Megan Hanacek amazed viewers week after week on History’s Alone with her tenacity and humor as she battled the wilds of Patagonia in a bid to claim the ultimate prize. A warrior athlete and a mother, she works as a professional forester and biologist in British Columbia, Canada. Her childhood in a small town at the edge of the Great Bear Rainforest and her inspirational father — who is also a biologist — stoked her desire to work outdoors. Having dealt with cougars and bears in the past, Patagonia’s wild boar and puma were a concern but not a deterrent. But then...read more...
- 2/10/2017
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
In The Overlook, A.V. Club film critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky examines the misfits, underappreciated gems, and underseen classics of film history.
“The result was obviously a rather incoherent film.”
—Jean Renoir, Cahiers Du Cinema (May 1964)
On the outskirts of Paris, the body of a Jewish diamond merchant is found in a car parked in the wrong garage. The suspects are a bourgeois insurance salesman, a mysterious Dane with one eye, and the owner of the local filling station, all neighbors at an isolated crossroads. The famed detective Jules Maigret arrives from the city to investigate. He goes to the decrepit mansion that the Dane shares with his sister, a child-like proto-femme fatale with an unplaceable gaze. Alone with her in the first floor den, the middle-aged detective wanders the room with the innocent look of a visiting older relative. His first question: “Do you smoke much?” And then: “Do ...
“The result was obviously a rather incoherent film.”
—Jean Renoir, Cahiers Du Cinema (May 1964)
On the outskirts of Paris, the body of a Jewish diamond merchant is found in a car parked in the wrong garage. The suspects are a bourgeois insurance salesman, a mysterious Dane with one eye, and the owner of the local filling station, all neighbors at an isolated crossroads. The famed detective Jules Maigret arrives from the city to investigate. He goes to the decrepit mansion that the Dane shares with his sister, a child-like proto-femme fatale with an unplaceable gaze. Alone with her in the first floor den, the middle-aged detective wanders the room with the innocent look of a visiting older relative. His first question: “Do you smoke much?” And then: “Do ...
- 10/18/2016
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
This week, I’ll be heading out to Austin, Texas, for my first-ever Fantastic Fest, and I could not be more thrilled. Every single year, the festival introduces audience members to some of the most insane and boundary-pushing genre fare from all over the world, and I’m excited to get my first real taste of it starting this Thursday.
And while the entire Fantastic Fest slate looks incredible (seriously, I wish I could have three clones with me in Austin just so I could see everything), I’ve put together a look at the 11 films I’m ridiculously excited to see. One note: there are several films playing at Fantastic Fest that I have already seen at previous fests, including The Eyes of My Mother, The Greasy Strangler, and Phantasm: Remastered, so it didn’t feel fair to include them here.
The Dwarves Must Be Crazy (World Premiere,...
And while the entire Fantastic Fest slate looks incredible (seriously, I wish I could have three clones with me in Austin just so I could see everything), I’ve put together a look at the 11 films I’m ridiculously excited to see. One note: there are several films playing at Fantastic Fest that I have already seen at previous fests, including The Eyes of My Mother, The Greasy Strangler, and Phantasm: Remastered, so it didn’t feel fair to include them here.
The Dwarves Must Be Crazy (World Premiere,...
- 9/20/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
With August almost over and September around the corner, we’re only a few weeks away from the start of Fantastic Fest, taking place September 22nd–29th in Austin, Texas. Following the announcement of the first wave of programming earlier this month, the second wave of films have now been revealed, including even more titles for horror, sci-fi, and suspense fans to look forward to seeing:
Press Release: Austin, TX – Thursday, August 25, 2016 – Alamo Drafthouse’s Fantastic Fest delivers another dose of cinematic decadence with its second wave of programming. Procured once again from the most curious corners of the genre universe, Fantastic Fest is proud to announce its opening film, Denis Villeneuve’s stunning Arrival. Arrival marks Villeneuve’s Fantastic Fest debut, which has proven to be worth the wait as his spectacular science fiction feature promises to kick off proceedings in explosive fashion.
