Tag: Imogen Poots

The Father | Review

Bend It Like Beckett: Zellers Adapts His Masterful Play into Exploratory Film In Paradise Lost, John Milton remarked “The mind is its own place, and...

French Exit | Review

You’ll Like My Mother: Jacobs Finds Pfeiffer in Eccentric Dangerous Liaison Director Azazel Jacobs presents his most lavish offering to date with fourth feature French...

Castle in the Ground | Review

Opiate of the Masses: Klein Mines Comfort in Crises with Somber Addiction Odyssey The trauma of substance abuse and addiction has carved out a...

Vivarium | Review

Life as a House: Beware the Burbs in Finnegan’s Metaphorical Sophomore Feature The novelty of Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone,” or any of its various...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #41. Prisoners of the Ghostland – Sion Sono

Prisoners of the Ghostland Despite being a perennial festival presence, some may be wondering what’s happened to Japanese provocateur Sion Sono, who usually has somewhere...

2020 Sundance Film Festival: Miranda July, Julie Taymor, Dee Rees & Sean Durkin in the Premieres Section

The most acquisitions and distributor launch-pad friendly section of the festival, the Premieres category had some big ticket items in Nisha Ganatra's Late Night,...

Interview: Riley Stearns – The Art of Self-Defense | 2019 American Film Festival in Wroclaw

A meek, introverted loner turns to karate as a way of coping with trauma after being violently attacked in Riley Stearns follow-up to 2014’s...

Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #42. Riley Stearns’ The Art of Self Defense

The Art of Self Defense Taking his sweet time in the post production process (filming took place in September of 2017 with Jesse Eisenberg in...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #8. Riley Stearns – The Art of Self Defense

A sophomore film we thought might be ready for the 2018 campaign will walk and chop into 2019 instead with a distributor already in...

Video: Vladimir de Fontenay’s Mobile Homes – 2017 Cannes Film Fest Post Screening Q&A

Vladimir de Fontenay premiered his debut film Mobile Homes in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2017 Cannes Film Fest. Here is his post...

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: #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: #80. Riley Stearns’ The Art of Self Defense

The Art of Self Defense Riley Stearns' 2013 Sundance preemed short, The Cub along with the 2015's SXSW preemed feature debut Faults which we called "deviously...

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....

Frank & Lola | Review

A Lover I Don’t Have to Love: Ross’ Debut Explores Troubled Romance Notions of monogamy and ownership hover on the troubling periphery of Matthew Ross’...

Knight of Cups | Blu-ray Review

The term ‘masterpiece’ has been bandied about too often and for too long to rightly mean anything anymore, and yet, should such terminology actually...

Green Room | Review

Music Lets the People Come Together: Saulnier’s Latest an Enjoyably Intense Thriller Director Jeremy Saulnier follows the promise of his 2013 breakout thriller Blue Ruin,...

Knight of Cups | Review

They Knew Him Well: Malick’s Sublime Existential Search for the Pearl To many, Terrence Malick, perhaps the most revered of modern American auteurs, has ascended...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room

It might be a case of deja vu all over again for director Jeremy Saulnier. It's hard enough breaking into Sundance, but the festival's...

2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matthew Ross’ Frank and Lola

Will the real Matt Ross please stand up. Don't be all that surprised if Matt Ross (28 Hotel Rooms, Captain Fantastic) and Matthew Ross wind...

She’s Funny That Way | Review

Funny Ha-ha: Bogdanovich’s Pleasant Return to the Screwball Comedy The buzz has been rather hushed concerning She’s Funny That Way, the return of 70s auteur...

Jimi: All is By My Side | Review

Before the Haze: Ridley’s Nuanced Portrait Worthy of Legendary Subject After a rather cool reception following high profile festival play at Toronto and SXSW, John...

A Long Way Down | Review

Lost in Translation: Chaumeil’s English Language Debut a Wretched Operation While his 2010 feature debut, Heartbreaker, which starred Vanessa Paradis and Romain Duris, managed to...

Filth | Review

Bad Detective: Baird Adapts Welsh for (Sometimes) Outrageous Effect Danny Boyle’s 1996 classic Trainspotting set the bar for Irvine Welsh adaptations (Boyle is apparently at...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #60. Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups

Knight of Cups Director: Terrence Malick Writer: Terrence Malick Producers: Nicolas Gonda, Sarah Green, Ken Kao U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Imogen Poots,...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #62. Todd Field’s Beautiful Ruins

Beautiful Ruins Director: Todd Field Writers: Todd Field and Jess Walter Producers: Brian Carmody, Todd Field, Patrick Milling Smith, Brian Oliver, Tyler Thompson U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Imogen...