13 Films to See in October
October. It's the time of year when the leaves are changing color, election season is heating up, and the Cubs are doing whatever they can to avoid a World Series title. (Well, maybe not this year.) October also marks the return of serious movies to the cineplex as the first batch of this year's awards contenders are unveiled. And there are certainly some noteworthy releases due in the coming weeks, including this year's big Sundance winner, the latest films from Ava DuVernay, Park Chan-wook, Kelly Reichardt, and Terrence Malick, and 2016's highest-scoring film.
For the Sundance-record-setting price of $17.5 million, Fox Searchlight bought producer-writer-director-star Nate Parker’s biography of Nat Tuner, a slave and preacher who led a rebellion in Southhampton County, Virginia in 1831. Seven years in the making, the film won the prestigious U.S. Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival but has been shrouded in controversy since August when the press began reporting on Parker’s 2001 trial and acquittal for rape when he was a student at Penn State. This early Oscar favorite now faces an uphill battle with voters and audiences alike.
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