Tag: Sundance Film Festival
“This is my first visit to America. On the drive to jail, I saw the Brooklyn Bridge. I recognize it from the movies.” That’s the world’s most famous arms dealer Viktor Bout, in the above clip of the The Notorious Mr. Bout. But Lord of War? Nicholas Cage? No, Bout — currently serving time somewhere in Illinois — never lived […]
We’re excited for the documentary about director Leos Carax, now playing at Sundance Film Festival. Here’s the first trailer for Tessa Louise-Salomé’s Mr leos caraX. It’s very arty and atmospheric, as expected, complete with Tony Oursler-esque projection orbs. No sight of Harmony Korine yet, but Carax as construct is presented through his films, like a puzzle, all that […]
There are many films about porn, but Ninja Thyberg’s fictional short Pleasure is different. Starring Jenny Hutton, it’s an explicit look behind-the-scenes of a porn shoot, particularly at the non-sexual and clinical preparatory routine before some extremely physically-challenging maneuvers. The film plays at Sundance Film Festival later this week, in the Shorts Competition. It has already won the Critics’ Week […]
French filmmaker Leos Carax is “controversial” and “mad,” but his films Mauvaus Sang, Pola X and, most recently, Holy Motors are daring, strange, unsettling and beautiful visions of a true auteur. He’s also struggled to make a film, every time. The new documentary Mr leos caraX goes behind the struggle, the vision and the “romantic, but destructive characters,” with some poetic inflections […]
