What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend: May 14-16
Including reviews of The Underground Railroad, The Killing Of Two Lovers, In The Earth and more By Norman Wilner and Radheyan Simonpillai
May 14, 2021
OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of May 14. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
The Killing Of Two Lovers
(Robert Machoian)
Machoian’s solo debut as a writer/director after more than a decade of collaborations and documentaries is a spare, aching and almost unbearably sad drama about thirtysomething David (Clayne Crawford), a husband and father in rural Utah mired in a domestic crisis. He’s separated from his wife Nikki (Sepideh Moafi) and their children. Nikki appears to be moving on. David has a gun. He badly wants to use it. But The Killing Of Two Lovers isn’t that simple. Machoian immediately complicates his story by showing us who David is when he’s not blinded by rage, and then complicates things fur
Enfant Terrible: Where and When to Watch
ENFANT TERRIBLE, the biopic of iconic German New Wave director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, commences in select theaters this May – June from Dark Star Pictures.
From director Oskar Roehler, and starring Oliver Masucci, Hary Prinz, Katja Riemann, and Felix Hellmann, ENFANT TERRIBLE had its world premiere at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.
This is the story of a child of his time…of an extremely talented and dynamic filmmaker named Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who dreams of making movies about the cold-hearted, archaic Federal German society and about the longing for respect and love of the outsiders – foreigners, underprivileged groups, small convicts. His fulminant rise to being one of the most important directors in Europe correlates with his mental and physical fall and his early death.
Industry Notes: As Berlin underwrites exhibitors’ risk at Frankfurt, the Börsenverein makes ‘Freedom of Expression Week’ a recurring program and plans activities during Frankfurt Book Fair 2021.
In Hall 3 at the 2008 Frankfurter Buchmesse, the Comics Central programming area. Image: FBM, Nurettin Çiçek
Boos: ‘Planning Security’
With a deadline of May 31 for 2021 Frankfurter Buchmesse registration, the trade show today (May 10) is announcing that Germany’s federal commissioner for culture and media is making available new funds that can be used to protect exhibitors registering for the October 20-to-24 fair.
Publishing Perspectives readers will recall, the fair is working for what’s hoped will be a physical iteration this year, with Guest of Honor Canada onboard and at least four major halls of the sprawling Messe Frankfurt fair complex in use.
Enfant Terrible: Loosely Based Biopic on an Audacious New Wave Auteur
Enfant Terrible: Loosely Based Biopic on an Audacious New Wave Auteur
Annihilation of the artist named Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the curiosity of how it all went wrong. Enfant Terrible has arrived.
Filmmaker
Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a central figure in shaping films after World War II and became one of the major auteur filmmakers of the New German Cinema. His works varied from melodrama (
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant), to sci-fi noir (
World on a Wire), to gothic thriller (
Chinese Roulette), and ending in gay fantasia mixed with murder (
Everything is film. Everything. Screen Daily has debuted the first official trailer for
Enfant Terrible, a brand new German biopic film about the iconic/infamous German New Wave filmmaker
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (whose birthday was just a few days ago). Filmed in Cologne and Munich over the summer of 2019, the film was supposed to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, but after the pandemic changed the plans, the distributor reset the film for release in cinemas in Germany this October.
Oliver Masucci stars as Fassbinder, with a full ensemble cast featuring
Katja Riemann,
Eva Mattes as actress Brigitte Mira,
Antoine Monot Jr. as producer and actor Peter Berling,