Article Archive for August 2012
DAILY | Venice, Telluride + Toronto 2012 | Ramin Bahrani’s AT ANY PRICE
Echoes of Arthur Miller, Nicholas Ray, and George Stevens?
DAILY | Venice + Toronto 2012 | Ariel Vromen’s THE ICEMAN
“Gritty, gripping and unrelentingly intense” vs. “likely a rental at best.”
Kissing Cousins: Director Seeks Love
A director talks about cinema history, personal philosophy and his road-trip ad lib through Mexico as WHAT IS THIS FILM CALLED LOVE? touches down at the Telluride Film Festival.
DAILY | BARBARA, Bowiefest, Utopia, and More
Christian Petzold‘s heading into the Oscar race, but first, a tour across North America, beginning in Telluride.
DAILY | Telluride 2012
This year’s lineup includes new work by Michael Haneke, Christian Petzold, Sally Potter, and more.
DAILY | Where Is Syrian Filmmaker Orwa Nyrabia?
Plus, honors for David Lynch and Tom Tykwer and more news of the day.
Video: Chinese Independents
The opening day shutdown of the 9th Beijing Independent Film Festival led to a bizarre week of off-screen scrambles as audiences and festival staff attempted to stay one step ahead of the law.
DAILY | Venice, Telluride + Toronto 2012 | Sarah Polley’s STORIES WE TELL
“An enthralling, exquisitely layered masterpiece of memoir.”
DAILY | Venice + Toronto 2012 | Mira Nair’s THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST
“Ultimately, heavy-handed is the operative word.”
Re-birth of a Film Nation
Avant-garde films advance up the charts in Sight & Sound’s ‘Greatest Films of All Time’ poll.
DAILY | Venice + Toronto 2012 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s PENANCE
Early reviews tell us that Kurosawa’s TV mini-series maintains a “sense of creeping dread” over five episodes.
