NEGATIVE SPACE

"THE FUTURE becomes a really thrilling hybrid, using nearly avant-garde, highly conceptual staging and imagery to further what is essentially a classic romance of remarriage", schreibt Karina Longworth (Village Voice). "THE FUTURE blossoms into something lovely and melancholy, a magical realist miniature about the dread of time passing, the gradual narrowing of options that underlies the watery commitment-phobia of its central couple", meint Alison Willmore (IFC News). "I kind of really loved THE FUTURE. For what it's worth, ideal viewing circumstances are when you've spent a week away from your boyfriend", twittert Katey Rich.

LIKE CRAZY - Drake Doremus

"LIKE CRAZY is, like, really wonderful. Young people fall in love like young people fall out of like adults", twittert Wesley Morris (Boston Globe). "The glib will joke about LIGHT BLUE VALENTINE or 2,000 DAYS OF BUMMER, but there's lots to appreciate here, incl. great acting", twittert James Rocchi. "Many want to hear about LIKE CRAZY, but don't have much to say about it. Effectively tearjerking, narratively inane, Jones breakout star", twittert Karina Longworth. "Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones are felicitously well-cast in Drake Doremus' emotional but flawed LIKE CRAZY", findet auch Robert Koehler. "Breathtakingly captures the elation of immediate attraction and first love between two college students then impeccably registers the growing distance between them as they are forced to live in different countries for a long period", schreibt Todd McCarthy (THR) und meint weiter: "Director Drake Doremus and his superb cinematographer, John Gulesarian, bring the viewer as close to the couple as possible without inducing suffocation, creating an experience of enveloping intimacy."

BELLFLOWER - Evan Glodell

"The whole film has a handmade quality that gives it a shabby charm. BELLFLOWER is a mess, but one that's unquestionably the product of incredible ambition and potential. And for all its flaws, it's the discovery of the festival thus far", bloggt Karina Longworth (Village Voice). "I hope Tim League gets a look at it, because this would be an amazing pick-up for Drafthouse Films, and if Tim and Glodell hit the road to promote the movie in the actual muscle cars, stopping in each town for a flamethrower demo, I might have to quit my job and follow them like the Grateful Dead", schreibt Drew McWeeny (HitFix). "What happens when boys raised on nothing but beer and TV commercials get a camera", twittert Wesley Morris.

THE CATECHISM CATACLYSM - Todd Rohal

"Not the biggest film at Sundance by a long shot, nor the flashiest or most extreme, THE CATECHISM CATACLYSM is possessed of a gentle charm masking an urge to in your face subversiveness, a combination that is going to make the cult for this film a fervently loyal one", schreibt Todd Brown (Twitch Film).

TERRI - Azazel Jacobs

"Crowd pleasing without being pandering, TERRI above all else feels true", schreibt Karina Longworth (Village Voice). "TERRI, tubby kid, messed up principal, hormones, a little alcohol, life. Wooooonderfuuul", twittert Wesley Morris. "Dawdling, draggy deadpan journey to the island of misfit boys; as lightly charming as it is immensely inert", twittert James Rocchi. "With a sensitive eye and an even more perceptive heart, director Jacobs brings new life to the outsider’s ordeal with a story about a large, lonely high-school boy (beautifully played by Jacob Wysocki) who discovers a sense of self-worth with the help of some charming oddballs", schwärmt Manohla Dargis und bezeichnet TERRI als einen ihrer zwei Lieblingsfilme des Sundance-Festivals (New York Times). "TERRI is a sweet, dry and very offbeat coming of age movie that makes Terry Zwigoff seem mainstream", twittert Damon Wise. "The film's not as focused or as strong as Jacob's last film, 2008's MOMMA'S MAN, but it has some of the fluky poetic charm of his 2005 debut, THE GOODTIMES KID. It's an advance sideways. Where everything about movies like NAPOLEON DYNAMITE and RUSHMORE are drenched in irony, the vibe here is warm, observant, inclusively comic", schreibt Ty Burr (Boston Globe).

