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Her most recent feature, a black - and - white Iranian vampire western titled A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film...

Tuesday, January 13, 7:30 pm, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, with in person Q&A with director Ana Lily Amirpour

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Runners up: American Sniper (Clint Eastwood), The Babadook (Jennifer Kent), Big Eyes (Tim Burton), Citizenfour (Laura Poitras), Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller), A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour), Gone Girl (David Fincher), The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones), Life Itself (Steve James), Venus in Fur (Roman Polanski), Whiplash (Damien Chazelle)

It occupies a space somewhere between Taika Waititi's hilarious mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows (2014) and Ana Lily Amirpour's wry, moody A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014).

Shot in delectable black and white by Lyle Vincent, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night gleefully flits from influence to influence, with different reference points corresponding to the time of day.

Since its debut in the NEXT section of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, the self - proclaimed first Iranian vampire Western «A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night» has received a lot of positive buzz from genre fans.

Ian Olds» «The Fixer» finally has its title character — Dominic Rains, known for his roles in «A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night» and «The Taqwacores.»

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Ana Lily Amirpour is blowing up since her A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night premiered at Sundance.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night may find itself most in common with the Jarmusch vampire film from earlier this year, but its stark Iranian setting (as Iranian as shooting in California can be, of course) and how that culture impacts classic interpretations of vampires makes sure that Amirpour's take on the genre always feels original.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night proved that the Middle East had some delicious untold horror stories lurking under their burkas and Babak Anvari's Under the Shadow only serves as further proof.

I might be guilty of expectations here, having loved Ana Lily Amirpour's debut, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night as much as I did, but I didn't find much to enjoy in her second offering, The Bad Batch.

Much like Sheila Vand (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night), Carter can be gorgeous and crank up the terror with a flip of a switch.

Amirpour's 2014 «A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night» was that rarest of concoctions, a genre - splicing picture that was informed by movies of the past, but not so in thrall to them that the knowledge compromised a vital and original aesthetic vision.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night: Ana Lily Amirpour's first feature — also Iran's very first vampire film - is a gorgeous, peculiar reimagining of the familiar.

Ana Lily Amirpour exploded onto the scene in 2014 with A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the genre mashup Iranian feminist vampire Western that felt like the crossroads of Jim Jarmusch and David Lynch.

«There are movies where horror is just horror for horror's sake, but sometimes supernatural things can become a key to push you out of a certain way of experiencing and seeing,» says Ana Lily Amirpour, whose visually stunning vampire film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, much like next year's cannibal - adjacent The Bad Batch, defies easy categorization.

Josh makes a new friend named Hannah (Vand), a mysterious woman who spends her nights wandering the streets (an obvious nod to Vand's turn as the chador - wearing vampire in «A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night»).

The Bad Batch is the new film from Ana Lily Amirpour — whose A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night was one of the most highly regraded films of 2011.

It arrives in theaters three years after her entrancing film about an Iranian vampire, 2014's «A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,» premiered to widespread acclaim.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night was featured as part of the 2014 Sundance Film's Festival's NEXT slate, a category...

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night / U.S.A. (Director & Screenwriter: Ana Lily Amirpour)-- In the Iranian ghost town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, depraved denizens are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

Women - directed films will bookend the festival, with Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night serving as this year's opener and Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard's 20,000 Days on Earth closing it out.

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The filmmaker quickly came up with the basics of what would become A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.

Written and directed by first - time filmmaker Babak Anvari — and produced by Lucan Toh, Oliver Roskill and Emily Leo of Wigwam Films — the film is already earning comparisons to The Babadook, reports Variety, and follows the success of Iranian vampire flick A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night by Hope Madden Earlier this year Jim Jarmusch released his vampire film, Only... read more →

We just now landed the official Sundance Film Festival one - sheet for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, allegedly the first...

One of the night's more pleasant surprises came when Ana Lily Amirpour, director of our Must See Indie pick A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, won the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award.

Shelia Vand plays the Girl, a hijab - clad female vampire who cruises the streets for meals while on a skateboard, in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.

Best Feature: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Best Actress: Julianne Moore in Still Alice Best Actor: Michael Keaton in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Best Documentary: Citizenfour Breakthrough Actor: Tessa Thompson in Dear White People Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award: Ana Lily Amirpour for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Gotham Independent Film Audience Award: Boyhood

Combing horror, film noir and westerns, Ana Lily Amirpour's debut feature, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, is a refreshing take on vampire lore.

Working through the neophyte filmmaker's genre playbook, director Ana Lily Amirpour follows up her vampire movie A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night with this dystopian flick most reminiscent of the Australian strain in terms of vibe / aesthetics, what with its shantytown sets, symbolic names, and obligatory feral child.

She's the breakout filmmaker behind the cult sensation «A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night» (our review), which earned serious buzz all through 2014 (and received a lot of shine in our Best of 2014 coverage), and her latest sounds like another promising take on genre tropes.

Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night).

I loved It Follows, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and The Babadook.

This is her sophomore feature, after «A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,» and features Suki Waterhouse in the lead role.

- Kurt [LIKED] There's an interesting world that's created within the music - laden sequences of Ana Lily Amirpour's follow up to A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT, but the story clunks whenever the characters actually speak.

Aesthetically speaking, I would compare Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts to Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, since they are both films that utilize American genres in an foreign setting.

2014 (or earlier): Abuse of Weakness, All Is Lost, Birdman, Blue Ruin, The Boxtrolls, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Foxcatcher, The Grand Budapest Hotel, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Ida, The Lego Movie, Life Itself, Nightcrawler, The Rocket, The Square, Stranger By the Lake, Under the Skin, Tangerines, Inherent Vice, Jauja, Amour fou, Mr. Turner, Song of the Sea, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Starred Up, The Internet's Own Boy, Rich Hill, Virunga, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, About Elly, Winter Sleep, Siddharth, Hard to Be a God, Gett, Timbuktu, Whiplash, The Wind Rises

The director of «A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night» describes the love and understanding in Bresson's masterpiece (and the»90s film it oddly resembles).

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Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion called the shots from a script by Saw's Whannell, Glee co-creator Brennan and A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night executive producer Josh C. Waller.

For centuries, vampires have provided handy metaphors for social and physical dilemma, but in the stylishly muted deadpan romance «A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,» the threat is personal.

Sure, Ana Lily Amirpour wears a Jodorowsky tee and alludes to her myriad of influences, but she's also the mastermind behind «A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,» the highly original Persian vampire western that's been wracking in acclaim from critics and cinephiles since premiering at Sundance earlier this year.

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«A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night» Director Ana Lily Amirpour & «Cold In July» Helmer Jim Mickle Line Up New Projects

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