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Erased | Review
Untaken Legacy: Stolzl’s English Debut a Clunky, Derivate Actioneer Originally titled The Expatriate, German director Philip Stolzl’s English language debut gets the dumbed down title of Erased, which unfortunately only makes it an easy
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Love is All You Need | Review
Before the Wedding: Bier’s Latest a Vibrant Vehicle for Dyrholm Susanne Bier returns with an uncharacteristically light film, Love Is All You Need, after her 2011 Best Foreign Language Film win for In a
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Lotus Eaters | Review
Let What is Broken So Remain: McGuiness’ Debut Familiar, Mesmerizing “Ah, why should life all labor be?” asks Lord Alfred Tennyson in a line from his poem, The Lotus-Eaters, with which Alexandra McGuiness’ film
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Trance | Review
Goya’s Ghosts: Boyle’s Twisty Tale Fails to Hypnotize Danny Boyle re-teams with scribe John Hodge (co-writing with Joe Ahearne) for Trance, their first collaboration since 2000’s The Beach. A pulpy return in novelistic filmmaking
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All Along the… Film Movement Find Companionship with Pelin Esmer’s Watchtower
Turkish filmmaker Pelin Esmer made her narrative feature debut in 2009 with 10 to 11, a meditative drama about a man and his collections, which was well received in the festival circuit earning several
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Renoir | Review
The Talent Family: Bourdos Abandons Genre for Elegant Biographical Period Piece A summer signifying the encroaching end of one artist and the birth of another within one of France’s most famous families is the
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Mental | Review
Mixed Nuts: Hogan’s Latest a Welcome Return to Roots After almost two decades knocking around the studio system after the success of his 1994 hit Muriel’s Wedding landed him in Hollywood, Australian director P.J.
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New World | Review
Operation Rehash: Hoon-jung’s Sophomore Film Glossy Entertainment Director Park Hoon-jung, perhaps best known for his screenplays for a pair of 2010 titles like The Unjust, and particularly, I Saw the Devil, attempts to tackle
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My Brother the Devil | Review
Better the Devil You Know: Hosaini’s Debut a Vibrant Urban Street Drama Sally El Hosaini’s directorial debut, My Brother the Devil, takes the overly familiar gangland drama genre and manages to make an engaging
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TWC Sews Up Jalil Lespert’s Yves Saint Laurent Biopic
French actor-turned-director Jalil Lespert (whose filmography behind the camera includes the unreleased in the U.S pair of 24 Measures and Headwinds) has nabbed a deal with The Weinstein Company for his bio-pic take on
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Hunky Dory | Review
Satisfactory Endeavor: Evans’ Latest Enjoyable Fluff Welsh director Marc Evans explores 1970’s rural Wales with his latest film, Hunky Dory, following his 2010 film Patagonia. While Evans is somewhat of a genre jumper, oscillating
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SPC Paint Mike Leigh’s JMW Turner Biopic on 2014 Canvas
After their previous collaboration in the Academy Award nominated film Another Year, Sony Pictures Classics and acclaimed director Mike Leigh will join forces to bring to screen the filmmaker’s most ambitious project yet. Interest
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Rust and Bone | Blu-ray Review
Building upon Canadian author Craig Davidson’s short story of the same title, Rust and Bone sees director Jacques Audiard in search of amourous authenticism between lives initially divided by ego, affluence and acumen. He
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Criterion Collection: Ministry of Fear | Blu-ray Review
Fritz Lang aficionados can rejoice this month with Criterion’s release of his 1944 title, Ministry of Fear, the first time it sees a DVD transfer. Long regarded as a minor entry in Lang’s prestigious
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Hemel | DVD Review
Playing sort of like the female version of Steve McQueen’s Shame comes Dutch filmmaker Sacha Polak’s film debut, Hemel, a provocative and, more significantly, non-exploitative exploration of a young woman’s confused search for intimacy
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Beyond the Hills | Review
Stalemate: Mungiu follows up Palme d’Or Winner with Intense Religious Stand-off Five years have passed since Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s critically acclaimed 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days hoisted Romania into the World
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From Up On Poppy Hill | Review
Kids On A Bike: Goro’s Seaside Sophomore Effort Floats Being the son of animation’s unequivocal living master who’s body of work ranks among the greatest cinematic creations ever made, Goro Miyazaki understandably had much
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Upside Down | Review
Down and Out: Solanas’ Latest Lost in its Own Concept For his latest film Upside Down, a French Canadian production from director Juan Diego Solanas, star crossed lovers are separated by not only bitterly
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The Silence | Review
History of Violence: Odar’s Debut a Sweaty, Slow Burn Swiss director Baran Bo Odar adapts Jan Costin Wagner’s novel The Silence for his film debut, a murder mystery thriller filmed in 2010, finally getting
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The Sweeney | Review
You’re Nicked: Love’s Latest a Resurrection of Classic Franchise After a successful classic UK series and two appreciated film versions from the late 70s, director Nick Love has turned his sights to The Sweeney
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The Condemned | Review
Sins of the Past: Buso-Garcia’s Sophomore Feature a Familiar Exercise Returning with his first feature since his 1999 debut Paging Emma, Puerto Rican writer-director Roberto Buso-Garcia brings us a haunted house thriller, The Condemned,
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Exclusive Clip: Ray Winstone is Looking Up Your Skirt in Nick Love’s The Sweeney
We’ve come to associate the raspy Ray Winstone to antagonist/villain-like roles of corruption, the underground and outlaws (favorites include Sexy Beast, The Proposition), but here, the actor from East End of London takes on
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Holy Motors | Blu-ray Review
No other film threw convention to the wind while exploring such rich and textured territory like Leos Carax’s exquisite, divisively referential patchwork of cinema history that is Holy Motors. Both a bold deconstruction of
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Criterion Collection: Sansho the Bailiff | Blu-ray review
While less known than his equally revered contemporaries Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu, the filmography of Kenji Mizoguchi may arguably be the more successfully varied. Criterion remasters his 1954 title, Sansho the Bailiff for
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Criterion Collection: Chronicle of a Summer | Blu-ray Review
1961’s Chronicle of a Summer is generally credited with inspiring what became known as Cinéma-vérité; a style of narrative filmmaking that both copied and utilized techniques of documentary production to create films of heightened
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