Cinelines, New Mexico Film and Culture

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EDITORIAL

Creativity in challenging times

... Sweden’s Göteborg Film Festival, the biggest movie-TV event in Scandinavia, looks set to stage one of the most dramatic experiments in on-site fest screenings in a COVID-19 age, isolating a single film enthusiast on the bleak North Sea lighthouse island of Pater Noster. There, totally alone, with no iPhone nor even a book, they will watch the festival’s 60 premieres over a week. The trailer for the event says it all...

Have a safe week and a pleasant Friday night at the movies,

Jean Constant

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Selection of the week.

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AMAZON PRIME VIDEO

Amazon announced the Housing Equity Fund, a more than $2 billion commitment to preserve and create over 20,000 affordable housing units in Washington State’s Puget Sound region; Arlington, Virginia; and Nashville, Tennessee—three communities where the company has or expects to have at least 5,000 employees each in the coming years. The Fund will help preserve existing housing and help create inclusive housing developments through below-market loans and grants to housing partners, traditional and non-traditional public agencies, and minority-led organizations. ...

CHAPLIN
Director: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Rhys
...The biography of Charlie Chaplin, filmmaker extraordinaire. From his formative years in England to his highest successes in America, Chaplin's life, work, and loves are followed. While his screen characters were extremely hilarious, the man behind "The Little Tramp" was constantly haunted by a sense of loss...
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DONNIE BRASCO
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen
...Befriending Lefty Ruggiero, Pistone (under the name Donnie Brasco) is able to embed himself in a mafia faction led by Sonny Black. Ruggiero and Pistone become tight as the group goes about collecting money for 'the bosses'. Eventually, the group become big-time when Black himself becomes a boss; all the while, Pistone collects evidence...
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MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
Director: Peter Weir
Cast: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd
...In April 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars, H.M.S. Surprise, a British frigate, is under the command of Captain Jack Aubrey. Aubrey and the Surprise's current orders are to track and capture or destroy a French privateer named Acheron. The Acheron is currently in the Atlantic off South America headed toward the Pacific in order to extend Napoleon's reach of the wars. This task will be a difficult one as Aubrey quickly learns in an initial battle with the Acheron that it is a bigger and faster ship than the Surprise, which puts the Surprise at a disadvantage...
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DISNEY +

Due to the ongoing concerns of the COVID-19 pandemic, the DIS Family Reunion, originally set to be held at the Walt Disney World Resort from March 25-27, 2021, has been postponed to later on in the year. The new dates for this event have been set to September 9-11, 2021...

DR SEUSS' HORTON HEARS A WHO
Director: -
Cast: -
...Horton, an elephant, must dodge his pesky neighbours and find a safe place to keep the dust speck, which contains a microscopic community of creatures known as The Whos...
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FERDINAND
Director: Carlos Saldanha
Cast: John Cena, Kate McKinnon, Bobby Cannavale
...Destined to become a fearless fighting bull, the young pacifist and flower-loving calf, Ferdinand, summons up the courage to escape from a Spanish bull-training camp, to finally find himself on little Nina's idyllic and fragrant farm. However, an unfortunate run-in with a busy golden bee will send the immense but peaceful animal back to the old Casa del Toro academy, where the famous matador, El Primero, usually selects his worthy bovine opponents for the arena. Does Ferdinand hide a fierce champion underneath a mountain of muscles, or is he a gentle giant after all?...
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MARVEL STUDIOS: LEGEND
Director: -
Cast: Ansuman Bhagat, Sourav Kumar, Indrajeet Singh
...Marvel Studios: Legends is a new series that will showcase individual characters viewers have come to know and love over the years and revisit some of their most iconic moments. Marvel Studios: Legends kicks off by highlighting Wanda Maximoff and Vision, the two stars of WandaVision, and their interconnected path across the MCU that led them both here...
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HBO

HBO Max announced today that it will be the exclusive U.S. home to WarnerMedia Germany’s acclaimed series ARTHUR’S LAW. The German-language dark comedy has won multiple awards including a Rockie Award as “best non-English comedy series.”...

PATRIOT'S DAY
Director: Peter Berg
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Monaghan, J.K. Simmons
...On April 15, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts, Police Sgt, Tommy Saunders is pulling security duty on the annual Boston Marathon when the Tsarnaev brothers strike with their homemade bombs in an act of terrorism. In the resulting chaos as the wounded are cared for, Saunders and his comrades join forces with the FBI to get to the bottom of this attack...
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THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND
Director: Judd Apatow
Cast: Pete Davidson, Bel Powley, Ricky Velez
...Scott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys...
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THE ALIENIST: ANGEL OF DARKNESS
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Daniel Brühl, Dakota Fanning, Luke Evans
...Newspaper illustrator John Moore meets with criminal psychologist (alienist) Dr. Laszlo Kreizler to investigate a serial killer in New York during the late 19th century...
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HULU

Hulu Has Live Sports. Even with delayed and abbreviated seasons, 5 of our top 10 Live programs in 2020 were dedicated to sports: NFL Football, College Football, NBA Basketball, SportsCenter and MLB Baseball together accounted for the majority of Live hours watched... ...

