Monthly Archives: January, 2012

I'll re-iterate what I mentioned before, Bill & Turner Ross' magical docu 45365 brought much deserved acclaim to the pair. Hopefully this will see a progression of their docu style.

Another delayed sophomore feature we're itching to see, this features the cinematography from DP Kasper Tuxen and sees M.Blash once again work with thesps Jena Malone and Chloë Sevigny who appeared in his debut, 2006's Lying.

Combine the faux individual and group filmmaking inventiveness in Be Kind Rewind, the community spirit found in Dave Chappelle's Block Party along with Gondry's habitual playfulness found in all his work (both theatrical, commercial and video) and with this project you've got the DIY essence that makes the French filmmaker a creative person you keep revisiting despite the occasional misstep (aka The Green Hornet). Experimental in design, this one comes from the Bronx - and like Scorsese's Hugo, demonstrates an auteur's passion for cinema.

Part of the New Uruguayan Cinema movement (he was as assistant director on both "25 Watts" and "Whisky"), Manolo Nieto's sophomore picture after 2006's The Dog Pound (Best Film at Rotterdam) is being produced by the great Lisandro Alonso.

You can write them off collectively for some of their most recent efforts, but in terms of craft, the pairing of Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski duo might be well-suited for sci-fi aesthetics, but the major apprehension lies in how they'll manage to string the six stories into the fashion laid out in the novel. This might be the year's most ambitious book adaptation.