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Sundance 2013 Awards: FRUITVALE And BLOOD BROTHER Win Big

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Sundance 2013 Awards: FRUITVALE And BLOOD BROTHER Win Big

Sundance 2013 Awards: FRUITVALE And BLOOD BROTHER Win Big

Posted: 26 Jan 2013 07:43 PM PST

It's been a long 10 days of festival madness, but Sundance is finally wrapping up this weekend. Check out our Sundance Film Festival Hub for all our reviews that will continue to roll out over the next week. Tonight brought the much anticipated Sundance awards ceremony. Let's get right to the winners. Park City, UT -- Sundance Institute this evening announced the Jury, Audience, NEXT <=> and other special awards of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival at the feature film Awards Ceremony, hosted by Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Park City, Utah. An archived video of the ceremony in its entirety is available at www.sundance.org/festival. John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, said, "The films at our Festival this year truly reflect the unbridled passion, immense...

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Sundance 2013 Interview: WRONG COPS with Quentin Dupieux, Mark Burnham, Steve Litte, Arden Myrin and Eric Wareheim

Posted: 26 Jan 2013 06:00 PM PST

The day after Quentin Dupieux unveiled the first half of Wrong Cops, his follow up to Wrong, I had the opportunity to sit down with Quentin and the cast to discuss this wonderfully wacky work in progress. The cast memebers present were Mark Burnham (Wrong), Steve Little (Eastbound & Down) Arden Myrin (MADtv) and Eric Wareheim (Tim and Eric Awesome Show). You have a production style that is very run and gun. Minimal lighting, rigging, etc. This makes for a very fast paced shoot and energetic atmosphere, but along with the many benefits, there are also some compromises. Quentin Dupieux: Unfortunately, that's the only way I know. When I started making short films when I was 15, I was dealing with this. I have a...

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Sundance 2013 Review: THE NECESSARY DEATH OF CHARLIE COUNTRYMAN is the Unnecessary Death of a Potentially Good Movie

Posted: 26 Jan 2013 01:35 PM PST

The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman is perhaps the worst film I've seen in a very, very long time. It stars Shia LaBeouf as the possibly-doomed titular role. Charlie just watched his mother (Melissa Leo, in the most tragically underused role possible) die at the hospital. After taking some painkillers to deal with his anxiety of what he just witnessed, he has an imaginary conversation with her, and she tells him to go on a trip to really start living life. It's supposed to be a coming-of-age love story, but it winds up being more of a coming-of-enrage story for us, the audience.When Charlie is on the plane to his new destination, he converses with an aggressively gregarious passenger. This passenger tells him about his...

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Black Movie 2013 Review: TODAY (AUJOURD'HUI) Puts a New Spin on Dying

Posted: 26 Jan 2013 11:00 AM PST

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE From Ikiru to The Bucket List, there are already a number of movies made about people who find out they have a short time to live. However, I can safely say that none of them are quite like Today (Aujourd'hui). Set in Senegal, director Alain Gomis' meditation on the inevitability of death glides between surrealism, music, tragedy and documentary-like realism, resulting in a unique, touching and surprisingly laid-back film. Though the disparate ingredients occasionally clash and confuse the tone, Today never quite loses footing thanks to the powerful, subdued presence of the very talented slam poet/music artist (and now actor), Saul Williams. In the film, Satche (Williams) wakes up one day with the knowledge that he...

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IFFR 2013 Review: FRANKENSTEIN'S ARMY Is Out To Get You

Posted: 26 Jan 2013 09:30 AM PST

This is the kind of film where "tripping over your own legs" doesn't necessarily mean they're still attached... Richard Raaphorst's debut feature film Frankenstein's Army has its world premiere today at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. And it's about time: we've been rooting for Raaphorst to get something in cinemas for what feels like decades already. Ever since we saw those magnificent promos for the abolished project called Worst Case Scenario, anticipation has been running wild for what this man can do. And now the wait is over. Did Raaphorst deliver? Well, while we don't get the huge floating army of balloon zombots seen in one of those old promos (for shame!), Frankenstein's Army is still a whole lot of fun. The Story: It's near...

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Black Movie 2013 Review: Carlos Reygadas Brings the Devil Home in POST TENEBRAS LUX

Posted: 26 Jan 2013 06:00 AM PST

As I review more and more films out of festivals, I'm beginning to notice a pattern: I'm much more forgiving and enthusiastic about films that shoot the moon and fall somewhere short than with serviceable movies trodding well-worn territory that leave little to criticize. Which brings me to Carlos Reygadas' Post Tenebras Lux, a film which is audacious, frustrating, beautiful, shocking, emotional, impossible, perhaps brilliant, or, just as likely, a misfire. At times it's exhilarating, at other times it felt like trying to put together a puzzle that not only has pieces missing, but also has some pieces from other puzzles mixed in. But enough overwrought description - my point is that Post Tenebras Lux is not at all conducive to the type of review...

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Review: Kamal Haasan's VISHWAROOPAM

Posted: 26 Jan 2013 04:30 AM PST

After a nine year absence from the director's chair, Indian national treasure Kamal Haasan is back with a film that he has been fighting to make for a long, long time. Vishwaroopam is a film that will, inevitably, be remembered as much for its bumpy road to the screen as it will be for its objective quality. The film has been in the news in India for months, partly due to some clever publicity stunts engineered by Mr. Haasan, and partly due to lingering concerns in politically-correct India that it would be offensive to Muslims, the country's second largest religious group. In fact, as of this review, the film is still under a ban in its native Tamil Nadu due to what some are saying...

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