BAMcinemaFEST 2010 – An Overview (Updated Daily!!!)
After a resoundingly successful first year, BAMcinemaFEST is back to reaffirm its status as one of the premiere showcases in New York City for the freshest and brightest cinema of the current calendar...
View ArticleA Conversation With Pablo Aravena (NEXT: A PRIMER ON URBAN PAINTING)
(Note: In light of the film’s domestic DVD release, we are posting a re-edited version of an interview HTN contributor Pamela Cohn conducted with filmmaker Pablo Aravena in 2006 and first posted at her...
View ArticleTIFF 2010 – A Preview
Last year, I had such a damn fine time attending my first ever Toronto International Film Festival that I promised myself I’d return in 2010. But there’s this thing called Life, you see, which...
View ArticleA Conversation With Hal Hartley
Still playful after all these years, catching up with The Unbelievable Truth last week was something of a difficulty, certainly more so than catching up with its director, Hal Hartley. While I didn’t...
View ArticleDEEP BLUE SEA, THE
Davies, in adapting Terence Rattigan's landmark 1952 play of the same name, evokes postwar England in much the same way as he has in the past: as a dreary but beautiful place rich with memory and sadness.
View ArticleHUNTER, THE
The Hunter succeeds, just not on the terms it initially appears to be setting for itself: it's the Tasmania-set semi-psychological thriller we deserve, even if it's not the one we may have wanted...
View ArticleFRANCES HA
Frances Ha is Noah Baumbach's most hopeful film; unburdened by regret, it sings to the rhythms of life and experience, smiling at loss and triumph in equal measure.
View ArticleSIGHTSEERS
(Sightseers world premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and was picked up for distribution by IFC Films. Visit the film’s official website to learn more. NOTE: This review was first posted in...
View ArticlePOST TENEBRAS LUX
Carlos Reygadas’ Post Tenebras Lux is a landscape of possibility, vibrantly alert to the tensions of class, family and desire, pulsating with life.
View ArticleSTORIES WE TELL
What is so thrilling about Stories We Tell is not that the film ineffably expresses its themes, but rather how it directly confronts them.
View ArticleNelson Kim and John Magary’s 2016 New York Film Festival Wrap-Up (Part 1 of 2)
(The 54th New York Film Festival, with its carefully curated selection of standout new works of international cinema, has come and gone. Longtime HTN contributors, film-school buddies, and fellow...
View ArticleJim Brunzell’s 2017 Sundance Film Festival Preview
Starting tomorrow and running through Sunday, Jan. 29, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival is taking place in Park City, Utah (along with a few surrounding cities, including Ogden, Provo, and Salt Lake...
View ArticleA Conversation with the Filmmakers of ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH
I met with directors Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas de Pencier at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, January 25, 2019, to discuss their new documentary Anthropocene: The Human...
View ArticleA Conversation with Nadav Lapid (SYNONYMS)
I met with Israeli director Nadav Lapid (Policeman) on Saturday, September 7, 2019, at the Toronto International Film Festival, to discuss his new film, Synonyms (which I also reviewed), winner of the...
View ArticleTHE AUDITION
...they form an engaging ensemble in Weisse’s emotionally fraught narrative, which offers surprising truths about the wages of artistic ambition, whether for oneself or for others.
View ArticleHEIMAT IS A SPACE IN TIME
Not bad, Herr Heise. Gratuliere herzlichst! That will teach me to doubt the power of cinema!
View ArticleTHE COUNTY
Though I slightly preferred the haunting austerity of Rams, Hákonarson still delivers a powerful testament to the resilience of the human spirit and, even better, keeps the plot moving in surprising...
View ArticleA Conversation with Maria Sødahl, Andrea Bræin Hovig and Stellan Skarsgård...
I met with Norwegian director Maria Sødahl on Sunday, September 8, 2019, at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, to discuss Hope (which I also reviewed), her first feature since the 2010...
View ArticleCOMING HOME AGAIN
It’s a profound experience, and by the end of Coming Home Again, we feel at home, ourselves, and transported by the visit.
View ArticleA Conversation with Ina Weisse & Nina Hoss (THE AUDITION)
I met with German director Ina Weisse (The Architect) on Monday, September 9, 2019, at the Toronto International Film Festival, to discuss her new film, The Audition (which I also reviewed). Joining us...
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