It wouldn’t be Fantastic Fest...
Press Release: Austin, TX – Thursday, August 25, 2016 – Alamo Drafthouse’s Fantastic Fest delivers another dose of cinematic decadence with its second wave of programming. Procured once again from the most curious corners of the genre universe, Fantastic Fest is proud to announce its opening film, Denis Villeneuve’s stunning Arrival. Arrival marks Villeneuve’s Fantastic Fest debut, which has proven to be worth the wait as his spectacular science fiction feature promises to kick off proceedings in explosive fashion.
It wouldn’t be Fantastic Fest...
- 8/25/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
One of the final performances from the late star to be seen as part of San Sebastian’s New Directors line-up.
San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 16-24) has unveiled the 14 filmmakers set to compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors award, which comes with a prize of €50,000.
The strand, made up of first or second films from international filmmakers, includes Gabe Klinger’s Porto, which features one of the final performances of Anton Yelchin, who died last month.
The film, which stars Yelchin and Lucie Lucas as a young man and woman who have a romantic encounter, also features the voice of late director Chantal Akerman and is executive produced by Jim Jarmusch.
Porto marks Klinger’s narrative feature debut, having previously directed the Venice-award-winning documentary Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater.
Other titles in the strand hail from across Europe, South America and Asia.
New Directors Line-Up
Synopses provided by the festival:
Anishoara
Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu (Germany - Moldova...
San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 16-24) has unveiled the 14 filmmakers set to compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors award, which comes with a prize of €50,000.
The strand, made up of first or second films from international filmmakers, includes Gabe Klinger’s Porto, which features one of the final performances of Anton Yelchin, who died last month.
The film, which stars Yelchin and Lucie Lucas as a young man and woman who have a romantic encounter, also features the voice of late director Chantal Akerman and is executive produced by Jim Jarmusch.
Porto marks Klinger’s narrative feature debut, having previously directed the Venice-award-winning documentary Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater.
Other titles in the strand hail from across Europe, South America and Asia.
New Directors Line-Up
Synopses provided by the festival:
Anishoara
Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu (Germany - Moldova...
- 7/26/2016
- ScreenDaily
Access to the best of contemporary Chinese independent cinema has been a constant challenge for audiences unable to attend the adventurous film festivals that are the main conduit for these films and filmmakers to the world outside of China. This August a new initiative began—partially crowdfunded on Kickstarter—called Cinema on the Edge, introducing a range of essential, recent independent productions from the mainland across several cinemas in New York City. Mubi is partnering with Cinema on the Edge to extend its theatrical exhibitions to the online world, showing a selection of their films online in the Us, allowing audiences outside of New York to explore what is happening right now in indie Chinese filmmaking. These Chinese films will be premiering on Mubi over the next ten days.Our selection includes:Cut Out The Eyes (Xu Tong, 2014)Er Housheng is a blind musician who travels Inner Mongolia with his...
- 9/15/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Here are the streaming movies and shows that are new on Hulu July 2015, including Season 3 of the Hulu original series East Los High (pictured below). Available July 1 After the Wedding (2006) Alone with Her (2006) Annie Hall (1977) Antiviral (2012) As Luck Would Have It (2011) Bandits (2001) The Baxter (2005) Black Power Mixtape (2011) Buck (2011) Burke and Hare (2010) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) Chronicles of an Escape (Cronica de una fuga) (2006) Crawlspace (2013) The Countess (2009) Dans Paris (2006) Enter the Void (2009) Entrance (2012) Errors of the Human Body (2012) The Escapist (2008) Falling … Continue reading →
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- 6/30/2015
- by Jeff Pfeiffer
- ChannelGuideMag
“Netflix Horrors” is a regular column in which Shock Till You Drop alerts you to the latest genre titles to hit the VOD service. While this update isn't nearly as big as the one we brought you on July 1st, there is one title I'm excited to recommend to you. Before Colin Hanks when all "creepy" on Dexter, he starred in the indie thriller Alone With Her, directed by Eric Nicholas.
