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Fever Dream | Review

Threadlock: Llosa Drifts into Elegant Nightmare with Faithful Adaptation For her fourth feature, Peruvian director Claudia Llosa adapts Samanta Shweblin’s enigmatic novel Fever Dream, a...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #88. Claudia Llosa’s Fever Dream

Fever Dream Another title delayed from a predicted 2020 premiere was the fourth film from Peru’s Claudia Llosa, who in this instance, received the backing...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #98. Distancia de rescate – Claudia Llosa

Distancia de rescate Peru’s Claudia Llosa teams with Netflix for her fourth feature, Fever Dream, produced by Mark Johnson and Tom Williams in conjunction with...

Back to Burgundy | Review

Days of Wine and More Wine: Klapisch Delivers a Weak Vintage with Sibling Saga French director Cedric Klapisch has enjoyed something of a singular, sanctified...

Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #93. Melanie Laurent’s Galveston

Galveston There was once a time when True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto's novel to screen adaptation had Matthias Schoenaerts attached in the lead and Danish helmer...

2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mélanie Laurent’s Galveston

Currently in a creative overdrive with a count of five feature films in just under a half dozen years, Mélanie Laurent began production on...

Broken Horses | Review

Goodbye Horses: Chopra’s Nonsensical English Language Debut The point of Bollywood director Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s English debut Broken Horses seems lost, along with a whole...

The Liberator | Review

Plowing the Sea: Arvelo’s Portrait of Famed Leader Hardly Revolutionary Arriving with all the earmarks of a truncated and incredibly abridged version of history in...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #14. Ridley Scott’s Exodus

Exodus Director: Ridley Scott Writers: Bill Collage, Adam Cooper, Steve Zaillian Producers: Peter Chernin, Mark Huffam, Michael Schaefer, Ridley Scott U.S. Distributor: 20th Century Fox Cast: Aaron Paul,...

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