Alice Lowe – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

MOVIE OF THE WEEK February 14, 2025: TIMESTALKER

February 9, 2025February 9, 2025 Jennifer Merin Alice Lowe, Aneurin Barnard, betsy bozdech, Cate Marquis, jennifer merin, leslie combemale, Level 33 Entertainment, liz whittemore, loren king, nell minow, Pam Grady, sandie angulo chen, scifi, sherin nicole, Tanya Reynolds, Timestalker

Writer/director/star Alice Lowe explores the intersection of love, obsession, desire, and destiny in the beguilingly quirky Timestalker. Incorporating elements of comedy, drama, romance, and sci-fi, Lowe bends genres with glee as she follows main character Agnes (whom she plays herself) through the centuries as she tries to connect with her beloved … and dodge her own violent death, succeeding at neither until she’s ready for some genuine introspection.

Festivals Reviews

TIMESTALKER (Melbourne IFF 2024) – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

August 20, 2024August 19, 2024 Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Alice Lowe, Aneurin Barnard, british films, Jacob Anderson, Melbourne IFF 2024, Nick Frost, Tanya Reynolds, Timestalker

Returning with her highly anticipated follow-up to 2016’s Prevenge, Alice Lowe’s sophomore effort Timestalker proves to be well worth the wait. Consolidating her position as surely one of the most original and hardworking British indie filmmakers of her generation, what Lowe lacks in hype she makes up in pure fucking moxie. And while the pregnancy horror of Prevenge provided a rich space for her as both actor, writer and director to learn ropes of genre filmmaking, the scifi/fantasy anti-romcom terrain of Timestalker sees her veritably flourish in all three capacities.

Festivals

Women @ Fantasia International Film Fest 2024 – Alexandra Heller-Nicholas reports

July 3, 2024July 7, 2024 Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Alice Lowe, Alice Maio Mackay, Dale Dickey, Fantasia International Film Fest 2024, Heidi Honeycutt, Hunter Schafer, I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies, Kier-La Janisse, Naomi Jay, Samara Weaving

Women’s work is also centred elsewhere at this year’s festival, both in front of and behind the camera. The 2024 festival is foregrounding achievements of two of important women film critics working in genre criticism today. First, acclaimed critic, curator and historian Heidi Honeycutt will launch her decades-in-the-making magnum opus, I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies. Canada’s own Kier-La Janisse will be appear in-person to read the introduction from her soon-to-be-released book, Cockfighter. about the 1974 film.

Festivals Reviews

TIMESTALKER (SXSW2024) – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

March 11, 2024March 11, 2024 Valerie Kalfrin Alice Lowe, Aneurin Barnard, SXSW2024, Timestalker

The idea of star-crossed lovers reconnecting throughout time is a familiar, fanciful idea—but what if they’re all wrong for each other? Such is the premise of the screwball time-jumping comedy Timestalker. Agnes (writer-director Alice Lowe) thinks love is written in the stars when she first locks eyes in the 1600s with Alex (Aneurin Barnard, Steeltown Murders), a preacher about to be killed as a heretic. But a chain of events ends in her death—a pattern Agnes unfortunately repeats across centuries.