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The challenge for IFFR Pro, the industry strand of International Film Festival Rotterdam which runs from January 31-February 5, is always attracting attention in a crammed part of the calendar, close to Sundance, Berlin and Gothenburg.

One figure who has the contacts and the experience to ensure the event is noticed beyond Dutch borders is Marten Rabarts, the former head of Eye International and artistic head of Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam.

Rabarts, recently appointed head of IFFR Pro, already has long links with IFFR. “My connection with Rotterdam is so deep-seated that it is in my own DNA. I have been...

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) got underway on Thursday evening with Dutch director Michiel ten Horn’s gender-blending, crime caper Fabula.

Set in the southern border province of Limberg, the feature stars Fedja van Huêt (the psychotic father in Christian Tafdrup’s 2022 Sundance breakout Speak No Evil) as a strung-out, misfit criminal trying to shake off a streak of intergenerational bad luck.

When a big drug deal goes wrong, he embarks on a personal journey imbued with fantasy, folklore and magic realism as he attempts to put things right.

Fabula was the first feature by a Dutch director to open the festival since Sacha Polak’s English-language drama Dirty God in 2019.

“It was fantastic to come across this film. I saw it as a work in progress, but just a few scenes gave me a pretty good idea that we were dealing with a filmmaker and a film that...

Melbourne International Film Festival has revealed the 10 titles in the running for its $94,500 competition prize.

Debut and second features are eligible for the Bright Horizons competition, which was introduced in 2022.

The line-up includes several Cannes titles; Leonardo Van Dijl’s tennis misconduct drama Julie Keeps Quiet which won the Critics’ Week Sacd award; Mo Harawe’s The Village Next to Paradise, the first Somali film to ever screen at Cannes (in the Un Certain Regard section) this year; and Un Certain Regard animation Flow from Gints Zilbalodis, recently a prizewinner at Annecy.

More Cannes titles are; Rungano Nyoni’s second...

Malaise is the order of the day in Dutch-Bosnian writer-director Ena Sendijarević’s costume drama Sweet Dreams. Set in the Dutch East Indies at the dawn of the 20th century, the film captures the putrefaction of colonial rule with a morbid sense of humor. But for a work that’s all about boredom, Sweet Dreams is far from boring.

It’s the suspicious demise of Dutch sugar plantation owner Jan (Hans Dagelet) that sets the plot in motion. Agathe (Renée Soutendijk), the man’s profoundly cynical widow, writes to their son, Cornelis (Florian Myjer), telling him to return from the Netherlands to take over the estate. But when Cornelis and his pregnant wife, Josefien (Lisa Zweerman), arrive, it turns out that Jan has left everything to Karel (Rio Kak Den Haas), the progeny of his unconcealed liaisons with the family’s domestic servant, Siti (Hayati Azis). If Cornelis and Josefien...

Deadline on Monday launched the streaming site for its Contenders Film: International, featuring the full panel videos from Saturday’s award-season showcase of 12 movies submitted by their countries to this year’s Oscar International Feature race.

Click here to launch the streaming site.

Actors who took part in the discussions included South Korean entry Concrete Utopia‘s Lee Byung-hun, Renée Soutendijk from Netherlands’ Sweet Dreams, Eli Skorcheva from Bulgaria’s Blaga’s Lessons and Eliane Umuhire from Belgium’s Omen.

They were joined among others by directors including J.A. Bayona from Netflix’s Society of the Snow, Hugh Welchman from Poland’s The Peasants, Noora Niasari from Australia’s Shayda, llker Çatak from Germany’s The Teachers’ Lounge, Concrete Utopia‘s Um Tae-hwa, Ena Sendijarević from Sweet Dreams, Stephan Komandarev from Blaga’s Lessons, Omar Hilal from Egypt’s Voy! Voy! Voy!, Jude Anthany Joseph from India’s 2018 – Everyone Is a Hero,...

Bosnian-Dutch director Ena Sendijarević’s satire Sweet Dreams unfolds on a plantation in the Dutch East Indies that is falling into decay in step with the crumbling of the Netherlands’ colonial power.

Former Paul Verhoeven muse Renée Soutendijk heads the cast as the mistress of the house, who finds herself navigating the mounting chaos on her own after her larger-than-life plantation boss husband dies suddenly.