GRETEL AND HANSEL
Director: Oz Perkins
Cast: Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey, Alice Krige
...Siblings, Gretel and Hansel live in the countryside with their mother. When times are hard and Gretel can't find work, their mother sends them out to fend for themselves. As they journey through the dark forest without clothes nor supplies, they come upon a house with good-smelling food, and decide to temporarily stay there in care of an old woman...
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MR MAYOR
Director: Robert Carlock, Tina Fey (creators)
Cast: Christian Anaid, Mike Cabellon, Ted Danson
...When retired Los Angeles businessman Neil Bremer decides to run for mayor of his beloved city, he surprises everyone and wins the seat. With great ideas and commitment to the community, he optimistically sets out to get to work shaking up City Hall. However, he quickly discovers navigating politics is not business as usual...
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THE RHYTHM SECTION
Director: Reed Morano
Cast: Blake Lively, Richard Brake, Elly Curtis
...Blake Lively stars as Stephanie Patrick, an ordinary woman on a path of self-destruction after her family is tragically killed in a plane crash. When Stephanie discovers that the crash was not an accident, she enters a dark, complex world to seek revenge on those responsible and find her own redemption...
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NETFLIX

Netflix announced today to exclusively stream, Little Big Women, Taiwan’s highest-grossing box office film of 2020, starring Golden Horse Awards Best Leading Actress Chen Shu-fang and Hsieh Ying-xuan (Dear Ex), Vivian Hsu and Sun Ke-fang. The film will be available globally on Netflix starting February 5...

CHARMING
Director: Ross Venokur
Cast: Demi Lovato, Wilmer Valderrama, Sia
...Cursed as a child, Prince Philippe Charming compulsively proposes to every woman he encounters, leaving a trail of lovesick ladies and scorned lovers to wreak vengeful havoc on the Kingdom. Ultimately, Prince Philippe's exasperated father, King Charming, gives the young Prince an ultimatum... Find a true, true-love before his 21st Birthday or lose all claim to the throne...
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LUPIN
Director: -
Cast: Omar Sy, Vincent Londez, Shirine Boutella
...Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family...
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PIECES OF A WOMAN
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Cast: Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Ellen Burstyn
...Martha and Sean are a Boston couple on the verge of parenthood whose lives change irrevocably when a home birth ends in unimaginable tragedy. Thus begins a yearlong odyssey for Martha, who must navigate her grief while working through fractious relationships with her husband and her domineering mother, along with the publicly vilified midwife, whom she must face in court...
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ALTERNATIVE STREAMS

ACORN TV
Programming from several countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Ireland, New Zealand, and UK.

19-2 (CND)
Director: -
Cast: Adrian Holmes, Jared Keeso,
...Two unwilling partners in the Montreal Police Department: officers Nick Barron and Ben Chartier patrol the urban sprawl of downtown’s 19th Precinct in Cruiser No. 2...
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WARTIME FARM (UK)
Director: -
Cast: Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn and Ruth Goodman
...The running of a farm for a full calendar year, using only historical tools and materials from WWII – and mirroring the demands of an agricultural endeavor unparalleled in British history...
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CRUNCHYROLL

Crunchyroll is an anime streaming services. with over 1,200 titles in its library, Crunchyroll supports HD streams for both free and paid accounts. Crunchyroll's content supports subtitles, but not dubs.

ARMOR SHOP FOR LADIES & GENTLEMEN II
Director: Jun'ichi Yamamoto
Animation studio: IMAGICA Lab
...The story focuses at the daily life of Kautz, a new shopkeeper at an armor shop...
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IDOLiSH7
Director: Makoto Bessho
Animation studio: Troyca
...Tsumugi Takanashi is an inexperienced manager for a new idol group.The idol group is named "Idolish7," and consists of seven male singers, each with their own unique personality and background. She must train and turn all of them into the famous idols, all the while struggling against the hardships of the entertainment industry...
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MORE ALTERNATIVE STREAMS

JELLE'S
Jelle’s marble run is not really a streaming service. More like a series of shorts on YouTube. Harmless binge watching, especially if you miss sport. But bingy all the same.

IMDb TV
This free service bears the venerable branding of the Internet Movie Database, a motherlode of movie lore that's been an Amazon subsidiary since 1998. You'll need a Fire TV -- or a computer hooked up to a TV -- to watch IMDb TV on an actual TV.

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MOVIE - NEWS

This week in the news

pod The Sundance Film Festival will not move forward with drive-in movie screenings in Southern California, due to the state’s alarming increase in COVID-19 infections and deaths. Los Angeles-area venues the Rose Bowl Stadium and the Mission Tiki Drive-in were meant to accommodate a large number of show business types who are unable to travel to the festival’s Park City, Utah home this year — but given the staggering rate of infection in California, the festival told filmmakers they cannot move forward.

pod MyFrenchFilmFestival, an online film festival dedicated to French movies launched by the promotion org UniFrance, will showcase 33 titles, including a competitive lineup of 10 feature films and 10 shorts. Set to run Jan. 15 to Feb. 15, the 11th edition of the festival will collaborate with more than 60 platforms around the world to allow movies to be watched across more than 200 territories.

pod In a year when revenues and releases collapsed and many prominent films skipped theaters for straight-to-streaming outings instead, the data shows Korean films were able to increase their theatrical market share. Korean-made films earned KRW350 billion ($321 million) of the 2020 nationwide total, giving a share that surged to 69%, up from 51% in 2019. They also accounted for the top four places, with “The Man Standing Next” topping the chart with $38.1 million, “Deliver Us From Evil” earning $35.7 million, “Peninsula” earning $30.6 million, and “Hitman Agent Jun” earning $19.0 million. “Tenet,” with $17.0 million, was the top-ranked U.S. film of the year, in fifth place.

pod TNT will air the television premiere of Marvel Studios' action-packed blockbuster sensation Captain Marvel on Sunday, January 10th at 8 p.m. ET/PT. All weekend long leading up to the premiere, TNT will air a DC movie marathon of fan favorites, including Justice League, Suicide Squad, Batman Begins, Wonder Woman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Man of Steel.

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