Tag: Caleb Landry Jones
Harvest | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Sheep, Sheep, Sheep: Tsangari’s Monotonous Treatise on Modernization
Adapted from a novel by Jim Croce, Harvest is Greek auteur Athina Rachel Tsangari's third feature narrative,...
DogMan | Review
All Dogs Go to Heaven: Besson Gets Bombastic with Retro Pulp
The suspension of disbelief required to enjoyably settle into Luc Besson’s latest film, DogMan,...
Nitram | Review
A Pleasure to Burn: Kurzel Explores the Making of a Murderer in Disturbing Portrait
On April 28, 1996, lone gunman Martin Bryant shot and killed...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #9. Justin Kurzel’s Nitram
Nitram
Produced by Nick Batzias, Virginia Whitwell
Directed by Justin Kurzel
Written by Shaun Grant
Starring: Caleb Landry Jones, Judy Davis, Essie Davis, Anthony LaPaglia
Release Date/Prediction: Australia...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #46. John Michael McDonagh’s The Forgiven
The Forgiven
Produced by Elizabeth Eves, Nick Gordon, Trevor Matthews, John Michael McDonagh
Directed by John Michael McDonagh
Written by John Michael McDonagh
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Ralph Fiennes,...
The Kindness of Strangers | Review
Strife Itself: Scherfig Delivers Major Misfire with Manhattan Set Melodrama
Lest we forget, it was Blanche Dubois, the broken seductress of Tennessee Williams’ classic A...
The Dead Don’t Die | Review
Fear the Mocking Dead: Jarmusch’s Zombie Sketch is DOA
“The world is perfect. Appreciate the details,” says deliveryman RZA (in one of the film’s many...
2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 1 – Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die
A long and rich history with the festival since 1984's Stranger Than Paradise premiered on the Croisette and won the Caméra d'or 1984, Jim...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #4. Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die
Shifting sideways from the extensionalism lethargy found vampires in goth tweaked Only Lovers Left Alive to possibly reanimated corpses that haven't said their last word...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #110. The Kindness of Strangers – Lone Scherfig
The Kindness of Strangers
Dogme 95 alum Lone Scherfig continues in English for her tenth film, The Kindness of Strangers, a Danish-Canadian co-production, which takes...
Interview: Sebastián Silva – TYREL | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Over the past nine years, writer/director Sebastián Silva has completed his checklist, by premiering a film in all five categories of the Sundance narrative feature...
Interview: Jason Mitchell – Sebastián Silva’s TYREL | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
Jason Mitchell first caught the mainstream eye in 2015 for his critically-acclaimed performance as an ill-fated rapper Eazy-E in the NWA biopic Straight Outta...
Interviews: Phillip Ettinger & Max Born + World Preem of Sebastián Silva’s TYREL
Along with actors Christopher Abbott (watch the interview) and Jason Mitchell (watch that interview), just prior to the world premiere at the Library Center...
Friday’s Child | 2018 SXSW Film Festival Review
Edward's Coming of Age Thriller on the Fringe is a Big Mood
Some films aren’t meant to be enjoyed, some instead exist to agitate and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #4. Sebastián Silva’s TYREL
Tyrel
You can wager on the cinema offerings of the Brooklyn based, Santiago born Sebastián Silva to be bold, the comedy to be subversive, and rather...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #38. A.J. Edwards’ Friday’s Child
Friday’s Child
“Sponging both formal technique and spiritual inflection to create a film that looks, sounds and feels like the work of Malick, yet stands...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #97. Justin Kelly’s Welcome the Stranger
Welcome the Stranger
Currently sitting on a pair of feature film items waiting for a film festival release, filmmaker Justin Kelly had his feature debut...
Sundance ’18: Morano, Silva, Akhavan & Boots Riley Among U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections
Last year's section of sixteen included such gems as Beach Rats (Directing Award), Brigsby Bear, Ingrid Goes West (Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award), Golden Exits...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Justin Kelly’s Welcome the Stranger
With a breakneck pace output, filmmaker Justin Kelly hasn't wasted much time between features since premiering his debut feature at I Am Michael (review) at...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sebastián Silva’s Tyrel
What does one do when a project falls apart days before shooting? If you're Terry Gilliam you throw your hands up in the air,...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Peter Brunner’s To the Night
For his fifth feature and English language debut, Austrian helmer Peter Brunner moves into gritty, street-fashioned shoot in NYC. Working with a pair of Safdie...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: A.J. Edwards’ Friday’s Child
A Terrence Malick school of cinema apprentice, there are certain parallels that can be drawn between the ethos, pathos or filmmaker conditioning of A.J. Edwards....
