In “London River,” Brenda Blethyn and Sotigui Kouyaté portray strangers, each brought to the capital city to find their children in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in 2005, who become unified in their search. Rachid Bouchareb’s latest film debuted in North America at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month.
GQ discovers that “Spike Jonze Will Eat You Up.”
Coming next month from the “Napoleon Dynamite” and “Nacho Libre” creative team of Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess, “Gentlemen Broncos” stars Michael Angarano as a home-schooled, fledgling writer and Jemaine Clement (“Flight of the Conchords”) as an idolized but plagiarizing science fiction novelist.
Gendy Alimuring of LA Weekly chats to “Audrey Tautou, After Amelie.”
One Film Wonder: Filmed primarily in 1972 by director George Barry, but not fully completed until 1977, the uproariously titled “Death Bed: The Bed That Eats” faded into the deepest fringes, unreleased. But more than two decades later a surreptitious print circulated, and a voracious underground appreciation finally saw the cult film released officially on DVD in 2003. Starring William Russ in the first role of a career spanning presently 105 appearances, “Death Bed,” immortalized in a Patton Oswalt routine, is the only film directed by Barry, who has reportedly operated a used-books business in the Detroit area for years.
