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Latin horror dealt with turmoil in a uniquely transformative fashion. uillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water won top prize, the Golden Lion, at the 2017 Venice Film Festival which will likely lead to a longer awards push for the film. Its romance, across lines some may deem monstrous, is a hopeful culmination of all […]

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Actors looking for credits to buff up their résumé, or perhaps new footage to add to their reel, will not want to miss this week’s roundup of four film projects, casting talent for roles of all sorts right now! “8000 Shots”Male and female actors of varying ages are needed for several day player roles in “8000 Shots,” a feature that will shoot late summer–early fall in Brooklyn, New York. Meals, transportation, credit/role, and film copy will all be provided. “Extra Innings”“Extra Innings,” a coming-of-age feature film set within Brooklyn’s Syrian Jewish community in the 1960s, is casting actors for two leading and numerous supporting roles. By-appointment auditions will be held in New York City on June 21, with shooting slated for Aug. 14–Sept. 8 in Brooklyn. Meals will be provided; the producer plans to apply for a SAG-aftra Contract. “The House Of Madness: Chapter 1”Short film “The House of Madness,...

Viva! Film Festival | Belfast Film Festival

More than just cinema and more than just Castilian (fancy seeing a film in Kaqchikel?), this long-running Hispanic affair makes good use of its new home at Home with extra art exhibitions and an eye-catching theatre programme. Films include premieres of Alex de la Iglesia’s riotous New Year’s Eve farce Mi Gran Noche (Sat) and Basque family drama Amama (Mon), while Ricardo Darín’s Truman – the big winner at this year’s Goya awards – is the excuse for a celebration of everyone’s favourite Argentinian actor. Other Latin American highlights include Pablo Trapero’s The Clan (Wed), on a real-life Argentinian crime family, and Embrace Of The Serpent, in which a shaman takes explorers on a hallucinogenic trip into the Amazon (Sun). Even further out there is psychedelic 1973 Mexican horror The Mansion Of Madness (Fri), art-directed by renowned surrealist Leonora Carrington.

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Crazy in Love: Anderson’s Gothic Sprinkled Romance Deserves to be Tarred and Feathered

Fresh off the surprise box office success of 2013’s Halle Berry headlined The Call, director Brad Anderson returns to the creepy confines of the mental ward with Stonehearst Asylum, reminiscent of his well received 2001 film, Session 9. Assembling another terrific cast for this period piece, those familiar with a fine tradition of Gothic cinema will immediately begin to pick up on the threads of Edgar Allan Poe that inspired the macabre switcheroo generating the dramatic conflict. But even before we get to that point, Anderson’s latest arrives Doa, a cold, tepid turkey that isn’t ever sure of the mood it wishes to generate. Scenes fluctuate rapidly, and we’re left to decide whether this is supposed to be a prim and proper brooding romance of stiff corsets and constricted consecrations, a downright queasy...

As of now, Kate Beckinsale isn’t brining Selene back for another round of vampire-werewolf wars, but she is in talks for a new film from The Call’s Brad Anderson.

The actress is reported to be negotiating a starring role in Eliza Graves, a psych-thriller based on Edgar Allan Poe’s early work, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.

“Beckinsale will play the title character of Eliza, a patient at a mental institution in which the inmates have taken over and are posing as doctors. She becomes the object of affection of a newly arrived Harvard Medical School grad who has no idea of the topsy-turvy world he just entered,” The Hollywood Reporter said.

This is not the first time The System of Doctor Tarr has been adapted for the screen. S.F. Brownrigg’s The Forgotten, Juan López Moctezum’s The Mansion of Madness, and surrealist Jan Švankmajer’s film Lunacy,...