Chris Luciantonio

Dec 27, 2023 | film-cred.com | Chris Luciantonio

There is something inarguably captivating about observing a professional pour the whole of their mind, body, and spirit into their chosen craft with reckless abandon.

Dec 27, 2023 | film-cred.com | Chris Luciantonio

In the utopian eye of writer-director John Carney, there has not been a personal or familial crisis that cannot be mended through the liberating act of strumming out a few licks on an acoustic guitar.

Dec 27, 2023 | film-cred.com | Chris Luciantonio

Harmony Korine’s Aggro Dr1ft, the film he has been promoting in his signature method of rambling, incoherent interviews as some kind of experiment in post-cinematic sensory experience, offers up all it has to show you by the thirty minute mark of it’s fleeting 80 minute runtime. The primary trick up the film’s sleeve — the auspicious aesthetic decision to exclusively film with infrared cameras — creates the distancing effect Korine was no doubt aiming for.

Sep 27, 2023 | exclaim.ca | Chris Luciantonio

Starring Rick Campanelli, George Stroumboulopoulos, Sook-Yin Lee, Namugenyi Kiwanuka, Erica Ehm, Michael Williams Monika Deol, Denise Donlon, Bill Welychka, Steve AnthonyPublished Sep 27, 20238I recall a recent conversation I had with my elder brother concerning an annual field trip the eighth grade class of our Cambridge middle school would take to downtown Toronto — a barely supervised cultural sightseeing tour of spurious education value.

Aug 9, 2023 | film-cred.com | Chris Luciantonio

The arid desert wasteland as an end of world scenario in post-apocalyptic fiction leaves little to no new ground to cover. Due to its overuse, the simplicity of its setting and its cautionary significance to our present dismal treatment of the environment, the image of an endless inhospitable terrain stretching into an unforgiving, sun-baked horizon has become fundamentally synonymous with the genre.