“I find it super hard to pitch the film after it has been made but this description is the best I’ve heard! A lone man, shrouded in darkness, declares an intention to rise again. Meanwhile, we, the audience, are hurtled off a hillside, details blurring like watercolors. This is expressive filmmaking of the highest order […]
Author: Jason Whyte
SxSW 2018 Interview: Meet the team from the Canadian Short WE FORGOT TO BREAK UP!
“What if you created a band with your best friends, fell in love with the lead guitarist, led the band to superstardom, and then you wrote a memoir explaining why you had to break up with them?” Producer Nicole Hilliard-Forde on WE FORGOT TO BREAK UP which screens at SxSW Film 2018. Also joining Nicole […]
SxSW 2018 Interview: Narcissister Organ Player director Narcissister
“Narcissister Organ Player is a hybrid performance/documentary film that explores how ancestral data is stored in our bodies, impacting the lives we lead. On the personal level, the film investigates how my complex family history compelled me to create the masked, erotic performance character Narcissister.” How did this project come together for you? I got […]
SxSW 2018 Interview: A Little Wisdom director Yuqi Kang
“My film explores how children view the world and find happiness through simple life and the power of their imagination. The story takes place inside a century-old Buddhist monastery in Lumbini, Nepal, the birthplace of Buddha. We follow the daily routine of the youngest novice Hopakuli, and his older brother Chorten, both left by their […]
SxSW 2018 Interview: THE RIDER director Chloé Zhao
“It’s about a young rodeo rider coping with a near-fatal head injury. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.” Director Chloé Zhao on THE RIDER which screens […]
SxSW 2018 Interview: THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET director Jeremy Workman
“THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET is a documentary that I’ve been making for over 3 years about Matt Green, who has been walking every single street of New York City, which amounts to over 8000 miles. The film tells the story of this peculiar personal quest, but it’s also about the journey of discovery, humanity, […]
Blu Ray Review: The Foreigner
Now on Blu Ray, THE FOREIGNER was one of my favorite genre type films of 2017; a bizarrely plotted spy thriller that takes the pulpiest moments of John Le Carre and mixes it in with a spy thriller and kinda, sorta Kung-fu movie with Jackie Chan. If this movie had the Cannon Films logo on […]
GAME NIGHT: The Funniest Movie of 2018 (So far, anyway…)
As is per tradition of this movie lover, I tend to avoid as many previews and ahead of the release reviews of movies as I want to sit down in the theater with my gigantic bag of buttered popcorn and discover every new movie with fresh eyes. So I walk into GAME NIGHT with just […]