If you have seen Marco Bellocchio’s Fists in the Pocket (1965), which has been loosely adapted and updated into Karim Aïnouz’s Rosebush Pruning, then you will have an idea of where the new film is headed: the implosion of a highly dysfunctional family. Yet where Bellochio’s film was shot in neorealist monochrome, Aïnouz’s comes in…
Sasquatch Sunset opens with a literal fulfilment of its title’s promise: after a montage of deep forest locations, a family of four sasquatch – the alpha (Nathan Zellner), his mate (Riley Keough), a younger male (Jesse Eisenberg) and a child (Christophe Zajac-Denek) – is seen to emerge, and to traverse a mountain ridge, silhouetted by…
Under The Silver Lake first published (in slightly shorter form) by VODzilla.co There is a whole subgenre of films set in Los Angeles – including Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd. (1950), Curtis Hanson’s L.A. Confidential (1997), Tony Scott’s Domino (2005), Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales (2006), Allen Coulter’s Hollywoodland (2006), Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice (2014), and…
The House That Jack Built first published by VODzilla.co “I understand Hitler,” stated Lars von Trier in a press conference at Cannes promoting Melancholia in 2011. “I think I understand the man. He is not what we would call a good guy, but I understand much about him and I think I sympathise with him…