary Feature today.  They are: The Dawn WallFree SoloHalInto the OkavangoRBGThree Identical StrangersWon’t You Be My Neighbor? With the previously announced nominations by Cinema Eye Honors and Independent Documentary Association only one film has landed on all three …