SXSW — David Gordon Green, John Cusack, Sally Field, Brian Wilson, and Ex Machina
Ever wonder what a press conference or Q&A session is like at a major film festival. Here's a taste of what it's like.
-
-
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014)
"Nightcrawler" is a solid piece of film craftsmanship and a decent challenge to the “if it bleeds, it leads” journalistic mentality. While waiting for the winter cineplex dregs to wash away, it's worth your home viewing attention.
-
SXSW 2015 — Unfriended
A group of cyber friends are terrorized by an anonymous user who may be the ghost of a young woman who committed suicide after they bullied her.
-
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005) — 10 Years Later
Revisiting "Brokeback Mountain" after 10 years feels a bit like an archeological dig. After all, director Ang Lee’s film about a pair of covert cowboy gay lovers has more socio-cultural layers of meaning to burrow through than most movies.
-
A History of Violence (Cronenberg, 2005) — Ten Years Later
Well, I feel as though I understand the film a little better than I did ten years ago. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that I like it any better.
-
The Mind of Mark Defriest (London, 2014)
The Mind of Mark Defriest is more than redeemed by its morally powerful core.
-
Gotham Episode 1.18 Recap: Everyone Has a Cobblepot
How can Gotham make us really care about its characters?
-
UnDivided (Martin, 2013)
"The best way to convince people you don't have an agenda is to not have an agenda."
-
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Madden, 2015)
It's clear that when beloved matriarch figure Muriel Donnelly (Maggie Smith) describes hotel entrepreneur Sonny Kapoor (Dev Patel), The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (★★★) is attempting to write its own review. Sonny, she observes in a moment of droll understatement, gets a lot of things wrong...but never when it matters most. When he gets things right, it is a sight to behold.
-
Farewell to Hollywood (Corra and Nicholson, 2015)
This documentary about the relationship between a filmmaker and his dying young protégée is both troubling and inspiring, but never boring.