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By Gareth Jo André Øvredal’s career was launched with this humorous and remarkably poignant found-footage love letter to the traditional trolls of Norwegian folk tales. Before moving on to The Autopsy of Jane Doe and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Øvredal used the limitations of the found-footage horror genre to challenge his team to create something innovative and entertaining. The story is simple. A bear is suspected of […]
By Gareth Jones For fans of violent slapstick humor, Indonesian martial arts with lots of gore, Timo Tjahjanto, and…did I mention gore? Timo Tjahjanto has amassed an impressive resume in ten years of directing on his own. He burst (literally) onto the scene with Safe Haven, his contribution to V/H/S/2. He continued in the horror genre with two May the Devil Take You films, while also making two extraordinary martial […]
By Gareth Jones For fans of post WWII British cinema, Ralph Richardson, thoughtful Christmas stories George More O’Ferrall was known primarily as a British television director and producer, but between 1952 and 1957, he directed seven feature films beginning with the Christmas-themed film The Holly and the Ivy. Starring the always brilliant Ralph Richarson and Celia Johnson, it tells the story of a splintered family returning home for Christmas. Richardson […]
For fans of Werner Herzog, Nomadland, Travel Books and Documentaries, and nomadic philosophical wanderings by: Gareth Jones Released in 2019, (the same year as Family Romance, LCC) by Werner Herzog, the prolific octogenarian Bavarian master, Nomad examines the ways, both physical and philosophical, that Herzog and renowned British travel writer Bruce Chatwin’s lives intersected. Like all of his films, Herzog mixes genres and formats in his search for the ecstatic […]
For fans of Film Noir, Good Fellas, strong black stories and performances, Jeff Goldblum By: Gareth Jones Released on April 15, 1992 (nearly one year after the Rodney King beating and a couple of weeks before the ensuing riots), Deep Cover captured the Zeitgeist of justified distrust of the police. It is a noir film updated in the drug cartels of the 90’s from the Black perspective. The film stars […]
For fans of tough-as-nails acting as seen in John Garfield and Shelly Winters, Dalton Trumbo, James Wong Howe’s cinematography, and early 50’s Noir By: Gareth Jones John Garfield died too young. At age 39, he suffered a heart attack after appearing before the House of Un-American Committee in 1951. Always a standout in playing tough, working class underdogs, he brought his experience in the Group Theater to the screen along […]
For fans of minimalist painterly animation, Grimms Fairy Tales, Marcell Jankovics (Son of the White Mare) By: Gareth Jones This hypnotic, oneiric film from 2016 was written, directed, animated and edited by one person, Sébastien Laudenbach. Based on the story by the Brothers Grimm, it is a fairytale about a young girl accidentally sold to the devil by her poor farmer father. She evades the devil initially, but loses her […]
For fans of Tilda Swinton, Joanna Hogg, Gothic ghost stories, slow burn liminal spaces in the world and mind By: Gareth Jones The extraordinary collaboration between Tilda Swinton and Joanna Hogg resumes with this immersive story that continues the exploration of relationships between mothers and daughters started in The Souvenir and The Souvenir II. The gauzy cinematography of Ed Rutherford with saturated greens, blues, and reds builds a remarkable atmosphere. […]
By: Gareth Jones After the Sight and Sound all time best list came out a few weeks ago, many folks asked me if I had such a list. After seeing the astonishing list by dear friend Gregory Lowry, I decided to jot one down. I do have to say that this list is very different from how it would have looked 10 years ago. It does mirror and was influenced […]
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