andha kanoon ( hindi : अंधा क़ानून ; english : blind law ) is a 1983 bollywood drama film directed by t. rama rao , starring rajinikanth ( who makes his bollywood debut ) , hema malini , amitabh bacchan , reena roy madhavi .

it is a remake of the tamil film sattam oru iruttarai ( 1981 ) .

the film also has a huge supporting cast including pran , danny denzongpa , amrish puri , madan puri , prem chopra and asrani .

dharmendra also made a guest appearance .

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andha kanoon <EOT> search results of azad desh ka andha kanoon full movie . check all videos related to azad desh ka andha kanoon full movie .

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andha kanoon ( hindi : अंधा क़ानून ; english : blind law ) is a 1983 bollywood drama film directed by t . rama rao , starring hema malini , rajnikant , reena roy .

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after the film released , the high court of allahabad sued / charged the producers for showing a murder in the courtroom . immediatly after that , there were two actual court room murders and the charges against andha kanoon were dropped .

rajnikanth’s big debut in hindi , andha kanoon was a runaway hit and it laid the foundation for the thalaiva to make a prolific career in hindi films . in andha kanoon rajni played an angry young man who’s out on a revenge spree against the people who killed his family . interestingly , the original angry young man amitabh bachchan played a special role in the film too . but it was rajni’s all - black outfits and inimitable style that made this movie with hema malini so memorable .

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still , andha naal is a decent suspense drama , and worth a watch if you like to see noir in different forms and languages .

this film was a remake of tamil blockbuster walter vetrivel starring sathyaraj . the hindi dubbed version is titled azaad desh ka andhaa kanoon in spite of being . . .

last week , chatting with a group of friends ( equally mad about old cinema ) on facebook , i was stumped by a quiz question posted by one of them . which was the first indian language feature film to be made without any songs ? most of us who attempted to answer that question could only think of hindi films , and the earliest hindi non - songs film we came up with was kanoon ( 1960 ) . that wasn’t the answer—the correct answer was the tamil film andha naal ( that day ) , made six years before kanoon , and ( like kanoon ) blending suspense—in the form of a murder mystery—with weighty issues about society and politics .

andhaa kanoon is supposed to refer to lady justice , who delivers justice where it is due , with objectivity and without taking into account one ' s wealth , race , gender , creed , health and without fear or partiality . but in the rajnikanth - amitabh bachchan - hema malini starrer , andha kanoon , the plot along with the name seems to suggest that law is blind . pallavi pandey who pointed out this movie , says , " it saddens me to see how a vast majority of my fellow countrymen will never truly understand , or get a fair chance at knowing , what the blindfold really means ! "

that quiz question made me remember that i had andha naal sitting in my to - watch pile of dvds , and it was all the impetus i needed to finally get around to watching this film .

thanks for the lovely review , madhu . andha naal was , i think , a ‘different’ sort of film for that age . agree about the plot holes , but the film was nevertheless engrossing enough . i’m glad you enjoyed it .

yes , it is always way too difficult to watch many of those old movies in which actors over - emote scene after scene . i vaguely recall watching andha naal , but then i wonder if my memory is fooling me ; )

directed by s balachander , andha naal begins with a voiceover , the gist of which is that the story is set in 1943 . it is night , and chennai [ yes , it’s actually referred to as chennai , rather than as madras ] is being bombed by the japanese .

i remember it being mentioned on the wikipedia page for andha naal that it was also inspired from five angles on murder . i haven’t seen that one ( have you ? ) , but had seen rashomon , so wasn’t really confident about mentioning five angles on murder – wikipedia isn’t exactly the most reliable of sources , sadly .

i’d begun watching andha naal with mixed feelings . on the one hand , i’d read good things about it : it had won a certificate as the 2 nd best tamil film at the national awards ; ibn live had listed it on their 100 greatest indian films , and it had been highly acclaimed , both by critics and by the public .

i did think the same thing ! andha naal is an avm production , and even though the genre was very different from the ‘usual’ family - social drama films avm and other tamil - produced hindi films , that slightly overdone acting reminded me of countless nutan - sunil dutt films from the late 60s . highly emotional , to the point of being embarrassing . : - d

ah , thank you , ak ! i hope raja ( who was the one who had initially posed the question ) reads your comment . i didn’t know the answer to that question , either , so assumed that the answer i was given – andha naal – was the correct one . i will go off and edit my post to give the correct information there . thanks .

azad desh ka andha kanoon is a dubbed version of the telugu film called s . p parshuram - 1994 , starring chiranjeevi sridevi . the plot basically is about parshuram - chiranjeevi - a police official who is very rash and is willing to arrest his own family for the sake of the law . harish , his brother , is caught in a blue film gang , and sridevi , a common thief , almost becomes a victim but manages to escape . because she is a witness , she is later assaulted and becomes blind . how chiru protects her and how the villains try to take revenge on him form the story . this movie was remade into govinda , karishma kapoor starrer khuddar . sign up for free and get daily updates on new videos , exclusive web shows , contests & much more urltoken send us your feedback and suggestions at : connect @ urltoken

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the detective—cid officer shivanandam ( jawar n sitaraman , who , besides having written the screenplay of andha naal , was the writer of some popular hindi films , including bhai - bhai , do kaliyaan , suraj , and aadmi ) —has come in response to the murder’s being reported . while naidu’s been talking to rajan’s family , shivanandam has been looking around the room , and at rajan’s corpse . he’s picked up the revolver , and has discovered that there aren’t any fingerprints on it . the murderer , obviously , is no fool .

i hadn’t known sivaji ganesan had his roots in theatre . ( i must admit , though , that he was one of the people whom i found least theatrical in this – the others beat him to it ! ) interestingly , when i was watching andha naal , i was reminded of a kathakali performance i attended when i was in kochi recently . it began with a brief introduction to the art form , and one performer enacted the navrasas . all of them were unmistakably the emotion they were supposed to portray , and so very ott that they couldn’t be mistaken for anything else .

i just saw the last comment about “parasakthi” . if you thought “andha naal” is kinda over the top in terms of acting , “parasakthi” is way off the charts . i actually own a copy of “andha naal” since my father - in - law was a huge fan of the film and recommended it highly . i am not a huge sivaji ganeshan fan because of the over - acting . there are movies where he tones it down , but they are really really few when compared to the number of films he did . india cinema in general is melodramatic and one has to turn off comparisons to western cinema when watching it – think of the over - done mother - in - law , the despondent wife crying buckets ( meena kumari had perfected that ) , the hero drowning his sorrows in drink , the dying parent who coughs constantly . not always easy to digest unless one is steeped in it and accepts it as par for the course . and tamil cinema takes the drama way up a few notches . it was director k balachander ( not veena playing s balachander who directed this film ) who changed that . the melodrama is there , but it is toned down to an acceptable level imo . “major chandrakant” which starred “major” sundararajan and nagesh was a superb film as is the rajnikanth starrer “avargal” . i have been collecting as many of balachander’s films as i can and many of them are gems with extremely bold themes . if you want to watch some good tamil cinema , i would highly recommend them .

fortunately , andha naal —while it may employ the rashomon effect to some degree—is by no means a copy of kurosawa’s film . it is , in fact , very different film . the setting and the plot are completely different . and ( unlike in rashomon , where different people who were present at a death give their own version of what happened ) , here it’s people surmising about what happened , even though they were not present . chinnaiah , pattabi , hema , et al , were not [ if you go by their testimonies ] present when rajan died . all they are giving shivanandam is their own theories of what happened , based upon incidents which they had earlier witnessed . they are only guessing , not recounting what really happened on the night of rajan’s death .