The situation takes a further unexpected turn when it is revealed that he has left part of his estate to his illegitimate son with the housekeeper, played by Indonesian model Hayati Azis, who is quiet parallel female force in the household.

On the face of it, the Netherlands’ Oscar entry Sweet Dreams marks a departure for Sendijarević, whose breakthrough short Import and 2019 first feature Take Me Somewhere Nice tapped into her experiences growing up as a refugee after her family fled the war in Bosnia.

Deadline’s Contenders Film: International award-season event launches Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. Pt, the latest in our series of showcases that this time turns the focus toward global cinema via discussions with the casts and creatives of 12 movies submitted by their countries for the 2024 Academy Awards’ International Feature race.

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The 2023 Oscar ceremony was a triumph for international film. Going into the ceremony, Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front was a winner already, having earned a spectacular seven nominations. If that wasn’t enough, it came away with four statuettes: one for International Feature, and three for Cinematography, Music and Production Design. Clearly this can’t happen every year, but, like Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite before it, Berger’s World War I epic proved that boundaries are being broken down, and international film, once synonymous with arthouse,...

Ena Sendijarević’s “Sweet Dreams,” Netherlands’ submission in the Academy Awards international feature category, has secured North American distribution via Dekanalog.

The film had its world premiere at Locarno, where it won the Pardo for best performance for Renée Soutendijk (“Suspiria”) and the second prize of the junior jury. The film debuted in North America in Toronto’s Centrepiece section and won the Silver Hugo new directors award at Chicago. It opened the Nederlands Film Festival, where it won another six awards, including best film, best director and best leading role.

Set on a remote Indonesian island, “Sweet Dreams” explores the final days of European colonialism. It follows Dutch sugar plantation owner Jan and his wife Agathe, who are at the top of the food chain. Jan, upon returning from his nightly visit to his native concubine Siti, suddenly drops dead in front of his wife. Desperate to keep the privileges of her status quo,...

Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.

Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.

The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.

Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...

Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.

Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.

The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.

Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...

The Netherlands has selected its acclaimed Dutch drama film, ‘Sweet Dreams’ by director Ena Sendijarevic, as its official entry, in the International Feature category for the 96th Academy Awards, in 2024. The film had its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in August, winning the film’s actress Renee Soutendijk a best performance award. In addition, ‘Sweet Dreams’ is also set to get its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, according to Hollywood Reporter.

According to the film’s description, ‘Sweet Dreams’ is a dark humour based satire which is very ‘unforgiving’ in its take on European colonialism, showcasing how the lavish aesthetics and majestic lifestyle of colonial Europe soon came to a bitter end, and how its power and standard was reduced.

The synopsis reads: “On an Indonesian island, 1900, Dutch sugar plantation owner Jan and his wife, Agathe, are at the top of the food chain.

The Netherlands has selected Ena Sendijarević’s Sweet Dreams as its official entry in the international feature film race at the 2024 Oscars.

The film had its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in August, winning Dutch actress Renée Soutendijk a best performance award. It will get its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

“The film combines unforgiving satire with lavish aesthetics in an audacious tale of the tragic and delicious demise of European colonialism,” according to a description. “On an Indonesian island, 1900, Dutch sugar plantation owner Jan and his wife, Agathe, are at the top of the food chain. Until Jan upon returning from his nightly visit to his native concubine Siti, suddenly drops dead. To keep her status quo, Agathe forces her son Cornelis and his pregnant wife Josefien to travel from Europe and take over the family business. In the midst of a worker’s uprising,...

Screen is profiling every submission for best international feature at the 96th Academy Awards.

Entries for the 2024 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.

The 96th Academy Awards is set to take place on March 10, 2024 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture (over 40 minutes) produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50%) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.

Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between December 1, 2022, and October 31, 2023. The deadline...

Bosnian-Dutch filmmaker Ena Sendijarević’s Locarno prizewinner “Sweet Dreams,” a droll satire set on a sugar plantation in colonial-era Indonesia, has released its first trailer. Athens-based production and sales outfit Heretic has given Variety exclusive access ahead of the film’s North American premiere in the Centerpiece section of the Toronto Film Festival (see below).

