Tag: top-stories
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: George Amponsah’s Down by Law
Garnering fund and lab support on both sides of the Atlantic, Down By Law has been tailored with BFI coin support and with the...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Yael Melamede’s (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies
When you think of the overall Sundance docu selections, programmers may want to balance the hard-hitting slate with this, the curiously titled (Dis)Honesty: The Truth...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Joe Swanberg’s Digging For Fire
Guess who's turning 10? Joe Swanberg has had a "fire" in his belly for, give or take a decade, and his latest in the...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marielle Heller’s Diary of a Teenage Girl
We'd be hard pressed to find more of an enraptured superfan of Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel than Marielle Heller. The actress adapted Diary of...
Criterion Collection: The Complete Jacques Tati | Blu-ray Review
With only six feature films to his name, four of which featured his iconic onscreen alter ego, the cinema of Jacques Tati remains an...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Zoe Cassavetes’ Day Out of Days
It's not uncommon to see a filmmaker essentially break out with a hit film (in baseball lingo this wasn't a home run, but an...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Benjamin Dickinson’s Creative Control
Brooklynites might be out of the woods in Benjamin Dickinson's sophomore film, but in this genre-bender project, it appears that no hipster is left unscathed...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jonathan Keevil’s Chuck Hank and the San Diego Twins
Park City might get a blast of 1979's The Warriors if filmmaker Jonathan Keevil and his clan manage to do what Bellflower (2011's NEXT...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jaffe Zinn’s Children
Along with her numerous contributions to American indie film plus supporting parts in Drake Doremus' Equals and television's House of Cards, 2014 will have...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Chevalier
Sundance World Dramatic Comp programmers have been strong supporters of new Greek cinema, and especially welcoming towards Athina Rachel Tsangari who has technically been...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Knate Gwaltney’s Cardboard Boxer
The Rules of Fight Club. Do talk about this indie feautre. For his feature debut, first time director Knate Gwaltney choose a storyline that is...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matt Ross’ Captain Fantastic
Unlike say a micro-budgeted indie with enough coin in the backend for post-production, chances are slim that this modestly priced indie with A-list cast...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Franco’s Bukowski
Feeding our curiosity for what a major transgressive adonis in future literary world might look like in the pre stench of cigarettes and booze era, I'm imagining something...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jorge Michel Grau’s Big Sky
He had made name for himself with the Cannes debut We Are What We Are in 2010, and the remake of his film actually premiered at...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Dee Rees’ Bessie
While HBO Films have yet to date the TV movie (according to a recent interview they'd be aiming for early '15) they'd definitely use some...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation
The main title theme song for "True Detective" now comes to mind when I think of the unfairly talented Cary Fukunaga. A scheduled autumn...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jordan Galland’s Ava’s Possessions
I originally took notice of the project when the trades announced that the oft-used supporting indie starlet Louisa Krause (non-related pic above -- who...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matthew Lessner’s Automatic at Sea
Best describe as an updated homage to 50's French cinema, Matthew Lessner's history with the festival dates back to the showing of his short film By Modern...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tim Blake Nelson’s Anesthesia
While TIFF has become film premiere terrain for his last director outings (the horribly timed post 9/11 released The Grey Zone and 2009's Leaves...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Pamela Romanowsky’s The Adderall Diaries
The perpetually busy James Franco might just begin his 2015 with the Park City launch-padding of (among others) Pamela Romanowsky's directorial debut comes across...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Mark Elijah Rosenberg’s Ad Inexplorata: Toward the Unknown
An instrumental and influential American independent film promoter/curator/supporter/taste-maker in the business, Rooftop Films creator and artistic director Mark Elijah Rosenberg (pictured above) moves from...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bob Byington’s 7 Chinese Brothers
If there is a little Listen Up Philip in the cocktail that will be known as 7 Chinese Brothers, it may have been due to cosmic fate,...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Marc Silver’s 3½
Gun culture, racism and the court system are revolving themes in docu subject matters and if there is a common thread to find between...
The Theory of Everything | Review
Scenes From a Marriage: Marsh’s Distilled Look at Physicist Stephen Hawking
Spanning twenty five years in their lives together and based on the memoir Travelling...
A Merry Friggin’ Christmas | Review
Blight Christmas: Shapeero’s Debut is Not the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
There’s a reason why Tristram Shapeero’s film debut A Merry Friggin’ Christmas...
Open Windows | Review
Peeping Tom: Vigalondo’s Virtual Voyeurism Thriller Too Wrapped Up in Tech
In the barest possible sense, Nacho Vigalondo’s latest film, Open Windows, can perhaps be...
