October is upon us. The leaves are changing. Sweaters are becoming more abundant. Awards contenders are popping up in theaters nationwide. But those are far from the only films opening throughout the coming weeks. Below, you’ll find every planned theatrical release for the month of October, separated out into films with wide runs and limited ones. (Synopses are provided by festivals and distributors.)
Each week, we’ll give you an update with more specific information on where these films are playing. In the meantime, be sure to check our calendar page, where we’ll update releases for the rest of the year. Stay warm and happy watching!
Week of October 7 Wide
The Birth of a Nation
Director: Nate Parker
Cast: Aja Naomi King, Armie Hammer, Gabrielle Union, Jackie Earle Haley, Mark Boone Junior, Nate Parker
Synopsis: Set against the antebellum South and based on a true story, “The Birth...
Each week, we’ll give you an update with more specific information on where these films are playing. In the meantime, be sure to check our calendar page, where we’ll update releases for the rest of the year. Stay warm and happy watching!
Week of October 7 Wide
The Birth of a Nation
Director: Nate Parker
Cast: Aja Naomi King, Armie Hammer, Gabrielle Union, Jackie Earle Haley, Mark Boone Junior, Nate Parker
Synopsis: Set against the antebellum South and based on a true story, “The Birth...
- 10/6/2016
- by Steve Greene and Zipporah Smith
- Indiewire
The distributor has picked up all Us rights from Elle Driver to Andre Techiné’s recent Berlinale competition world premiere.
Being 17 will open in late autumn and takes places against the mountainous backdrop of the Pyrenees, where two young classmates start off as enemies and gradually develop feelings for each other.
Sandrine Kiberlain stars with Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila, and Alexis Loret.
This will be the fifth Techiné film that Strand distributes after Wild Reeds, The Girl On The Train, Witnesses and Unforgivable.
Techiné collaborated on the screenplay with Girlhood director Celine Sciamma, whose film Strand also released.
Strand co-president Jon Gerrans brokered the deal with Adeline Fontan Tessaur of Elle Driver.
Being 17 will open in late autumn and takes places against the mountainous backdrop of the Pyrenees, where two young classmates start off as enemies and gradually develop feelings for each other.
Sandrine Kiberlain stars with Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila, and Alexis Loret.
This will be the fifth Techiné film that Strand distributes after Wild Reeds, The Girl On The Train, Witnesses and Unforgivable.
Techiné collaborated on the screenplay with Girlhood director Celine Sciamma, whose film Strand also released.
Strand co-president Jon Gerrans brokered the deal with Adeline Fontan Tessaur of Elle Driver.
- 4/5/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Reviewed in today's Berlinale Diary: Heiner Carow's The Journey to Sundevit; Ted Fendt's Short Stay with Meaghan Lydon, Marta Sicinksa and Mike Maccherone; André Téchiné's Being 17, co-written with Céline Sciamma and starring Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila and Alexis Loret; Ivo M. Ferreira's Letters from War with Miguel Nunes, Margarida Vila-Nova, Ricardo Pereira, João Pedro Vaz and João Pedro Mamede; Philip Scheffner's Havarie; Anne Zohra Berrached's 24 Weeks with Julia Jentsch, Bjarne Mädel, Johanna Gastdorf, Emilia Pieske and Maria Dragus; and Rachid Bouchareb's Road to Istanbul with Astrid Whettnall, Pauline Burlet, Patricia Ide and Abel Jafri. » - David Hudson...
- 2/15/2016
- Keyframe
Reviewed in today's Berlinale Diary: Heiner Carow's The Journey to Sundevit; Ted Fendt's Short Stay with Meaghan Lydon, Marta Sicinksa and Mike Maccherone; André Téchiné's Being 17, co-written with Céline Sciamma and starring Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila and Alexis Loret; Ivo M. Ferreira's Letters from War with Miguel Nunes, Margarida Vila-Nova, Ricardo Pereira, João Pedro Vaz and João Pedro Mamede; Philip Scheffner's Havarie; Anne Zohra Berrached's 24 Weeks with Julia Jentsch, Bjarne Mädel, Johanna Gastdorf, Emilia Pieske and Maria Dragus; and Rachid Bouchareb's Road to Istanbul with Astrid Whettnall, Pauline Burlet, Patricia Ide and Abel Jafri. » - David Hudson...
- 2/15/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
As if new films from the Coens and Jeff Nichols weren’t enough, the 2016 Berlin Film Festival has further expanded their line-up, adding some of our most-anticipated films of the year. Mia Hansen-Løve, following up her incredible, sadly overlooked drama Eden, will premiere the Isabelle Huppert-led Things to Come, while Thomas Vinterberg, Lav Diaz, André Téchiné, and many more will stop by with their new features. Check out the new additions below, followed by some previously announced films, notably John Michael McDonagh‘s War on Everyone.
