Ryan Brown

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Ryan Brown is a filmmaker and freelance writer living in Brooklyn, NY. He has an MFA in Media Arts from City College, CUNY. His short films GATE OF HEAVEN and DAUGHTER OF HOPE can be viewed here: vimeo.com/user1360852. With Antonio Tibaldi, he co-wrote the screenplay 'The Oldest Man Alive,' which was selected for the "Emerging Narrative" section of IFP's 2012 Independent Film Week. Top Films From Contemporary Film Auteurs: Almodóvar (Live Flesh), Assayas (Cold Water), Bellochio (Fists in the Pocket), Breillat (Fat Girl), Coen Bros. (Burn After Reading), Demme (Something Wild), Denis (Friday Night), Herzog (The Wild Blue Yonder), Leigh (Another Year), Skolimowski (Four Nights with Anna), Zulawski (She-Shaman)

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Review: Charlotte Rampling: The Look

"There’s a lot of empty pontificating in this movie, so it’s unsurprising that writer Paul Auster offers the doc’s most intriguing conversation starter: “Has anyone over 80 ever written a great novel?” Rampling doesn’t have a clue; the question is dropped as soon as it’s offered. Like everything with this movie, it’s a great potential unexplored."

Charlotte Rampling: The Look | Review

There’s not much to see in this tiring Charlotte Rampling vanity project

Review: The Rum Diary

Withnail’ is an oeuvre in itself; its reach spans the 30 subsequent years during which Robinson has rarely made films, and makes them seem inexplicably prolific. Again: that mysterious alchemy at work. It’s a movie about the unquiet guilt of the functional, having had to cut ties with the lost causes. ‘Rum Diary,’ despite its several amusements, never captures the same sense of loss lurking beneath the colorful misadventure.

The Rum Diary | Review

Johnny Depp is miscast & uninspired in uneven Hunter S. Thompson adaptation

Review: Sleeping Sickness

"Lived-in performances impress all around; Kohler & DP Patrick Orth use a doc-like HD shooting style to immerse us in the various African environments, from dilapidated city to deep jungle outpost. Basic story elements are there, but for Kohler narrative is secondary to behavioral observation."

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