At sites like Batu Bolong and GPS Point pinnacles are swarmed by schools
of dogtooth tuna and barracuda.
At Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, the Eagle Express Gondola shuttles skiers and boarders to the top
of the Dogtooth Range in the Purcell Mountains in a more than 4000 vertical foot butterflies - in - the - stomach ascent.
So don't let another day go by; plan your Kicking Horse Mountain Resort getaway and find out for yourself what inspired the resort's founders to tap the potential
of the Dogtooth Range.
1300 vertical metres uphill to the crest
of the Dogtooth Range.
Views along the ridgeline are magnificent with vistas
of the Dogtooth Range, Blaeberry Valley, Golden, Rocky Mountains, and Columbia Valley.
This is also true
of Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos's film about family misery in which the camera all but refuses to flee the horror of domestic life.
Who & What: The Lobster is the latest from Yorgos Lanthimos, writer - director
of Dogtooth.
Kirsten Dunst is about to get weird, as Deadline reports that the Spider - Man and Fargo star has signed on for a new TV series from Yorgos Lanthimos, director
of Dogtooth and The Lobster.
It's an absurd premise, but we'd expect no less from the director
of Dogtooth.
On paper, Yorgos Lanthimos» latest seems to depart from the pitch - black humor
of Dogtooth, The Lobster, and last year's The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, exploring instead the 18th - century intrigue of Queen Anne's court.
Not exact matches
Olson says
Dogtooth Bend farmers and landowners, members and staff
of the Len Small Levee and Drainage District, community and state - level leaders, and the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers have some difficult decisions ahead in repairing the current landscape and preparing for future flood events — decisions that affect future land uses, resource allocations, and the livelihoods
of the people
of southern Illinois.
Having said all
of that, I am also perfectly fine with someone simply saying they just don't care and don't want to be bothered with a film like
Dogtooth.
Trailer does a great job
of capturing the strange nature
of the film that is somewhat
of a cross between Holy Motors and
Dogtooth...
Number
of Oscar nominations: 18 (notably, eight
of which came from «Basterds» and one — the foreign language nod for «
Dogtooth» — the following year)
It's a no - winners landscape in the hands
of director Yorgos Lanthimos (sharing screenwriting credit with Efthimis Filippou), whose earlier arthouse offerings, like «Alps» and the Academy Award - nominated «
Dogtooth,» dove deeply into similar pools
of human sadness.
«
Dogtooth» involved a family sequestered by a perverse father, and «Alps» explored grief with a bizarre story
of amateur actors who rent themselves to families as surrogates for the recently deceased.
As his English - language debut and first time working with Hollywood actors, The Lobster marks the beginning
of a new chapter for Yorgos, whose previous films (My Best Friend, Kinetta, the Academy Award — nominated
Dogtooth, and Alps) were each made in Greece on an extremely modest budget with a crew made up
of Yorgos's friends.
After shooting, Lanthimos began preparation to shoot The Favourite but then turned back to The Killing
of a Sacred Deer after the filmmaking team watched footage and figured the feature could be finished in time for a premiere at Cannes, where the filmmaker's previous films The Lobster and
Dogtooth debuted.
The other disappointment in the Official Competition programme — though more from an expectations point -
of - view than anything else — was Borgman, which calls to mind Michael Haneke's Funny Games (1997/2007) and Yorgos Lanthimos» Kynodontas (
Dogtooth, 2009).
The Killing
Of A Sacred Deer doesn't have as sharp an allegorical edge as his best work — it's no Dogtooth in that respect — but it does find the director honing his command of unnerving atmosphere to a razor point, enhanced by a camera that glides menacingly down hospital corridors and gazes from above with the severity of a merciless go
Of A Sacred Deer doesn't have as sharp an allegorical edge as his best work — it's no
Dogtooth in that respect — but it does find the director honing his command
of unnerving atmosphere to a razor point, enhanced by a camera that glides menacingly down hospital corridors and gazes from above with the severity of a merciless go
of unnerving atmosphere to a razor point, enhanced by a camera that glides menacingly down hospital corridors and gazes from above with the severity
of a merciless go
of a merciless god.
