‘Kinds of Kindness’ director Yorgos Lanthimos announces fourth film with Emma Stone, ‘Bugonia’
7 months ago

‘Kinds of Kindness’ director Yorgos Lanthimos announces fourth film with Emma Stone, ‘Bugonia’

The Hindu  

Following the Cannes premiere of his latest film, director Yorgos Lanthimos is set to helm Bugonia, a new project starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. Bugonia marks a departure from Lanthimos’ recent collaborations with Searchlight Pictures, which backed his acclaimed films The Favourite and Poor Things, as well as the upcoming Kinds of Kindness. Yorgos Lanthimos, a six-time Academy Award nominee, has garnered international acclaim since his breakout film Dogtooth won the Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes in 2009. Lanthimos’ recent film Poor Things dominated the 2023 Venice Film Festival, winning the Golden Lion and securing 11 Academy Award nominations, with Stone taking home her second Best Actress award.

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Kinds of Kindness review: Yorgos Lanthimos returns to deadpan cruelty and despair with Emma Stone
5 months, 1 week ago

Kinds of Kindness review: Yorgos Lanthimos returns to deadpan cruelty and despair with Emma Stone

ABC  

There are two fantastic needle drops that bookend Yorgos Lanthimos's new anthology film Kinds of Kindness. Following two consecutive awards darlings – the Oscar-winning Poor Things and The Favourite – Kinds of Kindness marks Lanthimos's return to the deadpan excursions into cruelty and despair for which he first made his name. Emma Stone's 'exquisite strangeness' on screen Photo shows Emma, …

In 'Kinds of Kindness,' the cruelty is the point : Pop Culture Happy Hour
5 months, 3 weeks ago

In 'Kinds of Kindness,' the cruelty is the point : Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR  

In 'Kinds of Kindness,' the cruelty is the point : Pop Culture Happy Hour Kinds of Kindness is a weird, dark, and bleak film. It's directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and it re-teams him with Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe, along with Jesse Plemons. Each actor plays different characters in three different stories — which all involve someone going to extreme …

Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness,’ made by a filmmaker desperate to seem cool again, tests cultdom and patience
6 months ago

Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness,’ made by a filmmaker desperate to seem cool again, tests cultdom and patience

LA Times  

What disturbs shockmaster Yorgos Lanthimos? The provocateur’s last two films, “Poor Things” and “The Favourite,” surprised even longtime Lanthimos fans by racking up 21 Academy Award nominations and two actress wins for leads Emma Stone and Olivia Colman, cementing him as one of the greatest women’s directors since George Cukor. “Dogtooth” and “The Lobster,” Lanthimos’s breakthrough marvels, covered the same …

Movie Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness,' Emma Stone’s latest foray into fearlessness with Yorgos Lanthimos
6 months ago

Movie Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness,' Emma Stone’s latest foray into fearlessness with Yorgos Lanthimos

Hindustan Times  

If our world should one day cease to exist, and some improved civilization from another galaxy stumbles upon our popular culture and seeks to understand all the fuss about Emma Stone — well, we now have the film clip they should see. Movie Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness,' Emma Stone’s latest foray into fearlessness with Yorgos Lanthimos She’s not even speaking, …

Kinds of Kindness: Emma Stone’s new movie is her freakiest yet.
6 months ago

Kinds of Kindness: Emma Stone’s new movie is her freakiest yet.

