Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
The Amusement Park (George A. Romero)
Created as a PSA to raise awareness about elder abuse, George A. Romero’s 1973 film The Amusement Park, long considered lost and recently restored by Romero’s widow Suzanne and the George A. Romero Foundation, arrives on Shudder as a time-capsule oddity. Produced by the Lutheran Society at a point in Romero’s career post-Night of the Living Dead and pre-Dawn that saw the infamous horror director in a period of commercial and critical decline, The Amusement Park is a damning, if not exactly horrifying, condemnation of the ways in which society marginalizes and others its elderly. – Christian G. (full review)
Where to Watch: Shudder
City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)
In the opening shot of Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery,...
The Amusement Park (George A. Romero)
Created as a PSA to raise awareness about elder abuse, George A. Romero’s 1973 film The Amusement Park, long considered lost and recently restored by Romero’s widow Suzanne and the George A. Romero Foundation, arrives on Shudder as a time-capsule oddity. Produced by the Lutheran Society at a point in Romero’s career post-Night of the Living Dead and pre-Dawn that saw the infamous horror director in a period of commercial and critical decline, The Amusement Park is a damning, if not exactly horrifying, condemnation of the ways in which society marginalizes and others its elderly. – Christian G. (full review)
Where to Watch: Shudder
City Hall (Frederick Wiseman)
In the opening shot of Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery,...
- 6/11/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The line between mercy killing and plain old murder is uncomfortably drawn in Argentine “La Dosis.” Writer-director Martin Kraut’s debut feature sets up an intriguing cat-and-mouse conflict between one male hospital nurse whose early-terminus interventions are of the compassionate kind, while a new staffer’s seem motivated by pure malice.
Not quite as suspenseful or twisty as that premise might lead one to expect, this ends up falling somewhere between thriller and character-study terrain. Nonetheless, it occupies that not-entirely-satisfying middle ground capably enough to keep viewers interested, and to suggest its maker has the chops for less-modestly-scaled future projects. Following a run on the genre festival circuit, Goldwyn is releasing directly to U.S. VOD and digital platforms on June 11.
Outwardly, Marcos (Carlos Portaluppi) is something of a sad sack: A portly middle-aged loner without apparent friends or family, working a singularly grim night-shift job. He can’t even escape via sleep,...
Not quite as suspenseful or twisty as that premise might lead one to expect, this ends up falling somewhere between thriller and character-study terrain. Nonetheless, it occupies that not-entirely-satisfying middle ground capably enough to keep viewers interested, and to suggest its maker has the chops for less-modestly-scaled future projects. Following a run on the genre festival circuit, Goldwyn is releasing directly to U.S. VOD and digital platforms on June 11.
Outwardly, Marcos (Carlos Portaluppi) is something of a sad sack: A portly middle-aged loner without apparent friends or family, working a singularly grim night-shift job. He can’t even escape via sleep,...
- 6/9/2021
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Despite being a film about euthanatizing ICU nurses at a provincial hospital in Argentina, Martín Kraut’s directorial debut La Dosis actually begins with a miraculous attempt to revive a patient after doctors declared her dead. That’s the kind of man Marcos (Carlos Portaluppi) is, though: on the job for two decades and counting, he knows when someone is beyond help and when their time has yet to arrive. He therefore grabs the paddles, shocks her two more times while everyone else looks on with confusion, and is rewarded by the beeping of her heartbeat. Was it worth it? Maybe. The doctors say it bought her another week as they decide to stop her treatment anyway. That means another week of pain.
Had Marcos let her die, we wouldn’t understand his motives when he decides to kill her himself a couple days later. We need to know that...
Had Marcos let her die, we wouldn’t understand his motives when he decides to kill her himself a couple days later. We need to know that...
- 6/5/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Martín Kraut's thriller La Dosis will be released on-demand and digital on June 11th, from distributor Samuel Goldwyn Films. They released the trailer today, which you will find below. Marcos is an experienced nurse who works the night shift of a private clinic. He is successful and professional, though it is soon revealed that he uses his position to help suffering patients find early peace. A new nurse in the clinic, Gabriel, shakes the sector: he is young, intelligent, beautiful, and seduces everyone. He soon deciphers Marcos' secret and the clinic becomes a battle of wits and seduction. Marcos retracts until he discovers that Gabriel also dabbles in euthanasia, though for different reasons. This revelation forces him to confront Gabriel and Marcos knows that...
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- 5/12/2021
- Screen Anarchy
"Someone might accuse you. Or maybe they alread yhave." Samuel Goldwyn Films has released an official trailer for an Argentinian thriller titled La Dosis, which just translates to The Dose in English. This first premiered at last year's Rotterdam Film Festival, and it also played at the BFI Flare, Bucheon, Heartland, and Fantasia Film Festivals last year. The title is a reference to the lethal "dose" that one nurse provides to various patients in need. Marcos is a nurse on the night shift at a clinic. Applied and professional, but with a secret: in some extreme cases, he applies euthanasia. Gabriel, a new night nurse at the clinic, soon unravels Marcos' secret with the confrontation leading to more trouble. Starring Carlos Portaluppi as Marcos, and Ignacio Rogers as Gabriel, plus Lorena Vega. Looks like an intriguing medical thriller from Argentina. Here's the official US trailer (+ poster) for Martín Kraut's La Dosis,...
- 5/11/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Lgbtiq+ film festival comprises 26 features and four world premieres.
BFI Flare: London Lgbtiq+ Film Festival has revealed the programme for its 35th edition, which will take place virtually from March 17-28.
The festival has selected 26 features, which include four world premieres, six international premieres and one European premiere.
Scroll down for full list of titles
Receiving their world premieres are Peeter Rebane’s Firebird, a love story set in the Soviet Air Force during the Cold War; Daniel Sánchez López’s German feature Boy Meets Boy, about two young men who fall for each other over the course of a...
BFI Flare: London Lgbtiq+ Film Festival has revealed the programme for its 35th edition, which will take place virtually from March 17-28.
The festival has selected 26 features, which include four world premieres, six international premieres and one European premiere.
Scroll down for full list of titles
Receiving their world premieres are Peeter Rebane’s Firebird, a love story set in the Soviet Air Force during the Cold War; Daniel Sánchez López’s German feature Boy Meets Boy, about two young men who fall for each other over the course of a...
- 2/23/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Oration Films to continue international sales at virtual EFM.
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights from Oration Films to Martín Kraut’s Argentinian psychological thriller La Dosis.
Oration Films will continue international sales at the virtual EFM next week on the drama about two nurses in a private clinic who clash over their illicit behaviour.
Carlos Portaluppi (Lo Habrás Imaginado), Ignacio Rogers (Esteros), and Lorena Vega (El Bosque De Los Perros) star.
Samuel Goldwyn plans a June release on the feature directorial debut by Kraut, who wrote the screenplay and produced alongside Pablo Chernov of Alina Films.
“In...
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights from Oration Films to Martín Kraut’s Argentinian psychological thriller La Dosis.
Oration Films will continue international sales at the virtual EFM next week on the drama about two nurses in a private clinic who clash over their illicit behaviour.
Carlos Portaluppi (Lo Habrás Imaginado), Ignacio Rogers (Esteros), and Lorena Vega (El Bosque De Los Perros) star.
Samuel Goldwyn plans a June release on the feature directorial debut by Kraut, who wrote the screenplay and produced alongside Pablo Chernov of Alina Films.
“In...
- 2/22/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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