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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amy Seimetz plays Kris, a successful creative. One night she's kidnapped, seemingly at random, and force-fed a specially selected grub. Upon ingestion she becomes blindly obliging and, some time later ...

Given that yesterday’s post occasioned some discussion about spoilers, a brief preamble to my review of Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color (A): If you want to preserve the experience of seeing the film ...