directorial debut
Us and Them is an extraordinarily impressive directorial debut from Rene Liu that will leave you contemplating the best and worst of romance.
Doubtful proves to be an intelligent, intimate, and potent first feature for Israelian director Eliran Elya.
It may sound like exploitative torture porn, but Revenge introduces director Coralie Fargeat as a filmmaker worth your attention – taking problematic genre tropes and subverting them into a vital, exhilarating feminist film.
Straight from Tribeca Film Festival, Lee Jutton two films; both are the feature directorial debuts of talented women filmmakers and both center on complicated women trying to come to terms with tragedies in their pasts.
The Party’s Just Beginning isn’t always fun, but it’s definitely a powerful vehicle for the very talented Karen Gillan.
Susan Walters’ All I wish offers a minimally interesting story, but serves up some fine performances from Sharon Stone, Ellen Burstyn, Liza Lapira, Tony Goldwyn, and Gilles Marini.
After years as a struggling actress, Ana Asensio decided to try get her own project off the ground. A year after it’s SXSW premiere, and her film, MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND, has endured a wave of acclaim. She spoke to Andrew Winter about the process of producing, directing and starring in the film.
Custody is an impressive debut feature from Xavier Legrand, that manages to avoid exploitation even as it generates untold amounts of tension from a realistic domestic drama.
Abe & Phil’s Last Poker Game boasts a trio of fantastic performances, particularly from Landau in one of his finest turns in his final film, and contains just enough laughs and dramatic themes to overcome Weiner’s rookie missteps.
Ana Asensio’s directorial debut, Most Beautiful Island, is an intimate view of the immigrant experience not as social realist drama or romantic comedy, but as a horror story.
Mr. Roosevelt is about discovering changes about yourself when confronting your past, poignantly wrought by first-time director Noël Wells.
Lucky is the unfortunate but beautiful swan song of Stanton, one that truly earns the oft overused phrase, “the performance of a lifetime.”
People is a profoundly packed indie, with the intricacies of the human condition and relationships manifesting into a well-realized film.
No movie gives an aura of eighties nostalgia better than St.Elmo’s Fire. The Joel Schumacher directed film is somewhat of an underappreciated ‘masterpiece’.
One problem with modern society at the moment seems to be an obsession with nostalgia, which is being milked by marketing companies. This has bled into the hipster movement and has lead to the larger debate of analogue vs digital as digital technologies develop. It is now bleeding into every aspect of pop culture, and it is one which can be seen in film.