Tag: Foreign Films
Automata | Review
I, Robot: Ibanez Saddles Asimov for Arresting A.I. Concoction
Spanish director Gabe Ibanez makes an impressive sci-fi entry with his sophomore feature, Automata, an exploration...
The Blue Room | Review
Blue in the Face: Amalric’s Simenon Adaptation an Exquisite Enigma
Though actor/director Mathieu Amalric’s last directorial effort, On Tour (2010), landed him a Best Director...
Corbo | 2014 TIFF Review
Vive la FLQ: Revolutionary Tactics as Performance of Identity
With Corbo, Mathieu Denis’ second feature-length film, the Quebecois director has established an auteur focus on...
Stop The Pounding Heart | Review
The Heart She Holler: Minervini Caps Texas Trilogy With Christian Corset
A hybrid of documentary aesthetic and subdued narrative happenings, the third film in a...
Tracks | Review
It’s Easier For a Camel: Curran’s Curious Reenactment of a Strange Journey
Early on in John Curran’s Tracks, which charts the 2,000 mile journey of...
The Zero Theorem | Review
Black Holes and Revelations: Gilliam’s Cluttered Dystopia a Mixed Return to Form
In what stands as his best film since 1998’s Fear and Loathing in Las...
Music Box Have a Wandering Eye For Fontaine’s “Gemma Bovery”
After shoring up in Toronto with their Cannes pick-ups in Alleluia and Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem, the Music Box Films folks have landed...
Pasolini | 2014 TIFF Review
The Gospel According to Pier: Ferrara Poetically Captures an Auteur’s Last Day on Earth
It appears that 2014 marks a resounding return for auteur Abel...
Frailer | 2014 TIFF Review
A Peculiar Experiment in Content Guiding Form
Experimental director Mijke de Jong’s latest feature-length film, is a curious exercise in content guiding form. It’s ostensibly...
’71 | 2014 TIFF Review
Control: A Frenzied Look at the Early Days of the IRA
Yann Demange, whose resume consists of serviceable, albeit unexceptional, television fare, has achieved the...
Life’s a Breeze | Review
The Little Foxes: Daly’s Heartfelt Family Drama Pleasantly Rendered
Arriving with a bit more investment than its airy title would suggest, Lance Daly returns to...
Bang Bang Baby | 2014 TIFF Review
Campy Histrionics at Their Most Mediocre
Canadian director Jeffrey St. Jules has demonstrated an aptitude for experimenting with the cinematic form and creating hyper-realized, wildly...
In the Crosswind | 2014 TIFF Review
Capturing History Through the Art of Tableau
Despite only having a couple of short films under his belt, Estonian director Martti Helde’s feature film debut,...
They Have Escaped | 2014 TIFF Review
Running on Empty: Valkeapaa’s Vicious Road Trip
We may have seen similar iterations of outcast, adolescent misfits refusing to conform to the world’s expectations many...
High Society | 2014 TIFF Review
Is There More to this Coming-of-Age Parable Than Meets the Eye?
One of the key specificities about the production of Julie Lopes Curval’s latest exploration...
The Vanished Elephant | 2014 TIFF Review
A Puzzle within a Puzzle within a Puzzle
Initially, The Vanished Elephant, Javier Fuentes-León’s follow-up to the well-received ghost story, Undertow, has a surprisingly unpolished...
Red Rose | 2014 TIFF Review
Beware the Beauty of the Single Red Rose
Though she’s lived in France for more than three decades, Sepideh Farsi has carved out a career...
Waste Land | 2014 TIFF Review
Fear in a Handful of Dust: Van Hees Completes Trilogy with Dark Metaphor
Belgian director Pieter Van Hees completes his thematically connected "Anatomy of Love and...
Return to Ithaca | 2014 TIFF Review
Shared Tendencies: McGowan’s Debut an Understated Navigation
Palme d’Or winning director Laurent Cantet continues a tour outside of France with his latest feature, the carefully...
Out of Nature | 2014 TIFF Review
A Hollow World of Obligations
Ole Giæver’s sophomore feature, Out of Nature, very much resembles—in setting, structure and thematic preoccupation—his short film work and prior,...
Cut Snake | 2014 TIFF Review
Out of the Past: Ayres’ Neo-noir is a Pulpy Brood
With a little luck, Australian director Tony Ayres’ latest film, Cut Snake will evolve beyond...
The Great Man | 2014 TIFF Review
A More Accurate Title Might Have Been The “Good” or “Serviceable” Man
Much like Kathryn Bigelow does with many of her works or like Jasmine...
Queen Margot | Blu-Ray Review
Arguably the most prolific title in director Patrice Chereau’s three decades of filmmaking, Cohen Media Group releases a beautiful remastering of Queen Margot for...
The Notebook | Review
Behind Every Great War Is a Great Story: Szasz’s Captivating, Grotesque Portrait of Life During Wartime
World War II takes on the ambience of an...
Salvo | Review
Miracle Worker: Italian Duo’s Debut a Cold Rumination on Tenuous Connection
Though its initial setup holds considerable promise, due mostly to subdued visual cues that...
