Angelica Ross has more to say about her experience working with Ryan Murphy and what happened on the set of American Horror Story.
04.09.2023 - 15:55 / variety.com
Guy Lodge Film Critic The mythology around Japan as a nation of everyday ghosts — where the living and the dead share space, occasionally in view of each other — can lead certain western filmmakers into dubious territory: If you don’t recall how Gus van Sant floundered with the mawkish, condescending exoticism of “The Sea of Trees,” trust that it’s best forgotten. Centered on a long-grieving Frenchwoman who finally makes peace with her husband’s death over the course of a Japanese work trip, “Sidonie in Japan” risks similar pitfalls — but Élise Girard’s droll, bittersweet romance mostly dodges them with grace and good humor, plus a pointed awareness of the limitations of its outsider perspective.
Premiering in the Venice Days sidebar at this year’s Venice Film Festival, this is a sweetly unassuming affair that is given some vinegary oomph by the presence of Isabelle Huppert in the lead — which will doubtless secure “Sidonie in Japan” more international distributor attention than it would otherwise receive. Still, much as the film benefits from the star’s signature quizzical semi-froideur, it’s not a solo showcase, growing gradually into a winning two-hander between Huppert and Tsuyoshi Ihara (best known internationally for his prominent role in Clint Eastwood’s “Letters From Iwo Jima”) as her unlikely chaperone and suitor.
Their chemistry, often silent but tinglingly felt in passing gazes and gestures, carries Girard’s third feature through any longueurs or over-familiar patches. It’s with some reluctance that Sidonie (Huppert) is in Japan at all: In the opening scene, at Charles de Gaulle Airport, she considers deliberately missing her flight to Osaka.
Angelica Ross has more to say about her experience working with Ryan Murphy and what happened on the set of American Horror Story.
Brian Duffield’s No One Will Save You, now streaming on Hulu, unfolds as a haunting symphony of silence, highlighted by Kaitlyn Dever’s silent acting. Also written by Duffield’s, the meticulous direction of his own script shapes a heightened sense of paranoia, striking the connection between effective visual storytelling and a nuanced narrative.
Season 12 of American Horror Story, subtitled Delicate, has unleashed a brand-new trailer. Featuring reality TV royalty Kim Kardashian in her first dramatic role as Siobhan Walsh, the footage teases a freaky ulterior motive for her character as she supports A-lister and good pal Anna Victoria Alcott (played by franchise regular Emma Roberts) in her challenging pursuit of pregnancy.
Andy Cohen and Emma Roberts shaded Tom Sandoval during the premiere episode of “American Horror Story: Delicate”.
Andy Cohen brought a little bit of Bravo drama into the American Horror Story world during a surprise cameo on the premiere of the show’s new season Delicate.
Warning: The following contains spoilers from tonight’s American Horror Story season 12 episode one “Multiply Thy Pain” directed by Jessica Yu and written by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Halley Feiffer.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Ozu Yasujiro, the leading Japanese film director behind classics including “Tokyo Story” and “Late Spring,” has had his double birth and death anniversaries – Ozu died in 1963 on the day of his 60th birthday, a little more than a year after the release of his last film “An Autumn Afternoon” – celebrated throughout 2023 at places as varied as the Cannes Film Festival, Los Angeles’ Margaret Herrick Library and the Taiwan Film & Audiovisual Institute. But it falls to October’s Tokyo International Film Festival to put on this year’s biggest and most comprehensive reconstruction of Ozu’s surprisingly varied career. Working in conjunction with the National Film Archive of Japan, the festival will present an extensive retrospective that covers almost all the films that Ozu directed (TIFF/NFAJ Classics: Ozu Yasujiro Week) from Oct. 24-29. Ozu spent his entire career, from camera assistant in 1923 to renown director in 1962, as an employee of major Japanese studio Shochiku, with all the advantages and disadvantages such an arrangement brought. While Ozu is best known for his stripped-down dramas, often centered on family relationships, sometimes troubled or contentious, involving parents and young or grown-up children, many hinging on questions of marriage, generational misunderstandings or the loneliness of the elderly, the director’s register may not entirely have been of his own choosing. “The apparent consistency of the post-war films surely owes as much to this production situation as to Ozu’s aesthetic choices,” wrote critic Tony Rayns in a recent Sight & Sound portrait.
Angelica Ross says that Ryan Murphy accepted her pitch of doing a season of American Horror Story starring four black women, but then ghosted her and never responded to follow-ups about the project.
