Foreign Films, English Titles and the Dilemma Distributors Face
Leave as is? Translate? Change altogether? A movie’s success doesn’t depend entirely on what we call it, but it can have a big effect.
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Leave as is? Translate? Change altogether? A movie’s success doesn’t depend entirely on what we call it, but it can have a big effect.
Over its three-decade history, Melbourne’s Cinema Nova has survived a pandemic, quirky renovations and even Taika Waititi taking over the bar.
In an era when studios are so skittish and leery of missing their financial marks they've mostly regulated the cinematic year into specific quadrants -- Dead Winter, Early Summer, $UMMER!!!!, Fall Prestige Fare -- in order to try and best control an audience's interest, it's especially pleasurable when a truly wonderful film escapes from these confines and gets released into the wild.
Here are the movies that our critics say have made the year a strong one onscreen.