Tag: Joaquin Phoenix
Joker: Folie à Deux | Review
Joke’s On Us: Phillips Composes an Empty, Boring Spectacle
Kudos to Todd Phillips for forcing US audiences to be confronted with the intriguing subtitle...
C’mon C’mon [Video Review]
World premiering at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival, C'mon C'mon is Mike Mill's fourth feature film following Thumbsucker (2005), Beginners (2010) and 20th Century...
C’mon C’mon | Review
Turn the Dial: Mills Explores the Mysteries of Youth, Exalted.
Mike Mills’ C’mon C’mon is a poignant, mellow ode to the next generation, explored through...
2021 Gotham Awards Noms: Test Pattern Lands Trio; Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter” to Duke it Out with Rebecca Hall’s “Passing”
An indie film that had it's world premiere at the Blackstar Film Festival (coined as the Black Sundance) in 2019 and was released by...
Gunda | Review
That’ll Do, Pig: Animal Farm IRL
Viktor Kossakovsky brings us an astonishing triptych of pigs, cows and chickens in Gunda, his poignant evocation of life...
Joker | 2019 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
The Day the Clown Cried: Phillips Tries to Provoke the Herd in Adult Comic Book Origin Story
As another cinematic iteration of the eponymous Joker...
Interview: Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here | 2018 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival
Ranked at the top of my best films of 2018 list (still unpublished), with her fourth feature, Lynne Ramsay attained "film godz" status with...
Interview: Lynne Ramsay – You Were Never Really Here
Trust your gut and listen to your instincts. Selected in Competition for Cannes 2017 with a print that was still wet, it's with her...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #39. Gus Van Sant’s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
You can't always be batting 1000, and Gus Van Sant's Sea of Trees was a clunker (read...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #24. Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers
The Sisters Brothers
One of 2018’s most highly anticipated items is Jacques Audiard’s English language debut The Sisters Brothers, his first project since winning the...
Sundance ’18: Wash Westmoreland, Debra Granik, Gus Van Sant & Zellner Bros. In Premieres Section
Despite not expecting the Premieres sections to be drop today, several of the narrative items below were on our radar and make for what...
Video: Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here | 2017 Cannes Film Festival – Best Screenplay / Actor
My personal Palme d'Or of the fest was the last in competition and we've yet to see where it'll land next. With Telluride still...
You Were Never Really Here | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Where Have You Been?: Ramsay Returns with Pronouncedly Fractured, Melancholic Adaptation
Returning from a six year hiatus after 2011’s We Need To Talk About Kevin,...
From Dheepan to Deadpan: Joaquin Phoenix is Hired Help in Audiard’s “The Sisters Brothers”
More fastidious about the projects he embarks on, Deadline reports that Joaquin Phoenix is in early talks to join the cast of Jacques Audiard’s...
Irrational Man | Review
Tepid Contemplation: The Unraveling of a Mild Murder Plot
For his 46th feature film, Irrational Man calls upon Woody Allen’s fascination, or at least tendency to create a...
Inherent Vice | Blu-ray Review
Receiving a mixture of raves, polite applause, and a handful of outright naysayers, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest concoction Inherent Vice comes to Blu-ray for...
Inherent Vice | Review
The Vice is Right: Anderson’s Inherently Incoherent Pynchon Trip
For his seventh film, auteur Paul Thomas Anderson stakes a claim as the first filmmaker to...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #17. Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice
Inherent Vice
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson
Producers: Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Lupi, JoAnne Sellar
U.S. Distributor: Warner Bros.
Cast: Sasha Pieterse, Jena Malone, Joaquin Phoenix,...
Her | Review
High Tech Affairs: Jonze Unites Poets & Processors
In Her, Spike Jonze’s brainy and big hearted exploration of near future human relationships with techno-intelligence, Joaquin...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #25. Spike Jonze’s Her
Her
Director/Writer: Spike Jonze
Producer(s): Annapurna Pictures' Megan Ellison, Vincent Landay
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Amy Adams, Olivia Wilde, Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Samantha Morton, Sam Jaeger,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #48. James Gray’s Nightingale
Nightingale
Director: James Gray
Writer(s): Gray and Ric Menello
Producer(s): Gray, Anthony Katagas, Greg Shapiro, Christopher Woodrow
U.S. Distributor: The Weinstein Co.
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix,...