“Sweet Dreams” is set on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies during the waning days of the colonial era. It centers on Dutch plantation owner Jan (Hans Dagelet) and his wife, Agathe (Renée Soutendijk), who are at the top of the food chain. That is, until Jan, upon returning from his nightly visit to his native concubine, Siti (Hayati Azis), suddenly drops dead in front of his wife.

Desperate to keep the privileges of her status quo, Agathe forces her estranged son Cornelius (Florian Myjer) and his heavily pregnant wife, Josefien (Lisa Zweerman...

It takes place on a sugar plantation, but Ena Sendijarević’s magnificently composed, eerily satirical “Sweet Dreams” has something more like acid flowing through its veins. Acid — or maybe formaldehyde, given the embalmed pallor of the dysfunctional Dutch colonial family whose values are so elegantly dissected within it. In only her second feature, after the Rotterdam-awarded “Take Me Somewhere Nice,” the Bosnian-Dutch filmmaker has established herself as a formidable talent with an eye for absurdity in Academy ratio, and a feel for the manicured, placid surfaces that contain rot and rebellion just as corsetry cinches in flesh.

It is 1900, and this little corner of the Dutch East Indies is verdant, damp jungle terrain. The air is thick with biting insects. Vincent Sinceretti’s extravagantly rich sound design is so multilayered that you can differentiate the crickets from the gnats from the omnipresent, whining mosquitoes. But part of the wilderness has been tamed — or more accurately,...

Critical Zone, an Iranian drama shot in secret by dissident director Ali Ahmadzadeh, has won the Golden Leopard honor for best film at the 2023 Locarno Film Festival.

Ahmadzadeh, who has been banned from leaving Iran, was unable to attend the awards ceremony, held at the Swiss city Saturday night. The Iranian government pressured the director to pull the film from competition. Through its story of a man and his dog, who navigate Tehran’s underworld, selling drugs and talking to troubled souls, Critical Zone depicts a nation rebelling against an oppressive regime in any way it can. Produced by Germany’s Counter Intuitive Film, Critical Zone is being sold worldwide by Luxbox.

Another proudly political filmmaker, British legend Ken Loach, won the audience award, the Ubs Prix du Public, at Locarno’s 76th annual festival for his latest (and perhaps last) feature film: The Old Oak. The drama, which premiered in Cannes,...

Critical Zone took Golden Leopard Photo: Courtesy of Locarno Film Festival Ali Ahmadzadeh's Critical Zone has taken the top prize Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland.

The film, which was secretly shot on the streets of Tehran without government permission, is described as “a hymn to freedom and resistance in Iran”. The director was summoned last month to Iran's Ministry of Security where he came under pressure to withdraw the film from the competition. He is currently banned from leaving the country.

In a statement the director said: "Making this film was a big rebellion. Showing it means an even bigger victory for us."

A special jury prize was awarded to Radu Jude for Do Not Expect To Much From The End Of The World while this year’s newly introduced gender-neutral acting awards went to Dimitra Vlagopoulou for Animal, directed by Sofia Exarchou and Renée Soutendijk...

Director was prevented from travelling to the festival in person by Iranian authorities.

Iranian director Ali Ahmadzadeh‘s Critical Zone has won the Locarno Film Festival top prize, the Golden Leopard.

The Iranian-German co-production, secretly shot on the streets of Tehran without official permission, follows a man driving through Tehran’s underworld with his dog, dealing drugs, healing troubled souls and discovering seeds of resistance.

Director Ahmadezadeh, who was prevented from travelling to Locarno to present his film in person, had faced pressure from the Iranian authorities ahead of the festival to withdraw his film from the competition and was...

The hype is real: Ali Ahmadzadeh’s “Critical Zone” (“Mantagheye bohrani”) has picked up the top Golden Leopard at Locarno.

It has been a bumpy ride for the film, set in Tehran over the course of one lonely night and described by the fest as “a hymn to freedom and resistance.”

As reported by Variety, Iranian authorities have been pressuring Ahmadzadeh to pull it from the Swiss festival – arguing it was shot without permission – and with the director himself banned from leaving the country.

“Instead of actors, I worked with real people. In most situations, we had to hide the camera or find complicated tricks to work around the limitations. Making this film was a big rebellion. Showing it means an even bigger victory for us,” said Ahmadzadeh in a statement, with Locarno’s artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro calling for his release.

