Tag: Film
Through a nondescript door on South 3rd Street, for $5 a seat, you can catch some of the strangest, rarest, most controversial films ever made, every night at Spectacle. Starting July 24th through August 28th, the collectively-run volunteer-staffed screening space in Williamsburg is taking part in “The MAD Biennial” at the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan. The […]
As part their local filmmaker series, Rhett Jones’ The Villains is screening this evening at Videology in Williamsburg. Earlier this year, ANIMAL profiled the independent film inspired by the proliferation of DIY media and Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise, with Marshall McLuhan theory standing in for ideologies of Mao. A group of students form a political micro-collective in their shared apartment. They are on a […]
In 2012, a truce was declared between El Salvador’s deadly MS-13 and 18 Street gangs, but the kidnappings and murders continue. Israel Ticas, the country’s only criminologist, spends his days uncovering and identifying bodies dumped in the countryside. Most of the victims are under 18. The Engineer documentary (from Guerrilla Pictures and WikiLeaks) follows Ticas during his crime scene investigations as […]
Courtesy of Strand Releasing, Bruno Frozani and Helene Cattet’s film The Strange Color Of Your Body’s Tears is “homage to the masters of classic Italian Giallo horror” is coming to the US. Dan returns home to find his wife is missing. With no signs of struggle or break-in and with no help from the police, Dan’s search for answers […]
Somewhere in 17th Century England, a group of deserting soldiers encounters a “necromancer” and “alchemist,” who forces them to look for a hidden treasure in a field. Amidst their submissive scampering and digging, “The world is turned upside down and so is its pockets.” The Guardian‘s Peter Bradshaw called the film “grisly and visceral, an occult, monochrome-psychedelic […]
Boyhood (2014) The same lead actor, filmedヾ(。◕ฺ∀◕ฺ)ノ for 12 years ヽ(^。^)丿wow –– a total of 39 days. From dir. Richard Linklater (Dazed And Confused, Waking Life, Before Sunrise), now there’s a phenomenal midly eventful steady bildungsroman that makes you notice every nuance of boy-II-man(ish)-hood, from dirt and bugs to the trauma of your first haircut via the overbearing authority […]
Here’s a new trailer for 20,000 Days, the unique quasi-documentary starring Nick Cave from Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. The film is a sort of enhanced version of reality. Nick Cave recounts his thoughts and experiences to a fictional (we assume) therapist, as we see snippets of his creative process. Drama and reality combine in a fictitious […]
From The Cloud is a collection of “found footage” internet-based films that will screen at The Spectacle in Williamsburg today, July 15th, and July 18th. The collection focuses on pre-Youtube videos and images, altered by artists Cory Arcangel (Arnold Schoenberg’s Drei Klavierstücke, op. 11-I played by cats on pianos), Hennessey Youngman (“Is beauty still relevant in our future age […]
Six years from now, Swedish director Anders Weberg is releasing Ambiancé, a film that is a month (720 hours or 43,200 minutes) long. Its 72-minute trailer has been recently released online. As its name suggests, Ambiancé deals with the creation of mood in cinema. The trailer is full of smeared visions set to dramatic music. Weberg must be interested […]
Joon-ho Bong’s South Korean/American train epic based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige is strange, dark, bilingual post-Apocalyptic sci-fi. Lower class passengers of a train that’s been rattling in a circle around a dead frozen Earth wasteland for years struggle to survive until R E B E L L I O N WTF: 4.0 out of 5.0 […]
