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Ingenuity, scandals and anger keep film festivals relevant in ‘Covidist’ period We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Cinema historians may one day call this the Covidist period: when films were made in secret during lockdown, scripts were written that did not require actors to come within two metres of each other or they were filmed remotely, with directors sitting a couple of rooms away. For many film fans, it felt last year as if cinema had simply stopped. In fact, the new crop of films emergin...

Berlinale: Teddy Awards Lineup Offers a Surprising Cross-Section of New Queer Cinema Guy Lodge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Now in its 35th year, the Teddy Awards are among the Berlinale’s most affectionately regarded institutions. Presented annually to standout LGBTQ-themed titles across the festival’s entire lineup, they have a looser, hipper, more inclusive reputation than other Berlin prizes: fittingly, they’re annually presented not at an exclusive black-tie affair, but a publicly accessible ceremony followed by an almighty dance-’til-dawn party. Yet the Teddys’ prestige ...

Natalie Morales on Making Platonic Lockdown-Friendly Romance 'Language Lessons' with Mark Duplass in Just Four Weeks

Slender but sweet. TWITTER Platonic love between virtual strangers helps ease the pain of grief in this tender first feature from Natalie Morales, who also stars opposite co-writer Mark Duplass. You have to wonder about the shelf life of all the compact film productions being stitched together around COVID pandemic restraints, particularly those in which the visual field is limited to computer desktops. When we finally escape the confinement of video calls for most of the social interactions outside our immediate circles, is anyone really going to hunger for the dulcet chimes of a Skype conne...

'Language Lessons' Review: Natalie Morales Directs a Platonic Romcom For the Zoom Era 'Language Lessons' Review: Natalie Morales Directs a Platonic Romcom For the Zoom Era Morales teams up with co-writer and co-star Mark Duplass for a friendship study that connects to the age of quarantine, even if it's not expressly about it. Guy Lodge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Running time: Running time: 91 MIN. Courtesy of ICM It’s nearly a year since Zoom became a household name brand, its boxy chat windows, variable resolution and capacity for technical glitches shaping how many communicated w...