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Editorial Favourite Film of 2018 Roma — A story that chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
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Other Favourite Films A Star is Born, First Man & Only You.
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The House That Jack Built The story follows Jack, a highly intelligent serial killer, over the course of twelve years, and depicts the murders that really develop his inner madman.
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Favourite Director Alfonso Cuarón born on November 28th in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut.
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Other Favourite Directors Bradley Cooper, Damien Chazelle, Harry Wootliff.
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Favourite Actor Lily Franky was born on November 4, 1963 in Fukuoka, Japan as Masaya Nakagawa.
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Other Favourite Actors Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling, Adam Driver.
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Favourite Actress Carey Mulligan a British actress. She was born May 28, 1985, in Westminster, London, England.
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Other Favourite Actresses Yalitza Aparicio, Laura Dern, Lady Gaga.
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FilmFest Follower — Sundance A program of the Sundance Institute, takes place annually in Park City, Utah.
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Poster Roma
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ACKNOWLEDEMENTS: We would like to thank the following for their help and assistance in providing images for this magazine: Molly Goring – Strike Media. Jake Garriock – Curzon.com
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EDITORIAL Welcome to 2019! But first let us reflect on 2018 and our favourite films, directors, actors and actresses of the year. Our cover feature is ROMA, MbM’s favourite film of 2018. A Star Is Born, First Man, and Only You follow, but mention must also be made of: Leave No Trace, The Eyes of Orson Welles, Crazy Rich Asians, Wildlife, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, The Old Man & The Gun, Shoplifters and Free Solo. Our favourite director is Alfonso Cuarón (Roma). Other favourites: Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born), Damien Chazelle (First Man), Harry Wootliff (Only You). A special mention: Paul Dano (Wildlife)and Hirokazu Koreeda (Shoplifters). Our favourite actor is Lily Franky (Shoplifters). Further favourites: Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born), Ryan Gosling (First Man), Adam Driver (The Man Who Killed Don Quixote). Special Mention: Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born). Our favourite actress: Carey Mulligan (Wildlife). Other favourites: Yalitza Aparicio (Roma), Laura Dern (The Tale), Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born). Enjoy the Read.
Brian Mills
Magazine Editor
Paul Ridler
Magazine Designer
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FAVOURITE FILM OF 2018 ROMA Directed by Alfonso Cuarón Starring: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autry. An emotionally experiential masterpiece. Cuarón’s autobiographical tale of his childhood and his affection for the maid Libo, who helped rear him when his parents separated. The film is a love letter to the family maid, named Cleo in the film.
* ROMA WON THE GOLDEN LION AWARD AT VENICE FOR BEST FILM. * GUILLERMO DEL TORO, PRESIDENT OF THE JURY AT VENICE, NAMED ROMA ONE OF HIS TOP 5 FAVOURITE FILMS OF ALL TIME. * VOTED GUARDIAN’S NO.1 FILM OF THE YEAR. * THE LENGTHY DELIVERY SCENE IN THE HOSPITAL WAS ONLY SHOT ONCE. THE DOCTORS AND NURSES WERE REAL, NOT ACTORS, HIRED TO MAKE THE SCENE FEEL MORE AUTHENTIC. * ROMA IS MEXICO’S OFFICIAL SUBMISSION FORSTTHE “BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM” CATEGORY OF THE 91 ACADEMY AWARDS IN FEBRUARY 2019. ALFONSO CUARÓN CALLS ROMA THE “MOST ESSENTIAL MOVIE” OF HIS CAREER. 4
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OTHER FAVOURITES OF 2018
A STAR IS BORN Directed by Bradley Cooper Starring: Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Sam Elliott. The fourth, and undoubtedly the best version of this classic story of one star rising while the other is falling. 1937 saw Janet Gaynor as the young starstruck actress Vicki Lester and Fredric March as the alcohol-driven Norman Maine. In 1954 Judy co-starred with James Mason. 1976 came the Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson version. The latest movie updates the story for the 21st century and what a powerhouse of a movie it is.
* AMERICAN FILM INSITUTE AWARDS BEST FILM. * DALLAS – FORT WORTH FILM CRITIC’S ASSOCIATION AWARDS – BEST PICTURE. * NEW YORK FILM CRITICS ONLINE TOP FILM OF THE YEAR. * ST. LOUIS FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION US. BEST FILM. * THE FILM PREMIERED AT THE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL ON AUGUST 31,2018, WHERE LADY GAGA AND BRADLEY COOPER RECEIVED AN EIGHT-MINUTE STANDING OVATION AFTER THE SCREENING. * THE SOUNDTRACK FOR A STAR IS BORN TOPPED THE BILLBOARD 200 ALBUMS CHART. THIS IS BRADLEY COOPER’S FIRST NO.1 ALBUM AND FIRST TIME EVER CHARTING IN BILLBOARD, AS WELL AS LADY GAGA’S 5TH NO.1 ALBUM * THE DOG ALLY GETS FOR JACKSON IS BRADLEY COOPER’S ACTUAL DOG CHARLIE. www.moviesbymills.com
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FIRST MAN Directed by Damien Chazelle Starring: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke. A biopic of Neil Armstrong, the astronaut and the Space Mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the moon.
