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eOne’s “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” debuted atop the U.K. and Ireland box office with £3.5 million ($4.4 million), per numbers released by Comscore.

In its second weekend, Lionsgate’s “John Wick: Chapter 4” slid to second place with £2.5 million for a total of £10.1 million.

Warner Bros.’ “Mummies” debuted in third place with £648,460. The studio’s “Shazam! Fury Of The Gods” and “Creed III” occupied fourth and fifth spots with £469,120 and £426,742 in their third and fifth weekends for respective totals of £4.8 million and £13.5 million.

There were no other debuts in the top 10. Disney’s indie romcom “Rye Lane” charmed its way to £124,966 in 10th place in its third weekend for a total of £825,360.

Among upcoming releases, Warner Bros. is giving a wide, 300-location midweek April 5 release to Ben Affleck’s Nike/basketball/Michael Jordan drama “Air,” starring Matt Damon, Jason Bateman and Affleck.

On Good Friday, Universal’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie...

Stephen Fry has joined the cast of “Iron Box,” a multi-generational comedy about a New York businesswoman who journeys with her father to Poland in an effort to explore their roots.

The film is being directed by Julia Von Heinz, best known for her work on “And Tomorrow the Entire World” and “Isolation.” Principal photography begins this month. Zbigniew Zamachowski (“Three Colors: White”) has also joined the cast. The package is coming together for the European Film Market (EFM) at Berlin.

Fry is an actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director and bon vivant. He starred to great acclaim as Oscar Wilde in “Wilde” and teamed memorably with Hugh Laurie on “A Bit of Fry and Laurie,” “Jeeves and Wooster” and “Blackadder.” On screen, Fry’s credits include “V for Vendetta,” “Sherlock Holmes” and “The Hobbit” series. He recently appeared on Hulu’s “The Dropout.” He...

Once upon a time, most of television was like Poker Face, the new Peacock drama created by Glass Onion’s Rian Johnson and starring Russian Doll’s Natasha Lyonne. It is a purely episodic, case-of-the-week show. Each episode sets up its own specific story, which Lyonne’s Charlie Cale finds a way to conclude by the end of the hour. There are some extremely loose ongoing threads, but you could in theory watch every episode but the first in any order and get the same enjoyment out of each. It...

Tár writer/director Todd Field discusses a few of his favorite movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

You Only Live Twice (1967) – Dana Gould’s trailer commentary

Tár (2022)

Man With A Movie Camera (1929)

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

The Big Parade (1925)

Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)

The Crowd (1928)

Star Wars (1977)

The Servant (1963)

Parasite (2019) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review, Dennis Cozzalio’s review

The Three Musketeers (1973) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary

Figures In A Landscape (1970)

M (1931)

M (1951)

I Am Cuba (1964)

The Cranes Are Flying (1957) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review

Letter Never Sent (1960)

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)

The Towering Inferno (1974) – George Hickenlooper’s trailer commentary

The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)

The Sting (1973)

The World of Henry Orient (1964) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary

Thelma And Louise (1991)

Murmur Of The Heart (1971)

The Silent World (1956)

Opening Night (1977)

The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie (1976) – Larry Karaszewski’s...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Film at Lincoln Center

As the 4K restoration of Keane opens (read our interview with Lodge Kerrigan here) and Three Colors: Blue continues alongside Three Colors: White, the series “Animating Funny Pages” shows the inspiration of Owen Kline’s new feature—work by Robert Downey Sr, Frank Tashlin, and more.

Film Forum

To mark the great Alain Resnias’ centennial, a massive retrospective continues with Marienbad, Hiroshima, Je t’aime, je t’aime, and some of his lesser-seen (but no less great) features—Mélo, Stavisky, Love Unto Death, and Life is a Bed of Roses.

Bam

“Intimate Epics” continues with Happy Hour, Barry Lyndon, Andrei Rublev, and Sátántangó.

Museum of the Moving Image

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Licorice Pizza, and Sleeping Beauty all play on 70mm this weekend, while one of cinema’s most unsung heroes—women in Australian cinema—get...

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Film at Lincoln Center

As a restoration of Three Colors: White begins its run, a massive retrospective of King Vidor gets underway.

Anthology Film Archives

A series on Warhol’s durational cinema runs this weekend; Essential Cinema has Buñuel.

