In our last days at the 2008 New York Film Festival, we caught up with Japanese horror director Kiyoshi Kurosawa to chat about his genre-bending new social drama, TOKYO SONATA. Concerned with family dynamics and spiritual malaise, the film finds Kurosawa returning to themes first explored in "License to ... Continue reading.
2008 NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL GUEST BLOGGER: FILMLINC- Darren Aronofsky, director of the virtuoso Requiem for a Dream (2000) and last behind the camera for The Fountain (2006), is striking at new ground with The Wrestler, a film of surprising compassion about the small-town circuit of professional ... Continue reading
The Closing Night film of the Directors' Fortnight at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival THE PLEASURE OF BEING ROBBED, opens today at the IFC Center in New York. While in Cannes, Director Josh Safdie and brother Benny took to the French Riviera streets with digital cameras in hand to search ... Continue reading
FILMCATCHER @ NYFF BLOG- Every major film festival presents a gallery of cinema offerings and possible discoveries for those curious enough to seek out unfamiliar work by international narrative-film artists and imagemakers. The New York Film Festival may play it safe by screening films that already have theatrical distribution, like ... Continue reading
From our friends at The Flaherty Seminar. Read on! Monday, October 13, 7:30 pm - Oliver Husain in person The Flaherty NYC series premiere will ... Continue reading
Billy Wilder has his fourth film featured on Reel 13 this year and it is one that I had, surprisingly enough, never seen before. WITNESS ... Continue reading
Almost busted out laughing when our hero pointed out the Musée d'Orsay at one point, thereby reminding me of Hou's cosmopolitan ... Continue reading
Having already seen this basic lovelorn-stalker scenario realized to devastating effect by both Patrice Leconte (in Monsieur Hire) and Krzysztof Kieslowski ... Continue reading
We don’t care how many bad movies Ridley Scott has made, we’re still hoping for a glimmer of the radical ...
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Hell if we know what Wong Kar-wai’s sad-sack samurai epic is all about. Something to do with memory and the ...
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Oh, those gorgeous skater boys! We know Gus Van Sant has an Adonis complex, but who can blame him? Youth ...
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Make no mistake, cult fans: This Troma film is shite. A sub–Ed Wood exploitation flick about a post-apocalyptic beach where ...
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If you haven’t yet discovered Peter Bogdanovich’s hide-raising debut thriller, starring Boris Karloff as an aging horror-movie star caught in ...
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