* NEIL ARMSTRONG’S SONS MARK AND ERIC SAY FIRST MAN IS THE MOST ACCURATE PORTRAYALS OF THEIR FATHER AND MOTHER JANET. * ACTOR RYAN GOSLING FIRST DISCOVERED ARMSTRONG’S LOVE OF THE THEREMIN DURING HIS BACKGROUND RESEARCH WITH ARMSTRONG’S FAMILY AND FRIENDS. * RYAN GOSLING SUFFERED AN INJURY WHILE FILMING ONE OF THE MANY SHUTTLE SEQUENCES. HIS PARTNER EVA MENDES TOLD HIM TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER NOTICING THE BIZARRE BEHAVIOR OF HIS PASSIONATELY RANTING TO HER ABOUT NATIONAL DOUGHNUT THIEVES. IT WAS LATER DISCOVERED HE HAD SUFFERED A CONCUSSION AND MENDES HAD UNKNOWINGLY SAVED HIS LIFE. * CLINT EASTWOOD WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO DIRECT THE MOVIE. * JANE ARMSTRONG REALLY DID DRIVE DOWN TO MISSION CONTROL AFTER THEY CUT OFF HER ‘SQUAWK BOX’ DURING THE GEMINI-AGENA MISHAP. 6
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OTHER FAVOURITES OF 2018
ONLY YOU Directed by Harry Wootliff Starring: Joseph O’Connor, Laia Costa. As Glasgow celebrates New Year’s Eve, a chance encounter brings Jake (Josh O’Connor) and Victoria (Laia Costa) together and the attraction is instant. Sexy and smitten, they’re totally swept up in each other and the relationship develops at speed.
* JOSEPH O’CONNOR & LAIA COSTA WERE DESCRIBED AS RISING STARS IN THE PUBLICITY FOR “ONLY YOU” WHICH WAS A STANDOUT SURPRISE AT THIS YEAR’S LONDON FILM FESTIVAL. * SPANISH BORN LAIA IS BEST KNOWN FOR THE FILM “VICTORIA”, FOR WHICH SHE BECAME THE FIRST FOREIGN ACTRESS TO WIN A LOLA, THE BIGGEST AWARD BY GERMAN ACADEMY OF CINEMA. * LAIA SPEAKS FLUENT CATALAN, SPANISH, FRENCH AND ENGLISH. * WON BEST ACTRESS AT THE GAUDI AWARDS BY THE CATALAN ACADEMY OF CINEMA. * THE NEW YORK TIMES INCLUDED HER IN 2015’S ‘BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCES OF THE FALL SEASON’. * ONLY YOU IS THE EPITOME OF FIRST CLASS ACTING 7
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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT Directed by Lars Von Trier. Starring: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman. When I think of all the things, I’ve done in my life without in any way resulting in punishment. - Jack Lars Von Trier is at his most provocative in this explicitly gruesome tale of a serial killer named Jack. One scene alone was enough to cause walkouts at the Cannes film festival, and after seeing it, my advice would be not to walk in. The film follows a serial killer named Jack over the course of several decades. It features scenes of ultraviolence: mutilating a woman by slicing her breast off, shooting two children, and showing Jack as a child removing a duckling’s leg with a pair of pliers and then throwing the creature into the river. Despite these comments from Matt Dillion: I had more dialogue in this film than I’ve had in any film that I’ve done before, a lot. But we never rehearsed, that was the thing. We had basically made a pact of trust with each other, Lars and I, and I trusted him thoroughly. One time I said to him in the scene I did with Riley and that was a very difficult scene for me, not just because the way he murders her, the way he treats her, it was very difficult. I said “Lars, I think we should rehearse this scene because it is very physical, and he said: Okay, Let’s do one like that and do one without a rehearsal”, and that’s the way we worked a lot. The film was very dark, but the atmosphere was not dark at all. It was a good atmosphere on the set, a vibrant environment. - Matt Dillon. Matt Dillon and Uma Thurman and others have stated that Von Trier is a charming man to work with, so why are his films so, objectional to our senses? Because of all his fears, anger, neuroses, cruelty, he puts into his movies and have the desired cathartic effect for him by releasing these emotions and behaviour through his characters and letting the audiences make what they will of them. He wants you to react, he wants you walk out or hate his film. He then feels that he has achieved his goal.
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Von Trier bathes himself in controversy and his statements about “The House That Jack Built” bear witness to that. Regarding the audience reaction to the film, the walkouts, some people even feeling sick… I am disappointed only 100 people vomited. This is fine with me. It is important that a film divides. I would have liked 200 people to vomit. - Von Trier This film is like a kind of bacteria in your stomach. A statement that he was proud of. No doubt he is proud of also being a misogynist which is a prevalent theme in his film. Awful things happen to female leads in his previous films too: Breaking Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Nymphomaniac, and Melancholia. There were always women and they were always suffering, I thought. I thought if it works for Carl Dreyer and his “The Passion of Joan of Arc.” Look, I just thought I was home free here because I had done my duty with female leads. So, I could now have a man as a lead. - Von Trier Von Trier’s life is an odd as he is. Raised just outside Copenhagen and took the second bit of his surname from his mother’s husband – who was not his actual father, as he once believed – and later added the “Von” as an affectation. He studied film at the University of Copenhagen in his 20s before his underground hit The Element of Crime in 1984. But it was Breaking the Waves, starring Emily Watson that gained him worldwide publicity. Where then does The House That Jack Built sit in his filmography? For Von Trier…a controversial masterpiece. For MbM:
A FILM THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN MADE A FILM THAT SHOULD BE BURIED IN THE CINEMA CEMETERY A FILM THAT FAILS TO INSPIRE AND ENCOURAGE ASPIRING FILMMAKERS A FILM THAT ONE SHOULD TRY TO FORGET AND NOT LET IT TAKE UP RESIDENCE IN YOUR MIND. A Don’t-See Movie.
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Lady 1 (Uma Thurman) in The House That Jack Built.
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Grumpy (Rocco Day), George (Cohen Day) Lady 3 (Sofie Gråbøl ) in The House That Jack Built.
