Tag: top-stories
Video: Marti Noxon’s To The Bone: 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
"I needed to grow a pair, I needed to hit bottom, I needed to decide to live for myself." - Marti Noxon.
A comedy about...
Song to Song | Blu-ray Review
Terrence Malick runs into his usual refrain in his latest, Song to Song, a film replete with aching, lost souls whose various interconnected narratives...
Muchachas de Uniforme (1951) | Outfest 2017 LGBT Film Festival Review
Girls Interrupted: Crevenna’s Lost Classic Resurrected in all its Melodramatic Glory
Although remakes have largely become the bane of the seventh art, how certain properties...
False Confessions | Review
Fair is False and False is Fair: Bondy’s Final Conquest Collapses Theatrical and Cinematic Convention
Cinematic adaptations of 18th century French novelist and playwright Marivaux...
The Conversation: The 2017 Venice & TIFF Vortex
As the fall festival circuit looms, anticipation is high for a number of items expected to premiere in the fourth quarter. Following a glut...
Video: David Lowery’s A Ghost Story: 2017 Sundance Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
"My tastes and interests run all shapes and sizes." - David Lowery.
Prior to being one of the most lauded films to come out of...
2017 Sundance Trading Card Series: #2. Jade Healy (A Ghost Story)
Eric Lavallee: Name me three of your favorite “2016 discoveries”.
Jade Healy: Photographer Robert Adams, the Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso, and the greek liquor “Tsipouro".
Lavallee:...
A Ghost Story | Review
Voyage of Time: Lowery’s Distinctive, Elegiac Treatise on Grief, Time, and Elusive Solace
Although it isn’t an actual adaptation of her short story, David Lowery’s...
The Skyjacker’s Tale | Review
Victim or Villain? Kastner’s Paradoxical Docu Goes Far, Not Nearly Far Enough
Coming across as a sort of hybrid between what one might find on the...
The Conversation: Top 20 Best Films of 2017 So Far …
At the mid-way point of 2017, the usual cinematic trends continue, with the best theatrical offerings from January through June mostly festival circuit offerings...
Sami Blood | Review
I Am Sami: Kernell Examines Sweden’s Colonialist History in Coming-of-Age Drama
Sweden of the 1930s was not the sterling template of Scandinavian progression for which...
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography | Review
Big Pictures Worth A Thousand Words: Morris and Dorfman Dig Through The Archives
Errol Morris’s interest in still photography is no secret, having written the Penguin...
Okja | Review
That’ll Do, Pig: Joon-ho’s Latest Creature Feature Gets Stuck on Itself
Following 2014’s post-apocalyptic microcosm Snowpiercer, South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho returns to familiar territory...
Mifune: The Last Samurai | Review
The Hidden Mifune: Docu on Japanese Legend Hits Highs and Lows
The half century on-screen career of Toshirô Mifune is one of extravagant grace, pursuing a...
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone | Review
Hiding in Plain Sight: Peabody’s Timely Indictment of American Journalism
The seemingly brash title of Fred Peabody’s latest documentary alludes to a turn of phrase...
Paulina | Review
She’s Having a Baby: Mitre Explores the Yoke of Victimhood in Uncomfortable Drama
Argentina’s Santiago Mitre scores his first international success with his third feature,...
The Beguiled | Review
The Last Seduction: Coppola Eschews Subtext with High Profile Remake
Claiming to be a closer adaptation to Thomas Cullinan’s 1966 novel than the famed 1971...
The Florida Project | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah: Baker Offers A Portrait of the South Like No Other
This time out we can move away from lazily defining Sean Baker's cinema as...
The Criterion Collection: The Marseille Trilogy | Blu-ray Review
Marcel Pagnol’s famed Marseille Trilogy receives a loving placement in the Criterion Collection after its theatrical US restoration release in early 2017 courtesy of...
The Journey | Review
Enemies – A Love Story: Hamm Imagines Peace Treaty as Male Bonding Episode in Flaccid Bromance
The reimagining of famed deliberations and clandestine alliances which...
Moka | Review
The Hand that Robs the Cradle: Mermoud Utilizes Devos for Sweet Vengeance
Revenge is a dish best served cold and a little neurotic, at least...
The Mummy | Review
You’ll Like My Mummy: Cruise Tastes an Ancient Curse in Lackluster Reboot
Casting immediate aspersions over the likely success of a newly recalibrated franchise (coined...
Past Life | Review
Music Makes You Lose Control: Nesher Explores Skeletons in the Closet with Period Drama
Having contributed to the rise of Israeli cinema since the late...
It Comes at Night | Review
Night of Your Life: Shults Plumbs Fear and Fear Itself in Arch Sophomore Effort
As a pure exercise in the powers of suggestion, It Comes...
2017 Cannes Film Festival: How the “Toni Erdmann” Snub Help Land “The Square” the Palme d’Or
When surveilling the postscript and how the Pedro led jury handed out the awards, the consensus is: job well done. However, while we were...
