FESTIVAL SCENE PREVIEW
BY JAKE MATHISON
September 10th, 2011
With this year's Toronto International Film Festival underway, here's a look at 10 indie films oozing with potential that should undoubtedly be on every cinephile's radar.
BY JAKE MATHISON
September 10th, 2011
With this year's Toronto International Film Festival underway, here's a look at 10 indie films oozing with potential that should undoubtedly be on every cinephile's radar.
Another Earth
Mike Cahill and Brit Marling have painstakingly sculpted a film that has the potential to change the way we view and approach modern Science Fiction. This is a beautiful film about how the tiniest of moments can become the deepest of cracks, set against the most important discovery in the history of mankind.
Another Earth is rated PG-13
Take Shelter
Director Jeff Nichols' wrote and directed this buzzing film about a young family man suffering from apocalyptic visions. It also happens to star two of the best American actors of this new generation in Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain.
Take Shelter is rated R
Tree of Life
Intoxicating visual beauty, maddeningly uneven story, the legendary Terrence Malick takes on no less than the history of life on Earth itself, juxtaposing it against one insignificant family's struggle for equilibrium. Again, Jessica Chastain is the meal-ticket here, her big year continuing.
Tree of Life is rated PG-13
Melancholia
The always-controversial Lars Von Trier's doomsday film. Melancholia is a peek at the sudden end of our world in all its glory and horror. Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg star as sisters trying to make sense of it all in a film that could be a Revelation, not to mention Von Trier's best to date.
Melancholia is rated R
Sleeping Beauty
Jane Campion presents a film by Julia Leigh that explores the life of a young student who enters a perverse Kubrickian world of high-end prostitution and sexual fantasy. Sleeping Beauty has the potential to be Emily Browning's breakout role.
Sleeping Beauty is currently unrated
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Non-pariah sister to the Olsen twins, Elizabeth Olsen, stars as a psychologically scarred and tormented young woman who has recently fled life in a cult. Co-starring Sarah Paulson and the underrated John Hawkes.
Martha Marcy May Marlene is Rated R
Submarine
From the brilliant mind of Richard Ayoade, Submarine is a coming-of-age story about a 15-year old boy's quest to lose his virginity in the UK. With Craig Roberts, Sally Hawkins and Paddy Considine.
Submarine is Rated R
Perfect Sense
Ewan McGregor and Eva Green star in a love story set against the outbreak of an epidemic that robs humans of their sensory perceptions. Pseudo Sci-Fi is certainly a popular, if not fresh topic this year among Indie films.
Perfect Sense is currently unrated
Take This Waltz
Sarah Polley's latest is a film about a Toronto woman struggling to find and understand herself in different types of love. Starring the always-fabulous Michelle Williams, with Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman.
Take This Waltz is currently unrated
A Dangerous Method
Michael Fassbender is quickly becoming one of the best and most sought-after young actors of his generation. Here, he stars as Carl Jung in a biopic that explores Jung's relationship with Sigmund Freud. Also starring Keira Knightley and Viggo Mortensen.
A Dangerous Method is Rated R
Did see Another Earth...very good.... and a lot to think about and discuss.
ReplyDeleteWill see Higher Ground next.... looks promising, a woman surviving and living after being raised fundamental I believe.
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