Assignment #4: Dedicated Fans
Every week, we will be posting a prompt related to cinephilia, and some of our founding members will contribute a short response. Hopefully you, our dear readers, will feel compelled to respond in our comment section as well. This week’s prompt was:
Are there any actors/directors whose new films you will see regardless of any conditions?
Daniel
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MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE (2009) proves that two head cases are better than one
Dir. Werner Herzog
Alamo South Lamar, 01/21/10, 12:00pm
Be still my beating heart, two Werner Herzog movies in a single year! I told Daniel, who wrote his review of this film several weeks ago, that I could imagine the scenario of how this film’s production was set into motion: David Lynch, after deciding to assign the [...]
Is it weird that I want to live in the vampiric society of DAYBREAKERS (2009)?
Dir. The Spierig Brothers
Alamo Drafthouse Village, 01/10/10, 7:00pm
With their blood-soaked horror polemic Daybreakers, The Spierig Brothers have provided us with a very promising start to the year 2010 in cinema. In fact, I would go so far as to say that, for the remainder of the year, few films’ opening acts will be as [...]
Herzog is two for two with MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE (2009)
Dir. Werner Herzog
IFC Center (New York, NY), 12/20/09, 5:45pm
I went into this film pretty blind and I was so pleased. This is a magnificent film, and Herzog, after his magnificent The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans, is certainly on fire. Both pictures of his double-whammy are in the top films [...]
ANTICHRIST (2009)
Dir. Lars von Trier
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 11/19/09, 11:59pm
I tried my best to avoid learning too much about Antichrist before seeing it, and, aside from seeing the trailer and hearing about the reception at Cannes and a certain talking animal, I managed to go into this screening relatively unaware of what I was about to [...]
