Quentin Dupieux, otherwise known as electronic music DJ Mr Oizo, in attendance for the first screening and playing a set at the Société des Arts Technologiques the very same night, presented the Montreal audience with his latest movie, Réalité.
The Festival du Nouveau Cinema has arrived and because of it’s strong line-up, there is no way it is possible to see everything worth watching. Faced with an impossible task I proposed myself to focus on just one section of this year’s festival, TEMPS Ø, which is celebrating it’s 10th year in 2014. This section …
Wrong Directed by Quentin Dupieux Written by Quentin Dupieux USA, 2012 The new film Wrong, from writer-director Quentin Dupieux, is less a movie and more a feature-length experiment in provocative trolling. If you find the film deliberately, obnoxiously unpleasant, well, you’re just a fuddy-duddy. You can’t accept the intentionally odd tone as being a charming …
Wrong Written and directed by Quentin Dupieux USA, 2012 An aptronym, or charactonym, is when a person’s profession or career is aptly expressed by their strangely befitting name. For example, if your name is Anita Baker and you become bread-monger, or if your name is Dan Druff and you become a barber, then this constitutes …
Wrong Directed by Quentin Dupieux Written by Quentin Dupieux USA, 2012 Written and directed by Quentin Dupieux (Rubber), Wrong initially intrigues in its refusal to conform to convention, but tirelessly wears out its viewer throughout all of its banal aimlessness. The film’s world becomes predictably baffling and increasingly dull as we embark on a bizarre …
Wrong Directed by Quentin Dupieux Written by Quentin Dupieux U.S.A., 2012 Two years ago writer and director Quentin Dupieux brought Rubber to Fantasia and the world at large, which told the story of an evil tire which rolled around and killed people. On one side of the film fan community it was hailed as clever, …
#1- Machete Directed by Robert Rodriguez and co-director Ethan Maniquis It took three years, but Machete, whose fake trailer showcased before the B-picture homage Grindhouse, finally hit the cineplex. Anyone who found themselves excited by that teasing coming attraction will no doubt be satiated by the relentless onslaught of over-the-top violence, extreme gore, unnecessary nudity …
“Rubber is this century’s Attack of the Killer Tomatoes…” Rubber Directed by Quentin Dupieux Director/writer Quentin Dupieux’s horror-comedy Rubber opens with the narrator asking the questions that have long baffled humanity: “Why is ET brown? In the movie JFK, why does that president get assassinated? And why do some people like sausages and other people …
Anyone expecting a conventional horror or comedy film will be disappointed. Rubber Dir. Quentin Dupieux (2010, France, 85 mins.) Quentin Dupieux has brought us one of the year’s most interesting, intelligent, and worthwhile films. To say that Rubber is about a sentient, psychokinetic, murderous tire would be accurate, but would also miss the point. This …
The Fantasia Film Festival began in 1996, screening Asian films from Hong Kong and Japan, with a sprinkle of Japanese anime, but throughout the years, the festival has gradually expanded its focus to include genre films from all over the world. This year, the Fantasia Film Festival opens a new category called Camera Lucida; in …