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FAVOURITE FILM DIRECTOR OF 2018 ALFONSO CUARÓN * DIRECTOR OF ROMA * ROMA IS THE SECOND FILM WHICH HE HAS MADE ABOUT SERVITUDE, THE FIRST BEING “A LITTLE PRINCESS” WHICH WAS ABOUT A YOUNG GIRL WHO IS RELEGATED TO SERVITUDE WHEN HER FATHER GOES MISSING AND IS PRESUMED DEAD. * HE RECEIVED HIS FIRST CAMERA WHEN HE WAS 12-YEARS-OLD, THEN PROCEEDED TO FILM EVERYTHING HE SAW. * IN 2003, ALFONSO DIRECTED THE SPACE THRILLER “GRAVITY”, WHICH WOULD GO ON TO WIN 7 ACADEMY AWARDS. * HE IS THE FIRST MEXICAN-BORN DIRECTOR TO WIN AN OSCAR FOR BEST DIRECTOR, ACHIEVING THE FEAT FOR “GRAVITY”. * HE WAS EIGHT WHEN HE SAW “BICYCLE THIEVES” AND IT WAS THE FIRST BLACK-AND-WHITE FILM HE HAD EVER SEEN. IT TRIGGERED HIS CURIOSITY TO START SEEING EUROPEAN CINEMA. * WHAT HE TRIED TO DO IN “ROMA” IS BALANCE BETWEEN CHARACTER AND A SOCIAL CONTEXT.
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OTHER FAVOURITE FILM DIRECTORS OF 2018
BRADLEY COOPER * A STAR IS BORN IS BRADLEY COOPER’S DEBUT AS A FILM DIRECTOR. * THE FILM PREMIERED AT THE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL ON AUGUST 31, 2018, WHERE LADY GAGA AND BRADLEY COOPER RECEIVED AN EIGHT-MINUTE STANDING OVATION AFTER THE SCREENING. * BRADLEY COOPER HAD TO FIGHT HARD TO CONVINCE WARNER BROS. TO CAST LADY GAGA AS ALLY. IN HIS PITCH, HE SHOWED AN IPHONE RECORDING OF BOTH LADY GAGA AND HIM SINGING A DUET OF CREDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL’S “MIDNIGHT SPECIAL” RECORDED IN LADY GAGA’S HOME. * IT WAS HIS DREAM TO BE A DIRECTOR BEFORE HE GOT INTO ACTING. * ORIGINALLY BRADLEY COOPER CONSIDERED A DIFFERENT FILM ENDING WHERE JACKSON AND ALLY PERFORM SHALLOW AS THE FINAL SONG. * THE FILM PAYS HOMAGE TO 1976 VERSION OF A STAR IS BORN’S TRAGIC SCENE WHERE KRIS KRISTOFFERSON’S CHARACTER DIES FROM DRIVING A VEHICLE RECKLESSLY. ALLY TELLS JACKSON THAT SHE IS NOT GETTING ON HIS MOTORBIKE IF HE’S INTOXICATED. 13
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OTHER FAVOURITE FILM DIRECTORS OF 2018
DAMIEN CHAZELLE * DAMIEN CHAZELLE WAS PARTICULARLY ATTACHED TO MAKING HIS FILM AS AUTHENTIC AS POSSIBLE. THIS CARE FOR DETAIL WAS MAINTAINED, UNTIL IT CAME TO THE REPRODUCTION OF THE SPACE CAPSULES. HE AND CHIEF DESIGNER NATHAN CROWLEY AGREED THAT NO SHIP WOULD BE ENLARGED BY MORE THAN 10%, EVEN IF IT SACRIFICED THE COMFORT OF THE ACTORS. THIS ALSO CAUSED COMPLICATIONS OF FRAMING. THE SOLUTION WAS TO CREATE A DÉCOR THAT FIT IN SEVERAL DETACHABLE PARTS. THE TECHNICIANS HAD TO BREAK THE SEATS IN TWO TO BE ABLE TO INTEGRATE THE CAMERAS WITH THE CAPSULE. * CHAZELE’S FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY ARMSTRONG WAS ALWAYS RYAN GOSLING. * HE WAS APPROACHED TO STAGE “FIRST MAN” ONCE “WHIPLASH” COMPLETED, WHILE HE HAD NOT REALIZED “LA LA LAND”. HE WANTED TO APPROACH THIS STORY AS A THRILLER AND MAKE THE PUBLIC FEEL THE DANGERS FACED BY THE ASTRONAUT TEAM. * THIS IS THE FIRST FILM DIRECTED BY CHAZELLE TO NOT BE MUSIC-BASED.
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OTHER FAVOURITE FILM DIRECTORS OF 2018
HARRY WOOTLIFF * HARRY WAS BORN AND BROUGHT UP IN LEEDS. * SHE ORIGINALLY TRAINED AS AN ACTOR
* HER FIRST SHORT FILM “NITS” WAS BFI NOMINATED AND SELECTED FOR CANNES. * “NITS” WON THE TCM PRIZE AT THE LONDON FILM FESTIVAL IN 2004. * HER SUBSEQUENT SHORT FILM “TRIP” PREMIERED AT BERLIN AND WAS SELECTED FOR OVER 25 INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS. * “ONLY YOU” IS HARRY WOOTLIFF’S FIRST FEATURE FILM. * ”ONLY YOU” WAS NOMINATED FOR THE SUTHERLAND AWARD WHICH RECOGNISES THE MOST ORIGINAL AND IMAGINATIVE DIRECTIONAL DEBUT.
* HARRY WROTE BOTH THE STORY AND SCREENPLAY FOR “ONLY YOU”.
