San Sebastián’s José Luis Rebordinos on His Final Year at the Helm
Is José Luis Rebordinos proud of what he’s achieved over the last 17 years at the San Sebastián International Film Festival? “No,” replies the Spaniard, a twinkle in his eye. He’s made time in his impossibly busy schedule — Penélope Cruz will be on the red carpet beside us in just a matter of hours — for […]
Resident Evil Box Office: Zach Cregger’s Reboot Opening Big With $55M
Resident Evil has hit the ground running in its box office opening as the reboot reaches unprecedented heights for the franchise. Writer-director Zach Cregger‘s horror-survival video game adaptation grossed $26.3 million on Friday, including $8.8 million in Thursday previews. Sony Pictures now expects a launch in the $53 million to $55 million range for its […]
‘Murderous’ Review: Neil LaBute’s Stale and Stagy New Film
Best-selling novels like Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot and stage thrillers like Ira Levin’s Deathtrap, among many other works, have demonstrated that stealing another writer’s work can have fateful if not deadly consequences. Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men, Nurse Betty) delivers another variation on the familiar theme with his latest effort, receiving its […]
Next Big Thing Interview: Rachel Marsh on The Love Hypothesis, Adults
“I love anytime women are funny,” actress Rachel Marsh declares. Thankfully, the 34-year-old has been able to be in plenty of projects that showcase this, most recently Prime Video’s romantic comedy The Love Hypothesis. Marsh plays Anh, a graduate student and best friend to Lili Reinhart‘s Olive in the streamer’s adaptation of the wildly popular […]
Werner Herzog Picks Up San Sebastian Award at Political Opener
German director, screenwriter and producer Werner Herzog touched on the Pyrenees and poetry as he picked up San Sebastian Film Festival‘s most prestigious honor Friday night in what was a politically charged opening ceremony. Herzog was recognized with the coveted Donostia Award at the Kursaal Theatre in northern Spain, with a raucous standing ovation from […]
‘Moonfish’ Review: Morgan Spector & Lucy Liu Voice Animated Sci-Fi
A study in sadness, loneliness and the quixotic struggle to survive extremes, grayscale animated feature Moonfish offers an eerie, resonant microdrama set five hundred years or so from now. Brooklyn-based artist Daniel Zvereff’s feature debut after some lovely shorts (including Drago and Life Is a Particle Time Is a Wave) offers a deeply dystopian vision […]
NAZA Israel Gaza War Documentary Sets U.S. Theatrical Release
NAZA, the Israel–Gaza war documentary that is sparking a political storm in Israel after winning the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, is getting a theatrical release in the U.S. The film, by Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, part of the directorial team behind the 2024 Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, […]
Once Upon a Time in Harlem Library of Congress Ken Burns Film Prize
Harlem Renaissance documentary Once Upon a Time in Harlem has been selected as the winner of the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film. The film documents a 1972 cocktail party inside Duke Ellington’s townhouse shot by William Greaves, who invited every surviving creator of the Harlem Renaissance that he could locate and filmed […]
‘The Betrayers’ Director on Navigating Political Treachery in Crimea Thriller
The Betrayers is a tense, two-handed thriller set in present-day Crimea that plunges two Soviet-era Jews — a disgraced Israeli politician and a disgraced 1980s KGB informer — into an interconnected matrix of personal and political betrayal. The deception and double-crossing goes deep in the third feature from director David Bezmozgis set for a world […]
How Fatih Akin Breathed Life Into San Sebastian Opener ‘Ghost Song’
Fatih Akin is no stranger to the festival circuit, having wowed Berlin with his Golden Bear-winning Head-On in 2004 and nabbing best screenplay in Cannes for The Edge of Heaven in 2007. The German-Turkish filmmaker, also a Golden Globe winner for 2017’s In the Fade, has sent a couple of movies to San Sebastian over […]