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brundlefly wrote: Tue May 05, 2026 1:44 pm Tony, an Anthony Bourdain biopic from Matt Johnson (Nirvanna: The Band - The Show - The Movie). Dominic Sessa, Antonio Banderas, Emilia Jones, Stavros Halkias.

Is there a reason they named it Tony instead of a more specific title, say Bourdain?
Or Tony the Cook?

Lemmy Caution wrote: Tue Aug 04, 2026 1:48 pm

brundlefly wrote: Tue May 05, 2026 1:44 pm Tony, an Anthony Bourdain biopic from Matt Johnson (Nirvanna: The Band - The Show - The Movie). Dominic Sessa, Antonio Banderas, Emilia Jones, Stavros Halkias.

Is there a reason they named it Tony instead of a more specific title, say Bourdain?
Or Tony the Cook?

I assume it’s because the movie is going to be focused on presenting Bourdain, not as the famous cook, but as just an ordinary kid who slowly becomes shaped into Bourdain

Lemmy Caution wrote: Tue Aug 04, 2026 1:48 pm

brundlefly wrote: Tue May 05, 2026 1:44 pm Tony, an Anthony Bourdain biopic from Matt Johnson (Nirvanna: The Band - The Show - The Movie). Dominic Sessa, Antonio Banderas, Emilia Jones, Stavros Halkias.

Is there a reason they named it Tony instead of a more specific title, say Bourdain?
Or Tony the Cook?

Spoiler

Throughout the film he insists on being called "Tony" whenever someone calls him "Anthony", until the final moments when he is having an interview to attend the Culinary Institute of America

Teasing John Wilson's The History of Concrete.

colinr0380 wrote: Sun Jun 07, 2026 4:06 pm I wonder if that is inspired by the 1995 Clint Howard film.

You can see elements of it in there but Roth's Ice Cream Man is definitely its own thing and after the debacle of Borderlands it was clearly a joy for him to return to this material. I had the day off so I went to a 10am session where there was only one other person in the cinema who bolted once the violence kicked off. Meanwhile I had an absolute blast, the setup with the idyllic small town tropes was done perfectly to lull you in before unleashing the gore. I found the demented kids and their gleefully horrific killing spree to be hysterical and I love that it follows through without wimping out.

Teasing James Gray's Paper Tiger.

Not a trailer, but a live-in billboard to advertise The Last House

Teasing Marie Kreutzer's Gentle Monster.

brundlefly wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2026 1:53 pm Teasing Marie Kreutzer's Gentle Monster.

Just read a description of the premise of the film, which invariably contained a reference to its inspiration - had no idea that the lead male actor in Corsage had been convicted of such an awful crime (NSFW link)

brundlefly wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 1:11 am

Adam X wrote: Thu Jan 01, 1970 1:42 am Alex Cox has a new Kickstarter for My Last Movie.

My "last movie" is a Western version of Nicolai Gogol's "Dead Souls". This is a great book, full of irony, mystery and meaning. I plan to shoot in two locations – Almería, Spain, and Tucson, Arizona.
[…] In some ways my last movie is a classic European or “Spaghetti” Western. But it’s other things too. It’s a celebration of the tenacity of its protagonist, of Gogol's novel, and of the fantastic landscapes of Tucson and Tabernas… As with some of my other films, there is both humour and politics. Plus weirdness.
[…] So please, if you enjoyed "Repo Man" or "Straight to Hell" or "Walker", consider backing a "last movie" in the same vein. Cheers!

Trailer.

This will open this weekend at Roxy Cinema in NYC and he's scheduled for one Q&A.

Princesa Burro (Donkey Princess). From Cristobal León & Joaquín Cociña, directors of La casa lobo (The Wolf House) and animators behind the fantasy play in Beau Is Afraid.

brundlefly wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2026 7:33 pm Teasing James Gray's Paper Tiger.

I really hope Miles Teller plays Neil McCauley in Heat 2, feels like this banks on why. I saw a clip of him on SNL a few years ago and he was a stunningly close image of a version of De Niro from 1988 that is that character.

Jordan Firstman's Club Kid.

Beth de Araújo's Josephine.

brundlefly wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 1:11 am

Adam X wrote: Thu Jan 01, 1970 1:42 am Alex Cox has a new Kickstarter for My Last Movie.

Trailer.

Finally saw this and dug it. The original $75,000 Kickstarter goal was very modest so even though they overshot it a couple of times over, enough to cover nearly every expense, it was still a shoestring budget that came in under $250,000. Still impressive considering it was shot with a full crew on two different continents, but when it came to hair and makeup, you can see the limitations. I also wish some of the cast was a little better, maybe a few more character actors on the level of Harry Dean Stanton in terms of how they look and act on camera. But once I got past that, I thoroughly enjoyed it, every bit as bold and anarchic as anything else Cox has done. Probably surpasses The Samurai and the Prisoner as my favorite narrative film this summer. (My favorites so far this year have mostly been low-budget films including three non-fiction films, one of which was an experimental film shot with a two-person crew driving across the country, a narrative film shot with an antiquated phone, and now this one.)

This actually came out on the 14th, but here's the trailer for Poh Si Teng's American Doctor.

Alex Goyette's Breeder.

Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning. Are there no good actors that have at least a faint resemblance to Mark Zuckerberg?

Lowry_Sam wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2026 1:10 am Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning. Are there no good actors that have at least a faint resemblance to Mark Zuckerberg?

If Eisenberg wasn't gonna come back (and the two have only gotten more dissimilar in appearance as time has passed), I'm not sure who might have been a better fit. I can sorta see a Drew Starkey-type working, but I think they did about as well as they could have with Jeremy Strong. Surely the movie's other problems will lie elsewhere

Cristian Mungiu's Fjord.

brundlefly wrote: Tue Aug 04, 2026 2:59 pm Teasing John Wilson's The History of Concrete.

Trailer.

Netflix is bringing us the Unabomber.

Can a dramatic series on the Luddites be next?

Anton Corbijn's A Talent For Murder