Film Review: ‘Menashe’
"Menashe" is a rarity among American indies: a foreign-language film set in the middle of urban New York City (technically, Borough Park, Brooklyn). Apart from a few lines of English, and a few more…
Berlin Film Festival
Gay Cruise Documentary ‘Dream Boat’ Lands at Strand for North America
Strand Releasing has acquired North American rights for Tristan Ferland Milewski's documentary “Dream Boat” from Cinephil, Variety has learned exclusively. The documentary has its West Coast premiere…
Penelope Cruz’s ‘Queen of Spain’ Lands at Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn Films has bought U.S. rights to Penelope Cruz’s comedy “The Queen of Spain,” which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February. “The Queen of Spain,” directed by Fernando Trueba…
Cannes: Alex Lawther’s Comedy-Drama ‘Freak Show’ Lands at IFC for U.S.
IFC has bought U.S. rights to Alex Lawther’s high school comedy-drama “Freak Show.” The film, based on James St. James’ bestseller of the same name, follows Billy Bloom as a cross-dressing teenager…
Catherine Deneuve’s ‘The Midwife’ Lands at Music Box (EXCLUSIVE)
Music Box Films has bought the U.S. rights to the French drama comedy “The Midwife,” starring Catherine Frot and Catherine Deneuve. “The Midwife,” directed by Martin Provost from his own script, had…
Film Review: ‘Animals’
If you can't trust the talking cat — or perhaps the question should be if you can — whom do you trust?
Music Box Lands Chavela Vargas Documentary for U.S., Plans October Release
Music Box Films has bought U.S. rights to the documentary “Chavela” and plans an October theatrical release, Variety has learned exclusively. “Chavela,” directed by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi…
Oscilloscope Takes North American Rights to Berlinale Winner ‘Summer 1993’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired North American rights to Carla Simon's "Summer 1993," which won the best first feature prize at the Berlin Film Festival in February. The Spanish film also took…
Film Review: ‘California Dreams’
Destitute and clinging to threadbare hope, an aspiring Hollywood high-flyer rehearses her Oscar speech at one point in Mike Ott's is-it-or-isn't-it docufiction "California Dreams."
Film Review: ‘Discreet’
There can be a paradoxically public intimacy to YouTube culture: an artificial sense of personal connection forged by those everyday video updates, so many of which feign a diaristic, confessional…
Berlin Film Review: ‘The Erlprince’
Started before Czekaj's even wilder Venice and SXSW entry "Baby Bump" (2015) but completed afterwards, "The Erlprince," too, gives an unorthodox spin to archetypes and confirms the helmer as a talent…