Competition
Cartas da guerra (Letters from War)
Portugal
By Ivo M. Ferreira (Na Escama do Dragão)
With Miguel Nunes, Margarida Vila-Nova
World premiere
Ejhdeha Vared Mishavad! (A Dragon Arrives!)
Iran
By Mani Haghighi (Modest Reception, Men at Work)
With Amir Jadidi, Homayoun Ghanizadeh, Ehsan Goudarzi, Kiana Tajammol
International premiere
Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea) – documentary
Italy / France
By Gianfranco Rosi (Sacro Gra, El Sicario...
Competition
Cartas da guerra (Letters from War)
Portugal
By Ivo M. Ferreira (Na Escama do Dragão)
With Miguel Nunes, Margarida Vila-Nova
World premiere
Ejhdeha Vared Mishavad! (A Dragon Arrives!)
Iran
By Mani Haghighi (Modest Reception, Men at Work)
With Amir Jadidi, Homayoun Ghanizadeh, Ehsan Goudarzi, Kiana Tajammol
International premiere
Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea) – documentary
Italy / France
By Gianfranco Rosi (Sacro Gra, El Sicario...
- 1/11/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
New titles from Thomas Vinterberg, Mia Hansen-Løve, Danis Tanovic, Lav Diaz and Gianfranco Rosi among line-up.Scroll down for full list
Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 11-21) has added nine titles to its Competition line-up, bringing the current total to 14 (the full Competition programme will be announced soon, according to the fest).
The new additions include The Commune, marking the first time Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt, Far From The Madding Crowd) has been in Competition at Berlin since Submarino in 2010. The film centres on a Danish commune in the 1970s and will be released in Denmark this weekend (Jan 14).
French director Mia Hansen-Løve (Eden) has been selected with her drama Things to Come, starring Isabelle Huppert as a woman embarking on a new life after her husband leaves her for another woman. The film will world premiere at Berlin.
Another world premiere will be documentary Fire at Sea, capturing life on...
Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 11-21) has added nine titles to its Competition line-up, bringing the current total to 14 (the full Competition programme will be announced soon, according to the fest).
The new additions include The Commune, marking the first time Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt, Far From The Madding Crowd) has been in Competition at Berlin since Submarino in 2010. The film centres on a Danish commune in the 1970s and will be released in Denmark this weekend (Jan 14).
French director Mia Hansen-Løve (Eden) has been selected with her drama Things to Come, starring Isabelle Huppert as a woman embarking on a new life after her husband leaves her for another woman. The film will world premiere at Berlin.
Another world premiere will be documentary Fire at Sea, capturing life on...
- 1/11/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Quand on a 17 ans
Director: André Téchiné
Writer(s): Celine Sciamma, André Téchiné
French auteur André Téchiné will be ready with his twenty-first feature in 2016, Quand on a 17 ans (When You’re 17), co-written by director Celine Sciamma. Swiss actor Kacey Mottet Klein of Ursula Meier’s 2012 film Sister and revered French actress Sandrine Kiberlaine headline this tale about adolescent Damien the gay son of a soldier who lives in the barracks with his mother in Southwest France. When his dad is dispatched to Africa, Damien starts to be bullied by Tom, whose own adoptive mother has fallen ill. Tensions rise when Damien’s mom decides to care for Tom due to his own mother’s inability.
Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein, Alexis Loret
Production Co./Producers: Fidelite Films’ Olivier Delbosc and Marc Missonnier, France 2 Cinema
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Tbd (domestic). Elle Driver (international).
Release...
Director: André Téchiné
Writer(s): Celine Sciamma, André Téchiné
French auteur André Téchiné will be ready with his twenty-first feature in 2016, Quand on a 17 ans (When You’re 17), co-written by director Celine Sciamma. Swiss actor Kacey Mottet Klein of Ursula Meier’s 2012 film Sister and revered French actress Sandrine Kiberlaine headline this tale about adolescent Damien the gay son of a soldier who lives in the barracks with his mother in Southwest France. When his dad is dispatched to Africa, Damien starts to be bullied by Tom, whose own adoptive mother has fallen ill. Tensions rise when Damien’s mom decides to care for Tom due to his own mother’s inability.
Cast: Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein, Alexis Loret
Production Co./Producers: Fidelite Films’ Olivier Delbosc and Marc Missonnier, France 2 Cinema
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. Tbd (domestic). Elle Driver (international).
Release...
