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 ...

“Upstream Color” is as enigmatic as filmmaking gets — not in a casual way, but determinedly, even willfully. Being completely understood at first glance is not on creator Shane Carruth’s agenda, but ...

Director: Shane Carruth Stars: Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, Thiago Martins, Kathy Carruth, Meredith Burke Running time: 96 minutes Score: 9/10 In 2004, hardcore and, more importantly, ...

Filmmaker Shane Carruth’s micro-budget breakthrough “Primer” was a dense, realistic time travel drama of the sort nobody had seen before. Judging by his long-awaited second feature, “Upstream Color,” ...

When Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013, one of the only available promotional images for the film was a pitcher of ice water. The pitcher sat on a table ...

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 ...

The good news is: Shane Carruth is back. The bad news is: Shane Carruth is back. The oddball auteur of the polarizing 2004 Primer — an arthouse take on time travel that the former engineer and ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2026. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

One of the great past Sundance success stories was “Primer,” a mind-bending science-fiction time travel thriller made on a shoestring budget of $7,000 by former engineer Shane Carruth. The film took ...

Nearly 10 years after shooting Primer (2004), Shane Carruth is finally back with Upstream Color, and it turns out the movie has been shot on the Panasonic GH2! Primer had been shot on Super16 for ...

The Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center have jointly announced seven official selections for the 2013 New Directors/New Films Festival (ND/NF), which runs March 20–31, 2013.