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when it is shown in the flashback that rajnikant dropped the knife on the floor and then he searched for the tape recorder , he cut the microphone . however , when he dropped the knife on the floor , he was shown he picked up the knife in that same scene . how didn ' t hema malini see him cutting the microphone ?

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three men , amar ( prem chopra ) , akbar ( danny denzongpa ) & anthony ( pran ) are responsible for destroying some members of vijay kumar singh ( rajnikanth ) family twenty - two years ago in front of his eyes . however , he made a very deploring plan in destroying these three men by killing them one by one and making it look like accidents , when he was successful in doing so . he met an honorable man named jan nissar akhtar khan ( amitabh bachchan ) , years later mr . khan had a very happy family consisting of his wife zakhiya khan ( madhavi ) and daughter . however , he works as an honest forest officer . one day he caught some loggers cutting lumbers and exporting them illegally , one of them , named shri ram gupta ( amrish puri ) try to bribe him . but he refuse to accept a bribe . on refusing , mr . shri ram gupta decides to blame him for his own murder . his case is try ed in court and he is awarded a 14 years imprisonment , while in jail , he is aware of his wife committing suicide and his daughter too . after releasing from jail , one day , he is aware of mr . shri ram gupta is alive , on seeing him alive , mr khan , decides to kill him and have his revenge taken .

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this film released in the year 1983 and was directed by mr t . rama rao . the star cast of the movie includes rajnikant , reena roy , and hema malini . the supporting characters were played by danny denzongpa , pran , madan puri , asrani , amrish puri along with dharmendra having a guest appearance . the song " rote rote hasna seekho " sung by kishor kumar was a big hit .

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the movie is a remake of the 1981 tamil film sattam oru iruttarai starring vijayakanth and directed by s . a . chandrasekhar .

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rajnikanth has worked in over 200 films in a career that spans more than 30 years . but sadly his outings in hindi cinema were limited to the peak of his popularity in the ’80s and ’90s . even then , he barely managed to work in 20 - odd movies . but we bring you a list of 10 hindi films where rajni sir rocked the hindi audiences with his sensational style .

what’s better than one rajnikanth ? three of him ! that’s exactly why john jani janadhan is a memorable movie . it featured rajni sir in a triple role . one honest police officer named john and his twin sons named jani and janardhan . the plot was straight out of a manmohan desai movie with the classic lost and found theme .

there was a great deal of surprise and mystery attached with rajnikanth’s role in bewafai . the film features a love quadrangle between rajesh khanna and three women played by tina munim , meenakshi sheshadri and padmini kolhapure . rajni sir’s character is a killer with ulterior motives . his presence adds a twist to plot . his performance brings in a slick edge to the proceedings too .

this is the only film to feature three superstars together - amitabh bachchan , kamal hassan and rajnikanth . while kamal hassan and amitabh bachchan had lengthy roles , rajnikanth featured in a lengthy cameo . he plays a spirited cop and the crime fighting partner to amitabh bachchan’s character . sadly , rajni sir’s character is murdered by the bad guys and amitabh bachchan takes revenge . but the little time where rajni sir features as an inspector are entertaining and high on style .

rajnikanth played the classic big brother in this movie . he played a godfather like character who gives up his life of crime to be a saviour and protector of the poor and exploited . he’s called bhagwaan dada and a kid hrithik roshan plays his adopted son . the movie also has rakesh roshan and sridevi and this film about being a good human being was like mirror to rajni sir’s real–life benevolence .

a standard ’80s hindi pot boiler , insaaf kaun karega was one more film where rajnikanth played an honest police officer . the central character in the movie jagira ( played by the late pran ) is out to kill him , but rajni sir’s vikram teams up with the street - smart veeru ( dharmendra ) to both reform jagira and defeat the evil forces of amrish puri’s gang .

a colourful and wealthy guy , rajnikanth’s character in uttar dakshin was unlike his usual action - oriented self . his fluent dances while wearing colourfully stylish clothes is a distinct memory from this film . the movie also features jackie shroff and madhuri dixit in what is a straight - laced family drama .

this movie was all about sridevi in a double role , but rajnikanth had a memorable role too . he played a merry taxi driver who loves his beer and liquor . the movie was high on comedy and the action department was handled by both rajni sir and sunny deol .

rajnikanth teamed up with amitabh bachchan once again , only this time he played his much younger brother in hum . the main role in the film belonged to mr bachchan , but rajni sir lent able support in scenes of comedy and action . again , he played a police inspector but he didn’t have too much of his usual stylish and aggressive streak . instead he played a mellow brother with consummate ease .

inspired by the godfather , aatank hi aatank was the last time rajnikanth featured in a hindi film in a prominent role . the only other time he made a foray into hindi movies was his small appearance in ra . one . but in aatank hi aatank he played munna , an orphan who’s adopted by the central character of shiv . the movie also features aamir khan as shiv’s real son . young aamir and rajnikanth feature as brothers who make a mean , crime fighting team .