The Greek filmmaker (also responsible for
Dogtooth) refuses to play nice in this odd tale
of an awkward man (Colin Ferrell) who must find a mate less he be turned into a lobster.
He first cocked heads with 2009's
Dogtooth and brought the same level
of weirdness and dry, uncomfortable humor in 2015's The Lobster.
It is good to see that outside
of the work
of Yorgos Lanthimos (The Killing
of a Sacred Deer, The Lobster and
Dogtooth) that the genre scene in Greece is being upheld by the work
of the organizers
of the...
Yorgos Lanthimos («
Dogtooth», «The Lobster») is a surgical filmmaker
of great opacity; his film a bright and coldly lit Gothic work in the mode
of Stanley Kubrick.
Dogtooth and The Lobster made for uncomfortable viewing, but Yorgos Lanthimos mined new depths
of nastiness with his anti-bourgeois horror The Killing
of a Sacred Deer.
If you've seen his earlier work —
Dogtooth or The Lobster, perhaps — you'll have some idea
of his unsettling style where characters speak in monotone platitudes.
Such is the message we seem to be gleaning from the cinema
of 2009, as a vast range
of unrelated titles — «Precious,» «Coraline,» «
Dogtooth,» «Antichrist,» «Fish Tank,» even «An Education» — appear united in visiting the physical and / or psychological -LSB-...]
This loopy, surreal, cutting comedy from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos («
Dogtooth») is destined to become an out - there favourite: its wild premise is that anyone single who doesn't find a partner after 45 days will be turned into the animal
of their choice.
While Lanthimos doesn't make any specific political allusions,
Dogtooth carries a lot
of resonance in the Glenn Beck era, when people are living in paranoid bubbles
of their own making, bunkered down by ideology.
And while the film throws some shadows reminiscent
of recent Greek «Weird Wave» cinema (Papoulia also starred in Yorgos Lanthimos's
Dogtooth and Alps), such as its unhinged, barking mad, and eyeball - rolling style
of acting, this is a bigger, bolder, and angrier work.
It might be indebted in many aspects to «
Dogtooth,» with which it shares both thematic and stylistic links, but it's arguably more fully achieved than even that film — the helmer's win
of the Silver Lion for Best Director might not have been popular in the room, but to our mind, it's well - deserved.
33:05 — Review:
Dogtooth 1:11:45 — Trailer Trash: X-Men: First Class, Arthur, Bridesmaids 1:29:30 — Other Stuff We Watched: Uncle Buck, Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Gates
of Heaven, Dazed and Confused, Nothing But Trouble 1:54:50 — Junk Mail: Reed Raimi Remix, Kiss
of Death, Azrael in The Dark Knight Rises, Film Junk Ads, Greg's Recommended Classics and Police Procedurals, Judging Acting in Foreign Films, New Watch vs. Rewatch, Horror Remakes and Sequels, Name That Movie 1 and 2 2:26:20 — This Week's DVD Releases 2:29:40 — Outro
We're guessing
Dogtooth, still in the running, made the shortlist in phase two
of the voting process by the grace
of that face - saving executive committee.
0:00 — Intro 5:10 — Headlines: Roseanne Reality Show and New Beavis and Butthead Show, Robocop Statue in Detroit, Shane Black Confirmed for Iron Man 3, Disney Announces Cars Spin - Off Called Planes, 2011 Breaks Record for Most Sequels in a Year 29:00 — Review: Mr. Nobody 1:12:45 — Trailer Trash: Apollo 18, Dead Island 1:28:00 — Other Stuff We Watched:
Dogtooth, Pleasantville, Beverly Hills Cop, Beverly Hills Cop II, Uncle Buck, Dial M for Murder, I Confess, Lifeboat, Foreign Correspondent, The Wrong Man, Suspicion, Megamind, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Superman, Network, Dog Day Afternoon, I Knew It Was You, Runaway Train 2:16:55 — Junk Mail: Film Junk Artwork Contest, Takashi Miike, Gates
of Heaven, Arsenic and Old Lace, Directors We Wish Were Making Different Kinds
of Movies, Machine Girl and Man v. Food, Name That Movie and Visually Amazing Films That Are Just Okay, Shutter Island Shutout at the Oscars and Sequel Titles 2:59:15 — This Week's DVD Releases 3:02:55 — Outro
Tonally similar to recent cultish favorites from Yorgos Lanthimos and Ben Wheatley («
Dogtooth» feels like a particularly close and favoured first cousin), there's also a little Haneke in its chilly dissection
of a perfect bourgeois life.
