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It’s been several sunrises since Gummo creator Harmony Korine’s last feature film, but all you fans out there (that includes Sly Stallone) can soak up the view – we’ve got a couple of production pics for Mister Lonely.

Besides taking my last year’s resolution and placing it at the top of the following year’s list of things I need to do, part of my habitual beginning-of-the-year practices is to look ahead at the year of film offerings, filter through all the crap that will come out in the next 12 months and make my most anticipated list.

In her 2000, film American Psycho, writer/director Mary Harron (see also, I Shot Andy Warhol) explored America’s relationship with and reaction to violence – or perhaps, lack of reaction. Now Harron brings us The Notorious Bettie Page, the story of the 1950s pin-up model who would go on to become a cult icon of sexuality. With this film Harron has explored America’s relationship with and reaction – or perhaps more accurately, overreaction – to sex. Though NBP is a much sweeter, more optimistic work that Harron’s previous films, it is no less thematically complicated and raises significant questions about many aspects of American society both past and present, ranging from sex and religion to politics and capitalism.

The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things is an unflinching account of the true story of J.T. LeRoy: a young boy who survived a childhood...

Following up on a Screen Daily piece written moments after the Berlin film festival, we’ve decided to go with that list and make a...