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directed by ravi raja pinisetty . with chiranjeevi , sridevi , harish , brahmanandam . a strict police officer tries to go after criminals but ends up as the bodyguard of . . .

i didn ' t expect to be single at 42 . here ' s how i ' ve embraced it .

let ' s just all agree to the fact that bollywood is sort of a repeat offender when it comes to sending out problematic messages . for example , they just refuse to stop promoting stalker behaviour as ' romance ' . on several occasions , bollywood films have been unbearable examples of racism , sexism , homophobia , ableism among other things .

so , when a quora user asked ' which bollywood movies are giving wrong messages to the society ? ' , fellow users joined force to answer the question . of course , there are ridiculous films like humshakals and grand masti which most sane people avoid like plague , the discussion threw up flaws in some extremely popular films the industry has churned out .

mallikarjun pandya made a very important point about the depiction of gay men and women in bollywood films . according to the makers , gay people roam around accosting straight men for sex . he mentions a couple of movies like partner where suresh menon ' s character , kiran , meets bhaskar , played by govinda , and is overcome by lust . in varun dhawan - john abraham starrer dhishoom , akshay kumar has a cameo of all of 4 minutes where he plays a shallow , lascivious caricature of a man , who is also evidently gay .

many believe that dostana , in which two straight men pretend to be gay , actually ends up ridiculing homosexual men . pandya also refers to bol bachchan in which abhishek pretends to be a gay man and says , " if abhishek bachchan is playing a gay character in a movie he will either dress up ridiculously and hit on every living thing around him ; or make jokes about sucking c * * k . "

the premise of this superhit movie was based on one huge flaw - - that an eight - year - old is so mature and adroit that she can help her father reunite with the one he " truly loves " . go figure . another thing that sanandan ratkal points out is the hypocrisy of the movie where the guy realises his feelings for the girl only after she undergoes a makeover from a basketball - playing tomboy to a saree - and - bangles - wearing , bhajan singing woman . talk to the hand , please .

boy meets girl . they fall in love and then get married . then girl gives up on 20 years of training to raise a family

sultan , that went to become a blockbuster hit was , in fact , bashed on social media for its sexist plot . the guy becomes an international - level wrestler only after a training period of a couple of months , whereas the girl has been honing her skills for 20 years . on top of that , when she gets pregnant , she immediately dumps her career to make her husband happy . in fact , anushka sharma ' s character points at her husband played by salman khan , and says , his happiness is her ' medal ' . this is what patriarchy in the garb of choice looks like . ketul makwana says , " it is too illogical that the girl who was so determined to her dream before her marriage suddenly gave up on her life ' s dream ! "

in all fairness , this is not the first movie to show this kind of behaviour . in almost every 90s movie the guy stalked the girl till she also started reciprocating his feelings . the amount of wrong ideas and misconception this puts forth is appalling . ankur points out that in holiday , akshay kumar who portrays an army officer , is on his bike with a friend , who is a police inspector , when he spots saiba , played by sonakshi sinha . he then proceeds to make strange gestures at her because he likes her . ridiculous , right ? wrong , bollywood will say . what ' s romance if this isn ' t ?

r . . . rajkumar has scenes that simply drag bollywood back by a couple of decades . manu parashar says , " and then one night , he breaks into her bedroom and catches her unbutton her kurta . he then takes off his shirt and says , " now , we are even . you ' ve seen everything i have . " she ask him to leave that he refuses and lies down on her bed . that ' s supposed to be a romantic scene . the girl then becomes the trophy when the hero challenges the villain that he will be the one to remove the girl ' s sari and honeymoon with her on a specified date . thus starts the match and the fight for the girl ' s sari . " there is also a song about it in the movie !

palkesh asawa points out that even in tanu and manu ' s troublesome relationship , a false case by tanu against manu , that puts him in a mental asylum is highly questionable and objectionable and should not be portrayed lightly . asawa says that the movie sends a wrong message by saying , " it is cool to file a wrong case against your husband which puts him into a mental asylum and then leave the country , not giving a shit about how he is going to live . even though you forget your husband for months , it is quite understandable to assume that he will run after you , ignoring all the flirting that you ' re doing with other men . "

this is not to dispute the facts that bajirao was married to kashi bai and mastani but the celebration of polygamy in the garb of " true love " is problematic . neha jagannath says , " once again , i ' m not disputing facts . i just object to the blatant celebration of something that isn ' t right . "

kandarp joshi ' s views on happy new year are best left untouched . he says , " it shows that a bunch of non professional dancers from india can cheat the world and win a professional international level dance competition . are indians so foolish to send a group , who dance like idiots to an international competition ? can ' t the judges predict that there is something wrong with the results . in fact , all farah khan movies send a wrong message to the world . they are proving that bollywood movies don ' t have scripts . "

amitabh yadav draws parallels between both the movies and brings out one major problem . in both the movies , the well - meaning set of parents , force their respective children to marry someone of their choice . none of the matches have anything in common . yadav says , " as a parent , forcing your child to marry someone is wrong , no matter how well meaning you are . what is even worse is to marry them to someone with no common background or shared interests . people married in this way , don ' t end up living happily ever after . such cases in real life usually end in separation , divorces and at time suicides . worst is when these people live an unhappy life forever and become bitter affecting everyone around them . "

this blockbuster hit has invited the same kind of criticism from everyone . naman varma puts the entire problem in a nutshell by saying , " he ( mahavir phogat , played by aamir khan ) first and foremost wants a gold medal and nothing else . and that is the only thing that drives him to train his girls . not the girls wishes , not their future , not their betterment . the wishes of the girls are never taken into account . they are never given the opportunity to explore , to decide what they want , to pursue anything else . the movie implies that it was either wrestling for these girls , or housework . " he also adds that unlike what the movie shows khan ' s character was not sacrificing for the good of his children - - " he was fighting for his pride and nothing else . "

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when amitabh bachchan was shown the origional film , he was told to choose any role , for the hindi version . when amitabh saw the origional , he wanted the small role of the forest officer . this role was expanded for amitabh in the hindi version . this film was rajnikant ' s first hindi film .

the villain ' s names are amar akbar anthony , playing homeage to the superhit film amar akbar anthony , which amitabh bachchan played one of the lead characters .

first film where danny denzongpa and amitabh bachchan were casted together . but they did not have any scenes together .

amitabh ' s character jan nisar akhtar was named after javed akhtar " s father .

this is the only amitabh bachchan movie ( although in a guest role ) that pran played a villain but they never had any scenes together . in a full amitabh bachchan movie , pran never played a villain .

after this movie , director t . rama raj made 2 more movies with amitabh bachchan , khabardaar & inquilaab . though khabaraar was complete it wasn ' t released due to some reason . then the producer a . purnachandra rao , started aakhree raasta and all the artists don ' t take payment to composers the loss due to khabardaar .

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it is a remake of de tamiw fiwm sattam oru iruttarai ( 1981 ) . it was decwared as a " hit " at box office . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]

jan nisar akhtar khan works as a forest officer , and wives wif his wife zakhiya and his daughter neewu . one day whiwe on duty he comes across some poachers who were cutting sandaw wood trees iwwegawwy . when chawwenged , dey retawiate , a struggwe ensues , and one of dem , ram gupta , is kiwwed . khan is charged wif kiwwing him , tried in court , and sentenced to 20 years in prison , uh - hah - hah - hah . his shocked and devastated wife kiwws hersewf awong wif deir daughter . years water , an angry and embittered khan is reweased from prison , uh - hah - hah - hah . one day he comes across anoder young man , vijay singh , and finds out dat he is struggwing wif taking vengeance against dree men who had traumatized and kiwwed some of his famiwy members , and decides to hewp him . it is den khan finds out dat gupta is stiww awive and decides to kiww him , qwite dramaticawwy in de same courtroom where he was convicted for his murder . vijay awso has a sister , miss durga singh , who has joined powice department just to take revenge against dose dree men , but waw - fuwwy whereas her broder vijay has decided to kiww dem one by one by taking waw in his own hands as he wike khan does not bewieve in waw . how he succeeds is de entertaining story of dis movie .

