Later this summer, Ang Lee releases his 60s paean, “Taking Woodstock.”
With a look at the Safdie brothers “Go Get Some Rosemary” and Lynn Shelton’s “Humpday,” Eric Lavalee of IONCINEMA finds Mumblecore on the Croisette.
Isabel Coixet follows-up the sensually taut “Elegy” with “Map of the Sounds of Tokyo” starring Rinko Kikuchi as a fishmongering hit lady.
The Hollywood Reporter holds a Q&A with Bong Joon-ho, director of “The Host” and the newly premiered “Mother,” who states “what I’m trying to do is find fresh, new ways of appealing to a mass audience.”
One Film Wonder: He appeared in more than 60 films but Charles Laughton is credited as directing only one, “The Night of the Hunter.” Anchored by James Agee’s shrewd script and Stanley Cortez’s haunting cinematography and a cast headed by an unforgettably chilling Robert Mitchum and steely Lillian Gish, Laughton helmed one of the most thoroughly intense and creepy thrillers in film history.
