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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Somebody teach this guy to delegate.) Like that earlier movie, which inspired both cultish devotion and a chorus of confused what-the-hecks, Upstream Color will bring unmitigated delight to some ...

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 ...

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 ...

Taking cues from Terrence Malick’s playbook, “Upstream Color” depends on the non-verbal cues of its actors and repetition of parallel imagery to drive the narrative. But unlike “The Tree of Life,” ...

His new movie Upstream Color has almost no dialogue, involves a kind of abstract science fiction premise, but keeps you fully engaged. Then Jesse talks to Rodney Ascher, who directed Room 237. It ...

With effort - maybe a lot of effort - you can tease a story out of Shane Carruth's new puzzle picture, "Upstream Color," though much of it will probably remain inscrutable. It's been nine years ...

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 ...