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TIFF Docs programmer Thom Powers on this year’s slate and the rise in popularity of documentary film

Erik Anderson August 27, 2018

Thom Powers has been the documentary programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival since 2006. He oversaw TIFF’s Mavericks conversation series for nine years and created the TIFF... Read More

Mahershala Ali goes back in time in teaser for HBO’s ‘True Detective’

Erik Anderson August 26, 2018

Surprise! HBO has dropped the first teaser for the third season of True Detective right in the middle of the final episode of its highly... Read More

Frontrunner Friday: Who’s on top in the 2019 Oscar race ahead of the Fall festivals?

Erik Anderson August 24, 2018

Frontrunner Friday has returned and this time it will be a weekly update of the top 8 categories of films, directors, actors and screenplays in... Read More

Lucas Hedges returns home in teaser trailer for ‘Ben is Back’

Erik Anderson August 24, 2018

19 year-old Ben Burns (Academy Award nominee Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea) unexpectedly returns home to his family’s suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben’s... Read More

‘A Private War,’ starring Rosamund Pike and Jamie Dornan to open 41st Mill Valley Film Festival

Erik Anderson August 23, 2018

Returning for its 41st year, the Mill Valley Film Festival announced today the first of two official Opening Night films for 2018, Aviron Pictures’ A Private War,... Read More

TIFF 2018 In Conversation With…Hilary Swank, Mahershala Ali and Maggie Gyllenhaal

Erik Anderson August 23, 2018

The Toronto International Film Festival presents this year’s In Conversation With… lineup: Hilary Swank, Mahershala Ali and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Through insightful, dynamic and intimate discussion,... Read More

Ben Mendelsohn starts over in trailer for Nicole Holofcener’s ‘The Land of Steady Habits’

Erik Anderson August 23, 2018

“I used to have this vision, my life was like a web. The more webs you could have coming from you then the more important... Read More

Tremble tremble, the ‘Suspiria’ trailer is here with darkness, tears and sighs

Erik Anderson August 23, 2018

“When you dance the dance of another, you make yourself in the image of its creator.” The first full trailer for Suspiria from Academy Award-nominee... Read More

NYFF56 Retrospective and Revivals brings The Marriage of Maria Braun, My Dinner with André, Play Misty For Me

Erik Anderson August 22, 2018

The Retrospective and Revivals sections have been announced for the 56th New York Film Festival, taking place September 28–October 14 at the Film Society of... Read More

Interview: Brian A. Kates, Emmy-nominated editor for ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’

Erik Anderson August 21, 2018

Since graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Brian A. Kates has edited many acclaimed films, with 14 films selected to premiere... Read More

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