Monthly Archives: January, 2012

Collectively they've helped launch the careers of helmers we hold dear to our cinephilic hearts in Ryan Fleck and Derek Cianfrance. They've contributed to the burgeoning careers of talented behind the scenes folk such as Cinematographer Andrij Parekh, Art Director Inbal Weinberg and Costume Designer Erin Benach. And Ryan Gosling has been the biggest winner on the three times that Patricof and Howell (and producer Alex Orlovsky) got together for a shared common goal.

To give you an idea of how long we've been waiting, we've had this on our Most Anticipated lists for 2010 and 2011. The trailer was enough to maintain its position among the Most Anticipated elite and we're confident this won't go the 2046 (five years in editing) route.

"You may be old enough to remember the televised match with Spassky, an avid chess enthusiast yourself, or just a fascinated onlooker of the train wreck that Fischer became, but one and all will surely find it hard to turn away from this stirring biographic doc."

Currently in the "Woody Allen phase" of his career (unlike Woody, he left his homeland for more than pure economics) Abbas Kiarostami delivered in his third decade of work, an invigorating, intellectually stimulating piece of cinema with another career high with in Certified Copy. What I'm most curious about is how the kindness, civility and humanity in a post Tsunami Japan might be further illuminated/embedded in this work.

Now that devoted year of Martha Marcy May Marlene is complete, 2012 will see Borderline focus on what we expect will be an equally and exquisitely jarring sophomore follow up to Campos distinguished debut, Afterschool. The versatile Brady Corbet takes on the ballsy lead part, the excellent Daniel Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans offer the score -- described as a neonoir thriller, this soul searching in a part of Paris that is probably not mentioned in your Let's Go Guidebook will be among the most talked about films showing up in Park City.