Review: The Forbidden Room
Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room has been described as a series of nested movies, but I don’t think that description is accurate. “Nested” ...
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NYFF Review: Stray Dogs
Sometimes I’m torn between the thing itself and the idea of the thing. I may not enjoy a book, for instance, but I ...
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Trailer: The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology w/ Slavoj Zizek
I really enjoyed the free-wheeling philosophical monologue that was The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology with Slavoj Žižek. Directed by Sophie Fiennes’s, the film ...
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Fantasia Review: Thanatomorphose
The other week, Alec and I had a good discussion about extreme horror and disturbing cinema. Inevitably the best films that are disturbing, ...
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Fantasia Review: Ritual: A Psychomagic Story
Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of my favorite filmmakers. A sure cult figure, there’s an undeniable pull to El Topo, Santa Sangre, or even ...
Review: Only God Forgives
Anyone who goes into Only God Forgives expecting Drive 2: Bangkok Drift is going to be disappointed. Drive was the unlikely combination of ...
BFF Short Film Roundup 1
Over the weekend I caught five short films at the Brooklyn Film Festival. One called Good Grief played before the feature-length documentary Furever ...
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Review: Violet & Daisy
There was a point in the mid-to-late 1990s when a bunch of lesser filmmakers tried to make movies like Quentin Tarantino. It was ...
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Trailer: The Dance Of Reality (La Danza de la Realidad)
It was only two years ago that Alejandro Jodorowksy turned to crowfunding to complete The Dance of Reality (La Danza de la Realidad), ...
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Review: Aroused
Aroused is an odd documentary. It’s essentially an advertisement for director Deborah Anderson’s art book (which she makes sure to plug in the ...
Shane Carruth teases his next film, The Modern Ocean
I just interviewed Shane Carruth today about Upstream Color, the early candidate for my favorite film of 2013. During our discussion about his ...
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Review: To the Wonder
First let me get this out of the way: if you didn’t like Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, steer clear of To ...