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Two well-reviewed indies are taking a bow in restricted launch within the shadow of Dune, A24’s Problemista by Julio Torres, and Shayda from Sony Pictures Classics, the characteristic debut of Noora Niasari.
Torres, the comic, actor and author, in his directorial debut, stars with Tilda Swinton as Problemista will get its launch ultimately after being bumped from August because of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. He additionally penned the screenplay, and produced alongside Fruit Tree’s Dave McCary, Ali Herting and Emma Stone. Premiered at SXSW final yr, see Deadline evaluate, and sits at 91% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
This surreal comedy journey amid the treacherous worlds of New York City and the U.S. Immigration system follows Torres’ Alejandro, an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador making an attempt to land a spot at Hasbro’s incubator program. When he’s fired from the cryogenic middle the place he tends to a frozen painter (rapper RZA), he wants a sponsor quick to remain within the U.S. and begins working with the artist’s oddball spouse (Swinton) to rearrange a gallery present of her former partner, who solely painted footage of eggs.
Narrated by Isabella Rossellini, it opens in 5 theaters in New York and Los Angeles (with offered out Q&A screenings in LA). Adds cities subsequent week together with Boston, Houston, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. alongside Torres’ comedy tour — The Problemista Tour: Julio Torres and Friends — via March. Screened by A24 in NYC final week on the Village East with Torres, Swinton, Rossellini and Stone current, plus followers Steve Buscemi, Vanessa Kirby, Hunter Schafer and Ramy Youssef.
Sony Pictures Classics opens Shayda, a debut characteristic written and directed by Noora Niasari, at The Royal in LA and the Film Forum in NY, adopted by a gradual platform rollout. Stars Zar Amir Ebrahimi (Cannes Best Actress-winner for Holy Spider) as an Iranian girl dwelling in Australia who flees her abusive husband. She finds refuge in a girls’s shelter along with her frightened 6-year-old daughter Mona and struggles to take care of normalcy whereas submitting for divorce and forging a contemporary begin. But when a choose grants her husband Hossein visitation rights, he re-enters their life, stoking Shayda’s concern that he’ll try to take Mona again to Iran.
Drawn from private expertise by the Iranian-Australian filmmaker, Shayda premiered at Sundance final yr, with a giant ovation for Niasari’s personal mom. At 98% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
Niasari produced with Dirty Films’ Cate Blanchett, Andrew Upton and Coco Francini.
Pitch People, a 25-year outdated documentary by Stanley Jacobs that did the competition rounds in 2000 however was by no means launched theatrically is remastered and in theaters this weekend for the primary time, courtesy of SPLF Films. It explores the pitch enterprise, a dynamic world that began in Europe, made its method to the U.S. boardwalks, and exploded on tv within the Nineties. Opens in NY at Village East Cinema, increasing to LA (Lumiere Cinema), Chicago (Wayfarer Theater), Phoenix (Harkins Shea 14), Cleveland(Atlas Cinemas Shaker Square) subsequent week, including runs via March.
Says it’s “the true story of the world’s second oldest profession featuring many of the greatest pitch men and women of their time who became famous to millions with the advent of direct response television advertising.”
Magnolia /Magnet Releasing presents horror Amelia’s Children by Gabriel Abrantes (Diamantino) in restricted launch (IFC Center, Laemmle Glendale and 5 different markets) day and date. Stars Carloto Cotta as an American musician kidnapped as an toddler who travels with girlfriend Ryley (Brigette Lundy-Paine) to Portugal to trace down his organic household.