Monthly Archives: April 2012 »
Garden of “Eden”; Mia Hansen-Love Caught in French House Explosion
Currently on the U.K press tour stint for Goodbye First Love (read our review), The Observer (via ThePlaylist) have got more details on the period that Mia Hansen-Løve plans to visit with her next
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2012 Hot Docs: Low & Clear | Review
Drifting Further Apart, But Forever Bound By The River J.T. Van Zandt and Alex “Xenie” Hall used to be the best of friends, spending every second of free time knee deep in a creek,
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Final batch of Cannes titles: Un Certain Regard includes Begic’s Djeca, Leon’s Gimme the Loot and Bourdos’ Renoir
A special screening, a pair of Midnighters and a trio have been added to the Un Certain Regard section – in it we find a little bit of SXSW, a bio portrait on French
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Exclusive Clip: Last Call At The Oasis
Over the last two decades, director Jessica Yu has jumped from fictional features (Ping Pong Playa) to prime time television (American Dreams, Grey’s Anatomy) to intimate documentaries (In The Realms Of The Unreal, Protagonist)
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Kelly Reilly Takes a Bite out of the Hilary Brougher Directed “Innocence”
We had lost sight of Hilary Brougher and for a while now, we lost sight of a project that we figured would be filming any day now. Finally there is a break in this
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Bernie | Review
An East Texas Love Story: Linklater’s Affectionate Tale of Murder in the First Degree Richard Linklater returns to fiction based on real life with his latest, Bernie, a true crime tale plucked from the
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Interview: Andrew Dosunmu (Restless City)
[Editor's note: This was originally published during the AFI Film Festival - Restless City is being released on April 27th by AFFRM]. We were thrilled to see Andrew Dosunmu’s latest film, Restless City, his
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Hook Line and Sinker; Variance Teams with Spike Lee for “Red Hook Summer”
A full four months after it premiered in Park City to mostly thumbs down type reviews, Deadline reports that Spike Lee will be joining forces with indie distributor Variance Films on the August 10th
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2012 Cannes Film Festival Jury: Helmers Andrea Arnold, Hiam Abbass, Alexander Payne and Raoul Peck Join Moretti
Five filmmakers in Alexander Payne, the Cannes loved Andrea Arnold, actress turned nouveau director Hiam Abbass (upcoming Inheritance, Jerusalem, I Love You) and Raoul Peck will join Nanni Moretti’s jury of nine alongside thesps Emmanuelle
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Elles | Review
Qui Dirige Le Monde? Elles!: Binoche Wades Through Shallow Waters in this Prostitution Dirge There are several subjects that have been globally exhausted in cinema. It’s a wonder when fresh angles and avenues are
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Interview: Ti West (The Innkeepers)
Jordan Smith: The Innkeepers comes out on DVD/Blu-ray today, but it was available on VOD for a month before it arrived in theaters. How do you feel about this release style? Ti West: I
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Headhunters | Review
Fatal Recruitment: Tyldum makes a killer action flick. With his third feature film, Norwegian director Morten Tyldum has created a surprisingly refreshing entry in the crime thriller genre with Headhunters. So good, in fact,
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2012 Directors’ Fortnight includes Raoul Ruiz’s Final Film, Gondry Opener and Pablo Stoll, Pablo Larrain, Jaime Rosales and Ben Wheatley
One section’s lose (Un Certain Regard) is indeed another section’s gain. The Directors’ Fortnight list of 21 films will begin with Michel Gondry’s “The We and the I” and the sidebar which is loaded
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The Innkeepers | Blu-ray Review
Working within the walls of a genre over stuffed with recycled extremism, writer/director/editor Ti West’s horror films are refreshingly retro. Rather than trying to shock his audiences into submission, he takes cues from his
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Criterion Collection: Late Spring | Blu-Ray Review
Societal customs and early forms of feminism collide in Late Spring, a masterfully delicate family drama from director Yasujirô Ozu. Produced in 1949, this seemingly modest film set in the exurbs of Tokyo spins
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Criterion Collection: Vanya on 42nd Street | Blu-ray Review
Perhaps one of the most intriguing and experimental film adaptations of Anton Chekov’s work happens to be the last film of a legendary filmmaker, Louis Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street. From 1989 to 1994,
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Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills Leads Romanian Presence at the 2012 Cannes Film Fest
Ever since Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) landed in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, the tricolour vertical stripes of blue, yellow and red of Romanian have
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2012 Cannes Critics’ Week: Opens with “Broken”, Special Screenings from Alice Winocour and Sandrine Bonnaire
Earlier in the day, first term Charles Tesson delivered the lottery like news that a lucky ten films/filmmakers (out of a whopping 1200 submissions) are the make up of the 51st edition of the
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Sound of My Voice | Review
Batmanglij Makes you Hear the Sound and the Fury Between moments of oddly comic happenings, there are such morbid, chilling, and delightful instances in Zal Batmanglij’s debut, Sound of My Voice, one can’t help but
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Inside Hana’s Suitcase | Review
Personalized Accounts From Within Auschwitz and Around The World There certainly is no shortage of Holocaust docs. Not to say they aren’t completely warranted, but it sometimes seems there is a never ending supply.
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Whore’s Glory | Review
Sugartime: Michael Glawogger Brings Us a Bleak Look at Third World Brothel Workers If Michael Glawogger’s Whores’ Glory, the third installment in his trilogy of globalization documentaries, (following Megacities, 1998, and Workingman’s Death, 2005)
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Post Mortem | Review
Death Politics: Pablo Larrain’s Pathologist Nightmare Vision Proving himself to be one of the most sardonic voices currently working in cinema, Chilean auteur Pablo Larrain returns to familiar stomping grounds after the success of
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55th San Franciso Int. Film Fest: Farewell, My Queen and Farewell to Festival Stalwarts
The 55th edition of the San Francisco International Film Festival opens today, April 19th with the French period drama “Farewell, My Queen” by Benoît Jacquot and which runs for a good three weeks on
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Images in Pictures: First Batch from Carlos Reygadas’ Post Tenebras Lux
Of all the announcements made today, Carlos Reygadas’ Post Tenebras Lux is, going in, the film event of this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Feast your eyes on the first stills from his fourth feature
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Darling Companion | Review
In Need of Assisted Living: Kasdan’s Dog of a Film Brown-noses the Geriatric Crowd Was it the Nancy Myer’s curse that derailed the trajectory of Diane Keaton’s career? Not long after her Oscar nomination
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"Ron and I wanted to make a film that looked at what it means to be an outsider and we wanted to explore what it takes to reach out to someone whose life is very removed from your own."
