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Cannes 2014: Director’s Fortnight & Critic’s Week
Barring any outside chances of more additions (…Roy Andersson, we’re waiting…) from Fremaux and co., this year’s Cannes lineup is complete. We’re playing a little catch up with the news, so you may have already heard, but the two...
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Hot Docs 2014: An Honest Liar, Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere, Whitey
Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Filmmaker Dave Jannetta has made a sort of companion piece to author Poe Ballentine’s (real name Ed Hughes) book of the same title. Ballentine resides in Chadron, Nebraska, a small,...
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SFIFF 2014 Preview
Tomorrow night, the 57th annual San Francisco International Film Festival (April 24-May 8) kicks off its program of 168 films representing 56 countries. Seeing every film in that span of time is a veritable impossibility (though San Francisco is...
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Hot Docs 2014: The Overnighters, Watchers of the Sky, The Creator of the Jungle
Now that I’ve seen over a dozen of Hot Docs’ selections so far, I can see patterns begin to emerge between films. The three films profiled in today’s piece, all of which are the best documentaries I’ve seen so...
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Hateship Loveship
2013 was the year for Saturday Night Live alums to break out of their comedic roles to star in smaller indie dramas. First there was Will Forte who set aside his MacGruber impersonations for a more serious father and...
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Trailer: Ping Pong Summer
Bust out your boombox and neon colored clothing. A new trailer for the 80s inspired film Ping Pong Summer has arrived. Set in the summer of 1985, an awkward teenage boy goes on a family vacation to the beach...
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Jeremy Irons to Receive Peter J. Owens Award at SFIFF 2014
The San Francisco Film Society announced today that Jeremy Irons will be the recipient of the Peter J. Owens Award for excellence in acting at the 57th annual San Francisco International Film Festival. Previous recipients include Harrison Ford, Robert Duvall, Sean Penn,...
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Matt Wolf Bridges Past and Present Youth Culture in ‘Teenage’
With Teenage, filmmaker Matt Wolf chronicles the rise of the phenomenon known as the teenager from its inception around World War I and through World War II. Based on the book by Jon Savage, the film blends archival footage, reenactments, narration...
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Hot Docs 2014: Love Me and Don’t Leave Me
Love Me The documentary begins and ends with the same question, what is love? Director Jonathon Narducci attempts to answer that question by following around several men who are desperately searching for love. These men come from various backgrounds...
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The Creator of the Jungle (Hot Docs review)
The Creator of the Jungle tells the story of Garrell, a man who has spent 45 years building a giant playground in a forest. He started as a child, and with age the scale of his work increased dramatically....
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5 Most Anticipated Films at Sundance London 2014
Returning to the Sundance London Film Festival this year, I’m excited to witness the big hits that Park City’s Sundance Festival brought us. Some of which are: Frank, Memphis, Fruitvale Station (UK Premiere) and Blue Ruin. Although Sundance London...
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Cannes 2014: Media Guide
Unless you’ve managed to live without the internet since April 16th, the question “How do you feel about the Cannes lineup this year?” must have surfed its way to – or from- you by now. Yes, cinephiles around the...
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Hot Docs 2014: Joy of Man’s Desiring, Harmontown, No Lullaby, Before The Last Curtain Falls
With almost 200 documentaries playing at Hot Docs, the amount of variety on display is quite staggering. Social issues, personal stories, biographies, abstract docs and true crime stories are some examples of the plethora of topics regularly seen at...
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Watermark
Filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky (Manufactured Landscapes) bottle the immense power and omnipresence of water, earth’s mightiest element, in their stunningly cinematic film Watermark. Assembling jaw-dropping footage of rivers, dams, rice paddies, abalone farms, and more, they’ve created a...
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