by Todd Brown, May 23, 2012 3:15 PM
Leos Carax's Cannes-selected Holy Motors is a weird one. And it's got itself a weird trailer to match. From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the life of Monsieur Oscar, a shadowy character who journeys from one life...
by Andrew Mack, May 23, 2012 10:25 AM
From my childhood there are ever-so-brief memories of watching someone's adaptation of Pippi Longstocking. Television, film and animation versions of Astrid Lindgren's children's books have dotted the entertainment landscape since the late 40s. It had to be one of...
by Brian Clark, May 22, 2012 8:32 AM
Rust and Bone's narrative reminded me of an old-school pulpy melodrama from the 50's or 60's, the type of film where most of the narrative momentum comes not so much from cause and effect, but from traumatic stuff happening every...
by J Hurtado, May 21, 2012 9:40 PM
In the bonus material for Blue Underground's Blu-ray release of A Bullet for the General, there is a five minute statement from the director, Damiano Damiani, in which he repeatedly declares that his film is a satire of westerns and...
by Peter Martin, May 19, 2012 3:00 PM
Director Xavier Gens made a big splash in the genre pool with the very impressive and hard-edged Frontière(s) before tangling with Hollywood on the ill-fated Hitman and then delivering the apocalyptic (and divisive) The Divide. Now he's set to...
by Brian Clark, May 19, 2012 2:05 PM
As a stomach-churning, jet-black satire of modern culture, Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral is a resounding success, and is directed with precision and conviction. However, for these very reasons, it's also cold, sterile and mostly void of humanity or even emotion. It's...
by Todd Brown, May 18, 2012 7:30 PM
Rubber and Wrong director Quentin Dupieux is sending his Wrong Cops to arrest the internet on May 24th. That would be the day that the cult director premieres the first chunk of his proposed Marilyn Manson starring feature film...
by Brian Clark, May 18, 2012 12:01 PM
Another year at Cannes, another polarizing film that splits audiences. Ulrich Seidl's Paradise: Love, the first in his trilogy of "paradise" films (next up is Faith followed by Hope), is a confrontational, often ugly depiction of different forms of desperation...
by Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg, May 18, 2012 11:16 AM
The North American rights to Catalan director Jaume Balagueró Sleep Tight have been acquired by MPI at the Cannes Film Festival this week, according to Deadline Hollywood. The film, released in Spain last year, is a psychological thriller about a...
by Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg, May 18, 2012 10:17 AM
Óscar Aibar is not as well known outside of Spain as he should be. His films have that strange and wonderful blending of genres, such as comedy and sci-fi in Platillos Volantes (about textile workers obsessed with UFO's), sci-fi and western in Atolladero (set...
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