“The trick is to keep breathing,” says Dana (Judith State) as she takes a drag off the first cigarette she’s had in years, grinding it out after a couple of puffs. It feels somewhat inevitable she’d relent and take one, as they’re constantly offered to her by the Bucharest taxi driver (Alexandru Potocean) whom she has mysteriously engaged for the whole night. Smoking is one of the things you do on a stakeout, after all, and how else would you describe hanging out outside your own apartment building with a stranger, looking up at its darkened windows? Romanian director Marius Olteanu’s “Monsters.” is a remarkable debut — wise, compassionate, surprising — about a couple staking out their own slowly imploding marriage like it’s a partially dismantled apartment with no one home.
Divided cleanly into three segments and taking place over the course of 24 hours, the film is...
Divided cleanly into three segments and taking place over the course of 24 hours, the film is...
- 2/14/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Our countdown of the 100 best films of the 21st century continues. This is Part 2 #75 through 51.
Click here for Part 1 (#100-76)!
The first decade and a half of the 21st century has brought a lot of changes to the landscape of film. The advancement and sophistication of computers has made realistic computer generated effects a mainstay in both big-budget and small-budget films. The internet and streaming technologies have given big Hollywood new competition in films produced independently and by non-traditional means. We went from purchasing films on yards of tape to plastic disks, and now we can simply upload them to the cloud. Advertisements for films have reached a higher, more ruthless level where generating hype through trailers and teasers is crucial for a film’s commercial success. Movie attendance has fluctuated along with the economy, but that hasn’t stopped films from breaking box office records, including having films gross...
Click here for Part 1 (#100-76)!
The first decade and a half of the 21st century has brought a lot of changes to the landscape of film. The advancement and sophistication of computers has made realistic computer generated effects a mainstay in both big-budget and small-budget films. The internet and streaming technologies have given big Hollywood new competition in films produced independently and by non-traditional means. We went from purchasing films on yards of tape to plastic disks, and now we can simply upload them to the cloud. Advertisements for films have reached a higher, more ruthless level where generating hype through trailers and teasers is crucial for a film’s commercial success. Movie attendance has fluctuated along with the economy, but that hasn’t stopped films from breaking box office records, including having films gross...
- 1/13/2016
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (G.S. Perno)
- Cinelinx
Rumeno
Director: Catalin Mitulescu // Writer: Catalin Mitulescu
2015 is shaping up to be a big year for several of Romania’s most noted auteurs, and among them is the more obscure Catalin Mitulescu, whose first two features The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006) and Loverboy (2011) both premiered at Cannes, though the latter film never received Us distribution. His latest, Rumeno, stars Alexandru Potocean of 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days and reunites him with Loverboy actress Ada Condeescu (who also starred in the Mitulescu produced If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle and Love Island). Deserving of equal acclaim as his peers, we’re hoping his third feature secures a wider audience. The film revolves around Radu, a young man who returns to his Romanian family after working for one year in Italy. He is warmly welcomed by his wife Monica and his small son, Luca, but both seem very different.
Director: Catalin Mitulescu // Writer: Catalin Mitulescu
2015 is shaping up to be a big year for several of Romania’s most noted auteurs, and among them is the more obscure Catalin Mitulescu, whose first two features The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006) and Loverboy (2011) both premiered at Cannes, though the latter film never received Us distribution. His latest, Rumeno, stars Alexandru Potocean of 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days and reunites him with Loverboy actress Ada Condeescu (who also starred in the Mitulescu produced If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle and Love Island). Deserving of equal acclaim as his peers, we’re hoping his third feature secures a wider audience. The film revolves around Radu, a young man who returns to his Romanian family after working for one year in Italy. He is warmly welcomed by his wife Monica and his small son, Luca, but both seem very different.
- 1/5/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The new poster for Larysa Kondracki‘s thrilling drama The Whistleblower which stars Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci, David Strathairn, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Roxana Condurache, Paula Schramm, Alexandru Potocean, has arrived. Inspired by actual events, Kathy (Rachel Weisz) is an American police officer who takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Her expectations [...]
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- 11/9/2011
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
The Rachel Weisz film “The Whistleblower” will be out tomorrow in New York and Los Angeles, and in anticipation of the release, three new clips from the movie have been released. The clips, “Kathy tries to get Raya and Irka to talk”, “Burn Out,” and “Chase through the woods,” are below for your viewing pleasure. The film also stars Vanessa Redgrave, Benedict Cumberbatch, Monica Bellucci, David Strathairn, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Roxana Condurache, Paula Schramm, Alexandru Potocean, William Hope, Rayisa Kondracki, Jannette Hain and David Hewlett. The film, based on true events, is about a police officer that begins to unravel a plot full of corruption and human trafficking: Inspired by...
