Articles by Lauren Treihaft
The Holy Mountain [Blu-Ray]
Alejandro Jodorowsky
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
The Holy Mountain is basically the closest thing to tripping on LSD without actually doing it (or so I imagine). The entire film is a hallu...
Coriolanus
Ralph Fiennes
PUBLISHED Jan 19, 2012
Coriolanus marks Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut. Set in a modern day Roman city-state, the film remains true to Shakespearian language wh...
Water for Elephants [Blu-Ray]
Francis Lawrence
PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2012
Director Francis Lawrence is well known for his artistic hand in the production of highly stylized music videos. His unique grasp of mise-e...
The Last Circus
Alex de la Iglesia
PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2011
The characters of The Last Circus inhabit a nightmarish world where the duality between good and evil is impossible to navigate. The film c...
Straw Dogs [Blu-Ray]
Sam Peckinpah
PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2011
Straw Dogs is one of those timeless, coming-of-age, masterpiece films; one that is "mummified," as Andre Bazin would put it. Yet it doesn't...
Twiggy
Emmanuelle Millet
PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2011
What starts out as something akin to a French Juno continues on to be completely devoid of comedy and replete with hopelessness and ignoran...
The First Man
Gianni Amelio
PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2011
Winner of the Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI Prize) for Special Presentation, The First Man is a beautiful adaptation of Albe...
Your Sister's Sister
Lynn Shelton
PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2011
Lynn Shelton (director of the unexpectedly popular Humpday) returns with another charming tail of flailing early adulthood. The film begin...