Slate  

When Emma Stone won her first Academy Award, for La La Land in 2017, she took the stage with an open mouth and a sideways glance that seemed to say, Can you even believe this? But it’s notable that, despite being every inch the theater kid, Stone never suffered the post-Oscars opprobrium of, say, Anne Hathaway, let alone the slings …

Jesse Plemons is ready for the ride
6 months ago

Jesse Plemons is ready for the ride

Associated Press  

CANNES, France — Jesse Plemons was flattered to be approached by Yorgos Lanthimos about starring in “Kinds of Kindness,” but he wasn’t sure which version of himself the director wanted. “I was like: I hope he’s still OK with the fact that I don’t look like the guy he thought I looked like.” Who, exactly, Jesse Plemons is can seem …

Yorgos Lanthimos exhausts his ideas, and his audience, in 'Kinds of Kindness'
6 months, 1 week ago

Yorgos Lanthimos exhausts his ideas, and his audience, in 'Kinds of Kindness'

NPR  

Yorgos Lanthimos exhausts his ideas, and his audience, in 'Kinds of Kindness' toggle caption Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures With his grimly funny movies about people doing cruel things to each other under surreally absurd circumstances, the Greek-born filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos has long been what you might call an acquired taste. When Robert finally refuses to follow one of Raymond’s orders — …

The unstoppable duo of Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos
7 months ago

The unstoppable duo of Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos

Associated Press  

CANNES, France — Before a journalist has even lobbed a question, Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos spit out a string of overlapping answers. “Before I met him, obviously, those were the only ones I had seen.” Emma Stone, left, and director Yorgos Lanthimos pose for a portrait photograph for the film ‘Kinds of Kindness’ at the 77th international film festival, …

Poor Things star Emma Stone to reunite with filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos for fourth time
7 months ago

Poor Things star Emma Stone to reunite with filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos for fourth time

India TV News  

Hollywood actress Emma Stone, is one of the most talented and celebrated actresses currently. Emma Stone is all set to reunite with filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos for the fourth time along with Jesse Plemons. It is based on the 2003 Korean film "Save the Green Planet", "Bugonia" was developed for English adaptation by acclaimed director Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen for …

At Cannes, Yorgos Lanthimos says world is stranger than his films
7 months ago

At Cannes, Yorgos Lanthimos says world is stranger than his films

Hindustan Times  

By Miranda Murray HT Image CANNES, France, - Director Yorgos Lanthimos, who was at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday with his second Emma Stone-billed feature in quick succession, "Kinds of Kindness," said his often darkly funny films are less strange than what is going on in the world. Lanthimos has made a name for himself with absurd black comedies …

Emma Stone dances on Cannes red carpet, makes funny faces as her Kinds of Kindness gets a standing ovation
7 months ago

Emma Stone dances on Cannes red carpet, makes funny faces as her Kinds of Kindness gets a standing ovation

Hindustan Times  

Emma Stone was a ray of sunshine on the red carpet ahead of the premiere of her film, Kinds of Kindness on Friday at the Cannes Film Festival. Emma, dressed in a shimmery rust dress with a plunging neckline, danced on the red carpet, grooved to music and even made some funny faces as the cast and crew got a …

Cannes 2024: Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone give fest a trippy triptych with ‘Kinds Of Kindness’
7 months ago

Cannes 2024: Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone give fest a trippy triptych with ‘Kinds Of Kindness’

The Hindu  

After his feminist Frankenstein remake, director Yorgos Lanthimos was back Friday with a trippy triptych featuring dogs as humans, a finger served with a vegetable and a cocktail called “Emily’s forehead”. "I always think that we're pushing things to the extreme," the 50-year-old Greek filmmaker said before the premiere of ‘Kinds Of Kindness’ at the Cannes Film Festival competition. The …

Kinds of Kindness review: 'Almost unbearable cruelty' in Emma Stone's wacky black comedy
7 months ago

Kinds of Kindness review: 'Almost unbearable cruelty' in Emma Stone's wacky black comedy

BBC  

Kinds of Kindness review: 'Almost unbearable cruelty' in Emma Stone's wacky black comedy Courtesy Cannes Film Festival Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley and Willem Dafoe star in Kinds of Kindness, Yorgos Lanthimos's latest, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Instead, Kinds of Kindness comprises three short films, all set in the present-day US, and all featuring the same …