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FAVOURITE ACTOR OF 2018 LILY FRANKY * BORN IN 1963 IN FUKUOKA, JAPAN. * REAL NAME IS MASAYA NAKAGAWA.
* NICKNAME: LILY-SAN. * HE IS AN ACTOR AND WRITER. * HIS BEST SELLER AUTOBIOGRAPHY TOKYO TOWER: OKON TO BOKU TO, TOKIDOKI OTON IS RICHLY BOUND BECAUSE HE DID NOT WANT READERS TO THROW AWAY THE BOOK. * HIS STAGE NAME, LILY FRANKY IS FROM FRANKY GOES TO HOLLYWOOD. * HIS NICKNAME IS FROM THE UNIVERSITY YOUR, WHICH MEANS LILY. * HE IS AN ACTOR AND A WRITER, AND ALSO A MUSICIAN, ILLUSTRATOR, ANIMATION FILMMAKER, PHOTOGRAPHER AND ESSAYIST * IN 2013, HE WAS NOMINATED FOR BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN KOREEDA’S “LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON”. WHICH WAS SCREENED AT THE ASIA-PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL.
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OTHER FAVOURITE ACTORS OF 2018
RYAN GOSLING * FIRST ATTRACTED CRITICAL ATTENTION WITH HIS PERFORMANCE AS THE JEWISH NEO-NAZI IN THE CONTOVERSIAL FILM “THE BELIEVER”, WHICH WON THE GRAND JURY PRIZE AT THE 2001 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL. * IN 2006 HE WAS NOMINATED FOR AN ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR IN “HALF NELSON”. * FREQUENTLY WORKS WITH DIRECTORS NICOLAS WINDING REFN, DEREL CIANFRANCE, AND DAMIEN CHAZELLE. * IS AN ACCOMPLISHED JAZZ GUITARIST. * FAVOURITE MOVIE IS “EAST OF EDEN”. * HE PLAYED ALL HIS FILMED PIANO-PLAYING SCENES IN “LA LA LAND”, LEARNING TO PLAY THE INSTRUMENT IN THE MONTHS BEFORE SHOOTING. “I’VE LEARNED IT’S IMPORTANT NOT TO LIMIT YOURSELF. YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU REALLY LOVE TO DO, NO MATTER WHAT IT IS.”
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BRADLEY COOPER * BRADLEY BEGAN HIS PROFESSIONAL CAREER, APPEARING OPPOSITE SARAH JESSICA PARKER ON “SEX AND THE CITY” AND ON THE DRAMA SERIES “THE BEAT” * HE WENT ON TO WIN THE ROLE OF YOUNG LAW STUDENT GORDON PINELLA IN “CHANGING LANES”. * COOPER RECEIVED AN ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST ACTOR AFTER STARRING WITH JENNIFER LAWRENCE IN DAVID 0. RUSSELL’S “SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK”. * RECEIVED TWO MORE CONSECUTIVE OSCAR NOMINATIONS: BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR FOR PLAYING RICHIE DIMASO IN RUSSELL’S “AMERICAN HUSTLE”, AND BEST ACTOR FOR PLAYING NAVY SEAL, CHRIS KYLE IN CLINT EASTWOOD’S “AMERICAN SNIPER”. * CONSIDERS DANIEL DAY-LEWIS THE WORLD’S GREATEST ACTOR. * “WHEN I WAS EIGHT YEARS-OLD, I WANTED TO BE A CHEF OR AN ACTOR. I USED TO COOK ALL THE TIME”.
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OTHER FAVOURITE ACTORS OF 2018
ADAM DRIVER * ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS FOR A YEAR, AND THEN TRANSFERRED TO STUDY DRAMA AT JUILLIARD IN NEW YORK, GRADUATING IN 2009. HE BEGAN ACTING IN PLAYS, APPEARING ON BROADWAY, BEFORE BEING CAST IN LENA DUNHAM’S SERIES “GIRLS”, AS HER CHARACTER’S LOVE INTEREST. THE ROLE GAINED HIM ATTENTION, AND HE SUBSEQUENTLY BEGAN A ROBUST FILM CAREER. * HAS STATED HIS INTEREST IN WORKING WITH PEDRO ALMODOVAR, PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON, MICHAEL HANEKE, MIKE LEIGH. * BEFORE BECOMING AN ACTOR, HE ONCE WORKED AS A DOOR-TO-DOOR KIRBY VACUUM SALESMAN, A TELEMARKETER FOR A BASEMENT WATER-PROOFING COMPANY, AND BEN FRANKLIN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY. * “I THINK THE COEN BROTHERS HAVE A COMMON THEME, EVEN THOUGH THEY WORK IN COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WAYS. SPECIFICALLY OF STORY – SO CLEAR WITH WHAT IT IS THEY’RE AFTER – AND DIFFERENT OPINIONS ABOUT HOW TO GET THERE, THEY’RE KIND OF UNANIMOUS IN THAT WAY”.
