“Tournée is quite easily one of the year’s best, and shows a huge amount of potential for Almaric’s directorial career.” Tournée Directed by Mathieu Amalric Written by Mathieu Amalric, Philippe Di Folco, Marcelo Novais Teles & Raphaëlle Valbrune France – 2010 A staple of French Cinema for almost two decades, in recent years Mathieu Amalric …
Halloween is here again and for thousands of Montrealers this means another chance to experience “THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Halloween Ball”. This year the event is back at the gorgeous Rialto Theatre, 5723 Parc ave. (Parc or Place des arts metro, bus 80). To accommodate the large numbers of participants, there will be no …
“Generally this is a successful sequel that proves to be one of the better entries in the sub-genre despite the slightly been-there-done-that flavour it leaves in the mouth” Paranormal Activity 2 Directed by Tod Williams Written by Michael R. Perry and Oren Peli USA Less than a year since Paranormal Activity’s UK cinema release and …
We Are What We Are is a film that has many good elements but unfortunately it’s spare parts are a lot better than it’s whole.
Mandate Pictures and Sam Raimi won a bidding war last week against Warner Bros. and David Yates (Harry Potter) for the rights package to The Day of the Triffids. Raimi will produce the remake with his long time partner Robert Tapert. According to Deadline, Sam Raimi has been a fan of the film since childhood, …
Lars Von Trier, the director of Melancholia, has released more information about the movie. The known aspects of the plot are as follows: The story revolves around two sisters (Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg), one of will marry Alexander Skarsgard. Other members of the cast include Stellan Skarsgard, John Hurt and Kieefer Sutherland. Originally, Trier …
The news that Jessica Alba was not actually naked in the shower scene in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete was met with a lot of disappointed and some debate. Apparently Alba filmed the scene wearing white underwear that was later removed with CGI. The debate revolves around what CGI nudity means for the future of film. Photo …
/Film is reporting the inevitable release of the Piranha 3D sequel, potentially by Summer 2011. Piranha 3D did well enough in theaters to earn a sequel, making $65 million worldwide plus DVD/Blu-ray sales. According to Deadline Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan (Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D) have been hired to write the screenplay, with …
Bruce Willis, while promoting RED, expressed his intention to continue with the Die Hard series, saying, “I want to do Die Hard 5, then one final Die Hard movie, Die Hard 6, before finally hanging that white vest up for good. At the moment, I can run and I can fight on screen. But there …
Join writer, director, and star of Les Amours Imaginaires, Xavier Dolan at the downtown Apple store in Montreal, as he discusses his latest project, a story about three close friends who are involved in a love triangle. Inevitably, their friendship suffers. Part of Cannes Official Selection, the film received a standing ovation following a packed …
“The Entity is a truly haunting take on a real life ghost story that is far scarier than any fictional ghost story Hollywood has yet told.” The Entity Director: Sidney J. Furie Writer: Frank De Felitta Starring: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa 1981 United States | R | 125 mins Some of the most …
——– Biutiful Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu Ornately, elaborately disastrous, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s first venture following the schism that separated him from longtime screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, Biutiful, can’t be faulted for its lack of ambition. While the film scales back somewhat from Arriaga’s tendency to tie together a half-dozen or so disparate characters, Biutiful somehow …
——— Le Quattro Volte Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino So-called “slow cinema,” perhaps stoked on by the Romanian boom of the last few years, is quickly becoming the standard mode of expression for up-and-coming European arthouse directors who want to make a dent on the international prestige circuit. Of them, Michelangelo Frammartino’s breakthrough feature has been …
————– Stone Directed by John Curran Written by Angus MacLachlan USA, 2010 An unusual hybrid of Hollywood casting and production values with a serious dose of left-field character choices, Stone, from director John Curran (We Don’t Live Here Anymore, The Painted Veil), comes as a bolt from the blue in a season full of dreadful …
Tuesday night on Spike. Scream 2010 aired and featured a clip from Super, a teaser trailer for Scream 4 (which we already posted in the blog section) a Back to The Future reunion and some new footage from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 which looks incredible. You can see the footage …
With the 25th anniversary of Back to the Future, Universal Partnerships & Licensing have revealed that Mattel is on board to produce a series of Back to the Future action figures, accessories and toy vehicles. In the past we’ve been treated to remote control DeLorean time machines, model kits, little LEGO mini-fig like Kubricks and …
The brand new LoPo Gallery in San Francisco, CA is hosting an exhibition based on the films of Wes Anderson: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited and Fantastic Mr. Fox. The exhibit, called “Bad Dads” (as nearly every Wes Anderson character has family issues, notably father …
“The Last House on Dead End Street is avant-garde artistic horror filmmaking with hidden layers under the grime and gore.” The Last House on Dead End Street Director: Roger Watkins Writer: Roger Watkins Starring: Roger Watkins, Ken Fisher, Ken Rouse 1973 United States | Not Rated | 78 mins Since the 80’s with the boom …
“Seventh Moon is an extremely effective chiller, both absorbing and downright scary.” Seventh Moon Director: Eduardo Sanchez Writer: Eduardo Sanchez Starring: Amy Smart, Tim Chiou, Dennis Chan 2008 United States | R | 87 mins Legends and myths both enlighten and horrify. Back in 1999 Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick used the idea of legend …
Now that Disney has purchased Marvel, it is using the comic book line in every which way possible to advertise their upcoming films. I always say I never trust movie marketing to sell me on a movie but that’s not to say that I don’t love it all the same. Here is another clever piece …
The Hobbit which received the green light from Warner Brothers last week, with Peter Jackson as director is scheduled for shooting in 3-D this coming February. Now after a small coalition of actors’ unions in New Zealand and Australia pushed actors’ guilds across the world to boycott work on the films, citing an unfair residuals …
Editor’s note: Eduardo Lucatero is a friend and collaborator at Sound On Sight. While my film review can seem biased, Sound On Sight has always taken pride in their honest views. Preludio Directed by Eduardo Lucatero Ever since Hitchcock’s Rope, real-time cinema has often been utilized by directors and editors unafraid of long static shots …
– Sound Of Noise Directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson Sweden / France – 2010 – Prior to the screening of Sound of Noise, Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson’s 2001 short, Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers was shown. You can, and should, watch it here, but the basics are these: …