- 1/7/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
CANNES -- With a pretentious shooting style and obscure narrative whose characters never get introduced and key moments occur off screen, "Marseille" by German director Angela Schanelec fails to engage the viewer at any level. Any discussion afterwards, assuming people will stick through the entire 95 minutes, will undoubtedly focus on unscrambling the missing pieces and debating character relationships.
The first section, set in the Southern French port city of Marseille, is clear enough only one wishes the writer-director wouldn't indulge so in long, poorly composed shots of static action. Sophie (Maren Eggert), a young photographer from Germany, exchanges apartments for a few days with a woman from Marseille. She speaks fluent French, yet contents herself with wandering the streets to take photos.
Eventually, she asks a mechanic, Pierre (Alexis Loret), if she might rent a car. They meet later in a bar and become friendly. They may or may not become romantically involved. It's not clear.
Abruptly, Sophia is back in Germany -- the notes say Berlin but who knows? Confusion now reigns. The Marseille woman never showed up at her Berlin flat but this mystery is dropped. Sophie's life is somehow entangled with another woman, Hannah (Marie-Lou Sellem), possibly a sister or friend, and her boyfriend or husband Ivan (Devid Striesow) and their young son. Then a script gets lost or stolen in the park. Then the scene suddenly and inexplicably shifts to a play rehearsal - a very long and unnecessary play rehearsal.
After some baffling melodrama about an unstated attraction between Sophie and Ivan, she suddenly announces she will return to Marseille. The story finally arrives at a French police station, where a tearful Sophie claims to have been robbed of her possessions.
Story's non-resolution and lack of clarity leaves a viewer with little to chew over other than why the film was ever made. Lack of any music, lighter moments or interesting camera angles only further distances the viewer from the film
MARSEILLE
Schramm Film Koerner & Weber
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Angela Schanelec
Producers: Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber Director of photography: Reinhold Vorschneider
Production designer: Ulrika Anderson
Cast:
Sophie: Maren Eggert
Pierre: Alexis Loret
Hanna: Marie-Lou Sellem
Ivan: Devid Striesow
Anton: Louis Schanelec
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 95 minutes...
The first section, set in the Southern French port city of Marseille, is clear enough only one wishes the writer-director wouldn't indulge so in long, poorly composed shots of static action. Sophie (Maren Eggert), a young photographer from Germany, exchanges apartments for a few days with a woman from Marseille. She speaks fluent French, yet contents herself with wandering the streets to take photos.
Eventually, she asks a mechanic, Pierre (Alexis Loret), if she might rent a car. They meet later in a bar and become friendly. They may or may not become romantically involved. It's not clear.
Abruptly, Sophia is back in Germany -- the notes say Berlin but who knows? Confusion now reigns. The Marseille woman never showed up at her Berlin flat but this mystery is dropped. Sophie's life is somehow entangled with another woman, Hannah (Marie-Lou Sellem), possibly a sister or friend, and her boyfriend or husband Ivan (Devid Striesow) and their young son. Then a script gets lost or stolen in the park. Then the scene suddenly and inexplicably shifts to a play rehearsal - a very long and unnecessary play rehearsal.
After some baffling melodrama about an unstated attraction between Sophie and Ivan, she suddenly announces she will return to Marseille. The story finally arrives at a French police station, where a tearful Sophie claims to have been robbed of her possessions.
Story's non-resolution and lack of clarity leaves a viewer with little to chew over other than why the film was ever made. Lack of any music, lighter moments or interesting camera angles only further distances the viewer from the film
MARSEILLE
Schramm Film Koerner & Weber
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Angela Schanelec
Producers: Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber Director of photography: Reinhold Vorschneider
Production designer: Ulrika Anderson
Cast:
Sophie: Maren Eggert
Pierre: Alexis Loret
Hanna: Marie-Lou Sellem
Ivan: Devid Striesow
Anton: Louis Schanelec
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 95 minutes...
CANNES -- With a pretentious shooting style and obscure narrative whose characters never get introduced and key moments occur off screen, "Marseille" by German director Angela Schanelec fails to engage the viewer at any level. Any discussion afterwards, assuming people will stick through the entire 95 minutes, will undoubtedly focus on unscrambling the missing pieces and debating character relationships.
The first section, set in the Southern French port city of Marseille, is clear enough only one wishes the writer-director wouldn't indulge so in long, poorly composed shots of static action. Sophie (Maren Eggert), a young photographer from Germany, exchanges apartments for a few days with a woman from Marseille. She speaks fluent French, yet contents herself with wandering the streets to take photos.
Eventually, she asks a mechanic, Pierre (Alexis Loret), if she might rent a car. They meet later in a bar and become friendly. They may or may not become romantically involved. It's not clear.