“It means a lot. Not only for Ali,...

Iranian filmmaker Ali Ahmadzadeh clinched the Golden Leopard in the main international competition of the 76th Locarno Film Festival with his latest feature Critical Zone (Mantagheye Bohrani).

Ahmadzadeh was not in attendance to receive the award as he is currently banned from leaving his native Iran. Last month, the country’s authorities summoned Ahmadzadeh to the Ministry of Security, where he was pressured to pull Critical Zone from Locarno’s official competition. The film’s international sales agent Luxbox Paris and the producer, Sina Ataeian Dena, also said they had received threatening emails and messages demanding the film be pulled from the fest.

The pic, described as “a hymn to freedom and resistance in Iran,” was shot without permission from authorities before recent protests started. The plot follows a man who drives through Tehran’s underworld with his dog, dealing drugs and healing troubled souls. Born in Tehran in 1986, Critical Zone...

Writer-director Ena Sendijarević’s second feature, Sweet Dreams, follows a recent trend of arthouse films — including Zama, The Settlers and The Tale of King Crab — that explore Europe’s troubled colonial history through a postmodern mix of satire, surrealism and cinematic lyricism.

All of these elements are present in a story set in 1900 in the Dutch East Indies, where a family running a prosperous sugar plantation finds its status quo upended when their patriarch suddenly passes away. Left to deal with the fallout, the landowner’s wife and children are quickly exposed to the limits, as well as the terrors, of colonialism, in the face of Indigenous people who refuse to keep bowing down.

Shot in the 1.33:1 Academy ratio and divided into chapters like a novella, Sendijarević’s movie maintains a certain distance from its subject, gazing at it through a contemporary prism that critiques the racism and exploitation of the epoch.

As Leo Tolstoy wrote, all happy families are alike, while each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The rich cry too and there is something universal about the rivalries between the loved and the unloved wives, sons and heirs, regardless of their social status. So, why would the family of the sugar plantation owners in the Dutch East Indies in Ena Sendijarević's sophomore feature “Sweet Dreams” be any different? The film has just world-premiered at Locarno, where we also caught it.

Sweet Dreams is screening in Locarno Film Festival

Somewhere in Indonesia in the early 1900s, Jan (Hans Dagelet) owns the plantation and the sugar processing plant and rules it with an iron fist. He is no softer even at home, where he commands over his seemingly blasée European wife Agathe (Renée Soutendijk) and his Indonesian housekeeper-lover-concubine Siti (Hayati Azis), while the two battle one another, each...

Editor’s Note: This review originally published during the 2023 Locarno Film Festival. Dekanalog will release “Sweet Dreams” in U.S. theaters on Friday, April 12.

Two-thirds of the way into Ena Sendijarević’s stylized sophomore feature “Sweet Dreams”, a heavily pregnant white Dutch colonialist, Josefien (Lisa Zweerman), is attempting to relieve some pent-up hormonal tension by straddling her bedpost and getting herself off. It is at this exact moment that an Indonesian housegirl, Siti (Hayati Azis), walks in bearing a jug of water and a glass.

Josefien experiences no shame and seizes her chance to manipulate Siti, for Siti has the status afforded by bearing the illegitimate son, Karel (Rio Den Haas), of the recently deceased plantation head, Jan (Hans Dagelet). Unbeknownst to Siti, Jan left it all to Karel and now the young heir and his mother both have targets on their backs for Jan’s older son, Cornelius (Florian Myjer...

Heretic has acquired world sales rights to “Sweet Dreams,” the sophomore feature from award-winning Bosnian Dutch director Ena Sendijarević (“Take Me Somewhere Nice”).

Set on a remote Indonesian island during the waning days of the colonial era, the film centers on Dutch sugar plantation owner Jan and his wife, Agathe, who are at the top of the food chain. That is, until Jan, upon returning from his nightly visit to his native concubine, Siti, suddenly drops dead in front of his wife.

Desperate to keep the privileges of her status quo, Agathe forces her estranged son Cornelis and his heavily pregnant wife, Josefien, to travel from Europe and take over the family business. In the midst of a workers’ uprising, Cornelis displays his plans for progressive change. But when Jan’s will puts Siti at the forefront of the family estate, ideals prove to be idle and blood thicker than water.

