It’s Sunday, time to check out this week’s film highlights on World Cinema!
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The Guardian’s Ruby Lott-Lavigna points out that cinematic portrayals of lesbians need to be more real:
The predatory-conversion trope is simply offensive to lesbian women; at its least-worst, is just a realisation of how difficult it can be to navigate queer identity in a still-homophobic society. The recurrence of the cliche is one that will hopefully disappear as being public about your queer identity becomes easier, and we begin to recognise that lesbian women can have boring, conventional love stories just like anyone else.
Indiewire’s Anne Thompson explains why Scott Foundas is leaving film criticism for Amazon:
Foundas, who studied film production at USC, has always championed a range of filmmakers, from emerging artists vying for the “Someone to Watch” award at the Indie Spirits, to studio directors James Cameron, George Miller, Ridley Scott, and Michael Haneke. “You let your taste guide you to certain preceptors, that tells you what your brand is, as opposed to looking for ‘X,'” said Foundas. “What do Terry Gilliam, Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee have in common except that they are great filmmakers? I wouldn’t put it in a box or stick a label on it.”
The Telegraph’s Rebecca Hawkes reasons on why the world needs more Human Centipedes:
Extreme horror has always been at the margins of cinema, championed by a few select fans. But it’s the risky, low-budget films – from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, to Last House on the Left and Saw– that really shake things up, getting under the skin of society and provoking the most intense, revealing reactions. Glossy Hollywood fare just can’t cut it: the last thing anyone wants is a vanilla horror film. The Human Centipede films are deliberately shocking, and unashamedly, viscerally disgusting – and they’re exactly what cinema needs.
Collider’s Matt Goldberg interviews ‘Goosebumps’ helmer about balancing humor and scares:
You use the humor to balance it. Those movies were very grounded and even though the visuals weren’t necessarily scary per se, it’s because the characters are so real and the world is so real that you’re invested in it, at least in my memory of it, and that’s why they had tension which is so great and the underlying material, Goosebumps, when you read those books they have legitimate scary moments. They’re awesome and there’s a lot of levity to deflate those moments and release some tension before the next buildup so I’ve been kind of doing that.
Cineuropa’s Fabien Lemercier reports on the approaches for greater diversity of cinema in Europe:
If it is clear that electronic distribution will, in the future, divert a proportion of viewers away from theatres, the impact and consequences of this are far less clear. It could make distributors happy, both because releasing films direct to VOD gives them a way of adding value to films that only have a small presence in theatres, and because revenues lost by distributing these films in theatres can be made back by releasing it on VOD. As for theatres, a priori, it is these that are most threatened by these new modes of distribution, and it is important that the film economy does not endanger their business.
A few more to call it a week:
- 40 Key movies in contention for the 2016 Awards Season
- Venice slates Euro-centric Critics’ Week lineup
- 5 Problems behind the shoot of ‘The Revenant’
- ‘Pixels’ cast reveals highs and lows on working with the film
- Cinema Rehiyon features classic Cebu films
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