Follow Tucson Weekly - Cinema, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/tucsonweekly4 Thu, 28 Sep 2023 19:22:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOtqOaKVg4YC4F1cWWor9YPv Horror has been having something of a boom over the past year and a half…]]> Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOtqOaKVg4YC4F1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOuLuTKwEs57b-T5HJgy6HUf When it was announced that Christopher Nolan would make his return to the director’s chair with a film chronicling the career of the father of the atomic bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer in September 2021, many film fans and history buffs’ minds became piqued…]]> Thu, 20 Jul 2023 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOuLuTKwEs57b-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvqe79udXZp-Hn9ye8UNv30 The Screening Room is rolling out the red carpet on Monday, June 26, for the world premiere of “Single Minded,” a feature-length film that answers the question if life truly begins at 70…]]> Thu, 22 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvqe79udXZp-Hn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvlYHRFg35Zf11cWWor9YPv The concept of In-Yun is one that’s threaded throughout the new film “Past Lives,” which has been receiving rave reviews since it screened at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year…]]> Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:14:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvlYHRFg35Zf11cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOtOOlFjtnKJUMb1naedg1wr When Ari Aster said in a 2019 Reddit Ask Me Anything post that his next film may be a “zonky nightmare comedy,” the idea wasn’t hard to imagine…]]> Thu, 20 Apr 2023 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOtOOlFjtnKJUMb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOuOgvHCuCmXFnn9ye8UNv30 The new British romantic comedy “Rye Lane” is a breath of fresh air in a sea of the usual dime-a-dozen direct-to-streaming releases in the genre…]]> Thu, 30 Mar 2023 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOuOgvHCuCmXFnn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvhZ7F-sBM4myejEQ2Mq9rY More than 25 years after the first film and without the late, great horror maestro Wes Craven at its helm, it would be easy to say the “Scream” franchise should be left alone…]]> Thu, 09 Mar 2023 01:47:51 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvhZ7F-sBM4myejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvdCBfnD4FuEHn9ye8UNv30 A dancer of Black, Chinese and Latino heritage, Khadifa Wong was frustrated with the lack of opportunities for performers of color…]]> Thu, 09 Feb 2023 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvdCBfnD4FuEHn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvvS9A37uwKaV1cWWor9YPv At the Tucson International Jewish Film Festival, people of all backgrounds are invited to enjoy films spotlighting Jewish life and culture…]]> Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvvS9A37uwKaV1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOtvYBeM1Nb9Pl1cWWor9YPv While writer-director Damien Chazelle’s ambitious and outrageous “Babylon” offers a different look at the Golden Age of Hollywood than usually depicted on screen, it’s an equally entertaining and flawed film that’s as excessive as the world it portrays…]]> Fri, 16 Dec 2022 20:30:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOtvYBeM1Nb9Pl1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOssyxm-aa7HvZs0ohxaO6Yr Luca Guadagnino’s last two feature films were the decidedly different 2017 coming-of-age romantic drama “Call Me by Your Name” and 2018 arthouse reimagining of the cult classic horror film “Suspiria.”…]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOssyxm-aa7HvZs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOtLdfMuVzgLB6CY3L745TL_ Lydia Tár is an icon…]]> Thu, 13 Oct 2022 20:28:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOtLdfMuVzgLB6CY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOswhkvt_V85QOT5HJgy6HUf The annual Tucson Film & Music Festival is returning for its 18th year, and its lineup is showcasing a range of diverse pieces for its film community…]]> Fri, 07 Oct 2022 18:25:03 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOswhkvt_V85QOT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOs5cLILjow4zJs0ohxaO6Yr “Lute,” a documentary by Podium Pictures honoring the legacy of legendary UA men’s basketball coach, Lute Olson, will hold its world premiere at 5:30 p.m…]]> Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOs5cLILjow4zJs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOu-LZGFMa6t45VjH6qdYdAk When Ti West’s “X” was released in theaters back in March, critics and audiences alike were largely impressed with the 1970s throwback slasher film, which was a sleazy little affair that saw a group of amateur adult filmmakers fall into the hands of a murderous elderly couple in rural Texas…]]> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 20:12:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOu-LZGFMa6t45VjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvmmz5lYVIl8ClmFkX7M1Jw If you’ve heard talk of “Barbarian,” you’ve likely heard that it’s best to go in knowing as little as possible…]]> Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:05:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvmmz5lYVIl8ClmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvEkArFYgghXJVjH6qdYdAk An independent local feature film titled “Run Rabbit” was selected to play opening night of the Arizona Sunburn Film Festival in Tucson.…]]> Thu, 21 Jul 2022 23:10:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvEkArFYgghXJVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOuOKLPY5_kVvF1cWWor9YPv It would be understandable to be skeptical of the claim that one of the best films of the first half of the year is a stop-motion/live-action hybrid mockumentary based on a series of viral videos about a talking seashell with one googly eye and a pair of shoes.…]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:30:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOuOKLPY5_kVvF1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvgdGt16DOzml1cWWor9YPv The Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky once said, “The artist exists because the world is not perfect.” In turn, the Arizona International Film Festival returns this year with a renewed effort on connection and collaboration, perhaps making the world a bit better through art.…]]> Thu, 21 Apr 2022 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOvgdGt16DOzml1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOuw14_QdYjGZ6CY3L745TL_ Jingle All the Way is a movie that defies expectations. For example, as the movie opens on a hulking Arnold Schwarzenegger playing an all-American dad named Howard Langston, you might expect there to be a brief acknowledgement of or explanation forwhy this massive bodybuilder with an Austrian accent is working in an office job in Minnesota.…]]> Thu, 09 Dec 2021 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/q2QpXvL8cOuw14_QdYjGZ6CY3L745TL_