Film festival award-winning works are distributed one after another! 10 recommended NEON movies

The American film company A24, which was founded in 2012, has been well known in Japan for a long time, but in recent years there is a company with a different color that has rapidly become more powerful. NEON was founded in 2017. In less than four years, the company has grown into a company that produces films that have won Academy Awards and the world's three major film festivals one after another.

Upcoming new releases include Pablo Larraín's "Spencer," starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, "Pig," which received rave reviews for Nicolas Cage's performance, and the Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2020. "Flee" won the Grand Prix in the feature category at the 74th Cannes Film Festival (2021), and director Julia Ducournau (" A Girl Awakens " (16))'s new work "Flee" won the Palme d'Or at the 74th Cannes Film Festival (2021) Titane'', Apichatpong Weerasethakul's director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's ``Memoria'' (released on March 4, 2022), which won the Jury Prize, and Joachim Trier's `` Thelma '' (2017) director, who won the Best Actress award. The Worst Person in the World (English title)'', etc., it is so rich that it can be called a ``sweep''.

NEON has a lot in common with A24, such as ``distributing and producing works with a strong sense of authorship'' and ``focusing on promoting online (especially SNS) rather than on TV.'' As a side note, there was a situation in which the distribution rights for ``Pleasure'', which depicts the porn industry, were transferred from A24 to NEON (A24 plans to release two versions: an edited version so as not to be rated R, and an unedited version). (However, it seems that they were unable to come to terms with the creators and moved to NEON, which only screens the unedited version).Director Harmony Korine received A24 for ` `Spring Breakers '' (12), and ` `The Beach Bum' '. (19) There are also creators who have published works in both NEON and NEON.

However, the major difference is the large number of works from non-English speaking countries. At the time of its establishment, NEON stated that it would focus on ``people under the age of 45 who do not dislike violence, foreign languages, or non-fiction.'' In fact, looking at his list of works up to now, it feels like he has faithfully adhered to that zone. ` `Parasite '' (2019), which changed the history of the Academy Awards, may be the best example of this. A24 wins in terms of brand strategies such as the development of original goods and the ability to plan pilgrimages to sacred places, but NEON is in hot pursuit due to its wide selection of movies that are not dependent on English-speaking countries and the large selection of movies that are relevant to the award race. I have the impression that they are.

By the way, NEON was launched by veterans such as Tim League, the founder of MONDO, known for the movie theater chain ``Alamo Drafthouse Cinema'' and movie posters, and Tom Quinn. Like A24, the "actual force" seems to have been left to younger generations, but it has achieved success as a company that firmly captures the millennial generation (the generation born between 1980 and around 2000). Recently, we have collaborated with Apple TV+ to distribute theatrically ``Billie Eilish: The World Is a Little Blurry'' (21), and co-distributed with Bleecker Street, which has distributed `` Journey to the Beginning '' (2016). He is also taking on new challenges, such as launching the company DECAL.

This time, we will carefully select and introduce 10 of the works that NEON distributed in the United States. Please enjoy this article along with the article " A24's 30 Recommended Movies " from early 2020.

Index

• 1. "Colossal" (16) Director: Nacho Vigalondo
• 2. “I, Tonya” (17) Director: Craig Gillespie
• 3. “Three strangers with the same genes” (18) Director: Tim Wardle
• 4. “Border” (18) Director: Ali Abbasi
• 5. "Honeyland" (19) Director: Ljubo Stefanov Tamara Kotevska
• 6. “Monos” (19) Director: Alejandro Landes
• 7. "Parasite" (19) Director: Bong Joon-ho
• 8. "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" (19) Director: Celine Sciamma
• 9. "Palm Springs" (20) Director: Max Barbakow
• Ten. "Gunda" (20) Director: Victor Kosakovsky

1. "Colossal" (16) Director: Nacho Vigalondo