What’s surprising is that it has them applauding. “Upstream Color,” an at-first-blush incomprehensible movie by “Primer” filmmaker Shane Carruth, has earned qualified raves since its ...

PHOTOS: Sundance’s Greatest Hits: The Movies That Broke Through Upstream Color flattens out considerably at this point, as it temporary veers in the direction of romance in which two people who ...

Judging by his long-awaited second feature, “Upstream Color,” Carruth is big on crafting new experiences. With far more puzzle pieces than “Primer,” the new movie — which Carruth is self ...

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 ...

When Shane Carruth came out of nowhere—nowhere being the suburbs of Dallas, Texas—to win the 2004 Grand Jury Prize at Sundance with his exceptionally frugal brainteaser Primer, the story of ...

Shane Carruth's Upstream Color is a deliberate exercise in swooning obscurity. You either go with its considerable sensory powers or you scratch a groove on your head. The first option is more ...

IFC. There is an undeniable pull to the stream-of-consciousness storytelling filmmaker Shane Carruth (“Primer”) uses in “Upstream Color.” The tale of a dreamlike love story told in a ...

You may not want to know anything about Shane Carruth‘s “Upstream Color,” which opens in several theaters this week, because much of its appeal is derived from being thoroughly consumed by ...

Nine years later, he’s back with his much-anticipated follow-up, “Upstream Color,” which is just as daring and original at the opposite end of the aesthetic spectrum. If “Primer” was ...

This usually affixes to work by Terrence Malick and will surely be a tag for the frustrating, hollow “Upstream Color,” Shane Carruth’s follow-up to 2004’s “Primer”–a no-budget sci-fi ...

intersects with the others’ is one of the areas where the complex tissue of connections holding Upstream Color together stretches thinnest. as well. And the result is polished, smart ...

Both Oblivion and Upstream Color are successful at their very different aims, even though neither does the job of great science fiction. What science fiction does best—and I mean real ...