Abruptly, Sophia is back in Germany -- the notes say Berlin but who knows? Confusion now reigns. The Marseille woman never showed up at her Berlin flat but this mystery is dropped. Sophie's life is somehow entangled with another woman, Hannah (Marie-Lou Sellem), possibly a sister or friend, and her boyfriend or husband Ivan (Devid Striesow) and their young son. Then a script gets lost or stolen in the park. Then the scene suddenly and inexplicably shifts to a play rehearsal - a very long and unnecessary play rehearsal.
After some baffling melodrama about an unstated attraction between Sophie and Ivan, she suddenly announces she will return to Marseille. The story finally arrives at a French police station, where a tearful Sophie claims to have been robbed of her possessions.
Story's non-resolution and lack of clarity leaves a viewer with little to chew over other than why the film was ever made. Lack of any music, lighter moments or interesting camera angles only further distances the viewer from the film
MARSEILLE
Schramm Film Koerner & Weber
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Angela Schanelec
Producers: Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber Director of photography: Reinhold Vorschneider
Production designer: Ulrika Anderson
Cast:
Sophie: Maren Eggert
Pierre: Alexis Loret
Hanna: Marie-Lou Sellem
Ivan: Devid Striesow
Anton: Louis Schanelec
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 95 minutes...
The first section, set in the Southern French port city of Marseille, is clear enough only one wishes the writer-director wouldn't indulge so in long, poorly composed shots of static action. Sophie (Maren Eggert), a young photographer from Germany, exchanges apartments for a few days with a woman from Marseille. She speaks fluent French, yet contents herself with wandering the streets to take photos.
Eventually, she asks a mechanic, Pierre (Alexis Loret), if she might rent a car. They meet later in a bar and become friendly. They may or may not become romantically involved. It's not clear.
Abruptly, Sophia is back in Germany -- the notes say Berlin but who knows? Confusion now reigns. The Marseille woman never showed up at her Berlin flat but this mystery is dropped. Sophie's life is somehow entangled with another woman, Hannah (Marie-Lou Sellem), possibly a sister or friend, and her boyfriend or husband Ivan (Devid Striesow) and their young son. Then a script gets lost or stolen in the park. Then the scene suddenly and inexplicably shifts to a play rehearsal - a very long and unnecessary play rehearsal.
After some baffling melodrama about an unstated attraction between Sophie and Ivan, she suddenly announces she will return to Marseille. The story finally arrives at a French police station, where a tearful Sophie claims to have been robbed of her possessions.
Story's non-resolution and lack of clarity leaves a viewer with little to chew over other than why the film was ever made. Lack of any music, lighter moments or interesting camera angles only further distances the viewer from the film
MARSEILLE
Schramm Film Koerner & Weber
Credits:
Director-screenwriter: Angela Schanelec
Producers: Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber Director of photography: Reinhold Vorschneider
Production designer: Ulrika Anderson
Cast:
Sophie: Maren Eggert
Pierre: Alexis Loret
Hanna: Marie-Lou Sellem
Ivan: Devid Striesow
Anton: Louis Schanelec
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 95 minutes...
- 5/20/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
'Alice' Turns Down Heat / Low-intensity French import has charm, but Binoche breezes through enigmatic romance
By David Hunter
A 1998 French-Spanish co-production that comes off as a low-
intensity French import after the likes of "Pola X", "Romance" and "Humanite", USA Films' "Alice and Martin" is not without bookish charm -- everything is arranged neatly in chapters, for starters -- but it's hardly a must-see (or, rather, a must-read of English subtitles for the French-language film).
Director/co-writer Andre Techine ("Wild Reeds", "Thieves"), working with screenwriter Gilles Taurand (they also collaborated on Techine's 1985 Cannes winner "Rendez-vous"), is a mild-mannered dramatist with a lot of ground to cover in this lengthy tale of the bastard son of a successful man who runs away to Paris from a tragic event and a seesaw relationship with the woman of his dreams.
In a role she relatively breezes through, Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche ("The English Patient") as Alice is an enigma almost equal to erratic introvert Martin (newcomer Alexis Loret). He's got plenty to be troubled about, starting with the opening scenes of his happy childhood in Spain with unwed mother Jeanine (Carmen Maura) that was cut short when she sent him to live with his father, Victor (Pierre Maguelon), in southwestern France.
Excising a stretch of narrative and inserting it later, Techine instead jerks us to a fateful moment 10 years later, with grown Martin fleeing Victor's house and literally heading for the hills. On Martin's aimless, homeless tramp, which includes his robbing of a local farmer's henhouse, he is arrested and released. He makes his way to Paris and the possible safe harbor of his gay half-brother Benjamin (Mathieu Amalric).