Roxy Cinema

The series “Woman as Witch” offers plenty scintillating—prints of Black Sunday (on 16mm), Showgirls, and Carnival of Souls all have multiples showings this weekend—while Ciao! Manhattan and The Assassination of Jesse James return 35mm and a 16mm animation program runs on Sunday.

Paris Theater

Close Encounters, Suspiria, Cold Water, and Death on the Nile all screen in a “Directors Selects” series.

IFC Center

A series on Los Angeles films is underway—including They Live, The Long Goodbye, and the new restoration of Heat—while the Lost Highway continues; The Shining and Taxi Driver has late showings.

Film Forum...

Ramin Bahrani, Oscar-nominated writer/director of The White Tiger, discusses a few of his favorite movies with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

The White Tiger (2021)

Man Push Cart (2005)

Chop Shop (2007)

99 Homes (2015)

The Boys From Fengkuei (1983)

The Time To Live And The Time To Die (1985)

The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie (1976)

Bicycle Thieves (1948)

La Terra Trema (1948)

Umberto D (1952)

Where Is The Friend’s Home? (1987)

Nomadland (2020)

The Runner (1984)

Bashu, the Little Stranger (1989)

A Moment Of Innocence a.k.a. Bread And Flower Pot (1996)

The House Is Black (1963)

The Conversation (1974)

Mean Streets (1973)

Nashville (1975)

Aguirre, The Wrath Of God (1972)

The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

Paris, Texas (1984)

Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)

Vagabond (1985)

Luzzu (2021)

Bait (2019)

Sweet Sixteen (2002)

Abigail’s Party (1977)

Meantime (1983)

Fish Tank (2009)

Do The Right Thing (1989)

Malcolm X (1992)

Nothing But A Man (1964)

Goodbye Solo (2008)

The Spook Who Sat By The Door (1973)

Dekalog (1989)

The Double Life Of Veronique...

A cat-and-mouse police grilling is blunted by explosive flashbacks in this real-life story of radical cleric Jan Zieja

Robert Gliński’s foursquare historical drama extends the national self-examination through priests that Polish cinema initiated with Kler (2018) and last year’s Oscar-nominated Corpus Christi. Under surveillance here is real-life greybeard Father Jan Zieja (Andrzej Seweryn), who in the mid-70s found himself in the drab offices of security services major Adam Grosicki (Three Colours White’s Zbigniew Zamachowski), accused of preaching subversion while aiding anti-government factions. Reviewing the facts, Grosicki ventures: “It is enough for several biographies”, although Gliński and screenwriter Wojciech Lepianka shoehorn roughly two volumes’ worth into a 110-minute film.

Alex Rider

Point Blanc

Blanc, not Blank!

That’s the name of the mysterious academy that has quite a few skeletons hidden in its cupboards. The fact that this academy, stylishly called Point Blanc, is in the middle of the alps further lends a mystic feel to the entire setting. Well, this is where teenager Alex Rider has been given the responsibility by none other than MI6 to run his own espionage operation. That when the boy is all of 14 and the entire British intelligence is hinging on his support to find out what happens behind the curtains!

Preposterous as it may sound but such is the prowess of Anthony Horowitz’s writing (originally seen and read in the multi-edition novel of the same name) that you allow suspension of disbelief to set in and join this spy show. Even as those with a conscience want the spy agency’s...

Warning: contains spoilers for the Alex Rider TV show

If you haven’t read the first two Alex Rider books, Stormbreaker and Point Blanc, since their release near the turn of the millennium, you might now be watching the Alex Rider TV show on Amazon Prime Video and wondering why some of it feels familiar – but some of it feels fresh and new.

That’d be because the team behind the Alex Rider TV show have remixed the books a fair bit, as well as adding in all-new elements in a bid to make the concept work better as a TV show. While the Stormbreaker movie was mostly quite faithful to the books, the Alex Rider TV show makes some bigger changes.

It’s a similar adaptation process to comic books becoming movies: some of the sillier elements have been trimmed out, while a gritty sheen has been put over...

Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski is undoubtedly one of the most influential modernist filmmakers of all time. His prolific career, which spanned barely 20 years, produced some of the most lush, moving, and important films of his era — especially in Poland. After continuously battling with Polish authorities over the content of his documentaries and feature films, Kieslowski exploded into the international spotlight with “The Double Life Of Veronique,” only to follow that film up with his magnum opus, ‘The Three Colors’ trilogy. Read More: The Essentials: Krzysztof Kieslowski Two years after Kieslowski’s self-imposed retirement, following the biggest film of his career, “Three Colors: White,” the revolutionary auteur sadly passed away. At the time of his death, and despite his retirement, Kieslowski was chugging away on the script for another trilogy with his longtime writing partner Krzysztof Piesiewicz, which only hammers home the talent that we lost far too soon, and...

Each week, the fine folks at Fandor add a number of films to their Criterion Picks area, which will then be available to subscribers for the following twelve days. This week, the Criterion Picks focus on ten films from Krzysztof Kieślowski.

One of Europe’s most prolific and influential directors, whose films wield significant artistic, emotional and political weight.

For those keeping score, Criterion has only officially released five films from Kieślowski so far on home video, but today’s additions to their Fandor picks (which will end up on Hulu soon) shows that we have a lot more to be excited about. Let’s hope the Decalogue is in the works as well!

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Blind Chance

Before he stunned the cinematic world with the epic series The Decalogue and the Three Colors trilogy, the great Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski...

Julie Delpy is a wonderful contradiction. Never fitting easily into the "pretty blonde European starlet" mold, though she has all those qualities in spades, almost from the first she revelled in more thoughtful, spikier roles. From Dominique in "Three Colors: White" to her most famous international role as Celine in Richard Linklater's 'Before' trilogy, she has often played the beautiful object of a man's desire, or even obsession, yet she's rarely passive. Delpy's characters tend to have actual personality, they have kinks, they have wit, they have a command of language (French and/or English). They have interior life, something that characters with her external attributes are often denied. Perhaps it was only natural that she would move behind the camera at some point, but now, as female director with six features under her belt, she is in another way, statistically speaking, close to a contradiction in terms. Read...

As anyone who's seen any of Julie Delpy's brazen and brainy turns in films like "Before Sunrise" and "Three Colors: White" can probably guess, the French beauty doesn't make for a boring interview. In catching up with Indiewire over the phone to discuss her latest directorial offering "2 Days in New York" (a sequel to her wry comedy "2 Days in Paris"), Delpy devotes a bulk of our 15-minute block to convincing me that she's not crazy, following a profile of the actress/writer/director that ran in The Guardian, in which her "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset" co-star Ethan Hawke said she was just that. While Hawke likely said that in jest, the fact that his comment irked Delpy as deeply as it did gives a good indication of how seriously she takes her craft. That craft is on full display in "2 Days in New York," a rollicking culture clash...

Julie Delpy has long established herself as a woman of many talents. In the realm of film alone she has earned credits as a singer, songwriter, screenwriter, editor, and director. Of course, she's best known as an actress, or more specifically the ingénue of such heralded cinematic efforts as Three Colors: White, Three Colors: Red, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. Yet Delpy, whose currently on the Sundance press circuit promoting her fourth directorial feature Two Days in New York, has stunned and saddened her fans by admitting to Deadline she's grown tired of performing, saying: .I think I.m done with acting. Before, I just acted in movies with people I knew. Now I don.t want to pursue acting. I will pursue writing and directing.. This may mean the end of a follow-up to Before Sunset, but there's some solace for fans that Delpy at least plans to ...

Krzysztof Kieslowski's 1990s trilogy had a touch of dinner party trendiness on release, but the colours stay fast today

For some cinephiles, reconsidering Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colours trilogy is like finding an old photo of yourself in 90s clothes and a 90s haircut. This series of three conceptually interlocking movies – his last work, in fact, before he died of cancer in 1995 – was by far Kieslowski's biggest international hit, helped in this country by poster campaigns featuring the luminous stars of each: Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy and Irène Jacob, a gorgeous young aristocracy of French cinema. The films were co-written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz, a lawyer by training; now a parliamentarian and somewhat conservative figure in Poland.

And, yes, there is a definite touch of dinner-party trendiness that clings to the memory of these movies now, together with a touch of critical doubt, a suspicion that the Three Colours were contrived,...

