Stories By Nicholas Bell
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Disc Reviews
Criterion Collection: The Emigrants/The New Land | Blu-ray Review
March 1, 2016Following last summer’s restoration of Swedish auteur Jan Troell’s directorial debut Here is Your Life (1966),...
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Disc Reviews
Sheba, Baby | Blu-ray Review
March 1, 2016Strangely enough, Pam Grier’s last Blaxploitation feature, 1975’s Sheba, Baby, would be the title to introduce...
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Reviews
United States of Love | 2016 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 26, 2016Certain Women: Wasilewski Explores Enlightenment and Despair It was 1990, and the climate was changing. Or...
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Reviews
Malgré la nuit | 2016 Film Comment Selects Review
February 25, 2016When the Night Has Come: Grandrieux Laments Lost Love Seven years have passed since provocateur Philippe...
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Reviews
Triple 9 | Review
February 25, 2016The Russians Are Coming: Hillcoat Juggles Strands in Sprawling Heist Thriller About half way into John...
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Reviews
Tricked | Review
February 24, 2016Community Cinema: Verhoeven’s Failed Experiment Confirms Concepts of Authorship Four years after its premiere in his...
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Disc Reviews
Criterion Collection: I Knew Her Well | Blu-ray Review
February 23, 2016Love is most definitely not a many splendored thing in the bedazzled artifice of Rome’s swinging...
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Reviews
A Dragon Arrives! | 2016 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 22, 2016Be a Dragon: Haghighi’s Enticing Hodgepodge Defies Categorization Director Mani Haghighi stakes a claim as one...
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The Conversation
The Conversation: Das ist Berlin
February 22, 2016The Berlin International Film Festival continued to challenge expectations in its 66th edition, landing another auteur...
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Film Festivals
The Road to Istanbul | 2016 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
February 19, 2016Free Radicals: Bouchareb Explores a Mother’s Nightmare in Topical Treatment French director Rachid Bouchareb is no...