The post Netflix Horror: Recommends & the Latest Titles Added to Instant 7/7 appeared first on Shock Till You Drop.
The post Netflix Horror: Recommends & the Latest Titles Added to Instant 7/7 appeared first on Shock Till You Drop.
- 7/8/2014
- by Ryan Turek
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Found footage films get a bad rap - and worse reviews. But the genre combines the vitality of punk rock with the reach of a video viral, and it has earned, if not respectability, then at least a respectful reappraisal. Some found footage (hereafter Ff) films are, admittedly, unwatchable (see The Devil Inside or, better, don't). But others, such as recent West Country-set religious chiller The Borderlands, or Bobcat Goldthwait's creepy Bigfoot hunt Willow Creek (out on May 2), are closer to unmissable.
Beyond an ominous title card, Ff films require little backstory, and the genre has only a brief history of its own. An uncompromising, hand-over-the-camera-lens look at totalitarianism in Vietnam-era America, Peter Watkins' 1971 mock-doc Punishment Park is considered Ff's chief forebear. Ruggiero Deodato's still-troubling Cannibal Holocaust (1979), however, is the most striking early archetype. Following a gonzo film crew into tribal Amazonia, it puts video-nasty atrocities through a film-school filter,...
Beyond an ominous title card, Ff films require little backstory, and the genre has only a brief history of its own. An uncompromising, hand-over-the-camera-lens look at totalitarianism in Vietnam-era America, Peter Watkins' 1971 mock-doc Punishment Park is considered Ff's chief forebear. Ruggiero Deodato's still-troubling Cannibal Holocaust (1979), however, is the most striking early archetype. Following a gonzo film crew into tribal Amazonia, it puts video-nasty atrocities through a film-school filter,...
- 4/12/2014
- Digital Spy
Back when I manned the horror section of the video store I worked at, anytime I’d find a customer skimming through all the “S” titles with mild frustration, 99 percent of the time, I knew exactly what it was they were looking for. And when I would finally ask, my suspicions were confirmed. “Do you have ‘The Silence Of The Lamb’”? To which I’d always reply, “Ah, the Hannibal Lector movies are all in the ‘mystery/thriller’ section.” And usually this would spur a conversation with that customer that would begin with, “Really? I always thought the Hannibal Lector movies were horror!” And it got me thinking about a handful of other titles that horror fans might not even think to hunt for in the “mystery/thriller” section. There are the obvious choices like Se7en or Misery. Then, there’s also stuff like The Sixth Sense, which yes,...
- 1/26/2013
- by Rob Galluzzo
- FEARnet
Game of Thrones Season 2 Preview: Spotlight on Daenerys Targaryen
Daenerys Targaryen suffered through many trials in the first season of Game of Thrones. After essentially being sold off and married to Kal Drogo by her brother, she was plunged into a new culture she knew nothing about while being repeatedly raped by her husband. But Danny found a way to survive and she soon fell in love with Kal and her new people, the Dothraki. Unfortunately, terrible circumstances took both her husband and her unborn child from her. Alone with her people and her adviser Ser Jorah, Danny was eventually given a remarkable gift: the hatching of three dragons.
When season 2 of Game of Thrones begins, Danny is marching towards her birthright of regaining control over Westeros. At this moment, protecting her dragons - who would give her untold power when they finally come of age - is priority one.
Daenerys Targaryen suffered through many trials in the first season of Game of Thrones. After essentially being sold off and married to Kal Drogo by her brother, she was plunged into a new culture she knew nothing about while being repeatedly raped by her husband. But Danny found a way to survive and she soon fell in love with Kal and her new people, the Dothraki. Unfortunately, terrible circumstances took both her husband and her unborn child from her. Alone with her people and her adviser Ser Jorah, Danny was eventually given a remarkable gift: the hatching of three dragons.
When season 2 of Game of Thrones begins, Danny is marching towards her birthright of regaining control over Westeros. At this moment, protecting her dragons - who would give her untold power when they finally come of age - is priority one.