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the movie is a remake of de 1981 tamiw fiwm sattam oru iruttarai starring vijayakanf and directed by s . a . chandrasekhar .

the tamiw fiwm was awso remade in tewugu as chattaniki kawwu levu starring chiranjeevi , awso directed by s . a . chandrasekhar .

the fiwm was awso remade in kannada as nyaya ewwide starring shankar nag , again directed by s . a . chandrasekhar .

the movie was awso made in mawayawam , reweased in 1982 as mattuvin chattangawe starring ravikumar , jayaprabha , kamawahasan & seema and directed by k . g . rajashekaran .

bof pran and prem chopra have featured in a wot of amitabh bachchan fiwms but in dis one he does not have any scenes wif bof of dem .

awdough agneepaf was de first fiwm which had amitabh bachchan and danny denzongpa share screen space dis was de first fiwm dey were casted togeder even dough dey had no scenes togeder .


the witch ( stylized as the vvitch , subtitled a new-england folktale ) is a 2015 historical period supernatural horror film written and directed by robert eggers in his directorial debut and stars anya taylor-joy , ralph ineson , kate dickie , harvey scrimshaw , ellie grainger and lucas dawson .

the film follows a puritan family encountering forces of evil in the woods beyond their new england farm .

an international co-production of the united states and canada , the film premiered at the 2015 sundance film festival on january 27 , 2015 and was widely released by a24 on february 19 , 2016 .

the film received positive reviews and was a box office success , grossing $ 40 million against a budget of $ 4 million .

the witch ( 2015 film )

the witch ( 2015 film ) <EOT> film : the last witch hunter director : breck eisner prod . year : 2015

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there ' s plenty that beguiles in robert eggers ' moody film the witch .

reviewed at cannes film festival ( competing ) , may 20 , 2015 . running time : 105 min . ( original title : “nie yinniang” )

anya taylor - joy plays a daughter suspected of witchcraft in new film the witch .

anya taylor - joy plays a young woman suspected of being a witch in the witch . a24

reviewed at william morris endeavor screening room , beverly hills , jan . 20 , 2015 . ( in sundance film festival — competing . ) running time : 92 min .

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at one point , a24 , which picked up the film out of the 2015 sundance film festival , had planned to release “the witch” in a handful of theaters , before launching it quickly across on - demand platforms . because of a strong response from test audiences , it rethought its strategy , opting to debut the film on 2 , 046 theaters .

director : robert eggers producers : daniel bekerman , lars knudsen , jodi redmond , rodrigo teixeira , jay van hoy premiere : 2015 sundance film festival , u . s . dramatic directing award

anya taylor - joy as thomasin in " the witch " : a psychological horror film with arthouse appeal .

the last witch hunter is a fantasy supernatural adventure about an immortal witch hunter who enforces peace between witches and humans .

summary the last witch hunter is a supernatural fantasy adventure about an immortal witch hunter who enforces peace between witches and humans .

the two most primal human emotions are love and fear which explains why ‘romance’ and ‘horror’ are two of the oldest genres in literature , theatre and film . the horror film the witch ( 2015 ) belongs to an ancient line of storytelling about the unseen things that drive irrational fear . it’s a film with echoes of arthur miller’s iconic 1953 play and 1996 film the crucible about the mass hysteria generated by religious zealotry in the 17th century puritan colonies of america . the bigger

briefly : vin diesel has your halloween entertainment all covered for next year . lionsgate has set his fantasy actioner the last witch hunter for october 23 , 2015 , where it’ll be up against jon m . chu’s jem and the holograms and an untitled horror film from warner bros .

this chart ranks movies by the amount they earned during 2016 . it includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2016 . for example , a movie released over thanksgiving in 2015 will most likely earn money in 2015 and 2016 . click on the individual movie to see its total gross over all the years in which it played .

mostly i felt pretty disappointed with the end of the film ' the witch ' and wanted to put a different spin on it .

the witch , a first feature from writer - director robert eggers , will be showing at the toronto film festival in september .

the witch director robert eggers on the real history behind the movie’s most wtf scenes .

the witch is released in the uk on 11 march 2016 . see urltoken .

meryl streep as the witch in into the woods . photograph : peter mountain / ap

for its final festival screening before hitting theaters this coming february , director robert eggers returned to his home state to screen his film “ the witch ” at last weekend’s new hampshire film festival .

“under the bed” is described as a “hithcockian” thriller . it stars hannah new ( “black sails” ) and beverly d’angelo ( “vacation” ) , and is slated for a summer / fall 2015 release .

dundas bia chair phyllis kraemer suggested the fact that the series the good witch was planning to film in the town was part of the reason behind the push for a ban .

winner of the directing award at sundance 2015 for first - timer robert eggers , this atmospheric thriller follows a devout family living in the wilderness of 1630 new england ( 60 years before the salem witch trials ) who fall victim to paranoia and superstition . stars anya taylor - joy (

bewitching . . . sundance sensation the witch promises stripped back , restrained horror .

yeah , exactly . it’s called the witch , a little bit implying : this is what a motherfucking witch is , guys . because the witch was always something for me that was scary , and somehow i had the idea that this archetypal witch lived there in my nightmare world , but in a way that was unexplored .

moviemanmenzel attends the world premiere of " the witch " at the 2015 sundance film festival . q & a ; features robert eggers , ralph ineson , kate dickie , and anya taylor - joy plot : new england , 1630 : william and katherine lead a devout christian life , homesteading on the edge of an impassible wilderness , with five children . when their newborn son mysteriously vanishes and their crops fail , the family begins to turn on one another . ' the witch ' is a chilling portrait of a family unraveling within their own fears and anxieties , leaving them prey for an inescapable evil . premiere : tuesday , january 27 , 2015 at the eccles theater

…the witch has a strong occult worldview with incredibly strong anti - christian elements and extreme pagan undertones . …all moviegoers are advised not to allow the witch to pollute their minds either . the witch is a strong candidate for the most offensive movie of 2016 . …

julie engelbrecht plays the villainous witch queen . elijah wood and michael caine also star in the film , which will wrap shooting in december . [ lionsgate ]

the witch , the debut feature film from writer / director robert eggers , opens wide in theaters across the united states today . the film premiered at last year’s sundance film festival , where it garnered huge acclaim for its painstakingly researched historical accuracy and won eggers the festival’s award for best director . it then went on to win the horror jury prize at the 2015 fantastic fest in september , and shortly after the festival its wide release was announced for 2016 . to say that its release into the wider world has been anticipated by film fans in general and horror fans in particular is an understatement .

hans baldung’s the witches sabbath , from the 16th century . note the witch flying atop a goat .

