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