Rebecca Clough Oct 30, 2018
With Halloween upon us, we picked 25 appropriately spooky movies...
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Sick of Halloween films about axe-wielding maniacs and razorblade candy? Weary of vampires, werewolves and the odd zombie apocalypse? Sometimes we just need to get back to basics: A dark and stormy evening, a creaky old house, and things that go bump in the night.
It’s said that the veil between the worlds of the dead and the living is at its thinnest around Halloween, so how better to celebrate than to turn the lights off, ignore the trick or treaters and enjoy one of these awesomely spooky movies?
25. The Awakening (2011)
This BBC film is set in the 1920s and is an amalgam of several ghost stories (lifting certain scenes almost verbatim from Haunted). However, what it lacks in originality it makes up for in elegance; it’s worth...
With Halloween upon us, we picked 25 appropriately spooky movies...
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Sick of Halloween films about axe-wielding maniacs and razorblade candy? Weary of vampires, werewolves and the odd zombie apocalypse? Sometimes we just need to get back to basics: A dark and stormy evening, a creaky old house, and things that go bump in the night.
It’s said that the veil between the worlds of the dead and the living is at its thinnest around Halloween, so how better to celebrate than to turn the lights off, ignore the trick or treaters and enjoy one of these awesomely spooky movies?
25. The Awakening (2011)
This BBC film is set in the 1920s and is an amalgam of several ghost stories (lifting certain scenes almost verbatim from Haunted). However, what it lacks in originality it makes up for in elegance; it’s worth...
- 10/27/2016
- Den of Geek
Odd List Ryan Lambie Simon Brew 5 Dec 2013 - 06:54
Our voyage through history's underappreciated films arrives at the year 2001, and a vintage year for lesser-seen gems...
Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke may have seen 2001 as the year we'd head off to meet alien intelligences in the depths of space, but in reality, its cinematic landscape was dominated by fantasy rather than extra-terrestrials. Rowling and Tolkien dominated the box office, with Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone and The Fellowship Of The Ring earning almost $1bn each, while Monsters, Inc and Shrek thrilled old and young audiences alike.
At the other end of the spectrum of success, 2001 was such a vintage year for movies that we had to whittle our usual selection of 25 films down from an initial selection of more than 40. This is why the decision was made - with heavy heart - to exclude some of our favourite films,...
Our voyage through history's underappreciated films arrives at the year 2001, and a vintage year for lesser-seen gems...
Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke may have seen 2001 as the year we'd head off to meet alien intelligences in the depths of space, but in reality, its cinematic landscape was dominated by fantasy rather than extra-terrestrials. Rowling and Tolkien dominated the box office, with Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone and The Fellowship Of The Ring earning almost $1bn each, while Monsters, Inc and Shrek thrilled old and young audiences alike.
At the other end of the spectrum of success, 2001 was such a vintage year for movies that we had to whittle our usual selection of 25 films down from an initial selection of more than 40. This is why the decision was made - with heavy heart - to exclude some of our favourite films,...
- 12/4/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
It’s that wonderful, frightful, cool and creepy time of year again, when everything including the leaves on the trees are dying and our taste buds are craving sugary sweets and pies made from the guts of our jack-o-lanterns. It’s October, which means Halloween is nearly upon us! Get you costumes completed, your home haunts constructed and your candy collected for trick’r treaters, because you have to make time to watch some of the scariest movies this time of year.
In an effort to assist you in your cinematic scare-fest, we’ve come up with a list of the scariest movies to watch on Halloween… with one caveat. We have excluded virtually all “slasher” flicks. Why? Well, let’s just say we all know them, we all love them on some level, but really… don’t we all want something more in our scary movies? In honor of...
In an effort to assist you in your cinematic scare-fest, we’ve come up with a list of the scariest movies to watch on Halloween… with one caveat. We have excluded virtually all “slasher” flicks. Why? Well, let’s just say we all know them, we all love them on some level, but really… don’t we all want something more in our scary movies? In honor of...
