REEL 13 CLASSIC | THE BIG CHILL This week’s classic is The Big Chill, a 1983 comedy drama directed by Lawrence Kasdan. Making his directorial debut two years earlier with the neo-noir sensation Body Heat, Lawrence Kasdan scored a major follow-up hit with The Big Chill, a seminal Baby Boomer tale of seven University of ...
Editor’s Note: This article was previously published on PBS’s Behind the Lens on July 2020. Director Jonathan Munoz reveals that the Twilight Zone and his dad’s old office inspired his short film “One Way,” currently competing in PBS Short Film Festival 2020. There is something darkly ironic about a travel agent who ...
Hello Reel 13 fans! The PBS Short Film Festival starts next week on July 13th and ends on the 24th. The 9th year of the festival, the PBS Short Film Festival will feature 25 short-form independent films from multiple public media partners and PBS member stations. The festival will be ...
Starting next week, you can stream new films from Japanese directors thanks to the Japan Society’s Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Films. Due to COVID-19, the 14th annual Japan Cuts film festival has moved online via VOD. The exclusive selection of film streaming options will be supplemented with live ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | ROXANNE This week’s classic is Roxanne, the 1987 romantic comedy directed by Fred Schepisi. Steve Martin stars in his own screen adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s beloved 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac, giving the classic romance a contemporary twist while offering ample opportunity to showcase his trademark absurdist comedy. ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | THE HUDSUCKER PROXY This week’s classic is The Hudsucker Proxy, a comedy-drama from 1994 produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Co-written by the Coen brothers with writer-director Sam Raimi, The Hudsucker Proxy is a cinematic fan letter to the fast-talking romantic comedies and melodramas of Frank ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | THE REMAINS OF THE DAY This week’s film is The Remains of the Day, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson and directed by James Ivory. The Remains of the Day represents the zenith of the long collaboration of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, whose ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | THE THIRD MAN Tonight’s classic is The Third Man, the great 1949 film noir mystery-thriller directed by Carol Reed. Featuring a screenplay by British novelist Graham Greene and a famous zither score by Anton Karas, The Third Man takes us to Vienna in the aftermath of World War ...
With We Are One: A Global Film Festival now underway, here are our three picks for what you should stream. Late Marriage http://www.weareoneglobalfestival.com/events/late-marriage-2020 Streaming courtesy of the Jerusalem Film Festival, Late Marriage is streaming until June 6. From director Dover Kosashvili, the film follows a thirty-year-old bachelor whose conservative Jewish parents are trying ...
