Tag: Oscar Isaac
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...
Dune | Review
Spice Up Your Life: Villeneuve Embarks with Somber Take on the Sci-Fi Classic
The journey of Dune to the big screen has been an arduous...
The Card Counter | 2021 Venice Film Festival Review
January Man: Schrader Fans the Underbelly in Morose Facade of Lost Souls
Paul Schrader has obsessively charted the propensity of man's repressed compulsions consuming even...
Schnabel Paints Another Portrait of an Artist with “At Eternity’s Gate” | Blu-ray Review
Director Julian Schnabel broke an eight-year hiatus with At Eternity’s Gate, a film destined to enter a pantheon of cinematic snapshots on troubled artist...
At Eternity’s Gate | Review
Pigments of Your Imagination: Inside Van Gogh’s Mind
Julian Schnabel’s aesthetically-spellbinding Vincent Van Gogh biopic, At Eternity’s Gate, places viewers inside the Dutch artist’s eye....
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #21. Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate
At Eternity’s Gate
For anyone who took notice, there was something slightly off with Willem Dafoe's coiffe during the Golden Globes and this has to...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #74. Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself
Life Itself
With all the intersecting ensemble threads promised for his sophomore film, hopefully Dan Fogelman will better manage the puzzles pieces as we weren't...
Ex Machina | 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Review
A surprise box office hit in the first quarter of 2015 following a SXSW premiere, Alex Garland’s directorial debut Ex Machina (A24's first ever win)...
Criterion Collection: Inside Llewyn Davis | Blu-ray Review
Anyone who's ever had their musical ambitions crushed by the ever oppressive forces of real life will find a great sense of empathy within...
Ex Machina | Review
Imitation Game: Garland’ s Compelling Debut Explores Human’s Technological Hubris
Excitingly presented and intelligently written, screenwriter Alex Garland’s directorial debut Ex Machina is certainly one...
A Most Violent Year | Review
Year of Living Stressfully: Chandor Returns with Slow-Boil Scald
Baby, it may be cold outside, but the climate’s sure changing in J.C. Chandor’s flashback to...
Interview: Hossein Amini (The Two Faces of January)
Continuing in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith's set of globetrotters and vacationing daytrippers who dip their toes not only in foreign backdrops, but in...
Birds & the Bees…Boyhood Leads 24th Gotham Independent Film Award Noms
Deemed as his career best, Richard Linklater's Boyhood leads all nominations for the 24th Gotham Independent Film Awards with winks in the Best Feature,...
The Two Faces of January | Review
Winter of Our Discontent: Amini’s Problem with Narrative Pabulum
Few crime writers can boast such a weighty lineage of cinematic adaptation as that of Patricia...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #112. J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year
A Most Violent Year
Director: J.C. Chandor
Writer: J.C. Chandor
Producers: Before The Doors’ Neal Dodson, Washington Square Films’ Anna Gerb, J.C. Chandor
U.S. Distributor: A24
Cast: Jessica Chastain,...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #178. William Monahan’s Mojave
Mojave
Director: William Monahan
Writer: William Monahan
Producers: Aaron L. Ginsburg, William Green, Justine Suzanne Jones, William Monahan
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Garrett Hedlund, Louise Bourgoin
While...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #189. Hossein Amini’s The Two Faces of January
The Two Faces of January
Director: Hossein Amini
Writer: Hossein Amini
Producers: Tom Sternberg, Working Title’s Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner and Robyn Slovo
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast:...
Roadside Attractions Becomes Kissing Cousin for “Therese”, Stratton’s Pic Finally Receives Support
Regardless if it contains the red-hot Martha Marcy May Marlene alumn Elizabeth Olsen and the months away from a potential Best Actor nom lock...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #91. Hossein Amini’s The Two Faces of January
The Two Faces of January
Director/Writer: Hossein Amini
Producer(s): Tom Sternberg, Working Title’s Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner and Robyn Slovo.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Viggo Mortensen,...