Screen Grabs: A fantastical hybrid from Ivory Coast in 'Night of the Kings,' more
While the increased demand for streaming content hasn’t greatly diversified the mainstream—Amazon Prime Video just announced a severe curtailing in its documentary acquisitions, a major calamity for nonfiction filmmakers—it has seemed to improve the range of choices on the commercial margins. More competitors for the Best International Feature Oscar seem to get actual US distribution now, including the Ivory Coast candidate Night of the Kings, below. And a particular gem, the British Days of the Bagnold Summer, is one of the happier instances of an older movie (it premiered in 2019)...
Source: 48hills.org