In a new exclusive series, FilmFracture will take you behind the scenes of Hollywood’s inner sanctum. Like a fly on the wall, we will hear the actual conversations between directors and the movie producers after first screening a film. Ever wonder what the studio thought after seeing Casablanca? Star Wars? or Ishtar? Me too! And […]
Rants and Raves
Film Rave: The Five-Year Engagement as presented by Film Independent at LACMA
The romantic comedy genre doesn’t leave room for too many surprises. We know that at some point a boy will meet a girl, the boy will do something foolish and lose the girl, and then the boy will eventually get the girl back with a heartfelt speech, or a symbolic gesture of some sort. And […]
Film Rave: The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (Dir. Marie Losier 2011)
Since founding the COUM Transmissions collective in the late sixties, via Throbbing Gristle’s invention of industrial music, and numerous highly provocative music and art shows (sex, gender, physical alteration, domination and extremity being constant themes, with a smattering of black magic), Genesis Breyer P-Orridge has dedicated herself to exploring the (off-)limits and possibilities defined and […]
Russell Espinosa’s “Best in Film”, 2011
Russell’s “Best in Film” 2011 1. The Descendants When Sideways came out in 2004 I must have gone out to see it in theaters at least three times. It wasn’t The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, or Batman and so it was a mystery to everyone including myself as to why I […]
Film Rant: Attenberg (Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari 2010)
Director/producer Athina Rachel Tsangari’s reluctance to be lumped in with some nebulous Greek New Wave is as understandable as the categorization is inevitable. She has been producing the work of Giorgos Lanthimos, and her second film as director shares with his Dogtooth (2009) and Alps (2011) not only strong tonal and thematic similarities, and an […]