Made with a budget of $7,000, this 2004 indie Sci-fi flick was a disaster on box office, but it was successful in achieving a ...

The camera establishes a tent in the middle of a field. We’re in the country, we assume, far away from any metropolis. Then, with a cut to the interior of the tent, we see two cots. A young woman lies ...

Carruth is an elliptical filmmaker, presenting us with blanks we’re either asked or allowed to fill in, depending upon how many times we choose to see the movie and assemble the puzzle pieces. That ...

It was only a few days ago that Shane Carruth, software engineer-turned-filmmaker, was ready to walk away from the money on the table and keep his movie–78 minutes’ worth of cheapo celluloid that had, ...

Bold, impassioned, ecstatically beautiful, Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color — a lyric reverie on loss, love, and various invasions of the body — was in a class by itself at the 2013 Sundance Film ...

Time travel logic in movies is often oversimplified so the viewer can follow along with a story’s internal rules and piece everything together with relative ease. 2004’s Primer, written, directed, ...

Carruth’s film — his first since winning Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize in 2004 for the garage-inventor time-travel opus Primer — unsurprisingly divided critics and audiences with its fragmented, ...