THE PANDEMIC STREAMING WORLD: Oscilloscope, Kino Lorber, Music Box Films

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KARIM MOUSSAOUI: UNTIL THE BIRDS RETURN/EN ATTENDANT LES HIRONDELLES (2017) - online from 1091 Media Film Room



This and other films now in digital and on demand from 1091 Media Front Room

I reviewed this three-part Algerian film, which has a European quality, on Filmleaf as part of New Directors/New Films 2018. It's a subtle and complex film and two years later it looks even better. You'll find that review in the Festival Coverage section HERE. I found it particularly interesting for its interplay of outside and local cultural influences and its picture of Algeria, which we don't glimpse that often onscreen. It is now coming out April 28th in digital and on demand via 1091 MEDIA FILM ROOM. As you'll see on their website, other current offerings include WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD'S ON FIRE, HIMALAYAN ICE, and the doc about Yves Saint Laurant's last season, CELEBRATION, which I have viewed, and liked; I've reviewed the first two here. Other films offered include LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE; LIVING HOME, COMING HOME: A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT FRANK; BIRDS OF PASSAGE, which I've also reviewed - and lots more, including films from the Sundance and Tribeca film festivals.

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FILM FORUM addition.



Besides Godard's BAND OF OUTSIDERS, May 1 will see their exclusive Virtual Cinema release of the Kino Lorber documentary CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (Justin Pemberton 2019), based on the French economist Thomas Piketty’s #1 bestseller, adapted by Matthew Metcalfe in collaboration with Pemberton and Piketty.

For full Film Forum Virtual Cinema offerings and details, go to https://filmforum.org/virtual-cinema

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DEERSKIN/LE DAIN (Quentin Dupieux 2019)

This oddball crime tale, which friends said reminded them of Tarantino, reviewed here as part of this year's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, will open May 1 as part of Greenwich Entertainment’s virtual cinema initiative. Greenwich is partnering with movie theaters that are currently closed because of Coronavirus precautions. You can support them by paying to view this new film. Every rental is $10, I believe. They also offer HUMAN NATURE, THE BOOKSELLERS, THE TIMES OF BILL CUNNINGHAM, CITIZEN K, WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY, INCITEMENT, which I've reviewed, and other titles. See their website.

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SXSW on Amazon Prime Video.

If you have Amazon Prime, their ten selections from this year's cancelled Austin, Texas festival can now for a limited time be watched free HERE.

[No longer available.]

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A virtual festival-of-festivals. We Are One: A Global Film Festival announced for May 29-June 7, 2020



From Peter Bradshaw in the GUARDIAN comes word of

the new Covid-19-related We Are One: A Global Film Festival . . . a 10-day online festival beginning 29 May curated by Jane Rosenthal of the Tribeca film festival featuring arthouse films (though not the big-ticket Hollywood items) from Cannes, Venice, Berlin and many more, streaming for free in return for an optional donation to the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 fund.

Read the earlier GUARDIAN story HERE.

Peter Bradshaw hastens to point out this, watching movies at home on your laptop, is very far from what film festivals are all about. And he doubts that any really important new films will be included. Still, as an opportunity for people who can't go to Cannes, Locarno, Toronto, or Park City, it's unprecedented.

To connect with the event go here: https://www.youtube.com/WeAreOne

But it doesn't begin till a month from now so there's nothing going on there yet.

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Film festival ditches plans to postpone event until later in the year in favour of collaborating with other festivals, rather than take festival online\- GUARDIAN.

Cannes has decided not to reschedule to later in the year but to send its Competition films to other festivals. And there will be no Pandemic Streaming World Cannes Festival.

Even for cinephiles who've never been there, Cannes looms largest among the world's great film festivals. I've been covering Cannes 'virtually' on Filmleaf for several years. So it's a shock to learn there will be no Cannes as a place or Cannes as a brand in the world of international cinema in any form this year. Cannes will disappear.

Really?

A Guardian story explains.

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Virtual theater: Kino, Film Forum, Lincoln Center.



Note a number of films I've reviewed here are up on pay-for-view via KINO MARQUEE which allows you to watch while aiding a theater you choose.
CAPITAL (about Thomas PIketty)
HILNA AF CLINT (about the artist)
BACURAU Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles)
MEPHISTO (German Academy Award winer)
SORRY WE MISSED YOU ( Ken Loach)
BEANPOLE (Kasimire Balagov, NYFF)
THE WOMAN WHO LOVES GIRAFFES

Coming:

THE GREY FOX (Newly restored Canadian Western)
LA Virtual Theatrical Opening Fri, May 15 at both LUMIERE CINEMA & LAEMMLE THEATRES


There is also Film Forum - same thing: I have been reporting on their virtual offerings. Some overlap with Kino's.


Luchino Visconti’s
L’INNOCENTE
István Szabó’s
MEPHISTO
Lee Grant’s
DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA
Jules Dassin’s
RIFIFI
Anna Karina in Godard’s
BAND OF OUTSIDERS
Romy Schneider & Yves Montand in
CÉSAR AND ROSALIE
Ken Loach's
SORRY WE MISSED YOU
CORPUS CHRISTI
THE WHISTLERS
THE WILD GOOSE LAKE
BEANPOLE
INCITEMENT
WHAT SHE SAID: THE ART OF PAULINE KAEL
THE BOOKSELLERS
CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY


CARO DIARIO (Nanni Moretti 1993) New 2K Restoration
ON A MAGICAL NIGHT (Christophe Honoré ) R-V
BACARAU (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles)
THE BOOKSELLERS (D.W. Young)
DEERSKIN/LE DAIN (Quentin Dupieux) R-V
LIBERTÉ (Albert Serra) NYFF
SANTIAGO, ITALIA (Nanni Moretti 2018)
SATANAGO (Béla Tarr , 7 hrs. 20 mins.) New 4K Restoration
SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE/DEUX MOI (Cédric Klapisch)
THE WHISTLERS (Corneliu Porumboiu) NYFF
A WHITE, WHITE DAY (Hlynur Pálmason)