Tag: Chloë Sevigny
Bonjour Tristesse | 2024 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Lifestyles of the Rich, Conflicted & Coddled: Dull Vacation in the South of France for Debut
Ah, summer in the south of France. The cerulean...
Bones and All | Review
All the Fine Young Cannibals: Guadagnino Crafts Grisly, Devouring Love Story
“It’s amazing what you can do with a cheap piece of meat if you...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Luca Guadagnino’s Bones & All
He had Call Me By Your Name have its world premiere in Park City, so Luca Guadagnino's first American shot film project in Bones...
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...
Lizzie | Review
Walk Away Genet: Macneill Revisits the Lurid Case of Lizzie Borden in Fascinating, Empowering Psychological Portrait
For true crime aficionados, there is perhaps no figure...
Video: Craig William Macneill’s Lizzie | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
The '18 edition of Sundance stood as a breakout year in terms of women taking ownership of material. We could cite several projects where...
Interview: Andrew Haigh – Lean on Pete
Moving from deep conversations and casual sex (Weekend) to a couple's disentangle and a woman's profound change (45 Years), Andrew Haigh returns to the familiar...
Video: Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
After being showcased at Venice, TIFF (where we were on hand) and SXSW, A24 releases Lean on Pete in theatres this weekend. There is not much horsing...
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...
The Dinner | Blu-ray Review
Premiering in competition at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival, Oren Moverman’s The Dinner went on to receive a successful return at the box...
The Dinner | Review
Principles of Privilege: Moverman Dresses Morality Drama in American Clothes
Susan Sontag once famously wrote, “The white race is the cancer of human history,” an...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2017: #2. Tomas Alfredson’s The Snowman
The Snowman
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Writer: Hossein Amini, Matthew Michael Carnhan
Swedish auteur Tomas Alfredson became immediately of note following his superb vampire film Let the Right...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #22. Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete
Lean on Pete
Director: Andrew Haigh
Writer: Andrew Haigh
British filmmaker Andrew Haigh may possibly unveil two new projects this year, the first being Lean on Pete,...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete
Seeing that Andrew Haigh's career has been climbing in the same upward trajectory as the best stock options on the fortune 500, we shouldn't be...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Ross Perry’s Golden Exits
Not to Pooh Pooh on the selection process (forgive the pun), but the last time I predicted an Alex Ross Perry film was going...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Oren Moverman’s The Dinner
I don't recall the last time a novel had three book to film adaptations in such a rapid lapse of time, but the source...
BKLYN Heights & Lows: Alex Ross Perry Stacks “Golden Exits” with the Likes of Browning, Sevigny, Schwartzman & Tipton
With Winnie The Pooh and the possible adaptation of The Names set up for the foreseeable future, Alex Ross Perry did what any antsy, film-per-year...
#Horror | Review
As You “Like” It: Subkoff Finds the Sound and the Shrillness in Social Media
Actress Tara Subkoff makes her directorial debut with #Horror, a film...
Little Accidents | Review
Casualties of Class War: Colangelo’s Well Performed, Soporific Debut
The directorial debut of Sara Colangelo, Little Accidents, finds a filmmaker afforded the possibility to expand...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tara Subkoff’s #Horror
This past February, there was a brief trade mention that actress Tara Subkoff would be getting behind the camera for her directorial, feature film debut...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #133. Tristan Patterson’s Electric Slide
Electric Slide
Director: Tristan Patterson
Writer: Tristan Patterson
Producers: Myriad Pictures’ Kirk D’Amico, Skyscraper Films’ Hans Ritter & Killer Films’ Christine Vachon
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Jim Sturgess,...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #170. Sara Colangelo’s Little Accidents
Little Accidents
Director: Sara Colangelo
Writer: Sara Colangelo
Producer: Archer Gray Prod’s Anne Carey, TideRock Media’s Jason Michael Berman and Thomas B. Fore, Summer Shelton
U.S. Distributor:...
The Wait | Review
Time Crimes: Blash’s Sophomore Feature of an Ambient Weirdness
Director M. Blash brings back two leads from his 2006 debut, Lying, for more rural weirdness...
Sundance 2014: Colangelo, Shelton, Corbijn, Winterbottom, Araki & Gareth Evans Among 16 V.I.Ps
The Sundance Film Festival made their final feature film line-ups with the Premieres category announcements. Sixteen films with huge name talent, returnee filmmakers and...