Viva la Liberta | Review
Dead Ringers: Ando’s Self-Adapted Switcheroo a Highlight for Servillo But Little Else
Politics and doppelgangers have hewn a surprisingly wide berth throughout decades of cinema,...
Penance | Review
Till I Can Get My Satisfaction: Kurosawa’s Striking Psychosexual Marathon
Past traumas hopelessly infecting the present factor significantly in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s monolithic psychosexual thriller, Penance,...
The Better Angels | Review
Edwards Breathes Malickian Verve Into Lincoln's Youth
It's impossible to discuss director A.J. Edwards' triumphant debut without first acknowledging his association with Terrence Malick. Having...
Interview: A.J. Edwards – The Better Angels
It's with good reason that producer Terrence Malick has gotten top billing in the PR campaign for The Better Angels, namely the ethereal tone...
Interview: Frederick Wiseman – National Gallery
Frederick Wiseman could be called a lot of things, but amongst those would surely be the word legend. With his latest feature, National Gallery, the...
Elsa and Fred | Review
Anything Elsa: Radford’s Remake Rough Around the Edges
English director Michael Radford, still best known for earlier works 1984 (1984) and the critical darling...
Interview: Robert Greene & Brandy Burre (Actress)
Having recently been picked up for theatrical distribution by The Cinema Guild, director Robert Greene's latest documentary digs deep into the idea of life as...
Jessabelle | Review
Ring Her Bell: Greutert Steps Outside Franchise For Promising Results
Considering that Jessabelle is directed by editor and eventual director of two Saw films, Kevin...
Interstellar | Review
Don’t Let’s Ask For the Moon: Nolan’s Space Opera for the Ages
At last divorcing himself from the omnipotent shadows of Batman, director Christopher Nolan’s...
Interview: Margaret Brown (The Great Invisible)
She heartbreakingly depicted the demons wrestled by a troubled singer/songwriter in Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2005), explored the...
Before I Go To Sleep | Review
Sleep, My Love: Joffe’s Effective Woman in Peril Thriller
Adapting S.J. Watson’s pulpy novel Before I Go to Sleep for his second feature film (2010’s...
Winter in the Blood | Review
Blood Simple: The Smith’s Sophomore Effort a Lyrical, Uneven Production
It’s been well over a decade now since their first film, 2002’s The Slaughter Rule,...
All You Need is Love | Review
Off the Map: Cameron’s Well-Meaning Doc Explores Plight of Displacement
Focusing on the thousands of displaced families and children that languish in poverty around the...
Private Peaceful | Review
Brother to Brother: O’Connor’s Rudimentary Look at Familial Ravages in WWII
His first film since that ill-advised 2001 remake of Sweet November, which sought to...
Best of Fest – Docs: Amy Berg’s An Open Secret Hits DOC NYC, Seung-Jun Yi’s Wind on the Moon Joins IDFA (October ’14)
The falling leaves are a sure sign it’s now the beginning of awards season, with Oscar short lists starting to leak out, IDA Awards...
Nightcrawler | Review
While the City Sleeps: Gyllenhaal Gets His Money Shot in Gilroy’s Debut
You’ll be hard pressed to find a more enjoyably witty criticism of modern...
Goodbye to Language | Review
Breathless Spectacle: Godard's Three Dimensions are Child's Play
A rough-hewn yet mesmerizing appraisal of the modern world presented from a disturbingly dispassionate point-of-view is the latest...
The ABCs of Death 2 | Review
Same Old Song: Scant Few Highlights Justify Lengthy Omnibus
Well, alphabet soup horror is back with The ABCs of Death 2, a follow-up to the...
Laggies | Review
We All Float Down Here: Shelton’s Latest Winning Slice of Arrested Development
Remarkable in the sense that this is her third consecutive film to premiere...
“Safe Keeping”….Exclusive Clip from Erik Poppe’s 1,000 Times Goodnight
In this exclusive clip from Erik Poppe's new film 1,000 Times Goodnight, (Film Movement 10.24) Juliette Binoche's character, Rebecca, is in Kenya on an...
1,000 Times Goodnight | Review
Words and Pictures: Binoche Dominates Poppe’s Familial Drama
Norwegian director Erik Poppe makes his English language directorial debut with 1,000 Times Goodnight, featuring an internationally...
Low Down | Review
Groovin’ High: Hawkes Nuanced Performance Elevates Albany Memoir
Despite taking home the best cinematography prize for Christopher Blauvet (who also provided superb camerawork on Kelly...
White Bird in a Blizzard | Review
Skin Deep: Araki Weathers a 4th Decade in Filmmaking
Gregg Araki’s latest ode to youthful alienation, White Bird in a Blizzard, is his most restrained...
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...
