Written & Directed by Peter Strickland Produced by Keith Griffiths, Mary Burke Released by IFC Films UK. 92 min. Not rated With Toby Jones, Cosimo Fusco, Antonio Mancino & Tonia Sotiropoulou Peter Strickland’s second feature is an inventive homage to the art of analogue sound and the power of the medium. Sometime in the 1970s, […]
Written & Directed by Xan Cassavetes Produced by Jen Gatien & Alex Orlovsky Released by Magnet Releasing USA. 97 min. Rated R With Joséphine de la Baume, Milo Ventimiglia, Roxane Mesquida, Anna Mouglalis, Michael Rapaport, Riley Keough, Ching Valdes-Aran & Jay Brannan Can you remember back when vampires were simple, bloodsucking creatures? Before they counted […]
Directed by Rodney Ascher Produced by Tim Kirk Released by IFC Films USA. 102 min. Not rated You’ve all seen The Shining, haven’t you? Stanley Kubrick’s seminal 1980 horror film gave Jack Nicholson a role (or an entire hotel) to chew on while Shelley Duvall ran around frantically, followed by a newly-created Steadicam. (It was […]
Written & Directed by Pablo Berger Produced by Ibon Cormenzana, Jérôme Vidal & Berger Released by Cohen Media Group Spanish with English subtitles Spain. 104 min. Rated PG-13 With Macarena García, Maribel Verdú, Sofía Oria & Ángela Molina Director Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves is a Spanish Snow White that’s more The Artist than Mirror Mirror. It’s […]
With so many end-of-the-year releases garnering awards and nominations, you might ask the various selection committees and critics groups, “Where have you been?” Going over their 10 best lists, some overlap is inevitable, but it’s as if they have had amnesia for 10 months, overlooking many films released before November. And if you had a […]
Directed by Sacha Gervasi Produced by Alan Barnette, Joe Medjuck, Tom Pollock, Ivan Reitman & Tom Thayer Written by John G. McLaughlin, based on the book Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures USA. 98 min. Rated PG-13 With Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel, […]
Directed by Bill Morrison Produced by Forma Written by Morrison, Johann Johannsson & David Metcalfe Released by Icarus Films USA/UK. 52 min. Not Rated With Hugo and The Artist reminding audiences of the impact, and neglect, of silent films, comes the timely work of an avant-garde artist who imaginatively re-purposes archival footage in collaborations with […]
Produced & Directed by Lionel Rogosin Written by Lionel Rogosin with Lewis Nkosi & William “Bloke” Modisane Released by Milestone Films In English, Afrikaans & Zulu with English subtitles South Africa/USA. 86 min. Not rated Restored in 2005 by the Cineteca di Bologna and the laboratory L’Imagine Ritrovata with the collaboration of Rogosin Heritage and […]
Produced & Directed by Alex Stapleton Produced by Stone Douglass, Mickey Barold, Stapleton, Izabela Frank & Jeff Frey Written by Stapleton & Gregory Locklear Released by Anchor Bay Films USA. 90 min. Rated R With Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Joe Dante, Dick Miller, Robert De Niro, Pam Grier, David Carradine, Peter Bogdanovich & […]