The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2015), The Bear Attack Yes, every single word of praise you’ve read and/or heard is true. One can’t escape talking about The Revenant without mentioning its pièce de résistance: a bear mauling that seems to be…
Interview: Directors Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson talk Oscar-nominated ‘Anomalisa’
Anomalisa tells the story of Michael Stone (David Thewlis), a self-help author, who finds the world around him bleak and lifeless. To him, everyone literally has the same face and same voice (Tom Noonan). This featureless life, however, gets a hint…
‘Anomalisa’ Directors Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson Interview
Charlie Kaufman, the brain behind the cerebral cult classic films Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich, once wrote a play, as he describes, to fill in for the Coen Brothers in 2005 with a limited cast…
Movie Review: Anomalisa
Finding himself at odds with the world around him, despite all visages of a successful and happy life in place, Michael (David Thewlis) experiences a night of an internalized existential crisis. Stricken by life’s supposed mundanity, he finds a few hours of…
Trailer Watch: ‘Anomalisa’ (Tissues Recommended)
If you want a small peep at an anomaly in the year’s Oscar race for the animated feature category, a melancholic and mature masterpiece amidst a group of family-friendly fare, the first striptease of Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa was released today. Ogle…
TIFF Report #10 (A Recap Of Superlatives)
My final day in Toronto included a screening of Vertigo, “the best film of all time,” a game of street hockey, the best sport ever invented, and a steak meal, the best food of my entire trip. It was my best…
TIFF Report #3 (Anomalisa, The Assassin, Maggie’s Plan)
Because of malnutrition, dehydration, sleep deprivation, poor hygiene but most influentially seeing way, way too many movies, I have been diagnosed with festival fog. Feeling as though there is an inescapable haze over your memory and intellect, everything melds together…