Tag: Karl Glusman
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Garland’s Civil War
What better lieu to deliver a possible critical text on regional and political differences that have shaped America for ages than the hotly tipped...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #93. Alex Garland’s Civil War
Civil War
Weeks before premiering Men in Cannes in the Directors' Fortnight section, Alex Garland jumped into his fourth feature film (and third A24 project)...
2022 Sundance Film Festival: Riley Stearns, Nikyatu Jusu, Mariama Diallo, Cooper Raiff & Bradley Rust Gray in the U.S. Dramatic Comp Section
In 2022, ten lucky titles/filmmakers will be vying for the big daddy prize of them all in the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Amanda Kramer’s Please Baby Please
Currently on an amazing almost film per year streak, Amanda Kramer first landed onto the film festival scene with 2018's Ladyworld (TIFF selection) and...
Above Suspicion | Review
Investigation of a Citizen: Noyce Can’t Get in Formation with True Crime Chronicle
In 1943, Joan Crawford and John Wayne fought the Nazis. Christopher Reeve...
Greyhound | Review
Showboating: Schneider Sinks Ships with WWII Historical Action
Cinema is littered with war-time submarine action epics, a claustrophobic setting which taps into universal anxieties and...
Babak Anvari’s Wounds | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
Celebrated debut film Under the Shadow set in the war-torn Tehran of the 1980s has a lot of things going for it beyond the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #25. Babak Anvari’s Wounds
Wounds
Babak Anvari's Sundance break out debut in 2016's Under the Shadow solidified his standing within the genre, and so it was no surprise that...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #85. Babak Anvari – Transgression
Another Sundance alumni who broke out big at the fest with Under the Shadow, Babak Anvari quickly lined up a pair of projects with...
The Neon Demon | Blu-ray Review
After premiering to divisive responses at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it played in competition (jeers were mixed with waves of derisive laughter...
The Neon Demon | Review
Death Walks on High Heels: Refn Delves Daftly into the Los Angeles Fashion Demimonde
To reference John Waters’ definition of beauty, “a face should jolt,...
2016 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 10: Refn Takes Fashionable Approach to “The Neon Demon”
Prior to hitting the Cannes comp with his Best Director prize winning Drive (2011) and the much disliked Only God Forgives (2013), this Danish-American...
Love | Review
Scorpio Becomes Electra: Noé's Sex Scenes from a Marriage
The last time we were caught in provocateur Gaspar Noé’s crosshairs it was back in 2009...
Exclusive: Poster Premiere for Claire Carré’s “Embers”
We've been tracking the development of Claire Carré's directorial debut since it successfully launched its Kickstarter campaign in late 2013 (it was subsequently selected as...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 8 & 9: Between a Rock & a Hard R Place for Noé’s “Love”
It's only his fourth feature film, but his eighth trip to Cannes, Gaspar Noé hasn't let go of the short or long format. He...