Metro Manila | Review
A Better Life: Ellis’ Latest a Masterful Drama of Sacrifice
British director Sean Ellis brings us to the Philippines with his third feature film, Metro...
We Won’t Grow Old Together | Blu-Ray Review
Even after nearly two decades of short films, documentaries and the success of his 1968 feature debut, L’enfance Nue, director Maurice Pialat’s celebrated sophomore...
Moebius | Review
Freudian Slip: Ki-duk Gets to the Greek
South Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk outdoes himself with his latest theatrical release, Moebius, so named for the continuous...
Favorites Of The Moon | Blu-Ray Review
After a new print screened at the 2014 City of Lights City of Angels Festival earlier this spring, Cohen Media Group has released...
What If | Review
The C Word: Dowse’s Latest a Joy Despite Censor Scramble
Don’t let the marketing snafu and the hopelessly generic title fool you into thinking...
The Strange Little Cat | Review
In a Word: Pulchritude
Buried in Cannes' most unassuming and roundly ignored sidebar, ACID (an acronym for what translates to "The Association for the Distribution...
Dakota Johnson Makes “A Bigger Splash” Than Margot Robbie; Guadagnino Finally Starts Lensing
He slayed international auds with I Am Love, and now it would appear that Luca Guadagnino is finally moving back into feature films (docs...
The Almost Man | Review
Growing Pains: Lund’s Debut a Gem of Behavioral Regression
The long hard road to growing up and accepting responsibility takes the center stage in Martin...
Calvary | Review
Trials of Faith Without Error; Glesson’s Good Priest Suffers for Sins of the Fathers
Two years after The Guard, the most commercially successful Irish film...
Criterion Collection: Insomnia | Blu-ray Review
Erik Skjoldbjaerg’s 1997 directorial debut, Insomnia is a prescient prototype of what would now be termed Nordic Noir in today’s global film market. At...
A Five Star Life | Review
Perks of Using the Star System: Tognazzi’s Tale a Tad Too Familiar
Maria Sole Tognazzi, daughter of famed actor/director Ugo Tognazzi, visits the mid-life crisis...
Fandor Purrs to the Sound of Zürcher’s “The Strange Little Cat”
Just prior to its one week stint over at the FilmLinc in August, TheWrap reports that Fandor have put The Strange Little Cat in...
Live Free or Die; Roadside Attractions Land Dolan’s “Mommy”
In a deal that we can already claim as filmmaker Xavier Dolan's most significant opening in the U.S yet, the folks at Roadside Attractions...
Le Chef | Review
Chef Mate: Cohen’s Poke at the Restaurant World Written for Fast Food Mentality
Connoisseurs of world food porn will perhaps take keen interest in the...
Carnie Folk; Haenel & Lola Duenas Among Performers in Léa Fehner’s “Les ogres”
Respectively coming off red-hot Cannes' Directors' Fortnight titles in big winner Les Combattants and Alleluia, actresses Adèle Haenel and Lola Dueñas are reteaming (they...
Fanny | Review
Fanny Feast: Auteuil’s Underwhelming Trilogy Continues
The mid-section of his Pagnol tribute, Fanny promises to give us the female perspective in the crossed lover’s situation...
A Long Way Down | Review
Lost in Translation: Chaumeil’s English Language Debut a Wretched Operation
While his 2010 feature debut, Heartbreaker, which starred Vanessa Paradis and Romain Duris, managed to...
I Vinti | Blu-ray Review
Michelangelo Antonioni’s third feature, I Vinti, translating as The Vanquished, gets a Blu-ray upgrade from Raro Video, serving as a definite collector’s item for...
Marius | Review
You’re Horrible, Marius: Auteuil’s Next Stop on the Pagnol Train
At the very least, actor Daniel Auteuil’s return to the director’s seat with the first...
After Lucia, it’s “Chronic” for Michel Franco, Tim Roth & Bitsie Tulloch
If we base ourselves on his first two ventures into feature filmmaking (Daniel and Ana and After Lucia) thesps Tim Roth, Bitsie Tulloch, Michael Cristofer...
Me and You | Review
Unhappy Together: Bertolucci’s Muted Return to the Director’s Seat
Seemingly against the odds, wheelchair bound Bernardo Bertolucci arrives with his first directorial effort, Me and...
Kino Lorber Sink Their Canines into Godard’s “Goodbye to Language”
Perhaps the most decisive film at the recent Cannes Film Festival, the Jury Prize winning Goodbye to Language has found a home in the U.S...
Music Box Madly in Love with Fabrice Du Welz’s “Alleluia”
Definitely in the Godfather: Part II category of films where the second instalment might be the jewel of a proposed trio of films, Fabrice...
Exclusive: Michaël Youn’s Jacky Goes Down on One’s Knees…and in Flames in “Le Chef”
I think when Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table! (otherwise known as Me, Myself and Mum) not only took home the top prizes in...
Snowpiercer | Review
Hell Frozen Over: Joon-Ho’s Dystopic Thrill Ride an Arresting Examination of Cold Humanity
His first feature film since 2009’s Mother, as well as his English...