- 10/30/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week
"Black Rock"
What's It About? Co-written, directed by, and starring Katie Aselton, "Black Rock" follows three friends on a trip to a remote island. Initially setting out to dig up a time capsule they buried as kids the girls end up fighting for their lives once they meet a group of dangerous ex-soldiers.
Why We're In: Co-written by Aselton's husband Mark Duplass ("Safety Not Guaranteed"), "Black Rock" is a noteworthy survival thriller in the vein of 1972's "Deliverance." Along with Aselton, co-stars Lake Bell and Kate Bosworth give great performances in this film with gripping tension.
Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week
"The Devil's Backbone" Criterion Collection
What's It About? With 2001's "The Devil's Backbone," writer-director Guillermo del Toro declared himself a true master of contemporary horror. Set at the end of the Spanish Civil War, the story follows 12-year-old Carlos (Fernando Tielve) who...
"Black Rock"
What's It About? Co-written, directed by, and starring Katie Aselton, "Black Rock" follows three friends on a trip to a remote island. Initially setting out to dig up a time capsule they buried as kids the girls end up fighting for their lives once they meet a group of dangerous ex-soldiers.
Why We're In: Co-written by Aselton's husband Mark Duplass ("Safety Not Guaranteed"), "Black Rock" is a noteworthy survival thriller in the vein of 1972's "Deliverance." Along with Aselton, co-stars Lake Bell and Kate Bosworth give great performances in this film with gripping tension.
Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week
"The Devil's Backbone" Criterion Collection
What's It About? With 2001's "The Devil's Backbone," writer-director Guillermo del Toro declared himself a true master of contemporary horror. Set at the end of the Spanish Civil War, the story follows 12-year-old Carlos (Fernando Tielve) who...
- 7/30/2013
- by Erin Whitney
- Moviefone
This week: Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis and Channing Tatum star in "G.I. Joe: Retaliation," the action-packed sequel to "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" (2009).
Also new this week is the female-driven "Deliverance"-esque thriller "Black Rock" with Kate Bosworth and Katie Aselton, the long-overdue Blu-ray debut of the John Carpenter ghost story "The Fog" with Jamie Lee Curtis and Janet Leigh, and a Criterion Collection Blu-ray edition of Guillermo del Toro's "The Devil's Backbone."
'G.I. Joe: Retaliation'
Box Office: $123 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 28% Rotten
Storyline: This sequel to the 2009 guilty pleasure not only has the G.I. Joe team fighting Cobra but the Joes are framed for crimes against the country and are terminated by order of the President. The surviving members of the elite military unit face off against Zartan (Arnold Vosloo) and the world leaders he has under his influence. Dwayne Johnson, Channing Tatum, Bruce Willis,...
Also new this week is the female-driven "Deliverance"-esque thriller "Black Rock" with Kate Bosworth and Katie Aselton, the long-overdue Blu-ray debut of the John Carpenter ghost story "The Fog" with Jamie Lee Curtis and Janet Leigh, and a Criterion Collection Blu-ray edition of Guillermo del Toro's "The Devil's Backbone."
'G.I. Joe: Retaliation'
Box Office: $123 million
Rotten Tomatoes: 28% Rotten
Storyline: This sequel to the 2009 guilty pleasure not only has the G.I. Joe team fighting Cobra but the Joes are framed for crimes against the country and are terminated by order of the President. The surviving members of the elite military unit face off against Zartan (Arnold Vosloo) and the world leaders he has under his influence. Dwayne Johnson, Channing Tatum, Bruce Willis,...
- 7/29/2013
- by Robert DeSalvo
- NextMovie
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 30, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Ghostly apparitions haunt a rural orphanage in The Devil's Backbone.
The 2001 horror film The Devil’s Backbone is probably the most personal film ever made by Guillermo del Toro (Cronos, Mimic), along with being one of his most frightening and emotionally layered.
Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The Devil’s Backbone tells the tale of a ten-year-old boy (Fernando Tielve) who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets.
The ever-adept Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us—as would his later Pan’s Labyrinth—that the scariest monsters are often the human ones.
Presented in Spanish with English subtitles, the DVD and Blu-ray editions of the film contain the following features:
• New 2K digital film restoration,...
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Ghostly apparitions haunt a rural orphanage in The Devil's Backbone.
The 2001 horror film The Devil’s Backbone is probably the most personal film ever made by Guillermo del Toro (Cronos, Mimic), along with being one of his most frightening and emotionally layered.
Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The Devil’s Backbone tells the tale of a ten-year-old boy (Fernando Tielve) who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets.
The ever-adept Del Toro effectively combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish concoction that reminds us—as would his later Pan’s Labyrinth—that the scariest monsters are often the human ones.
Presented in Spanish with English subtitles, the DVD and Blu-ray editions of the film contain the following features:
• New 2K digital film restoration,...
- 4/23/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Horror is one of those genres that many have a love/hate relationship with. Often mistreated, Horror seems to attract the hackiest writers and film-makers and as such many Horror movies released today are exercises in the drab and formulaic. Far from producing truly great scares contemporary Horror often commits the worst sin in Cinema: predictability.
In general, audiences today are some of the smartest and most discerning in the medium’s history. Even a layman, with little academic or practical experience in film can produce a verbal reading that is often on the money. This is a tough crowd to unleash a movie on, especially from a genre that is so rife with established conventions and clichés.
And yet we cannot get enough. It’s the same reason that a traffic jam forms around a vicious road accident; as a species we are morbidly fascinated with death and destruction.
In general, audiences today are some of the smartest and most discerning in the medium’s history. Even a layman, with little academic or practical experience in film can produce a verbal reading that is often on the money. This is a tough crowd to unleash a movie on, especially from a genre that is so rife with established conventions and clichés.
And yet we cannot get enough. It’s the same reason that a traffic jam forms around a vicious road accident; as a species we are morbidly fascinated with death and destruction.
- 9/1/2011
- by Stuart Bedford
- Obsessed with Film
Independent films are often gritty and realistic. They tell stories that are relatable to many people. Unmade Beds is no exception. Directed by Argentinian director Alexis Dos Santos, this romantic drama tells the story of two random young people and their quest for love and truth. Originally released in 2009, this film was entered in the Sundance Film Festival and the Montreal Festival of New Cinema where it won the Quebec Film Critic’s Award.
Taking place in London, Unmade Beds follows the lives of two 20-somethings and their journeys of self-discovery, trying to find answers to the questions they have about life. The film opens with Axl (Fernando Tielve), a young man from Spain who serves as the picture’s narrator. He is on a mission to find his father who he has never met and confront him about being his son. He soon finds him working as a real...
Taking place in London, Unmade Beds follows the lives of two 20-somethings and their journeys of self-discovery, trying to find answers to the questions they have about life. The film opens with Axl (Fernando Tielve), a young man from Spain who serves as the picture’s narrator. He is on a mission to find his father who he has never met and confront him about being his son. He soon finds him working as a real...
- 3/14/2011
- by Randall Unger
- JustPressPlay.net
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"Tesis" (1996)
Directed by Alejandro Amenabar
Released by Widowmaker Films
Long out of print, "The Others" director Alejandro Amenabar's debut about a grad student's discovery of a snuff film is being remastered and rereleased by Widowmaker Films.
"Alice in Murderland" (2011)
Directed by Dennis Devine
Released by Brain Damage Films
A year after Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" scared the bejeezus out of kids in multiplexes everywhere, this horror take on Lewis Carroll's classic fairy tale aims to do so intentionally on DVD players around the country.
"America, America" (1963)
Directed by Elia Kazan
Released by Fox Home Entertainment
Elia Kazan's most personal film based on the story of his uncle's immigration to the United States from Turkey, where as a Greek his family is persecuted, was already released as part of last year's Kazan boxed set, but now will be...
