Netflix: Coming soon films and web series, originals

Starting September, Netflix subscribers can enjoy several films ranging from Noah Baumbach’s black comedy ‘White Noise’, multiple award-winning Mexican director Alejandro Inarritu’s ‘Bardo and Lindsay Lohan’s romantic comedy ‘Falling for Christmas’.

As per the calendar put out on Tuesday by Netflix for this Fall, ‘Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical’, with Emma Thompson playing the terrifying Miss Trunchbull, ‘The Swimmers’ and ‘Mr. Harrigan’s Phone’, an adaptation of the Stephen King novel by John Lee Hancock will be available.

Some of the titles, such as ‘Bardo’ and ‘White Noise’, will debut on Netflix after theatre screening and ‘Falling for Christmas’, will land directly on the streaming service.

‘Bardo’, a “nostalgic comedy”, stars Daniel Gimnez Cacho playing a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker who returns to his native country at an existential crossroads. Its world premiere will open at the Venice Film Festival, on Wednesday, August 31.

‘White Noise’, adapted from Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, reports ‘Variety’, features Adam Driver as an ostentatious professor of Hitler studies, whose marriage (Greta Gerwig plays his wife) is upended after a horrifying accident creates an airborne toxic event of frightening and unknowable proportions. The film will be screened at the Venice and New York film festivals before landing on Netflix.

Another festival-bound film, ‘The Swimmers’, a refugee drama to be opened at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), is coming to Netflix on November 23.

Directed by Sally El Hosaini, this true-life story follows two sisters who fled a war-torn Syria to attend the 2016 Rio Olympics.