Well here we are in 2016. It was a pretty quiet lead up to it, but that’s no surprise so I don’t really have a lot to say. Haha joking of course. Hope everyone had a safe and happy start to the new year. We have a lot to look forward to in 2016 – Rob filming Good Time, High Life and the Trap. We will see him in cinemas in Queen of the Desert, The Childhood of a Leader and hopefully Lost City of Z. Of course there’s also Life still being released.  Anticipating some new project announcements and Dior v2.  After all, the 3 year contract is coming to an end so tick tock. QUEEN OF THE DESERT: @QueenDesert2016 tweeted that this was the year of #QueenoftheDesert – I bloody hope so, it’s been a long time coming. LIFE: Aussies can now rent from Hoyts Kiosk. Montreal is screening the film this week and Indonesia is gearing up for their release date on 6 Jan. Finally.  THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER:  People are including this film in their lists for movies that weren’t released in 2015, they saw and loved at film festivals or movies to look out for in 2016.  One of my favourite comments was “”Corbet’s work is confirmed as one of the most unsettling overflowing debuts of the year.” Studio L’Equipe and Lightbrigade Films showed us their excitement for the screening at Rotterdam FF.  LOST CITY OF Z: Is also being included in Most Anticipated films in 2016 as you can see from The Guardian. I also tweeted that @cahierscinema included LCoZ in their list too. THE TRAP: I came across an interesting article about Brett Ratner where he mentions he’s involved with Harmony Korine’s next film and that Harmony wrote the script at Brett’s house in Miami. That’s the first I’ve heard that RatPac might be involved with financing or producing “The Trap” and it seems odd that it would be another project of Harmony’s considering he talked about Miami. Interesting. Especially since the “Pac” part of RatPac is our very own Aussie James Packer. Aussies do love Rob. HIGH LIFE: No real news other than Screen Daily listed their top 10 articles for 2015 and Claire Denis’s sci-fi thriller was listed as no. 7. THE ROVER: I guess my Movie Monday with Rey subconsciously knew something. Love that this film is still being screened around the world. It really is a shame it didn’t get more recognition. David and Rob deserved it. Yes I know I’m preaching to the choir. IN OTHER NEWS: I need to thank Jules for all the incredible banners, gifs and edits she has done for us to help celebrate New Years. I still remember the day Suze introduced us to Jules – and I can’t thank either of them enough. I also noticed that Toby Sells is the makeup/special effects person on Good Time. I’m so curious about what he will be doing on that film given his list of credits. The Safdie like to keep up guessing – especially since filming is “alleged” to be starting in just a few days.  Looking forward to seeing what the first week of 2016 brings us … until then.
LIFE
Release Dates, Screenings & Film Festivals: Montreal (Canada) | Germany | Indonesia
LOST CITY OF Z
No. 29 in The Guardian’s 75 Films We’re Most Anticipating in 2016
THE ROVER
TheRover Screening on HBO MAX Prime TV 3 January to 27 February 2016
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Movie Monday: Â Rey from The Rover
Thanks as always for puling this together Maria, fantabulous as always and you are so very welcome re edits and banners etc etc. My pleasure 🙂 I’m just Happy they can be used here at RPAU!!