Stars: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Jessica Harper, Choe Grace Moretz, Doris Hick, Malgorzata Bela, Angela Winkler, Vanda Capriolo, Alex Wek, Elena Fokina | Written by David Kajganich | Directed by Luca Guadagnino

Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic Suspiria gets an arthouse remake, courtesy of Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino. Thankfully, fans of the original can breathe a sigh of relief, as the remake never attempts to replicate the sensory experience of Argento’s original – instead, it takes the basic ingredients of the story and stirs up an intoxicating witches’ brew of its own.

Taking place in 1977 (the year the original film came out), the film introduces itself as “Six acts and an epilogue, set in divided Berlin”. Dakota Johnson plays Susie Bannion, a talented American dancer from a deeply religious Ohio family, who arrives in the city with the hopes of joining the Markos Tanzgruppe, a prestigious...

The 2019 Independent Spirit Awards took place on a beach in Santa Monica, Calif., with Barry Jenkins’ “If Beale Street Could Talk” taking the top prize for best feature along with best director for Jenkins.

Ethan Hawke and Glenn Close took the prizes for best male lead and best female lead, respectively. Bo Burnham took the best first screenplay trophy for “Eighth Grade” and Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty won for best screenplay.

The Spirit Awards are chosen by the Film Independent’s 6200 members after an anonymous committee votes on nominations. The eligibility rules require that movies be produced in the U.S. for less than $20 million.

Keep checking back as the winners are updated live.

Best Feature

Eighth Grade

First Reformed

If Beale Street Could Talk (Winner)

Leave No Trace

You Were Never Really Here

Best Director

Debra Granik, Leave No Trace

Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk (Winner)

Tamara Jenkins,...

Stars: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Jessica Harper, Choe Grace Moretz, Doris Hick, Malgorzata Bela, Angela Winkler, Vanda Capriolo, Alex Wek, Elena Fokina | Written by David Kajganich | Directed by Luca Guadagnino

Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic Suspiria gets an arthouse remake, courtesy of Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino. Thankfully, fans of the original can breathe a sigh of relief, as the remake never attempts to replicate the sensory experience of Argento’s original – instead, it takes the basic ingredients of the story and stirs up an intoxicating witches’ brew of its own.

Taking place in 1977 (the year the original film came out), the film introduces itself as “Six acts and an epilogue, set in divided Berlin”. Dakota Johnson plays Susie Bannion, a talented American dancer from a deeply religious Ohio family, who arrives in the city with the hopes of joining the Markos Tanzgruppe, a prestigious...

I've been looking forward to seeing director Luca Guadagnino's (Call Me by Your Name) remake of Suspiria since the first footage was screen at CinemaCon earlier this year. The scene that was shared was absolutely insane and horrifically savage, but that was just a little appetizer compared to the other brutally dark a treacherous places that this movie goes.

The trailers for the film are great and they do a fantastic job at building up the suspense and the world that the story is set in, but those trailers don't even touch on the ruthless and twisted psychological journey that this horror film will take audiences on.

Suspiria is not for the faint of heart, it is a slow burn kind of film that escalates into a vicious blood-fueled nightmarish terror of things that you cannot unsee. This is just one messed up movie that could drive weak souls to the brink of madness.

Take a look at director Luca Guadagnino's horror feature "Suspiria", starring Tilda Swinton ("Doctor Strange"), Chloë Grace Moretz ("Kick-Ass"), Dakota Johnson ("Fifty Shades Freed"), Mia Goth ("Everest") and Jessica Harper ("Phantom of the Paradise"), opening theatrically November 2, 2018 through Amazon Studios:

"...'Susie Bannion' (Johnson) travels to 'Markos Dance Academy' in Berlin, after the artistic director, 'Madame Blanc', becomes fascinated with her dancing skills.

"After a series of mysterious disappearances, Susie, her new friend 'Sara', and elderly psychologist 'Jozef Klemperer' find out the school may harbor dark secrets that could threaten them all..."

