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Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #21. Peter Strickland’s Flux Gourmet

Flux Gourmet Moving from the clothes we wear (with accompanying antagonist forces of everyday appliances) to the food we eat (or can't eat), Peter Strickland...

Greed | Review

In a Rich Man’s World: Winterbottom Wobbles with Elementary Satire Perennial British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, who has presented a number of different narratives across...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #103. Greed – Michael Winterbottom

Greed Michael Winterbottom unites once more with actor Steve Coogan for his latest project, Greed, their first collaboration since the third installment of their Trip...

Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children | Review

Let’s Do the Time Loop Again: Burton’s Back with Another Belabored Children’s Fantasy The time has long since passed when Tim Burton was able to...

Ten Thousand Saints | Review II

New York I Love You: Berman & Pulcini’s Schmaltz Soaked Latest Nostalgia, especially in large doses, tends to hobble the authenticity of a text, whether...

Ten Thousand Saints | Review I

East Village Ennui: Coming of Age Story Displaced, Too Hip For Own Good A coming of age narrative comprised of the familiar: teen angst, frustration,...

2015 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini’s Ten Thousand Saints

Who can forget 2003 when filmmaker-duo Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini landed at Sundance with a highly inventive biopic, a seminal film really...

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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.