by Simon de Bruyn, January 6, 2012 12:59 AM
Despite the whole internet-age thing, many filmmakers still seem remarkably reluctant when it comes to putting their short films online. Every year when I attend short film festivals I am blown away by some of what I see, but then...
by Matthew Lee, February 4, 2011 7:46 PM
(Police, Adjective is available to buy on UK DVD from 14th February 2011, courtesy of Artificial Eye.)There's a key passage of dialogue towards the end of Corneliu Porumboiu's Police, Adjective that serves as an unfortunate way of summing up the...
by Matthew Lee, December 21, 2010 5:47 PM
How could anyone dismiss The Silent Army? It's a sensitive film about a deeply troubling real-world issue (child soldiers in East Africa), made by a director who clearly feels very strongly about the subject matter both from a personal...
by Kurt Halfyard, August 11, 2010 1:00 PM
[Updated with a higher quality version of the trailer.]The best globule of cinematic madness that I caught on the festival circuit in 2009 is going to start hitting a few theatrical venues for its commercial release in September. IFC is...
by Kurt Halfyard, June 10, 2010 4:02 PM
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos' crypto-satire Dogtooth is hyped as weird, transgressive, darkly funny and gorgeous to boot. It has been turning heads on the festival circuit since its Cannes 2009 debut where it won the Un Certain Regard prize. Kino...
by Ben Umstead, April 15, 2010 5:30 PM
[Originally posted for its SXSW showing, this review reappears here on the eve of the film's North American release.]Kurdish Iranian filmmaker, Bahman Ghobadi is known for his downbeat and timely cultural statements. Films such as A Time For Drunken Horses...
by Kurt Halfyard, January 21, 2010 3:52 PM
As the guy who gets migraines from watching 3D (my Avatar IMAX-3D hang-over lasted several days), it seems strange that I would actively wish that Gaspar Noé's Enter The Void (all 156 minutes of it) would be retrofitted into...
by Kurt Halfyard, January 20, 2010 9:04 AM
It is not in any way surprising that Enter The Void was a polarizing film on the festival circuit. I mean this was a three hour spiritual odyssey from Gaspar Noé, the director who made Irreversible. Long, repetitive, loose...
by Matthew Lee, January 19, 2010 8:41 PM
A period piece typically means serious business when it gets the most pressing question the audience can possibly have out of the way right at the start. Robert Guédiguian's Army of Crime begins by letting the viewer know what...
by Todd Brown, October 6, 2009 11:33 AM
Jeanne's reality is bending. The successful journalistic author is loosing her hold on reality - her family becoming literally unrecognizable, her belongings changing and moving without being touched and without any recognition of the changes from anyone else, even...
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