" the witch " feels at once sticky with tangible detail and numinous with suggestion .

sundance : a24 to buy ‘the witch’ for $ 1 . 5 million ( updated )

the witch hits cinemas next year ; its release date is yet to be announced .

barry jenkins also took home the best director and screenplay awards for the film .

both the witch and z for zachariah point to the terrifying uselessness of religion in the face of the wilderness .

“ the witch , ” the new horror film about a puritan family brought to the breaking point by supernatural forces , unfolds against a backdrop of religious persecution and intolerance .

these new puritans . . . the witch is ‘like the new world meets the exorcist’ . photograph : sundance

david gordon green’s “ our brand is crisis , ” starring sandra bullock and billy bob thornton ; james vanderbilt’s cbs scandal film “ truth , ” starring cate blanchett and robert redford ; and “twilight” director catherine hardwicke’s “miss you already , ” starring drew barrymore and toni collette , will world premiere at the 2015 toronto international film festival , it was announced tuesday .

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@ mariestar in truth , it is definitely not witch - friendly . i didn ' t find it offensive , but i ' m not a witch , either .

kate dickie plays the beleaguered , god - fearing mother in “the witch . ” ( a24 films )

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a24 is expected to buy the horror drama “ the witch ” for $ 1 . 5 million .

the witch is a definite watch for horror fans especially after the two lame attempts earlier this year .

the cannes film festival announced on their twitter feed today the dates for the 72nd . . .

at times , the witch ’s minimalist chill becomes too diffuse for its own good and lets the slack out of a film that cannot afford to loosen for a second .

moonlight was named best film of the year by the san francisco film critics circle , with the movie ' s director , barry jenkins , named as best director .

david gordon green’s “our brand is crisis , ” starring sandra bullock and billy bob thornton ; james vanderbilt’s cbs scandal film “truth , ” starring cate blanchett and robert redford ; and “twilight” director catherine hardwicke’s “miss you already , ” starring drew barrymore and toni collette , will world premiere at the 2015 toronto international film festival , it was announced tuesday . natalie [ … ]

the witch has the best reviews of this weekend’s wide entries with an 89 % fresh rotten tomatoes score . tracking has the witch between $ 5m - $ 6m at approximately 2 , 000 engagements , but it could be pacing alongside risen . wouldn’t that be fun to watch ? tipping a hat to witch , the film made more money on fewer screens last night than risen : 1 , 600 to 2 , 329 . granted the witch likely skewed younger than risen , even though the film has a r - rating . a24 acquired the robert eggers movie at sundance 2015 for $ 1m . sometimes , a24 titles hit directtv before they hit the screen , but in this case , the distributor bypassed that outlet and opted for a 2 , 000 - screen run . in 90 days , the plan is for the witch to hit vod . deadline is told that the p & a is nominal , focusing on digital and some tv .

the austin film critics association nominations are out and the handmaiden grabbed a ton of mentions including best film , best director , best supporting actress and best adapted screenplay . last year , the group awarded mad max : fury road as their best film .

" the witch " is a powerful brew of family tragedy , religious drama , and horror show .

writer / director robert eggers’ debut feature , which premiered to great acclaim at the 2015 sundance film festival — winning the best director prize in the u . s . narrative competition — painstakingly recreates a god - fearing new england decades before the 1692 salem witch trials , in which religious convictions tragically turned to mass hysteria . told through the eyes of the adolescent thomasin — in a star - making turn by newcomer anya taylor - joy — and supported by mesmerizing camera work and a powerful musical score , the witch is a chilling and groundbreaking new take on the genre . ”

let ' s get this out of the way , the witch is a horror film , you can put it in all of your other subcategories but , at its very core - - it ' s a genre film whether you feel comfortable with the classification or not .

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nick kroll and john mulaney to co - host the 2017 film independent . . .

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the nyf online critics association is not to be confused with the new york film critics circle , who chose la la land as its best film of the year earlier this month .

moonlight was named this year ' s best picture by the toronto film critics association . the german comedy toni erdmann and manchester by the sea were runners - up in the best film category .

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that said , the twins were evil throughout the entire film . proof of that is given in

there’s really a witch in the witch . this isn’t one of those new england witch movies where you spend the whole running time wondering if the satanic panic is real or a reflection of some issue plaguing our society today ; very early in the film robert eggers shows us a wrinkled , gross old hag cutting up a baby and using its blood to oil up her broomstick to fly into the night .

the first full day of screenings at the 2015 sundance film festival began this morning with the witch , a grim 17th - century horror - drama from first - time writer - director robert eggers . the movie , elegantly shot and acted with fury , already has some buzz surrounding it in park city , with many people turned away from the jam - packed nine a . m . press screening and those lucky enough to get in chattering excitedly in the mountain cold afterward .

a24 is expected to buy the horror drama “the witch” for $ 1 . 5 million . several distributors , including radius - twc , expressed interest in the supernatural film set in 17th - century new england , variety has learned . the movie premieres on tuesday at the sundance film festival . one distribution executive admired the film greatly , but indicated that it would work better [ … ]

“the witch , ” the new horror film about a puritan family brought to the breaking point by supernatural forces , unfolds against a backdrop of religious persecution and intolerance . its depiction of new england , in the days before the salem witch trials sent the region into mass hysteria , resonated with the satanic temple . the religious organization took [ … ]

0 : 39 : 40 caleb finds the witch’s hovel , where his pubescent proclivity will be his downfall . even though the witch is wearing a red riding hood , the story is more similar to that of hansel .

this point is further expanded upon during the q & a special feature , where eggers talks more about the salem witch holocaust and how his research and knowledge of the subject made the witch more authentic than a typical hollywood production .

that robert eggers’s sundance hit the witch is slotted in special presentations rather than midnight madness is a testament to the film’s ambition . sidestepping the crowd - pleasing , antic energy common to the selections featured in the latter program at the toronto international film festival , eggers’s film is altogether stranger and more challenging to conventional genre tastes . set among a family of puritan exiles in the wilderness of unmolested new england as strange and ominous forces beset them , the witch often looks more like historical realism than horror .

maybe it’s like practical magic once famously said : there’s a little witch in all of us .

i shall be invoking the witch , conjuring its images and investigating its magic to divine if its spell is binding or broken . so read on only if you’ve already seen the witch , or don’t plan to .

a hugely assured debut , the witch is a beautiful , bleak brainworm that will haunt you for days .

losing his firepower … vin diesel in the last witch hunter . photograph : scott garfield / lionsgate via ap

on one hand , blackmore finds it wrong to reclaim anything witch - related . at the same time , she notes , stories like the witch need to be told to question idealized notions of the values of early america .

remember the name robert eggers : his debut film , the witch , is a crafty calling card brimming with beauty and terror . eggers pulls us into the supernatural with subtle cunning and meticulous attention to detail .

black phillip then rams him into the massive stack of wood william has been chopping throughout the film .

