What James Franco tries, valiantly, is the equivalent of attempting to novelize Ingmar Bergman’s Persona or Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. The former is nigh imp...
By now, it’s fairly well understood that science fiction films, which were once among Hollywood’s most lucrative, beloved, and acclaimed productions, are somewh...
The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) has a reputation of being more of an “audience festival” than an “industry festival,” and certainly not witho...
Pit Stop, an ambitious undertaking about two gay men, their current relationships, and the flings that eventually lead them to one another, never becomes the gr...
A movie that attempts something new or controversial is often instead deemed “risky," but that term does not even begin to describe Closed Curtain, which also c...
It was over 10 years ago that Andrew Bujalski released his debut film, Funny Ha Ha, and since then, the resulting “mumblecore” explosion is perhaps the most rec...
Although only coined in the last decade, the "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" archetype can be traced back to screwball comedies and has been spoofed as early as Annie ...
Director Sally Potter has carved out an intriguing niche in the filmmaking world. Her previous feature, Rage, premiered on mobile phones and her breakthrough Or...
It took Cristian Mungiu over five years to release a feature-length follow-up to his Palme d’Or winning masterpiece, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days. That film, a...
To say that Leviathan is not for everyone is to, put it simply, too simple. Even those who hear that something “isn’t for everyone” and take it as a challenge t...