Cast also includes Angela Winkler, Ingrid Caven, Elena Fokina, Sylvie Testud, Renée Soutendijk, Fabrizia Sacchi, Vanda Capriolo and Brigitte Cuvelier.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Suspiria"...

Take a look at more new footage from director Luca Guadagnino's horror feature "Suspiria", starring Tilda Swinton ("Doctor Strange"), Chloë Grace Moretz ("Kick-Ass"), Dakota Johnson ("Fifty Shades Freed"), Mia Goth ("Everest") and Jessica Harper ("Phantom of the Paradise"), opening theatrically November 2, 2018 through Amazon Studios:

"...'Susie Bannion' (Johnson) travels to 'Markos Dance Academy' in Berlin, after the artistic director, 'Madame Blanc', becomes fascinated with her dancing skills.

"After a series of mysterious disappearances, Susie, her new friend 'Sara', and elderly psychologist 'Jozef Klemperer' find out the school may harbor dark secrets that could threaten them all..."

Cast also includes Angela Winkler, Ingrid Caven, Elena Fokina, Sylvie Testud, Renée Soutendijk, Fabrizia Sacchi, Vanda Capriolo and Brigitte Cuvelier.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Suspiria"...

The full main title score for the upcoming remake of Suspiria has been released and as you'll see, it's got an eerie vibe to it. The theme was created by Thom Yorke of Raidiohead. He created the entire score of the film, which I thought was pretty cool. He's trying something different and I'm a fan of what he's done with this. It has a very haunting vibe. It's also very different from the musical score of the original film which was done by Goblin. That original creepy score is iconic and easily one of my favorite horror movie scores. Listen to the Thom Yorke's score below and tell us what you think.

Suspiria is set in Berlin, and the story follows a young dancer who joins a dance company. That dance academy happens to be run by witches and as you might imagine weird and horrifying things begin to...

We've got a new poster to share with you for the highly anticipated upcoming remake of Suspiria. As you can see, it's a bloody and eye-catching poster. All of the eyes are giving off a very mischievous vibe because witches are mischievous. I really hope that this movie turns out as dark and disturbing as director Luca Guadagnino says it is. He previously said:

“I hope that the movie comes across as a relentless experience that’s going to go deep into your skin all the way down into your spine. I want the movie to perform as the most disturbing experience you can have. The movie is about being immersed in a world of turmoil and uncompromising darkness.”

The director also teased a post-credits scene. While talking to Deadline, he says the scene follows a certain character that he doesn't name:

“The character is looking forward towards something. I...

Take another look at director Luca Guadagnino's horror feature "Suspiria", starring Tilda Swinton ("Doctor Strange"), Chloë Grace Moretz ("Kick-Ass"), Dakota Johnson ("Fifty Shades Freed"), Mia Goth ("Everest") and Jessica Harper ("Phantom of the Paradise"), opening theatrically November 2, 2018 through Amazon Studios:

"...'Susie Bannion' (Johnson) travels to 'Markos Dance Academy' in Berlin, after the artistic director, 'Madame Blanc', becomes fascinated with her dancing skills.

"After a series of mysterious disappearances, Susie, her new friend 'Sara', and elderly psychologist 'Jozef Klemperer' find out the school may harbor dark secrets that could threaten them all..."

Cast also includes Angela Winkler, Ingrid Caven, Elena Fokina, Sylvie Testud, Renée Soutendijk, Fabrizia Sacchi, Vanda Capriolo and Brigitte Cuvelier.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Suspiria"...

The first clip has been released for the highly anticipated remake of the horror thriller Suspiria. The clip features Madame Blanc (Tilda Swinton) outlining plans for a new dance in which she says Susie Bannion (Dakota Johnson) can improvise freely. As you'll see, she gives herself to the dance and gets really into it, but it also seems to attract a demonic creature.

When talking about the film in an interview, director Luca Guadagnino tells THR that he wants the film to be the most disturbing experience you can have:

“I hope that the movie comes across as a relentless experience that’s going to go deep into your skin all the way down into your spine. I want the movie to perform as the most disturbing experience you can have. The movie is about being immersed in a world of turmoil and uncompromising darkness.”

Suspiria is set in Berlin,...