A new documentary about the prolific multihyphenate Tyler Perry will be AFI Fest’s centerpiece film next month. The American Film Institute said today that Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story will make its world premiere October 27 at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
Guy Lodge Film Critic That perky exclamation point sets the tone for “Coup!,” a story of murder, class struggle, One Percent entitlement and a global pandemic that nonetheless unfolds with all the eager, scrappy energy of an off-Broadway musical, minus most of the songs. The pandemic in question is not the one you’re thinking of — Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman’s puckish comic thriller unfolds against the dire backdrop of the 1918 Spanish Flu — but it also sort of is, as its study of wealthy exceptionalism in a time of national crisis is clearly intended to chime with more recent memories of regimented distancing and mixed safety messages from on high.
Selome Hailu BET+ has set premiere dates for its fall slate of films and new and returning TV series. First on the list is “Love & Murder: Atlanta Playboy,” a film series starring Taye Diggs. Part 1 debuts on Sept.
Todd Gilchrist editor To capture the breadth and depth of the musical career of Japanese composer and recording artist Ryuichi Sakamoto seems impossible, but somehow “Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus” almost accomplishes this herculean challenge. A document of Sakamoto’s final performance before his death from cancer last march, the film provides no commentary or context for the enormity of his body of work, yet somehow encompasses it all as he performs a curated set list in a Japanese recording studio for an audience of one — himself.
“American Horror Story: Delicate” — the 12th installment in Ryan Murphy’s spooky series. Kardashian, 42, plays Siobhan Walsh, close friend and stylist to the main character, actor Anna Alcott (Emma Roberts).
Producer Ryan Murphy has made a cottage industry out of the Ryan Murphy brand, but for all his shows and spin-offs, perhaps none is bigger than FX‘s “American Horror Story” franchise. Now in its twelfth season, the latest from this horror anthology is “American Horror Story: Delicate.” READ MORE: 12 TV Shows To Watch In September: ‘The Morning Show,’ ‘The Continental’ & More Based on Danielle Valentine’s book “Delicate Condition,” ‘Delicate’ stars ‘AHS’ veteran Emma Roberts and newcomers Kim Kardashian and Cara Delevingne star in the season too.
The devil is in the details. Pink-nailed toes scrunching on a pink carpet; a packet of false eyelashes; piles of chips in a Vegas casino; the pills. Always the pills: squeezed in a palm that opens to reveal its little white prize; lined up in bottles on the bedside table; slipped into a pocket on the way to school. “Maybe the pills are too much,” ventures Priscilla Beaulieu to her boyfriend Elvis Presley, after one of his flares of temper where she just manages to dodge his fist. “I have doctors looking after me,” he growls. “I don’t need a second opinion.”
The plan was for renowned director William Friedkin to be appearing at the Venice Film Festival presenting the out of competition World Premiere of his latest production, an adaptation of Herman Wouk’s 1954 play The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Unfortunately Friedkin died August 7th, but the show goes on anyway.
In Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel, All of Us Strangers was a ghost story of a son reconnecting with his long-dead parents while navigating romance in the current era. In adapting this weird story for the screen, writer-director Andrew Haigh made some changes, largely making the main character gay, not heterosexual, and letting the ghostly elements disappear into a feeling that this is all happening in the present day, even if son and parents are essentially the same age.
Mitski has announced listening parties for her upcoming LP ‘The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We’, along with film screenings.The music and film double features will occur next week on Thursday, September 7. These events will be presented in movie theatres in eight international cities, including Chicago, Dallas, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Nashville, Sydney, and New York — plus one planetarium in Tokyo, Japan — with the US events co-presented by Spotify.Fans will be able to gather together in an intimate setting for an early preview of ‘The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We’ in its entirety.
Kim Kardashian just added a new item to her summer wardrobe. The reality star and fashion icon, who recently attended an important event with Lauren Sanchez and Eva Longoria, seems to have set the start of a new trend after wearing a reflective bikini during her recent getaway, with many already rushing to buy the ensemble.KIM KARDASHIAN POSES POOLSIDE IN TINY BIKINI DURING ITALIAN VACATIONBIANCA CENSORI AND KANYE WEST: WHY KIM KARDASHIAN REFUSES TO ‘PAY ATTENTION’ TO THEIR ‘MARRIAGE’The businesswoman took to social media to showcase her new look, paired with what seemed to be a neon manicure and a pair of futuristic sunglasses.
Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori (GdA), running alongside the main festival from August 30 to September 9, celebrates its 20th edition this year.