- 3/12/2012
- by Clarissa
- TVovermind.com
In television news, Dexter 's sixth season will welcome Colin Hanks. Rumor has it, he's Dexter Morgan's nemesis this year. Yes, Hanks starred in Peter Jackson's King Kong , but check out Alone With Her if you want to see the actor play a real creep. Over at camp True Blood , a synopsis for the fourth season's premiere episode hit the web: Sookie journeys away from Bon Temps; Eric and Bill try to win back the human public; Jason learns that no good deed goes unpunished; Tara finds refuge in close quarters; Sam bonds with his own; Hoyt and Jessica debate the dinner menu; Jesus urges Lafayette to join a coven; Terry tries to alleviate Arleneʼs fears about the baby. True Blood returns on June 26. Screen Test...
- 5/9/2011
- shocktillyoudrop.com
The Sleep Tight Teaser Trailer has premiered. Jaume Balaguero‘s Sleep Tight / Mientras Duermes (2011) stars Luis Tosar, Marta Etura, Alberto San Juan, Tony Corvillo, and Pep Tosar. Sleep Tight‘s plot synopsis: “Cesar works as a doorman in a Barcelona apartment building. Happiness eludes him and he feels the need to reaffirm his reasons for living on a daily basis. He goes about his day to day work mainly unnoticed by the residents of the building, but he pays close attention to them. He knows all the intimate details of their lives, everything about them, especially one of them. Clara is a happy-go-lucky young woman, who always looks on the positive side of things. Her cheery attitude to life makes Cesar’ skin crawl. He won’t be happy until he has wiped that smile of her face once and for all, because Cesar feeds off other people’s pain. He...
- 4/26/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
"My Boys" star Jordana Spiro has joined the cast of the Nu Image/Millennium Films thriller "Trespass."
Joel Schumacher ("Twelve") is directing, with Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage starring. The storyline involves a married couple taken hostage by a group of thieves led by Cage's character. Spiro will play Petal, the head thief's girlfriend, who becomes a willing accomplice in the crime.
Karl Gajdusek and Eli Richbourg penned the script. Production begins in Louisiana early next month.
Repped by Icm and Principal Entertainment, Spiro has appeared in the films "The Goods: Live Hard Sell Hard" and "Alone With Her." In TV, Spiro has appeared on "Love Bites," "Jag" and "Cold Case," and she can currently be seen on the fourth season of her TBS series.
Joel Schumacher ("Twelve") is directing, with Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage starring. The storyline involves a married couple taken hostage by a group of thieves led by Cage's character. Spiro will play Petal, the head thief's girlfriend, who becomes a willing accomplice in the crime.
Karl Gajdusek and Eli Richbourg penned the script. Production begins in Louisiana early next month.
Repped by Icm and Principal Entertainment, Spiro has appeared in the films "The Goods: Live Hard Sell Hard" and "Alone With Her." In TV, Spiro has appeared on "Love Bites," "Jag" and "Cold Case," and she can currently be seen on the fourth season of her TBS series.
- 7/29/2010
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This week on The Bachelorette, Ali had the audacity to expect that her three remaining paramours wouldn't ditch her for ex-girlfriends. What a shame for her. Frank packed up his frozen stare and marched back to his favorite mistake Nicole, but where does that leave Ali? Alone with her BFFNs (Best Friends For Now) at Movieline who know which of the two bachelors she should pick for her big pink televised wedding.
- 7/20/2010
- Movieline - TVline
The eighth annual Tribeca Film Festival begins this week in Manhattan, offering a number of intriguing and exciting new genre movies (see details here). We’ll be bringing you reviews of these movies soon, and we also thought we’d offer a look back at the fright fare (including some of the highest-regarded horror features in recent years) we reviewed from past Tribeca fests.
Follow the links below to read our previous coverage of these fear features, some of which were also part of our After Dark Horrorfest Flashbacks:
Tribeca 2006
The Gravedancers: review here
Hatchet: review here
Alone With Her and Sam’S Lake: review here
Lunacy and Sheitan: review here
Tribeca 2007
Unearthed: review here
Rise: Blood Hunter: review here
Mulberry Street: review here
The Poughkeepsie Tapes: review here
Tribeca 2008
Baghead: review here
The Wild Man Of The Navidad and Kirksdale: review here
Let The Right One In...
