Movie Poster of the Week: Ben Wheatley’s “Sightseers”
Adrian CurryPerhaps the first hand-knitted movie poster announces the newest film from a master of homespun horror.
Ben Wheatley
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Daily Briefing. Rasoulof, Lynch, Tarr, Hitchcock, Wellman
David HudsonAlso: Hoberman on It’s Halftime in America and the prospects for “an Obama-inflected Hollywood cinema.”
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Movie Poster of the Week: “Kill List”
Adrian CurryAn interview with Jay Shaw about his striking new Mondo poster for Ben Wheatley’s Kill List.
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Daily Briefing. Cinema Scope 49
David HudsonFeaturing an interview with Ai Weiwei and more. Also: The Gold Rush and Last Year at Marienbad in New York.
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Scary Monsters and Midnight Madness
David HudsonFor many cinephiles, Halloween is a season, not an eve, and it begins today. Also: Wrapping Toronto’s Midnight Madness program.
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In the UK. Ben Wheatley's "Kill List"
David Hudson“Wheatley might be the most idiosyncratic and exciting filmmaker the UK has produced since Shane Meadows.”
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"Red," "Jackass 3D," "Conviction," More
David HudsonThe film of the week would have to be Olivier Assayas's Carlos, and the roundup of raves carries on right here. So, too, does the one for Clint Eastwood's Hereafter, which a few critics have now stepped
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ND/NF 2010: "Down Terrace"
David Hudson"Ben Wheatley's Down Terrace follows up a strong first half with a rather less productive second act," writes Andrew Schenker in Slant. "Charting two weeks in the lives of a father-and-son gangster