“i’ve been spending quite some time in the middle ages working on a medieval knight film .

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sundance film forward is a touring program which introduces a new generation of audiences to the power of story through the exhibition of film and conversations with filmmakers to create greater cultural awareness .

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) is eggers’ debut feature film and it’s become a blockbuster hit after winning the directing award at sundance film festival last year . somewhere between a folktale and a nightmare ,

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the love witch is a film about a woman who becomes a witch in order to get love into her life . the script was originally inspired by pulp novels and cult films from the ‘60s and ‘70s . there was a lot of prurient curiosity during the sexual revolution about naked witches and their rites and orgies , as people became both curious about and afraid of women’s new sexual powers . but the main character , although a “sexy witch , ” is mostly interested in the thing that has traditionally been every witch’s real specialty – love .

the film ' s thematic shortcomings ultimately don ' t matter too much : when you ' re too busy being enraptured by the witch ' s dark elegance , nitpicking doesn ' t really enter into the equation .

a24 is happy to imply that if you see the witch , you might have a satanic experience . it ' s the kind of big claim that grabs headlines . and for that reason , a24 first made the witch available to the temple .

as you might guess , unnerving mood and sinister atmosphere are everything for “the witch . ” the low - lit cinematography by

several distributors , including radius - twc , expressed interest in the supernatural film set in 17th - century new england , variety has learned . the movie premieres on tuesday at the sundance film festival .

the witch is a perfect example of how terrifying a movie can be even when not much happens in it .

we wish to thank linda muir for providing rare material from her work on the witch to illustrate this interview .

" the film itself shows the results of a patriarchal theocratic society in the microcosm of the family , " blackmore told me .

it’s day one of the sundance film festival , and i have many , many more movies to see , but it’s hard for me to imagine seeing another movie that gets me quite as excited , that is so special and works so spectacularly as art film and horror film . i love the witch , and i want you to see it as soon as you can .

arcata plaza - goers today will find their town square magically transformed into a glamorous hollywood movie set today , as the cast and crew of the upcoming indie film “the love witch” stop in to shoot a few scenes .

…unsettling yet mesmerizing , “the witch” is more of an art film than a horror flick . writer - director robert eggers does nothing to contradict the notion that the puritans were severely repressed and dangerously susceptible to superstition . …

calling to mind the white ribbon in its unsettling tone and sense of rural mystery , the witch doesn’t leave much doubt that there indeed is a witch in the forest — the question is simply what she might do next and what her agenda is .

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a24 is easily heralding the witch as the best opening in their three - year history . witch even beats the wide break weekends of ex machina ( $ 5 . 3m ) and spreakbreakers ( $ 4 . 8m ) . should the robert eggers - directed film make it to $ 20m , some insiders say it should break even .

for christian horror fans , the witch functions as a provocative consideration of the ways religious extremists may be particularly susceptible to the devil’s whims .

ralph ineson is an outcast in a film set in seventeenth - century new england .

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this film covers the horrors of colonialism , emigration , religious conviction , starvation , witch trials , patriarchy , puberty , loss , and if methodically exposing each of these very horrifying real life tribulations isn ' t terrifying and alarming enough , there ' s a god damn witch and evil goat for good measure .

look no further than the film ' s c - cinemascore and a not - insignificant number of gripes on twitter and elsewhere , with many fans labeling the witch with that worst of pejoratives for a horror film : “not scary . ” frankly , i ' m beginning to wonder if we watched the same movie .

has been both the object of critical praise and the subject of much debate . critics agree that the film is visually captivating—

set in a quaint new england town in the 1630’s , “the witch” follows a family who begin to suspect the oldest daughter of being a witch following the disappearance of their infant son . anya taylor - joy stars in the film alongside ralph ineson , kate dickie , harvey scrimshaw , ellie grainger and lucas dawson . writer / director robert eggers painstakingly designs an authentic re - creation of new england — generations before the 1692 trials in salem — evoking the alluring and terrifying power of the timeless witch myth .

playing to a packed theater , eggers took the stage to discuss the film’s production , reception and upcoming distribution .

my friend won’t like seeing american honey on here . he thinks it’s the most overrated film of the year .

” became the sundance sensation of 2015 , various press outlets ( indiewire included ) have been over the moon in declaring the movie a terrifying new horror classic . words like that can certainly set a high bar , but if you happen to think the movie won’t deliver on its promise of terror , perhaps this news will seal the deal .

building his film on the diabolical aftershocks of puritan repression , eggers raises the witch far above the horror herd . he doesn’t need cheap tricks . eggers merely directs us to look inside . be warned : it’ll scare the hell out of you .

a native of sarasota , florida , myrick teamed up with former film school graduates to create the indie film sensation “the blair witch project , ” for which he served as co - writer / director . considered a seminal work in low budget filmmaking , as well as being one of the highest grossing films in history , “the blair witch project” ushered in a new methodology of production and grass - roots marketing that is still being utilized today .

the witch has everything you could possibly want in a horror film . first and foremost it ' s scary as hell . it ' s also full of tension and suspense . the slow burn nature of the film really gets to you . the score is amazing . aside from being scary , the second most import thing for me when it comes…

the location and sets in your film look horrifically miserable . what was it actually like working there ?

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complicating the matter is how the idea of the witch has evolved . in the 20th century , wiccan ideals created the possibility for so - called witches to be more than just beautiful , evil sirens or old , evil hags . and during that time characters like glinda , the good witch , in the wizard of oz , the halliwell sisters on the tv show charmed , and sarah bailey in the movie the craft became cooler , more acceptable versions of the witch archetype .

the real terror here wasn’t a witch hiding in the woods , but rather the god - fearing men at home , dutifully deciding the fate of the women around them .

although the paranormal aspects of the film are fictional , the response to what was happening around them are more than plausible . the hysteria , paranoia , fear and distrust that come with isolation and activity that can ' t be explained presides over the film , and , in many ways , calls back to stanley kubrick ' s the shining . it ' s the descent into madness that plays out from beginning to end that drives the eeriness of the film . the witch itself is just a byproduct .

on february 3 , the upcoming indie horror film the witch benefited from the sort of publicity that its studio , a24 , might have shied away from even 10 years ago : the movie was officially endorsed as " a satanic experience " by the satanic temple .

much like it follows , the witch bases its horror on a mindset instead of a monster . in the movie , this english family is terrified of satan ' s presence through the embodiment of a witch . thomasin is terrified of being ostracized by her family for forces that are beyond her control . the actual witch that stalks the forest has very little to do with the actual horror of their situation .

