New Directors/New Films · 2010
27 films · 15 reviews
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Eric Mendelsohn; Writer: Eric Mendelsohn; Stars: Embeth Davidtz, Edie Falco, Elias Koteas, Rachel Resheff, Kathryn Erbe, Peyton List, Dana Eskelson, Danai Jekesai Gurira, LeRoy Wilson Jr., Kathy Searle, Cory Nichols, Antonio Ortiz, Catrina Ganey, Paul Urcioli, Victor Pagan) , Official site
Screening with Looking At Animals
A totally idiosyncratic creation, something that deserves to be relished for its bravado refusal to play by the rules.
(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2009; Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani; Stars: Marie Bos, Delphine Brual, Harry Cleven, Bianca Maria D'Amato, Cassandra Forêt, Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud, Bernard Marbaix, Jean-Michel Vovk) , Official site
Screening with Catafalque
What makes this documentary so powerful and so enjoyable is its intimacy with its subject.
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Richard Press; Stars: Bill Cunningham, Anna Wintour)
Opening night film
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: James Rasin; Writer: James Rasin; Stars: George Abagnalo, Paul Ambrose, Penny Arcade, Peter Beard, Bob Colacello, Jayne County, Jackie Curtis, Candy Darling, Ron Delsener, Jane Fonda, Vincent Fremont, Aaron Richard Golub, Sam Green, Pat Hackett, Helen Hanft) , Official site
Screening with Slate
(Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Sultan Sharrief; Writer: Sultan Sharrief; Stars: Julian Gant, Sabrina Quinn, Joe Tinpan)
Don't read this review... simply go and see it, for if ever there was a film that is best experienced without knowing a single detail, this unforgettable oddity from Greece is the one.
(Country: Greece; Year: 2009; Director: Yorgos Lanthimos; Writer: Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos; Stars: Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Hristos Passalis, Anna Kalaitzidou)
Screening with Quadrangle
By mixing the situations of a crime drama with dysfunctional family dynamics, the everyday becomes accentuated, meaning that outbreaks of violence are absurdly comic but still retain a nasty edge.
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Ben Wheatley; Writer: Robin Hill, Ben Wheatley; Stars: Julia Deakin, Michael Smiley, David Schaal, Tony Way, Mark Kempner, Gareth Tunley, Kali Peacock, Robin Hill, Robert Hill, Kerry Peacock) , Trailer
Screening with Break A Leg
(Country: France; Year: 2009; Director: Myriam Aziza; Stars: Lio)
(Country: France, Lebanon, Germany; Year: 2009; Director: Dima El-Horr; Writer: Dima El-Horr, Rabih Mroue; Stars: Hiam Abbass, Manal Khader, Raia Haidar, Fadi Abi Samra, Berj Fazalian, Nabil Abou Mrad, Karim Saleh, Sirvart Fazlian, Aïda Younes, Yasmina Breidy, Nakiiah Chahoud, Sarah Mrad, Yvette Azmar, Claude Ziade, Amale Ziade) , Official site
Screening with Felicità
Hansen-Love prefers to make her points through gesture and nuance and the film is all the better for it.
(Country: Germany, France; Year: 2009; Director: Mia Hansen-Løve; Writer: Mia Hansen-Løve; Stars: Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing, Michaël Abiteboul, Manelle Driss, Sandrine Dumas, Eric Elmosnino, Dominique Frot, Alice Gautier, Libertad Gills, Valerie Lang, Harald Leander, Igor Hansen Love, Antoine Mathieu, Patrick Mimoun) , Official site
Not outright farce, too naturalistic to mug, but observational, behavioural comedy requires that we be looking from the same perspective.
