C.J. Prince
378 articles written by C.J. Prince
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Frances Ha
Noah Baumbach, the director of Greenberg and The Squid and the Whale, shows a more comedic side in Frances Ha. Co-writing with star Greta Gerwig, the film plays out like a beneficial compromise between the two collaborators. Baumbach keeps...
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2013 Hot Docs: Wrap-Up
Despite my short time at Hot Docs, I’d say that I came away seeing a batch of relatively good documentaries. The only problem for me is that, if I had to sum up the films I saw in one...
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2013 Hot Docs: Tales From The Organ Trade, After Tiller, Entangled
Tales From The Organ Trade A perfect example of when the subject matter actually proves to be interesting is Tales From The Organ Trade. In what seems to be a cheeky move, director Ric Esther Bienstock gets David Cronenberg...
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2013 Hot Docs: Valentine Road
Valentine Road Like I said in my introduction to Hot Docs, finding what to watch was hard for me since a lot of titles weren’t even on my radar. The only exceptions were two documentaries that played Sundance earlier...
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Interview: Matthew Pond & Kirk Marcolina – The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne
When Matthew Pond was looking for a subject to possibly make a documentary about, he stumbled upon the story of a jewel thief in her 70s. Doris Payne, an African-American who grew up in a poor segregated mining town,...
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2013 Hot Docs: The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear & The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne
My first day of Hot Docs was a surprising one, the biggest surprise being how popular the festival is. Having not been to Hot Docs before, I wasn’t sure if people would be flocking to a film festival that...
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2013 Hot Docs Coverage Introduction
While Cannes, TIFF, Sundance and other major film festivals put their focus on a wide range of films, the Hot Docs festival puts the spotlight entirely on documentaries. Now celebrating their 20th year, Hot Docs is screening over 200...
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Spring Breakers
When the news came out that Harmony Korine, director of Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy and Trash Humpers, was making a movie about spring break involving James Franco and Disney starlets, the reactions ranged from shock to boundless excitement. Korine’s sudden...
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Kon-Tiki
The story of Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki expedition is one so extraordinary it’s hard to believe it took this long to get dramatized. Heyerdahl (Pål Sverre Hagen), an ethnographer who spent a decade in Polynesia, discovered the natives’...
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Watch: Frances Ha trailer
IFC Films has put out a trailer for Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach’s (The Squid and the Whale, Kicking and Screaming, Greenberg) new film. Initially a bit of a secret project that star and co-writer Greta Gerwig was going to direct,...
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Beyond the Hills
Faith and love tragically clash in Beyond the Hills, Cristian Mungiu’s latest film since his Palme D’Or-winning 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days. Mungiu’s film opens with the reunion of two friends: Voichita (Cosmina Stratan) and Alina (Cristina...
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Leviathan
Leviathan opens with a passage from the Bible, a fitting prelude to the immense scale of the 90 minutes that immediately follow. The film itself is far from an epic production though; Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel started out...
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Watch: The Taking trailer
An intriguing trailer recently came out for the indie horror The Taking. Directed byThe BAPartists (aka Cezil Reed & Lydelle Jackson), The Taking is their debut feature. The trailer is somewhat mysterious, with scenes of two people tied up...
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Interview: H.P. Mendoza – I Am a Ghost
I Am a Ghost is a classic definition of low budget indie filmmaking. Shot over seven days in a mostly DIY fashion, I Am a Ghost follows Emily (Anna Ishida), a young woman who doesn’t realize that she’s a ghost who’s still...
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I Am a Ghost
Most horror films today seem to put less of an emphasis on form, which makes I Am a Ghost such a breath of fresh air. The opening 15 minutes, which brings to mind the work of Chantal Akerman...