Search results for: James Benning

Not exactly a breath of fresh air, this structural feature could earn an NC-17 with nary boob or 'F#%K Y@U'

This month we profile Michelangelo Frammartino. His award-winning film, Le Quattro Volte was among our top three back on the Croisette and it receives a theatrical release via Lorber Films -- beginning in Gotham's Film Forum and then expanding into other markets in North America commencing this weekend.

Does Pixar stand a chance at receiving an Academy Award Best Picture nomination this year? Kudos go to the Los Angeles Critics Assn. for picking Wall-E as the best film of the year and for backing Zhang-Ke Jia's Still Life – a picture that received a limited release in January and is being honored as Best Foreign and Best Cinematography by the group.

The Toronto Film Festival announced the line ups for the Wavelengths, Sprockets Family Zone and Midnight Madness sections with names like Quentin Tarantino, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Gene Simmons participating to the festivities, but to be honest there aren't that many films that peak my curiosity with the exception of Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs

The New Frontier section is the one section that I normally don't plunge into (and that's a real shame). Call it lack of time, but more like lack of commitment - the films that come out of this section are usually of the groundbreaking kind. I think you need to be in a different headspace to appreciate each and everyone of these - hence why I tend to grab only one or two of these films each year. So far I've got my laser pointed towards Mange Ceci est Mon Corps (pictured above).