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Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s THERE WILL BE BLOOD is a masterly, unflinching examination of a consummately evil man. Daniel Plainview (via a transcendent performance by the great Daniel Day-Lewis) is, as he likes to remind those around him, an oil man: he finds it, he drills for it, and he makes money from it. Following a tip from a visitor named Paul Sunday, whose family sits atop a veritable ocean of oil, Plainview travels to the town of New Boston, California, with his young son. Sunday’s preacher brother Eli (both roles are played by the excellent Paul Dano) grudgingly accepts Plainview’s ambitions under the condition that he help fund the town church. As Plainview’s plans come to fruition, a series of events begin to fracture the insular world he has constructed for himself, pitting Plainview against Sunday and forcing him to become even more vindictive and ruthless. Anderson proved with BOOGIE NIGHTS and MAGNOLIA that he was adept at handling expansive storylines and layered plots; however, he stakes out a claim here as a new master of the cinematic epic. The film is visually stunning, and alternates between lush widescreen shots of the desert and meticulously composed, darkly lit close-up of his actors, presenting complex images of the American landscape and the souls that dot it. As a narrative, THERE WILL BE BLOOD is told with a sense of economy, yet never at the expense of the film’s inherently grand scope. It’s difficult to determine precisely what Anderson wants his viewers to take from the experience: the film is, in the end, appropriately complex and ambiguous. THERE WILL BE BLOOD forces us to confront Plainville, who seems to be a larger-than-life personification of evil; that we don’t entirely understand him at the film’s conclusion is not a shortcoming, but rather a tribute to the depths of this most vile creature and this most brilliant film.
August 5, 2010 | Posted in
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The Ben Stiller/Robert De Niro franchise continues with this third outing of their film series. Owen Wilson, Teri Polo, and Blythe Danner co-star, with Paul Weitz stepping in to handle directing duties from Jay Roach, who directed both MEET THE PARENTS and MEET THE FOCKERS.
June 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Two decades after directing THE COMPANY OF WOLVES, director Neil Jordan returns to the world of fairy tales with this film shot in Ireland. ONDINE centers on Syracuse, a fisherman who finds a woman whom his daughter takes for a mermaid. This fantasy-infused drama stars Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda, and Alison Barry, and it reunites Jordan with frequent collaborator Stephen Rea.
April 24, 2010 | Posted in
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Trailer for Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders
April 24, 2010 | Posted in
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World famous film director Guido Contini reaches a creative and personal crisis of epic proportion while balancing the numerous women in his life including his wife, his mistress, his film star muse, his confidant and costume designer, an American fashion journalist, the whore from his youth and his mother.
November 18, 2009 | Posted in
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Set on the mean streets of a Rio de Janeiro slum (in the “Cidade de Deus” housing project), this film follows two boys who grow up down differing paths (stretched across over 15 years, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s). One, Buscape (Rodrigues), becomes a photographer, the other becomes a drug dealer. The film follows their paths through a series of short stories, as we learn about the violent, often short lives of those wrapped up in the dangerous world of drugs and crime on Brazil’s cruelest area.
November 12, 2009 | Posted in
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REVOLUTIONARY ROAD scene-stealer Michael Shannon stars in this modern noir. Set in post-9/11 America, THE MISSING PERSON follows private eye John Rosow (Shannon) as he attempts to find a man who has been lost since the World Trade Center attacks. When John does find him, he discovers a man who has no desire to go back to his old life. This film also stars Amy Ryan (GONE BABY GONE), Margaret Colin, and Frank Wood.
October 30, 2009 | Posted in
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When high-powered attorney Louise (Meg Ryan) learns that her husband, Ian (Timothy Hutton), plans to leave her after 13 years of marriage to run off with his twentysomething girlfriend, Sara (Kristen Bell), she immediately decides to take drastic action. She ties up Ian in their country house and refuses to let him go until they talk things through. Naturally, he resists, and things take an even worse turn for the couple when a young hooligan (Justin Long) hears Ian’s cries for help and decides to rob the couple blind instead of helping the hapless husband. SERIOUS MOONLIGHT was scripted by actress-director Adrienne Shelly, who was murdered in 2006. After her death, Shelly’s husband, Andy Ostroy (who produced the film and has a small role in it), decided to go forward with the project. SERIOUS MOONLIGHT marks the feature directorial debut of actress Cheryl Hines (CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM), who co-starred in Shelly’s last directorial effort, WAITRESS.
October 16, 2009 | Posted in
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Trailer for Uncertainty
October 16, 2009 | Posted in
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Two young men go from friends to lovers as one stands on the verge of stardom in this drama from Thailand. Mew and Tong were best friends as children, and Tong’s sister Tang was a close confidant to them both. Years later, Mew (Witwisit Hiranyawongkul) has become a professional musician, and he’s the lead singer and songwriter with a pop group, August, who are poised to achieve major commercial success. One day, Mew happens to meet Tong (Mario Maurer) for the first time in years, and the two waste no time getting reacquainted; while both of them have girlfriends, it becomes clear that there’s a bond between them that they’ve never felt with other people, and their friendship begins to grow into something deeper. Meanwhile, Tong’s family is still reeling from Tang’s mysterious disappearance several years before, and her father, Korn (Songsit Roongnophakunsri), has become a hopeless alcoholic. When Tong meets June (Chermarn Boonyasak), a personal assistant for August, he’s struck by her uncanny resemblance to Tang, and asks her to pose as his sister in hopes her presence will help his father snap out of his depression. RAK HANG SIAM (aka THE LOVE OF SIAM) was written and directed by Matthew Chookiat Sakveerakul, who also had a hand in writing the songs for the film.
October 14, 2009 | Posted in
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