Sneak Peek more new footage from director Luca Guadagnino's horror feature "Suspiria", starring Chloë Grace Moretz ("Kick-Ass"), Dakota Johnson ("Fifty Shades Freed"), Tilda Swinton ("Doctor Strange") , Mia Goth ("Everest") and Jessica Harper ("Phantom of the Paradise"), opening theatrically November 2, 2018 through Amazon Studios:

"...'Susie Bannion' (Johnson) travels to 'Markos Dance Academy' in Berlin, after the artistic director, 'Madame Blanc', becomes fascinated with her dancing skills.

"After a series of mysterious disappearances, Susie, her new friend 'Sara', and elderly psychologist 'Jozef Klemperer' find out the school may harbor dark secrets that could threaten them all..."

Cast also includes Angela Winkler, Ingrid Caven, Elena Fokina, Sylvie Testud, Renée Soutendijk, Fabrizia Sacchi, Vanda Capriolo and Brigitte Cuvelier.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Suspiria"...

"When you dance the dance of another, you make yourself in the image of its creator."

Amazon Studios has released the full trailer for their remake of the classic 1970s psychedelic horror film Suspiria. This trailer gives us our best look yet at the movie yet, which is said to be 152 minutes long. That's a long horror movie, but it looks so good!

Suspiria is set in Berlin, and the story follows a young dancer who joins a dance company. That dance academy happens to be run by witches and as you might imagine weird and horrifying things begin to happen as the terrifying mystery behind the school and its teachers unfolds.

In the film, a darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe’s artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

"When you dance the dance of another, you make yourself in the image of its creator." Amazon Studios has revealed the second official trailer for Luca Guadagnino's fresh new take on Suspiria, remaking the classic Dario Argento horror film from 1977. The film is premiering at the Venice Film Festival in a few weeks. And we finally get a better look at what's going on in this 152 minute horror thriller. Luca's new Suspiria is set in Berlin, but follows a similar story of a young dance student who joins a dance company in Berlin. But weird things start to happen to the people around her. The incredible cast includes Dakota Johnson in the lead as Susie, along with Tilda Swinton, Lutz Ebersdorf, Chloe Moretz, Mia Goth, Renée Soutendijk, Jessica Harper, Sylvie Testud, Angela Winkler, Malgorzata Bela, and Ingrid Caven. I'm so very excited to see this, I've got such a good feeling about it.

I series of new character posters have been released for the upcoming Suspiria remake. They feature Dakota Johnson in the role of Susie, Chloe Moretz as Patricia, Mia Goth as Sara, Renée Soutendijk in the role of Miss Huller,  and Angela Winkler as Miss Tanner. Each of the posters come with a tagline. 

I've heard some great things about this remake of Dario Argento's 1970s psychedelic horror movie classic. I've really liked everything I've seen so far from the film. You can watch the first teaser trailer here and read about a seriously jacked up scene that was screened at CinemaCon here. I just hope we get a new trailer soon.

As a darkness builds at the center of a world-renown dance company, its artistic director (Tilda Swinton), a young American new to the troupe (Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist (Lutz Ebersdorf) become entangled in a bloody, sighing nightmare.

A brand new trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria is headed our way Thursday morning, and in the meantime we’ve been treated to a handful of character posters today. We exclusively shared the poster for Renée Soutendijk‘s Miss Huller earlier, and below you’ll find posters for Mia Goth‘s Sara and Angela Winkler‘s Miss Tanner, along with Dakota […]...

Perfection commands sacrifice. On the road to this week’s brand new trailer, we’ve thus far gotten our first character poster for Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria, which spotlighted Dakota Johnson’s Susie Bannion. We’re excited to debut the second character poster exclusively here on Bloody Disgusting today. Meet Miss Huller, played by actress Renée Soutendijk… In the new film, […]...

Sneak Peek new footage, plus images from the supernatural horror feature "Suspiria", directed by Luca Guadagnino, starring Dakota Johnson ("Fifty Shades Freed"), Tilda Swinton ("Doctor Strange") , Mia Goth ("Everest"), Jessica Harper ("Phantom of the Paradise") and Chloë Grace Moretz ("Kick-Ass"), opening November 2, 2018 through Amazon Studios:

"...'Susie Bannion' (Johnson) travels to 'Markos Dance Academy' in Berlin, after the artistic director, 'Madame Blanc', becomes fascinated with her dancing skills.