‘Kinds of Kindness’ trailer: Emma Stone & Yorgos Lanthimos reunite for yet another weird adventure
8 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Kinds of Kindness’ trailer: Emma Stone & Yorgos Lanthimos reunite for yet another weird adventure

The Hindu  

After their triumph with Poor Things, director Yorgos Lanthimos and Academy Award-winning actress Emma Stone are set to weird us out once more with their latest venture, Kinds of Kindness. Scripted by Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou, known for their collaborations on previous hits like The Lobster and Dogtooth, Kinds of Kindness describes itself as a “triptych fable”. According to its …

Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone reveal new film, ‘Kinds of Kindness’, after ‘Poor Things’ Oscar success
9 months, 1 week ago

Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone reveal new film, ‘Kinds of Kindness’, after ‘Poor Things’ Oscar success

The Hindu  

Fresh off the heels of their triumph at the 96th Academy Awards with Poor Things, director Yorgos Lanthimos and actress Emma Stone are set to bewilder audiences once again with their next collaboration, Kinds of Kindness, slated for a summer 2024 release. Starring Academy Award winner Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie …

Poor Things to premiere on OTT and Blu-ray/DVD with deleted scenes: Release dates and where to watch
10 months, 1 week ago

Poor Things to premiere on OTT and Blu-ray/DVD with deleted scenes: Release dates and where to watch

Hindustan Times  

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Oscar-nominated Poor Things will be available to purchase/rent on Prime Video and Apple TV+ on February 27. Poor Things is set to compete for 11 Academy Awards IMDb says of the storyline, “From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by …

'Poor Things' review: A Stone-cold triumph
1 year ago

'Poor Things' review: A Stone-cold triumph

LA Times  

There comes a moment when “Poor Things,” a gloriously bonkers fairy tale from the director Yorgos Lanthimos, explodes from black-and-white into wild, ecstatic color. The abrupt shift in visual palette naturally evokes “The Wizard of Oz,” even if the circumstances decidedly do not: Think of it as the R-rated art-house equivalent of Dorothy opening the door to Oz for the …

Emma Stone is astonishing in "Poor Things," Yorgos Lanthimos' smart and bonkers masterpiece
1 year ago

Emma Stone is astonishing in "Poor Things," Yorgos Lanthimos' smart and bonkers masterpiece

Salon  

The first reel of Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest cinematic masterpiece, “Poor Things,” is shot largely in black and white and with a fish-eye lens. Godwin has kept Bella shielded from society, but when Bella gets a taste of life outside — Lanthimos has depicted the impact of seclusion from society since his brilliant breakout film, “Dogtooth” — she becomes hungry for …

After ‘The Favourite,’ Yorgos Lanthimos could do anything. He went wilder than ever
1 year ago

After ‘The Favourite,’ Yorgos Lanthimos could do anything. He went wilder than ever

LA Times  

In 2010, following the success of his breakout film, “Dogtooth,” Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos came to a fork in the road. Following the success of Lanthimos’ gonzo 2018 period comedy “The Favourite,” which earned 10 Oscar nominations including best picture and director, many are expecting “Poor Things” to be a similarly formidable awards contender. You can’t complain about that.” Love …

Venice Film Festival | Yorgos Lanthimos’s ‘Poor Things’ gets 10-minute standing ovation
1 year, 3 months ago

Venice Film Festival | Yorgos Lanthimos’s ‘Poor Things’ gets 10-minute standing ovation

The Hindu  

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Frankensteinian black comedy Poor Things screened to an encouraging response at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. According to a report in Deadline.com, the film received a 10-minute-plus standing ovation after the screening amid chants of ‘Yorgos, Yorgos’. However, Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo - the stars of Poor Things - could not be in attendance …

Poor Things: Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film receives ‘applause’ and is hailed ‘best of the year’ at Venice Film Festival
1 year, 3 months ago

Poor Things: Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film receives ‘applause’ and is hailed ‘best of the year’ at Venice Film Festival

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film has received huge …

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