—robert eggers’ “the witch” is the type of horror film that i have been anxiously awaiting for quite some time . it is , simply put , one of the best films of the year—maybe even the decade . perhaps the century . that is not hyperbole , it is merely the truth .

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wilson would not comment on how feasible it is for film crews to meet those conditions .

a true designer knows that nothing beats attention to detail . in his art house horror film the witch , writer - director and former designer robert eggers recreates the authentic world of 1630 new england to pull his audience deeper into the forest .

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after criticism on social media and from the industry , vanderbeek issued a lengthy message friday that outlined concerns with the film industry setting up shop in dundas , but clarified that film permits could still be issued .

the witch has been likened to a horror film , but is also a gothic study of faith and patriarchy , akin to say the devils ( 1971 ) , or even the village ( 2004 ) – and at times it feels almost like a documentary account of the harshness of seventeenth century life in america . how would you characterise your film ?

the red of the witch’s cape was so rich , it seemed otherworldly . how was that red chosen or where did it come from ?

directed by breck eisner ( the crazies ) , the last witch hunter stars diesel as an immortal witch hunter who is the last of his kind . ( you know , like the title says . ) when a group of covens in modern - day new york threaten to unleash a plague on humanity , he must join forces with his natural enemy , a female witch played by rose leslie .

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update , 6 / 15 : filming for the love witch continued monday in old town eureka with scenes being filmed both in inside and outside the carter house inn . the in - humboldt production of the film is scheduled to wrap up out the mattole road on tuesday .

according to cinematographer jarin blaschke , the film was shot mostly with available and natural light . see more »

there’s a lot of sexual violence in the film , but it scans as unimaginatively repulsive and blatantly misogynistic .

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the short clip is included in the film with no indication that it is not authentic . darren deluca , a publicist representing dick , did not respond to a request for comment on the film’s fact - checking process or the youtube video .

there is a lot of discussion online about the ending to the witch , and while my voice may not be the loudest on the internet , it is certainly the rightest . 😉

in the film ( based on roald dahl’s 1983 book of the same name ) , a little boy and his grandmother rid england of its horrendously disfigured witches ( including the grand high witch , played by anjelica huston ) by turning them into mice .

the witch scared the hell out of me . and it ' s a real movie , tense and thought - provoking as well as visceral .

the biggest problem with expectations when evaluating any film is that the viewer’s expectations going into the film are not the film’s responsibility . the complaint that “the best parts of the movie are in the trailer” is not a complaint about the movie in question , it’s a complaint about the trailer spoiling the movie . likewise the complaint that “the trailer made it look like a totally different movie” is a complaint about a film’s marketing , not the film itself . these can be ( and frequently are ) valid complaints , but they should have no bearing on the viewer’s impression of a film . when most of the films that are now considered sacred texts like the exorcist and night of the living dead were originally released , they made such indelible pop cultural imprints because they were largely unprecedented in their form and content as well as their success . these films have been hugely influential , and expecting any new horror film to instantly have the same kind of impact on viewers and the culture at large is expecting the impossible . we’ve had decades to consider the power and influence of halloween . as of this writing , most viewers have had hours to put the witch into its context in genre film history .

and lol…the characters in the overrated conjuring were “likeable” but not any more than the characters in the witch or any other supernatural horror film . and the plot ( lol ) was the exact same plot that nearly all “haunted house / object” movies have ! it wasn’t different or unique at all !

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update : in a weekend that will be dominated again by 20th century fox’s deadpool , many have described the next three days as a b . o . battle between heaven and hell with sony affirm’s sword - and - sandal film risen going head - to - head with a24’s period art house horror film the witch in wide release . last night , the witch clocked $ 630k , while risen took in $ 425k . one title was screened at the vatican , while the other has the endorsement of the satanic temple .

book of shadows reacts to that demand by satirizing the blair witch project fan base . the film itself is almost godardian in the way it taunts its audience , though its approach is far more joyful and lacks that specific aggressive and cynical tone . the sequel follows a variety pack of blair witch devotees : jeff , a former psych ward patient and opportunist who ' s directed his obsessive energies toward the legend of the blair witch ( though he ' s only seen the film 17 times , which seems tame ) . kim , a frequent hot topic shopper and stereotypical goth who claims to be psychic and likes to chill in cemeteries . stephen and tristen , a white bread couple working on a book about the history of the blair witch and the hysteria provoked by the film . and erica , a self - professed wiccan who acts like a 13 - year - old who just saw the craft and decided she was a witch , spouting all - too familiar phrases like " wicca isn ' t evil . it ' s about nature . "

blackmore especially appreciated the way the film plays up the inherent , feminist tension in the very idea of a witch . " there is an interest in controlling a female figure and in dictating to her what her role is in a society that benefits males , " she told me . and a witch , even in colonial folk tales that demonized such a figure , stands outside of that .

eggers reportedly based his script on actual diaries and accounts from a time that predated the salem witch trials by several decades , giving “the witch” the mannered cadences and rhythms of something written on parchment rather than celluloid ( or , in this case , the data - capture chip of an arri alexa digital camera ) . it isn’t until the film’s graphic , gory denouement that eggers’s command begins to slip and “the witch” enters conventional body - horror territory , its increasingly graphic imagery and keening pitch supplanting the more effective restraint and misdirection that have gone before .

the witch is sparing in its use of special effects and generates suspense and foreboding through what is suggested rather than what is seen .

an especially charming diesel plays kaulder , a witch - slayer who was cursed to live forever by the witch queen ( julie engelbrecht ) back in ye olde viking days . an integral member of the mortal - led witch - hunting organization axe and cross , kaulder has grown full of himself after centuries of walking the earth unchallenged . but when ellic ( michael caine ) , kaulder ' s sidekick and the chronicler of his stories , dies on the day of his retirement , kaulder investigates , and discovers a plot to revive the centuries - dead witch queen .

ralph ineson is the patriarch of a doomed new england puritan family in the equally doomed “the witch , ” which is not very good . ( a24 films )

new york film critics online members held their annual awards meeting on sunday at the furman gallery inside lincoln center .

i understand the appeal of this ambitiously unique film but personally , i did not enjoy it all that much .

