Amalia Ulman’s ‘Magic Farm’, ‘Blue Sun Palace’, ‘April’ Meet Pink Floyd & Mozart In Rich Indie Weekend – Specialty Preview

Amalia Ulman’s ‘Magic Farm’, ‘Blue Sun Palace’, ‘April’ Meet Pink Floyd & Mozart In Rich Indie Weekend – Specialty Preview

The indie box office offers a half dozen strong debuts from Magic Farm buy El Planeta’s Amalia Ulman to Venice Special Jury Prize winner April to Cannes Critics Week award- winner Blue Sun Palace. Sony Pictures Classics leads moderate releases with On Swift Horses with a remastered rerelease of Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII and Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. The Legend Of Ochi takes a big leap to 1,700 screens. Limited release indies: Mubi de…

Joe Apollonio Enters the Scene with His Idiosyncratic Brand of Comedy and Amalia Ulman’s ‘Magic Farm’

When Joe Apollonio, the 34-year-old New York internet comic with a wild coif of reddish hair, names River Phoenix as one of his favorite actors, it all makes sense. They have a similar countercultural vibe — not to mention fashionably unkempt hairstyle — and a hunger to take on roles that scare them, and often put their own autobiography front and center. “I get shit sometimes from my friends for not watching certain movies,” Apollonio told Indi…