Who would’ve thought the director of Primer and Upstream Color would go mainstream? This is the case though as Deadline reports Shane Carruth is set to make The Modern Ocean, a big budget nautical action adventure film, for WME. It’ll be Carruth’s third film and first one with a larger budget. Carruth talked about the …
As you can probably tell, this list feels more arbitrary than others. That’s not by design, but the unfortunate premise of the list leaves some room for interpretation. As we move forward, we will start seeing the films that, if you asked a lay person to give an example, would probably be a response. In …
As with any year, some people have begun arguing that 2013 was a bad year for film, because of the expected glut of effects-heavy blockbusters that litter the multiplexes each summer, or because there was a lack of auteur-driven storytelling for the majority of the year. Though it is indeed frustrating that studios hold their …
We are now officially half way through the year and so I’ve asked our staff to vote for their favourite films released thus far. Hollywood blockbusters may have disappointed us, but thankfully we can always rely on independent filmmakers to create some truly inspiring films. Rounding out the special mentions is Terrence Malick’s To The …
In William Gibson’s 2003 novel Pattern Recognition a mysteriously binary filmmaker slowly and anonymously drip feeds footage of his homebrew masterpiece to an eagerly seduced audience of intellectually curious, avant-garde aligned internet film fanatics.
As with his first feature Primer, it helps to go into Upstream Color with a self-assured intellect, but I’ll be the first to acknowledge that director Shane Carruth, math major, former engineer and self taught filmmaker, likely has a few IQ points on most of us. Countering any criticism that his previous effort may have been too dense or overly verbose, Carruth answers with a film that is largely silent.
Another year and another great festival wraps up deep in the heart of Texas. As the curtains draw to a close on the Paramount and the music fades, Friday marked the end of another great festival at South by Southwest. With over a hundred films screened, this year’s festival has introduced a plethora of great …
Upstream Color Composed by Shane Carruth erbp February 20, 2013 There’s an ostensibly incomprehensible quality about Shane Carruth’s work that initially makes it difficult to write about. There’s also a genuine and earnest desire to be heard and understood that makes grappling his output irresistible. Where this is true of his films, it’s also true …
Filmmaker Shane Carruth, despite his limited cinematic output to date, has already established himself as an exciting new force to look out for in the film world, with his first feature, Primer, a movie which Carruth wrote, directed, starred in, produced, edited, and composed the score for, garnering high acclaim as more people discovered it. …
2013 is here. Obviously its extremely early in the game, but the biggest moneymaker of the year so far has been Texas Chainsaw 3D. That says something about a landscape of movies full of reboots, remakes and sequels.What it says is that they work. Is this a sad fact? Yes, in some ways its a …
[callout]Upstream Color / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Shane Carruth) — A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives. Cast: Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, Thiago Martins.[/callout]