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Editorial Judy Legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.
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Joker A gritty character study of Arthur Fleck, a man disregarded by society.
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Ad Astra Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.
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The Goldfinch A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy Upper East Side family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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FilmFest Follower London A look at the films in the BFI London Film Festival.
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DVD of the Month What Is Cinema?
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DVD of the Month Columbus
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Poster – Joker
PHOTO CREDITS: Warner Bros: 1,8,10,11,32 Entertainment One: 4,6,7 20th Century Fox: 12,14,15 Amazon Studios: 16,18,19
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: We would like to thank the following publicists: Kate Riddell @ Warner Bros. Lucy Fleet @ Entertainment One Julia Nowicka, Charlotte Presland, Will Taylor @ Organic Publicity Charlotte Peters, Eva Ragout, Jane Gibbs @ Fox
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EDITIORAL Hello film lovers! Welcome to the th 78 issue of Movies by Mills. Our cover feature review is the Judy Garland biopic JUDY -with Renée Zellweger playing the famous singer, a performance that has won the actress standing ovations at its screenings as well as the overall critical consensus that she will be nominated for an Oscar. Other reviews include the controversial JOKER – starring Joaquin Phoenix in the titular role. The film has been critically acclaimed, winning Phoenix the Best Actor Award at the revered Venice Film Festival, while also being accused of inciting violence, which the filmmakers, Warner Bros have denied. Plus, there is a review of THE GOLDFINCH – starring Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman, Oakes Fegley. This month’s FilmFest Follower gives a teasing look at some of the films that are scheduled to be screened at this year’s London Film Festival – and November’s issue of MbM will be a SPECIAL EDITION devoted entirely to the festival: reviewing 16 films in the festival plus a Talk by Robert De Niro who will be attending to promote Martin Scorcese’s The Irishman – which closes the festival. And... there is more… A peak into the Movies by Mills DVD Collection.
Enjoy the read
Brian Mills
Magazine Editor
Paul Ridler
Magazine Designer
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JUDY Directed by Rupert Gould Starring: Renée Zwellweger, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock You’re saying I have to leave my children, if I want to make enough money for me to be with my children. - Judy
There are very few films that deserve the hype of media publicity that they are given, but Judy is one of them. It is the biopic of legendary singer Judy Garland when she arrived in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts at the Talk of the Town. It is based on the play by Peter Quilter as it depicts Judy when she was drinking and pill-popping, impetuously getting married to Mickey Dean and hanging out with a gay couple who are devoted fans. Zwellweger is a revelation and is odds-on favourite for an Academy Award come Hollywood’s biggest ‘glitz and glamour night’. The film looks to Judy when she was 16 who was told by the Head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: Louis B Mayer: You are my favourite. She was cast in the now classic movie: The Wizard of Oz which turned a young Judy Garland into the world-wide star she became in films like For Me and My Gal, Meet Me in St Louis, Easter Parade, In the Good Old Summertime, If You Feel Like Singing, A Star is Born. Some of these films are touched upon in Judy. What gives this film the ‘must-see’ stamp of approval is Zwellweger’s brilliance both in the dramatic sequences which reveal the painful suffering and masochistic tendencies that almost destroy her and her ability to walk or stagger out on stage to face the boos or standing ovations. Her ups and downs 4
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betray what lies behind the star and Renée captures it all. The greatest credit you can give an actress is when they have totally transformed themselves into the character they are playing. This is what you get when Renée Zwellweger is on screen – she has become Judy Garland and like her, you the audience will love her and laugh and cry with her and I can only add that I wanted her, like her fans and to quote the title of her last film I Could Go On Singing the praises of Judy Garland and Renée Zwellweger and this magnificent film.
HERE IS A FILM THAT YOU CAN TOTALLY BELIEVE THE HYPE THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS YOU WILL SEE THIS YEAR! DON’T MISS IT!
