Dec 23, 2014
Q: What do David Lean, Claude Lanzmann, Kurosawa, Spike Lee, and Katharine Hepburn all have in common?
A: They all come in box sets and any one of them could make...
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Dec 21, 2014
Dir: Zak Knutson
Joey Figueroa; USA 2013, 95 min.
A documentary about John Milius, one of Hollywood's most loved and hated filmmakers Hollywood in the last 50 years, has to be controversial:...
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Dec 20, 2014
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Writers: Jon Raymond, Kelly Reichardt
Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Dakota Fanning, Jess Eisenberg,
USA 112min Thriller
Kelly Reichardt's last film Meek's Cutoff was a poetic rendering of the classic Western. NIGHT MOVES is billed...
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Dec 20, 2014
Dir.: G.W. Pabst
Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, Edith Meinhard, Andre Roanne, Valeska Gert
Germany 1929, 94 min.
G.W. Pabst (1885-1967) was one of the main proponents of what Kracauer called “Die Neue...
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Dec 16, 2014
Director: Leox Carax
Cast: Denis Lavant, Mireille Perrier, Christian Cloarec
100mins Fantasy drama French with subtitles
Maverick French auteur Leos Carax tells an autobiographical story of doomed love in Paris for this...
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Dec 15, 2014
Director/Writer: Barney Platts-Mills
Cast: Del Walker, Anne Gooding, Sam Shepherd, Roy Haywood
86min UK Drama
There was once a working class street style known as ‘suedehead’ that was influenced by skinhead and...
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Dec 6, 2014
Director: Jorg Buttgereit Writer: Franz Rodenkirchen
Cast: Bernd Daktari Lorenz, Beatrice Manowski, Harald Lundt, Colloseo Schulzendorf
75min German Horror
The problem with Nekromantik, a cult horror flick from 1987 by German...
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Dec 6, 2014
Writer/Director: Richard Linklater
Main Actors: Patricia Arquette, Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke
165 mins Origin: US Drama
It has to be said, Boyhood is an unusual beast: a 165 minute, high-concept coming-of-age drama. Filmed in...
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Dec 5, 2014
Director/Writer: Travis Mathews
113min US Docudrama
So you thought INTERIOR LEATHER BAR was explicit? In some way, Travis Mathew's latest project is even more so. Here, he takes his voyeuristic camera to...
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