Tag: Film
Not long after Jarmusch’s genre-redefining Only Lovers Left Alive confirmed that vampires are cooler than you, the new Greek film Norway by Yiannis Veslemes is here to tell us vampires also have more fun. Veslemes’ film follows a dancing vampire named Zanno as he parties and murders his way through a crazy night in 1984 Athens. Norway “could be […]
The EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam is currently hosting an exhibition dedicated to director David Cronenberg. For the exhibition, EYE commissioned a short film called The Nest, in which Cronenberg voices an underground surgeon (or psychiatrist) who is interviewing a woman about the possibility of amputating her left breast. The nine minute film certainly packs in […]
In partnership with Brightest Young Things, Williamsburg’s Nitehawk Cinema has announced a series of surrealist movie screenings this summer. Starting this weekend with our fave Jodorowsky‘s Holy Mountain both Friday and Saturday at midnight, the screenings will feature films like David Lynch’s Inland Empire, Jarmusch’s Dead Man and a collection of surrealist shorts including classics by Dali and Maya Deren. […]
“I saw an honest being, with a beautiful child-like soul,” legendary filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky tweeted after his “pleasant” reunion with rapper Kanye West. “He puts on a big show. I read him his Tarot.” Kanye’s Yeezus tour is indeed a big show, heavily influenced by Jodorowsky, specifically The Holy Mountain as discussed at length in the “Hood Jodorowsky” forum. […]
“Frankly, I hate Ghandi,” says a young woman in The World Before Her, a groundbreaking documentary by Indian filmmaker Nisha Pahuja. The film follows the parallel universes of young women competing in the Miss India beauty pageant, while their peers train as fighters in Hindu nationalist camps. On the issues entrenched in the film, Al Jazeera writes: […]
Directed by Syrian-born Riad Sattouf, Jacky in the Kingdom of Women is a Cinderella story like no other. The kingdom is ruled by a female tyrant and policed by female soldiers while the men are viciously repressed. It’s “part North Korea, part tribal Afghanistan” with the genders reversed. Enter Jacky, the prettiest boy in the village. He’s in love […]
Edge of Tomorrow (2014) Dir. by Doug Bourne-Movie-Bro Liman, it’s Groundhog Day during an alien invasion and it’s so fantastic and so funny and you’re not watching it because U R SOME HATERS, THIS IS SOME EXHILARATING SHIT TOM CRUISE BEING GOOD AT BEING TOM CRUISE: 5.0 out of 5.0 Sure, Tom Cruise runs in “way that […]
“They say time heals all wounds. That’s utter bullshit.” So begins the trailer for Ragnar Bragason’s new film Metalhead. After her brother dies in a tragic farming accident, Hera Karlsdottir grieves by finding solace in his heavy metal records and her new dreams of becoming a rockstar. See her practice gloomily in a farmhouse, burn shit and try, […]
Camera, a new film by James Leong, looks like a stylized yet plausible view of the near future. It’s 2030 in Hong Kong, and Ming has an eye implant that allows him to record everything he sees. Twitch premiered the trailer today. Ming is a surveillance expert with an obsession: he wants to film everything that […]
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s first film The Tribe is set in a Ukrainian boarding school for deaf-mute students. It’s narrative deals with drug trafficking, sex and violence, which builds as the soundscape intensifies. The film’s characters communicate only in sound language and there are no subtitles and no voice-over provided, “Because for love and hate you don’t need translation.” Watch the trailer […]