Criterion Collection: Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2 | Blu-ray Review
In 2007, Martin Scorsese founded the World Cinema Project, a nonprofit organization committed to restoring neglected and marginalized cinema from countries where major restorations...
The Assignment | Blu-ray Review
It’s been an arduous journey for action auteur Walter Hill’s latest film The Assignment, a B-grade schlocky piece of grindhouse pulp which has been...
The Conversation: What Cannes Do – Top 10 Favorites of the 2017 Edition
In one of the most cavalier Cannes juries of recent years, the Pedro Almodovar led voting body closed out the 2017 edition of the...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Campillo’s BPM (Beats Per Minute) Favored to Win Palme d’Or, but Ramsay is the Preferred Palme
We haven't seen these numbers since Blue is the Warmest Color dominated to eventually win the Palme, but Robin Campillo's BPM was selected by...
Based on a True Story | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Hider in Her Head: Polanski Mines a Dull Playing Field with Psychological Thriller
The promising conceptualization of Roman Polanski directing a femme centric psychological thriller...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Wrap-Up: Campillo, Ramsay & Zvyagintsev Place 1-2-3
2017 would see nineteen competition films, and from Day 3 and never giving up the lead, Robin Campillo's BPM held onto its lead to...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 11: Lynne Ramsay Hammers out Career Best & Palme Contender in You Were Never Really Here
Kitchen sink realism in the distant past, You Were Never Really Here counts as feature number four, and yet this is her seventh visit...
You Were Never Really Here | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Where Have You Been?: Ramsay Returns with Pronouncedly Fractured, Melancholic Adaptation
Returning from a six year hiatus after 2011’s We Need To Talk About Kevin,...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 10: Fatih Akin Wants Revenge with In the Fade
Perhaps a surprise inclusion after The Cut was unceremoniously not selected for Cannes on his last time out, not including his pair of Special...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 10: Francois Ozon Gets into Eye of the Storm with Amant Double
A prolific filmmaker with no fixed address, if one can't find François Ozon in Cannes you'll be sure to see him in Berlin, Venice...
L’Amant double | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Double the Pleasure, Double the Fun: Ozon Hearkens Back to Enfant Terrible Days with Erotic Skin Flick
The forgotten art of the campy erotic thriller...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Sergei Loznitsa Seeks Justice with A Gentle Creature
With the competition coming to a close, one stand out filmmaker who has been supported by the fest but has yet to land any...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Critics Getting High with Benny & Josh Safdie’s Good Time
You always remember your first time. I was there when the two pees in a pod, Ronald Bronstein and Eleonore Hendricks were included in...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled Mushrooms into Critic Fave
A longstanding "member" of Cannes well before she showcased her skillset with The Virgin Suicides in the Quinzaine (she was probably at the Apocalypse...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Hong Sang-soo’s The Day After Contains Color
I've been running behind with our grid, now in the clear and past the half way mark here is the latest updates from the...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Things Fall Apart in Michael Haneke’s Happy End
Whether it's construction sites, karaoke numbers, hamsters or the elderly, Michael Haneke's quasi sequel to Amour has failed to win over "all" critics. Happy...
The Day After | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Three Women: Sang-soo Goes for Slight(ly) Sober in Black and White Mix-up
South Korea’s Hong Sangsoo surpasses his own prolific, breakneck speed with a whopping...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Yorgos Lanthimos Does the Mash Potato with The Killing of a Sacred Deer
He'll be referenced as the one who began the Greek New Wave in cinema and there was a time when we didn't quite know...
The Killing of a Sacred Deer | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Dear Hunter: Lanthimos Flatlines with Terse Revenge Fantasy
There’s no arguing the unique capabilities of Greek Weird Wave alum Yorgos Lanthimos, who broke out...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Baumbach Buries the Hatchet with The Meyerowitz Stories
Almost a dozen features in and The Meyerowitz Stories is Noah Baumbach's first time on the Croisette (if you exclude his screenwriting cred on...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 5: Michel Hazanavicius Jump Cuts to Redoubtable
The first week ends with the return of Michel Hazanavicius and his latest project, Redoubtable. He gave us the OSS films, Cannes invited The...
Happy End | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Sunshine of Their Love: Haneke Dishes Up Black Comedy with a Dollop of Self-Loathing
Happy families are all the same in a Michael Haneke...
A Ciambra | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Life of Pio: Carpignano Shows Them Who is Boss
With hand gestures that you’d typically associate to argumentative Italians and a Calabrian backdrop that one would...
BPM (Beats Per Minute) | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Beat Goes On: Campillo Mounts Generous Homage to ACT UP Paris
While there are several noted cinematic renderings of the early days of the...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Ruben Ostlund Tumbles Up the Stairs with The Square
He received an earlier screening late last night and has been consider the buzz title (mostly for better) and mentioned in the same breathe...