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Mickey Dean (Finn Wittrock) & Judy (Renée Zwellweger) in Judy
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Judy (Renée Zwellweger) in Judy
Judy (Renée Zwellweger & Mickey Dean (Finn Wittrock) in Judy
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JOKER Directed by Todd Phillips Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy My mother always tells me to smile and put on a happy face - Arthur Fleck
This film comes with a lot of controversy attached to it as well as plaudits to. Some critics praise it while others say it encourages violence, which the filmmakers Warner Brothers deny. Let us look at the pros and cons of the film: Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor for the film and totally recreated the character which was played earlier by Heath Ledger(The Dark Knight). What this film does is to make the role much deeper as one who has serious psychological problems. Raised by his mother who he now nurses, while he is regularly being monitored and has to keep a journal of his activities and report back to the medical centre. Arthur makes notes every day along with numerous jokes as well. Fleck is a clown by day, sometimes going to schools to entertain the children. At night he works as a stand-up comedian, who unfortunately is becoming less and less funny. The problems he has are deeply disturbing and are worsening day-day. He is not only a danger to himself but a danger to others as well. He tries to live by his mother’s maxim to make people smile and wearing a clown’s mask of a white face and a painted smile he walks the streets carrying a huge placard baring his ‘smile’ motto only to be set upon by youths who smash the boards he is carrying and beat him up. He chases them but to no avail Arthur does not give up. He travels on the subway in clown’s get-up and laughs crazily as anything, whether good or bad. Then comes the pay-off that reveals the darker side of his character, when a few men on the train set upon him by knocking him to the floor. He reacts by pulling a gun on them and shooting them, he has always
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stated that the reason he carries one, is because he uses it as a prop in his stage act. This is one of the many incongruities in the storyline and the film begins to show the ultra-violence that begins to bury the film in a sea of blood. Though the police chase him for his endless violent crimes as the villain he has now become, the populace of Gotham City stage rallies in his support treating him as their hero. The police have now become the villains. Yes, Joaquin Phoenix gives an extraordinary performance, but it is not enough to save the movie. One can only ask: Who is smiling now?
JOKER IS NOW ON RELEASE AT YOUR NEAREST CINEMA SEE IT FOR YOURSELF SMILE OR FROWN OH YES, THE SOUNDRACK IS GOOD
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Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) in Joker.
Murray Franklin (Robert De Niro) & Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) in Joker. 10
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Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) in Joker.
Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) in Joker.
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AD ASTRA Directed by James Marsh Starring: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Nagga, Donald Sutherland I do what I do because of my Dad. He gave his life for the pursuit of knowledge because up there is where our story is going to be told - Roy McBride In the near future, the Solar System is being struck by mysterious power surges of unknown origin, threatening the future of human life. After surviving an incident on an immense space antenna caused by one of these surges, Major Roy McBride (Brad Pitt), son of famed pioneering astronaut H. Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones) is informed by US. Space Command (SpaceCom), the United States Armed Forces branch operating in Space, that the source of the surges has been traced to the “Lima Project” base. The Lima Project had been sent some twenty-six years prior to search for intelligent life from the farthest regions of the Solar System under Clifford McBride’s leadership, and disappeared sixteen year’s prior in orbit around Neptune. A SpaceCom officer informs Roy that they believe Clifford may still be alive, and he is tasked with the mission of travelling to Mars to try and establish communication with him. MacBride accepts the mission and is joined by an old associate of his father, Colonel Pruitt (Donald Sutherland). After taking a commercial flight to the Moon, McBride and Colonel Pruitt are escorted by US military personnel to the SpaceCom lunar base, taking them across no-man’s land. En route to the base via lunar rovers, they ambushed by scavenging pirates, who kill most of the group except for McBride and Pruitt. After reaching the base, a dying Pruitt is placed into intensive care. McBride transfers to a SpaceCom flight, crewed by four SpaceCom officers, whom make up of Captain Lawrence Tanner (Donnie Keshawarz), Donald Stanford (Loren Dean), Franklin Yoshida (Bobby Nish), and Lorraine Deavers (Kimberley Elise). The crew aboard then flies to Mars. During the journey to Mars, the ship receives a distress signal from a Norwegian bio medical research space station. Boarding the space station, McBride and the ship’s captain find it abandoned, only to be attacked by an aggressive baboon escaped from the Norwegian station. The ape kills Captain Tanner before being neutralized by McBride. Another baboon attacks McBride but he can escape the station with the captain’s body. 12
