Tag: Robert Eggers
Nosferatu (2024) | Review
Basic Instincts: Eggers Taps Into the Bloodlust with Vampy Remake
It would seem there’s no one more fitting than Robert Eggers to mount a remake...
The Northman | Review
Whisper Tales of Gore: Eggers Burns Trail to Valhalla in Viking Epic
In keeping with the time-hoary notion of revenge being a dish best served...
The Lighthouse | Review
I Can Hear the Mermaids Singing: Eggers Unleashes a Hyper-Stylized Portrait of Nautical Madness
Virginia Woolf (who, having known something about the subject and its...
2019 TIFF: Fest Lands World Preems to Cretton, Crowley, Finley, Heller, Kurzel, Iannucci, Waititi & Winterbottom
Confirming what will show at Telluride and Venice, the 2019 edition of the Toronto Intl.Film Festival has managed to land several World Preem and...
The Conversation: The Best of Cannes 2019
Zombies. The Undead. Reincarnation. These were some of the central themes and motifs displayed throughout an alarming amount of films in the 2019 official...
The Conversation: Nicholas Bell’s Top Ten Most Anticipated Titles of Cannes 2019
It’s that time of year again, and the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival is about to begin. If last year’s main competition...
The Conversation: Producer Rodrigo Teixeira
Brazilian based producer Rodrigo Teixeira established Sao Paolo company RT Features in 2005 and has become an increasingly notable major player in a broad array...
2019 Cannes: Zlotowski, Bonello, Takashi Miike, Robert Eggers, Lav Diaz & Guadagnino in Fortnight
We waited for the other shoe to drop and this year's Directors' Fortnight is chockfull of directorial films with six of the twenty-three (twenty-four...
The Conversation: 2019 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
For several reasons, the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival was something of a slight progression, if at least for the number of...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #15. Robert Eggers’ The Light House
The Light House
Robert Eggers blasted onto the scene with what we can describe his own brand of unconventional horror. Production on his sophomore film,...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #47. Robert Eggers – The Light House
Robert Pattinson recently admitted that filming on The Light House was "the closest I’ve come to punching a director". Not exactly Kinski-Herzog in nature, but we...
Through the Looking Glass – the Top 50 American Indie Films of 2019: Picks #50 to #11
It's never too early to look into the distant future. Last week, our Nicholas Bell took a look past the 2018 calendar with Through the...
MEMORY Presents Program No.1: Streaming Shorts From Robert Eggers, Pippa Bianco & Celia Rowlson-Hall
It's easy to get lost or go bonkers with the deluge of channels, but every now and then we find curation with a purpose. Stacked with future...
The Witch | Review
Better the Devil You Know: Eggers’ Debut Marinates with Menace
Easily the most profoundly unnerving film to play at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, the...
The Conversation: Top Ten Films of 2015 in…2016
As always, a number of deserving film festival entries are stragglers in need of distribution or funneled away by buyers to be released in...
Kahlil Joseph, Robert Eggers, Patrick Brice & Celia Rowlson-Hall Part of Inaugural MEMORY Presents: Program #1
Indie producers Riel Roch Decter and Sebastian Pardo's prod company label MEMORY is sprouting a new branch in the shape of a curated traveling short...
Sundance ’15: Zobel, Bujalski, Brice & Kris Swanberg Among U.S. Dramatic Competition
Last year, it was Damien Chazelle's richly texturized, foot-tapping, finger-snapping sophomore pic Whiplash that instantly became the "it" film to beat in the sixteen competition...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robert Eggers’ The Witch
Robert Eggers appears to be soaked in horror, noir fairy-tale lore. His Filmmaker Magazine 25 New Faces profile over at Filmmaker Mag informs us that...
Dustin Guy Defa, Janicza Bravo, Bernardo Britto & Sean Porter Among Filmmaker Magazine’s 2014 Top 25 New Faces
Easily among our favorite curated lists/annual page turners, Filmmaker Magazine has unveiled their 25 New Faces (or 29, when you count the quad creative...