Parenthood, or whatever nihilist - based form
of it, was under the microscope in
DOGTOOTH.
Friday brings David Cronenberg's «A Dangerous Method» and one
of my own most curiously awaited titles, «
Dogtooth» director Yorgos Lanthimos's secrecy - shrouded new feature «Alps»; Saturday the all - star (and out -
of - competition) attractions
of Steven Soderbergh's «Contagion,» while Steve McQueen's «Shame» and Todd Solondz's «Dark Horse» will also be let out
of the bag before this week is out.
Perfecting his style
of absurdist deadpan comedy, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (
Dogtooth) introduces new rules, activities, and gruesome punishments at every turn: Matches are made based on arbitrary similarities; trial couples are assigned children; and time extensions can be earned by hunting down renegade singles who live in the woods and only listen to electronic music.
Numerous
of the country's films in recent years — Tsangari's previous film Attenberg, Yorgos Lanthimos»
Dogtooth and Alexandros Avranas» Miss Violence — have received critical acclaim and accolades at International award ceremonies.
How to see it: The Battle
of Algiers is currently available on Filmstruck as part
of a special Academy Award collection on winners
of and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film, from Mon Oncle to Rashomon to
Dogtooth.
Lanthimos gave us the wonderful
DOGTOOTH, and with a cast
of this caliber, we can only hope for another great film.
From the moment
Dogtooth barreled onto the film festival circuit in 2009, Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos has been on the radars
of cinephiles hankering for absurdism and social critique.
Yorgos Lanthimos» bizarre explorations
of the human condition have steadily increased in star power over the years, moving from the relative unknowns who played the deranged family in
Dogtooth, up to his recent The Lobster, which featured a star - studded cast that included Colin Farrell, Ben Whishaw, and Léa Seydoux.
Yorgos Lanthimos's third film, following
Dogtooth and Alps, initially forces you to choose between a life
of companionship or on - the - run singleness.
The English - language debut
of Greece's Yorgos Lanthimos (
Dogtooth), this absurdist dystopian comedy offers up a near future in which all single people are required to find a partner within 45 days or be transformed into an animal
of their choice, with extensions for those who hunt down and tranquilize rogue «loners» who live in the woods and listen to electronic music.
Tomorrow: Yorgos Lanthimos, whose
Dogtooth placed at # 25 on The Dissolve's list
of the decade's best films so far, returns to Cannes — in Competition this time — with The Lobster, about which I know absolutely nothing.
The latest from
Dogtooth's Yorgos Lanthimos and Tuesday, After Christmas's Radu Muntean are fascinating, but symbolically dense to the point
of opacity.
This jacket in particular typifies the businessman look
of the nineties: road shouldered and heavily designer influenced with a fanciful dip into patterns
of the past; Glen plaid proving especially popular, along with
dogtooth check.
Building on the tradition he had established in films like Alps and
Dogtooth, he there brought his obsession with societies built on arcane systems
of governance to glorious fruition in a mesmerizing tale anchored by a deliriously deadpan performance from Colin Farrell (Seven Psychopaths).
Lanthimos's thing is analyzing human relations and habits by expunging the emotional illogicality, and sex — in
Dogtooth and The Lobster — has an insidious quality, an act
of self - and mutual - destruction that's necessary.