Beau is afraid to bet on 900 screens; Martin Scorsese calls Ari Aster ‘extraordinary’ voice in cinema – Specialty Preview

After releasing massive weekly screen numbers in four cinemas this past weekend, A24 Beau is scared jump to 926 for the distributor’s third appearance with Ari Aster. It’s a very different film from his horror favorites heir to the throne And midsummer but one that the distributor hopes will solidify the director’s place as a modern auteur.

According to one influential fan, yes. During a Q&A after an Imax screening in New York this week, Martin Scorsese called Aster a “unique and powerful” risk-taker and “one of the most extraordinary new voices in world cinema.”

Nice is sometimes terrifying, such as an opening that Scorsese describes as “the best scene of its kind I’ve ever seen. Absolutely terrifying.” There is comedy, animation, a fusion of past, present and future, of reality and fantasy, of guilt, innocence, fear and self-loathing, and constant play within the film. Scorsese said the surreal journey of a child man, played by Joaquin Phoenix, to his mother’s funeral is reminiscent of early picaresque novels, Don Quixote and Tristram Shandy.

“Tristram Shandy says he’ll tell you about the night he was born,” but that’s a later chapter and “he’s not born yet.” It was the 18th century!” Scorsese said. “Being stuck in Act 1, Act 2, Act 3… Not everything has to be like that.”

Aster was delighted. “Absolutely. This is outrageous. And that’s what excited me the most here.

Also with Patti LuPone, Nathan Lane, Amy Adams and Parker Posey. term evaluation.

Other wide special openings in an increasingly dynamic market, Searchlight Pictures with Stephen Williams’ Knight on more than 1,275 screens – a mix of art houses and multiplexes and with African-American audiences in mind for Joseph Bologne’s film The Chevalier de Saint-George (Kelvin Harrison Jr.). Born in Guadeloupe to an enslaved woman and a French plantation owner, and a musical prodigy, he rose to fame at the court of Marie Antoinette (Lucy Boynton). Premiere at TIFF, Deadline Review here. Also with Minnie Driver, Samara Weaving and Ronke Adekoluejo. Written by Stefani Robinson.

Road Sights and Lionsgate present Ray Romano’s Somewhere in Queens on 620 screens. Romano and Laurie Metcalf play Leo and Angela Russo, who live working-class lives surrounded by the celebrities of their overbearing Italian-American family. When her son’s chance at a life-changing basketball scholarship is in jeopardy, Leo risks everything to help him, only to tear the family apart. Premiere at the Tribeca Festival. See deadline check.

Vertical Entertainment presents Damián Szifrons To catch a murderer on about 200 screens. Eleanor (Shailene Woodley) is a young police officer struggling with the demons of her past when she is recruited by the FBI’s lead investigator (Ben Mendelsohn) to help profile and track down the work of a mentally ill person.

Limited Openings: Music Box Films presents Rebecca Zlotowski’s other people’s children in New York at the IFC Center and film at the Lincoln Center. Virginie Efira plays Rachel, a 40-year-old teacher who falls in love with Ali (Roschdy Zem) and becomes close to his 4-year-old daughter. The desire for a family of one’s own grows stronger and the clock is ticking. With Chiara Mastroaini. Premiere in Venice. Appointment overview here.

Music Box acquired the film from Toronto. “It feels like a rom-com, but it’s also a very serious, very French, very mature film that, to be honest, resonates with a lot of people,” says Kyle Westphal, Music Box’s director of theatrical distribution. It is about a “woman of a certain age who could never imagine getting into a situation where a child was unsafe”.

Women, he said, are underserved at the box office, where the specialty market has shown marked improvement in recent weeks. Rachel is Jewish, which also appears in the film.

Sony Pictures Classics opens carmen in New York (Angelika, New Plaza Cinema) and LA (Royal). Benjamin Millepied’s new performance with composer Nicholas Britell of George Bizet’s 1875 opera, set on what is now the US-Mexico border, appeared in Toronto. Appointment overview here. Carmen (Melissa Barrera) makes her way from Mexico to the United States, but two other immigrants in the group are killed by a volunteer border patrol officer. Carmen and another guard, Aidan (Paul Mescal), a Marine with PTSD, escape.

Magnolia Pictures Opens Lisa Cortes’ Sundance Premiere Documentary Little Richard: I am everything the story of rock ‘n’ roll’s Black Queer origins with innovator and founder Richard Penniman across 18 screens/12 markets and VOD. Archival and performance recordings, interviews with family, musicians and progressive black and queer scholars take us into the complicated inner world and life story of the artist. It was shown across 400 screens earlier this month as an event screening.

Gravitas Pictures opens comedy-drama gringa by EJ Foerster, Marny Eng on seven screens and VOD. After the death of her mother, high school student Marge (Jess Gabor) reconnects with her estranged father (Steve Zahn), a deceased ex-football star living in rural Mexico.