There’s an enigmatic quality to the role of Nolan in the current filmmaking landscape. The post All 13 Christopher Nolan Movies, Ranked appeared first on Slant Magazine.
The words uttered at the beginning of a story don't have to be precisely 'Once upon a time' to lure the audience into a fairy tale. But the form continues to resonate for a reason: we understand that such a...
By the end, the film’s critiques build to a significant revision of the myth of the Trojan War. The post ‘The Odyssey’ Review: Christopher Nolan Brilliantly Deconstructs Homer’s Epic appeared first on Slant Magazine.
It might be said that Christopher Nolan’s true inhibition from proper-speaking Great Director status is spelled by his earliest films. Individual worth notwithstanding, they inspire admiration as a distinct set of small-scale, structurally innovative crime dramas aswim with a young...
THE STORY – After ten years of war, King Odysseus sets sail for Ithaca, eager to reunite with his beloved. But his journey home is far more treacherous than the battlefield, as he must face deadly monsters and vengeful gods to...
One of the most formally accomplished feature debuts to premiere at Sundance earlier this year, Rafael Manuel’s Jia Zhangke-backed feature debut Filipiñana is set at a country club in the Philippines as we follow a 17-year-old “tee-girl” who starts uncovering...
A quirky, offbeat road trip and kidnapping dramedy, Carolina Cavalli’s The Kidnapping of Arabella moves through a variety of tones and genres in its relatively short runtime. Absurd, funny, and almost deadly serious with its moral implications, it’s a film...
Anya Taylor-Joy, Annette Bening, and Timothy Olyphant star in the Apple TV crime drama series, with Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Drew Starkey, Clifton Collins Jr. and William Fichtner. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]