The Streamer's Guide To March 2020: What To Watch At Home To Prepare For This Month's Theatrical Releases
Welcome to the Streamer's Guide to March 2020, in which we prepare you for the weeks head with many streaming options to watch.
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'I, Daniel Blake' Trailer: Director Ken Loach Fights The System With This Palme d'Or-Winning Drama
The first I Daniel Blake trailer has arrived, offering us a look at director Ken Loach's Palme d’Or-winning social welfare drama.
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This Week In Trailers: King Jack, The Blackout Experiments, Versus: The Life And Films Of Ken Loach, For All Eyes Always, Living On Soul: A Daptone Records Film
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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'Jimmy's Hall' Trailer: A Dance Hall Becomes A Political Rallying Point
Jimmy's Hall, from acclaimed director Ken Loach, begins with the story of an Irish community already feeling the tension that would shortly erupt as the Irish Civil War, and then picks up with that community a decade later, after the war divided the country. As the Jimmy's Hall trailer shows, the focal point of the…
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Watch 'Great Directors' Documentary, With Richard Linklater, David Lynch, Catherine Breillat, And More
The 2009 film Great Directors from doc filmmaker Angela Ismailos is a great introduction to the work, creative philosophies and personalities of ten directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. The film presents conversations and clips from the work of those filmmakers,…
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Pixar Comes To The Rescue On Final Ken Loach Film
The image you see above is a custom drawing of Mike and Sully sent from Pixar editor Steve Bloom (Boundin', La Luna, Monsters University) to noted British director Ken Loach. See, Loach is editing what he says will be his final film, and he ran into a spot of trouble. Having never gone digital, Loach…
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This Week In Trailers: In The House, The Spirit Of '45, Silver Circle, My Way To Olympia, Legends Of The Knight
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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This Week In Trailers: Keye Luke, Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap, Here, I Wish, The Angels' Share
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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Full Cannes Lineup Includes Films By David Cronenberg, Jacques Audiard, And Andrew Dominik
The primary lineup for the competition slate at the 2012 Cannes has been unveilend, and it is a very strong list of films. There are quite a few expected entries: David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis, Lee Daniels' The Paperboy, John Hillcoat's Lawless (formerly The Wettest County), and Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly (formerly Cogan's Trade), and we…
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'Route Irish' Trailer - Ken Loach's Harrowing Look At The Iraq War
Hard-hitting social realist director Ken Loach took a break from sternly examining the injustices and hardships of the world a couple of years ago, delighting critics with the crowd-pleasing Looking for Eric. Now he's back to business, at long last turning his political eye to the Iraq War in Route Irish. Loach, whose Irish War…
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Cool Stuff: Screen Epiphanies: Filmmakers On The Films That Inspired Them
I've always loved reading and hearing what great filmmakers think of other great films and directors. You may have noticed that we ask some directors about their favorite films, from time to time, and I've even featured other websites and books that delve into this subject on the site from time to time. Geoffrey Macnab…
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Greatest Living Directors Collaborate On Movie
Some of the greatest living filmmakers have gotten together to make a feature film which will be shown at the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival. Festival president Gilles Jacob and artistic director Thierry Frémaux have attempted to get as many of the living "Golden Palm" filmmakers to contribute to this surprise project. What…
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