Tag: Stellan Skarsgård
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...
Hope | Review
M is for Metastasis: Sødahl Returns with Emotional Portrait of Terminal Illness
Portraits of terminal illness have created a cinematic subgenre staple unto itself, and...
The Painted Bird | Review
Cruel Intentions: Marhoul Razes & Repulses in Torturous, Ambitious WWII Saga
Czech actor/director Václav Marhoul mounts a sadistic nightmare of Holocaust horrors via his third...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #69. Last Words – Jonathan Nossiter
Last Words
For his fourth narrative feature, US based filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter embarks on the long-gestating Last Words, a French-Italian co-production through Paris-based Doc &...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #105. Out Stealing Horses – Hans Petter Moland
Out Stealing Horses
Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland reunites with Stellan Skarsgard for the fifth time in Out Stealing Horses (which follows their work in...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #42. Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
There are few doomed cinematic projects sharing the trajectory of Terry Gilliam’s troubled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,...
Center Court: Janus Metz’s Borg/McEnroe is 2017 TIFF Opener / Neon to Distribute
It was one of the titles on our radar for when we were thinking of the fall festival line-ups, and now Janus Metz's sports...
Return to Montauk | 2017 Berlin International Film Festival Review
The Past is Present: Schlondorff Explores Romantic Regrets in Mismated Adaptation
A key figure in the New German Wave from the mid-60s through the 1970’s,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 93. Volker Schlondorff’s Return to Montauk
Return to Montauk
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Writer: Volker Schlondorff, Colm Toibin
It’s impossible to discuss the German New Wave of the 1970s without mentioning Volker Schlondorff, perhaps...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #96. Volker Schlöndorff’s Montauk Revisited
Montauk Revisited
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Writers: Volker Schlöndorff, Colm Toibin
New Wave German auteur Volker Schlondorff (The Tin Drum, 1979) is at work on another project, Montauk...
Cinderella | Review
Bippity Boppity…Boo: Branagh’s Fairy Tale for Hire
Does anyone remember when Kenneth Branagh was directing superior cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare before eventually becoming the director...
Criterion Collection: Insomnia | Blu-ray Review
Erik Skjoldbjaerg’s 1997 directorial debut, Insomnia is a prescient prototype of what would now be termed Nordic Noir in today’s global film market. At...
Nymphomaniac: Volume II | Review
Get Into the Gloom: Von Trier Evades Easy Answers in Darker Second Chapter of Sexual Odyssey
You can forget about love as well as any...
Nymphomaniac: Volume I | Review
The Girl Can’t Help It: Von Trier’s Indelible First Chapter a Sobering, Ruminative Examination of the Last Cinematic Frontier
In today’s modern world, where cinematic...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #13. Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Volume I & II
Nymphomaniac: Volume I & II
Director: Lars Von Trier
Writer: Lars Von Trier
Producer: Louise Vesth
U.S. Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #1. Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac
Nymphomaniac
Director: Lars von Trier
Writer(s): Lars von Trier
Producer(s): Zentropa's Louise Vesth & Marie Cecilie Gade
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #92. Jonathan Teplitzky’s The Railway Man
The Railway Man
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Writer(s): Frank Cottrell Boyce (Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) and Andy Paterson
Producer(s): Archer Street Productions' Andy Paterson, Chris...
