Beauty & Banality: Andersson Ponders the Void in Potential Final Film
There might be no greater spiritual absurdist than Sweden’s premiere arthouse auteur Roy Andersson,...
Turn and Face the Strange: Caetano & Gotardo Navigate Displacement in Stellar Period Piece
The tagline for George Cukor’s 1939 classic The Women read “It’s...
Whiles the likes of Terrence Malick, Todd Haynes, Alexander Sokurov, Giorgos Lanthimos and J.C. Chandor no where to be found in the fall fest season...
As a more economical way of previewing some of the films that are being featured daily at the festival, I've decided to come up with this quick featurette of a journalist retrieving the items in his press box. Today I received press kits for:
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.