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Continental Europe & Russia,
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by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, November 20, 2011 12:06 PM
This episode The Night Crew is joined by director's Jose Padilha (Elite Squad: The Enemy Within) and Lucky McKee (The Woman), who have both helmed films that kick up a bit of dirt, and have been making people think.Mr....
by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, November 19, 2011 5:45 PM
ELITE SQUAD: The Enemy Within is the second in writer/director Jose Padilha's intricate and operatic crime duology, about the turmoil and extreme violence in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, between the police and gangs, who are interminably locked...
by Ross Miller, November 19, 2011 10:08 AM
Earlier this year at the Edinburgh International Film Festival I had the chance to see Calvet (read my review here), a powerful and gripping documentary about a French painter called Jean Marc Calvet who turned his troubled life around. It...
by Ryland Aldrich, November 18, 2011 12:15 PM
[With Elite Squad: The Enemy Within playing in NYC and launching in LA this weekend, we take this opportunity to bring you Ryland Aldrich's earlier review.] Jose Padilha's 2007 hit Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite) turned heads by winning the...
Africa,
Asia,
Continental Europe & Russia,
Documentary,
Mexico & South America,
Middle East,
South Asia,
UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand,
USA & Canada
by James Marsh, November 2, 2011 2:14 AM
One of the most ambitious and successful documentaries of the year, LIFE IN A DAY is a beautiful collage of people, places, emotions and lives taking place over the course of a single day. Devised and compiled by Academy-Award Winning...
by Todd Brown, November 1, 2011 1:05 PM
Though the Morbido Fest has wrapped up I've got one final gem to share from Mexico in the form of Leon Fernandez's Mutatio. While stop motion animation is increasingly an art in decline - not in quality but in...
by Ryland Aldrich, October 31, 2011 6:01 PM
This year, 63 countries submitted films to the Academy for award consideration as Best Foreign Language Film . Very few of these have played in US as of yet and some with only limited qualifying runs in their home...
by Todd Brown, October 30, 2011 12:11 AM
Call Miguel Gomez' El Fin the anti-Melancholia. With his latest work the talented Costa Rican director of El Sanatorio takes a premise virtually identical to that of Lars Von Trier's latest - humanity discovering six months in advance that...
by Todd Brown, October 29, 2011 2:15 PM
One of the great joys of attending international film festivals is the opportunity to discover exciting new talent, talent that often turns up in the short film programs. I had exactly that opportunity yesterday at the Morbido Festival in...
by Todd Brown, October 29, 2011 2:02 PM
Never trust a hippy. That is the core message behind Pablo Illanes' super pulpy and super entertaining slasher film Baby Shower. By blending a plot line that could have been lifted from a latino telenovela with one lifted from...
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