HERE - Braden King

"HERE is pretty phenomenal. And as far as semi-naturalistic doomed romances go, it blows LIKE CRAZY out of the fucking water", twittert Longworth. Und hier gibt es ihre Kritik nachzulesen. "Beautiful, shimmering road-trip romance where the map is not the territory and farewell not goodbye. A heartfelt highlight", twittert James Rocchi.

THE WOMAN - Lucky McKee

"THE WOMAN is fantastic, a wonderfully bizarre tale of what could be in the top 10 most fucked up families ever portrayed in film", schreibt Eric Vespe (Aintitcool-News). Drew McWeeny (HitFix) fand ihn auch ganz großartig und dokumentierte gleichzeitig den Traum eines jeden Horror-Regisseurs, nämlich den Ausraster eines Zuschauers, der des Saales verwiesen wurde.

TAKE SHELTER - Jeff Nichols

"TAKE SHELTER is a fantastic movie, a taught thriller, an emotional depiction of a solid family unit fracturing under paranoia and a tour de force leading performance by one of our best working character actors. I can’t recommend this one enough", schreibt Eric Vespe (Aintitcool-News). "TAKE SHELTER, starring perennial Sundance 'It actor' Shannon, had deservedly strong word of mouth. A slow-burner about a Midwestern husband and dad who has nightmares of a coming apocalypse and starts building a survivalist dugout in his back yard, SHELTER collects all the angst that can beset a modern family man — post-9/11 fears, ecological disaster, the fragile well-being of one’s loved ones — and squeezes", schreibt Ty Burr (Boston Globe).

VAMPIRE - Shunji Iwai

"While some will find the film too dark, too graphic, too weird - fans will surely find much to love in the artistry, the intricacy, the magic", schreibt Ryland Aldrich (Twitch Film).


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Link-Tipps: Alison Willmores sehr hörenswertes Zwischenfazit, auch wenn sie die Hälfte des IFC-Podcast verschwendet, um sich über Kevin Smith aufzuregen. Slashfilmcast-Moderator David Chen tut unterdessen das, was er am besten kann, nämlich O-Töne von anderen, kompetenteren Filmkritikern zu sammeln. Ty Burr zieht ein schönes Fazit im Boston Globe-Blog. HitFix hat eine Bildershow mit etwas Text. Und Karina Longworth hat sich auch noch mal für die Village Voice hingesetzt und etwas runtergetippt.


Quellen: - Karina Longworth, - Drew McWeeny, - Wesley Morris, - Katey Rich, - Alison Willmore, - James Rocchi, - Bob Koehler, - Eric Vespe, - Damon Wise, - Anne Thompson, - Total Film, - THR, - Screen Daily

verdammt bernd eichinger ist viel zu früh gestorben

Hi John,

ja, seine Filmografie versprach, dass er jetzt erst so richtig loslegen würde. Habe zu wenige Interviews (von denen es sowieso viel zu wenige gibt) gesehen, als dass ich einen persönlichen Schmerz spüren würde; dafür habe ich Eichinger zu schlecht gekannt. Aber er hinterlässt ein riesiges schwarzes Loch in der deutschen Filmindustrie. Ich bin mit seinen Produktionen groß geworden, liebe überproportional viele davon und habe ihn doch immer sehr bewundert. Vielleicht mit der Ausnahme von Horst Wendlandt war der Eichinger schon der bedeutendste Produzent der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte. Vor kurzem sah ich ihn noch im Doris Dörrie-Porträt, wo er nur zwei, drei Sätze in die Kamera sagte. Das aber mit solch einem Feuer, dass ich mir zwei weitere Stunden gewünscht hätte. Werde heute Abend auf Bayern eine imaginäre Kerze anzünden, vielleicht in "Die unendliche Geschichte" reinzappen und im Anschluss dem Bernd lauschen.