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SFIFF57: On the Red Carpet
SFFS Awards Night On May 1st, right in the middle of the 57th annual San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF57), the San Francisco Film Society (SFFS) held and awards night gala, honoring some of the industry’s most vital filmmakers...
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SFIFF57: Closing Night, Alex of Venice, Night Moves, I Origins
Noah Cowan has only been San Francisco Film Society Executive Director for about ten weeks, but in that short stay his presence has lit a fire under an already lively film community. Last night, at the Closing Night screening...
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Weekend Streaming Recommendations: Kill Bill, Assault on Precinct 13, The American, & More
Welcome to WTI’s Weekend Streaming Recommendations where I recommend 4-5 films that under-watched, under-appreciated, or just plain old personal favorites. My goal is to take the hassle out of deciding which film to stream on the plethora of streaming sites...
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Patrick Wilson, Jessica Biel and Imogen Poots Join Patricia Highsmith Adaptation
Many film fans are familiar with the work of the late novelist Patricia Highsmith, whether they know it or not, as her books have been adapted into several films including the Alfred Hitchcock classic Strangers on a Train, and...
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Trailer: Witching and Bitching
Spanish cult filmmaker Alex de la Iglesia’s latest entry into horror-comedy has released a new trailer full of guns, booms and… brooms? Witching and Bitching first premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, but has bounced around the...
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Ida
Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) is an 18 year old orphan about to become a nun in 1960s Poland. At the insistence of her superior, Anna visits her only known family before taking her vows. Her aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza), a...
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Gloria
It’s been over a year since Sebastian Lelio’s Gloria wowed festival goers at the 2013 Berlinale, where it picked up multiple awards and turned the switch on the electric current that’s been heating art-house circles ever since. Having done...
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U Want Me 2 Kill Him?
If you were asked to do something unthinkable and told that one act would benefit a great number of people, would you do it? If it was for the “greater good” would that make the act somewhat justifiable? That well describes...
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SFIFF57: The Double, Heaven Adores You, Of Horses & Men, Impossible Light
In Submarine director Richard Ayoade’s stylish Dostoyevsky adaptation The Double, Jesse Eisenberg impresses yet again in a dual performance as Simon, a pushover office drone, and his cocky, better-in-every-way doppelganger James. Though Simon has worked at the office for seven years,...
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Los Angeles Film Festival 2014 Line-Up
Way Too Indie loves Film Independent and their support of independent cinema, so we’re quite excited to see the line-up announcement for this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival. This year marks 20 years of the festival and to mark...
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Hot Docs 2014: Top 10 of the Festival
First things first: Let’s congratulate the award winners at Hot Docs this year. The winner of Best Canadian Documentary went to Out of Mind, Out of Sight, a look at criminals with mental illness as they try to rehabilitate...
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SFIFF57: Palo Alto, The Skeleton Twins, Last Weekend, Stray Dogs
A 3rd generation filmmaker of one of cinema’s most lauded families, Gia Coppola impresses in her debut feature, Palo Alto, an adaptation of a book by James Franco (who’s also in the movie) that captures the listless, limbo-like haze of high...
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The Grand Budapest Hotel releases on Blu-ray & DVD June 17th
Wes Anderson’s highest-grossing film to date, The Grand Budapest Hotel, has been officially announced for a Blu-ray & DVD street date of June 17th. The film not only pleased moviegoers, but critics were also enamored with Anderson’s film ever...
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Trailer: Boyhood
Richard Linklater created a coming of age story unlike anything ever done before by remarkably filming the same cast for 12 years in an ambitious project entitled Boyhood. Linklater began filming a six-year-old boy named Mason (played by Ellar...
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