Director: Quentin Dupieux
Writer: Quentin Dupieux
Release year: 2010
One tire, two reviews.
Rubber is a roadmovie about the most lonesome killer imaginable. He doesn’t talk. He doesn’t walk. He doesn’t listen. He just lurks, stalks and… blows things up. His name is Robert, and he was the star of this year’s opening movie for Offscreen Film Festival 2011. Not one, but two of us attended the screening. Hence, another dual-review.
Director: Edward Anderson
Writer: Edward Anderson
Release year: 2008
It’s much safer to hitchike these days
Jules and Mel just arrived at the airport after having spent a holiday abroad. It’s late at night and they’re in need of a ride home. Unfortunately, the two girls pick out the one shuttle bus they shouldn’t have, as their friendly driver will take them on a trip leading them anywhere but home…
Director: Bernard Rose
Writer: Bernard Rose
Release Year: 2005
It’s art imitating life imitating art.
Boris Arkadin (Jeroen Krabbé) is a horror director who lost his pregnant wife to an attack by a group of fans who wanted to replicate part of one of his films; his son survived an amateur caesarian. This left him less interested in making another horror film and he faded into hermitage. Years later, Arkadin is making a new film, and so casts eager young things Wendy Jones (Lisa Enos), Jack (Joe Reegan), Pamela (Teri Harrison), and Matt Drazin (Sharif Rosales-Webb)….
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Writer: Peter Bogdanovich and Polly Platt
Release Year: 1968
Karloff’s thrilling swan song
In the decade of the 60′s, Peter Bogdanovich made himself a name as film critic and historian, quickly becoming a respected film writer for “Esquire” magazine thanks to his encyclopedic knowledge about the history of cinema and his great skill at writing fun, insightful and witty texts. Bogdanovich love for films made him to decide to move to Los Angeles and to seriously attempt to become a filmmaker himself.
Director: Sage Bannick
Writer: Damon Abdallah, Ari Bernstein and Sage Bannick
Release year: 2011
The curse of prediction
In the quiet mountain town of Liberty, the youngsters of the local high school seem to have made it onto someone’s death list. Science teacher Vincent Burton (Bryan Kirkwood) finds himself wrapped up in the murder mystery soon enough and together with Sheriff John Jackson (Samuel Ball) he’ll have to put a stop to the murders.