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While making a routine landing on Mars, another power surge hits the ship, forcing manual intervention. The interim captain finds himself too scared to fly, leaving McBride to take the controls and land the ship safely. By now if you are still awake and haven’t be bored to tears by the incredibility of a ludicrous plot with its actionless sequences that are leading nowhere. Pitt is in nearly every scene and never really solves his father-son relationship; the only chance he had of revealing emotion. It doesn’t help one iota that James Marsh, the helmer of this vacuous storyline, seems to suggest that he wanted to update 2001 – A Space Odyssey and was reported as saying that – It is sort of like ‘If you got Apocalypse Now and 2001 – Space Odyssey in a giant mash-up and you put a little Joseph Conrad in there. And if this film doesn’t help Marsh’s career, it doesn’t do much for Brad Pitt either. Shame that, after doing so well under Tarantino’s direction in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
For those who still can’t believe that Ad Astra can be this bad and want to check it out for themselves read the following:
AD ASTRA IS(At Publication) CURRENTLY STILL ON THEATRICAL RELEASE IN THE UK
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Major Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) in Ad Astra
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Major Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) in Ad Astra
Colonel Pruitt (Donald Sutherland), Major Roy McBride (Brad Pitt), Willie Levant (Sean Blackmore) in Ad Astra
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THE GOLDFINCH Directed By John Crowley Starring: Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman, Oakes Fegley The sooner we get back to a normal routine the better. Mrs Barbour Theo, a boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy Upper East Side family after his mother is killed in a terrorist bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Theo’s life is turned upside-down. Confused in the rubble of the tragedy, he steals a priceless piece of art known as The Goldfinch. The boy has already known loss prior to this horrific incident as he has already been abandoned by his alcoholic father. The film is an adaptation of Donna Tartt’s bulky novel and screenwriter Peter Straughan has done an admirable job in cramming an awful lot of story into the film’s length of 149 minutes. He does this by mainly overlooking some characters as mere passing references and manages to get away with it. The Barbour segment of the film introduces the people who will become the touchstones of Theo’s life. The young boy makes his way to Hobart & Blackwell antique and restoration shop, ringing the delivery bell. Hobie (Jeffrey Wright) answers, looking perplexed until Theo holds out the gold and carnelian signet ring he acknowledged as the family heirloom that his mother assumed it to be. But in fact, it belonged to Welty Blackwell (Robert Joy), the uncle of the young girl, Pippa (Aimee Lawrence), who so captivated Theo he didn’t follow his mother that fateful day. As it turns out, Pippa is recovering there, her memory and musical ambitions shattered, and Hobie allows Theo to visit, eventually mentoring the boy in his trade (Blackwell was the front of the house sales and business partner, Hobie the restoration expert). A visitor to the Barbour’s turns out to be Theo’s father Larry Decker (Luke Wilson) and his girlfriend Xandra (Sarah Paulson), wishing to collect him and return to Las Vegas. And so, Theo leaves the refinement of his Manhattan environs for a sunbaked housing development full of empty foreclosures and the poor dog Xandra saw fit to leave alone for
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days. Larry appears not to be the bad guy that Theo had remembered him to be. The Goldfinch is not easy viewing as is often the case when the film is a screen adaptation of a book: what to leave out and what to leave in. At times, one gets bogged down with so many characters, that become superficial to requirements that it beckons us to leave the film and head for the nearest exit. What are we to reflect on? The narrative all comes down to the extraordinary scene that is the explosion. But once the smoke disperses one can see that the chaotic happenings there are unanswered questions: No one stops Theo and challenges him to taking the painting. Why? There are enough cops around to do that.