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FAVOURITE ACTRESS OF 2018 CAREY MULLIGAN * FIRST MAJOR SCREEN APPEARANCE WAS PLAYING KITTY BENNET IN “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”. * CAREY HAS SAID THAT HER PASSION AND LOVE FOR ACTING WAS FIRST KINDLED AT HER OLD SCHOOL WOLDINGHAM SCHOOL, WHERE SHE TOOK PART IN A SCHOOL PRODUCTION OF “SWEET CHARITY” IN HER FINAL YEAR, AND WHERE SHE WAS ALSO A STUDENT HEAD OF DRAMA. * HAS MENTIONED THAT SHE WOULD LIKE TO DO A PLAY EVERY YEAR. * GOOD FRIENDS WITH ZOE KAZAN * AMBASSADOR FOR THE ALZHEIMER’S SOCIETY; HER MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER HAS SUFFERED WITH THE DISEASE SINCE 2000. * WORKED AS A PUB BARMAID AND STUDIO RUNNER BETWEEN ACTING JOBS. * HER ACTING IDOLS ARE MARION COTILLARD, CATE BLANCHET AND KATE WINSLET. * “THE COEN BROTHERS KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY’RE DOING. YOU FINISH WORK AT ABOUT FOUR IN THE AFTERNOON, BECAUSE THEY GET EVERYTHING DONE SO QUICKLY”. 20
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OTHER FAVOURITE ACTRESSES OF 2018
YALITZA APARICIO * SHE IS FROM A RURAL AREA, IN TLAXACO, OAXACA, MEXICO. * ”IT WASN’T SOMETHING THAT I REALLY WANTED OR HAD DREAMED ABOUT. BECAUSE OF YOUR SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS OR YOUR CULTURE, YOU THINK YOU CAN’T ASPIRE TO BE AN ACTRESS, AND TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEDIUM THAT SOUNDS LIKE A FANTASY”.
* CLEO, PLAYED BY APARICIO, IS A DOMESTIC WORKER WHO BECOMES PREGNANT AFTER HER FIRST SEXUAL ENCOUNTER. * APARICIO HAD NO CLEO IN HER CHILDHOOD IN YLAXIACO, A TOWN OF 40,000 PEOPLE IN THE SOUTHWESTERN STATE OF OAXACA. * HER OWN MOTHER RAISED HER ON HER OWN, WORKED AS A MAID AND THAT HELPED APARICIO UNDERSTAND THE RELATIONSHIP OF LOVE AND HEARTBREAK THAT CAN FORM BETWEEN CAREGIVERS AND THEIR BOSSES. * “SCENES DURING THE FILMING STIRRED MY MEMORIES, AND THERE AROSE, ALL BY ITSELF, MY CHARACTER’S NEED TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN FROM WHAT WAS HAPPENING SO THEY WOULD NOT SUFFER”.
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OTHER FAVOURITE ACTRESSES OF 2018
LAURA DERN * SHE FOUND REFUGE FROM THE TEASING OF CLASSMATES AT SCHOOL FOR HER GAWKY PHYSICAL APPEARANCE BY STUDYING ACTING AT THE LEE STRASBERG THEATER INSTITUTE. * HER FIRST SUCCESS CAME IN 1980, WITH A ROLE IN ADRIAN LYNE’S “FOXES”, A TEEN MOVIE STARRING JODIE FOSTER. * IT WAS IN 1991 THAT SHE MADE “RAMBLING ROSE” IN WHICH SHE PLAYED A SEXUALLY-PRECOCIOUS, FREE-SPIRITED YOUNG HOUSEMAID IN THE SOUTH IN THE 1930S. IT EARNED HER AN OSCAR NOMINATION. * SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF BRUCE DERN AND DIANE LADD. * SHE BEAT OUT HELEN HUNT AND GWYNETH PALTROW FOR THE ROLE OF DR. ELLE SATTLER IN “JURASSIC PARK”. * SHE KNEW SHE WANTED TO BE AN ACTRESS AT AGE 11, BUT HER PARENTS HATED THE IDEA. * “I GET SO PROTECTIVE OF DAVID LYNCH, LIKE AN OLDER SISTER OR SOMETHING. I THINK HE BELIEVES – WHICH I’VE FOUND RARE IN FILMMAKERS – IN THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE AUDIENCE”.
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OTHER FAVOURITE ACTRESSES OF 2018
LADY GAGA * BORN STEFANI JOANNE ANGELINA GERMANOTTA, IS A VERY VERSATILE: SONGWRITER, SINGER, ACTRESS, PHILANTHROPIST, DANCER, AND FASHION DESIGNER. * SHE WAS ABLE TO SING AND PLAY THE PIANO AT A YOUNG AGE. * AT AGE 14, GAGA WAS PERFORMING AT OPEN MIKE NIGHTS IN CLUBS AND BARS. AT 17, SHE HAD GAINED EARLY ADMISSION TO NEW YORK UNIVERSITY’S TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS. IN ADDITION TO SHARPENING HER SONGWRITING SKILLS, SHE COMPOSED ESSAYS AND ANALYTICAL PAPERS ON ART, RELIGION, SOCIAL ISSUES AND POLITICS. * AT AGE 19, SHE WITHDREW FROM HER STUDIES IN ORDER TO PURSUE A MUSICAL CAREER. * AFTER A BRIEF PARTNERSHIP WITH TALENT SCOUT ROB FUSARI, WHICH RESULTED IN THE CREATION OF STAGE NAME, GAGA WAS SIGNED TO DEF JAM RECORDS. * OFTEN GIVES EMPOWERING SPEECHES DURING HER SHOWS TO HER FANS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF SELF-CONFIDENCE AND ‘BEING WHOEVER YOU WANT TO BE’.
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SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL Jan 24 - Feb 3, 2019
SPOTLIGHT ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH
THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
Directed by Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky.
Directed by John Chester.
From concrete seawalls in China that cover 60% of the mainland coast to the biggest terrestrial machines ever built in Germany, to psychedelic potash mines in Russia’s Ural Mountains, to conservation sanctuaries in Kenya, the filmmakers have traversed the globe to document the evidence and experience of human domination.
