Tag: Laura Linney

2024 Sundance: Jesse Eisenberg, Sean Wang, Laura Chinn, India Donaldson & Zucheros in U.S. Dramatic Comp

The big surprise for the U.S. Dramatic Competition this year is they shaved off two titles making a dozen into a ten piece. We...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Laura Chinn’s Suncoast

A recent 2020 Black List ranked un-produced screenplay that quickly moved into production with the support of the Searchlight folks (the film will likely...

The Roads Not Taken | Review

Roadside Assistance: Potter Putters in Nonsensical Melodrama Who is the nearly catatonic man being dragged through New York by his overly sincere daughter? His name...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #82. The Roads Not Taken – Sally Potter

The Roads Not Taken Sally Potter’s ninth feature will be The Roads Not Taken (formerly titled Molly), a narrative taking place across three continents featuring...

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,...

The Dinner | Blu-ray Review

Premiering in competition at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival, Oren Moverman’s The Dinner went on to receive a successful return at the box...

The Dinner | Review

Principles of Privilege: Moverman Dresses Morality Drama in American Clothes Susan Sontag once famously wrote, “The white race is the cancer of human history,” an...

2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Oren Moverman’s The Dinner

I don't recall the last time a novel had three book to film adaptations in such a rapid lapse of time, but the source...

Mr. Holmes | Review

Unsolved Mysteries: Condon Recreates the Last Days of Sherlock Holmes Director Bill Condon reunites with elements from several of his most critically acclaimed titles for...

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Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.

Club Kid | Review

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Interview: Jordan Firstman – Club Kid

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Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...