If "Election" and "Triad Election" were Johnny To‘s succinct Hong Kong slant on the "Godfather" trilogy, "Exiled" is his luxuriant, entertaining Sergio Leone riff, set in a 1998 Macau preparing for its handover back to the PRC. Years ago, Wo (Nick Cheung) tried to assassinate Triad boss Fay (Simon Yam) and was forced to flee […]
This week on IFC News: Aaron Hillis tracks down Rob Zombie: The way I describe it to people, even those working on the movie, I say, "This sounds really weird, but think of this as a real movie." I swear, everyone thinks there are different rules if you’re making a horror movie. "Oh, the acting […]
By Michael Atkinson IFC News [Photo: “Broken English,” Magnolia Pictures, 2007] This is the way it’s done, U.S.-indie-filmmaking-wise: Zoe Cassavetes’s “Broken English” is so far 2007’s reigning small Ameri-movie, by simple and lonely virtue of the mature intelligence and respect it pays to its characters and life at large. If we had a dime for […]
By Aaron Hillis IFC News [Photos: Left, Rob Zombie; below, Tyler Mane and Kristina Klebe in “Halloween,” Dimension Films, 2007] While we tend to collectively groan at the mere announcement of a beloved film being remade, it’s easier to be forgiving with genre cinema. That’s not to say there’s anything in dire need of an […]
By Christopher Bonet IFC News [Photo: Melissa McCarthy and Ryan Reynolds in “The Nines,” Newmarket Films, 2007] A round-up of the best (or worst) $10 you’ll spend this week. “Balls of Fury” Director Ben Garant of “Reno 911!” fame directs this underdog sports comedy about a former champion ping-pong player (Dan Fogler) who’s recruited by […]
By Matt Singer IFC News [Photo: “Exiled,” Magnolia Pictures, 2007] Watching “Exiled,” you get the sense that director Johnnie To believes that old expression about a picture being worth a thousand words. The film is about a group of old friends, gangsters who grew apart and who are now thrown back together by chance. To […]
By Matt Singer and Alison Willmore IFC News [Photo: Anton Corbijn’s “Control” opens October 10th, Weinstein Company, 2007] As the (metaphorically) dark days of August come to a close, we prepare ourselves for fall and award season. This week on the IFC News podcast, we pick out ten films we’re looking forward to in the […]
"American Splendor" directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini take on Emma Mclaughlin and Nicola Kraus’ chick-lit roman à clef about a nanny’s involvement with a monstrous Upper East Side family, and, according to most reviews, no one in "The Nanny Diaries" emerges the winner. "Especially at the beginning of ‘The Nanny Diaries’ there are […]
It’s a film about boxing. It’s a film about journalism. It’s a film about dads. It’s "Resurrecting The Champ," the new film from former film critic Rod Lurie, following a sports journalist (Josh Hartnett) who writes a piece about a homeless man who claims to be a once great pro boxer (Samuel L. Jackson). Tasha […]
"Right At Your Door" is an indie disaster movie, a description that would seem inherently at odds with itself, but actually just calls for a judicious set up: here, L.A. is hit with dirty bombs (an urban trauma scenario that inevitably evokes 9/11), but the film focuses in on a man (Rory Cochrane) who’s sealed […]
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