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The 22nd edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival kicked off Friday night in the city of Cluj-Napoca with the international premiere of Northern Comfort, a comedy directed by Icelandic filmmaker Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, and with a tribute to the film’s star, Timothy Spall.

The famed British character actor, known for his roles in Mike Leigh’s Topsy-Turvy and Mr. Turner, Cameron Crowe’s Vanilla Sky, Edward Zwick’s The Last Samurai, Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech and the Harry Potter films, received this year’s lifetime achievement award at the festival’s opening gala.

The Icelandic-uk-German co-production Northern Comfort is part of the massive Nordic Focus at the festival this year, with more than 40 films from Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Finland and Sweden, as well as live music performances and cine-concerts. Some of the Nordic highlights include Ruben Östlund’s 2022 Palm d’Or winner Triangle of Sadness, Lars von Trier...

The Romanian film festival runs June 9-18.

Transilvania International Film Festival has announced the line-up for its 22nd edition which takes place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

The official competition is made up of 12 features while the documentary strand, entitled What’s Up Doc?, will screen 10 titles. All of the films are from first and second-time directors.

Among the competition selection is Ion Bors’ Carbon which premiered in San Sebastian’s New Directors strand last year, having won the festival’s Wip Europa Industry and Wip Europa awards the previous year. The dark comedy, surrounding the Transnistrian conflict of the 1990s, is...

A full Free Movie of the Day is posted on the JoBlo Horror Movies YouTube channel every other day during the week – but on Fridays things get even freakier and a little more fun. Get your weekend started the right way by indulging in Friday Fright Nights! Every Friday, we’ll be taking a look at another genre movie you can watch in its entirety, free of charge, either on the YouTube channel linked above or in the video embed here.

The Friday Fright Night feature we have for you this week may seem a bit familiar to some of you, because we have shared it as a free movie on JoBlo / Arrow in the Head previously… But its title is The Evil Rises, and how could we resist sharing a movie called The Evil Rises on the same Friday as the release of Evil Dead Rise? We couldn’t.

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If the young Denzel Washington had his way, the now 68-year-old Mount Vernon native would have a bust in Canton's Pro Football Hall of Fame. The man who would be Malcolm X, Rubin Carter, and Alonzo Harris initially had his sights trained on the gridiron before he enrolled at Fordham University in 1977, where he was a skilled enough athlete to play under Coach P.J. Carlesimo for the school's junior varsity team. "He would run us all day, and make us work," Washington told the New York Times in 1998. "But you know what? We were always prepared for the fourth quarter, and we hardly ever lost. Some of the things I learned from him, I still apply myself."

Washington knew by this point that a pro sports...

"Offf's brief was simply the theme of the festival. 'Misfits.' One Word. Who doesn’t love a brief like that? So, we went all in." This vibrant, energetic short film is a quick watch and is worth your time if you need a rejuvenating jolt of inspiration. Repeater is a short film made by the VFX studio called Carbon, and it was created as the title film at the Offf Festival in Vienna. This starts out pretty tame, but quickly descends into full-on psychedelic, acid trip beauty. It's all about being one-of-a-kind and learning how to express that uniqueness into the world instead of hide it. I would watch more of this story go on!! It has barely even 4 minutes of footage but it's mesmerizing. It's a showcase for Carbon and what they can create, but it's also a creatively stirring little film about bucking the trends and making...

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Thirteen productions from 15 countries are in the running for this year’s Kutxabank-New Directors Award at the San Sebastian Festival, Spain’s premiere film festival.

San Sebastian on Thursday unveiled its New Directors lineup of titles from first and second-time directors. The 2022 program features 12 debuts from across Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Indian moviemaker Parth Saurabh heads to San Sebastian with On Either Side of the Pond, a drama that follows a couple forced by the economic difficulties caused by the pandemic to return from Delhi to their hometown, who sees their relationship start to unravel.

European first-timers in the lineup include the 90s-set black comedy Carbon from Moldovan director Ion Borș, which won last year’s Wip Europa Industry and Wip Europa awards; The Great Silence from Danish director Katrine Brocks, the story of a novice nun who receives an awkward visit...

