Theater video tags: Netflix

“From my many wanderings on this earth, I had so much to say about imperfect fathers and imperfect sons, and about loss and love.” In this film adaptation of the classic tale written by Italian writer Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio begins with Gepetto mourning the death of his son and carving a puppet from a tree growing above the boy’s grave. The stop-motion Netflix film is directed by Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, and features a cast including Cate Blanchett, David Bradley, and Ewan McGregor.

Watch the trailer for Blonde, a film adaptation of the best-selling 2000 historical novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates. Directed by Andrew Dominik, the film stars Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe and will be released on Netflix this fall.

Watch the trailer for Passing, a film written and directed by Rebecca Hall and starring Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson, based on the celebrated 1929 novel of the same name by Nella Larsen, a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism. 

“What do you see when you look at me?” Monster is a film adaptation of the 1999 YA novel of the same name by the late Walter Dean Myers, which tells the story of seventeen-year-old film student Steve Harmon and how his life is altered when he is charged with felony murder. With a screenplay written by Radha Blank, Cole Wiley, and Janece Shaffer, the film stars Kelvin Harrison, Jr.; Jennifer Hudson; John David Washington; and Jeffrey Wright.