Aaron Krasnov

New York, NY

Review: THE LONELIEST PLANET Playfully Travels Until the Fun Stops

Displacing Tom Bissell's short story "Expensive Trips Nowhere" to the verdant hills of Georgia, Julia Loktev re-imagines the somber, transient tale of love, fissured by a momentary, yet infinitely projecting incident. Set against the lush, ex-Soviet highland, The Loneliest Planet... More »

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Film Comment Selects 2012: Sleepwalk (1986) Review

An oddly keeled journey through the subconscious passageways of 1980's SoHo, nourished with ancient Chinese spells and the vaguely hostile smell of almonds. The first feature by Sara Driver, Jim Jarmusch's spouse and occasional collaborator, explores the phosphorescent discharge of... More »

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Sitges 2011: ANOTHER EARTH Review

The billowy temper of reverberating metal hauntingly inhabits this tale of spiritual rehabilitation. An examination of second chance among the stars, the lustral soul of reparations in a world of potential divergence. A tale of loss, strife, forgiveness and amends... More »

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NYFF 2011: Patience (After Sebald) Review

Upon the outset, a coincidental bout of serendipity had struck; the smile inducing collision of events that feels slyly preternatural. The book atop my to-be-read pile was W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, The New York Film Festival was announcing... More »

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NYFF 2011: The Loneliest Planet Review

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TIFF 2011: TYRANNOSAUR Review

[With Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur about to arrive in Toronto we revisit our earlier review.]An animal can only absorb so much punishment before it snaps back: the paraphrased narration an assessment of Tyrannosaur's brutality driven study. The feature debut of Paddy... More »

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Bellflower: AK's Musings

Turgid wastoids, beleaguered louseabouts and a muscle car built for the end-times, an image of pubescent despondency awash in the cultural purgatory of its youth, castaway and wandering. Bellflower asserts in bro-banter and failed relationships, roiled in the unending,... More »

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NYAFF 2011: Troubleshooter Review

Laced with slapstick and American action film influences, Troubleshooter owes as much to Tony Scott as it does producer Ryoo Seung-Wan. A frenetic-brained thriller with a deeply funny underbelly aiming to have fun with the genre, without skimping on serious-minded... More »

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ND/NF 2011 Review: Tyrannosaur

An animal can only absorb so much punishment before it snaps back: the paraphrased narration an assessment of Tyrannosaur's brutality driven study. The feature debut of Paddy Considine, and extension of his 2007 short, Dog Altogether. A portrait of self-destructive... More »

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ANOTHER EARTH Review

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SXSW 2011: Attack the Block Review

From the intention of newly minted director Joe Cornish, Attack the Block is an homage to The Warriors, Predator, The Outsiders, E.T., Rumble Fish, and just about every other great monster and child-gang film you can think of. From Cornish's... More »

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SXSW 2011: SOURCE CODE REVIEW - Another Look

Over the past few years I continually heard the tellings of science fiction's resurgence in Duncan Jones' Moon, with practical effects, a small budget, stellar acting and an original premise, Jones' first feature was a blissful surprise. Science Fiction, not... More »

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For Your Consideration: Dogtooth

"The goal for me--and I think it is most of the time, when I make a film, or whatever I make--is to make something that is very open. Even if there are other issues raised by the film, I never... More »

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Sundance 2011: MEEK'S CUTOFF Review

[With Meek's Cutoff now screening at Sundance we re-visit Aaron's earlier review from the New York Film Festival.]There is something deeply unsettling about Meek's Cutoff, a haunting feeling that grows with time, reaching back to the outset and tormenting the... More »

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Leading Voices in Global Cinema

Todd Brown, Founder & Editor Toronto
Peter Martin, Managing Editor Dallas
Ryland Aldrich, Festivals Editor Los Angeles
James Marsh, Asian Editor Hong Kong
Brian Clark, European Editor Paris

Destroy All Monsters: Retire Superman

While the internet is tearing itself apart in its efforts to empirically determine whether Man of Steel "sucks" or "is awesome" - because such things are now apparently possible, given Superman Returns' near-unilateral, and intellectually disturbing, dismissal - I'd like to pause to make a gentler request: may we please... More »

Fifteen Unfilmable Novels And The Directors Who Should Try Anyway

Ah, the 'unfilmable' novel. Go back ten or fifteen years and it seems everyone had some sort of list of great novels that could never be brought to the screen. The limitations at the time were largely technical and in recent years those lists have dwindled with titles such as... More »

Jason Gorber's Cineruminations: On MAN OF STEEL, SuperJesus, and THIS IS THE END's Jewpocalypse

Back in 1933, while Hitler was ascending into power in Germany and diasporic Jews throughout the world looked on with concern, two high school students created one of the most indelible mythical heroes of the last century. Borrowing from the Nietzschean concept of the Übermensch, Joe Shuster and Jerry... More »

Twitchvision: Talking MAN OF STEEL and THIS IS THE END

This is the big week of Superman's return, with Zack Snyder's take on the caped saviour hitting our screens. While my opinion's kind of mixed on the film, there's still plenty to admire about it. I also discuss the overt Jesus imagery throughout, as expanded in a full cineruminations column... More »

70s Rewind: Bridges, Barbra, Bogdanovich, Brynner

Amazon's Prime Instant streaming service is not as well-established as Netflix and has far more modest offerings in off-beat and strange cinema. Still, since I temporarily dropped Netflix, I've been diving deeper into Amazon's catalog, and discovered a good number of films from my favorite movie decade. Here's a selection... More »