Take Shelter – The Flaneur

New DVD Releases “Take Shelter” and “Sleeping Beauty”: art-house film takes on the recession

Australian filmmaker Julia Leigh’s erotic drama Sleeping Beauty, and Jeff Nichol’s Mid-Western epic Take Shelter on the surface bare few similarities, save for praise and attention at film festivals such as Cannes and Sundance in […]

Review: Jeff Nichols’s ‘Take Shelter’

“There’s a storm a-coming”, yells Curtis (Academy Award nominated Michael Shannon) with the visceral power of a Southern baptist preacher, “and none of you are prepared for it!” Churchgoers tremble in their chairs. He breaks […]