THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Melancholia” and Oscar Games
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Melancholia”
MELANCHOLIA – Watch It At Home – The Title Tells the Tale Here’s a quick primer in Oscar rules and how studios can get around them. In order for a film to be Oscar-eligible (other than i...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Whit Stillman’s “Damsels In Distress”
> Whit Stillman has one of the most distinctive voices in American film, and his 13-year absence from the screen barely shows in his new comedy DAMSELS IN DISTRESS; it feels as though, had it been made immediately after The Las...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Being Flynn”
BEING FLYNN: Watch It At Home – Troubling Story That Doesn’t Go Deep Enough There’s a scene in Paul Weitz’s new film BEING FLYNN where Jonathan Flynn (Robert DeNiro), the alcoholic...
ShowBuzzDaily SUMMER MOVIE DRAFT: May 27 Update
> Memorial Day weekend is finally here. As Hangover Part II battles Kung Fu Panda 2 across North America and parts of the world, the real question is who will be ahead in the first annual ShowBuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft?...
SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Blue Is the Warmest Color”
BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR: Buy A Ticket – A 3-Hour Deep Dive Into A Character’s Soul BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR is relentlessly, sometimes suffocatingly intimate. By that I don’t mean its celebrated,...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “A Tale of Love and Darkness”
Natalie Portman certainly hasn’t made it easy for herself with her debut as a writer/director, A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS. The film, which premiered at Cannes (but tellingly, doesn’t yet have a US distribu...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “The Woman In the Fifth”
> Pawel Pawlikowski is a filmmaker whose name deserves to be better known: his films Last Resort and My Summer of Love are small but beautifully realized stories of intricate human emotion. His new picture The Woman In the Fift...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Shame”
> Although Fox Searchlight didn’t actually acquire Steve McQueen’s film Shame until last Saturday, in a sense the marketing campaign for the film began when the producers made it clear that the film would not be edi...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “The Deep Blue Sea”
> If you were going to describe the films of Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives, The Long Day Closes, The House of Mirth) in one word, that word would not be “dynamic.” Or “kinetic.” ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Danish Girl”
Transgender issues have been such hot-button topics in the news lately that people may not be prepared for how muted and delicate Tom Hooper’s THE DANISH GIRL is. The film, which debuted at the Venice Film Festiv...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Albert Nobbs”
> Rodrigo Garcia’s film ALBERT NOBBS (he shares auteurship with Glenn Close, who served as screenwriter with John Banville and Gabriella Prekop and as a producer as well as star) caters to what used to be called the James...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Francis Ford Coppola’s “Twixt”
> It’s anyone’s guess why Francis Ford Coppola, at the age of 72, with some enduring cinema classics to his name, would decide to make a movie that’s a cross between a David Lynch retread, an old horror cheapi...
THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Rampart”
> Oren Moverman’s first film as a director, The Messenger, was a beautifully contained, emotionally detailed story about soldiers assigned to deliver tragic news to the families of the deceased. In his new film RAMP...
“THE TREE OF LIFE” – God, Man & Terrence Malick
> Worth A Ticket; An often stupendous achievement that courts ridicule–and sometimes earns it. Terrence Malick’s THE TREE OF LIFE is at once the filmmaker’s most emotionally grounded and dizzyingly ambitious f...