In Charlie McDowell’s last feature, Windfall, the ambitious (though largely unsuccessful) idea was to put the audience in a stressful situation (à la Hitchcock) and then quickly vent the pressure with a few violent set pieces (à la Tarantino). By...
Happy Halloween from The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Today we talk about Tim Burton! The man! The brand!...
Mia’s under house arrest for the crime of miscarriage, but must also contend with the lingering, suspicious death of her husband Adam. He was found dead in the vet clinic they once ran together. Mia was exhonerated from any murder...
Edward Berger's Oscar-bound follow-up to 'All Quiet On The Western Front' stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow and Isabella Rosellini. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
Authoritarian dystopian futures, as imagined by writers, artists, and filmmakers, often have familiar tropes, usually about the neutralization of individuality, the importance of conformity, and how it eventually becomes impossible to keep the brightness and individuality of the human spirit...
With their keen attention to detail and cinematic vision, filmmaking duo Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw (The Truffle Hunters) capture the culture of the Argentinian cowboys for their newest undertaking. Gaucho Gaucho, shot in crisp black and white, follows the...
Bringing a pristine level of craft with their portraits of subcultures in The Last Race and The Truffle Hunters, Gregory Kershaw and Michael Dweck turned their vision to the world of gauchos for their latest project. Returning to Sundance Film...