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15 October 2009 12:52 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

Year: 2009

Directors: Marc Roussel

Writers: Marc Roussel

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: agentorange

Rating: 7.5 out of 10

[Editor's note: As I was putting the finishing touches on this review, director Marc Roussel emailed to say his short had just picked up "best short" at Thrillspy Film Festival in Washington, D.C.. Congrats Marc!]

Watching short films is always an odd experience. Maybe it's because of the restrictions on length, or maybe it's just that filmmakers inherently know that cranking out a short film is something they Have to do to break into the biz, but more often than not I find they lack focus and leave me with an overall feeling of dissatisfaction. Of course, there are also rare occasions when a short film can have it all. The brilliant work of Rodrigo Gudiño ("The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow") comes to mind, and now Marc Roussel's bite-sized, supernatural thriller Remote joins the ranks of the small category.

Why is it so good? Because Roussel was smart enough to focus on the writing. The story of Remote is tight. It takes a high »

18 September 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Just plain silly from the get-go, Atom Egoyan's Chloe might be my guilty pleasure of this festival/year with its Fatal Attraction-esque nature and the film's foot soldiers Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried losing their clothes in an unclad lust fest, I'm finding myself in the minority with this one, having actually liked the film how Moore plays serious and distraught in dramatic parody, and how Seyfried sorta of plays the alter ego of what she didn't play in Jennifer's Body. A welcome departure from recent politically-motivated offerings and one notch above his last romp - Where the Truth Lies, this spicy Red Shoe diary number will have folks laughing in the most preposterous of places. Looking for this to get a pick-up and a potentially strong box office cull. Full review coming soon.... »

14 May 2009 12:02 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

Before the one-two punch of Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter in 1995 and 1997 brought him wider recognition, Canada-based director Atom Egoyan was the premier chronicler of life in the video age, eking out small, hypnotic films (Family Viewing, Speaking Parts) about technology’s role in altering human relationships. The Sweet Hereafter was his first adapted screenplay, and it signaled a broader agenda in the subsequent decade, including another literary adaptation (Felicia’s Journey), a deeply personal, prismatic look at Armenian genocide (Ararat), and an awkward Martin & Lewis shadow history (Where The Truth Lies). Though this later period has its ... »

3 articles from 2009