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, ...

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 ...

Upstream Color is only Shane Carruth’s second feature film since he broke into the scene with 2004’s cult classic Primer, a hyper-realistic time travel narrative made on a $7,000 budget. Upstream ...

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 ...

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 ...