by Hugo Ozman, February 9, 2012 6:41 AM
It takes a real man to admit to watching and enjoying a chick flick, and therefore I am here to declare that I watched and enjoyed the latest film by director Wayne Wang, SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN. It...
by Todd Brown, February 8, 2012 6:00 PM
It has been a busy couple years for Denmark's Tobias Lindholm. Though his 2010 directorial debut R - cowritten and codirected with Michael Noer - suffered some from being released in close proximity to Jacques Audiard's similarly themed A...
by Todd Brown, February 8, 2012 4:10 PM
With Lars Von Trier gearing up to start on his provocatively titled next film - with rumblings that regular compatriots Stellan Skarsgaard and Charlotte Gainsbourgh will star - international sales agents Trust Nordisk are launching presales for Nymphomaniac at...
by Joshua Chaplinsky, February 8, 2012 11:00 AM
The Sunset Limited, Cormac McCarthy's one-act novel in dramatic form, is all about the dialog. The Sunset Limited, Tommy Lee Jones' HBO adaptation of McCarthy's play, is all about the characters delivering that dialog.The plot of both is simple: White,...
by Charles Webb, February 8, 2012 9:00 AM
Roland Emmerich seems like an unlikely filmmaker to tackle the heady worlds of literary conspiracy, historical fiction, and the Elizabethan line of succession. In fact, I would say that the man behind Godzilla and The Day After Tomorrow would be...
by Niels Matthijs, February 8, 2012 7:23 AM
So far I've been ignoring the work of Takeshi Kitano (Achilles To Kame, Kantoku Banzai), but as I'm slowly revisiting my all-time favorite films there really is no way around Kitano's impressive body of work. So let us start with...
by J Hurtado, February 7, 2012 10:44 PM
If there is one label who has benefited from the advent of Blu-ray, it is Kino Lorber. The selection of films that Kino have released in high definition is all over the spectrum in terms of genre and era, and...
by Ard Vijn, February 7, 2012 6:25 PM
(It's not a prequel to "Z"... I think?) Greek cinema is turning heads lately, scoring points at festivals worldwide, getting awarded left and right and ending up in people's Top-10 lists. This recent wave arguably revolves around the team which...
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by Brian Clark, February 7, 2012 11:22 AM
For the second time in two years, I am frustrated and a bit sad to begin discovering the work of a great, oft-overlooked filmmaker upon reading news of their death. Such was the case last year with Jean Rollin,...
by J Hurtado, February 6, 2012 10:40 PM
Ocean Heaven is not the kind of film I normally go for. This film is a tearjerker, the kind of film that would have my wife weeping openly at the predetermined beats, just as the director intended. I tend to...
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