"Tesis" (1996)
Directed by Alejandro Amenabar
Released by Widowmaker Films
Long out of print, "The Others" director Alejandro Amenabar's debut about a grad student's discovery of a snuff film is being remastered and rereleased by Widowmaker Films.
"Alice in Murderland" (2011)
Directed by Dennis Devine
Released by Brain Damage Films
A year after Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" scared the bejeezus out of kids in multiplexes everywhere, this horror take on Lewis Carroll's classic fairy tale aims to do so intentionally on DVD players around the country.
"America, America" (1963)
Directed by Elia Kazan
Released by Fox Home Entertainment
Elia Kazan's most personal film based on the story of his uncle's immigration to the United States from Turkey, where as a Greek his family is persecuted, was already released as part of last year's Kazan boxed set, but now will be...
- 2/6/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Prior to receiving Criterion's Blu-ray release of Guillermo del Toro's feature directorial debut, Cronos, I'd never seen the film. Along with Mimic, it was the only del Toro film I hadn't seen as well as the only del Toro film I didn't own. I had, however, heard plenty about it, but most of what I'd heard originated from online sources so, as with most anything I read online, I took it with a grain of salt.
Del Toro seems to have become a bit of a favorite among online movie fans. I always get the impression a lot of his work is looked at through rose colored glasses so I can never tell if what I'm reading is actual opinion or affected opinion. In the case of Cronos this is bona fide del Toro, in line with The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth. It's the reason he's achieved such...
Del Toro seems to have become a bit of a favorite among online movie fans. I always get the impression a lot of his work is looked at through rose colored glasses so I can never tell if what I'm reading is actual opinion or affected opinion. In the case of Cronos this is bona fide del Toro, in line with The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth. It's the reason he's achieved such...
- 12/7/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Argentinian director Alexis Dos Santos's film both drifts and engages you – a trick difficult to pull off
The Argentinian director Alexis Dos Santos has devised a film that, to my mind, pulls off one of the most difficult tricks imaginable: it creates a drifting, ambling, no-particular-place-to-go feel, a meandering quality that I found engaging. Axl, played by Fernando Tielve, is a 20-year-old Spanish guy who is in London looking for an English father who vanished when he was just a baby. Déborah François is Vera, a young Belgian woman who is pursuing a failed romance. Axl and Vera live in a transient worlds of squats and hostels; they are intensely young, displaying a gloriously insouciant indifference to, and even unawareness of, the future – a condition intensified by an uncertain grip on the present and the past. Axl loves to get wasted in the evenings, and the next morning can...
The Argentinian director Alexis Dos Santos has devised a film that, to my mind, pulls off one of the most difficult tricks imaginable: it creates a drifting, ambling, no-particular-place-to-go feel, a meandering quality that I found engaging. Axl, played by Fernando Tielve, is a 20-year-old Spanish guy who is in London looking for an English father who vanished when he was just a baby. Déborah François is Vera, a young Belgian woman who is pursuing a failed romance. Axl and Vera live in a transient worlds of squats and hostels; they are intensely young, displaying a gloriously insouciant indifference to, and even unawareness of, the future – a condition intensified by an uncertain grip on the present and the past. Axl loves to get wasted in the evenings, and the next morning can...
- 12/11/2009
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Fernando Tielve And DÉBORAH FRANÇOIS In Writer-director Alexis Dos Santos' Unmade Beds. Courtesy IFC Films. If there's a restlessness to the filmmaking of Alexis Dos Santos, you only have to look at the background of the young Argentinian writer-director to understand why. Born in Buenos Aires, Dos Santos relocated with his family to a small village in Patagonia when he was eight. He returned to the capital city to study Architecture at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, then moved on to study acting, and finally settled on filmmaking as his vocation. After completing his undergraduate studies at the Universidad del Cine, he moved to Barcelona for a screenwriting course, and then on to London, where he studied under Stephen Frears in the...