Video: Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
Landing the coveted People's Choice Award, which in some circles is believed to be a god luck blessing towards an eventual Oscar win, Fox...
The Florida Project | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah: Baker Offers A Portrait of the South Like No Other
This time out we can move away from lazily defining Sean Baker's cinema as...
War on Everyone | Blu-ray Review
Following his 2011 debut The Guard and his moody 2014 sophomore feature Calvary, British filmmaker John Michael McDonaugh hits a false note with his first...
Get Out | Review
The Souls of Black Folk: Peele's Debut Subverts the Norm in Edgy, Timely Horror Film
Behold the power of genre film, a tradition of cinema...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
While his brother (John Michael McDonagh) appears to enjoy the Park City backdrop (The Guard, Calvary) so does this Londoner / short film Oscar...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sean Baker’s The Florida Project
Not unlike how we feel about the road trip formula, there is no shortage of or love lost for: kids drifting off into ruined...
War on Everyone | 2016 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Let’s Be Bad Cops: McDonagh’s U.S. Visit an Overworked Episode
Director John Michael McDonagh makes his first foray to the US with third feature, War...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #75. John Michael McDonaugh’s War on Everyone
War on Everyone
Director: John Michael McDonaugh
Writer: John Michael McDonaugh
The McDonaugh brothers have been showcasing their particular penchant for dark comedy over the past decade,...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Michael McDonagh’s War On Everyone
Littered with an international cast comprised of Theo James, Stephanie Sigman, Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña, Tessa Thompson and Caleb Landry Jones, while John Michael...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gerardo Naranjo’s Viena and the Fantomes
Four features under his belt (2004's Malachance, 2006's Drama/Mex, 2008's I'm Gonna Explode and 2011's Miss Bala) and Gerardo Naranjo's only history with the Sundance film...
Stonewall | Review
Hole in the Wall: Emmerich Butchers Historical Moment with Whitewashed Overcoat
On June 28, 1969, a group of gay men and women took a stand...
Amplify Releasing Prepare Summer Harvest for Dolan’s “Tom at the Farm”
Going on almost two full years since it landed in competition for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Amplify Releasing have made their...
Heaven Knows What | Review
Living Through Oblivion: Safdie Bros. Lens Devastating Tale of Desperation and Depravity on the Streets of NYC
The story of how the directorial brothers Benny...
Oslo Accords: Rory Culkin & Caleb Landry Jones Join Jonas Åkerlund’s “Lords Of Chaos”
Indie actor Rory Culkin (Electrick Children, Gabriel) and Caleb Landry Jones (who'll see Heaven Knows What receive its theatrical release at the end of...
Queen and Country | Review
Tour of Duty: Boorman Returns to Autobiographical Elements
Now at 82 years of age, British auteur John Boorman returns with Queen and Country his first...
Needle in a Haystack; RADiUS Comfort Safdie Bros.’ “Heaven Knows What”
After landing more audience "friendly" items in Ross Katz' Adult Beginners and Richard LaGravenese's The Last 5 Years, RADiUS' Tom Quinn and Jason Janego have...
2014 TIFF: Safdie Bros.’ Heaven Knows What
Following the premiere of their caustic new film, Heaven Knows What, at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival (it premiered in Venice and had...
God’s Pocket | Review
Pocket Full of Sunshine: Slattery’s Debut Weak in the Knees
The devil’s not in all the details he should be of God’s Pocket, the directorial...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #143. John Boorman’s Queen and Country
Queen and Country
Director: John Boorman
Writer: John Boorman
Producer: John Boorman, Kieran Corrigan
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Tamsin Egerton, David Thewlis, Richard E. Grant, Caleb Landry Jones
The...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeff Preiss’ Low Down
While 2013 gave us Inside Llewyn Davis, 2014 will give us Low Down. I'm thinking that photographer/ethnographic documentarian/commercials and video director Jeff Preiss' debut...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Slattery’s God’s Pocket
He traded on-set education on Mad Men and then cornered this project almost a decade earlier when he picked it up as a...
