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28 Hotel Rooms
From first time filmmaker Matt Ross comes an indie romance drama that is both incredibly subtle and very captivating. 28 Hotel Rooms is a simple story about a relationship that starts off as a no-strings-attached ordeal but unsurprisingly develops...
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2013 CAAMFest Coverage Introduction
Tonight marks the opening night of CAAMFest, once known as the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, CAAMFest is a celebration of Asian and Asian American media, food, music, culture, digital arts, and of course, film. Though re-branded...
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2013 SXSW Film Festival Award Winners
The winners of the 2013 SXSW Film Festival were announced last night with Destin Daniel Cretton’s Short Term 12 winning the Grand Jury prize for Narrative Feature. The other Grand Jury Winner was Ben Nabors’ documentary William and the...
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For Ellen
So Young Kim has placed a young child at the heart of the story for her second consecutive film. In her previous film (Treeless Mountain) two young South Korean sisters who were abandoned by their mother, in For Ellen...
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Giveaway: Win The Place Beyond the Pines Soundtrack and Poster
The upcoming film from the director of Blue Valentine, which also stars Ryan Gosling, looks as if he has another emotionally powerful story on his hands. The Place Beyond the Pines explores the bond between fathers and sons as...
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Interview: Todd Looby – Be Good
Be Good was number two on our top 10 list of films at this year’s SF Indiefest (check out our review), and director Todd Looby spoke with us about the movie, his filmmaking process, working with Joe Swanberg, what makes...
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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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Watch: Simon Killer trailer
Our favorite film from SF Indiefest this year, Simon Killer, finally has a trailer available to watch. The trailer gives you a taste of the discomfort as well as the hypnotic visuals that are found in Antonio Campos’ latest...
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The Silence
There hasn’t been a movie recently that has beaten me down more emotionally than Baran bo Odar’s new film, The Silence. It’s like a bomb counting down to an explosion that never happens. But it’s not about the explosion,...
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Like Someone in Love
Abbas Kiarostami’s gift is his ability to elicit feelings in his audience from the inside out; he sneaks into our subconscious, plants a seed that germinates and grows slowly—at his pace, specifically—and eventually flourishes into a flood of emotion,...
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Giveaway: Win Life of Pi on Blu-ray
Life of Pi is truly a film that you must see on the highest resolution possible in order to immerse yourself in the glorious picture director Ang Lee and cinematographer Claudio Mrianda create. Which is why Way Too Indie...
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Paradise: Hope (Berlinale)
A highly anticipated screening I attended here at Berlinale was Ulrich Seidl’s third installment of his Paradise trilogy, Paradise: Hope. I have only seen one other film in the Paradise trilogy, which was Paradise: Love, but this did not...
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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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