Blake Williams
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Some incredible and surreal news: PROTOTYPE has been picked up by
@GhopperFilm
for US theatrical distribution.
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A new critics grid called MOIRÉE is launching for this year’s Cannes, featuring a formidable group of writers & programmers. Follow along starting tomorrow!
Big thanks to Mina Mikhail (
@fightingtheboss
) for designing the beautiful, customizable template.
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Half the Cannes Competition has screened, here's how they've fared on Moirée:
3.6 Jia
2.8 Coppola
2.7 Schrader
2.0 Arnold
1.9 Fargeat
1.8 von Horn
1.7 Serebrennikov
1.6 Riedinger
1.5 Lanthimos
1.3 Pârvu
1.0 Audiard
Scores for all sections here:
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MUBI’s first ever 3D SVOD collection is a big deal (launching in tandem with Apple’s Vision Pro), and I couldn’t be happier to be apart of it.
Four of my films now available in the US and Canada:
SOMETHING HORIZONTAL
PROTOTYPE
2008
LABERINT SEQUENCES
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So PROTOTYPE *may* be coming to 3D Blu-ray in a one-time, limited edition release this summer, if I can raise the funds to pay for it. Please check out the Indiegogo campaign here:
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My first long project, a 3D sci-fi movie called PROTOTYPE, will have its world premiere in Locarno next month.
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1. Scénarios + Exposé
2. Megalopolis
3. Misericordia
4. The Shrouds
5. Anora
6. Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
7. Caught by the Tides
8. All We Imagine as Light
9. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
10. Viet and Nam
HM: Universal Language, Black Dog, The Substance
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My short 2008 will have its international premiere in the upcoming
@Berlinale
, where it will compete for a Golden Bear in the
@berlinaleshorts
section. …
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Moirée update entering the homestretch:
3.9 Jia
3.9 Cronenberg
3.6 Baker
2.9 Coppola
2.7 Schrader
2.6 Fargeat
2.4 Arnold
1.8 von Horn
1.6 Riedinger
1.5 Lanthimos
1.5 Abassi
1.3 Parvu
1.2 Serebrennikov
1.0 Audiard
0.9 Honoré
0.3 Sorrentino
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A WOMAN ESCAPES premieres next month at
@FIDMarseille
, International Competition
in 16mm, 4K, & 3D
Directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz (
@SofiaGolightly
), Burak Çevik (
@bu_cevik
), Blake Williams
Starring Deragh Campbell
Original Score by
@sarahdavachi
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1. France
2. Train Again
3. Red Rocket
4. The Souvenir Part II
5. The Tsugua Diaries
6. Bergman Island
7. Onoda
8. Drive My Car
9. Vortex
10. The Worst Person in the World
HMs: Titane, Sycorax, Hit the Road, Memoria, Ghost Song
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Made a Korean friend while hiking. This is Song. He loves David Lynch and refers to Hong Sang-so as "shithead."
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Cool new one-sheet for PROTOTYPE — designed by Kang Gooryong, commissioned as part of
@Jeonju_IFF
's "100 films 100 posters" project.
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Kristen Stewart is the best thing in it. Best Actress assured. RT
@refaro86
:
@Astrostic
Can you give us your thoughts on her performance?
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Personal Shopper (~6.3): Not sure if this is a movie, what the movie is, who allowed it to be made, etc., but I'm very happy it happened.
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tfw your new movie's about to premiere and you've finished your pancakes.
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Kinda bored of my favourites, but have remained curious/excited about these movie(-ish thing)s from 2010-2019.
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US Premiere of LABERINT SEQUENCES will be in
@TheNYFF
Currents.
And here is the official poster (+ GIF version)
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Cannes faves:
1. Liberté
…
2. Young Ahmed
3. Joan of Arc
4. The Traitor
5. Lux Æterna
6. Tommaso
7. Bacurau
8. Parasite
9. A White, White Day
10. Sibyl
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Three directors, three dimensions, omne trium perfectum, etc.
Naturally, A WOMAN ESCAPES has three posters. And here they are.
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Headed to New York for tomorrow's opening of PROTOTYPE at
@MovingImageNYC
! Q&As at both screening Friday and the early one on Sat. Here's the
@nytimes
review (Critic's Pick!):
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The race for the Palme Moirée is down to the wire.
Jia (3.92857), Gomes (3.90625), Cronenberg (3.86667), and Kapadia (3.67857) have been called back.
