Tag: Foreign Films
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
In Fear | Review
Fear Me Not: Lovering Terrorizes Our Time, Not Our Senses in Feature Debut
After working quite regularly in television since the mid 90s, British director...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Inescapable | Review
Inexorable Void: Nada’s Latest an Ineffectively Staged Political Thriller
Following a quietly effective 2009 romantic drama, Cairo Time, which featured a touching and gently handled...
Like Someone in Love | Review
The Things I Do Astound Me: Kiarostami Does Tokyo
Following his Tuscany set 2010 success, Certified Copy, Abbas Kiarostami extends his global presence outside of...
Criterion Collection: The Kid with a Bike | Blu-ray Review
There’s an extraordinary moment in Rosetta, the Dardenne Brothers’ Palme d’Or winning slice of grungy life from 1999. About 22 minutes in, Emilie Dequenne’s...
Body Language: Alfama Films Set to Produce Luca Guadagnino’s Body Art
It seems David Cronenberg hasn’t had enough of Don DeLillo, with Variety reporting that the director is set to go in front of the...
The Look of Love | Sundance 2013 Review
Love Hurts: Winterbottom’s Biopic a By-the-Numbers Look at London’s Infamous King of Soho
Michael Winterbottom continues on with his whirlwind filmography, unleashing one of his...
Yossi | Review
Closet Space: Fox Brings a Welcome Addendum to Celebrated Film
Eytan Fox’s much celebrated 2002 film, Yossi & Jaggar, concerning a passionate and secret love...
Halley | Sundance 2013 Review
Up With Dead People: Hoffman’s Debut an Arresting Development
It’s easy to see why long time Carlos Reygadas producer Jaime Romandia (who has also produced...
Circles | Sundance 2013 Review
Circles In the Sand: Golubovic’s Intersecting Triptych Spins Right Round
“When you throw a stone in water, something happens,” mutters one of the main players...
No | Review
Just Say It: Larrain’s Final Entry In Pinochet Trilogy a Knockout
Heralded as the last and also lightest film in Chilean auteur Pablo Larrain’s Pinochet...
Criterion Collection: The Tin Drum | Blu-ray Review
The Tin Drum is a story of Europe’s nasty history in the first half of the 20th Century and, like that tortured history, the...
Goltzius and the Pelican Company | Review
Company You Keep: Greenaway’s Latest a Beguiling, Sumptuous Cinematic Film
One seems to forget that Peter Greenaway has been prophesying the death of cinema (for...
Sokurov: Early Masterworks | Blu-ray/DVD Review
Raised in a military family and schooled in the ways of movie making under the wing of Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director Alexander Sokurov’s career...
Already Famous | Review
Kind of a Big Deal: Michelle Chong’s Choppy Directorial Effort Skirts By on Charm
The multi-talented Michelle Chong, a notable Singaporean host and television actress,...
Romanian Presence for Cannes 2013?: Police, Adjective’s Corneliu Porumboiu Counts ‘A Nine-Minute Interval’
Critics who flock to Cannes every year and the cinephiles who can't get enough of the Romania's contributions to art-house cinema will be pleased...
Criterion Collection: Purple Noon | Blu-ray Review
Remade forty years later as The Talented Mr. Ripley, René Clément’s Purple Noon from 1960 was the first attempt to bring amorphic rogue Tom...
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding | Review
Cloudy With a Chance of Strain: Rice’s Debut a Sweet Coated Flimsy
For his directorial debut, Donald Rice adapts a 1932 novella written by Julia...
Teodora Sinner | Review
For her second documentary feature (and first solo), Anca Hirte gives us an intimate look at cloistered Romanian nuns in Teodora Sinner, an exercise...
Parked | Review
Home Is Where The Heart Is: Byrne Takes Up Fiction
For the decade prior to making his fictional feature debut, director Darragh Byrne helmed a...
Criterion Collection: Trilogy of Life Blu-Ray
His life tragically and brutally cut short by a still unknown assassin, Italian auteur Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last completed project, known as the Trilogy...
Burning Man | DVD Review
Tragically overlooked by much of the Western cinematic consciousness this passed year, Burning Man came to be one of the biggest films of the...
Strand Moves Reygadas Into the Light; Cannes Preemed ‘Post Tenebras Lux’ Finally Finds Distribution
Along with fellow countryman's Michel Franco's After Lucia, Post Tenebras Lux was until now, the criminally orphaned/unsold item from 2012's Cannes Film Festival. It...
Otelo Burning | Review
Blecher Rides Waves, Inelegantly
Cutting her teeth with the surfing 2010 short doc Surfing Soweto, director Sara Blecher has forged ahead, tackling similar territory with...
Die Nibelungen | Blu-ray Review
This month, one of Fritz Lang’s first epic masterpieces, Die Nibelungen gets a lush Blu-ray treatment from Kino, and it has to be one...
The Day He Arrives | DVD Review
Hong Sangsoo remains an enigma of South Korean cinema. While Park Chan-wook, Kim Ji-woon and a host of copy cat directors fill big box...
Anna Karenina | Review
All Good Movies Are the Same: Joe Wright’s Lavish Tolstoy Adaptation a Decadent Affair
Groaning beneath the weight of its classic source material, not to...
Ginger & Rosa | AFI Fest 2012 Review
Something In Canned Air: Potter Creates Showcase for Fanning
Director Sally Potter has always seemed to lean towards a mischievous experimentalism in narrative form, which...
Dangerous Liaisons | Review
Same Old Song: Jin-Ho Adapts Latest Version of Overproduced Classic
It seems there are some tales we can just never get enough of. While mainstream...
Oh Boy | AFI Fest 2012 Review
Slacker Days: Gerster’s Debut Proves that Growing Up is Hardly Black and White
For his directorial debut, German director Jan-Ole Gerster serves up Oh Boy,...
A Royal Affair | AFI Fest 2012 Review
An Affair We’ll Remember: Arcel’s Elegant History Lesson a Compelling Period Piece
Danish director Nikolaj Arcel brings us a sumptuous costume drama relating a remarkably...
