Tag: top-stories
Video Interview: Ruben Östlund (Force Majeure)
I'd argue that he was a mostly known as a film festival favorite yet art-house oddity entity beforehand, which is certainly is no longer...
21 Years: Richard Linklater | Review
Just alright, alright, alright: Friends Laud Linklater's Adulthood
Traditionally speaking, retrospectives of prominent people tend to transpire as an ode after the fact or as...
Butter on the Latch | Review
Pass the Butter: Decker Cooks Up Female & Peyote Driven Experiment
Serving as a statement more so than a film, Butter on the Latch, tosses...
Mirage | Review
Saving the Farm: Hajdu Offers Poor Man’s 12 Years A Slave
Set against sprawling plains and a dusty backdrop, Mirage (aka Délibáb) unravels as a...
Late Phases | Review
Silver Bullet Band: Bogliano’s English Debut Nontransformative Nostalgia
After the surprising critical success of his 2012 title Here Comes the Devil, Spanish director Adrian Garcia...
Once Upon a Time, Veronica | Review
Sex and Candy: Gomes’ Wise, Intricate Character Study
Arriving over two years after its world premiere at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival, Brazilian director Marcelo...
Video Interview: Mona Fastvold & Brady Corbet (The Sleepwalker)
Among 2014's class of best new voices in the film landscape (which includes Eliza Hittman (It Felt Like Love), Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl...
The Imitation Game | Review
Cracking the Code: Tyldum's English Debut Delivers Thrills
Although mathematician Alan Turing OBE was responsible for creating a machine capable of solving the unsolvable Nazi...
Criterion Collection: L’avventura | Blu-ray Review
In the decades of cinema that have transpired since Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 film L’avventura, one cannot overlook its seminal status not only within the...
Before I Disappear | Review
The Sting Called Love: Christensen’s Debut Rife with Melodramatic Cliché
Shawn Christensen, who won an Academy Award for his 2013 short film, Curfew, expands his...
The Mule | Review
Mother, Jugs, and Laxatives: Sampson and Mahony’s Curious Exploration of Strange Case
Based on its poster and other marketing materials for Angus Sampson and Tony...
Extraterrestrial | Review
Shades of Mr. Gray: The Vicious Bros.’ Unsatisfying Close Encounter
Following the unanticipated success of their 2011 film debut, Grave Encounters (which feels very much...
Interview: Christopher Abbott & Gitte Witt (The Sleepwalker)
In The Sleepwalker (Sundance Selects / limited release 11.21), filmmaker Mona Fastvold sequesters her quartet of players in mostly volatile sibling, lover and fighter pairings. Architecturally speaking,...
Interview: Stephanie Ellis (Mona Fastvold’s The Sleepwalker)
The fine line of a repressed memory can get especially fuzzy when what is factual, what is imagined, what is suggested and what is...
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 | Review
The Games They Play: Collins’ YA Dystopia Trudges On and On
As is now customary in the designed business model of franchise movie making,...
2015 Sundance Predictions: Which Film is the Next Whiplash?
Despite the lottery-esque sounding odds, the U.S Dramatic Competition section which produces the finest American indie specimens such as Frozen River, Winter's Bone, Blue Valentine, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Beasts...
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night | Review
Walking After Midnight: Amirpour’s Expressive, Moody Debut
Described as an Iranian vampire film with all its characters speaking Farsi, yet filmed in California and set...
V/H/S: Viral | Review
Headcleaner: VHS Series Gets Third Installment Blues
Perhaps after this third installment this franchise can enter the same void for the format which it’s named,...
National Gallery | Review
Museum Hours: Wiseman’s Tour through London’s Famed Museum
If you’ve never been to The National Gallery in London, England, one of the most preeminent museums...
Criterion Collection: It Happened One Night | Blu-ray Review
Winner of five Oscars, Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night remains an outstanding entertainment, and a touchstone of Hollywood’s most enduring cinematic genre: the...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions List: An Introduction
Whether you are a filmmaker, or one of the Sundance programmers whose task it is to identify the films that make up a line-up,...
Viktor | Review
From Russia with Schlock: Martinez’s Derivative Revenge Flick
While there’s certainly a modicum of perverse interest to be satisfied in witnessing the rotund Gerard Depardieu...
Starry Eyes | Review
Eyes Without a Place: Kolsch & Widmyer’s Horrors in Hollywood
Madonna’s famed verse asks the hypothetical question of Hollywood, “How could it hurt you when...
