Tag: John Turturro
The Room Next Door | Review
Triumph of the Will: Almodovar’s Muy Excelente English Debut
“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems,” wrote Virginia Woolf in...
The Batman | Review
Gotham, Open City: Reeves Reconstitutes an Anti-Hero in Moody Reboot
Who would have ever predicted in the fifty-plus years since Adam West first donned the...
Criterion Collection: Do the Right Thing (1989) | Blu-ray Review
Just in time for the film’s thirtieth anniversary, the Criterion Collection resurrects Spike Lee’s masterpiece Do the Right Thing with a 4K restoration for...
The Conversation: Time for TIFF 2019 – Predictions!
The Toronto International Film Festival is set to unspool its latest monolithic program. A major cue to set Oscar season into motion, the line-up...
Lelio Runs Pell Mell with Ms. Gloria Bell (2018) | Blu-ray Review
Sebastián Lelio scored his best domestic box office success to date with Gloria Bell, his English language remake of 2013’s Gloria, clocking in at...
Gloria Bell | Review
I Think They Know Her Alias: Lelio Revisits His Breakout Title with English Language Remake
Chilean auteur Sebastian Lelio, who recently took home an Academy...
Top 50 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2019: A Prelude
At the beginning of the year, we gave our readers an overview of the most anticipated foreign films for the new year (Top 150...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #8. Sebastián Lelio’s Gloria
Gloria
His second consecutive English language feature is a retooling, and not necessarily a remake of his 2013 critically well received drama of the same...
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...
Mia Madre | Blu-ray Review
Family members dealing with an impending absence is at the crux of Nanni Moretti’s latest film, Mia Madre, which competed at the 2015 Cannes...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Gillian Robespierre’s Landline
She turned a lot of heads when she presented married a not around the dinner table taboo topic with unfiltered characters. According to our...
2017 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Turturro’s Going Places
Curiosity factor is through the roof with this one and perhaps not all bets are off with John Turturro essentially lifting one memorable character...
Mia Madre | Review
Mamma Mia: Moretti’s Continues Exploring a Death in the Family
After having won the Palme d’Or in 2001 for his film The Son’s Room, Italian...
The Sicilian (Director’s Cut) | Blu-Ray Review
Conversations on the intense and onerous auteur Michael Cimino tend to target his earlier career, particularly his iconic sophomore film The Deer Hunter (1978)...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 4: Margherita with All the Toppings for Moretti’s “Mia Madre”
A two time juror, winner of Best Director for Dear Diary (1993) and Palme d'Or winner for The Son’s Room in 2001, this is...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #46. Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre
Mia Madre
Director: Nanni Moretti // Writers: Nanni Moretti, Francesco Piccolo, Valia Santella
After winning the Palme d’Or in 2001 for The Son’s Room, Italian director...
Exodus: Gods and Kings | Review
Death on the Nile: Scott’s Biblical Epic Unworthy of the Gods
Arriving just in time for ritual slaughter is Ridley Scott’s update on the Moses...
Fading Gigolo | Blu-ray Review
After making a substantial profit at the box office during its Spring 2014 release (via Millennium Ent.), the mild media fury surrounding the continuing...
Fading Gigolo | Review
Lapsed Interest: Turturro’s Latest Doesn’t Live Up to Promise
There’s bound to be an odd draw to John Turturro’s latest directorial effort, Fading Gigolo, which...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #14. Ridley Scott’s Exodus
Exodus
Director: Ridley Scott
Writers: Bill Collage, Adam Cooper, Steve Zaillian
Producers: Peter Chernin, Mark Huffam, Michael Schaefer, Ridley Scott
U.S. Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Aaron Paul,...
Sundance 2014: Cutter Hodierne, Damien Chazelle, Kat Candler & Mona Fastvold Among Lucky 16 U.S. Dramatic Comp Selections
As I had predicted here, names such as Cutter Hodierne, Kat Candler, Maya Forbes, Mona Fastvold and Damien Chazelle would be among the invited...
2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: John Slattery’s God’s Pocket
He traded on-set education on Mad Men and then cornered this project almost a decade earlier when he picked it up as a...
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...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: Picks 200-101
Because, looking forward, 2013 promises to be such a fruitful cornucopia of cinema, we were excited to be able to easily list an additional...