Another problem is that the certain points in the storyline are rushed as if not to tackle them is an easy way of ignoring key points in the story and revert to flashbacks to explain them which is never suffice. There are a few saving graces: Oakes Fegley who plays Theo as the 13-year-old, the child of a broken home who finds himself staring at Carel Fabritius’s 1654 painting The Goldfinch, a bird chained to a post, a poignant and symbolic image of beauty and imprisonment. And of course, the other major plus to the film were the visuals which were shot by the award-winning Roger Deakins. What was it like knowing you were going to be filmed by one of the most revered cinematographers in the business? Oscar winner for “Blade Runner 2049” and nominated Here is Sarah Pulson, who plays the part of Xandra in the film; her take on working with Roger Deakins.: that:
“When I heard Roger Deakins. I just thought...Wow! That for me, that it is going to look incredible. It was just like a bucket-list thing. Like if I could ever work with someone like that. So, that was a pretty big thing.” And if you want a good reason to see this film it would be to see the artistry of Roger Deakins, so let the last word come from him:
“I like character films. I like photographing a human face. I find that more interesting than anything else, and that’s what I continue to do.”
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Theo (Ansel Elgort) & Pippa (Aimee Lawrence) in The Goldfinch
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Mrs Barbour (Nicole Kidman) & Theo Decker (Ansel Elgort) in The Goldfinch
Mrs Barbour (Nicole Kidman) & Theo Decker (Oakes Fegley) in The Goldfinch
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FILMFEST FOLLOWER BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2019 2nd - 13th OCTOBER OPENING NIGHT GALA THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD Directed By Ammando Iannuci Starring: Dev Patel, Ben Whishaw, Hugh Laurie, Nikki Amuka-Bird
CLOSING NIGHT GALA THE IRISHMAN Directed By Martin Scorcese Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel
AMERICAN EXPRESS GALA KNIVES OUT Directed By Rian Johnson Starring: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana De Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis
THE MAYOR OF LONDON’S GALA THE AERONAUTS Directed By Tom Harper Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Himesh Patel, Anne Reid
BFI PATRONS’ GALA A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD Directed By Marielle Heller Starring: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Chris Cooper Susan Kelechi Watson
HEADLINE GALA GREED Directed By Michael Winterbottom Starring: Isla Fisher, Steve Coogan, David Mitchell, Asa Butterfield
HEADLINE GALA HOPE GAP Directed By William Nicholson Starring: Annette Bening, Bill Nighy, Josh O’Connor. 20
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HEADLINE GALA JOJO RABBIT Directed By Taika Waititi Starring: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin Mckenzie, Taika Waititi, Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson
AMERICAN AIRLINES GALA THE KING Directed By David Michôd Starring: Joel Edgerton, Robert Pattinson, Timothée Chalamet
HEADLINE GALA LE MANS ‘66 Directed By James Mangold Starring: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Caitriona Balfe
THE MAYFAIR HOTEL GALA MARRIAGE STORY Directed By Noah Baumbach Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver, Laura Dern, Alan Alda
FESTIVAL GALA EMA Directed By Pablo Pablo Larraín Starring: Mariana Di Girolamo, Gael García Bernal, Pacia Giannini
FAMILY GALA ABOMINABLE Directed By Jill Culton, Todd Wilderman Starring: Chloe Bennett, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Albert Tsai
THRILL GALA BACURAU Directed By Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho Starring: Barbara Cohen, Sonia Braga, Udo Kier, Thomas Aquino
