Tag: viggomortensen
EUREKA Review: Swimming With Fascinating Ideas
Viggo Mortensen and Chiara Mastroianni star in Lisandro Alonso's new film.
Review: THIRTEEN LIVES, Respectful, Reverential Thai Cave Rescue Dramatization
A twist on the “if it bleeds, it leads” credo of local news coverage, national and international cable news thrives on spectacle: Disaster definitely sells; impending and/or drawn-out disaster sells even better. It can hold viewer engagement across hours, days,...
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE Teaser: Cronenberg is Still The Master of Body Horror
Two words for you: Viggo and Cronenberg. Two more words for you: Body Horror.
Friday One Sheet: FALLING
Two posters do not a trend make, however, I will point out the effective use of wallpaper in both Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things, and today's key art, from Viggo Mortensen's Falling. Maybe wallpaper is just a stand...
Review: GREEN BOOK Delivers Familiar Bromides With Fresh Brio
Delivering familiar bromides with fresh brio, Green Book is an altogether pleasant and very entertaining trip back in time that is more relevant than ever. More than anything else in the career of director Peter Farrelly, it reminds me of...
BiFan 2016 Review: CAPTAIN FANTASTIC Takes Quirky Journey to Known Destination
There's a certain type of film that'e become prominent and popular among a lot of American indie filmmakers in recent years; I like to call it the Sundance Film (though not all have played at that festival). It's a social...
The Many Faces Of Frank Langella
This week sees the limited North-American release of Matt Ross' Captain Fantastic, starring Viggo Mortensen. So this week, our quiz is... but no, we did Viggo already, heh. Further down the cast-list we see Frank Langella though, so guess what?...
Seattle 2016: CAPTAIN FANTASTIC Takes Home Top Prize, GLEASON & GIRL ASLEEP Also Honored
It's the end of a long journey for those involved in the massive Seattle International Film Festival with over three weeks in the books. SIFF's Golden Space Needle Awards were handed out this morning and it was Matt Ross's Sundance-premiering...
Fantasia 2015 Review: 25 Years On, THE REFLECTING SKIN Remains A Wonder
Seeing The Reflecting Skin for the first time, the 1990 film by Philip Ridley, starring Viggo Mortensen and Lindsay Duncan, one can't help but wonder how the hell the thing ever got made. I'd previously never even heard of...
The Many Faces Of Viggo Mortensen
This week, David Oelhoffen's African western Far From Men has been released West of the Atlantic. In my review, I called it a great film, and this has in no small measure to do with its lead actor Viggo Mortensen....
Review: FAR FROM MEN, A Western In Algeria
(How can you be Far From Men when Viggo is around?) An Algeria-based western might seem like an odd idea on paper, but David Oelhoffen's Far From Men (Loin des Hommes), starring Viggo Mortensen, turns out to be a pretty...
Rotterdam 2015: What The Audiences Liked Best
(Because let's face it: what do all those artsy-fartsy-lovin' paid critics know, anyway?) Years ago, there was a time when the coming of the International Film Festival Rotterdam annoyed me. All my favorite cinemas were taken over by this event,...
Review: FAR FROM MEN, A Great Viggo Mortensen Western
(How can you be Far From Men when Viggo is around?) As a preview for the upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam next month, loyal visitors were allowed to see one of the films already: David Oelhoffen's Algeria-based western Far From...
Berlinale 2014 Review: THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY Proves Middlebrow Is Timeless
They've been making movies like The Two Faces of January since before they made movies. A graying man, his blonde haired bride, and the younger cad who comes between them. Crime and chase amidst sun dappled vistas. Cops and con...
TIFF 2012 Review: EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN Offers A Double Dose Of Viggo
As if performing in a foreign language isn't enough of a challenge, Ana Piterbarg's Argentinian thriller Everybody Has A Plan features Viggo Mortensen playing not one but two roles entirely in Spanish. It's a casting choice from Piterbarg that -...
It's Viggo And Viggo In Spanish Language Thriller EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN
While Viggo Mortensen hasn't been seen as often as fans would like in North America, the actor has a fascination with Spanish language cinema that continues to yield interesting results. He played the lead in swashbuckler Alatriste a few years...
Blu-ray Review: A DANGEROUS METHOD
There was a time when the name "David Cronenberg" conjured a singular style. He built his name on a specific type of body horror no one else could approach. Back to his very earliest films, he examined the duality between...
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NYFF 2011: A DANGEROUS METHOD Review
During yesterday's press conference at Lincoln Center, director David Cronenberg insisted he doesn't think about his past pictures while engaged in the making of a new one. That doesn't mean that audiences, and more specifically his legions of fans--and I'm...
TIFF 2011: A DANGEROUS METHOD Review
Perhaps the film I most anticipated at this year's TIFF, it stands to follow that David Cronenberg's fictionalized treatment of the interaction between Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung and Sabina Spielrein is my first major disappointment. But mine is not...
Cronenberg's A DANGEROUS METHOD Finds a Home with Sony Pictures Classics
It's pretty hard not to be excited about David Cronenberg's upcoming period drama starring Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud, Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung and Keira Knightley as the girl in the middle. We've been waiting a while but news...
