Tag: top-stories
Under the Skin | Review
Female Perversion: Glazer’s Latest a Strange, Hypnotic Exploration of the Body Feminine
It’s been over a decade now since Jonathan Glazer’s exciting and strange sophomore...
Afflicted | Review
From Dusk Till Foregone: Prowse & Lee’s Entertaining Debut Suffers From Formatting Traps
There’s a lot of uncomfortable fun to be had as Afflicted unspools,...
In the Blood | Review
Blood Crush: Stockwell Returns to Exotic Paradise for B Movie Thrills
Considering that In the Blood was scripted by James Robert Johnston (The Howling Reborn;...
10 Rules for Sleeping Around | Review
To Sleep Perchance to Scream: Grief’s Latest a Comedy Cancer
Every once in while a film comes along that’s so horrendously botched in every regard...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks In Theaters this April: Jeremy Saulnier’s Blue Ruin
Blue Ruin – Jeremy Saulnier
Limited Release – April 25th
Distributor: RADiUS-TWC
Awards & Fests: FIPRESCI PRIZE Cannes 2013 (Directors' Fortnight), Locarno, Deauville, TIFF, Rotterdam, Sundance.
What the...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks In Theaters this April: Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez’s Manakamana
Manakamana – Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez
NYC Release – April 18th
Distributor: The Cinema Guild
Awards & Fests: Winner of a trio of Locarno Film Fest awards...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks In Theaters this April: Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive
It's not exactly a "slim pickings" type of month of April. Beyond our Top 3 Critics' Picks, there are a handful of A &...
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...
L’Immortelle | Blu-ray Review
Kino’s Redemption label continues with the resurrection of New Wave provocateur Alain Robbe-Grillet’s 1963 directorial debut, L'Immortelle, (this is the third title in the...
The Retrieval | Review
Repo Men: Eska’s Latest a Gripping Coming of Age Narrative
Certain to be referred to as an indie film counterpart to Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 Django...
Get Him to the Greek; John C. Reilly Completes Lanthimos’ “The Lobster” Ensemble
Supporting players in John C. Reilly, Ashley Jensen, Michael Smiley and Jessica Barden are joining the already cast, diverse set of Colin Farrell, Rachel...
Drafthouse Loves Thy Neighbor; Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters Finds Distrib Housing
After taking The Act of Killing to the bank, Drafthouse's Tim League smells another docu winner. A full two months after its premiere in...
Dom Hemingway | Review
Vacant Domicile: Shepard’s Latest Hides Absence of Narrative Behind Titular Character
As foul mouthed and over-the-top as it sometimes tends to be, Richard Sheperd’s latest,...
Noah | Review
Wrath of a Titan: D’aronofsky’s Demilled Egg
Four years after his critically lauded Black Swan, a work of finesse made despite budgetary limitations from Darren...
The Raid 2 | Review
Badass Berendal: Gareth Evans Delivers a Bloody Good Time
Bigger is palpably better. In Gareth Evans' eagerly anticipated and ambitious sequel to his 2011 cult...
Sabotage | Review
Treacherous Uncoupling: Ayer’s Latest May is Fun, Brutally Violent Nonsense
Okay, so, if you can keep in mind that the outcome of its tizzied, conventional...
Desparately Seeking Studio: Peter Brosens & Jessica Woodworth’s The Fifth Season
Despite the accolades (awards, festival prizes, and critical praise), sometimes a film that we’ve praised and seemingly has a very bright future ahead, will...
Interview: John Maloof & Charlie Siskel (Finding Vivian Maier)
When first time filmmaker John Maloof stumbled upon Vivian Maier's mysterious, but gorgeous body of work at auction back in 2009, he did not...
Finding Vivian Maier | Review
Photo Bomb: Maloof and Siskel Rewrite Modern Art History
Tales of buried treasure have long been the stuff of cinema gold, from The Treasure of...
Alan Partridge | Review
Alpha Comedian: a Partridge in a Fair Tree
Steve Coogan is known to North American audiences as the successful writer and lead actor of Philomena,...
Mistaken For Strangers | Review
Bound By Blood, Not Band: Berninger Tails Brother
The life of touring musicians has long been a favorite subject of documentarians the world over, but...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films for 2015: #1. Luca Guadagnino’s Body Art
Body Art
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writers: Luca Guadagnino, Dom Delillo
Producer: Alfama Films
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Sigourney Weaver, Denis Levant, David Cronenberg
News on this project...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films for 2015: #2. Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie
Chappie
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Writers: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
Producers: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Alpha Core, Media Rights Capital
U.S. Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver, Sharlto Copley,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films for 2015: #3. Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs
Louder Than Bombs
Director: Joachim Trier
Writers: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt
Producers: Memento Films Production, Motlys, Nimbus
U.S. Distributor: Rights available.
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg
While filming...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films for 2015: #4. Andrzej Zulawski’s Dark Matter
Dark Matter
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Writer: Andrzej Zulwaski
Producer: Marcin Wierzchoslawski
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Unknown
We're trying to keep hope alive on this project, which would be the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films for 2015: #5. Ludovic Bergery’s The Embrace
The Embrace
Director: Ludovic Bergery
Writer: Ludovic Bergery
Producers: Les Films Pelleas
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Isabelle Huppert
Heretofore known as a character actor, Ludovic Bergery has written and...
