Jordan M. Smith

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Stray Dog | Review

Still Learning New Tricks: Hall Heals Via Empathy & Remembrance Much less cinematically invigorating than Akira Kurosawa's noir of the same name and miles away from Tsai...

The Happiness of the Katakuris | Blu-ray Review

Takashi Miike's The Happiness of the Katakuris begins with a woman probing a freshly delivered bowl of soup only to fish out a miniature angel/gargoyle/teletubby? whose...

Video Interview: Mia Hansen-Løve – Eden

The morning after the world premiere of Eden at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, I arrived at a bar not yet open, located just...

Eden | Review

In The Garden Of Garage: Hansen-Løve Recounts Brother's Coming of Age During the Rise of House Music Thanks to her brother Sven’s involvement in the popularization...

The Wanted 18 | Review

Got Milk? Cowan & Shomali See The Glass Half Full, Celebrating Community Action In Beit Sahour With Stop-Motion Paul Cowan and Amer Shomali’s partially animated docu-drama,...

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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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