- 10/5/2009
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
There's a poster as well as images in from IFC Films' "Unmade Beds," starring Fernando Tielve, Déborah François, Michiel Huisman, Michiel Huisman, Michiel Huisman, Katia Winter and Katia Winter. Alexis Dos Santos directs the film as well as writing alongside Marianela Maldonado. Axl wants to find his long-lost father and rediscover his past. Vera just wants to forget hers and move on from recent heartbreak. Their stories interweave as they take up residence in a vibrant, sprawling squat in the melting-pot of London’s hip East End.
- 9/2/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Any question that Bel gian actress Deborah Francois is a star in the making is dispelled in "Unmade Beds," the London-set romantic romp directed by Alexis Dos Santos, who was born in Argentina.
New Yorkers first saw Francois as a troubled teen mom in the Dardenne brothers' "L'Enfant," then as a mysterious woman in the French thriller "The Page Turner."
Now, in "Unmade Beds," 22-year-old Francois impresses as Vera, a French woman who moves into a London squat in hopes of forgetting a former boyfriend.
Another resident of the squat,...
New Yorkers first saw Francois as a troubled teen mom in the Dardenne brothers' "L'Enfant," then as a mysterious woman in the French thriller "The Page Turner."
Now, in "Unmade Beds," 22-year-old Francois impresses as Vera, a French woman who moves into a London squat in hopes of forgetting a former boyfriend.
Another resident of the squat,...
- 9/2/2009
- by By V.A. MUSETTO
- NYPost.com
Like any good hipster, director Alexis Dos Santos is a melange of influences: There's the Larry Clark-like fixation on near-underage threesomes, the formalistic touch of the French New Wave, the exoticism of his Argentinian heritage and the Anglo artiness of his British film school roots. All of those forces find their way onto the screen in Unmade Beds, his Manohla Dargis-praised tale of Axel (Fernando Tielve), a young man searching for his birth father while couch-surfing and sleeping his way through boho London.
As Unmade Beds had its Laff premiere this week, I talked to the unkempt auteur about hip clothes, his first film, Glue, and the artistic siren song of the menage a trois.
As Unmade Beds had its Laff premiere this week, I talked to the unkempt auteur about hip clothes, his first film, Glue, and the artistic siren song of the menage a trois.
- 6/26/2009
- Movieline
- Plucked right before its NYC premiere at the Nd/Nf Fest, IFC Films have made the pick up of Alexis Dos Santos oddly shaped rom drama/coming-of-age film that features a loaded soundtrack of tunes from an array of artists. I felt that Unmade Beds "desperately tries to impart that familiar feeling of being befriended and socially accepted among strangers, but it is a lack of maturity, not from the filmmaker but the script itself that makes Ub a visual commentary on the lifestyle, rather than a film where characters converge, narratives get thicker, and where results don't come across as haphazard, but instead, well sewn together." (read my review here). The picture stars the Dardenne bros. discovery Déborah Francois (l'enfant) and Devil's Backbone's Fernando Tielve. Unmade Beds tells the story of Axl and Vera, two young expats who take up residence in a vibrant, sprawling squat in the
- 3/27/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
IFC Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Alexis Dos Santo's "Unmade Beds," a romantic drama starring Deborah Francois and Fernando Tielve. The film, which premiered at Sundance, plays Saturday at New York's New Directors/New Film Festival and will be released later this year through either IFC in theaters or IFC Festival Direct.
"Beds" follows two young expats, Axl and Vera, who take up residence in a squat in London's East End. Axl wants to find his long-lost father and rediscover his past. Vera just wants to forget hers and move on from recent heartbreak.
The deal was negotiated by Arianna Bocco for IFC Films with Ben Roberts of Protagonist Pictures.
"Beds" follows two young expats, Axl and Vera, who take up residence in a squat in London's East End. Axl wants to find his long-lost father and rediscover his past. Vera just wants to forget hers and move on from recent heartbreak.
