One for the Road Review: Old Friends Drink and Drive in Wong Kar Wai-Produced Thai Melodrama One for the Road Review: Old Friends Drink and Drive in Wong Kar Wai-Produced Thai Melodrama
A bartender and his dying best friend reunite in an emotionally manipulative road movie that spans two continents and several relationships.
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Director: Baz Poonpiriya
With: Tor Thanapob, Ice Natara, Violette Wautier, Aokbab Chutimon, Ploi Horwang, Noon Siraphun, Thaneth Warakulnukroh, Rhatha Phongam. (Thai, English dialogue)
Running time: Running time: 137 MIN.
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The overloaded Thai equivalent of one of those YA weepies where terminally ill teens scramble to fulfill their bucket lists before expiring at a young age, all-the-feels buddy movie “One for the Road” is determined to leave audiences both shaken and stirred. Your mileage may vary as director Baz Poonpiriya (“Bad Genius”) packs this concoction wit
Sundance s Black Stories Are More Accessible Than Ever
The selections at Sundance this year prove how diverse Black storytelling has become.
Each year, filmmakers, cinephiles, and the creme-de-la-creme of the entertainment industry make their way to Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival to be the first to watch some of the most buzzed-about films of the year.
People like Ava DuVernay, Ryan Coogler, and Radha Blank have had career-defining moments at Sundance. This year, just like every other major cultural event, the largest independent film festival in the United States will look very different. Instead of gathering in theaters, coffee shops, and parties, Sundance attendees will be convening around their screens from the comfort and safety of their homes.
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In January 1992, Valerie and Ron Taylor accomplished an incredible first when they filmed great white sharks without a safety cage or any other protection. Alongside two other divers, they swam among great white sharks off Dyer Island, South Africa.
Valerie Taylor, a living legend and icon in the diving world, is a lively, enthusiastic woman in her 80s who shares some of those memories in Playing With Sharks, a documentary about her life directed by Sally Aitken, which premiered at this year’s online Sundance Film Festival.
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It spans almost 70 years of Taylor’s career, showing her time as a shark hunter in the 1950s and early 1960s, and later as a world-renowned underwater photographer and explorer, and, above all, a passionate marine conservationist.
Neon Acquires Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s ‘Flee’ in 7-Figure Deal
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Neon made one of the first 2021 Sundance acquisitions on Friday with Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s “Flee,” executive produced by Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
The film, which sold for an undisclosed seven-figure amount after an overnight bidding war, was officially selected for Cannes 2020 and made its debut on opening night of Sundance in the World Documentary Competition to rave reviews.
“Flee” tells the story of Amin Nawabi (a pseudonym) as he deals with a painful secret that he has kept for 20 years a secret that threatens his life and the life of his soon-to-be husband. Recounted mostly through animation to Rasmussen, Nawabi tells the story of his journey as a child refugee fr
Censor is a horror film keenly aware of its genre.
It s the debut feature of director Prano Bailey-Bond, who also co-wrote the film with Anthony Fletcher. In many ways, the film creates its own tradition of horror. Even as it loves trashy horror flicks of decades-old,
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It stars a superb Niamh Algar as Enid, a censor tasked with watching more horror films than many would watch in a lifetime just in an average month at work. Enid is committed to this big task and takes the job seriously. She considers herself a protector of society s moral fabric. After all, she believes she s the only thing standing between the fragile minds of the world and the corrupt forces of graphic violence beaming into homes from the VHS era of horror.