Criterion Collection: Persona | Blu-ray Review
Ingmar Bergman’s Persona is now available in a sharp and stunning Blu-ray from Criterion. This 1966 production has attained a special place in critics’...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films for 2015: #6. Olivier Assayas’ Hubris
Hubris
Director: Olivier Assayas
Writer: Olivier Assayas
Producers: Charles Gillibert, Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan, Scott Stuber
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Unkown
Once a project that was set to be...
Camille Claudel, 1915 | DVD Review
Many are perhaps familiar with Isabelle Adjani’s much hailed Oscar nominated performance as the turn of the century French sculptress Camille Claudel in the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films for 2015: #7. Michel Gondry’s Ubik
Ubik
Director: Michel Gondry
Writer: Jeff Vintar
Producers: Isa Dick Hackett, Steve Golin, Steve Zaillian
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Unknown
Another Philip K. Dick adaptation makes our top 10...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films for 2015: #8. Nicolas Winding Refn’s I Walk With the Dead
I Walk With the Dead
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Writers: Polly Stenham, Nicolas Winding Refn
Producer: Nicolas Winding Refn
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Carey Mulligan
Perhaps as a way...
Mysterious Skin | Blu-ray Review
It’s been a decade since Gregg Araki’s arresting coming-of-age examination of the ramifications of child molestation debuted at the Venice Film Festival in 2004...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films for 2015: #9. Dee Rees’ Martian Time-Slip
Martian Time Slip
Director: Dee Rees
Writer: Dee Rees
Producer(s): NA
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Unconfirmed
We’ve been waiting for Rees’ next film since her extraordinary 2011 debut, Pariah....
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films for 2015: #10. Sergei Loznitsa’s Babi Yar
Babi Yar
Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Writer: Sergei Loznitsa
Producers: Rick McCallum, Arte France Cinema
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Cast of hundreds, thousands.
Documentarian filmmakers Sergei Loznitsa made a fascinating...
Most Anticipated Films for 2015: An Overview
Last month, we unveiled our all-encompassing, most anticipated films for the current year in film. Now we peer into a future that is a...
Tennis Anyone? Courtside Seats to Infidelity in Denys Arcand’s Le règne de la beauté (Trailer)
By comparison, Quebecois helmer Denys Arcand's output might be one film for every five that Xavier Dolan manages to produce, but nonetheless, his films...
Interview: Frank Pavich (Jodorowsky’s Dune)
You might remember Frank Pavich from his history of the New York hardcore music scene in N.Y.H.C., which found its release over a decade...
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...
Jodorowsky’s Dune | Review
Resurrecting Sci-fi Legend: Pavich Taps Alejandro
Frank Herbert's epic novel Dune has been a sci-fi benchmark since it's original release back in 1965, and since,...
Maladies | Review
Crazy, Stupid, Art: Carter’s Directorial Debut Less than the Sum of its Parts
Multimedia artist Carter makes his directorial debut with Maladies, an intriguing sounding...
Blood Ties | Review
Blood Simple: Canet’s English Language Debut an Enjoyably Prostrate Epic
For his English language debut, actor/director Guillaume Canet arrives with Blood Ties, a remake of...
Criterion Collection: The Hidden Fortress | Blu-ray Review
Criterion re-releases Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 adventure The Hidden Fortress for a ravishing blu-ray update this month, following hot on the heels of a similar...
Criterion Collection: A Brief History of Time | Blu-ray Review
In wake of the massive non-fiction success that was The Thin Blue Line, singular director Errol Morris really could have done any number of...
Cheap Thrills | Review
Foolish Games: Katz’s Debut Collapses Under Excessive Shock Value
There’s certainly a palpable amount of perverse thrill checkered throughout E.L. Katz’s directorial debut, Cheap Thrills,...
A Birder’s Guide to Everything | Review
Bird is the Word: Meyer’s Debut a Well Meaning But Slight Observation
Bird watching seems to be something of a recent cinematic inspiration, though has...
Rob the Mob | Review
Dog Eat Dog: De Felitta’s Entertaining Take of a Take
After the success of his 2009 indie feature, City Island, Raymond De Felitta turns to...
Need For Speed | Review
On the Road Again: Waugh’s Woeful Film an Offending Lemon
Leaving behind the galvanizing propaganda of his Navy SEALs plugged film debut, Act of Valor,...
Himizu | Review
Suffer the Children: Sono’s Social Dystopia a Melancholy Landscape
It appears that 2014 will be a year that sees a flood of Sion Sono’s back...
Song from the Forest | 2014 SXSW Review
Obert Plays A Polyrhythmic Requiem of Cultural Sovereignty
Director Michael Obert’s VPRO IDFA Award winning, SXSW imported Song from the Forest meditatively chronicles the aloof...
Ernest & Celestine | Review
Cute in Court: Bears and Mice Controversially Live In Harmony
We are not for lack of anthropomorphized mice nor bears, from all the way back...
