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A casino vote in 1932 cuts to a Grindr notification in 2017.
LA BOLA NEGRA connects generations of queer lives through cuts like that. Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi built the film from the four pages Federico García Lorca left of his unfinished play.
John Carpenter made a surveillance thriller for TV in 1978.
In SOMEONE’S WATCHING ME!, the stalker uses microphones, tape recorders and the building’s computerized maintenance system against Lauren Hutton. Even the apartment’s conveniences become part of the threat.
Francesca and Michaela’s season of BRIDGERTON has finished filming.
Hannah Dodd and Masali Baduza lead season 5, with Francesca trying to approach marriage practically and her feelings refusing to cooperate. Netflix has shared these new portraits of the pair.
Sarah Snook’s return to HBO comes with a murder mystery and a bird problem.
THE BIRDS is in development as a limited series. She’ll play a mother investigating a friend’s disappearance, with deadly attacks tied to the crime. Tom Spezialy wrote the pilot.
Brett Morgen found unseen 1978 Bowie concert footage while making MOONAGE DAYDREAM.
Now it’s becoming DAVID BOWIE ‘STAGE’: a three-screen concert experience with restored footage and 7.1 sound, premiering in Berlin on February 14, 2027.
The lighting reference for TONY’s bar scenes: old Pizza Hut.
Cinematographer Michael Bauman and production designer Ryan Warren Smith built the look around neon, practical lamps and smoke. Those stained-glass shades make perfect sense now.
Keanu Reeves is replacing Alan Ritchson in Netflix’s MAELSTROM, Deadline reports.
A federal marshal, a protected witness and a hurricane cutting off help. CARRY-ON’s Jaume Collet-Serra directs a script that first sold in 1993.
HBO’s HARRY POTTER has found James and Lily: Jasper Talbot and Hannah Chinn.
Harry Gilby will play Charlie Weasley, too. How much of Harry’s parents we’ll actually see is still under wraps.
Steven Soderbergh wanted to remake MATANGO (1963), Ishirō Honda’s mushroom horror film. It terrified him as a kid, but he couldn’t reach a deal with Toho. That’s one abandoned remake worth thinking about.
Even a phone call gets this framing in DUEL (1971). Spielberg shoots Dennis Weaver through a washing-machine door. The scene was added for the theatrical cut.
A body-horror movie and a documentary are leading the weekend. Saturday’s domestic projections: CLAYFACE at $24–25M, with YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING at $19–20M in weekend two. A very different kind of box-office race.
Joanne and Noah aren’t out of story yet. Erin Foster says she has more planned for NOBODY WANTS THIS, but Netflix hasn’t renewed it for season 4. The creator is ready. Now it’s Netflix’s move.
More time with Eleanor Young. Good luck, Rachel.
Constance Wu says HBO’s CRAZY RICH ASIANS sequel series starts filming in New York next year. Adele Lim is writing and showrunning, with Henry Golding and Michelle Yeoh also returning.
Two weeks in quarantine, and Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer wrote WICKER.
Olivia Colman commissions a husband from a basketmaker. Alexander Skarsgård is the husband.
A fairly productive fortnight.
RAISED BY WOLVES people, we have something to cling to.
Creator Aaron Guzikowski is writing a new ALIEN movie, with Ridley Scott producing. Very early days, but that’s an interesting reunion.
Imagine going to a Tarantino Q&A and leaving having seen 17 minutes of David Fincher’s next movie.
That was AFI Fest last night: THE FURTHER MIS-ADVENTURES OF CLIFF BOOTH, with Brad Pitt back in the role.
A useful reminder that you don’t have to become friends with the neighbors.
Olivia Wilde’s THE INVITE is now on HBO Max in the U.S., starring Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton.
A boxing crowd, filmed in Stanley Kubrick’s living room.
For DAY OF THE FIGHT (1951), he shot extra spectator reactions at home. A small reminder that a convincing location can end just outside the frame.
Your film taste can now follow you into the group chat.
Discord has added Letterboxd profile linking on desktop. Mobile linking is coming in the next couple of weeks.
