THE EYE by Hong Kongs Pang Brothers is a tidy little ghost story with more plusses than minuses going for it. The plot is a retelling about the unexpected things that can happen when you recycle body parts from dead people. In this case, its the corneas and the happy recipient is Mun, blind since… Read More »
SEA, THE (HAVET)
The most interesting sight in Baltasar Kormakur THE SEA comes right at the beginning. That would be fire engines contending with reindeer blocking the road as they race to a factory fire. It confirms the setting, Iceland, as a country with its own particular set of quirks, including rams roaming free in retail establishments before… Read More »
HELL HOUSE – DVD
HELL HOUSE is one of the scariest documentaries you will ever see. In it, fundamentalists with what they consider to be the purest of motives, put on a Halloween house in which scenarios are staged depicting violence that is intensely disturbing both emotionally and graphically. Its all meant to convert the unsaved by demonstrating a… Read More »
KM 0
It’s Madrid, it’s summer, and the only thing soaring higher than the temperature are the hormones of an unlikely band of strangers who are about to become much more in Juan Luis Iborra and Yolanda Barcia Serrano’s frothy and very sexy comedy, KM O. There’s nothing too deep here, unless you count the power of… Read More »
MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING
The piquant documentary, MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING, takes on the question of who actually wrote Shakespeares plays and poems. Now, I am of the opinion that in the final analysis, it doesnt really matter. The works speak for themselves and whether they were written by the Bard of Avon or not, they still glimmer with… Read More »
BARAKA
I can’t possibly be the first person to point out the inherent silliness of trying to use words to convey the magic and wonder of the wordlessly eloquent film BARAKA. This film classic from 1992 explores the disconnect between the secular and sacred in the modern world by juxtaposing images of holy places and holy rites… Read More »
CHAC: THE RAIN GOD
Long unavailable to its legion of fans, CHAC THE RAIN GOD, made by Rolando Klein and released 1975, has been issued in a superb DVD edition by Milestone. It’s about time. This tale of pilgrimage, ritual and sacrifice in a Maya village in the Mexican wilderness has a magic and a wonder that few films achieve. The story… Read More »
SIRENS OF THE 23RD CENTURY
There is something about a film that takes no prisoners, especially a comedy, that can be completely irresistible. Im not talking about an ideology of us-versus-them in the great battle of good and evil, but rather one that holds a mirror up to all of us and shows us things we may not have considered… Read More »
MY FLESH AND BLOOD
Johnathan Karshs documentary, MY FLESH AND BLOOD, takes us to a place that many of us will find difficult and joyful at the same time. It is a year in the life, told in sometimes painful detail, of Susan Tom, a divorced woman who having raised her own two biological children, has adopted 11 special… Read More »
IVANSXTC
Based on the Tolstoy story THE DEATH OF IVAN ILLYICH, IVANSXTC takes the Russian bureaucrat from the 19th century and transmutes him into a high-powered talent agent in contemporary Hollywood. Not an intuitive leap, but filmmaker Bernard Rose has taken the essence of the original story, and made it work in the most unlikely of… Read More »
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