The deal was negotiated by Arianna Bocco for IFC Films with Ben Roberts of Protagonist Pictures.
- 3/26/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
See images from "Unmade Beds," starring Fernando Tielve, Déborah François, Michiel Huisman, Michiel Huisman, Michiel Huisman, Katia Winter and Katia Winter. The film is a 2009 Sundance Film Festival Award nominee for the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema - Dramatic). Alexis Dos Santos directs the film as well as writes. Dos Santos won the Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Special Jury Award in 2007 for the drama "Glue." UK Film Council, Em Media, The Bureau and Film4 produce. See the whole gallery! Movie Jungle's Steve Ramos says "Young love deserves a freewheeling and dreamlike movie like Argentine filmmaker Alexis Dos Santos' sweet London romance "Unmade Beds," premiering in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival. With colorful and vibrant imagery (courtesy of cameraman Jakob Ihre), an attractive cast and great music from up-and-coming British bands, "Unmade Beds" has a feel-good energy sure to attract young audiences willing to check out alternative films,...
- 2/5/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See images from "Unmade Beds," starring Fernando Tielve, Déborah François, Michiel Huisman, Michiel Huisman, Michiel Huisman, Katia Winter and Katia Winter. The film is a 2009 Sundance Film Festival Award nominee for the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema - Dramatic). Alexis Dos Santos directs the film as well as writes. Dos Santos won the Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Special Jury Award in 2007 for the drama "Glue." UK Film Council, Em Media, The Bureau and Film4 produce.
- 2/5/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
See images from "Unmade Beds," starring Fernando Tielve, Déborah François, Michiel Huisman, Michiel Huisman, Michiel Huisman, Katia Winter and Katia Winter. The film is a 2009 Sundance Film Festival Award nominee for the Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema - Dramatic). Alexis Dos Santos directs the film as well as writes. Dos Santos won the Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Special Jury Award in 2007 for the drama "Glue." UK Film Council, Em Media, The Bureau and Film4 produce.
- 2/5/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
By R. Emmet Sweeney
The buzz is building around Alexis dos Santos' swoony sophomore effort, "Unmade Beds." Premiering at Sundance to no small acclaim, it made its way to Rotterdam and continues to impress. A jaunty, romantic tale of restless youth and their search for identity and a little sex, the film's real star is its set, a bohemian's paradise: a giant, labyrinthine warehouse stocked with drum sets, animal masks and an international cast of idealistic dreamers. Buzzing with French New Wave-like energy, there's a surprise (and a party) after every cut. Despite traveling from the wilds of Utah to the perpetually damp Holland, not to mention nursing a robust hangover, dos Santos heroically managed to sit down with me for a few questions about his latest work.
Could you talk about the origin of the film?
It goes back a long way. I started writing it when I finished film school in London.
The buzz is building around Alexis dos Santos' swoony sophomore effort, "Unmade Beds." Premiering at Sundance to no small acclaim, it made its way to Rotterdam and continues to impress. A jaunty, romantic tale of restless youth and their search for identity and a little sex, the film's real star is its set, a bohemian's paradise: a giant, labyrinthine warehouse stocked with drum sets, animal masks and an international cast of idealistic dreamers. Buzzing with French New Wave-like energy, there's a surprise (and a party) after every cut. Despite traveling from the wilds of Utah to the perpetually damp Holland, not to mention nursing a robust hangover, dos Santos heroically managed to sit down with me for a few questions about his latest work.
Could you talk about the origin of the film?
It goes back a long way. I started writing it when I finished film school in London.
