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The Duke | Review

The Goya Next Door: Michell’s Swan Song a Slender Thread of Anti-authoritarianism We’re primed to believe in the importance of a film whenever we’re greeted...

The Sense of an Ending | Review

Man of Letters: Batra Crafts Low-Key Adaptation with Handsome Ensemble “The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid,”...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: # 80. Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais’ Birthmarked

Birthmarked Director: Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais Writer: Marc Tulin Quebecois anglo helmer Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais won Best New Narrative Director at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival for his debut Whitewash starring...

Self/less | Review

The Change-Up: Singh Sleepwalks Through Sci-Fi Stock Time is not on anyone’s side in director Tarsem Singh’s latest blunder through familiar material, Self/less, a mash-up...

The Imitation Game | Blu-ray Review

Shut out at the BAFTAs, and nominated for eight Academy Awards and winning Best Adapted Screenplay for screenwriter Graham Moore, Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation...

The Imitation Game | Review

Cracking the Code: Tyldum's English Debut Delivers Thrills Although mathematician Alan Turing OBE was responsible for creating a machine capable of solving the unsolvable Nazi...

Belle | Review

But Your Picture On My Wall: Asante’s Sophomore Feature Revisits Compelling Historical Episode A decade after her 2004 directorial debut, A Way of Life, director...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #130. Morton Tyldum’s The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game Director: Morten Tyldum Writer: Graham Moore Producers: Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman U.S. Distributor: The Weinstein Co. Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #46. Park Chan-Wook’s Stoker

Stoker Director: Park Chan-Wook Writer(s): Wentworth Miller and Erin Cressida Wilson Producer(s): Michael Costigan, Ridley and Tony Scott U.S. Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Dermot...

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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.