#Why the 10-Year Odyssey of Making Hand-Painted Feature ‘Loving Vincent’ Was “Nothing” Compared to the Directors’ Follow-Up ‘The Peasants’

#Why the 10-Year Odyssey of Making Hand-Painted Feature ‘Loving Vincent’ Was “Nothing” Compared to the Directors’ Follow-Up ‘The Peasants’

Loving Vincent, the experimental animated feature about the life of Vincent van Gogh which landed an Oscar nomination in 2018, was a dazzling creative achievement that pushed new cinematic boundaries.  It was also intensely laborious to produce.  Shot with a live-action cast against a green screen, onto which Van Gogh’s paintings were later added, the…

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#‘The King Tide’ Review: Frances Fisher in an Unsettling Tale of Supernatural Powers and Poisonous Groupthink

#‘The King Tide’ Review: Frances Fisher in an Unsettling Tale of Supernatural Powers and Poisonous Groupthink

The first time Frances Fisher’s character appears in The King Tide, she’s stooped, uncommunicative, crushed by life and perhaps by a stroke. When the main action picks up, 10 years later, she’s a glowing picture of New Agey vim and vigor, and the island where she lives has been transformed. Nobody fears illness anymore because…

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#TIFF According To: Black Bear’s Michael Heimler

#TIFF According To: Black Bear’s Michael Heimler

Black Bear partner Michael Heimler, the indie outfit’s head of production and operations, has a busy fall festival circuit, having executive-produced Netflix awards play Nyad, Sony’s Dumb Money, and sales title Sing Sing. Ahead of those premieres, Heimler shared with THR what he seeks out (sports bars for the Jets season opener) and what he…

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#‘The Teacher’ Review: A Debut Feature’s Eye-Opening Dramatization of Life in Occupied Palestine

#‘The Teacher’ Review: A Debut Feature’s Eye-Opening Dramatization of Life in Occupied Palestine

At the core of The Teacher, an intimate exploration of life in occupied Palestine, is a question posed by a bereaved teenager to the title character, who has suffered his own family-shattering losses. “After all you’ve been through,” the boy named Adam says, “you still believe there’ll be justice?” Writer-director Farah Nabulsi, at the helm…

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