Two very different indies circling a cantor and slasher debut in moderate to wide release along with a handful of limited openings from Close Your Eyes to Paradise Is Burning on this late summer weekend with the fall festival season about to kick off. Sony Pictures Classics launches Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane-starring Between The Temples on 576 screens. Directed by Nathan Silver, written by Silver and C.
Mason Wells with Schwartzman as a cantor losing his voice, and maybe his faith. His world turns upside down when his grade school music teacher (Kane) re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. SPC acquired the thoughtful comedy out of Sundance.
Also stars Robert Smigel ( Leo ), Madeline Weinstein ( Beach Rats ), and Matthew Shear ( Mistress America ). It played Sundance and Berlin to strong reviews (sits at 87% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes) and made its New York debut at Tribeca. Veteran producer Bob Yari’s new production and distribution company Magenta Light Studios opens the very well reviewed slasher horror Strange Darling from writer-director J.
T. Mollnerin on 1,133 screens. Stars Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallner in standout performances amid a glut of horror as genre, when it’s good, can really clean up.
Nothing is what it seems is this slasher when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree Limited openings : Film Movement debuts Victor Erice’s Close Your Eyes at the Film Forum in NYC. The first featur.