Tim Roth
Horror films have trained us to expect the final girl, but Funny Games does not acknowledge this hope and desire for survival.
Little Odessa is not only a sobering look at a first generation Brooklyn family, but is also the best gangster film you’ve never heard of.
A performance-driven movie packed with quietly devastating moments, Resurrection should not be overlooked among the great horror films of this year.
A woman’s carefully constructed life gets upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she’s evaded.
Featuring an understated performance from Tim Roth, Sundown forces audiences to reevaluate all of our assumptions about him and his unconventional choices.
A wealthy family is on vacation in Mexico until a distant emergency cuts their trip short and simmering tensions rise to the fore.
Mia Hansen-Løve’s Bergman Island features emotionally intelligent filmmaking and a lovely central performance from Vicky Krieps.
Just like the movie-within-a-movie style Hansen-Løve uses to tell the story, her latest film is a layered, intelligent work full of reflection about art, life, and relationships.
Two American filmmakers retreat to Fårö island for the summer and hope to find inspiration where Bergman shot his most celebrated films.
Luce is a fascinating and thrilling study of gender, race and identity with compelling performances from the cast. Brent Goldman reviews.
In Luce, a married couple is forced to reckon with their idealized image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher threatens his status as an all-star student.
With the festival entering its final day, and my screenings complete, I thought my time…
Reservoir Dogs, though seemingly a time capsule due to having premiered 25 years ago, is actually quite potent in today’s post-truth world.
To talk about this film, you must talk about the rise and acceptance of post-modernist cinema with mainstream audiences and how this has changed the way modern genre films are tackled. To break it down, post-modernist cinema essentially is cinema that tackles ‘modern’ or traditional cinema. Post-modern cinema wants to actively point out the different film elements that make traditional cinema work, show them to you and deconstruct these cinematic codes in order to stand apart and comment on its established genre/story-telling methods that its currently indulging in.
Action cinema is a pain to bring to light. Let’s be clear that every film is difficult to make and they all have inherent problems, ranging from little to gigantic nuances. But action takes the cake when it comes to painstakingly long hours and the mundane repetition that is required to capture the choreography of a scene just right.
