I Love Black Balls

I keep meaning to at the very least make myself a mental list of the movies set to come out this fall that I personally am most excited to see -- because of course me me and more me -- cuz otherwise it's chaos and white noise and I have no idea what's happening half the time. Even better would be a list here on the site but that would take me being able to focus for longer than ten minutes and... that's just not been possible lately. (Have you SEEN the state of the world? My god.) 

(Julio!) Anyway I bring this up because two of the movies that would make it onto said list have come up this morning -- the first was Luca Guadagnino's Artificial which just dropped news of its world premiete at NYFF on October 5th. And here's the second -- the teaser trailer for La bola negra (The Black Ball), the extremely gay sounding new film from Spanish directors  Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi which grabbed our attention first when it premiered at Cannes to extremely gay notices. Here I'll just let you watch the trailer and see for yourselves:

I've never seen any of  Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi's Spanish T.V. series (Paquita Salas and Veneno) but from what I understand they're popular and extremely queer, kind of heirs to Almodovar -- the fact that Penelope Cruz is in their new movie only seems to cement that status for me, but if y'all who know of their work wanna enlighten me more have at it. I'm purposefully keeping myself ignorant (full stop, what's new) of specifics on La bola negra as I do with most movies I know I want to see these days -- I look forward to going in empty-brained and being surprised. But even in my ignorance I'm extremely excited about this one. (The fact that I do know that Cruz and Glenn Close and my beloved Julio Torres are in it, alongside a swath of extremely hot Spanish guys, isn't hurting.) So when will we all be able to see it? It is playing TIFF but I'm not going to TIFF -- thankfully Netflix is dropping the film ("theatrically") on October 16th. Gimme!