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Flew home early from my first trip to Japan specifically so I could see Snow’s CITYSCAPE on Cinesphere’s IMAX screen (extremely good decision). I think about his art and words more than anyone else’s. RIP.
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LABERINT SEQUENCES has its North American premiere in
@WVLGTHS
this September!
Also, really nice to see
@TIFF_NET
's most vital section expanding back closer to pre-pandemic numbers. 3 amazing looking shorts programmes and many of the best feature films of the year.
The shorts selection features new work by Pedro Costa, Philipp Fleischmann,
@jatovia
, Jean-Luc Godard, Jorge Jácome, Shambhavi Kaul, Simon Liu, Rose Lowder, Tomonari Nishikawa, Steve Reinke, Viktoria Schmid,
@es_zip
, Joshua Gen Solondz,
@MaryamTafakory
, and
@Astrostic
.
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1. Eo
2. Showing Up
3. De Humani Corporis Fabrica
4. The Natural History of Destruction
5. Pacifiction
6. Crimes of the Future
7. Mother and Son
8. One Fine Morning
9. Funny Pages
10. Triangle of Sadness
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Tomorrow I get to show my students WAVELENGTH on 16mm, a bunch of Lillian Schwartz films in ChromaDepth, a Takashi Makino with Pulfrich lenses, and LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE with fireworks glasses. If this doesn't get them to forgive me for anaglyph GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE, nothing will.
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Dougles 👏 Sirk 👏 in 3 👏 D 👏
Coming Early 2020!
A 3-D Restoration by 3-D Film Archive!
Taza, Son of Cochise (1954) Starring Rock Hudson as Taza, Barbara Rush as Oona and Jeff Chandler as Cochise – Shot by Russell Metty (Midnight Lace) – Directed by Douglas Sirk (The Tarnished Angels).
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Finally some good news. Congrats!
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My interview with Eduardo ‘Teddy’ Williams, in which he discusses his new film THE HUMAN SURGE 3, is now available online as part of
@CinemaScopeMag
’s exhaustive
@TIFF_NET
coverage.
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Jeannette: This screening needed a mosh pit. Gonna be hard for Dumont to top this.
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Spoke to Bi Gan about his semi-3D new movie, which was one of the highlights of this year's Cannes:
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Goodbye to Language (9.9) - Thoughts after second and third screenings, but among other things, the first film to make me cry.
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On Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s two new films at Cannes.
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I spoke to Jodie Mack about her new film after its Locarno premiere, and here it is now 👇
From Issue 76 of Cinema Scope, it's a Mack Attack!
@Astrostic
talks to Jodie Mack about The Grand Bizarre
#TIFF18
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See you soon New York.
Just announced: Blake Williams's PROTOTYPE will open the 7th annual
#FirstLookFest
at MoMI, Jan 5–15. Full lineup posted!
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3D!
While still in production... Jean-Luc Godard working on new film, LE LIVRE D'IMAGE (aka Image et Parole)
#jeanlucgodard
#film
#cinema
#movie
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CERTAIN WOMEN may be nothing more or less than pure dignity and uppercase 'C' Cinema, and I will absolutely take it.
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No Future - Short films about Tomorrow. As part of the 17th LICHTER Filmfest. April 21st, 20:30h - Deutschen Filmmuseum Frankfurt
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That curtain
Blake Williams (
@Astrostic
) talking PROTOTYPE, his debut 3D feature film, which opened
#FirstLookFest
last night. First Look ‘18 programs continue today starting with TONGUE CUTTERS at 1pm!
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1. The Daughters of Fire
2. A Prince
3. May December
4. Last Summer
5. Anselm
6. The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
7. The Sweet East
8. Club Zero
9. Riddle of Fire
10. The Chimera
also The Delinquents, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, Eureka, Occupied City
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A bunch of new-to-me audio(/)visual experiences that helped get me through last year. (My real 2020 mvp tho: natural processed sidamas)
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Ton of great stuff in Scott MacKenzie & Janine Marchessault’s just released new book, Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age (launching at TIFF’s second Film Farm screening, July 11!), which includes great writing from Bart Testa on my 2014 anaglyph short Red Capriccio.
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See you opening weekend, New York.
Get your 3-D glasses ready! Blake Williams' (
@Astrostic
) PROTOTYPE is coming to
@MovingImageNYC
for a limited engagement starting 8/31.
"The most significant 3-D film since GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE." -
@villagevoice
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Been an absolute pleasure to work with
@JEONJU_IFF
on the expanded / installation version of 2008, which is having its world premiere today. So wish I were there right now.
