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by Ben Umstead, January 6, 2012 4:25 PM
One early November afternoon, as I took my seat for a screening of Take Shelter (a film I had been greatly looking forward to since its Sundance premiere), the realization that I had not stepped foot into a movie theater...
by Ryland Aldrich, October 27, 2011 1:36 AM
Dennis Farina is a down on his luck hustler on Chicago's mean streets in Joe Maggio's (Milk & Honey) Tribeca 2011 hit The Last Rites of Joe May. Tribeca Film is bringing the movie to the Museum of Fine...
by Peter Gutierrez, October 20, 2011 5:30 PM
[With the film extending its run in Los Angeles and opening tomorrow in New York, we now revisit Peter's review from Tribeca.] Overall, I must say that I was struck by the similarity of The Swell Season to Hobo with...
by Dustin Chang, October 14, 2011 12:40 AM
A little history on Bombay Beach first: The desolate and surreal Salton Sea in California stands as a formidable metaphor for the broken American Dream. The largest lake in California, it was created when the Colorado River flooded the windswept...
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by Ben Umstead, September 1, 2011 12:30 PM
[During this summer's NYAFF, Diva Velez sat down with Hong Kong legend Tsui Hark to talk about his latest, the Wuxia spectacle Detective Dee And The Mystery Of The Phantom Flame. This is being cross-published at The Diva Review.] The...
by Ben Umstead, July 25, 2011 1:14 AM
I was greatly impressed by Lisa Aschan's She Monkeys (Apflickorna) at this year's Tribeca. Evidently so was the jury as it won for best narrative feature at the festival. While statements like "the best Swedish debut since Lukas Moodysson" have...
by Ben Umstead, July 21, 2011 12:13 PM
[This interview with the Hong Kong maestro goes up under the NYAFF banner, as that is where Diva Velez sat down with Hark earlier this month. And for those wondering why there is no Detective Dee talk, the PR folks...
by Ben Umstead, June 16, 2011 9:44 PM
[With "The Trip" opening in most major U.S. markets tomorrow, now seems a good time to revisit my review from last April's Tribeca.]I hereby subtitle this review of Michael Winterbottom's The Trip, "The Misadventures of the Dueling Caines" or "A...
by Ben Umstead, May 18, 2011 8:30 PM
Great news out of the Cannes Film Market! Panos Cosmatos' transgressive mind-trip of a sci-fi throwback, Beyond The Black Rainbow has been picked up for U.S. theatrical release by Magnet, and in Canada, where the film was produced, by Mongrel...
by Ben Umstead, May 5, 2011 5:51 PM
Well this is an easy, and effective way to sell the U.S. theatrical cut of Michael Winterbottom's BBC2 limited series... That is basing much of what you see of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's restaurant tour of Northern England around...
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