LAUGH GALA THE DUDE IN ME Directed By Hyo-Jin Kang Starring: Jinyoung Jung, Sung-woong Park, Min-Ran Ra, Soo-min Lee
DARE GALA JUDY & PUNCH Directed By Mirrah Foulkes Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Damon Herriman, Tom Budge, Benedict Hardie
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CULT GALA THE LIGHTHOUSE Directed By Robert Eggers Starring: Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson, Valeriia Karaman
DEBATE GALA OFFICIAL SECRETS Directed By Gavin Hood Starring: Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Matthew Goods
LOVE GALA THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON Directed By Michael Schwartz, Tyler Nilson Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Zack Gottsagen
JOURNEY GALA THE TWO POPES Directed By Fernando Meirelles Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce, Juan Minujin
CREATE GALA WESTERN STARS Directed By Bruce Springsteen, Thom Zimmy Starring: Bruce Springsteen
SPECIAL PRESENTATION BAD EDUCATION Directed By Cory Finlay Starring: Hugh Jackman, Allison Janney, Ray Romano
SPECIAL PRESENTATION BLACKBIRD Directed By Roger Michell Starring: Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Mia Wasikowska, Sam Neill
SPECIAL PRESENTATION BOMBAY ROSE Animation Directed By Gitanjali Rao Starring: Cyli Khare, Amit Deondi, Gargi Shitole
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DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL PRESENTATION THE CAVE Directed By Feras Fayyad
SPECIAL PRESENTATION FIRST LOVE Directed By Takashi Miike Starring: Masataka Kubota, Nao Ohmori, Shôta Sometani
SPECIAL PRESENTATION Gösta Directed By Lukas Moodysson Starring: Vilhelm Blomgren, Mattias Silvell, Amy Deasismont
EXPERIMENTA SPECIAL PRESENTATION KRABI, 2562 Directed By Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong Starring: Siraphun Wattanajinda, Arak Amornsupasiri, Primrin Puarat
ARCHIVE SPECIAL PRESENTATION LOVE, LIFE AND LAUGHTER (1923) Directed By George Pearson Starring: Betty Balfour, Harry Jonas, Frank Stanmore
SPECIAL PRESENTATION OUR LADIES Directed By Michael Caton-Jones Starring: Eve Austin, Tallulah Greive, Abigail Laurie
BFI SPECIAL PRESENTATION PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Directed By Céline Sciamma Starring: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Valeria Golino, Luàna Bajrami
SPECIAL PRESENTATION ROCKS Directed By Sarah Gavron Starring: Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali, D’angelou Osei Kissiedu
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OFFICIAL COMPETITION FANNY LYE DELIVER’D Directed By Thomas Clay Starring: Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox
HONEY BOY Directed By Alama Har’el Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe
LINGUA FRANCA Directed By Isabel Sandoval Starring: Eamon Farren, Lynn Cohen, Shiloh Verrico
LA LLORONA Directed By Jayro Bustamante Starring: Maria Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz
MOFFIE Directed By Oliver Hermanus Starring: Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers
MONOS Directed By Alejandro Landes Starring: Julianne Nicholson, Moises Arias, Sofia Buenaventura
THE OTHER LAMB Directed By Maigorzata Szumowaska Starring: Raffey Cassidy, Michael Huisman, Denise Gough
THE PERFECT CANDIDATE Directed By Haifaa Al-Mansour Starring: Mila Al Zahrani, Sharfi Alharthy
ROSE PLAYS JULIE Directed By Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy Starring: Ann Skelly, Orla Brady
SAINT MAUD Directed By Rose Glass Starring: Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehla
FIRST FEATURE COMPETITION ATLANTICS Directed By Mati Diop Starring: Mama Bineta Sane, Amandou Mbow
BABYTEETH Directed By Shannon Murphy Starring: Eliza Scanlen, Essie Davis, Ben Mendelsohn
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HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD Directed By Bora Kim Starring: Ji-Hu-Park, Sae-byeok-Kim, Seung-Yun Lee
