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Big Ears Festival Announces 2018 Film Line-Up
For the third year now, Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival will offer a number of film-related screenings in conjunction with The Public Cinema, the organization co-founded by writer Darren Hughes and filmmaker Paul Harrill (Something, Anything). Filmmaker Blake Williams, whose experimental work is 3D-based, attended last year (subscribers can read his enthusiastic write-up here) and has programmed one of this year’s big series. From the press release: A survey of 3D cinema — experimental and mainstream, short and feature-length, contemporary and historical — “Stereo Visions” will encompass and demonstrate the full visual and affective capacities of our favorite on-again/off-again format. From […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Feb 1, 2018 -
TIFF Critic’s Notebook 6: Brawl in Cell Block 99, Prototype
S. Craig Zahler’s Brawl in Cell Block 99 replicates the structural mutations of his first film, Bone Tomahawk, at first a realistic Western that expands into a gorefest with inflections of Mad Max. Likewise, Brawl begins as a fairly low-key thriller (minus the part in which Vince Vaughn dismantles nearly half a car with his bare hands) that continuously ratchets up the bloodiness in uncreasingly unreal settings. Zahler’s definitely a gore enthusiast, which isn’t really my thing: it doesn’t particularly bother me, but I’d just as soon not deal with it. But, like Jeremy Saulnier, gore enables what I’ve liked about his work: Tomahawk relished […]
by Vadim Rizov on Sep 13, 2017
