Cinematical's Sundance Roundtable #1 -- With Special Guest Anne Thompson of The Hollywood Reporter!
Filed under: Documentary, Drama, Foreign Language, Independent, Sundance, Theatrical Reviews, Festival Reports, Cinematical Indie
Want to know the buzz from Park City? Which films are hot and which are not? Well, you've come to the right place. We welcome you to tune in to this, the first of three roundtable discussions straight from Sundance. Featured in this first edition is special guest Anne Thompson of The Hollywood Reporter, as well as Cinematical Indie Managing editor Kim Voynar and myself, James Rocchi. We'll have more video roundtables and video interviews to bring to you later in the week and throughout the rest of the festival, so make sure you keep your browser pointed at Cinematical.com for all the latest buzz from Sundance!
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1-22-2007 @ 12:57PM
Chad said...
Thank you James, Kim, and Anne! You've reaffirmed some of my own findings here at the festival-Red Road, Teeth, The Island- and I wanted to let you know about one of my faves thus far.
While Teeth is wholly a dark comedy/horror flick, JOSHUA is a truly disturbing and moody horror film. There are no gimmicks or "superpowers" in this film, just a complete and total destruction of the idea of a family. Vera Farmiga is magnificent as a downward-spiraling mother and Jacob Kogan plays the title character Joshua well enough to make me think twice about naming a child Joshua.
The simple piano soundtrack, played by Joshua himself at times, adds a perfect underscoring to the slow unraveling of the Cairns. Ratliff succeeds in saying a lot by showing a little, creating a very thick mood of dread and mystery, handing much of the suspense to the audience's imagination. The end of the film is certainly the most surprising and disturbing of all the scenes and the last image, with Dallas Roberts' expression, makes the film worth it.
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