IL DONO: Michelangelo Frammartino’s Memento Mori

Michelangelo Frammartino’s 2003 debut feature, Il Dono (The Gift), is a film about a dying place—specifically the tiny Calabrian village of Caulonia, the filmmaker’s ancestral home—so it’s only fitting that it is bookended by scenes of loss. The film opens with an elderly man (Angelo Frammartino) summoning local boys to

Quick News: Normal, Michael, Apollo 13, Posters

Normal British filmmaker Ben Wheatley’s new crime thriller “Normal” will have its world premiere at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival. Bob Odenkirk plays Ulysses, a substitute sheriff in a small, forgotten town who responds to a bank robbery, only to unknowingly uncover something far more explosive. “John Wick” creator Derek