INSTINCT Directed By Halina Reijn Starring: Carice Van Houten, Marwan Kenzari
THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO Directed By Joe Talbot Starring: Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan
MAKE UP Directed By Claire Oakley Starring: Molly Windsor, Joseph Quinn, Stefanie Martini
RELATIVITY Directed By Mariko Minoguchi Starring: Saskia Rosendahl, Edin Hasanovic, Julius Feldmeier
SCALES Directed By Shahad Ameen Starring: Ashraf Barhoum, Basima Hajjar, Yagoub Alfarhan
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÔLD Directed By Mads Brügger Featuring: Göran Björkdahl, Mads Brügger
COUP 53 Directed By Taghi Amirani Featuring: Walter Murch, Taghi Amirani
CUNNINGHAM Directed By Alla Kovgan Featuring: Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg
I AM(NOT) A MONSTER Directed By Nelly Ben Hayoun Featuring: Noam Chomsky, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Magid Magid
THE KINGMAKER Directed By Lauren Greenfield Featuring: Imelda Marcus
MYSTIFY: MICHAEL HUTCHENCE Directed By Richard Lowenstein Featuring: Michael Hutchence, Kylie Minogue, Helena Christensen
OVERSEAS Directed By Sung-a Yoon Featuring: Filipino Women
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A PLEASURE, COMRADES! Directed By José Filipa Costa Featuring: Eduarda Rosa, João Azevedo, Mick Greer
WHITE RIOT Directed By Rubika Shah Featuring: X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse, The Clash
LOVE LA BELLE ÉPOQUE Directed By Nicolas Bedos Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Doria Tillier
AND THEN WE DANCED Directed By Levan Akin Starring: Levan Gelbakhiani, Bachi Valishvili, Ana Javakishvili
DEATH WILL COME AND SHALL HAVE YOUR EYES Directed By José Luis Torres Leiva Starring: Amparo Noguera, Julieta Figueroa
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MY MOTHER Directed By Beniamino Barrese Starring: Benedetta Barzini
END OF THE CENTURY Directed By Lucio Castro Starring: Juan Barberini, Ramon Pujol, Mia Maestro
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Directed By Cédric Kahn Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Bercot, Vincent Macaigne
HEART Directed By Ga-Young Jeong Starring:Ga-Young Jeong, Seok-Hyeong Lee, Tae-Hwan Choi
LARA Directed By Jan Ole Gerster Starring: Tom Schilling, Corrina Harfouch, Volkmar Kleinert
LOST LIVES Directed By Dermot Lavery & Michael Hewitt Starring: Brid Brennan, Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea
MATERNAL Directed By Maura Deipero Starring: Lidiya Liberman, Denise Carrizo, Augustina Malale
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NOCTURNAL Directed By Nathalie Biancheri Starring: Cosmo Jarvis, Lauren Coe, Sadie Frost
ON A MAGICAL NIGHT Directed By Christophe Honoré Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Vincent Lacoste, Camille Cottin
ORDINARY LOVE Directed By Lisa Barros D’Sa & Glenn Leyburn Starring: Liam Neeson, Lesley Manville, David Wilmot
PINK WALL Directed By Tom Cullen Starring: Jay Duplass, Tatiana Maslany
PREMATURE Directed By Rashaad Ernesto Green Starring: Zora Howard, Joshua Boone
REAL Directed By Aki Omoshaybi Starring: Aki Omoshaybi, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Karen Bryson
THE SKY IS PINK Directed By Shonali Bose Starring: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Farhan Akhtar, Zaira Wasim
SO LONG, MY SON Directed By Xiaoshuai Wang Starring: Jingchun Wang, Mei Yong, Liya Ai
TRIGONOMETRY Directed By Athina Rachel Tsangari Starring: Ariane Labed, Thalissa Teixeira, Gary Carr
TWO OF US Directed By Filippo Meneghetti Starring: Barbara Sukowa, Léa Drucker, Martine Chevallier
WALKING WITH SHADOWS Directed By Aoife O’Kelly Starring: Ozzy Agu, Zainab Balogun, Funlola Aofiyebi-Raimi
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DEBATE THE AUSTRALIAN DREAM Directed By Daniel Gordon Documentary