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If in Vancouver,
@theCinematheque
is screening GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE in full 3D tonight as part of their Godard retrospective (also showing on Feb. 12, 16, 18, & 24). All screenings will be preceded by a 10min. video introduction that I made (in 3D).
A major highlight of our Godard retrospective begins its run this Saturday.
@earofnewt
recommends!
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I spoke with Wim Wenders about 3D filmmaking and his new film ANSELM, one of my faves from this year’s Cannes.
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Amazing lineup, which also includes the world premiere of my new film LABERINT SEQUENCES, showing in an Anaglyph 3D version.
COMPÉTITION 🏆 ✨
Cette année encore, la compétition de Cinéma du réel met à l’honneur les films documentaires français et internationaux les plus remarquables.
📽️ Découvrez les films :
#cinemadureel
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I wrote this piece on NOCTURAMA almost a year ago. Not sure if I've seen a better movie since.
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My review of Bonello's NOCTURAMA, which is one of the films of the year.
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Courtesy of
@prismaticground
, A WOMAN ESCAPES opens for a week-long run at
@AnthologyFilm
in New York on June 9, accompanied by daily retrospective screenings. Sofia Bohdanowicz and I will in town to present and discuss our work. Very major thanks to
@storebrandbrown
. Schedule:
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Thrilled to announce I've helped curate a dream program of 3D features and shorts for this year's
@BigEarsFestival
. Can't wait to share the full line-up. Y'all really should try to come.
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Pierre Creton’s A PRINCE: Always nice to see a movie made by a filmmaker. Highlight so far.
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New York folks not leaving town for the tiff have five more chances to catch PROTOTYPE at
@MovingImageNYC
.
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About to head to Mexico City, where I'll be on the international shorts jury at
@BlackCanvas_FCC
. It's a fest I've eyed and admired since it started in 2017. This year's program is packed with vital, radical cinema, inc. Andrei Ujică, Rita Azevedo Gomes, Paul Vecchiali retros. 👍
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Almost literally floated out of that Twin Peaks screening. Oh my god!
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1. Coma
2. The Novelist’s Film
3. Afterwater
4. Rewind & Play
5. The Middle Ages
6. Dry Ground Burning
7. The United States of America
8. The Sower of Stars
9. That Kind of Summer
10. Queens of the Qing Dynasty
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Takashi Makino at Toronto's PIX FILM Gallery this coming Monday (Apr 22, 7PM), with 16mm + digital screenings & performance, including SPACE NOISE 3D.
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Less than two weeks out from
@FIDMarseille
, we're unveiling our trailer for A WOMAN ESCAPES today at
@CriterionDaily
. Take a look 👀
Delighted to debut the trailer (1’08”) for A WOMAN ESCAPES, directed by Sofia Bohdanowicz (
@SofiaGolightly
), Burak Çevik (
@bu_cevik
), and Blake Williams (
@Astrostic
) and starring Deragh Campbell.
Premiering
@FIDMarseille
!
#FIDMarseille
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Next stop for PROTOTYPE (and Red Capriccio) is
@MDQFEST
. I'll be there for intros and Q&As (and that Zelimir Zilnik retro[!]).
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Wonderstruck: I'd be pretty okay with Haynes directing all the childrens movies. Also is this his MISSION TO MARS.
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Houston Cinema Arts Festival's customized gift for me: a director's chair holding a stereoscope w/stereographs + miniature Galveston and small rowboat.
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New Ramon Zürcher in development for 2019 called The Girl and the Spider 🙏 🙌
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On 24 FRAMES — Kiarostami's playful, rigorous, and moving farewell — in the new
@CinemaScopeMag
:
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Elle (7.3): Feeling weirdly empowered for having just had my balls nailed to the wall.
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Ismael's Ghosts: Aligns itself w/layered structuring logic of Pollock's LAVENDER MIST, which okay, might as well. Didn't find emotional in.
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Cemetery of Splendour (7.6) - The remake of THE POLTERGEIST I never knew I needed. Never change, Joe.
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Huge thanks to
@sarahtai
for bringing PROTOTYPE back to TO!
Screening w/the World Premiere (!) of Ken Jacobs's DETAILS OF POLLOCK'S WHITE LIGHT, and Toronto premieres of Rainer Kohlberger's MORE THAN EVERYTHING and the 3D version of Johann Lurf's TWELVE TALES TOLD. Will be fun!
today, in exciting news:
@Astrostic
's experimental 3D marvel PROTOTYPE comes to
@TheRoyalCinema
Friday, January 18th!
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