by Matthew Lee, February 5, 2012 9:38 PM
The opening sequence in Paddy Considine's brilliant Tyrannosaur is a model of cinematic efficiency so concise they ought to teach it in film school. Revisiting the events of Considine's original short Dog Altogether and turning them into a full-blown feature,...
by Peter Gutierrez, December 27, 2011 1:45 PM
I'll admit it, I'm a curmudgeon where coming-of-age films are concerned. Even when they're widely acclaimed, as in Lone Scherfig's An Education, I often find their points too facile, their emphases clouded by an adult perspective that's slyly looking back...
by Peter Gutierrez, December 16, 2011 12:00 PM
Chances are that if you love movies you know who Roger Corman is. If you're not sure, however, about all the things that he's accomplished in his nearly sixty-year career, you may want to check out his page at IMDb--but...
by Peter Gutierrez, December 15, 2011 10:00 AM
In an awards season awash with nostalgia for the movie culture of yore, it's nice to see a bit of living history up on the screen in the form of Alex Stapleton's Corman's World. No question that Hugo and The...
by Ben Umstead, December 2, 2011 12:00 PM
I'd imagine that if you're a regular reader of Twitch, then the answer is yes.In our NYFF 2011 wrap-up , Peter Gutierrez said of Corman's World: The Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, Alex Stapleton's doc on moviemaking maniac Roger Corman:...
by Matthew Lee, November 27, 2011 11:13 PM
It's great when a director identifies with a film they've poured heart and soul into making, even more so when it's clearly pushed them to excel. Still, what are you supposed to think when it's a story about weak, contemptible...
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by Matthew Lee, October 24, 2011 4:35 PM
What you get out of Lucky McKee's The Woman, a piece of ultraviolent drama that's brilliant and infuriating by turns, is probably dependent on how serious you think the director and his writing partner, novelist Jack Ketchum are being. The...
by Ben Umstead, September 15, 2011 6:00 PM
[Our thanks to Christopher Bourne for sharing with us his review of Happy, Happy. You may find more from Chris at his blog, The Bourne Cinema Conspiracy.]Anne Sewitsky's debut feature Happy, Happy, winner of the World Cinema Jury Prize at...
by Matthew Lee, September 15, 2011 1:21 PM
Lech Majewski's The Mill and the Cross is odd. More two hours of art appreciation than an conventional film, it tells the story (or possibly a story) of the artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder and what it was that led...
by Peter Gutierrez, September 15, 2011 12:00 PM
[With Matthew Bate's documentary opening in limited release tomorrow in the U.S. we now revisit Peter Gutierrez's review from this spring.]For one of the most compelling documentaries I've seen on media in a long time (and I take in a...
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