Brandon Streussnig On Film

"A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man." Written & Directed by: Joanna Hogg Starring: Honor Swinton Byrne                  Tom Burke                  Tilda Swinton Joanna Hogg's deeply personal The Souvenir  is a hazy, almost dream-like trip through memories long plastered over. Memory is a funny thing, our timeline of events can be disjointed and often make little sense as we weave through experiences. Hogg takes us on a journey through her avatar, a spellbinding Honor Swinton Byrne as she navigates film school and an illicit romance with an older man. What has all the trappings of a more typical coming of age story very quickly turns into something more real, more raw. The youthful glow of fond memories sometimes become the harsher, even cold remembrance of the most pivotal point in a young woman's life. It's hard to say or know how much

"Sam, intelligent but without purpose, finds a mysterious woman swimming in his apartment's pool one night. The next morning, she disappears. Sam sets off across LA to find her, and along the way he uncovers a conspiracy far more bizarre." Written & Directed by: David Robert Mitchell Starring: Andrew Garfield                   Riley Keough                  Topher Grace                   Riki Lindhome                   Grace Van Patten  Nintendo Power magazine, codes in song lyrics, secret maps hidden in cereal boxes and a mysterious young woman. What does it all mean? Well, that's for Andrew Garfield's Sam to decipher as he stumbles down a seemingly endless LA rabbit hole searching for answers. David Robert Mitchell follows up his largely popular cult horror hit It Follows with a film that seems destined to hit those same cult highs, but maybe not as quickly as the former did.  If you took famous gumshoe Philip Marlowe, turned h

"A father & daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation." Directed by: Claire Denis Written by:   Claire Denis                       Jean-Pol Fargeaux                       Geoff Cox Starring: Robert Pattonson                  Juliette Binoche                  André Benjamin                   Mia Goth                  Agata Buzek                  Lars Eidinger                   Claire Train                  Ewan Ettore                  Gloria Obianyo                  Scarlett Lindsey                  Jessie Ross Claire Denis has proven herself to be a master filmmaker time and time again, whether it's been upending the horror genre with Trouble Every Day or eviscerating the romcom in last year's Let the Sun Shine In.  Denis has an uncanny ability to take on any genre and master it immediately. That's why it shouldn't be such a surprise that with her first sci-fi, Denis once again leaves