TIFF @ Fandor Free Film #3: Dogtooth
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View ArticleFandor @ TIFF Update #6: Immoral Tales with Emily Blunt and Juliette Binoche
An indie "Dark Horse" is the standout among today's crop of reviews.
View ArticleMeshes: Teen Monsters in Training: “Let the Right One In” and “Dogtooth”
When childhood development is protracted, manipulated, or deformed, the innocent can turn into monsters.
View ArticleRushes: Ferrara | IndieFest | Berlinale | Euro
Iconoclastic auteur Abel Ferrara is in San Francisco with 4:44 LAST DAY ON EARTH actress Shanyn Leigh tonight for opening night of the San Francisco Independent Film Festival. Earlier in the week...
View ArticleSan Francisco International: The State We Are In
Fandor's curator and a team of Keyframe writers offer notes on the San Francisco International's in-progress 55th.
View ArticleThe Art of Filmmaking: Yorgos Lanthimos
An Oscar-nominated Greek filmmaker now living in London speaks on the boldly inventive process behind his carefully controlled originals DOGTOOTH and (opening this week in the United States) ALPS.
View ArticleDAILY | Venice 2012 Jury + the Weekend’s Most Promising Films
Those films would be Yorgos Lanthimos's ALPS, IT'S THE EARTH NOT THE MOON, DECONSTRUCTING DAD, THE IMPOSTER, NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT, and more.
View ArticleThe Autobiofictions of Ira Sachs
'It was almost like having a déjà vu that you could stop at any time, if you only wanted to,' says Ira Sachs, whose art imitates, and elevates, life.
View ArticleDAILY | Guzmán on Marker and More
Plus, new issues of film journals, more critical takes on Sight & Sound's 2012 film polls, reassessing David Fincher's THE GAME, and more.
View ArticleVideo: Anatomy of the Sex Scene
A close read of sex scenes in ALPS and DOGTOOTH reveals the altogether unique and innovative filmmaking approach of Yorgos Lanthimos.
View ArticleDAILY | Rotterdam 2013 | CineMart Selects 32 Projects
New work by Lucrecia Martel, Radu Jude, Yorgos Lanthimos, Matt Porterfield, and more.
View ArticleHome for the Holidays: Dysfunctional Families
Yours, mine, ours: Nuclear families explode in a variety of ways.
View ArticleTodd Solondz on the Here and Now of DARK HORSE
The singular indie voice explains he’s a creator, not a destroyer.
View ArticleDAILY | New Cinema Scope, Jost on Carney, and More
Plus, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky makes a movie, the return of William Friedkin's SORCERER, post-2001 sci-fi, and more.
View ArticleDaily | Toronto 2013 Lineup, Round 3
Four more programs: TIFF Docs, Vanguard, City to City, and restored gems in Cinematheque.
View ArticleDaily | Venice + Toronto 2013 | Alexandros Avranas’s MISS VIOLENCE
Winner of both the best director and best actor awards in Venice.
View ArticleA Reykjavík Report
Import/export: RIFF is not a showcase for Icelandic film so much as for Iceland itself.
View ArticleTable Manners
A video of dining experiences to forget with notes on filmmaking to remember.
View ArticleDaily | Godard, Pasolini, Resnais
Today's roundup of news and views is somewhat massive.
View ArticleOscars 2015: Video Evidence
Who deserves to win? A video essay series applies sense, cinemetrics and subjectivity to the race.
View ArticleThe ‘Alt’ Oscars: And Now, for the Nominees
Giving key non-winning nominees their due, from 1980 to the present day.
View ArticleDaily | Cannes 2015 | Yorgos Lanthimos’s THE LOBSTER
"It's an absurd premise, but one that Lanthimos and his game cast commit to with gusto." Updated through 5/24.
View ArticleMultiple Must-sees from MIFF 2015
Two selections of bests from Australia's 'festival of festivals.'
View ArticleDaily | NYFF 2015 Lineup, Round 1
The world premiere of Spielberg's BRIDGE OF SPIES is among the first round of 26 titles.
View ArticleDaily | Locarno 2015 | Athina Rachel Tsangari’s CHEVALIER
"An allegory for the economic system that has laid waste to Tsangari’s country."
View ArticleDaily | NYFF 2015 | Yorgos Lanthimos’s THE LOBSTER
"Certainly no less ambitious than its high-concept predecessors." Updated through 9/28.
View ArticleRelease Me: A BLAST
Distributors, take note: A BLAST feels like A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE as reinterpreted by early Nicolas Roeg.
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