LAFF, 6/27.

"For all its style and ambition, The Fall - which screens Saturday at 9 pm in the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum as part of the LA Film Festival's Secret Screening series - is exactly the kind of film that is overlooked in an era in which marketability trumps originality," writes Patrick Goldstein in the Los Angeles Times.

"In many ways it's a throwback to the 'Raging Bulls' era of filmmaking, when directors pursued personal visions with such pictures as Nicolas Roeg's Performance or Francis Ford Coppola's One From the Heart. 'This is an obsession I wish I hadn't had,' Tarsem explained during a recent stay in Los Angeles.'"It was just something I needed to exorcise. You have to make your personal films when you're still young. I knew if I didn't do it now, it would never happen.'"

Opus reviewed the film for Twitch in September.

"With two midnight sections and horror films for both the centerpiece and closing night selections, the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival certainly loves its genre film." Michael Lerman reports on the highlights for indieWIRE.

More from the LA Film Festival from AJ Schnack.

Posted by dwhudson at June 27, 2007 10:33 AM