BIRDS OF PASSAGE Directed by Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra. Starring: Carmina Martinez, Jose Acosta, Natalia Reyes. Rapayet is a man torn between the desire to be powerful and his duty to uphold his culture’s values. His indigenous tribe, the Wayuu, ignores ancient omens and enters the drug trafficking business – where honour is the highest currency and debts are paid with blood.
MAIDEN Directed by Alex Holmes. Featuring: Tracy Edwards. The incredible, against-all-odds story of sailor Tracy Edwards, who skippered the first all-female international crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race.
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Teo dreamers and a dog embark on an odyssey to bring harmony to their lives and the land. As their plan to create perfect harmony takes a series of wild turns, they will have to reach a far greater understanding of the intricacies and wisdom of nature, and life itself.
THE MOUNTAIN Directed by Rick Alverson. Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Tye Sheridan, Udo Kier, Denis Lavant. Since his mother’s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Doctor Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour advocating for his increasingly controversial lobotomy procedure.
THE NIGHTINGALE Directed by Jennifer Kent. Starring: Aisling Franciosi, Sam Ciaflin, Baykall Ganambarr. Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of Aboriginal tracker Billy, who is marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
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U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION BIG TIME ADOLESCENCE
HONEY BOY
Directed by Jason Orley. Starring: Pete Davidson, Griffin Gluck, Jon Cryer.
Directed by Alma Har’el. Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe.
A suburban teenager comes of age under the destructive guidance of his best friend, a charismatic college dropout.
A child TV star and his ex-rodeo clown father face their stormy past through time and cinema.
BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON
Directed by Debra Eisenstadt. Starring: Wendi McLendonCovey, Christine Woods, Max Burkholder.
Directed by Paul Downs Colaizzo. Starring: Jillian Bell, Michaela Watkins, Utkarsh Ambudkar. A woman living in New York takes control of her life – one city block at a time.
CLEMENCY
IMAGINARY ORDER
The sexual, psychological and moral unravelling of an obsessivecompulsive suburban mom.
THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO Directed by Joe Talbot. Starring: Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan.
Directed by Chinonye Chukwu. Starring: Alfre Woodard, Aldis Hodge, Richard Schill, Wendell Pierce.
Jimmie dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont.
Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams.
LUCE
THE FAREWELL Directed by Lulu Wang. Starring: Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Zhao Shuzhen. A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis.
HALA Directed by Minhal Baig. Starring: Geraldine Viswanathan, Jack Kilmer, Gabriel Luna. Muslim teenager Hala copes with the unravelling of her family as she comes into her own.
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Directed by Julius Onah. Starring: Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Kelvin Harrison Jr. A married couple is forced to reckon with their idealized image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher threatens his status as an all-star student.
MS. PURPLE Directed by Justin Chon. Starring: Tiffany Chu, Teddy Lee, Octavia Pizano, James King. Kaisie, stuck in LA’s Koreatown, works as a karaoke hostess getting paid for her companionship by drunken men. When her dad’s hospice nurse quits, she reconnects with her estranged brother, Carey, forcing them to enter a period of intense self-reflection as their single father who raised them nears death.
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NATIVE SON
THEM THAT FOLLOW
Directed by Rashid Johnson. Starring: Ashton Sanders, Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson.
Directed by Britt Poulton & Dan Madison Savage. Starring: Olivia Colman, Kaitlyn Dever, Alice Engiert.
A young African-American man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever.
Inside a snake-handling church deep in Appalachia, a forbidden relationship forces a pastor’s daughter to confront her community’s deadly tradition.
SHARE Directed by Pippa Bianco. Starring: Rhianne Barreto, Charlie Plummer, Pooma Jagannathan. After discovering a disturbing video from a night, she doesn’t remember, sixteen-year-old Mandy must try to figure out what happened and how to navigate the escalating fallout.
THE SOUND OF SILENCE Directed by Michael Tyburski. Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, Rashida Jones, Tony Revolori. A successful “house tuner” in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people’s homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can’t solve.
TO THE STARS. Directed by Martha Stephens. Starring: Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato, Jordana Spiro. Under small town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer’s daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.
ALWAYS IN SEASON Directed by Jacqueline Olive. When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins as the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present.
U.S.DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION AMERICAN FACTORY
BEDLAM
Directed by Steven Bognar & Julia Reichert.
Directed by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg.
In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.
A psychiatrist makes rounds in ERs, jails, and homeless camps to tell the intimate stories behind one of the greatest social crises of our time. A personal and intense journey into the world of the seriously mentally ill.
APOLLO 11
Directed by A.J.Eaton.
Directed by Todd Douglas Miller. A purely archival reconstruction of humanity’s first trip to another world, featuring never-before-see 70mm footage and never-before-heard audio from the mission.
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DAVID CROSBY; REMEMBER MY NAME You thought you knew him. Meet David Crosby now in this portrait of a man with everything but an easy retirement on his mind. With unflinching honesty, selfexamination, regret, fear, exuberance and an unshakeable belief in family and the transformative nature of music. Crosby shares his often-challenging journey.
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HAIL SATAN Directed by Penny Lane. A look at the intersection of religion and activism, tracing the rise of The Satanic Temple: only six years old and already one of the most controversial religious movements in American history. The Temple is calling for a Satanic revolution to save the nation’s soul. But are they for real?
JAWLINE Directed by Liza Mandelup. The film follows 16-year-old Austin Tester, a rising star in the live-broadcast ecosystem who built his following on wide-eyes optimism and teen girl lust, as he tries to escape a dead-end life in rural Tennessee.
MOONLIGHT SONATA: DEAFNESS IN THREE MOVEMENTS Directed by Taylor Brodsky. A deeply personal portrait of three lives, and the discoveries that lie beyond loss: a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Beethoven the year he was blindsided by deafness and wrote his iconic sonata.
