Tag: James Franco
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Review
Six of the West: Coen Bros. Release Minor, Uneven Collection of Frontier Short Stories
In thinking about the anthology form in cinema, Joel and Ethan...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: Picks 200 to 101
Last week, Nicholas Bell helped us ring in the new year with our Top 200 most anticipated world cinema items. We also highlighted our...
The Disaster Artist | Review
A Room of One’s Own: Franco’s Sincere Paean to the Art of Failed Art
The notion “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” has assumed...
Video: James Franco’s The Disaster Artist – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
Winner of the Best Actor award at the Gothams, there is a legit chance that James Franco might end up with another nom for...
2018 Indie Spirit Noms: Guadagnino’s “Call Me by Your Name” Leads Pack with 6, Benny Safdie Lands 3
It's the head-scratching nominations process where Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird is good enough for the Best Feature category and picks up four nominations in...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Jonathan & Josh Baker’s Kin
Prediction: James Franco will be at Sundance. The question is which of the two dozen projects in post-production is most likely to show up?...
Guess Who’s Coming to the Awards Dinner? Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” Leads 2017 Gotham Award Noms
Today's Gotham Awards nominees announcement proves that the film's themselves have their own against all odds narratives. With the five noms for the Best...
The Conversation: Tying Down TIFF – The Top 10 From the 2017 Edition
And so, another edition of North America’s grandest film festival ends as the 42nd revolution of TIFF fades from memory and jumpstarts the beginning...
Tearing Me Apart, Lisa: S. Craig Zahler, David Bruckner, Cattet/Forzani & James Franco Load up 2017 TIFF Midnight Madness
During the off season, the Midnight Madness section will have undergone a new coat of paint. For starters, and this applies to the Platform,...
Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films of 2017: Picks #25 to #6
For our annual lineup of most anticipated studio films, our goal is to highlight auteurs (and other notable cinematic technicians) who have projects brewing...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell – The 2016 Edition
Tis the season for fevered wish lists and constantly fluctuating prognostications concerning the soon to be revealed 2016 program at the Cannes Film Festival....
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: An Introduction
As we were putting together our projections for most anticipated films due in 2017, we noticed there were too many notable titles to be...
Our Top 25 Most Anticipated Studio Films: Villeneuve’s Story of Your Life Leads Class of 2016
Auteurs working within the confines of the studio system tend to disappoint, though we try to keep hope alive by anticipating the best for...
Yosemite | Review
Palo Alto 2: Demeestere Crafts Franco’s Prose for Portrait of Preadolescent Angst
Director Gabrielle Demeestere adapts James Franco’s A California Childhood for her directorial debut,...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Franco’s In Dubious Battle
The unpredictability with this filmmaker-actor is that he has got plenty of projects stoking the fire and we never know which item might push...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Andrew Neel’s Goat
You can only have an actor attached for so long until they "grow" out of the role and you can only have a director...
2016 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ian Olds’ The Fixer
It would be a futile exercise to try to pigeonhole this filmmaker into one category and just looking at the work samples that have...
Queen of the Desert | AFI Film Festival Review
Hey, Queen: Herzog Can’t Convey Passion in the Desert
Acclaim does not seem to be the fate of Werner Herzog’s latest film, the long gestating...
The Sound and the Fury | Review
But a Walking Shadow: Franco’s Faulkner Redux Merely Serviceable
Continuing to thumb his nose at naysayers, James Franco plunges onward into his own particular directorial...
True Story | Review
The Killer Beside Me: Goold’s Debut Warps Grisly Headline into Funereal Pallor
The rapidly fluctuating career of James Franco got a dramatic jumpstart with a...
I Am Michael | 2015 Sundance Film Festival Review
True Story: Kelly’s Objective Exploration of Sensational Subject
For his directorial debut I Am Michael, Justin Kelly takes a provocative, controversial subject and crafts it...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #64. Werner Herzog’s Queen of the Desert
Queen of the Desert
Director: Werner Herzog // Writer: Werner Herzog
One of the most prominent members of the New German Wave happens to be Werner...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #76. Wim Wenders’ Every Thing Will Be Fine
Every Thing Will Be Fine
Director: Wim Wenders // Writers: Bjorn Olaf Johannssen
New German Wave auteur Wim Wenders has lately been focusing on documentaries, both...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Franco’s Bukowski
Feeding our curiosity for what a major transgressive adonis in future literary world might look like in the pre stench of cigarettes and booze era, I'm imagining something...
