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Fuck For Forest | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Exploits For Earth: Marczak Gazes Into The Gutter After the breakout success of his docu debut At the Edge of Russia, Polish director Michal Marczak found himself following the sexual and political exploits of
Read More15 Reasons To Live | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Zweig Somberly Celebrates Human Resilience Occasionally, moments of epiphany can boil down the colossal essence of mortality into simple, elegant terms. For Alan Zweig, director of the LP obsessed docu Vinyl, one of those
Read MoreCannes 2013: Jarmusch’s “Only Lovers Left Alive” Among Five Last Minute Additions
Confirming some last minute additions to this year’s lineup, Cannes officials announced some exciting new titles, including (which we predicted) Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, headlining Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as impassioned
Read MoreTai Chi Hero | Review
Fallen Hero; Fung Spawns Unnecessary Sequel Bringing back the tonally strange style that makes these films so hard to classify, Stephen Fung’s follow-up to last year’s Tai Chi Zero displays little in terms of
Read MoreAlias | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Latimer Drops Beat On Toronto’s Rap Scene Taking it’s name from one of the four Toronto street rappers it peeks into the lives of, Michelle Latimer’s Alias examines the cyclic struggles of urban hip-hoppers
Read MoreMidnight’s Children | Review
Changeling Game: Mehta’s Latest a Stodgy, Swollen Adaptation A fictional narrative that attempts to recuperate an impressive fifty year historical timeline concerning relations between India and Pakistan, Deepa Mehta’s latest film, Midnight’s Children, is
Read MoreThe Manor | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Polemic Crisis: Cohen Turns Camera On His Fam Having flown the coop over a decade ago to work in the film industry as a digital effects artist, first time feature director Shawney Cohen decided
Read MoreArthur Newman | Review
Hello, Newman: Ariola’s Meditation on Getting a Life Fails to Have One For a film whose tagline aggressively demands, “If you don’t have a life, get someone else’s,” Dante Ariola’s directorial debut, Arthur Newman,
Read MoreThe Central Park Five | Blu-ray Review
After years of acclaimed documentary mini-series, Ken Burns returns to the feature film with his daughter Sarah Burns and fellow colleague David McMahon, who produced a number of Burns’ past projects, joining him as
Read MoreThe Reluctant Fundamentalist | Review
Turn and Face the Strain: Nair’s Latest Adaptation a Return to Form Citing the project as nearly five years in the making, Mira Nair’s adaptation of Mohsin Hamid’s novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist follows on
Read MoreInterview: Amy Seimetz, Kate Lyn Sheil, Kentucker Audley (Sun Don’t Shine)
[Editor's note: Interview took place during the 2012 SXSW Film Festival.] In actor/producer Amy Seimetz’s Sun Don’t Shine, a lost and forlorn couple, Crystal and Leo (exquisitely played by Kate Lyn Sheil and Kentucker
Read MoreSun Don’t Shine | Review (AFI Film Fest)
Madlands: Seimetz’ Relationship Drama Takes Us on a Road Trip to Love Hell Managing to balance an insanely busy schedule that boasts quality and quantity, actress/producer Amy Seimetz debuts her feature directorial debut with
Read MoreSun Don’t Shine | Review (SXSW)
Orange State: Seimetz ninety minutes. Between them, they barely own one T-shirt. Crystal and Leo, two people with next to nothing, roam the deserted highways and murky backwaters of central Florida, running away from
Read MoreDirectors’ Fortnight Loads Up on: Jodorowsky, Jeremy Saulnier, Ruairi Robinson, Clio Barnard, Serge Bozon and Lynne Ramsay
Heavy on the French film items and with a side dish of Chilean influence, this year’s Directors’ Fortnight also known as the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs is offering “double” Alejandro Jodorowosky, and the highly anticipated
Read More52nd Cannes Critics’ Week Packed with Salvo, Quillévéré’s Suzanne & Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
As hard it is to predict, the sidebar section all the way at the other end of the Croisette contains a trio of titles that were tipped to show up at the fest by
Read MoreKuma | Review
Two’s Company: Dag’s Extraordinary Debut Perversely Compelling Like Feo Aladag’s 2010 harrowing debut, When We Leave, Austrian-Kurdish director Umat Dag’s first film, Kuma, examines the strict traditions and cultural values of a Turkish immigrant
Read MoreFeed Me With Your Words | Review
Holy Strokes!: Turk’s Debut Loses Its Appetite Born out of a collaboration with the Torino Film Lab comes Martin Turk’s feature directorial debut, Feed Me With Your Words, a three tiered narrative structure told
Read MoreMushrooming | Review
Scandal Sheet: An Odd, Disjointed Look at Estonia’s Political Climate Estonian director Toomas Hussar makes his screen debut with Mushrooming, a sort of political satire, sort of comedy, sort of faux thriller that may
Read MoreFolman’s The Congress Opens Directors’ Fortnight
Yesterday’s glaring omission from the Cannes lineup will be the opening film for the Directors’ Fortnight. Edouard Waintrop has nabbed Ari Folman’s The Congress, which we (along with many others) predicted would have been
Read MoreThe Lords of Salem | Review
Burn, Witch, Burn: Zombie Conquers His Cross to Bear Don’t be so sure of what to expect when walking into Rob Zombie’s latest feature, The Lords of Salem, at once a familiar homage to
Read MoreIt Happened in Saint Tropez | COLCOA Review
Those Who Love Me Can Catch the Train Wreck: Thompson’s Latest Flat, Overstuffed Familial relationships and transportation, two favorite themes of writer/director Daniele Thompson, figure heavily in her latest feature, It Happened in Saint
Read More2013′s Un Certain Regard Includes Plenty of Vets (Claire Denis, Rithy Panh, Rasoulof, Guiraudie, Abu-Assad) & Newbies too (Coogler)
2013′s Un Certain Regard section carries a whopping five first time feature filmmakers that’ll be measuring themselves up against auteur cinema heavyweights. While we nailed predictions for Alain Guiraudie’s L’inconnu du Lac, Rebecca Zlotowski’s
Read MoreEscalante, Bruni-Tedeschi, Warmerdam & New Zhangke Crack 2013 Cannes Main Comp Line-Up
The Official Selection for the 66th Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled and noticeable absentees in the list of 19 Main Comp films and the Un Certain Regard section include Terrence Malick, Ari Folman’s
Read MoreSofia Coppola’s “The Bling Ring” Opens Un Certain Regard in Cannes’ Year of the Woman?
We doubt that it’ll be as populated as Sundance was, but if this year’s Cannes Film Festival should be remembered for anything, it will surely be noted as one of the most female friendly
Read MoreScreen Media & Focus World Team to Make Cider with Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s C.O.G.
After last month’s deal on the Park City preemed, Liz W. Garcia’s dramedy The Lifeguard, Deadline reports that Screen Media and Focus Features’ Focus World have combined forces once again, securing North American rights
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