2013
20 articles
’12 Years a Slave’ wins big at OFCS Awards
The Online Film Critics Society proudly announces the recipients of the 17th annual OFCS awards for excellence in film. Steven McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave” was the standout winner, with recognitions...
Dec 16, 2013 / Eric M. ArmstrongTallgrass Film Festival: Day 2 Preview
Films screen all day at the Orpheum Theatre, Scottish Rite, Central Library, Historical Museum, Garvey Center, Hotel at Old Town and the C.A.C. Theatre at WSU. Click here for Friday’s schedule . Be...
Oct 18, 2013 / StaffDrinking Buddies (2013)
Sexual tension abounds between friends played by Olivia Wilde and Jake Johnson in “Drinking Buddies.” Photo: Magnolia Pictures If “When Harry Met Sally” (1989) is Nora Ephron’s take on Woody Allen,...
Aug 2, 2013 / Eric M. ArmstrongDocumentarist 2013 means more in light of Gezi Resistance
The 6th Istanbul Documentary Days was blessed with an outstanding location for a documentary film festival: a park which has become a cause and a symbol of an urban uprising movement that has spread...
Jul 22, 2013 / N. Buket CengizLes Invisibles: Speaking up, stepping out
Les Invisibles does more than you’d expect of a documentary about elderly gay and lesbian people. I went into this film anticipating a series of interesting stories about individual lives, but this...
Jul 19, 2013 / Alison FrankBefore Midnight: Unevenly Matched
Before Midnight offers a long-awaited update on the lives of Céline and Jesse, the couple who met on a train to Vienna in the 90s, then came together again in Paris the 2000s after Jesse wrote a book...
Jul 11, 2013 / Alison FrankBlack Rock (2013)
Mark Duplass and Katie Aselton surprised me with “Black Rock,” a lean, formidable thriller about survival and friendship. A husband and wife team, Mr. Duplass wrote the screenplay and Ms. Asleton...
Jul 2, 2013 / Vanessa GranielloThe Church of Paul Thomas Anderson
By the time he brought Revelation upon Los Angeles in the form of frog rain, Paul Thomas Anderson had already achieved a level of formal and thematic completeness in his body of work which is rare...
Jun 11, 2013 / Jack WelchNew Japanese Cinema at ‘Nippon Connection’
Founded in 1999 by students at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, the Nippon Connection film festival has become the biggest platform for current Japanese cinema outside of Japan. The festival...
May 16, 2013 / Alison Frank‘Farah Goes Bang’ writer/director awarded Norah Ephron Prize at Tribeca
NEW YORK — First-time writer/director Meera Menon (“Farah Goes Bang”) took home the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize at the 12th annual Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday. Menon was selected out of eight...
Apr 26, 2013 / Eric M. ArmstrongFocus Features picks up Jean-Marc Vallee’s ‘Dallas Buyers Club’
NEW YORK — Focus Features has picked up the domestic and Latin American distribution rights to Jean-Marc Vallée’s “Dallas Buyers Club,” Focus CEO James Schamus and Focus president Andrew Karpen said...
Apr 26, 2013 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Richard III’ to be restored in 4K
CULVER CITY, Calif. — A few months before the bones of Richard III were discovered below a parking lot in Leicester, England, the infamous British monarch was the focal point of a very different type...
Apr 26, 2013 / Eric M. ArmstrongWhy did we watch ‘Amour?’
I am not fluent or even remotely familiar with the French language. But, after watching Michael Haneke’s “Amour” and listening to it play out four more times in the movie theater where I work, I...
Mar 26, 2013 / Vanessa GranielloAvant-Garde to New Wave: Czechoslovak Cinema, Surrealism and the Sixties
The French New Wave was not the only new wave of the 1960s: during a temporary loosening of the Communist regime’s hold on culture, Czechoslovakia had its own new wave that produced films just as...
Feb 26, 2013 / Alison FrankShort and Swede
Göteborg is the home of Scandinavia’s most important international film festival, offering one of the world’s most generous prizes: a Dragon Award of 1 million Swedish kronor (nearly 158 000 USD) for...
Feb 19, 2013 / Alison FrankRecent Articles
- Review: ‘A War’ explores war’s quiet, forgotten horrors
- TMA FilmCast #33 — Vera Chytilova and the Czech New Wave
- The fantasist: The comic art of Woody Allen
- Tribeca picks up North American rights to ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ at Sundance
- TMA FilmCast #32 — Alison Frank interviews Ana Geislerova
- ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ tops Online Film Critics Awards
- TMA FilmCast #31 — Alison Frank reports from 67th Locarno Film Fest
- 5 ½ hour film dominates awards at Locarno
- Shorts at #Locarno67: meditation vs testing the audience’s patience
- ‘The Fool’: A modern propaganda film
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