Tag: Sam Levinson
MaXXXine | Review
A Touch of Minx: West Concludes Ersatz ‘Trilogy’ with a Moan
It’s an impressive endeavor to unleash three consecutive, thematically related films within the span...
2023 Cannes: Steve McQueen, Takeshi Kitano & Victor Erice Featured in the Out of Comp Sections
Let it be known that Thierry Frémaux wanted Martin Scorsese in competition but instead, Killers of the Flower Moon will have been a firm...
X | Review
The Pornographer Always Shoots Twice: West Taps into Grindhouse Sleaze with Backwoods Romp
It was Foucault, proponent of classifying the orgasm as a ‘little death,’...
Deep Water | Review
An Affair to Dismember: Lyne Returns to Remind Us of the Adult in Adultery
“The love story is never the whole story,” is a fitting...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ti West’s X
A filmmaker more synonymous with the horror genre (he did however try out Western), and a regular on the film festival circuit mostly South...
Malcolm & Marie | Review
Charge of the Gaslight Brigade: Levinson Gilds the Surface of Solipsism in Schizophrenic Drama
There’s really nothing black and white about the revolving histrionics between...
Pieces of a Woman | Review
Brink of Life: Mundruczó Hunts for the Grace in Grief with English Language Debut
One of Hungary’s most prolific arthouse auteurs of the last decade...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sam Levinson’s Malcolm & Marie
With the switch in Academy Award dates for 2021, many were suggesting that February was the "new" December and that a fest like Sundance...
2018 TIFF: Peter Strickland’s “In Fabric”Highlight of Midnight Madness Offerings
Two major studio films studio reboots in Shane Black’s The Predator and David Gordon Green’s Halloween, and three non world premieres (one Sundance and...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #76. Sam Levinson’s Assassination Nation
Assassination Nation
Sam Levinson offered us one of the best films of 2011 with his directorial debut --- we called it “a bitter, nasty, angry film about...
Sundance ’18: Levinson, Cosmatos, Pesce & RKSS Bring Screams & Blood Curdling to the Midnight
Remarkably, this year's Midnight section has this in common: Sam Levinson, Panos Cosmatos, Nicolas Pesce (see pic above) and the team of Francois Simard,...