"After a series of mysterious disappearances, Susie, her new friend 'Sara', and elderly psychologist 'Jozef Klemperer' find out the school may harbor dark secrets that could threaten them all..."

Cast also includes Angela Winkler, Ingrid Caven, Elena Fokina, Sylvie Testud, Renée Soutendijk, Fabrizia Sacchi, Vanda Capriolo and Brigitte Cuvelier.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Suspiria"...

Directed by Luca Guadagnino, whose recent film Call Me By Your Name garnered a Ton of critical and audience praise, and starring Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Mia Goth and Lutz Ebersdorf, and with appearances by original Suspiria star Jessica Harper and Dutch actress Renée Soutendijk (best known for Eve of Destruction); here’s the first trailer and new poster for the remake of Dario Argento’s beloved 70s Italian shocker Suspiria.

A darkness swirls at a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe’s artistic director (Swinton), an ambitious young dancer (Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist (Ebersdorf). Some will succumb. Others will wake up.

Suspiria will be released on November 2nd from Amazon Studios.

"Listen for the whispers..." Amazon Studios has debuted the first teaser trailer for Luca Guadagnino's fresh new take on Suspiria, remaking the classic Dario Argento horror film from 1977. This is also Guadagnino's follow up to his hugely successful Call Me By Your Name. This Suspiria is set in Berlin, but follows a similar story of a young dance student who joins a dance company in Berlin. But weird things start to happen to the people around her. The incredible cast includes Dakota Johnson in the lead role, along with Tilda Swinton, Lutz Ebersdorf, Chloe Moretz, Mia Goth, Renée Soutendijk, Jessica Harper, Sylvie Testud, Angela Winkler, Malgorzata Bela, and Ingrid Caven. This is just a teaser so they don't reveal too much yet, but there is some freaky footage in this. And most of all, it just looks like Guadagnino is about to deliver another crazy brilliant film that may...

Never mind The Terminator and Ed-209, what about Eve, Hector or Warbeast? Here's a pick of 15 less famous killer robots from the movies...

"They say Zapp Brannigan single-handedly saved the Octillion system from a horde of rampaging killbots!" enthused Leela in classic the Futurama episode, Love's Labour's Lost In Space.

It was, reflected the alcoholic, cigar-smoking robot Bender, "A grim day for Robotkind", before adding as an afterthought, "Eh, but we can always build more killbots."

Killer robots are a longstanding staple of science fiction cinema, and if we were to compile the list of the best and most celebrated, it would probably read pretty much like everyone else's - The Terminator, 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Sentinels from X-Men: Days Of Future Past would all get a mention.

But what about the less famous killer robots from film history - the ones that have been largely eclipsed by...

Paul Verhoeven has cut quite a swathe through Hollywood since he arrived in the 1980s, directing several blockbuster movies – some of which I like – Showgirls, Basic Instinct – and others that are too action-y for me – Robocop and Total Recall. I did love Flesh + Blood, his American film debut as well

Verhoeven has been called a one man Dutch Film Industry. I cannot describe how much I love his early Dutch films. Whether it is because they are better than his Hollywood output or just because I have a real love and preference for European cinema to Hollywood in general, I am not sure. But I find these six films below endlessly fascinating.

Verhoeven was very lucky. Holland boasted some amazing acting talent he could use for his films – Rutger Hauer, Monique van de Ven, Jeroen Krabbe and Renee Soutendijk – to name but a few top class Dutch actors. His films...

Some of cinema’s most classic movies have spawned some awe-inspiringly bad low budget rip-offs. Here’s our look back at some of the worst...

Every now and again, a film will come out of nowhere and clean up at the box office. Regardless of budget, there are some ideas so potent that, with the deft handling of a talented director, can be made into films that immediately capture the imagination.

The Terminator and Halloween are two examples of films made with meagre resources that went on to have a lasting cultural impact, and whose ideas have been shamelessly copied and regurgitated in countless cheap, hurriedly made cash-ins in the years after their release.

Here's our list of seven influential blockbusters, and the very worst films inspired by them...

The Terminator

A seminal 1984 sci-fi thriller that launched James Cameron's directing career and made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star. Inspired by...