Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 10, 2011 · 4 Comments
“Two million and six beans” Director Lars von Trier has never been easily accessible. Part of his genius is the ability to go places others might not dare, shoot imagery no one else could even fathom, and push his actors into authentic performances that risk sending them into the same psychological tailspin as their characters. […]
Category drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, toronto international film festival · Tags Alexander Skarsgård, Antichrist, Brady Corbet, Cameron Spurr, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Kirsten Dunst, Lars von Trier, Melancholia, Stellan Skarsgård, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Udo Kier
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Some Oscar nomination thoughts, the morning after: William Altreuter: Best Picture: The Hurt Locker. James Cameron backlash, plus Hollywood self-seriousness = victory! Best Actor: Jeff Bridges. Everybody loved Clooney, but he’s in something good every year. Supporting Actor: Stanley Tucci. Just a hunch. Best Actress: Sandra Bullock. Did you realize she’s forty-five years old? Not exactly […]
Category essays, oscars · Tags 35 Rhums, A Serious Man, Adventureland, Alfred Molina, An Education, Antichrist, Avatar, Blood Diamond, Bright Star, Carey Mulligan, Christoph Waltz, Cicely Tyson, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Coen Brothers, Coraline, Dances With Wolves, Diana Ross, District 9, Duncan Jones, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Forest Whitaker, Gabourey Sidibe, Half Nelson, Halle Berry, Il divo: La spettacolare vita di Giulio Andreotti, In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, James Cameron, Jamie Foxx, Jeff Bridges, Kathryn Bigelow, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lilies of the Field, Matt Damon, Meryl Streep, Million Dollar Baby, Moon, Morgan Freeman, Mo’Nique, Nick Hornby, Peter O'Toole, Peter Sarsgaard, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Public Enemies, Quentin Tarantino, Randy Newman, Ray, Ryan Gosling, Sandra Bullock, Sidney Poitier, Sin Nombre, Slumdog Millionaire, Sounder, Stanley Tucci, Star Trek, Stephen Lang, The Color Purple, The Hurt Locker, The Informant!, The Last King of Scotland, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, The Princess and the Frog, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Road, The Secret of Kells, The White Ribbon, Two Lovers, Up, Up in the Air, Venus, Watchmen, Will Smith
Posted by Jared Mobarak on October 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
“Like a madman brandishing a razor” After watching a screening of Antichrist, actor Willem Dafoe talked about the film and director Lars von Trier’s motivations. During the course of this brief Q&A, some light was shed on the inclusion of a dedication to Andrei Tarkovsky, the legendary Russian filmmaker. The film itself was a very […]
Category drama, film reviews, foreign · Tags Andrei Tarkovsky, Antichrist, Ignat Daniltesev, Lars von Trier, Margarita Terekhova, Russian, Solaris, The Mirror, Willem Dafoe, Zerkalo
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Every year at the Toronto International Film Festival seems to get better and better. Is that due to the increase in films from six to eleven to fifteen? It very well might be. And I’ll just say now, watching fifteen films in less than four days may not be the healthiest thing in the world. […]
Category essays, film features, film festival, toronto international film festival · Tags A Serious Man, Abbie Cornish, Adam Brody, Agora, Alejandro Amenábar, An Education, Antichrist, Away We Go, Ben Whishaw, Bright Star, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Cormac McCarthy, Cracks, Cremaster, Daybreakers, Diablo Cody, Elizabethtown, Enter the Void, Equilibrium, Ethan Hawke, Eva Green, Face, Fanny Ardant, Gaspar Noé, George Clooney, Irreversible, Jane Campion, Jason Reitman, Jennifer’s Body, John Hillcoat, John Holmes, Jordan Scott, Juno, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Lars and the Real Girl, Lars von Trier, Like You Know It All, Lone Scherfig, Mads Mikkelsen, Mar adentro, Margot at the Wedding, Matt Damon, Matthew Barney, Max Minghella, Megan Fox, Michael Haneke, Ming-liang Tsai, Nick Hornby, Nicolas Winding Refn, Paul Schneider, Rachel Weisz, Ridley Scott, Robert Duvall, Sam Neill, Scott Z. Burns, Spierig Brothers, Steven Soderbergh, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Informant!, The Others, The Piano, The Proposition, The Road, The White Ribbon, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Undead, Up in the Air, Valhalla Rising, Viggo Mortensen, Visage, Willem Dafoe, [Rec] 2
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment
“Can’t I just be afraid, without a definite object?” How can Lars von Trier have a film at the Toronto International Film Festival without me making sure my butt is in a seat? The Danish maestro may not fly, so an in-person Q&A is impossible, (he did hold one via Skype the day after our […]
Category drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, horror, toronto international film festival · Tags Antichrist, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Criterion Collection, Lars von Trier, Manderlay, Willem Dafoe
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment
September 10th is the day that friend/co-worker Chris Schobert and I head back up north for our third year at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). We’ve done the middle three days (2007) and the last three days (2008), so we thought, “What the hell?”, let’s try our luck with the opening four. Rolling out […]
Category film features, film festival, toronto international film festival · Tags Agora, Alejandro Amenábar, An Education, Antichrist, Broken Embraces, Cracks, Das weiße Band, Daybreakers, Enter the Void, Gaspar Noé, Jason Reitman, John Hillcoat, Jordan Scott, Juno, Lars von Trier, Lone Scherfig, Michael Haneke, Ming-liang Tsai, Pedro Almodóvar, The Road, The White Ribbon, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Up in the Air, Visage
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