Award comes with €50,000 prize.

Thirteen films will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival, which runs from September 16-24.

More titles are expected to be added to the competition, which comes with a €50,000 prize to be divided equally between the director and the distributor of the film in Spain.

Turkey’s Jeanne Aslan and France’s Paul Saintillan co-directed Spare Keys, the tale of a teenager who establishes a relationship with her girlfriend’s brother during summer.

Nicaragua’s Laura Baumeister Daughter Of Rage is the story of an eight-year-old girl who gets by as...

Three buzzy titles, all turning on women carving out their own destinies – Carmen Jaquier’s “Thunder,” Laura Baumeister’s “Daughter of Rage” and Dinara Drukarova’s “Grand Marin” – feature in the 13-title lineup of San Sebastian’s 2022 New Directors section.

Also making the New Directors’ cut – now firmly consolidated as the most important sidebar at the highest-profile film festival in the Spanish-speaking world – is “Tobacco Barns,” the awaited and second feature from Spain’s Rocío Mesa, as well as Jeong Ji-hye’s Jeonju Festival winner “Jeong-sun” which has its director hailed as a talent to track.

Eight of the 13 features are directed by women who also serve as protagonists in most of the section’s films. Their themes range wide, however, from the absurdity of Moldova’s past (“Carbon”) to an allegorical portrait of civil conflict (“Carbide”) to cybershaming (“Jeong-sun”) and women’s love of literature (“To Books and Women...

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Three years after retiring from an all-star career in the NBA, Dwyane Wade says he’s hitting his “entrepreneurship mode” with the growth of his namesake wine brand, Wade Cellars.

Speaking to Rolling Stone at the 2022 South Beach Wine & Food Festival, where the former Miami Heat star hosted the Foodventure event at Citizens Miami Central Culinary Market, Wade says his journey into oenophilia was borne from a desire...

Tamil actor Vidharth’s 25th film ‘Carbon’, which has been waiting to hit screens for a long time, has got a clean ‘U’ certificate from the Censor Board. The makers of the film disclosed this on social media on Sunday. The thriller, which has been directed by Srinuvasan, is all about a man who has dreams […]...

Crockett Island is a tiny, isolated community where residents cling to their faith in God, their reliance on the commercial fishing industry or a combination of the two. This sleepy enclave is where Midnight Mass, Mike Flanagan’s latest Netflix series, takes place — and even before the horror shenanigans get started, there’s a lot that’s scary about the place.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. In Episode 1, we’re introduced to Crockett Island via the return of Riley Flynn (played by Friday Night Lights‘ Zach Gilford). Riley grew up there but fled as soon as possible, eventually...

Juan Marisé’s “Camionero,” Laura Baumeister’s “Daughter of Rage” and Ion Bors’ “Carbon” triumphed Wednesday at San Sebastian Festival’s prize ceremony for winners at its main industry competitions: the Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum and Wip Latin America and Wip Europa pix-in-post showcases.

Also among victors were Juan Andrés Arango’s “Where the River Begins,” María Zanetti’s “Alemania,” Carlos Lechuga’s “Vicenta B.,” and Eduardo Crespo’s “The Wind’s Cave,” the latter walking off with the trophy at San Sebastián’s Ikusmira Berriak, fast emerging as one of the key young talent hubs in Spain.

Three of the seven winning titles are from Argentina, a sign of the country’s undeniable depth in talent as its industry, with Covid-19 on the wane, continues to be whammied by economic crisis.

The caliber of many Latin American producers with projects at the Forum suggest another strong year for an...

Argentina’s Manuel Abramovich, Ecuador’s Ana Cristina Barragán and the Ukraine-born Oksana Bychkova, all big fest winners, will introduce their latest films to an industry audience at San Sebastian’s pix-in-post strands, Wip Latam and Wip Europa, over Sept. 20-22.

The sections promise discoveries. They also underscore a reality. As art film pre-sales have plunged, public-sector equity financing has escalated, with producers tapping film funds around the world via international co-production. Wip Latam’s six films average four production partners a piece. Sales, which the films now seek in San Sebastian, is increasingly icing on the cake.

