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The Ones Below | Blu-ray Review

Pregnancy and psychological thrills make for comfortable bedfellows in screenwriter David Farr’s (Hanna; “The Night Manager”) directorial debut, The Ones Below. Premiering at the...

The Girl King | Review

The Throne of Loneliness: Kaurismaki Cartoons Christina Considering it’s been forty years since her last notable on screen incarnation, the time has come for a...

The Ones Below | 2015 TIFF Review

Changeling Chronicles: Farr’s Eerie Debut a Duel of Deserving Motherhood Screenwriter and playwright David Farr makes his directorial debut with The Ones Below, a psychological...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #78. Mika Kaurismaki’s The Girl King

The Girl King Director: Mika Kaurismaki // Writer: Michel Marc Bouchardt Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki, brother of famed auteur Aki Kaurismaki, has often resided in the shadows...

If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle’s Ada Condeescu & Lorna’s Silence’s Arta Dobroshi Among Shooting Stars Ten of 2013

Actress Ada Condeescu who has in just a trio of films (award-winning If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, the Cannes selected Loverboy and...

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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.