Miss Meadows | Review
A Spoonful of Violence: Hopkins’ Unbalanced Sophomore Effort
Actress turned screenwriter turned director Karen Leigh Hopkins unleashes her sophomore feature Miss Meadows after its premiere...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Craig Zobel’s Z for Zachariah
We can still feel the heat generated from Craig Zobel's Compliance. His sophomore film, which was made on a dime (his directorial debut Great World...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robinson Devor’s You Can’t Win
Films gods be damned. After guesstimating its eventual arrival on the film fest circuit and tracking it since it first went into production back...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young
It landed at the Toronto Int. Film Festival and already had a NYFF playdate in place before A24 films plunked down 4 million on...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Robert Edwards’ When I Live My Life Over Again
Despite one feature film under his belt with 2006's Land of the Blind (the Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland starrer won the Nicholl Fellowship...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Bill & Turner Ross’ Western
It might still be too early to mention the brothers in the same breath as Frederick Wiseman, but the Ross brothers' filmography to date...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Noah Baumbach’s Untitled Public School Project
Akin to Michel Gondry's low-budgeter We and I, the shot in 2013 campus comedy still doesn't have a name, doesn't have a release date,...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kirby Dick’s Untitled Campus Assaults Project
The list of Kirby Dick signed films that have made it into the festival date back to 1997s' Sick: The Life and Death of...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jamey Phillips’ Untitled Bill Cosby Documentary
It is in the nature of the non-fiction film that the narrative mutates, takes a different shape, form and perspective. Wearing their colors on their...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Davis Guggenheim’s Untitled Malala Yousafzai Project
Sundance like their share of star-studded world premiere screenings and I can't think of a bigger one than this Nobel Peace prize winner. Davis...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker’s Unlocking the Cage
A documentary film that will do more for the animal ethics, protection and liberation debate than Project Nim, The Cove and every other doc that...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Kris Swanberg’s Unexpected
We usually expect the unexpected, but in this case, the Unexpected would totally be unexpected. With two previous features under her belt, Kris Swanberg...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands’ Uncertain
2014 was an epic post-production type of year for filmmaker-team Ewan McNicol and Anna Sandilands. The Sundance Institute got up close and personal with...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ido Fluk’s The Ticket
With a small body of work including his low-budgeted directorial debut (Never Too Late) which orbited around the Fribourg and Edinburgh Film Festivals and garnered some...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Lyric R. Cabral & David Felix Sutcliffe’s (T)error
You'd be forgiven for thinking that this is a horror title. It is not. Well, actually it's horrifying terrain in the docu scheme of...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini’s Ten Thousand Saints
Who can forget 2003 when filmmaker-duo Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini landed at Sundance with a highly inventive biopic, a seminal film really...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Sean Baker’s Tangerine
The scrooge in me doesn't care much for Xmas themed films. But worry not, this Christmas without snow will surely bring out the yuletide...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Matt Sobel’s Take Me to the River
Safe to say that 2015 should be the roll out year for this directorial debut. Some got an early peak at this summer's Rooftop...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Yance Ford’s Strong Island
There is nothing new in the subject matters covered in Yance Ford's debut. Gun violence. Authorities taking a blind eye approach. A family and...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew James’ Street Fighting Man
Symbolically speaking, I wouldn't be out of line if I compared Motor city as a sister city to Damascus. If you group docs in...
Rosewater | Review
Solitary Confinement Is Boring: Stewart's Adaptation Of Bahari's Lengthy Detainment is a Slick, Tame Affair
Jon Stewart’s first foray into the fictional film arena is...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Nikole Beckwith’s Stockholm, Pennsylvania
An actor, musician and a playwright who sort of came swanning into the driver's seat in 2012 stringing the prestigious Academy Nicholl Fellowships in...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Chloe Zhao’s Songs My Brothers Taught Me
More time in post-production means more time for nips, tucks, another Sundance lab (2014's Music and Sound Design Lab at Skywalker Sound) and even...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Leslye Headland’s Sleeping with Other People
It was an admirable modest hit prior to leaving Park City in 2012, but who knew that Leslye Headland's feature debut would turn into a...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Diane Bell’s Shiva and May
Working from a deeply original aperture, you couldn't ask for a better calling card with the iconoclastic look into the species. Diane Bell's debut...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Bujalski’s Results
Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess turned out to be the feel good film of Sundance and that's not because the early gamers are particularly charming,...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Louie Psihoyos’ Racing Extinction
Formerly going by the title of "The Heist" and "6", Racing Extinction appears to be a more elaborate, all-encompassing unofficial sequel to Louie Psihoyos'...
