We sat down with Marco Kreuzpaintner to talk about his his new film KRABAT, an adaptation of Otfried Preußler's award-winning book. The story follows a young man in the 17th century as he learns the dark arts from a miller with dangerous designs. Continue reading.
EDITOR SCOTT MACAULAY AT TIFF- Filmmaker Magazine is the premier magazine for independent film. This year we are trading some of Scott Macaulay's inspired observations on the Toronto International Film Festival with some of our inspired video interviews. Good trade! Check back every day for new posts.
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THE MAN WHO VIEWED TOO MUCH- Mike D'Angelo watches a lot of movies. Right now he is unleashing his critical eye on this year's crop of Toronto Film Festival entrants. Check back each day as Mike rates these movies on his 1-100 scale.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH Burn After Reading ...
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FILMCATCHER INVADES CANADA- The road trip has begun. Piled 5 high in your mom's minivan from 1988, we are striking out towards the great north, to Canada, land of moose and beaver, land of health-care and kids in the hall, land of… those are all the stereotypes I can ... Continue reading
I always admire the blog writings of my colleagues who are able to jump from screening to keyboard, whipping out paragraphs of incisive critical prose. ... Continue reading
Burn After Reading (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, USA):82 Partisans and detractors alike are dismissing this misanthropic marvel as a slight, meaningless comedy, when in ... Continue reading
Snow (Aida Begic, Bosnia & Herzegovina/Germany/France/Iran):55Incantatory visual/rhythmic sense compensates for banal Cherry Orchard narrative -- will these Bosnian war widows sell their poor but picturesque ... Continue reading
Yesterday walking from one theater to another at the Varsity multiplex that houses the Toronto International Film Festival's Industry Screenings, I thought that things seemed ... Continue reading
Thai stick for the masses, Pang Bros–style. Nicolas Cage toggles between zany work with the likes of the Coen brothers ...
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Jamie Bell, is it? Now there’s a good lad. When it comes to quirk, we’ll take the bittersweet Scottish variety, ...
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Too avant even for Dalí, Joseph Cornell’s 1936 found-footage masterpiece is now as curiously quaint as one of the collagist’s ...
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Oh dear me, who killed poor Father Dahme? Dana “The Mask” Andrews investigates in this docu-realistic noir based on an ...
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Watch Bette Davis lose her freakin’ mind in Robert Aldrich’s bizarro Southern Gothic melodrama, also starring Olivia De Havilland and ...
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