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BY THE GRACE OF GOD Directed By François Ozon Starring: Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud
CITIZEN K Directed By Alex Gibney Documentary
CLEMENCY Directed By Chinonye Chukwu Starring: Alfre Woodard, Aldis Hodge, Richard Schiff, Wendell Pierce
COUNTY LINES Directed By Henry Blake Starring: Conrad Kahn, Ashley Madekwe, Harris Dickinson
DESRANCES Directed By Apolline Traoré Starring: Jimmy Jean-Louis, Naomi Jemima Nemlin, Evelyne Lly
THE GIRL WITH A BRACELET Directed By Stéphane Demoustier Starring: Melissa Guers, Chiara Mastroianni, Anaïs Demoustier
A HIDDEN LIFE Directed By Terrence Malick Starring: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Matthias Schoenaerts
HOPE FROZEN Directed By Pailin Wedel Documentary
LUCE Directed By Julius Onah Starring: Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Kelvin Harrison Jr
LYNN + LUCY Directed By Fyzal Boulifa Starring: Roxanne Scrimshaw, Nichola Burley, Kacey Ainsworth
MADE IN BANGLADESH Directed By Rubaiyat Hossain Starring: Rikita Nandini Shimu, Novera Rahman, Parvin Paru
MARTIN EDEN Directed By Pietro Marcello Starring: Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Vincenzo Nemolato
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MR. JONES Directed By Agnieszka Holland Starring: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard
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REWIND Directed By Sasha Joseph Neulinger Documentary
SEBERG Directed By Benedict Andrews Starring: Kristen Stewart, Jack O’Connell, Anthony Mackie
A SON Directed By Mehdi Barsaoui Starring: Sami Bouajila, Najla Ben Abdallah
STAFF ONLY Directed By Neus Ballús Starring: Elena Andrada, Sergi López, Diomaye Augustin Ngom
THE STREET Directed By Zed Nelson Documentary
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THE VALLEY Directed By Nuno Escudeiro Documentary
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DVD Of The Month
What Is Cinema? Directed by Chuck Workman Chuck Workman is best known for creating unforgettable Oscar montage sequences and for his award-winning documentaries. In What is Cinema? he demonstrates his command of cinematic language creating a visual essay out of clips from films that pushed the boundaries of the art form and gave us ideas of what the future might hold. He weaves in new interviews with eclectic filmmakers from David Lynch to James Mekas to Michael Moore and draws upon archival interviews with the likes of Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Altman, Robert Bresson, Akira Kurosawa and Chantal Akerman.
Special Features *10 Experimental Shorts from Directors *Man Ray *Jonas Mekas *Ken Jakob and more
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Columbus Directed By Koronada Starring: John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker Posey, Rory Culkin When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin (John Cho) finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana, a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey (Haley Lu Richardson), a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library. As their intimacy develops, Jin and Casey explore both the town and their conflicted emotions. Jin’s estranged relationship with his father, and Casey’s reluctance to leave Columbus and leave her mother. With its naturalistic rhythms and empathy for the complexities of families, debut director Koronada’s COLUMBUS unfolds as a gently drifting, deeply absorbing conversation. With strong supporting turns from Parker Posey, Rory Culkin, and Michelle Forbes, COLUMBUS is also a showcase for its director’s striking eye for the way physical space can affect emotions.
Special Features *Commentary By Jon Cho And Haley Lu Richardson *Columbus Story *A Short Film By Koronada *Deleted Scenes *Theatrical Trailer www.moviesbymills.com
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