Krzysztof Kieslowski's sudden death aged 54 threw the film world into shock, as reflected in this obituary and tributes originally published on 14 March 1996

The untimely death of the outstanding Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski, aged 54, has dealt a huge blow to European cinema. Although he had only come into worldwide prominence in the last few years with the brilliant ten-part Dekalog, The Double Life Of Veronique and the trilogy, Three Colours Red, White and Blue, Kieslowski had been working in cinema for almost 30 years, first as a highly original and imaginative documentarist and then as a feature film director.

His late discovery by the world at large as one of the few European directors capable of measuring up to the giants of the past was both a huge chance and considerable burden for him. He took his sudden fame and good fortune with the same stoicism as the difficulties of working under Poland's communist regime.

'Fanny And Alexander' & 'Rushmore' Go Blu Looking for some Christmas ideas for the cinephile in your family? Then you might want to take a look at Criterion's November slate, which is poised to help end the year on a bang for the boutique label. The big highlight--as hinted a couple of months ago--is the arrival of Krzysztof Kieslowski‘s The Three Colours Trilogy into the collection. Broken up into three bold and beautiful films (natch)--“Three Colours: Blue,” “Three Colours: White” and “Three Colours: Red”--“Blue” stars Juliette Binoche in what has been described as an anti-tragedy, “White,” stars Julie Delpy (it’s…...

Some of the finest directors have produced masterful triptychs. But do we really need a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean?

It currently seems the only three that interests Hollywood relates to dimensionality. The reverence once extended to the film trilogy is fast diminishing, and although third instalments are due for Transformers, Ong-Bak, Paranormal Activity, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Men in Black, Madagascar, Batman and Iron Man, only the first two have been announced as series finales.

Indeed, with Scre4m, Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides and Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World soon to be followed by fourth entries in the Austin Powers, Mission: Impossible, Underworld and Bourne franchises, the trilogy could soon go the way of the 2D movie, as the synergy-obsessed suits controlling the multi-media conglomerates now owning the major studios adhere to the maxim that familiarity breeds both content and profit.

Are you wondering what that mishmash of colors above means? I present to you Movie Barcode. This tumblr takes every frame of a film, stretches it out and presents a single image. I stumbled upon the site today, but the after a quick search realized /Film picked it up a month ago. I still want to share it with Tfs readers, as I think there a few gems here. Above, in one of the most colorful pieces, is The Lion King. Below you can check out The Matrix and then a list with links of all of them. Head over to the site to also buy prints.

Æon Flux (2005)

127 Hours (2010)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

A Single Man (2009)

Alice in Wonderland (1951)

Amélie / Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001)

American Beauty (1999)

Antichrist (2009)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Astro Boy (2009)

Babel (2006)

Bambi (1942)

Basic Instinct (1992)

Batman Begins (2005)

Black Swan (2010)

Brazil (1985)

Breathless / À bout de souffle...

Toy Story 3; A Town Called Panic; The Hammer and Tongs Collection; How to Train Your Dragon

With the arrival of Toy Story 3 (2010, Disney, PG), cinema (and now DVD) arguably has its first note-perfect trilogy. While Coppola lost the plot in The Godfather's third act, Kieslowski fumbled the ball with Three Colours: White and Jackson's The Two Towers (inevitably) sagged a bit in the middle, Pixar's bittersweet final outing with Woody and Buzz has all the poignant beauty of the last chapter of Winnie the Pooh. Remember that strange sensation (loss, elation, befuddlement) you got as Christopher Robin tried to explain to Pooh why he might not be coming back to the Hundred Acre Wood but Pooh would always have Piglet and Eeyore to play with? Well, prepare to shed those same tears again – all the more so if you're a grown-up who has long since put away childish things,...

As the decade winds down, vampires have finally begun to reclaim their monster movie throne back from the zombies who ruled for most of the Aughts. When will it ever be the lycanthropes turn? I suppose it doesn't help that werewolves aren't as metaphor-flexible as erotic bloodsuckers or mindless hungry drones. To complicate matters, the metaphors those wolves are arguably best suited for are the ones they almost never touch on (puberty and/or menstrual cycles) since they're usually about adult men. The other rich thematic playground they inhabit, that of mankind conquered by his beastly urges, they have to share with all the other monsters. They're a stepchild monster.

But what can you do? As we wait for The Wolf Man to arrive (February 12th, 2010), I thought we'd celebrate the sexy beasts during the full moon each month.

Julie Delpy as "Serafine" in An American Werewolf in Paris

Embarrassing...