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The 24th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival Coverage (October 22 – November 1, 2015)
Tinsel & Tine’s Look at the 11 Days of PFF24 By Editor, Le Anne Lindsay Philadelphia Film Festival Day 1 – Opening Film”Anomalisa” (Prince Theater PFS) Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson in Attendance Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson Philadelphia Film Festival Red Carpet Opening Night The Opening night film ANOMALISA is a stop motion animation journey into the mind of writer Charlie Kaufman who also is behind such imaginative movies as Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich (all playing during the festival “From the Vaults” click each title for screening dates & times). Anomalisa is directed by Duke Johnson, the co-collaborators were both in attendance…
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A Revlock Review: ROOM
Room is Harrowing yet Humane By Tinsel & Tine Contributor, Mikhail Revlock One cannot fault a sensitive, horror-averse moviegoer for balking at the premise of ROOM. On paper, the film reads as a realist revitalization of torture-porn tropes: Joy (Brie Larson) is kidnapped at nineteen by a bearded creep whom she refers to as Old Nick (Sean Bridgers), he imprisons her in a fortified garden shed and rapes her with nightly regularity, she gives birth to a child, and they live together in this tiny room for five years. With Eli Roth (Hostel) or James Wan (Saw) at the helm, Room could have represented an exercise in limit-pushing. However,…
