Not exact matches
Meanwhile, music documentary «Beware of Mr. Baker» and William Friedkin «s «
Killer Joe» (which opens in July) were both highlights of SXSW, while Cuban
drama «Una Noche» and Keanu Reeves «filmmaking documentary «Side
By Side» were leading lights at Tribeca and Berlin.
Finally, Twilight Time has five releases this week: Robert Rossen's «Alexander the Great,» the sword - and - sandal epic about the titular hero; Anatole Litvak's «Anastasia,» a historical epic about a Russian businessman who tries to pass of an imposter as the Grand Duchess Anastasia; Otto Preminger's «Exodus,» about the founding of the state of Israel; Ralph Nelson's «Lilies of the Field,» about an African American traveling handyman who encounters a group of nuns who think he's been sent
by God to build their chapel; and finally Richard Fleischer's «10 Rillington Place,» a crime
drama about the serial
killer John Christie.
By the time they reunited as co-leads of the 2013 serial
killer drama The Frozen Ground, neither actor had the clout to carry a movie in theaters.
In an excerpt from this week's Guardian Film Show, Xan Brooks and Peter Bradshaw review
Killer Joe, a twisted
drama based on the play
by Tracy Letts
The first footage of the sports
drama, which will be screened at both the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals, has just dropped and features a
killer performance
by Moss.
The savage independent
drama is based on the true story of
killer Tison, who attempted to elude his life sentence
by recruiting family members to...
Oscar - winning director Oliver Stone (Platoon, JFK) gave his vision of the future with this 1994 crime
drama starring Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis as love - struck serial
killers, whose murderous actions are glorified
by the media that interview the sole survivor of each slaughter.
Of his three movies that preceded the 1957 World War I
drama, one exists exclusively in bootlegs (Fear and Desire), one remains only slightly less obscure (
Killer's Kiss), and one is regarded as the first taste of the director's brilliance but only
by those who have sought it out (The Killing).
What with all the CSI television
dramas, books
by FBI profilers and frightening news stories about serial
killers, we've become quite familiar with the concept of the criminal psychopath, a person without remorse.