In KINGS OF PASTRY, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus took the subject of pastry-making at the highest, most refined levels, and showed us a world of artists heretofore unsung by most of us who are only too happy to pop a petit four or a truffle into our mouths for a moments delight. The filmmakers,… Read More »
LITTLEROCK
The serendipity at work in LITTLEROCK is of a profoundly subtle nature. And like the title itself, which refers to a dusty backwash in California rather than the capital of Arkansas, things are never quite what they seem. Expectations are subverted, assumptions exploded, and the meaningless nature of words is replaced by the importance of… Read More »
INTERVIEW WITH THE ASSASSIN
There are so many ways to go with the whole Kennedy assassination conspiracy theory. Check out any conspiracy website and youll find everything from aliens to the hoax scenario, as in JFK didnt really die and for all we know, hes still living in a more or less vegetative state on that private island Onassis… Read More »
FLOWERS OF WAR
FLOWERS OF WAR is the most expensive Chinese film to date, and unlike the Hollywood counterpart, this is not a film that relies on special effects to justify its existence. Rather, director Zhang Yimou has done here what he has always done best, tell a compelling and very human story with a rare and specific… Read More »
MARYAM
Ramin Serrys beautiful and thought-provoking film, MARYAM, tells a very personal story about what its like to suddenly become a stranger in ones own land. Set in 1979 during and just after the Iranian revolutions, East meets West in this most timely of tales and neither gains by what happens next as the drama plays… Read More »
7 BOXES (7 CAJAS)
7 BOXES is a film full of piquant revelations. Steeped in the seamy underbelly of Paraguay urban culture, it is a suspenseful noir with absurdist overtones sharply defined by filmmakers Tana Schembori and Juan Carlos Meneglia. Wonderfully original and wildly unpredictable, it will make more than one viewer ask why there arent more films from… Read More »
THE PRIME MINISTERS: THE PIONEERS
History is full of a few objective facts, and a plethora of impressions and opinions. The former tells the undisputed truth of what happened, the latter is the insight into how those things happened. And one persons truth in that sense is not necessarily that of another. Subjective, personal, and colored with the baggage of… Read More »
SANDSTORM (BAWANDAR)
Jag Mundhra’s SANDSTORM succeeds on several levels. First, it’s a fine piece of filmmaking that tells this story of cultural discrimination with a directness that never panders to either its audience or its characters. Second, it succeeds in outlining in stark and uncompromisingly personal terms exactly what this sort of injustice means for one woman… Read More »
KILLER CONDOM (KONDOM DES GRAUENS)
Martin Walz’s KILLER CONDOM, based on the graphic novel by Ralf König, is a bizarre, touching, provocative, and funny piece of work. It’s the story of Luigi Mackeroni, a hard-boiled New York detective torn between his transvestite ex-partner and a street hustler with a heart of gold. If there is a hot-button issue that this… Read More »
CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES
A woman rises naked from the bed of her lover, dresses, walks outside and up the stairs of her duplex to spend the rest of the night, platonically, with another man. With that opening sequence of CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES, Eric Byler engages his audience from the first frame of film in a way that is irresistible.… Read More »
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