erbp Film's "UPSTREAM COLOR" to Be Released Through Cinedigm on Cable VOD, Digital, and DVD/Blu-ray on May 7th "Filming with an unflinching biomorphic intimacy, as if looking at the body, inside and ...

When writing a review of a film, it's important not to offer so much information as to give away the movie's meaning, its finale. But in the case of "Upstream Color," the first movie by low-budget ...

Writing about the plot to Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color is a bit of a crapshoot. It’s not because I’ll be giving away any spoilers, but because you will likely think it sounds ridiculous — and I’d ...

Meticulous and abstruse, Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color is an idiosyncratic film that invites explication but defies total understanding. It is Carruth’s sophomore film and has been eagerly ...

Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival a few months ago, Primer writer-director Shane Carruth delivered another divisive work of science-fiction with the mesmerizing Upstream Color. Having recently ...

Carruth and co-editor David Lowery don’t construct Upstream Color in the way of a typical Hollywood film. There is no such thing as a scene or an act in Upstream Color. The film is very much a kind of ...

I could look ahead and claim that Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color might just be the American arthouse film of the year — if in fact I could tell you with any certainty what exactly it is. There’s never ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Not rated. 96 minues. At the Sie FilmCenter. This weekend affords moviegoers two very different sci-fi opportunities: the Tom Cruise-led behemoth “Oblivion,” ...

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As mystifying as his 2004 sci-fier, "Primer," albeit for entirely different reasons, Shane Carruth's "Upstream Color" is a stimulating and hypnotic piece of experimental filmmaking. “Primer” fans and ...