Benjamin lives with "girlfriend" Alice in a close but nonsexual relationship. Transforming from an awkward, moody newcomer who miraculously (well, it is Paris) scores a modeling career into a blossoming beau who sweeps up Alice with his passion and heterosexuality, Martin is living on the edge emotionally. We find out why during Martin and Alice's long sojourn at a lonely Spanish seashore, where he swims all day and she hangs out, occasionally writing, with Benjamin.
With the help of a long flashback, we get the big picture squared away. Not surprisingly, Martin is a tormented soul who requires special handling, while Alice goes through the scary business of getting pregnant by a guy who may be suicidal, homicidal and, at the very least, masochistic. The film plays out in two hours of good and not-so-good times, scoring strongest during its middle chapters concerning the evolving triangle of Alice, Martin and Benjamin, with the terrific Amalric stealing his scenes.
ALICE AND MARTIN
USA Films
October Films
Presented by Alain Sarde
Credits: Director: Andre Techine; Screenwriters: Andre Techine, Gilles Taurand; Producer: Alain Sarde; Director of photography: Caroline Champetier; Production designer: Ze Branco; Editor: Martine Giordano; Costume designer: Elisabeth Tavernier; Music: Philippe Sarde. Cast: Alice: Juliette Binoche; Martin Sauvagnac: Alexis Loret; Benjamin: Mathieu Amalric; Jeanine: Carmen Maura; Victor: Pierre Maguelon. MPAA rating: R. Running time - 123 minutes. Color/stereo.
By David Hunter
A 1998 French-Spanish co-production that comes off as a low-
intensity French import after the likes of "Pola X", "Romance" and "Humanite", USA Films' "Alice and Martin" is not without bookish charm -- everything is arranged neatly in chapters, for starters -- but it's hardly a must-see (or, rather, a must-read of English subtitles for the French-language film).
Director/co-writer Andre Techine ("Wild Reeds", "Thieves"), working with screenwriter Gilles Taurand (they also collaborated on Techine's 1985 Cannes winner "Rendez-vous"), is a mild-mannered dramatist with a lot of ground to cover in this lengthy tale of the bastard son of a successful man who runs away to Paris from a tragic event and a seesaw relationship with the woman of his dreams.
In a role she relatively breezes through, Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche ("The English Patient") as Alice is an enigma almost equal to erratic introvert Martin (newcomer Alexis Loret). He's got plenty to be troubled about, starting with the opening scenes of his happy childhood in Spain with unwed mother Jeanine (Carmen Maura) that was cut short when she sent him to live with his father, Victor (Pierre Maguelon), in southwestern France.
Excising a stretch of narrative and inserting it later, Techine instead jerks us to a fateful moment 10 years later, with grown Martin fleeing Victor's house and literally heading for the hills. On Martin's aimless, homeless tramp, which includes his robbing of a local farmer's henhouse, he is arrested and released. He makes his way to Paris and the possible safe harbor of his gay half-brother Benjamin (Mathieu Amalric).
Benjamin lives with "girlfriend" Alice in a close but nonsexual relationship. Transforming from an awkward, moody newcomer who miraculously (well, it is Paris) scores a modeling career into a blossoming beau who sweeps up Alice with his passion and heterosexuality, Martin is living on the edge emotionally. We find out why during Martin and Alice's long sojourn at a lonely Spanish seashore, where he swims all day and she hangs out, occasionally writing, with Benjamin.
With the help of a long flashback, we get the big picture squared away. Not surprisingly, Martin is a tormented soul who requires special handling, while Alice goes through the scary business of getting pregnant by a guy who may be suicidal, homicidal and, at the very least, masochistic. The film plays out in two hours of good and not-so-good times, scoring strongest during its middle chapters concerning the evolving triangle of Alice, Martin and Benjamin, with the terrific Amalric stealing his scenes.
ALICE AND MARTIN
USA Films
October Films
Presented by Alain Sarde
Credits: Director: Andre Techine; Screenwriters: Andre Techine, Gilles Taurand; Producer: Alain Sarde; Director of photography: Caroline Champetier; Production designer: Ze Branco; Editor: Martine Giordano; Costume designer: Elisabeth Tavernier; Music: Philippe Sarde. Cast: Alice: Juliette Binoche; Martin Sauvagnac: Alexis Loret; Benjamin: Mathieu Amalric; Jeanine: Carmen Maura; Victor: Pierre Maguelon. MPAA rating: R. Running time - 123 minutes. Color/stereo.
- 7/25/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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