'Primer' Director Shane Carruth Shares Pitch Trailer For His Unmade Movie, 'A Topiary'
Shane Carruth, the director of Primer and Upstream Color, has shared a sizzle reel for one of his unmade movies. Watch the unofficial A Topiary trailer.
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'The Wanting Mare' Trailer: A Digital Dream Produced By Shane Carruth
Filmed almost entirely in a storage unit in New Jersey, here comes The Wanting Mare.
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'Primer' And 'Upstream Color' Director Shane Carruth Retiring After Next Film
Shane Carruth says he has "a massive thing" he's working on, and then he plans to get out of the film biz entirely.
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Contest: Win 'The Dead Center' On Blu-Ray
We're giving away a copy of The Dead Center on Blu-ray from Arrow Video, starring Shane Carruth.
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Exclusive 'The Dead Center' Clip Shane Carruth Brings Someone Back From The Dead
Watch a creepy, exclusive clip from The Dead Center, a new film starring Shane Carruth.
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Director Shane Carruth Wrangles A Bunch Of Movie Stars For 'The Modern Ocean'
A whole bunch of big names have joined the Modern Ocean cast, making director Shane Carruth's third film the first to contain actual movie stars.
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'Upstream Color' Director Shane Carruth Goes Big-Budget For 'The Modern Ocean'
Shane Carruth has made two movies, Primer and Upstream Color, with a long quiet period between them. Both those films were totally independent, low-budget affairs; both films achieved far more than the humble bottom line of either movie would lead anyone to assume. Now, for his third movie, Carruth is pulling in some money -- if not…
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'The Act Of Killing' Tops Sight & Sound 2013 Poll
End of year lists can be great for highlighting stuff you may have missed, and the annual poll from UK film magazine Sight & Sound, one of the first 2013 year-end lists out of the gate, has a number of films included that are worth tracking down. The magazine polls over 100 "international critics, curators and…
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/Film Interview: 'Upstream Color' Creator Shane Carruth, Using Unique Ideas To Tell A Universal Story
Primer and Upstream Color writer/director/star Shane Carruth is an exceedingly generous interview subject. You might expect the creator of two very thoughtful pieces of genre film to be aloof or overly cerebral. But in conversation he has a tendency to react with exclamations like "wow" and "that's so great" followed by thoughtful and digressive answers.…
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'Upstream Color' Review: A Heady, Intuitive Triumph
What a beautiful thing, Upstream Color. Shane Carruth's second film is a melange of surprises and delights. For an audience familiar with Primer, Carruth's time-layering ouroboros of a debut, one element may be more surprising than all others: simplicity. Though the telling of this new film is by no means conventional, the core is an elegant…
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Stream Shane Carruth's Full Score For 'Upstream Color'
Shane Carruth's film Upstream Color is my favorite film of the year so far. The strange but tender love story is colored with surprising and unsettling sci-fi concepts, all told in a manner that perfectly straddles the line between direct and oblique. A big part of the film's success is the score, composed by Carruth.…
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'Upstream Color' Video Reaction [Sundance 2013]
Today at Sundance saw the premiere of Upstream Color, the second film from Primer director Shane Carruth. Trailers for the movie position the film as an enigma, and while the film is hardly mainstream, I would argue that the feature isn't nearly as impenetrable as those first looks suggested. That said, this film is quite…
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'Upstream Color' Trailer: Shane Carruth Deepens The Mystery Of His Directorial Return, And Reveals Follow-Up 'The Modern Ocean'
In just a few days we'll get to see the premiere of Shane Carruth's new film, Upstream Color, at Sundance. It won't be too long afterward that Carruth will distribute the film himself, staring in New York and rolling out to some other cities, and digital platforms. And he's even got a new film, The…
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'Upstream Color' Teaser #2: Where Would We Go, How Do You Get There?
The second minute-long teaser for Shane Carruth's second film Upstream Color is almost as enigmatic as the first. This one adds much more dialogue, to complement another spare bit of voiceover, and that helps ground the footage. It isn't quite as outlandish and puzzling as the first teaser. But there's still only the barest hint of…
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'Upstream Color' Trailer: A Warning, Or A Promise?
This is the place where I'm supposed to be able to put the first footage from Shane Carruth's second film into some sort of context, but I just can't do it. The movie is Upstream Color, and it follows Carruth's 2004 indie sci-fi debut Primer. That '04 effort quickly became a benchmark in hardcore science…
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See Three Images From 'Primer' Director's New Film 'Upstream Color'
That image above, featuring Amy Seimetz and Shane Carruth locked in a bathtub embrace, is the first shot from Carruth's new film Upstream Color. Aside from helping Rian Johnson out on Looper when it shot last year, this is the first new work we've seen from Carruth since his 2004 debut Primer. That film became an…
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First Wave Of Sundance 2013 Film Announcements Includes New Film From 'Primer' Director Shane Carruth
The new film from Primer director Shane Carruth -- a project called Upstream Color, which is only his second feature, and therefore his first since Primer in 2004 -- will premiere at Sundance 2013. That's all some of you will need to know to make this incarnation of the fest a very promising one. Every year,…
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'Primer' Director Shane Carruth Prepping New Film: 'Upstream Color'
When your first film garners the kind of reviews, respect and cult status that Primer did for director Shane Carruth, there's always pressure to go big for the follow up. Instead of succumbing to the hype and jumping into another movie, though, Carruth dropped off the radar. There was one blip last year when details…
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Infographic: The Many Timelines Of Shane Carruth's Brilliant 'Primer'
Shane Carruth's time-travel film Primer is one of the smartest sci-fi movies of the past decade.
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POTD: 'Primer' Director Shane Carruth On The Set Of Rian Johnson's 'Looper'
If you're a fan of Shane Carruth's one and only and wonderful movie Primer, this photo should put a spring in your step. If you've never seen Primer, I suggest checking it out, then looping back here to this post to begin again. So this is Shane Carruth, aka the writer, director and star of…
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Details Revealed About Primer Director Shane Carruth's Next Film A Topiary
Shane Carruth's Primer is one of the movies that completely blew my mind. It was my first time at the Sundance Film Festival, and I was working as a volunteer. I had heard about this film which was made for next to nothing ($7,000) which had something to do with time travel (one of my…
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