A drill down on titles:

Wip Latam

“Daughter of Rage,” (“La Hija de Todas las Rabias,” Laura Baumeister, Nicaragua, Mexico, Nederland, Germany, France, Norway)

Nicaraguan Laura Baumeister’s stirring feature debut which swept three of the four prizes on offer at San Sebastian’s 2019 Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum. Since then it...

MollywoodThe film is directed by Venu and also features actors Anna Ben and Asif Ali.Tnm StaffOn Wednesday morning, Malayalam cinema's top two stars Mammootty and Mohanlal shared the motion poster of an upcoming film titled Kaapa on their social media pages. Manju Warrier, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Anna Ben and Asif Ali appear as illustrations against landmarks of Thiruvananthapuram in the motion poster. The film is directed by Venu, cinematographer-turned-filmmaker who has made movies like Daya, Munnariyippu and Carbon. The story and screenplay is by popular Malayalam writer Gr Indugopan. The film title refers to the Kaapa Act or the Kerala Anti-Social Activities Act, 2007, which puts people who are a threat to the society in prison. In other words it is the Goonda Act of Kerala for action against 'goons', but has always come under criticism for being draconian and subject to misuse. Mammootty and Mohanlal’s Facebook posts say, "This...

Exclusive: After action turns in Altered Carbon, Die Another Day and others The Good Doctor co-star Will Yun Lee is stepping up to developing vehicles for himself. He has teamed with Wonder Street partners Christine Holder and Mark Holder to launch Seoul Street. They will create diverse stories for TV and the big screen.

The new venture is developing a series based on a trilogy of Leonard Chang bestselling crime novels, starting with Over the Shoulder. The novels focus on Allen Choice, a Korean American bodyguard who investigates the murder of his childhood friend. The trail exposes dark family secrets about his father that are linked to race, class, and the legacy of the L.A. Riots. The novel was published by HarperCollins and St. Martin’s Press and Seoul Street acquired the trilogy in a competitive situation.

Chang is writing the show. He is currently EP on the FX drama...

The upcoming comic book movie The Suicide Squad finds Altered Carbon star Joel Kinnaman returning to the role of US special forces specialist, Rick Flag. Last seen in 2016's Suicide Squad, Kinnaman has now discussed why he decided to come back, revealing that it is in large part due to the comedic sensibilities of director James Gunn.

"So that [role] I was very, very happy to come back to because it was such a treat, and such an incredible experience to work with James Gunn. And his vision for The Suicide Squad, it was so good. And when I got the script sent to me, it's so funny. Like every page made me laugh. I was sitting at home reading it laughing out loud."

Joel Kinnaman appeared as the character first back in 2016 as part of director David Ayer's Suicide Squad. While the movie was a huge financial success, it...

ControversyWhile the petition argues that the film, directed by Chalachitra Academy chairman Kamal’s son, should not take part in the awards, Kamal says that rules clearly state otherwise.Cris'Nine'Three independent filmmakers and technicians of Malayalam cinema have filed a writ petition with the High Court against the submission of the film Nine for competing in the Kerala State Awards. The film is produced by actor Prithviraj and directed by Jenuse Mohammed, son of director and Kerala Chalachitra Academy chairman Kamal. The petition alleges nepotism in the conduct of the awards. The petition, filed by Satish Babusenan, Shinos Rahman and Santhosh Thampi, alleged that nepotism by Kamal and academy vice-chairperson Bina Paul had vitiated the 2018 State Film Awards. In a press note, Babusenan stated, “In the 2018 awards, Carbon, directed by Bina Paul’s husband Venugopal had won six awards and Aami, directed by Kamal, had won two awards.” But director...

Shane Warne.

Fourteen documentary projects – spanning a feature film about Shane Warne, a Vr project that traverses the historical expedition of Ernest Shackleton, to a short about Australia’s femme and butch scene in the 1950s – will share in $2.1 million of production funding from Screen Australia.

Twelve projects funded through the Producer Program, and two through the Commissioned Program.