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personally i think the witch is a drama , with horrific results , and accordingly worked within the limited , naturalistic colour palette robert and craig offered .

last week saw the 25th anniversary of the witches , a movie that arguably reflects what’s now become an increasingly dated approach to witches and witch culture .

because of the three - year moratorium , the good witch ' s production company is looking to other parts of hamilton and as far as guelph to recreate the fictional town for the series . the original film , which was later turned into a series on the hallmark channel , was filmed in dundas .

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what does this have to do with the witch ? well , when viewed through the lens of the satanic temple , spokesperson jex blackmore told me , it ' s a film about what happens when you realize the christian patriarchy has some serious problems . ( without spoiling the plot , the movie is mostly told from the point of view of a teenage girl whose family slowly begins to suspect she might be a witch . things go poorly . )

just in time for halloween , we re - examine the witch ending , and how it is a macabre triumph in storytelling and theme .

the hollywood reporter refers to porpentina as a “witch who operates in the us” , rather than an american witch . but rowling last week dropped copious hints via twitter that she was about to unveil details of a long - mooted us school of witchcraft of wizardry in fantastic beasts .

it is the repression which seems to accompany this family into the wilderness which the witch may be said to symbolise . the repeated denial of a witch in the woods’ necessarily metaphysical existence is predicated for its irony on the steadfast putative and outspoken love this family , or its elders , rather , have for jesus christ and the lord . there is something disturbing about the explanation being propounded of a wolf having snatched samuel at the beginning of the film whilst thomasin can be accused of being a witch later on in the film by the same parents . the flitting between contradictory explanations reveal the capriciousness of human feeling and emotion , and the power of denial : katherine has banned the family from entering the woods , but for why it is not made clear ; likewise , it is clear that even william is afraid of the woods .

in addition , the sffcc ' s annual special citation award for an underappreciated independent film went to anna rose holmer ' s the fits , while the group ' s marlon riggs award for courage and innovation in the bay area film community went to joshua grannell .

the witch is a beautiful and disturbing horror film . set in 1630s new england , about ugly , terrifying witches that live in the forest , and a family torn apart by the evil forces of witchcraft , black magic and possession . excellent cinematography , incredible sound and music , amazing performances . genuinely unnerving and creepy . if you love psychological horror , the witch is a must see . grade : a -

despite these few flaws , the witch is one of the best horror movies in years . it ' s unique and nostalgic all at the same time , with one foot in the world of modern film and one foot firmly planted in the era of ' 60s and ' 70s cult horror . the witch doesn ' t ask its audience to examine the possibility of the paranormal in our own backyard and question whether that ' s real . instead , the witch demands that we take a look at how easy it can be to break down the sanity that makes us human — the depravity that can befall us at any moment given the right circumstances .

i saw the films anchoress ( 1993 ) and sorceress ( 1987 ) more than twenty years ago , and yet on some level i know they informed my work on the witch ; all three films have feminist issues at their core . in the case of the witch , i had the opportunity to invest the costumes with the appearance of being real .

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i watched the “year of the bible film” happen from the inside , as the chief film critic at one of the oldest and most widely read evangelical publications in the world , christianity today . i’ve come to realize there is both widespread category confusion in the industry about what constitutes a faith - based audience and ignorance about a burgeoning religious movement in independent cinema—something that was especially apparent earlier this year at the sundance film festival .

they are spirited away at night by a flying witch . this according to the script , to the damage to the goat pen [ see image below ] the morning after the twins disappear , and the dialogue .

this film was originally seen for advice , at which stage the company was informed it was likely to be passed 15 but that their preferred 12a could be achieved by making a number of reductions to moments of violence and horror . when the film was submitted for formal classification , acceptable reductions had been made in these sequences and the film was classified 12a .

while everything else you say about this film is true as well , it is also a horror film , and as a lifelong horror enthusiast , i had been waiting months to see this ( and saw it upon its opening weekend ) . from the narrow perspective of horror cinema fans , this is a great film that deserves enormous praise on the basis of its being that rare horror film that is intended for a literate , and reasonably sophisticated audience .

“the faith - film category has come to mean agenda - driven , fear - driven , low - quality , low - budget , on - the - nose , teaching , industrial films that willingly overlook excellence and story because they know they can , ” erik lokkesmoe , the founder and co - president of aspiration media , told me . his company helped produce the 2015 sundance premiere last days in the desert , a film about the temptation of christ starring ewan mcgregor in a dual role as jesus and satan . “they have trained an audience to expect trite , theologically thin , bumper - sticker movies , designed for church outings . ”

in the lead - up to the upcoming release of incredibles 2 , much of the cinematic discourse is still mulling over what exactly to make of hereditary : newcomer ari aster ’s pseudo - arthouse horror movie that seems in many ways to be the culmination of similarly difficult , high - minded and largely inaccessible ( but no less revered ) genre fare like the babadook ( 2014 ) , the witch ( 2015 ) , the neon demon ( 2016 ) and a cure for wellness ( 2017 ) . like these movies , it’s a deliberately paced , methodically composed and sharply written film that is practically designed from the ground up to demand more of its audiences than more casual explaining ‘hereditary’s completely bonkers ending

still , others suggest that the film accurately portrays the experiences of students on college campuses . colby bruno , the senior legal counsel at the victim rights law center who appears in the film , said the film accurately portrays what she has found in her own work with survivors of sexual assault . filmmakers contacted her about the project almost two years ago , she said , and spoke with her for at least eight hours .

this blu - ray isn ' t packed with extras , but what ' s there does add to the historical background of the film . in the witch : a primal folktale , the cast and crew talk about the making of the film and what it was like working with a first - time director . however , it ' s eggers ' insights that prove to be the most interesting , as he goes into the historical context of witchcraft and folklore at the time .

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—there is no “agenda” here . contrary to what people may think , this film takes place many decades before the notorious “salem witch trials” and does not make christians look bad . christians are in fact the victims . just don’t go in looking for a happy ending .

the student in the film , nicole c . hirschhorn ’16 , was a sophomore at harvard when she acted out the scene for campus comedy group on harvard time . after viewing that segment of the film , she confirmed that the clip in “the hunting ground” is from the prank video . she called the video “definitely fake . ”

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park city , ut — sundance institute announced today the films selected to screen in the out - of - competition premieres and documentary premieres sections , as well as the selections for a new special events section and participants for two panels , at the 2015 sundance film festival , january 22 to february 1 in park city , salt lake city , ogden and sundance , utah . the festival is the centerpiece of the year - round public programs for the institute , which also hosts 24 residency labs and grants more than $ 2 . 5 million to independent artists each year .