Tag: Emily Mortimer
Amma Asante, Florian Zeller, Mike Leigh, Michael Dowse, Kamila Andini Among Our TIFF 2026 Predictions
What will surely be a flurry of festival announcements in the coming week ahead, we now shift our attention to the 2026 fall festival...
Jay Kelly | Review
It’s a Non-Refundable Life: Baumbach Explores the Sacrifices of Fame
George Clooney headlines what could be interpreted as an approximation of his own experiences in...
Moscow Drool: Alison Oliver & Yura Borisov Top Emily Mortimer’s Directing Debut ‘Dennis’
After three decades of performing for the camera, actress Emily Mortimer is getting into the director's chair for a project mounted with the cool...
Relic | Review
Dementia Seed: James Concocts Brooding Debut of Intergenerational Horror
A growing influx of low-fi genre films, many directed by women, have steadily redefined broad categorizations...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Justin Simien’s Bad Hair, David Bruckner’s The Night House & Bill Benz’s The Nowhere Inn in Midnight Section
Last year's Midnight section gave us Greener Grass, The Lodge and Sweetheart. In 2020, it appears that the section is more "worldly" with four...
The Sense of an Ending | Review
Man of Letters: Batra Crafts Low-Key Adaptation with Handsome Ensemble
“The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid,”...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 41. Sally Potter’s The Party
The Party
Director: Sally Potter
Writer: Sally Potter
British filmmaker shot to prominence in 1992 with her sophomore feature, an exquisite adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s genderbending novel Orlando,...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Greg Kinnear’s The Philosophy of Phil
From Little Miss Sunshine to the more recent Little Men, Greg Kinnear has been part of the recent tapestry of the festival as an actor,...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ritesh Batra’s The Sense of an Ending
He piled on the short films more or less around the time where he was selected for 2009 Sundance Writers and Directors Labs with...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #44. Ritesh Batra’s The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending
Director: Ritesh Batra
Writer: Nick Payne
After premiering his 2013 debut The Lunchbox at Critics' Week in Cannes (where it was bestowed...
Ten Thousand Saints | Review II
New York I Love You: Berman & Pulcini’s Schmaltz Soaked Latest
Nostalgia, especially in large doses, tends to hobble the authenticity of a text, whether...
Ten Thousand Saints | Review I
East Village Ennui: Coming of Age Story Displaced, Too Hip For Own Good
A coming of age narrative comprised of the familiar: teen angst, frustration,...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini’s Ten Thousand Saints
Who can forget 2003 when filmmaker-duo Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini landed at Sundance with a highly inventive biopic, a seminal film really...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #138. Rio, I Love You
Rio, I Love You
Director: Stephan Elliott, Fernando Meirelles, José Padilha, Paolo Sorrentino, Vicente Amorim, Guillermo Arriaga, Im Sang-soo, Nadine Labaki, Carlos Saldanha, Andrucha Waddington
Writer(s):...