- 2/3/2009
- by R. Emmet Sweeney
- ifc.com
By R. Emmet Sweeney
The 38th International Film Festival in Rotterdam has streamlined its program into three sections, but it hasn't lost its focus. The fest still throws its weight behind young filmmakers, and a previous beneficiary, Carlos Reygadas, has emerged as a central figure early on this year. He's credited as producer on two films, Carlos Serrano Azcona's "El Árbol" (2009) and Amat Escalante's "Los Bastardos" (2008), and he's presenting two of his own works as well. The first is "Serenghetti," a new feature-length video projected on an office building in the center of town, which joins outdoor loops by Guy Maddin and Nanouk Leopold. The second is his earliest film, "Adulte," a seven-minute comic short from 1998, which arrives as part of a series on auteur debuts.
Before the world premiere screening of "El Árbol," Reygadas pumped up his opener "Adulte" by saying, "it doesn't work very well," and we'll leave it at that.
The 38th International Film Festival in Rotterdam has streamlined its program into three sections, but it hasn't lost its focus. The fest still throws its weight behind young filmmakers, and a previous beneficiary, Carlos Reygadas, has emerged as a central figure early on this year. He's credited as producer on two films, Carlos Serrano Azcona's "El Árbol" (2009) and Amat Escalante's "Los Bastardos" (2008), and he's presenting two of his own works as well. The first is "Serenghetti," a new feature-length video projected on an office building in the center of town, which joins outdoor loops by Guy Maddin and Nanouk Leopold. The second is his earliest film, "Adulte," a seven-minute comic short from 1998, which arrives as part of a series on auteur debuts.
Before the world premiere screening of "El Árbol," Reygadas pumped up his opener "Adulte" by saying, "it doesn't work very well," and we'll leave it at that.
- 1/27/2009
- by R. Emmet Sweeney
- ifc.com
Unmade Beds Review by Steve Ramos, Writer Young lovers add sparkle to London romance 'Unmade Beds' Young love deserves a freewheeling and dreamlike movie like Argentine filmmaker Alexis Dos Santos' sweet London romance "Unmade Beds," premiering in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival. With colorful and vibrant imagery (courtesy of cameraman Jakob Ihre), an attractive cast and great music from up-and-coming British bands, "Unmade Beds" has a feel-good energy sure to attract young audiences willing to check out alternative films, if not specialty audiences of all ages. Vera (DŽborah Fran.ois) and Axl (Fernando Tielve) are two foreigners and fellow squatters at a loft in London's East End. Vera is looking for a recent boyfriend after a silly game where they agreed not to exchange names or phone numbers in order to make their dates more mysterious. Unexpected help comes from one of Vera's...
- 1/27/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Young love deserves a freewheeling and dreamlike movie like Argentine filmmaker Alexis Dos Santos' sweet London romance "Unmade Beds," premiering in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival. With colorful and vibrant imagery (courtesy of cameraman Jakob Ihre), an attractive cast and great music from up-and-coming British bands, "Unmade Beds" has a feel-good energy sure to attract young audiences willing to check out alternative films, if not specialty audiences of all ages. Vera (DŽborah Fran.ois) and Axl (Fernando Tielve) are two foreigners and fellow squatters at a loft in London's East End. Vera is looking for a recent boyfriend after a silly game where they agreed not to exchange names or phone numbers in order to make their dates more mysterious. Unexpected help comes from one of Vera's personal art projects - taking Polaroid pictures of the beds she has slept in through her life.
- 1/27/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Young love deserves a freewheeling and dreamlike movie like Argentine filmmaker Alexis Dos Santos' sweet London romance "Unmade Beds," premiering in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival. With colorful and vibrant imagery (courtesy of cameraman Jakob Ihre), an attractive cast and great music from up-and-coming British bands, "Unmade Beds" has a feel-good energy sure to attract young audiences willing to check out alternative films, if not specialty audiences of all ages. Vera (DŽborah Fran.ois) and Axl (Fernando Tielve) are two foreigners and fellow squatters at a loft in London's East End. Vera is looking for a recent boyfriend after a silly game where they agreed not to exchange names or phone numbers in order to make their dates more mysterious. Unexpected help comes from one of Vera's personal art projects - taking Polaroid pictures of the beds she has slept in through her life.
