Laggies UK Trailer
The UK trailer for mumblecore director Lynn Shelton’s latest film Laggies (under the international title Say When) is now online. An official…
Browsing: Romance
Lilting Review
Writer/director Hong Khaou’s debut film Lilting examines the painful aftermath of a Chinese Cambodian boy’s death. Kai came to London from China because his mother wanted to give him a better, freer life. Kai is a soft, kind boy who’s lightly charming, fairly fashionable, and somewhat beautiful looking. He’s fairly ordinary, but …
TIFF: Bird People Review
Pascale Ferran’s Bird People is an existential tale of alienation, but it’s little heavy handed about it. We are taken into the worlds of Gary and Audrey. Gary (Josh Charles) is an American in Paris. He is tired of everything: his job and his wife. He needs an escape from it and decides to leave it all behind while on business trip. Audrey (Anaïs Demoustier) is a French chambermaid who…
God Help the Girl Trailer #2
Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch decided that for his directorial debut he’d keep things a bit musical. God Help the Girl, written and directed…
Paradise Lost International Trailer
After premiering and receiving favorable reviews at Telluride Film Festival this past weekend, Paradise Lost now has a full length international trailer…
Company Man: The Best of Robert Altman: The Company Review
There’s no better way to enter the world of high art, than with an audience rudely chatting as a ballet performance is about to start. The talkers are of course prodded by the dedicated loyalists with loud shushes. Robert Altman’s The Company examines the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago casually through seasons of ballet. The …
The Rewrite Trailer
Writer-director Marc Lawrence’s The Rewrite tells the story of Golden Globe winning screenwriter Keith Michaels (Hugh Grant) who finds his life falling apart. Now divorced, out of money, and having…
Company Man: The Best of Robert Altman: The Player Review
The Graduate 2, starring Julie Roberts as the daughter of Ben and Elaine. This silly concept is pitched in the opening of Robert Altman’s 1992 film The Player. Like the rest of the film, it’s humorously silly but scarily accurate to the Hollywood of the 1990s and today. Right from the get-go, one can see classic notions of Hollywood …
Strange Paradise: The Cinema of Jim Jarmusch: Only Lovers Left Alive Review - NP Approved
What does a modern vampire do nowadays? If you’re immortal you’ve probably travelled the world, read all of the books, heard all of the music, and seen all of the things that time lays out before you. Up until now, the perspective of the vampire has either been of the monstrous Dracula or the teenage whiner with a god complex. Few films delve into a magic …
Bird People US Trailer
From writer-director Pascale Ferran (Lady Chatterley, L’âge des possibles) comes Bird People, the story of an American that arrives in Paris, checks into a hotel, turns off his cell phone and starts his…