(Country: Iran, UK, Italy; Year: 2009; Director: Babak Jalali; Writer: Babak Jalali) , Official site
Screening with The Bizarre Friends Of Ricardinho
(Country: Romania; Year: 2009; Director: Radu Jude; Writer: Radu Jude, Augustina Stanciu; Stars: Andreea Bosneag, Doru Catanescu, Alexandru Georgescu, Diana Gheorghian, Violeta Haret, Bogdan Marhodin, Vasile Muraru, Serban Pavlu, Luminita Stoianovici, Andi Vasluianu)
Screening with Logorama
A work of chilling beauty, whose sparse, unforgiving landscapes can accommodate all manner of allegorical readings.
(Country: Russia; Year: 2010; Director: Aleksei Popogrebsky; Writer: Aleksei Popogrebsky; Stars: Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergei Puskepalis)
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2010; Director: Sander Burger; Writer: Dragan Bakema, Sander Burger, Maria Kraakman; Stars: Dragan Bakema, Hans Hoes, Noël Keulen, Maria Kraakman, Rick Nicolet, Celia Nufaar, Mirjam Stolwijk)
Screening with Rob And Valentyna In Scotland
I Am Love is social melodrama in the best traditions of Italian cinema.
(Country: Italy; Year: 2009; Director: Luca Guadagnino; Writer: Luca Guadagnino, Barbara Alberti, Ivan Cotroneo, Walter Fasano; Stars: Tilda Swinton, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Pippo Delbono, Alba Rohrwacher, Marisa Berenson)
There is nothing to temper all the teenage angst bullshit.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2009; Director: Xavier Dolan; Writer: Xavier Dolan; Stars: Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan, Suzanne Clement)
Closing night film
On the one hand this is a very personal tale of one family's struggle to make the best of trying circumstances, but on the other it is a stinging indictment on a political and economic structure that is stretching families to breaking point.
(Country: Canada, China; Year: 2009; Director: Lixin Fan; Stars: Suqin Chen, Changhua Zhan, Qin Zhang, Yang Zhang)
Screening with Snow Hides The Shade Of Fig Trees
(Country: Italy, Austria; Year: 2009; Director: Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel; Stars: Patrizia Gerardi, Tairo Caroli, Asia Crippa)
From the two-tone credit sequence to the jaunty camera angles, this is visually striking stuff.
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2009; Director: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat; Writer: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat; Stars: Rafael Spregelburd, Daniel Aráoz, Eugenia Alonso, Inés Budassi, Lorenza Acuña, Eugenio Scopel, Rubén Guzmán, Debora Zanolli, Bárbara Hang, Enrique Gagliesi)
Screening with Suha
Another documentary gem from the incredibly strong factual line-up at Sundance 2010.
(Country: US, UK, Russia; Year: 2010; Director: Robin Hessman) , Official site
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Tanya Hamilton; Writer: Tanya Hamilton; Stars: Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Jamie Hector, Wendell Pierce, Jamara Griffin)
A quietly humorous, gently endearing examination of one man's attempts to get his hands on the American dream.
(Country: Mexico, Spain; Year: 2009; Director: Rigoberto Pérezcano; Writer: Edgar San Juan, Rigoberto Pérezcano; Stars: Harold Torres, Alicia Laguna, Sonia Couoh, Luis Cárdenas)
A low-key, but fascinating, documentary.
(Country: US, Cuba, Yemen; Year: 2010; Director: Laura Poitras)
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2009; Director: Mads Brügger; Stars: Mads Brügger, Simon Jul Jørgensen, Jacob Nossell)
The movie works by getting under your skin in ways that you only realise when the situation turns sour.
(Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: Warwick Thornton; Writer: Warwick Thornton; Stars: Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson, Scott Thornton) , Official site
(Country: France; Year: 2009; Director: Nader T. Homayoun; Writer: Jean-Philippe Gaud, Nader T. Homayoun)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2009; Director: Shirin Neshat; Writer: Shahrnoush Parsipour; Stars: Bijan Daneshmand, Pegah Ferydoni, Arita Shahrzad, Shabnam Toloui, Orsolya Tóth)
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