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.

King of Devil’s Island

Directed by Marius Holst
Produced by Karin Julsrud, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Ewa Puszczynska, Mathilde Dedye & Johannes Ahlund
Written by Dennis Magnusson
Released by Film Movement
Norwegian with English subtitles
Norway/France/Sweden/Poland. 115 min. Not rated
With Stellan Skarsgard, Benjamin Helstad, Kirstoffer Joner, Trond Nilssen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen & Magnus Langlete

There is no way that the filmmakers of this Norwegian escape drama […]

By |November 17th, 2011|Crime, Foreign, Recommended, Top Picks|0 Comments

Dzi Croquettes

Directed by Tatiana Issa & Raphael Alvarez
Produced by Tria Productions & Canal Brasil
English & Portuguese with English subtitles
Brazil. 110 min. Not rated

“Gays don’t die. They turn into glitter.” These words of wisdom were told to co-director Tatiana Issa when she was a girl by her father, a technician for the Brazilian gender-bending cabaret act Dzi […]

By |November 17th, 2011|Documentary, GLBT, Pop Culture|0 Comments

Garbo: The Spy

Produced & Directed by Edmon Roch
Written by Roch, Isaki Lacuesta & María Hervera
Released by First Run Features
English, Spanish, Catalan & German with English subtitles
Spain. 87 min. Not rated

Greta Garbo, Leslie Howard, George C. Scott, and George Sanders: this thriller-cum-documentary offers the biggest cast of stars this year. The liberal excerpts from Mata Hari, The Longest […]

By |November 17th, 2011|Documentary, Espionage, Recommended, Top Picks|0 Comments

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