Tag: Black Swan
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TMA FilmCast #31 — Alison Frank reports from 67th Locarno Film Fest
Alison Frank reports from the 67th Locarno Film Festival, interviewing two directors from the international competition, Lucie Borleteau (“Fidélio, l’odyssée d’Alice”) and Andrea Staka (“Cure – The...
Oct 13, 2014 / Alison FrankNew 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 FrankTony Scott’s 5 best films
Tony Scott (1944 – 2012) As with any prominent artist’s or entertainer’s passing, it gives us a chance to look back on their body of work in a way we’ve never looked at it before — as completed...
Aug 23, 2012 / Eric M. ArmstrongTwo Treatments of Italy’s Fascist Past
Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist and Vittorio De Sica’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis were both released in 1970, both based on novels (by Alberto Moravia and Giorgio Bassani, respectively)...
Mar 6, 2012 / Alison Frank‘The Light Thief’ Shines and Short-Circuits
Director Aktan Arym Kubat casts himself in the title role of The Light Thief (2010), an electrician nicknamed Svet-Ake (‘Mr Light’). Svet-Ake feels it his duty to ensure that all of his neighbours in...
Aug 9, 2011 / Alison FrankPan’s Labyrinth: A Gateway Film
Pan’s Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno, Guillermo del Toro 2006) is a film that seems to come up frequently on lists of top ten favourite films: finally having the opportunity to see it, I was...
Apr 5, 2011 / Alison FrankThe 10 Best Films of 2010
Luca Guadagnino's "I Am Love" I Am Love Luca Guadagnino’s astonishingly beautiful portrait of a woman torn between love and loyalty. A deep, layered, stylish work of cinema with all the passion and...
Jan 15, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongTallgrass Film Fest Announces 2010 Lineup, Details
The 8th annual Tallgrass Film Festival will take place in and around downtown Wichita Oct. 22-24, showcasing more than 124 independent films from more than 11 countries around the world, and hosting...
Oct 2, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongMark Ruffalo is the New Hulk
Edward Norton replaced Eric Bana and now indie favorite Mark Ruffalo will replace Norton as the iconic green monster, The Hulk, in the upcoming “The Avengers” film. Deadline reports that Ruffalo’s...
Jul 24, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongDavid Fincher to Direct a ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ Update in the Vein of ‘Star Wars’
With Hollywood mining comic books, toys, board games and established film and pop-culture properties like there’s no tomorrow, it was only a matter of time before Captain Nemo and his Nautilus would...
May 15, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongEric Rohmer: It’s Good to Talk
If you read the newspaper articles that appeared following the death of Eric Rohmer early this year, you will have come across the cliché that his work is ‘talky’: the implicit criticism is that...
Mar 20, 2010 / Alison Frank2010 Oscar Nominations: 82nd Annual Academy Awards
James Cameron’s juggernaut, “Avatar,” continued its dominance this week picking up a leading 9 Oscar nominations. That number is matched only by one other film, the little Iraq-war thriller, “The...
Feb 2, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Black List 2009: Most Popular Unproduced Scripts
The Black List is a famous Hollywood list of the best, or at least most popular, screenplays “compiled every year from the suggestions of 311 film executives, each contributes the names of up to ten...
Dec 12, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongNine Trailer
Nine is a vibrant and provocative musical that follows the life of world famous film director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) as he reaches a creative and personal crisis of epic proportion, while...
Nov 18, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongZombieland (2009)
Suspicion of intellectualism and academia have been the unfortunate byproducts of the rise of the big dumb Hollywood movie. Film critics, once a respected and authoritative source of reasoned...
Oct 28, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongRecent Articles
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