2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Pamela Romanowsky’s The Adderall Diaries
The perpetually busy James Franco might just begin his 2015 with the Park City launch-padding of (among others) Pamela Romanowsky's directorial debut comes across...
Good People | Review
People Are People: Genz’s English Debut a Satisfactory B-Grade Noir
Expectations may a bet set a bit too high for Danish filmmaker Henrik Ruben Genz’s...
Palme d’Or Winner, Studio Ghibli Pair, “St. Vincent” & “Song of the Sea” Among TIFF’s Final Wave Items
Bill Murray is coming to Toronto folks. Actually, the film he stars in (Theodore Melfi's St. Vincent) is having its official World Premiere launch at...
Child of God | Review
Requiem for a Cave Man: Franco’s McCarthy Adaptation Displays Growth
On a similar directorial trajectory as, let’s say, Joe Swanberg, where quality vs. quantity tends...
71st Venice Film Fest: Oppenheimer, Akin, Bahrani, Andersson & Ferrara Compete for Golden Lion
Whiles the likes of Terrence Malick, Todd Haynes, Alexander Sokurov, Giorgos Lanthimos and J.C. Chandor no where to be found in the fall fest season...
Third Person | Review
World Crash: Haggis Overextends His Usual Formula
Two’s company, three’s a crowd. Or so the saying goes. Further beating the interrelated/intersecting characters and multiple storyline...
Palo Alto | Review
My So Called Strife: A Coppola Debuts With a Flurry of Restless Teens
Hollywood nepotism and the tableau of the teenage wasteland make for oddly...
Maladies | Review
Crazy, Stupid, Art: Carter’s Directorial Debut Less than the Sum of its Parts
Multimedia artist Carter makes his directorial debut with Maladies, an intriguing sounding...
Interior. Leather Bar | Review
Exterior. The Heternormative: Franco & Matthews’ Experimental Exercise Takes Temperatures
James Franco, already cementing a reputation as one of the most eclectic and noteworthy cinematic...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #56. Wim Wenders’ Everything Will be Fine
Everything Will Be Fine
Director: Wim Wenders
Writer: Bjorn Olaff Johanessenn
Producers: Gian-Piero Ringel, Erwin M. Schmidt
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Rachel McAdams, James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marie-Josée...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #156. James Franco’s The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury
Director: James Franco
Writer: Matt Rager
Producers: Caroline Aragon, Lee Caplin, Vince Jolivette
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: James Franco, Tim Blake Nelson, Loretta...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Franco’s Black Dog, Red Dog
Not unlike Joseph Gordon-Levitt's rapport with the festival, Sundance has become a place where James Franco/RabbitBandini Productions gets to both test-drive and showcase his...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: James Franco’s Bukowski
Right after he wrapped up his '13 Sundance experience, Franco, the movie industry's poetry geek, hit the brinks and commenced lensing in Los Angeles...
Sal | Review
No Salutation: Franco Resurrects Tragic Mineo to Aimless Effect
Like The Broken Tower, which documents the tragic end of poet Hart Crane, James Franco’s second...
Strand is Cruising for a Bruisin; Indie Distrib Picks Up “Interior. Leather Bar.”
No strangers in the LBGT film distribution business, and for the matter, experimental hard-to-classify sorts such as James Franco's and Travis Mathews' Interior. Leather...
2013 TIFF: Gibney, Posin, Turturro, Kevin Macdonald & Sean Durkin Fill Up Special Presentations
With only the Discovery, Mavericks and Masters programmes left to be determined, TIFF head programmers dished out the final make-up of the Galas, Special...
Stacked 2013 Venice Edition Includes Latest Miyazaki, Ki-Duk, Ming-liang, Dolan and Frederick Wiseman
With still several films not yet announced for the behemoth Toronto Int. Film Festival, it appears that 2013 will be a significant cross-over year...
2013’s Un Certain Regard Includes Plenty of Vets (Claire Denis, Rithy Panh, Rasoulof, Guiraudie, Abu-Assad) & Newbies too (Coogler)
2013's Un Certain Regard section carries a whopping five first time feature filmmakers that'll be measuring themselves up against auteur cinema heavyweights. While we...
Under the Radar: Nicholas’ Top Five Picks for Sundance 2013
#5. Interior. Leather Bar
Who: While everyone may be familiar with actor/director James Franco, they not be as aware of the filmmaker he’s paired with...
