Trailer: The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology w/ Slavoj Zizek
I really enjoyed the free-wheeling philosophical monologue that was The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology with Slavoj Žižek. Directed by Sophie Fiennes’s, the film ...
Tag: art film
Reviews
Fantasia Review: Thanatomorphose
The other week, Alec and I had a good discussion about extreme horror and disturbing cinema. Inevitably the best films that are disturbing, ...
Reviews
Fantasia Review: Ritual: A Psychomagic Story
Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of my favorite filmmakers. A sure cult figure, there’s an undeniable pull to El Topo, Santa Sangre, or even ...
Features
Flixist Discusses Review: Double Xposure
Whenever News Editor Hubert Vigilla and I see a film together, we follow it up with a discussion about what we just saw, ...
BFF Short Film Roundup 1
Over the weekend I caught five short films at the Brooklyn Film Festival. One called Good Grief played before the feature-length documentary Furever ...
Trailer: The Dance Of Reality (La Danza de la Realidad)
It was only two years ago that Alejandro Jodorowksy turned to crowfunding to complete The Dance of Reality (La Danza de la Realidad), ...
Flix For Short: Tallest Heights
Tallest Heights was painstakingly made by filmmakers Becky & Joe, who employed an old filmmaking technique that reached the height of its popularity ...
Thoughts on twohundredfiftysixcolors
twohundredfiftysixcolors is hard to discuss without any outside exposition. It’s not a “film” so much as it is a collection of thousands of GIFs ...
Chicagoans: Check out twohundredfiftysixcolors this week
twohundredfiftysixcolors is an ambitious film comprised of thousands of GIFs to invoke a conversation about the art form and how GIFs can relate to ...
Shane Carruth teases his next film, The Modern Ocean
I just interviewed Shane Carruth today about Upstream Color, the early candidate for my favorite film of 2013. During our discussion about his ...
Review: To the Wonder
First let me get this out of the way: if you didn’t like Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, steer clear of To ...
Reviews
SXSW Review: The Rambler
[From March 9th – 17th, Flixist will be providing coverage from South by Southwest 2013 in Austin, TX. Prepare yourselves for reviews, interviews, ...