- 1/27/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
- The Egyptian theatre on the main was the lieu for the world preem to Alexis Dos Santos' sophomore feature. Part of the world dramatic comp, Unmade Beds is a portrait of youth, coming-of-age pic poses its two featured vagabond characters in separate story-lines and mostly delves into the theme of abandonment and the squatter culture which seems to have left quite the impression on the Argentinean filmmaker. Dos Santos' handheld, intimate framing of actors Deborah Francois and Fernando Tielve is a throwback to certain stylistic elements from the Nouvelle Vague of French cinema infused with a very broad soundtrack selection that tries in vain to pump emotional content to the context of duel searches for human contact. Francois (L'enfant) has her best moments in scenes where silence explores the back-story of the character, where as Tielve (The Devil's Backbone) has what initially appears to be a promising story-line
- 1/17/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
U.S. Dramatic Competition
This year's 16 films were selected from 1,026 submissions. Each film is a world premiere.
Adam (Director-screenwriter: Max Mayer)
A strange and lyrical love story between a somewhat socially dysfunctional young man and the woman of his dreams. Cast: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison.
Amreeka (Director-screenwriter: Cherien Dabis)
When a divorced Palestinian woman and her teenage son move to rural Illinois at the outset of the Iraq war, they find their new lives replete with challenges. Cast: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Alia Shawkat.
Big Fan (Director-screenwriter: Robert Siegel)
The world of a parking garage attendant who happens to be the New York Giants' biggest fan is turned upside down after an altercation with his favorite player. Cast: Patton Oswalt, Michael Rapaport, Kevin Corrigan, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Matt Servitto.
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (Director-screenwriter: John Krasinski)
When her boyfriend leaves with little explanation,...
This year's 16 films were selected from 1,026 submissions. Each film is a world premiere.
Adam (Director-screenwriter: Max Mayer)
A strange and lyrical love story between a somewhat socially dysfunctional young man and the woman of his dreams. Cast: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison.
Amreeka (Director-screenwriter: Cherien Dabis)
When a divorced Palestinian woman and her teenage son move to rural Illinois at the outset of the Iraq war, they find their new lives replete with challenges. Cast: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Alia Shawkat.
Big Fan (Director-screenwriter: Robert Siegel)
The world of a parking garage attendant who happens to be the New York Giants' biggest fan is turned upside down after an altercation with his favorite player. Cast: Patton Oswalt, Michael Rapaport, Kevin Corrigan, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Matt Servitto.
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (Director-screenwriter: John Krasinski)
When her boyfriend leaves with little explanation,...
- 12/3/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Blending an engaging, if hectic, storyline with powerful visuals and winning perfs, Mexican Guillermo del Toro’s psychodrama “The Devil’s Backbone,” has the helmer toning down the perverse, comicbook imagination of his first two features — the Spanish-language “Chronos” (1993) and English-language “Mimic” (1997) — in favor of a muted, warmer and more psychological approach. Though it fails in its final reels to capitalize on its early promise, pic is still stylish, accomplished and tremendously enjoyable fare. Pre-sold heavily to many major territories, it did terrific first weekend B.O. at home after opening April 20 on the back of heavy marketing.
Pic will do nothing to harm del Toro’s reputation as perhaps Latin America’s foremost genre talent. However, auds expecting the conceptual hi-jinx of the earlier pics — particularly the multiple award-winning “Chronos” — are likely to be disappointed, and the movie’s psychology is too bargain basement to be of much interest in itself.
Pic will do nothing to harm del Toro’s reputation as perhaps Latin America’s foremost genre talent. However, auds expecting the conceptual hi-jinx of the earlier pics — particularly the multiple award-winning “Chronos” — are likely to be disappointed, and the movie’s psychology is too bargain basement to be of much interest in itself.
- 4/30/2001
- by Jonathan Holland
- Variety Film + TV
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