ONE CHILD NATION Directed by Nanfu Wang & Jialing Zhang. After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China’s one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.
KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE
PAHOKEE
Directed by Rachel Lears.
Directed by Ivete Lucas & Patrick Bresnan.
A young bartender in the Bronx, a coal miner’s daughter in West Virginia, a grieving mother in Nevada and a registered nurse in Missouri build a movement of insurgent candidates challenging powerful incumbents in Congress. One of their races will become the most shocking political upset in recent American history.
MIDNIGHT FAMILY Directed by Luke Lorentzen. In Mexico City’s wealthiest neighbourhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help. As they try to make a living in this cutthroat industry, they struggle to keep their financial needs from compromising the people in their care.
MIKE WALLACE IS HERE Directed by Avi Belkin. For over half a century, 60 Minutes’ fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the world’s most influential figures. Relying exclusively on archival footage, the film interrogates the interrogator, tracking Mike’s storied career and troubled personal life while unpacking how broadcast journalism evolved to today’s precarious tipping point.
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In a small agricultural town in Florida Everglades, hopes for the future are concentrated on the youth. Four teens face heartbreak and celebrate in the rituals of an extraordinary senior year.
TIGERLAND Directed by Ross Kauffman. 50 years ago, a young forest officer in India rallied the world to save tigers from extinction. Today, the creed is carried on in Far East Russia by the guardians of the last Siberian tigers, who risk everything to save the species.
UNTITLED AMAZING JONATHAN DOCUMENTARY Directed by Ben Berman. What begins as a documentary following the final tour of a dying magician – “The Amazing Jonathan” – becomes an unexpected and increasingly bizarre journey as the filmmaker struggles to separate truth from illusion.
WHERE’S ROY COHN? Directed by Matt Tymauer. Roy Cohn personified the dark arts of American politics, turning empty vessels into dangerous demagogues – from Joseph McCarthy to his final project, Donald J. Trump. This thriller-like expose connects the dots, revealing how a deeply troubled master manipulator shaped our current American nightmare.
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MIDNIGHT GREENER GRASS Directed by Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe. Starring: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Beck Bennett.
THE DEATH OF DICK LONG Directed by Daniel Scheinert. Starring: Michael Abbott Jr., Virginia Newcomb, Andre Hyland.
A deliciously twisted comedy set in a demented, timeless suburbia where every adult wears braces on their straight teeth, couples coordinate meticulously pressed outfits, and coveted family members are swapped in more ways than one in this competition for acceptance.
Dick died last night, and Zeke and Earl don’t want anybody to find out how. That’s too bad though, cause news travels fast in small-town Alabama.
LITTLE MONSTERS
Cristina Ibarra. Starring: Maynor Alvarado, Manuel Uriza, Chelsea Rendon.
Directed by Abe Forsyth. Starring: Lapita Nyong’o, Alexander England, Josh Gad. A film dedicated to all the kindergarten teachers who motivate children to learn with confidence and stop them from being devoured by zombies.
MEMORY
Directed by Alexandre Philippe. Starring: Lovie Simone, Celeste O’Connor, Jharrel Jerome.
THE INFILTRATORS Directed by Alex Rivera &
A rag-tag group of undocumented youth – Dreamers – deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for -profit detention centre.
THE WOLF HOUR
Directed by Alistair Banks Griffin. Starring: Naomi Watts, Jennifer Ehle, Brennan Brown.
The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott’s “Alien” – rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O’Bannon and H.R. Giger.
Once a known counterculture figure, June E. Leigh now lives in self-imposed exile in her South Bronx apartment during the incendiary ’77 Summer of Sam. When an unseen tormentor begins exploring June’s weaknesses, her insular universe begins to unravel.
SISTER AIMEE
GIVE ME LIBERTY
Directed by Samantha Buck & Marie Schlingmann. Starring: Anna Margaret Hollyman, Michael Mosley, Andrea Suarez Paz.
Directed by Kirill Mikhanovsky. Starring: Lauren “Lolo” Spencer, Chris Galust, Maksim Stoyanov.
In 1926 America’s most famous evangelist is a woman. And she’s looking for a way out. Fed up with her success, she gets swept up in her lover’s daydreams about Mexico and finds herself on a wild road trip towards the border.
When a riot breaks out in Milwaukee, America’s most segregated city, medical transport driver Vic is torn between his promise to get a group of elderly Russians to a funeral and his desire to help Tracy, a young black woman with ALS.
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LIGHT FROM LIGHT Directed by Paul Harill. Starring: Marin Ireland, Jim Gaffigan, Josh Wiggins. Sheila, a single mom and sometime paranormal investigator, is enlisted to investigate a possible ‘haunting’ at a widower’s farmhouse in East Tennessee.
PARADISE HILLS Directed by Alice Waddington. Starring: Emma Roberts, Danielle Macdonald, Awkwafina. A young woman is sent to Paradise Hills to be reformed, only to learn that the high-class facility’s beautiful façade hides a sinister secret.
PREMATURE Directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green. Starring: Zora Howard, Joshua Boone, Michelle Wilson. The summer before she leaves for college, Ayanna meets handsome and mysterious outsider Isaiah; her entire world is turned upside down as she navigates the demanding terrain of young love against a changing Harlem landscape.
SELAHAND THE SPADES Directed by Tayarisha Poe. Starring: Jesse Williams, Lovie Simone. Five factions run the underground life of the prestigious Haldwell boarding school. At the head of the most powerful faction – The Spades sits Selah Summers. By turns charming and callous, she chooses whom to keep close and whom to cut loose, walking the fine line between being feared and loved.