Follow the links below to read our previous coverage of these fear features, some of which were also part of our After Dark Horrorfest Flashbacks:
Tribeca 2006
The Gravedancers: review here
Hatchet: review here
Alone With Her and Sam’S Lake: review here
Lunacy and Sheitan: review here
Tribeca 2007
Unearthed: review here
Rise: Blood Hunter: review here
Mulberry Street: review here
The Poughkeepsie Tapes: review here
Tribeca 2008
Baghead: review here
The Wild Man Of The Navidad and Kirksdale: review here
Let The Right One In...
- 4/21/2009
- Fangoria
Alone With Her opens with a title card that offers statistics on how common stalking has become in this electronic age, but part of what makes the movie work is how specific and personal its plotline is. Writer/director Eric Nicholas‘ second feature is a form-follows-function modern-video movie in the Blair Witch mode, with everything seen through cameras that are integral to the story—only here, the point of view is that of the threatening antagonist instead of the imperiled victim. Colin Hanks gets top billing and makes a creepy impression as Doug, a bookish and awkward young man who breaks into the house of a woman he’s become fixated on, installing tiny hidden video cameras to watch her every move. But the movie belongs to Mexican actress Ana Claudia Talancón, who plays Amy, the object of Doug’s twisted affections who is literally center screen throughout. The movie...
- 4/21/2009
- Fangoria
IFC Films, which has previously brought the likes of Larry Fessenden’s The Last Winter and Eric Nicholas’ Alone With Her to big and small screens, has announced a full lineup of fright fare for its Festival Direct video-on-demand service. These join such previously announced titles as the very different zombie movies Pontypool and Dead Snow, which hit VOD the same days they open in limited theatrical release (May 29 and June 12 respectively), and such VOD-only offerings as The Objective, Nightmare and Sauna.
Debuting April 8 and available on-demand through July 7 will be Hush (pictured), from British writer/director Mark Tonderai, in which a young couple on a road trip become the prey of a deranged truck driver. Look for a set-visit report on this film in Fango #285, on sale in June.
Following in May are Dark Mirror and Cadaver, part of the IFC Festival Direct Midnight series. Dark Mirror (available May 6-August 4), from director Pablo Proenza,...
Debuting April 8 and available on-demand through July 7 will be Hush (pictured), from British writer/director Mark Tonderai, in which a young couple on a road trip become the prey of a deranged truck driver. Look for a set-visit report on this film in Fango #285, on sale in June.
Following in May are Dark Mirror and Cadaver, part of the IFC Festival Direct Midnight series. Dark Mirror (available May 6-August 4), from director Pablo Proenza,...
- 4/17/2009
- Fangoria
Ana Claudia Talancon has been cast in the title role of HBO's comedy pilot Whitney, lifting the contingency on the project.
The single-camera project centers on Whitney (Talancon) and her clique of young women in Miami who play and win at the game of sexual politics. Whitney is a beautiful and self-confident woman who easily manipulates men, making each believe that he's the only one in her life.
Whitney was penned by Lisa Schrager, who will executive produce with Alex Gansa and HBO's former senior vp comedy series Sarah Condon.
With the cast contingency lifted, Whitney has been greenlighted for production and will be shot in Miami.
Mexican-born Talancon stars in the indie Alone With Her, which is playing in limited release. Recently in the film Fast Food Nation, she will next appear in Love in the Time of Cholera and One Missed Call.
Talancon is repped by ICM and manager Jorge Mondragon.
The single-camera project centers on Whitney (Talancon) and her clique of young women in Miami who play and win at the game of sexual politics. Whitney is a beautiful and self-confident woman who easily manipulates men, making each believe that he's the only one in her life.
Whitney was penned by Lisa Schrager, who will executive produce with Alex Gansa and HBO's former senior vp comedy series Sarah Condon.
With the cast contingency lifted, Whitney has been greenlighted for production and will be shot in Miami.