Screen Australia head of documentary Bernadine Lim said,:“This is an exciting lineup of projects telling uniquely Australian stories across science, social issues, modern legends and even big cats, through different formats and media. It’s fantastic to support three co-productions which open up the teams to international opportunities in financing as well as audience reach.”

“The past few months have presented several challenges for the sector but it’s been great to see that many documentary projects have been able to continue production in some form, and we’re...

MollywoodThe actor got married to Anjaly at a temple in Tripunithura on Sunday.Tnm StaffActor Manikandan R Achari, best known for his debut role in the 2016 film Kammatipaadam, got married to Anjaly on Sunday morning. They had a small wedding, taking into consideration the Covid-19 situation, and the actor contributed the money earlier meant for wedding expenses to the Chief Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund. The money was handed over to Mla M Swaraj, soon after the wedding at a temple in Tripunithura. The couple were engaged to marry six months ago. A day earlier Manikandan posted a short video about the wedding on his Facebook page. He asked people to celebrate the occasion by posting wishes online. “Hello, I am Manikandan. Not saying much, you all know everything. Tomorrow, 26th, Sunday, is my wedding. (We) decided to make it simple, with only family members attending it. At a temple nearby,...

MollywoodThe actor got married to Anjaly at a temple in Tripunithura on Sunday.Tnm StaffActor Manikandan R Achari, best known for his debut role in the 2016 film Kammatipaadam, got married to Anjaly on Sunday morning. They had a small wedding, taking into consideration the Covid-19 situation, and the actor contributed the money earlier meant for wedding expenses to the Chief Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund. The money was handed over to Mla M Swaraj, soon after the wedding at a temple in Tripunithura. The couple were engaged to marry six months ago. A day earlier Manikandan posted a short video about the wedding on his Facebook page. He asked people to celebrate the occasion by posting wishes online. “Hello, I am Manikandan. Not saying much, you all know everything. Tomorrow, 26th, Sunday, is my wedding. (We) decided to make it simple, with only family members attending it. At a temple nearby,...

This review contains spoilers for Altered Carbon: Resleeved.

Is Altered Carbon: Resleeved an anime in an Altered Carbon sleeve or Altered Carbon in an anime sleeve? On the one hand, this animated tale incorporates plenty of elements we’ve come to recognize in a story involving the last Envoy, Takeshi Kovacs, including digital consciousnesses, hotel AIs, and even some underlying backstory involving Kovacs’ long lost sister, Rei. On the other hand, the organized crime story involving a Yakuza boss and rituals of succession, honor codes, and sword battles dives deep into the Japanese origins of the story form and appeals to a distinctly different audience.

It works on one level because Takeshi Kovacs is himself of Japanese origin, a fact that has been downplayed by the Joel Kinnaman and Anthony Mackie incarnations of the character but corrected here in this movie with an Asian sleeve, and it’s not as...

To mark the release of Altered Carbon: The Art and Making of the Series by Abbie Bernstein on 24th March, we’ve been given a copy of the book to give away.

Go behind the scenes of Altered Carbon in this exclusive collection of art. Packed with concept art, final designs, and artist commentary plus previously unseen storyboards.

Awaken into the cyberpunk world of Skydance’s Altered Carbon. Stacks – implanted chips that store human consciousness – have made death obsolete. When Envoy Takeshi Kovacs finds himself sleeved in an unfamiliar body and assigned to investigate the murder of a wealthy businessman, he begins to uncover the seedy underbelly of a society where death is no longer permanent.

This richly detailed and beautiful coffee table book takes readers from the glittering Aerium to the gritty streets of Bay City. Featuring development art, stills, set photos, storyboards, and VFX builds from the first two seasons,...

The fascinating true story of the most lucrative crime in modern French history is transformed into a rather generic gangster flick in Carbon (Carbone), the latest thriller from cop turned policier specialist Olivier Marchal (36th Precinct, A Gang Story).

Inspired by the Carbon Connection scandal of 2008-2009, which involved billions of euros being siphoned from France and other EU countries by a network of fraudsters, this heavy-handed if broadly compelling affair feels like a carbon copy of other movies — whether by Scorsese or DePalma — even if it definitely has its own quirks (such as casting Gerard Depardieu to play...