Tag: Olivia Williams

Another End | Review

The Power of Goodbye: Messina Gets Maudlin with Future Grief The devil’s unfortunately absent in the details of Another End, a conceptual science fiction melodrama...

The Father | Review

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...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #97. The Father – Florian Zeller

The Father French playwright Florian Zeller makes his directorial debut in 2020 with UK production The Father (of note, he directed a stage version of...

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,...

Maps to the Stars | Review

What’s the Matter with Havana?: Cronenberg’s L.A. Story a Hot Mess of Tangled Ideas Couched within its episodic instances of harpooning Hollywood stereotypes, there is...

Sabotage | Review

Treacherous Uncoupling: Ayer’s Latest May is Fun, Brutally Violent Nonsense Okay, so, if you can keep in mind that the outcome of its tizzied, conventional...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #12. David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars

Maps to the Stars Director: David Cronenberg Writer: Bruce Wagner Producers: Said Ben Said, Martin Katz, Michel Merkt U.S. Distributor: Rights Available Cast: Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, Julianne Moore,...

Popular

La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.