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UNTITLED BRAZIL DOCUMENTARY Directed by Petra Costa. Featuring: Dilma Rousseff, Michel Temer, Eduardo Cunha. A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis – the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. With unprecedented access to Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Luis da Silva, we witness their rise and fall and the tragically polarized nation that remains.
GAZA Directed by Gary Keane & Andrew McConnell. Documentary. Gaza brings us into a unique place beyond the reach of television news reports to reveal a world rich with eloquent and resilient characters, offering us a cinematic and enriching portrait to lead meaningful lives against the rubble of perennial conflict.
HONEYLAND Directed by Lyubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevsky. Documentary. When nomadic beekeepers break Honeyland’s basic rule (take half of the honey, but leave half to the bees) the last female bee hunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance.
LAPU Directed by Juan Pablo
Polanco, Cesar Alejandro Jaimes. Starring: Doris Gonzalez Jusayu, Carmen Gonzalez Jusau. In the middle of the Guajira Desert, Doris, a young Wayuu woman, exhumes her cousin’s remains in order to meet her for the last time. Through a sensory journey this ritual leads her to confront death and blend the world of the dreams with the world of the living.
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THE MAGIC LIFE OF V
SEA OF SHADOWS
Directed by Tonislav Hristov. Documentary.
Directed by Richard Ladkani. Documentary.
Haunted by childhood traumas, Vera is trying to become more independent through live roleplaying. As she guides herself and her mentally-challenged brother through worlds of multiple roles and identities, witched and wizards, she finds the courage to face the demons of her own past and her abusive father’s legacy.
The vaquita, the world’s smallest whale, is near extinction as its habitat is destroyed by Mexican cartels and Chinese mafia, who harvest the sim bladder of the totoaba fish, the “cocaine of the sea”
MIDNIGHT TRAVELLER
STIEG LARSSON-THE MAN WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE
Directed by Hassan Fazili. Featuring: Hassan Fazili. Documentary.
Directed by Henrik Georgsson. Documentary.
When the Taliban puts a bounty of Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters. Capturing their uncertain journey, Fazili shows first-hand the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum and the love shared between a family on the run.
About the Millennium-trilogy author Stieg Larsson and his pioneering work of fighting right wing extremists and neo-Nazis, an obsession with fatal consequences.
WORLD CINEMA DRAMATIC COMPETITION *DIRTY GOD
*KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE
Directed by Sacha Polak. Starring: Vicky Knight, Katharine Kelly, Eliza Brady-Girard.
Directed by Rachel Lears. Starring: Alexandria OcasioCortez.
Jade is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid attack leaves her severely burned. While her face has been reconstructed, her beauty is lost beneath the scars. Descending a self-destructive path with relationships crumbling, Jade must take drastic action to reclaim her life.
A young bartender in the Bronx, a coal miner’s daughter in West Virginia, a grieving mother in Nevada and a registered nurse in Missouri, build a movement of insurgent candidates challenging powerful incumbents in Congress. One of their races will become the most shocking political upset in recent American history.
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PREMIERES AFTER THE WEDDING
THE SUNLIT NIGHT
Directed by David Wnendt. Directed by Bert Freundlich. Starring: Jenny Slate, Starring: Julianne Moore, Zach Galifianakis, Alex Sharp. Michelle Williams, Billy Crudup. Seeking funds for her orphanage in India, Isabelle travels to New York to meet Theresa, a wealthy benefactor. An invitation to attend a wedding ignites a series of events in which the past collides with the present while mysteries unravel.
ANIMALS
Between New York City and the far north of Norway, an American painter and a Russian émigré find each other in the Arctic circle. Together under the sun that never sets, they discover a future and family that they didn’t know they had.
THE TOMORROW MAN
Directed by Sophie Hyde. Starring: Holiday Grainger, Alia Shawcat.
Directed by Noble Jones. Starring: John Lithgow, Blythe Danner, Derek Cecil.
After a decade of partying, Laura and Tyler’s friendship is strained by Laura’s new love and her focus on her novel. A snapshot of a modern woman with competing desires, at once a celebration of female friendship and an examination of the choices we make when facing crossroads.
Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never happen come. Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. In a small town somewhere in America, these two people will try to find love while trying not to get lost in each other’s stuff.
BLINDED BY THE LIGHT
TOP END WEDDING
Directed by Gurinder Chadha. Starring: Viveil Kalra, Kalvinger Ghir, Meera Ganatra.
Directed by Wayne Blair. Starring: Miranda Tapsell, Gwilyn Lee, Kerry Fox.
In 1987 during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family and find his way.
Lauren and Ned are engaged, they are in love, and they have just ten days to find Lauren’s mother who has gone AWOL, somewhere in the remote far north of Australia, reunite her parents and pull off their dream wedding.
THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor. Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maxwell Sima, Lily Banda. Against all the odds, a thirteenyear-old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
THE REPORT Directed by Scott Z. Burns. Starring: Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm.
TROUPE ZERO Directed by Bert & Bertie. Starring: Viola Davis, McKenna Grace, Jim Gaffigan. In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a national competition offers her a chance at her dream, to be recorded on NASA’S Golden Record, she recruits a makeshift troupe of Birdie Scouts forging friendships that last a lifetime and beyond.
VELVET BUZZSAW The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s Directed by Dan Gilroy. seeping study into the CIA’s Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Detention and Interrogation Program, Rene Russo, Toni Collette, which was found to be brutal, Zawe Ashton. immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled A thriller set in the contemporary tirelessly to make public what many art world scene in Los Angeles, in power sought to keep hidden. where big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. www.moviesbymills.com
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