Film-Forward

About Kent Turner

Kent Turner, the editor of Film-Forward, learned the ropes of the festival circuit at the San Francisco International Film Festival and has worked in film production and acquisition in Los Angeles. He is currently the director of programming at the Monmouth Film Festival.

    My Week with Marilyn

    Directed by Simon Curtis
    Produced by David Parfitt & Harvey Weinstein
    Written by Adrian Hodges,based on the diaries by Colin Clark, The Prince, the Showgirl, and Me and My Week with Marilyn
    Released by the Weinstein Company
    USA/UK. 101 min. Rated R
    With Michelle Williams, Eddie Remayne, Kenneth Branagh, Julia Ormond, Dominic Cooper, Emma Watson, Zoë Wanamaker, Dougray Scott, Judi […]

    By |November 6th, 2011|Biopic, Drama, New York Film Festival|0 Comments

      Law & Disorder at the New York Film Festival 2011

      Don’t panic if you couldn’t make it the recent New York Film Festival. Most of the films screened have an American distributor lined up and will open in the upcoming months, like the acclaimed A Separation and The Kid on the Bike. The claustrophobic cacophony Carnage, which opened the event, will be released on December […]

      By |November 1st, 2011|Documentary, Foreign, GLBT, New York Film Festival, Pop Culture|0 Comments

        New York Film Festival 2011

        The New York Film Festival has gone back to a basic rule: you gotta have a splashy opening night. For programmers, more thought is often put into the selection of this event than any other selection—it sets the tone and defines what the program represents. The status of last year’s opener, the edgy, big-budget The […]

        By |October 5th, 2011|Foreign, New York Film Festival|1 Comment

          Happy, Happy

           

          Directed by Anne Sewitsky
          Produced by Synnove Horsdal
          Written by Ragnhild Tronvoll
          Released by Magnolia Pictures
          Norwegian with English subtitles
          Norway. 88 min. Rated R
          With Agnes Kittelsen, Joachim Rafaelsen, Maibritt Saerens, Henrik Rafaelsen, Oskar Hernaes Bradso & Ram Shihab Ebedy

           

          The title of Norwegian filmmaker Anne Sewitsky’s debut deliberately sounds like an over-eager pep talk, or possibly a bitter rebuke, […]

          By |October 3rd, 2011|Comedy, Foreign|0 Comments

            Weekend

            Edited, Written & Directed by Andrew Haigh
            Produced by Tristan Goligher
            Released by Sundance Selects
            UK. 86 min. Not rated
            With Tom Cullen & Chris New

             

            Two young good-looking guys in their twenties hook up, exchange numbers the morning after, meet that same afternoon and then again that night before one of them has to head off thousands of miles […]

            By |October 2nd, 2011|British Kitchen Sink, GLBT|0 Comments

              Viva Riva!

              Written, Produced & Directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga
              Released by Music Box Films
              Lingala & French with English subtitles
              Democratic Republic of the Congo. 96 min. Rated R
              With Patsha Bay Mukuna, Manie Malone, Hoji Fortuna, Alex Herbo, Marlene Longange, Diplome Amekindra & Angelique Mbumba

               

              Viva Riva! is the first film to be released in the U.S. […]

              By |June 10th, 2011|Crime, DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Foreign|0 Comments

                Another Year

                Written & Directed by Mike Leigh
                Produced by Georgina Lowe
                Released by Sony Pictures Classics
                Finnish with English subtitles
                UK. 129 min. Rated PG-13
                With Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, Peter Wight, Oliver Maltman, David Bradley & Karina Fernandez

                Aspirations inevitably fail (for those who are unlucky, or single). Director Mike Leigh sounds this bleak note again and again in this drama of overstatement. It’s first […]

                By |January 7th, 2011|British Kitchen Sink, Foreign|0 Comments