Monthly Archives: April, 2012

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Criterion Collection: Late Spring | Blu-Ray Review

Societal customs and early forms of feminism collide in Late Spring, a masterfully delicate family drama from director Yasujirô Ozu. Produced in 1949, this...

Criterion Collection: Vanya on 42nd Street | Blu-ray Review

Perhaps one of the most intriguing and experimental film adaptations of Anton Chekov’s work happens to be the last film of a legendary filmmaker,...

Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills Leads Romanian Presence at the 2012 Cannes Film Fest

Ever since Cristi Puiu's The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) landed in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, the tricolour...

2012 Cannes Critics’ Week: Opens with “Broken”, Special Screenings from Alice Winocour and Sandrine Bonnaire

Earlier in the day, first term Charles Tesson delivered the lottery like news that a lucky ten films/filmmakers (out of a whopping 1200 submissions)...

Sound of My Voice | Review

Batmanglij Makes you Hear the Sound and the Fury Between moments of oddly comic happenings, there are such morbid, chilling, and delightful instances in Zal Batmanglij’s...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

The Lost Daughter: Herzi Passes Up Potency in Standard...

Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

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