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Best of Lists
The 10 Best Faithful Shakespeare Adaptations on Film
- Excerpt: Polanski’s ‘Macbeth’ is a terrific movie; and noteworthy as being a Shakespeare adaptation that is mostly done “straight” — i.e., basically as written, rather than relocated to outer space or a high school or the mob underworld or anything crazy like that. In fact, it seems more difficult to just do the play, without all the bells and whistles.
The 10 Creepiest Kids in Movie History
- Excerpt: With Halloween sneaking up like a well-dressed child with a knowing smirk, we take a look at some of cinema’s creepiest kids.
The 11 Creepiest Creepy Doll Movies
William Bibbiani @ CraveOnline
- Excerpt: Creepy dolls are creepy. These creepy doll movies are creepier.
Every Martin Scorsese Movie, Ranked
- Excerpt: Flavorwire presents the DEFINITIVE ranking of Martin Scorsese’s narrative and documentary features (stretching feature a bit to include long-ish documentaries and made-for-TV works), stacking up 36 films over nearly 50 years.
Interviews
Charles Dance
- Excerpt: Stefan Pape interviews Charles Dance for Dracula Untold.
Cloud City: Jane Spencer on London, aristocrats, starving artists and The Ninth Cloud
Creatures of the Night: Yann Gonzalez on sex, death, dreams and You And The Night
Director Alex R. Johnson Talks About Making His New Thriller Two Step
Gary Shore
- Excerpt: Stefan Pape interviews Gary Shore for Dracula Untold.
Luke Evans
- Excerpt: Stefan Pape interviews Luke Evans for Dracula Untold.
Sarah Gadon
- Excerpt: Stefan Pape interviews Sarah Gadon for Dracula Untold.
VIFF Industry Interview with Bernie Su
Festivals: General Coverage
12 Must-See Movies at This Year’s New York Film Festival
- Excerpt: Capsule reviews of ‘The Look of Silence,’ ‘Time Out of Mind,’ ‘Whiplash,’ “Jauja,’ ‘Two Days, One Night,’ and more.
NYFF 52 Video Preview
Cole Smithey @ colesmithey.com
- Excerpt: Cole Smithey’s Video Preview of the 52nd New York Film Festival
Festivals: Individual Reviews
ABCs of Death 2
Beautiful Youth
Bloody Knuckles
The Editor
Elephant Song
Foxcatcher
Free Fall
Gone Girl
- Excerpt: ‘Gone Girl’ may come advertised as a thriller, but that’s Fincher being a trickster—he’s gone and made the curtest, nastiest, most acidic black comedy about the marital accord since ‘The War of the Roses.’
I Am Trash
- Excerpt: South Korean indie provocateur Lee Sang-woo returns with the third and final instalment in his thematic “bad family” trilogy, which follows three grown up brothers, reunited when their pedophile father is released from prison. Inspired by a series of real-life news stories and told with an unflinchingly honest eye, I Am Trash is guaranteed to upset and provoke in equal measure.
It Follows
Japan’s Sun Rises Over The Raindance Film Festival
Anton Bitel @ filmlandempire.com
John Wick
Maps to the Stars
- Excerpt: Early on, I found myself jotting down echoes and influences: ‘The Player,’ Douglas Sirk, ‘Mulholland Drive,’ Cronenberg’s own ‘Cosmopolis.’ At some point, I stopped playing connect-the-dots, because that’s missing the point: you can trace its genealogy all you want, but at the end of the day, ‘Maps’ is its own, utterly deranged thing.
Maps to the Stars
- Excerpt: Maps to the Stars is mythic, macabre and merciless. And I loved every twisted minute of it.
October Gale
Pasolini
Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Excerpt: Director Abel Ferrara, no stranger to controversy himself, wisely chooses to simply focus on the final days leading up to Pasolini’s lurid murder. The resulting film is, like the director, a study of contradictions and not just a little perplexing.
Que Caramba Es La Vida
Rosewater
- Excerpt: Neither botched, nor especially urgent, Rosewater ends up being an attentive, well acted, yet fairly bland celebration of the spirit of great journalism that Stewart himself so guilelessly seems to appreciate. Strangely, it could have benefited greatly from a little more of that raw, fiery cynical spirit found nightly on The Daily Show.
Seymour: An Introduction
- Excerpt: Hawke shows real skill as a documentarian: He’s got a good eye and a crisp style, his archival footage is well-chosen and sparingly used, he moves between scenes and ideas gracefully and seamlessly, and there’s a real elegance to the film, one which seems to key off its subject.
Still Life
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Tommy
- Excerpt: The latest in a string of stylish crime thrillers to emerge from Scandinavia, Tommy is the new film from Norwegian director Tarik Saleh, and offers a blistering change of pace to 2009’s animated sci-fi odyssey Metropia.
Violent
Wild
Awards Coverage
European Film Awards – European Achievement in World Cinema
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Steve McQueen winner of the European Achievement in World Cinema Award
Fénix – Premio Iberoamericano de Cine 2014: os nomeados
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: What Now? Remind Me, Portugal Submission to Best Foreign Language Film at the 2015 Oscars with a nomination to Best Documentary Feature at the first edition of the Fenix Awards
Oscar Predictions: Round 1 – Let’s This Party Started!
- Excerpt: First set of Oscar predictions for 2014 forecast earlybirds like Boyhood, party guests arriving on time like Gone Girl, and those late to the party, like Unbroken.
Oscar Preview: Weekend of Sep. 26-28, 2014
- Excerpt: Looking at the Oscar chances for “The Boxtrolls”
Television
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Excerpt: Think of it as a FIREFLY take on characters populating the fringe of the STAR WARS universe and you’ll get an idea of what it feels like.
Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
Brent McKnight @ Giant Freakin’ Robot
- Excerpt: Definitely aimed at kids, but never in the cheap, cloying way that George Lucas’ prequels were, kids are absolutely going to flip their wigs over this, but at the same time there’s more than enough in “Star Wars Rebels” to keep you interested and watching right along with them.
Essays
Destroy All Monsters: Expendable Equalizers Walk Among Tombstones
Femmes Just Aren’t As Fatale As They Used to Be
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
- Excerpt: With ‘Gone Girl’ releasing this week, are we seeing a resurgence in the femme fatale?
Who are Today’s Great Latina Filmmakers?
Why Does It Seem Like There’s More Sex in Horror Than in the Romance Genre?
Reviews of Short Films
Carreteras
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Mexican Short Film Review
Demência
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Godka Cirka
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Spanish Short Documentary Film Review
Maria
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Portuguese Short Film Review
Nightsatan and the Loops of Doom
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Finnish Short Film Review
Other Articles
Aux Yeux des Vivants
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
Der Samurai
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
GWTW 75th Anniversary Party
Betty Jo Tucker @ Movie Addict Headquarters
- Excerpt: A podcast celebrating one of Hollywood’s greatest classics.
The Morning After: Sep. 29, 2014
- Excerpt: Short review of “Vera Drake”
Redux – Five Star Films #21: Apocalypse Now
Blake Howard @ Graffiti With Punctuation
Ruas Riivais
Paulo Peralta @ CinEuphoria [Portuguese]
The TCM Top Ten for October 2014
Kristen Lopez @ Journeys in Classic Film