- 8/5/2011
- by monique
- ShockYa
An online exclusive movie clip has been released from the upcoming film “The Whistleblower” starring Rachel Weisz. In this clip, Laura (Monica Bellucci) tells Kathy that they handed Irka (Rayisa Kondracki) over to the police. “The Whistleblower” also stars Benedict Cumberbatch, David Strathairn, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Roxana Condurache, Paula Schramm, Alexandru Potocean and Jeanette Hain. The plot, based on a real story, involves a Nebraska cop who becomes involved in exposing a seriously corrupted ring of trafficking: Inspired by actual events, the film tells the story of Kathy Bolkovac (Weisz), an American police officer who takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Her expectations of helping to...
- 8/3/2011
- by monique
- ShockYa
Chicago – In our latest drama edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 40 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “The Whistleblower” with Rachel Weisz!
“The Whistleblower” also stars Monica Bellucci, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Roxana Condurache, Paula Schramm, Alexandru Potocean, William Hope, Rayisa Kondracki, Jeanette Hain, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Hewlett, Coca Bloos and Luke Treadaway from co-writer and director Larysa Kondracki and co-writer Eilis Kirwan.
The film opens in Chicago on Aug. 12, 2011. To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “The Whistleblower” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, Aug. 8, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “The Whistleblower” with Rachel Weisz, Monica Bellucci and Vanessa Redgrave.
Image credit: Samuel Goldwyn Films...
“The Whistleblower” also stars Monica Bellucci, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Roxana Condurache, Paula Schramm, Alexandru Potocean, William Hope, Rayisa Kondracki, Jeanette Hain, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Hewlett, Coca Bloos and Luke Treadaway from co-writer and director Larysa Kondracki and co-writer Eilis Kirwan.
The film opens in Chicago on Aug. 12, 2011. To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “The Whistleblower” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, Aug. 8, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “The Whistleblower” with Rachel Weisz, Monica Bellucci and Vanessa Redgrave.
Image credit: Samuel Goldwyn Films...
- 8/3/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
In the 1940's, a group of political prisoners escaped a Siberian gulag and trekked over 4000 miles to India, through unforgiving tundra forests, over harsh desert sands, and eventually over the snowy peaks of the Himalayas. Only three would finish the journey. This was documented in Slavomir Rawicz's bestselling memoir The Long Walk. Peter Weir, who hasn't sat in the director's chair since 2003's Master and Commander, brings the arduous slog to life. And I mean to life, with vast sweeping shots of the various vistas the men must tromp across telling more in their Boschian postcard silence than any sort of narration. Weir takes a dynamic cast and hauls them through the bowels of hell. If anything, the film's almost like a historical epic horror story, with the landscape acting as the slasher picking off the survivors one by one. It manages to be poignant without being overly sentimental,...
- 1/21/2011
- by Brian Prisco
Title: The Way Back Directed By: Peter Weir Starring: Jim Sturgess, Dragos Bucur, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Alexandru Potocean, Saoirse Ronan, Gustaf Skarsgard, Mark Strong, Sebastian Urzendowsky No, it’s not right to knock a film for a lengthy runtime, but if a movie is pushing two hours, it better be able to justify it. In The Way Back’s case it does - kind of. While the first portion of the film drags considerably despite impressively effective imagery, it isn’t until over an hour into it that things really become compelling. There’s nothing wrong with a film that saves the best for last, but it still needs to be entertaining while you’re [...]...
- 1/19/2011
- by Perri Nemiroff
- ShockYa
Seven years after directing Russell Crowe in Master and Commander, acclaimed director Peter Weir (The Truman Show) has retaken his place behind the camera for a dramatic journey of survival from within the Soviet Union's iron curtain.
Co-written with executive producer Keith Clarke, The Way Back, loosely based on a prominent memoir by Slavomir Rawicz, sketches the escape from a Siberian gulag by a gang of prisoners under the cover of a blizzard. The snow masks not only their disappearance, but also the personal wounds they each carrying courtesy of Communist authorities under Stalin’s Reign of Terror.
Led by kind-hearted former cavalry officer Janusz (Jim Sturgess), the motley gang includes his fellow Poles Tamasz (Alexandru Potocean) and Kazik (Sebastian Urzendowsky), the American Mr. Smith (Ed Harris), the Latvian Voss (Gustaf Skarsgård), and the comedian of the group, Zoran (Dragos Bucur). Tagging along, knife firmly in hand, is the murderous,...
Co-written with executive producer Keith Clarke, The Way Back, loosely based on a prominent memoir by Slavomir Rawicz, sketches the escape from a Siberian gulag by a gang of prisoners under the cover of a blizzard. The snow masks not only their disappearance, but also the personal wounds they each carrying courtesy of Communist authorities under Stalin’s Reign of Terror.
Led by kind-hearted former cavalry officer Janusz (Jim Sturgess), the motley gang includes his fellow Poles Tamasz (Alexandru Potocean) and Kazik (Sebastian Urzendowsky), the American Mr. Smith (Ed Harris), the Latvian Voss (Gustaf Skarsgård), and the comedian of the group, Zoran (Dragos Bucur). Tagging along, knife firmly in hand, is the murderous,...
- 12/21/2010
- Shadowlocked
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