"I will say that it was very painful at the time, but I’m not the first director to have his movie re-cut by a studio, and I will not be the last director unfortunately to have his movie re-cut by the studio."...
With only four feature films under his belt -- including one of 2014’s most acclaimed films, Force Majeure, newly available to stream -- Sweden's Ruben Östl...
In order to make the rote activity of yearly list-making more interesting, there seems to be some need to frame it around a greater narrative. Take your pick:...
A teenage girl, captured through a static wide shot, runs through a quaint Detroit suburb, her body dwarfed by its trees and middle-class homes. The sense that ...
Though a hip-hopera (the last film to earn that label possibly being R. Kelly’s everlasting epic, Trapped in the Closet), Sion Sono’s Tokyo Tribe puts itself in...
Near the very beginning of Ruben Östlund's Force Majeure, we come to understand the impetus for a family’s vacation when the wife, Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli), ex...
Often, when defining the auteur, one of the first things we go to is the consistency of location -- that through a certain booming metropolis, quaint small town...
The comparisons between The Zero Theorem and Terry Gilliam’s most-beloved film are inevitable: dystopian sci-fi, a looming corporation, one lone man navigating ...
In town for the Fantasia Festival world premiere of the horror-comedy Suburban Gothic, we got a chance to sit down with Ray Wise for a brief chat. Wise, a s...
