When composing the canon of great American films, there is one in particular that occupies a very strange space – Elmer Gantry is a film mostly remembered for the dynamic performance given by Burt Lancaster, who was already one of the industry’s most interesting leading actors, and very little else. Richard Brooks was a filmmaker […]
All Luke and his mom have are two garbage bags full of clothes, and two tickets out of town on the midnight Greyhound. Like he’s assembling a puzzle, Luke has to figure out the why of it–all before the person they’re running from puts together the pieces.
The brothers Andi (13) en Florist (20) live in a poor and desolate village in Kosovo. By selling milk they earn just enough money to support the family. When Andi discovers a card of a Dutch porn star in their bedroom, he needs a telephone to watch it. He is so obsessed with it, he doesn’t notice his brother has chosen this day to say goodbye to him.
On a cold winter night, Lynn just wants a one-night stand. As she kisses the slightly dorky guy outside a club in Toronto, she thinks she’s found it. But he lives two hours away via public transit, which makes her “no strings attached” encounter suddenly complicated. As the couple get on the subway and then on a bus, what starts out as excitement gets awkward fast. But as things get real, what begins as a fleeting encounter becomes much more interesting. This sweet, winning romantic comedy is carried by its excellent script, as well as earnest, relatable performances by its lead actors. Captured with excellent camerawork and scored with dreamy indie rock, “Long Branch” captures what it’s like to be young, dealing with less than ideal adult lives and falling in love when you least expect it. The journey to a delicate, budding new relationship is filled with its obstacles and rocky moments, but by the film’s end, you’ll want to keep following this pair into the future.
A young woman finds a one-night stand. But he lives 2 hours away via public transit. | Long Branch
Artistically, war comes in many different forms. There are the rousing battlefield films that show the harrowing conditions of warfare, the intimate chamber dramas that attempt to show the machinations that go into some of history’s most definitive moments, and the general psychological thriller that situates itself on the outskirts of the most prominent moments, […]
Ruben (Riz Ahmed) is a heavy metal drummer. He and girlfriend Lou (Olivia Cooke) are in a two-person band and they just love to bang on shit and make noise. They travel the country in their Airstream; it’s not a glamorous life or a well-remunerated one (yet, there are talks of an album), but they’re […]
Netflix’ in yapımcılığında Berkun Oya ve Ali Farkhonde ikilisinin oluşturduğu ‘BİR BAŞKADIR’ adlı dizi geçtiğimiz gün vizyona girdi. Psikolojik harp tekniklerinin bol bol kullanıldığı, toplumsal alanda sözümona farklı…
Duncan and his dog Oscar go on their weekly camping trip into the wilderness. But this trip, when Duncan looks out into the woods, something out there looks back. A selection of Short of the Week, the web’s leading curators of quality short films.
When a teenage girl must act as a translator between her crush and a French girl who catches his eye, she decides to alter their conversation to her benefit.
Hayatım diye bir şey kalmadığı dediğiniz zamanlarda izlenmesi gereken bir film. Sevgilisiyle banliyöde yaşadığı tekdüze hayattan sıkılan Louise, Paris’te doya doya bekar hayatı yaşayabileceği küçük bir daireye taşınır. Yakın arkadaşı Octave’la birlikte hayatında yeni bir sayfa açar. Eric Rohmer kendine has karakteriyle zamana ve mekana hakimiyetini bir kez daha sergiliyor. Film, bir kadının özgürleşme yolculuğunu […]
Yaşantımızın bir kurgudan öte daha garip olduğunu hissettiğimiz zamanlarda izlenmesi gereken bir film. Harold Crick, saat gibi işleyen hayatında takıntılıları olan ve ona sıradan gibi gelen muhteşem yetenekleriyle rutin bir hayatın içinde yaşayıp gider. Bir gün hayatının başkası tarafından yazıldığını ve kendisinin bir roman kahramanı olduğunu fark eder. Harold’ ın tüm yaşadıkları başkası tarafından kulağına […]
Uğraşılarımızın sonucunu ‘nasipse olur’ culuğa bıraktığımız zamanlarda izlenmesi gereken bir film. Nasipse Adayız, İstanbul’da bir belediye başkan aday adayı olan Dr. Kemal Güner’in bir gününe odaklanıyor. Çalışmalarına devam eden Kemal, partinin bir numarasının adaylığını açıklayacağı geceye hazırlanmaktadır. Aday olabilmek için her şeyi deneyen Kemal, günden geceye insanların peşinde aday olabilmek koşturmaya devam eder. Önemli gecede […]