The Sundance hit was produced by Sarah Winshall (FOXHOLE) and stars Lily Collias, James Le Gros, and Danny McCarthy. Directed by India Donaldson. Opens in theaters Friday, August 9 from Metrograph Pictures.

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From the catalog: AMERICAN LANDSCAPES: THE CINEMA OF KELLY REICHARDT
Since her second feature, 2006’s Old Joy, Miami-born Reichardt has staked a claim to the Pacific Northwest—Oregon in six films, with the Montana of Certain Women an outlier—that has made her name as synonymous with the region as, say, Faulkner’s is with Mississippi. The attention she pays to the specific cadences and rituals of life in the Northwest, from the Portland of Showing Up to the thinly populated southern Oregon in Night Moves, is matched by her exhaustive engagement in every aspect of her films, from screenwriting—frequently in collaboration with Jonathan Raymond—to editing, which she will discuss in depth in a panel presented by American Cinema Editors (ACE) as part of this full retrospective of her eight features to date, a chance to review the filmography of a confirmed regionalist whose particular genius has taken her far beyond the boundaries of her chosen home.

Titles co-produced by and featuring Fessenden:

GEP pal, Two Boots Pizza mogul, filmmaker and art lover Phil Hartman
unfurls the new permanent decor
promoting the annual Halloween slice “The Depraved.”
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Fessenden and Tye Sheridan on the set of Rick Alverson’s THE MOUNTAIN

Regional rag Daily Freeman touts Hudson Valley Film Commission‘s promotion of locally shot films, including Fessenden’s BLACKOUT, unspooling at Woodstock’s storied Tinker Street Cinema May 17th.

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By Matthew Jackson

We’ve officially reached the magical point in the year where Halloween is finally just six months away. We’re now heading downhill towards Spooky Season, and since “Halfway to Halloween” has become an unofficial holiday among the horror faithful, it seems like a perfect time to take stock of how the genre has treated us so far this year.

In just the first four months of 2024, we’ve seen more than a dozen fantastic horror releases on both big and small screens, from stories of stop-motion (or Stopmotion, if you will) animation gone horribly wrong to Nicolas Cage battling apocalypse monsters. Each film offers something different, but together they make one thing very clear: It’s going to be another great year for horror.The A.V. Club’s 5 last minute Halloween costume ideas

So, in honor of Halfway to Halloween, here are our picks for the best horror movies to get a wide release so far this year.

#10
Writer-director Larry Fessenden is one of the brightest and best minds in the indie horror scene, and he proves it once again with this werewolf feature about a down-on-his-luck painter (Alex Hurt) who regularly transforms into a murderous beast that roams the night. As with so much of Fessenden’s work, what makes Blackout great is his ability to play gleefully with horror tropes while also inserting plenty of indie drama character work into the mix. When that mix is working, Blackout becomes a compelling and haunting drama about a man trying to atone for his own beastly nature in a monstrous world, and the inventive werewolf kills are just gravy.

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Monsterverse retro poster series by the great artist and GEP Pal Graham Humphreys

May 1 marks the end of the art exhibit up since March 13
featuring posters, portraits, paintings and ephemera chronicling Fessenden’s trilogy of monster movies inspired by a life-long love of the Universal canon of creature features from the 1930s and 40s.

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