Mexican-born Talancon stars in the indie Alone With Her, which is playing in limited release. Recently in the film Fast Food Nation, she will next appear in Love in the Time of Cholera and One Missed Call.
Talancon is repped by ICM and manager Jorge Mondragon.
- 2/12/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
IFC First Take/The Weinstein Co.
NEW YORK -- More interesting conceptually than dramatically, Eric Nicholas' thriller "Alone With Her" boasts a highly clever technological conceit, albeit one that was exploited many years ago to a lesser degree in "The Anderson Tapes". This tale of a stalker and his victim is told entirely through the point of view of the cameras he has surreptitiously placed around her apartment, resulting in an effectively chilling tale of technology-aided obsession. The film is playing exclusively at New York City's IFC Center.
The opening moments of the film clue us in as to what we're about to experience when it shows various bikini-clad nubile beauties at a beach as secretly filmed by the nebbishy Doug (Colin Hanks). It isn't long before he sets his sights on one woman in particular, the beautiful Amy (Ana Claudia Talancon), and after he breaks into her apartment and sets up his surveillance system, he is able to watch her every clothed and unclothed move.
He begins to insinuate himself into her life, using the knowledge he has gained from his voyeurism to procure her trust. It isn't long before he becomes even more interventionist, sabotaging her life in various ways so he can come to the rescue. When Amy's girlfriend (Jordana Spiro) begins to get suspicious, he takes care of the matter in a way that also is captured on tape.
For all its technological ingenuity, however, the film is ultimately a fairly routine stalker thriller that soon becomes repetitive in its contrivances. And the footage, necessarily shot on digital video, is not particularly easy to watch over the course of the film's feature-length (albeit only 79 minutes) running time.
Still, there's no denying the creepiness of its effect, and the pasty-faced Hanks, who hasn't lost all of his baby fat, is highly convincing as the high-tech stalker.
NEW YORK -- More interesting conceptually than dramatically, Eric Nicholas' thriller "Alone With Her" boasts a highly clever technological conceit, albeit one that was exploited many years ago to a lesser degree in "The Anderson Tapes". This tale of a stalker and his victim is told entirely through the point of view of the cameras he has surreptitiously placed around her apartment, resulting in an effectively chilling tale of technology-aided obsession. The film is playing exclusively at New York City's IFC Center.
The opening moments of the film clue us in as to what we're about to experience when it shows various bikini-clad nubile beauties at a beach as secretly filmed by the nebbishy Doug (Colin Hanks). It isn't long before he sets his sights on one woman in particular, the beautiful Amy (Ana Claudia Talancon), and after he breaks into her apartment and sets up his surveillance system, he is able to watch her every clothed and unclothed move.
He begins to insinuate himself into her life, using the knowledge he has gained from his voyeurism to procure her trust. It isn't long before he becomes even more interventionist, sabotaging her life in various ways so he can come to the rescue. When Amy's girlfriend (Jordana Spiro) begins to get suspicious, he takes care of the matter in a way that also is captured on tape.
For all its technological ingenuity, however, the film is ultimately a fairly routine stalker thriller that soon becomes repetitive in its contrivances. And the footage, necessarily shot on digital video, is not particularly easy to watch over the course of the film's feature-length (albeit only 79 minutes) running time.
Still, there's no denying the creepiness of its effect, and the pasty-faced Hanks, who hasn't lost all of his baby fat, is highly convincing as the high-tech stalker.
- 1/19/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain -- Enrique Posner, former general manager of Warner Bros. Pictures Espana, has joined with Galba Prods. and Perro Verde Films in launching new international sales agency 6 Sales, the group announced Wednesday. Animation production specialist Perro Verde is the creation of Manuel Cristobal, Ruben Zarauza and Maria Arochena, while Galba is owned by producer-sales agent Marina Fuentes. The Madrid-based company will handle films produced by its partners as well as by other producers and will launch at AFM with a slate led by Alone with Her, written and directed by Eric Nicholas, produced by Tom Engelman and starring Colin Hanks and Ana Claudia Talancon.
- 9/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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