A24’s Nicolas Cage with “Dream Scenario” Releases Limited Edition Parody “It’s A Wonderful Knife”, Doc “Orlando, My Political Biography” – Special Preview

A24 continues its series of special series starting with dark comedy Dream scenario in limited edition on six screens in New York and LA. Screenplay and direction: Kristoffer Borgli (I am sick) and produced by Ari Aster, Nicolas Cage plays a hapless family man whose life is turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly see him in their dreams.

The movie opened at the Toronto Film Festival to rave reviews (check deadlines here). A24 had a SAG-AFTRA waiver and Cage began promoting the film at TIFF. The English-language debut of the Norwegian helmsman Borgli – his satire I am sick premiered in Cannes last year – also starring Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera, Kate Berlant, Nicholas Braun and Noah Centineo.

Open NY at AMC Lincoln Square, Angelika, Alamo, LA at The Grove, Century City, Burbank. Q&A with filmmaker Borgli and actors Berlant (who plays a managing director of a viral marketing company) and teen star Centineo (a dream influencer). Dream scenario it means see Priscilla level compositions; that Sofia Coppola’s film opened on four screens in New York and LA at the end of October for a whopping $132,000.

I acknowledge Alexander Payne The survivors from Focus Features starring Paul Giamatti, will go from 60 to 778 screens with further expansion planned.

Other special openings: Horror parody This is a beautiful knife from IFC Films opens in 923 theaters. director: Tyler McIntyre (Tragedy girl) based on a screenplay by Michael Kennedy (Bizarre), with Jane Widdop (Yellow jackets), Joel McHale (Community) and Justin Long (Barbarian). In this It’s a beautiful life in a way Shout, a woman saves her town from a psychotic killer on Christmas Eve. A year later, her life isn’t exactly great. But when she wishes she had never been born, she finds herself in a parallel universe.

Well Go USA presents Thriller Your lucky day on ten screens, all Alamo Drafthouses. In writer-director Daniel Brown’s feature debut, a dispute over a lottery win escalates into a deadly hostage-taking. Premiere at Fantastic Fest starring Jessica Garza (The Purge, Six, Penny Dreadful: City of Corners), Angus cloud (euphoria) at one of his last appearances, Elliot Knight (The Boys, Hacks, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II), Mousa Hussein Kraish (Day The Earth Stood Still, American Gods) and Jason O’Mara (To be honest, oppressive, hypnotic).

Documents: A handful will open, including the Sideshow/Janus Films presentation of Paul B. Preciado’s award-winning documentary Orlando, my political biography at the Film Forum in New York.

Documentaries were easier to promote during the actors’ strike because directors and lead actors were often present. New York also hosts Doc NYC, the largest documentary film festival in the United States

Orlando won four awards at its premiere in Berlin and played in Telluride, Toronto and the New York Film Festival. This is a personal essay, historical analysis and social manifesto by the academic and filmmaker based on the novel by Virginia Woolf Orlando: A Biography. Preciado casts a diverse cross-section of more than twenty trans and non-binary people in the role of Orlando as they interpret scenes from the novel and weave their own stories of identity and transition into Woolf’s story.

Abramorama document Holy braai opens at Laemmle Noho in LA after debuting in NYC last weekend. Extension until November. In a three-year race against time, Tim Carey, a talented but unknown artist from LA, wins the commission to create the world’s largest stained glass window of its kind. The film was called “Not your grandmother’s stained glass film!” won the Best Documentary Audience Award at Slamdance.

Abramorama is also out A still small voiceDirected and produced by: Luke Lorentzen (Midnight family), at the DCTV Firehouse in New York. Follow Mati, a pastor who spends a year at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York as she learns to provide spiritual care to people facing major life changes. Immerse yourself in Mati’s spiritual work as a starting point to examine how we search for meaning in suffering, uncertainty and grief.

Oscilloscope presents the article by L. Frances Henderson We know that at the DCTV Firehouse in NYC. Mourning the suicide of a friend, Henderson travels to Las Vegas – the suicide capital of the country – and the city where a teenager jumped to his death from a tower years ago. She discovers that the city has also been trying to bury nuclear waste under nearby Yucca Mountain for decades, and her film maneuvers between the two stories. Expands to the Laemmle Monica Film Center in LA on Wednesday.

MTV Documentary Films Presents SXSW Premiere Pay or die by Rachael Dyer and Scott Alexander Ruderman, in LA. The personal stories of three families reveal the human impact of America’s insulin affordability crisis and the harrowing reality of living with chronic disease in the richest country in the world – where approximately 2 million people in the United States would die without insulin. Opened at Laemmle Monica in LA.