Northfork

Northfork does grow a little slow at times but with its dramatic feel and honest direction makes it mostly stirring.... Full review

"It all depends on how you look at it –we are either halfway to heaven or halfway to hell," says the priest Rev. Harlan in "Northfork." The Polish brothers' film is an ambitious one that will make any intelligent viewer... Full review

A dreamy, stunningly atmospheric film takes place in a small town of Northfork, Montana in 1955. The government officials arrive to evacuate the town about to be inundated by a new hydroelctrical dam. There are the other visitors in the... Full review

This gorgeous painting come to life seemed like weirdness simply for weirdness' sake in the beginning. Slowly but surely, its tender and profound message of hope, even though things seem bleak and all appears to be lost, takes over. This movie... Full review

I've found that most people have not enjoyed Northfork, because they are too busy trying to "figure" it out. Enjoy what you see on the screen. The preacher's cane or the fantasy wooden animal that is walking around; is beautiful. Is... Full review

Truly an orginal film, and those are the best kind. Wonderful, and unlike anything you've seen-probably. If you like quirky odd films, Cohen brothers?, this film should also fit for you.... Full review

I watched this movie with my wife, who was bewildered and ultimately sleepy by the end of the film. I, on the other hand, found it quite extraordinary and still feel the residue of how the movie made me feel, now... Full review

Michael Polish's hypnotic "Northfork" is a film that will stay in one's memory for quite a long time. This exquisitely crafted movie that Michael and Mark Polish wrote, is visually one of the best things that came out last year... Full review

this is a very special movie, driven by imagery and character rather than by linear action or even plot. Things progress along two lines which eventually converge, that of the dying child cared for by the Father, and the evacuation... Full review

This is not a movie for those who are looking to be diverted for a couple of hours. It is not an exciting movie, but ethereal, and slowly draws the viewer into its beautifully surreal world. Seen on the large screen,... Full review

It's a gentle, optimistic family picture....In their last film, "Northfork," the Brothers reached awfully high for mystical whimsy only to be tripped by their own fascination with gloom.....When the story fails, the visuals still entice.....Still, the performances are right on with the fanciful tone of the film.....The performances and the warm Texas farmland photography are wonderful, but the Polish Brother way of direction -.... ... Full Review

an engaging sense of humour.... ... Full Review

Northfork is gorgeous to look at and this anamorphic widescreen transfer preserves the many nuances of M. David Mullen's photography.....However, whereas the film's visuals strike a morose chord, the storytelling is frustratingly elliptical and pretentious....Northfork strikes an original chord but, I surmise, not one that will be music to everyone's ears.....dialogue is perfectly audible..... ... Full Review

Northfork is gorgeous to look at and this anamorphic widescreen transfer preserves the many nuances of M. David Mullen's photography.....However, whereas the film's visuals strike a morose chord, the storytelling is frustratingly elliptical and pretentious....Northfork strikes an original chord but, I surmise, not one that will be music to everyone's ears.....dialogue is perfectly audible..... ... Full Review

my favorite films....the obtuse, meandering storytelling....visually appealing.... ... Full Review

Paramount Home Video. On shelves November 11. The Polish Brothers (Twin Falls Idaho, the above mentioned Jackpot) turn their considerable imaginations to the mid-1950s and a tiny Midwest American town called Northfork. ... Full Article

Among the remaining townsfolk refusing to leave Northfork are a man who's built a modern day equivalent of Noah's Ark; Nick Nolte's grizzled preacher; and a small orphan boy (Duel Farnes), whose feverish illness leaves him dreaming about angels fallen... ... Full Article

It's 1955 and industries are booming as America undergoes a postwar metamorphosis. However, in the small town of Northfork, the townspeople are being evacuated because of the construction of a dam that will wash away their homes. ... Full Article

Daryl Hannah as hermaphrodyte angel.A strange and sublime concept, conjured by Mark and Michael Polish, it is also the perfect use of Hannahs long limbs and unusual angles. ... Full Article

What was once a brave frontier town has become a haven for enlightened oddballs in this unusual drama from director Michael Polish, written in collaboration with his twin brother, Mark Polish. ... Full Article

Roger Ebert / PARK CITY, Utah--"Northfork" is about a Montana town that is buried forever beneath a lake, and about the agents who clear out the residents, and the angels who come to console those who linger behind. ... Full Article