Hong’s muse of late) inadvertently gets caught up in adultery-related animosity.įILMWORKER The longtime Stanley Kubrick associate Leon Vitali tells the story of how he went from playing Barry Lyndon’s stepson to serving as an all-purpose assistant and gopher for the director, performing tasks that ranged from the bizarrely personal (setting up surveillance so that Mr. THE DAY AFTER The prolific South Korean director Hong Sang-soo ( “Claire’s Camera”) varies his formula a bit: Instead of a philandering filmmaker, “The Day After” gives us a philandering book publisher (Kwon Hae-hyo) whose new assistant (Kim Min-hee, Mr.

James McTeigue (“V for Vendetta”) directed. Union’s character has to save her children after they are taken hostage. In keeping with Murphy’s law, the home comes under siege Ms. But Sara Driver, who as a filmmaker swam in the same downtown scene in the 1980s, is bound to bring something special to this account of how he discovered his sensibility as an artist.īREAKING IN Gabrielle Union plays a mother who discovers that her late father’s house gives the apartment in “Panic Room” a run for its money in the security department. Michael Pearce directed, in his first feature.īOOM FOR REAL: THE LATE TEENAGE YEARS OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT Jean-Michel Basquiat has been the subject of other films (the documentary “Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child” Julian Schnabel’s biopic “Basquiat”). BEAST Jessie Buckley, who earned raves for her performance at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, plays a young woman on the island of Jersey whose new crush (Johnny Flynn) may be a serial killer.

Summer movies from 2017-2018