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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Dave, Devindra, and Joanna from Pajiba discuss the brilliance of Upstream Color, the unevenness of Baz Luhrmann's filmography, and how The Mindy Project found its groove. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Download or Play Now in your Browser: Subscribe to the /Filmcast: SHOWNOTES What We've Been Watching…
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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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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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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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Any film fan should make it a point to attend the Sundance Film Festival at least once. Words can hardly describe the beauty of Park City, the camaraderie of the attendees, the smooth running machine that plays dozens of movies a day on screens all over town. And those movies. Oh, those movies. Some of the best…
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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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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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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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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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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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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,…
Read MoreWhen 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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