Days of Heaven, Creation, Birth, Death, Skyscrapers….and a Texas Childhood
The Tree of Life It seems like an eternity that we’ve been waiting for Terrence Malick’s ambitious new film. The Tree of Life, which won over the Cannes jury, is an attempt at an epic cinematic poem...
View ArticleFirst, Find the Corpse – Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey, 2011 (At Film Forum) The title of this Turkish murder mystery suggests that it’s a fairy tale, or a Clint Eastwood saga. It’s a dark long tale...
View ArticlePanahi’s Lettre Persane – from Chez Lui, for Now…
Jafar Panahi – Counting the Days? This is Not a Film Dir. Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Iran 2011 (at Film Forum) Take a director, a camera, an iguana, and a telephone. Put them in Jafar...
View ArticleLeaving It All in Paris – for Israel?
Aliyah dir. Elie Wajeman, France, 116 minutes, at Cinema Village in New York In Aliyah, the Hebrew term for immigration to Israel, the tarnished lure of the Promised Land looks better to frustrated...
View ArticleGuiraudie At Sundance – Stranger in the Snow
Men at Work Stranger by the Lake dir. Alain Guiraudie, France, 2013, 97 minutes At Lincoln Center from Strand Releasing Naturalisme is the French word for nudism, and Stranger by the Lake by Alain...
View ArticleSan Francisco – On the Rise, Tech Targets Next?
SFIFF — Defining Drama, Faces in Movies San Francisco International Film Festival April 24 – May 8 With the shadow of Cannes already over everything, it’s a bit late to take stock of this year’s San...
View ArticleTIFF – ‘Leviathan” Puts a Chill in the Air
Moscow in the Arctic Leviathan Dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia, 2014, 144 minutes At the Toronto International Film Festival Leviathan has the commercial look of what could be an American film – a...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of ‘Charlie Hebdo’
Take It From Muhammad – It’s Hard to Be Loved by Jerks (C’est Dur d’Etre Aime par des Cons) The opening shot needed no script this week. A policeman lying on the sidewalk pleaded with a ninja-suited...
View Article‘Amour Fou’ — First Look
If You Love Me, Will You Die for Me? Amour Fou, Dir. Jessica Hausner, Austria/Germany/Luxemburg, 2014, 96 minutes First Look, American Museum of the Moving Image (Film Movement) The title of Amour Fou,...
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