Yorgos Lanthimos‘ breakthrough 2009 Hit ”Dog tooth“Claps back in theaters. IndieWire may announce that the cult favorite will be released with a 4K restoration more than 15 years after its debut in Cannes, where it won some consideration and continued to be the Academy Award nominated for best foreign language Film.
“Dogtooth” is an unclear thriller who comes in age centered on a family that forces their three teenage children to endure a series of games as they wait for the young people’s experience of their “dogtooths” coming in. Christos Stergioglou and Michelle Valley play the parents whose paranoia about the corrupt influence of external world leaders to isolates within a giving in a greed in a GREE PLA the parents whose paranoia about the corrupt influence of external world lines them to the isolates within a given in a greed.
Lanthimos, who had made his debut feature with 2005’s “Kinetta”, cowrote “dogtooth” with efthymis Filippou, with whom he later reunited With for the “Alps”, “The Lobster” last“Kind of kindness.”
Lanthimo’s other long -standing partner, Vasilis Marmatakis, is also part of the “Dogtooth” release: the graphic designer has created all posters for Lanthimo’s films since the original release of “Dogtooth” and has now created a new poster for the 4K restoration. The film was restored in 4K from the 35mm camera and audio negatives by Boo Productions and MK2 films on Asterisk* Post and I hear voices audio studio. Color rating was provided by Gregory Arvanitis and Thimios Bakatakis, with digital audio recovery of Landros Ntounis. The restoration process was monitored by Lanthimos.
In the meantime, Lanthimos is busy continuing its current collaboration with Muse Emma Stone, who plays in her “Bugonia.” The function is written by the “succession” writer will tracy and produced by Ari Aster. The log line reads: “Two conspiracy obsessed with young men kidnap the high -driven CEO of a larger company, convinced that she is a foreign intention to destroy Planet Earth.”
“Bugonia” will be English -language version The 2005 movie “Save the Green Planet!”, Which was written and directed by Jang Joon-Hwan. Remake was developed by CJ ENM, which distributed the original “Save the Green Planet!” Fremantle and CJ ENM funded Lanthimo’s version, which will be Released by focus functions.
Jerry Ko, Head of CJ ENM’s film department, said During the 2024 Busan International Film Festival The “save the green planet!” Always be “ahead of his time” and had arisen a massive fan base state.
“We started with the belief that the film’s concept was ahead of its time and that (maybe we) could make an indie movie, but as we traveled around Hollywood we realized that there were many hidden fans of the original movie,” Ko said. “I happened to be in LA and saw Ari Aster moderating a screening of” Save the green planet! “At a theater, so I was enough for him and asked him to be part of the production
Lanthimos has had back-to-back productions of “bad things”, “kind of kindness” and now, “Bugonia.” The author told indifire That it is about which project comes to him at what time. “There is not a very structured plan for what it is I want to do and what it is I want to do next,” Lanthimos said. “It’s all these things that interest me, and what script I think is ready to go, you just go and do it.”
Kino Lorber will release the 4K restoration of “Dogtooth” in theaters on June 20, starting at IFC Center in NYC. A national expansion for choosing cities will follow. Check out the trailer below.
