Mar 15, 2013
By Chris Tinkham
Web Exclusive
Romanian writer/director Cristian Mungiu refrains from agreeing with the comparison, but his latest film, Beyond the Hills, bears some of the distinguishing traits of a horror film. Even its English-translated title seems better-suited for a grisly B-movie than a film that earned major awards at Cannes, which Beyond the Hills did in 2012. More
Mar 04, 2013
By John Oursler
Web Exclusive
Qualifiers such as “like nothing you’ve ever seen” or “not for the faint of heart” find themselves so ubiquitously inserted into film marketing that any inherent interest produced as a result of their use is commonly downgraded to, at best, ambivalence. However, there’s no better way to describe Leviathan. More
Nov 30, 2012
By Austin Trunick
Web Exclusive
For his third feature film, writer/director Andrew Dominik has adapted George V. Higgin’s classic crime novel, Cogan’s Trade. Transposed from 1970s Boston to New Orleans during the 2008 election season, Killing Them Softly takes Higgins’ crime story and places it in a new, very modern context. More
Nov 16, 2012
By Austin Trunick
Web Exclusive
For David O. Russell, director of The Fighter, Three Kings, and I Heart Huckabees, diving into the minutia of each and every character—no matter how unbalanced—is one of the most important requirements of his job. More
Nov 15, 2012
By Austin Trunick
Keira Knightley
Keira Knightley and filmmaker Joe Wright have a great chemistry working together. The young actress landed a starring role in the director’s 2005 adaptation of Pride & Prejudice, for which she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. That same magic struck again with their second collaboration—an adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel, Atonement, in 2007—which received a nod for Best Picture. More
