Tag: World Cinema
Beyond Words | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Stranger in a Strange Land: Antoniak Explores the Black and White of the Refugee Crisis
The ongoing refugee crisis provides the framework of Urszula Antoniak’s...
Disappearance | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Terms of Estrangement: Koole Poses Familial Woes in Chilly Scenes of Winter
“Family is just accident…,” remarks one of the tortured characters in Marsha Norman’s...
The Price of Success | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
The Price of Life: Lussi-Modeste’s Modest Profile on the Sacrifice of Fame and Fortune
Director Teddy Lussi-Modeste scored positive notices for his 2011 debut Jimmy...
Video: Michel Franco – April’s Daughter (Las hijas de abril) – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
While some could say he was relegated or took a step down from the prestige of the Official Comp, the Cannes Film Festival has...
Video: Belle de Jour (1967) | Jean-Claude Carrière – 2017 Cannes Film Festival
It's a section I rarely allow myself to venture towards during the madness of what is the Cannes film fest, but in most cases...
Video: Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra – 2017 Cannes Film Fest Post Screening Q&A
After premiering his debut film at the Venice Film Festival, Édouard Waintrop's Directors' Fortnight would beat out Critic's Week for the right to show...
The Nile Hilton Incident | Review
Cairo Crime: A Murder Mystery Simmers Against the Backdrop of a Revolution
After an animated feature about a dystopian nightmare (2009’s Metropia), a Swedish heist...
Amnesia | DVD Review
Earning a paltry five thousand at the US box office following its limited late July 2017 theatrical release courtesy of Film Movement, Barbet Schroeder’s...
Criterion Collection: L’Argent | Blu-ray Review
In more ways than one, L’Argent, the stunning final film of Robert Bresson, (anointed ‘patron saint of cinema’), plays like an eerie prequel to...
Amnesia | Review
Never Forget: Schroeder Quietly Examines Cultural Identity in Isolation
In an intriguingly varied career, which was kick started during the early days of the Nouvelle...
Footnotes | Review
The Tread Shoes: Calori and Testut Hoof through Musical Homage
Directors Paul Calori and Kostia Testut face something of an uphill battle with their directorial...
Kill, Baby…Kill! (1966) | Review
The Little Girl Who Kills Down the Lane: Bava’s Boffo Ghost Story Heavy on Atmosphere, Light on Narrative
Of all the famed giallo masters, Mario...
Muchachas de Uniforme (1951) | Outfest 2017 LGBT Film Festival Review
Girls Interrupted: Crevenna’s Lost Classic Resurrected in all its Melodramatic Glory
Although remakes have largely become the bane of the seventh art, how certain properties...
Paulina | Review
She’s Having a Baby: Mitre Explores the Yoke of Victimhood in Uncomfortable Drama
Argentina’s Santiago Mitre scores his first international success with his third feature,...
I, Olga Hepnarova | Review
Gray is the Cruelest Color: Kazda and Weinreb Resurrect a Murderess
Unlike the hopeful social realism angle of the comparably titled Palme d’Or winning I,...
The D Word: Andrey Zvyagintsev To Present Bitter Pill in “Loveless”
Following in his four year process between film releases, after The Return (2003), The Banishment (2007), Elena (2011) and Leviathan (2014), Andrey Zvyagintsev is...
