The Bride! (March 6th)
Influenced by Mary Shelley's literary classic 'Frankenstein' and director
James Whale's The Bride of Frankenstein, writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! stars Jessie Buckley in the title role of a corpse
reanimated as a companion for Frankenstein's monster (Christian Bale). The two creations embark on a Bonnie and Clyde-esque rampage through
the underworld of 1930s Chicago.
Dolly (March 6th)
One of the best horror movies we saw at last year's ScreamFest LA was the
bloody shocker Dolly. Directed by Rod Blackhurst (Blood for Dust), the film stars Fabianne Therese as Macy, a young woman
abducted in the backwoods by the monstrous Dolly, who wishes to raise her
as their child.
Sound of Falling (March 6th)
Winner of the Jury prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival and selected
as Germany's submission for Best International Feature Film at the upcoming 98th Academy Awards is
writer/director Mascha Schilinski's Sound of Falling. The film follows four girls in different time periods, all of whom grow
up on the same farm. Despite being separated by time, the girls' lives
begin to mirror each other.
The Love That Remains (March 13th)
Written and directed by Hlynur Pálmason (Godland), The Love That Remains details a year in the life of an Icelandic family as the parents
prepare for a separation. Saga Garðarsdóttir and Sverrir Guðnason play the decoupling
parents, an artist and fisherman, in this tragicomic drama.
A Pale View of Hills (March 13th)
Adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro's debut novel, writer/director Kei Ishikawa's A Pale View of Hills is
set between 1950s Japan and 1980s England. Suzu Hirose and
Yoh Yoshida play the film's protagonist Etsuko, whom we first meet as
a pregnant young wife in post-war Japan and later as an emigrant in '80s
England who finds herself looking back at her life.
Resurrection (March 13th)
Written and directed by Bi Gan (Long Day's Journey Into Night), sci-fi epic Resurrection is set in a future where humans have lost the ability to
dream. Shu Qi plays Miss Shu, who discovers an alien creature that has retained
such an ability. Entering the creature's mind, Shu experiences six
distinctive dreams that play out as the film's individual chapters.
Dead Man's Wire (March 20th)
Directed by Gus Van Sant (Elephant; Drugstore Cowboy), Dead Man's Wire is based on the true story of Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård), who kidnapped his mortgage broker Richard O.
Hall (Dacre Montgomery) in 1977 after falling behind on payments.
Kiritsis attached a shotgun to the back of Hall's head with a wire that
meant it would fire if the police shot the kidnapper, prompting a tense
standoff and a media frenzy.
The Good Boy (March 20th)
Polish director Jan Komasa recently made his English language debut in the US with Anniversary. Now he returns with the British thriller The Good Boy (aka "Heel" in the US). The film sees Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough play a suburban couple who abduct a teenage hooligan (Anson Boon) and chain him up in their home.
Project Hail Mary (March 20th)
Project Hail Mary is adapted from a novel from The Martian writer Andy Weir and similarly involves a man in
outer space forced to use his brainpower to escape his predicament. The
film is written by The Martian's screenwriter Drew Goddard and directed by the duo
of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie). Ryan Gosling plays Ryland Grace, a teacher who wakes aboard a spaceship light
years from Earth with no initial recollection of how he got there. He
eventually recalls that he has been sent on a mission to save our planet
from a mysterious substance destroying the sun.
DJ Ahmet (March 27th)
Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Competition Audience Award at last year's Sundance
Film Festival was director Georgi M. Unkovski's feature debut DJ Ahmet. Set in rural North Macedonia, the film sees a teenage boy fall in love
with both dance music and a girl promised to someone else.