World Cinema

Review: Kai poche! (Brothers…For Life) (2013)

Review: Kai poche! (Brothers…For Life) (2013)

By Doug Heller

Kai poche!, the third feature from co-writer/director Abhishek Kapoor tries to tell a very simple story. Three friends, Ishaan ‘Ish’ (Sushant Singh Raiput), Omi (AmitSadh) and Govind ‘Govi’ (Rai Kumar Yaday) are set on establishing a training center for local cricket players in ... Read More »

Review: Dragon (2011)

Review: Dragon (2011)

By Ronan Doyle

Perfect as it was in its initial iteration, the news of Unforgiven’s remake as a samurai film starring Ken Watanabe comes as a curiously exciting prospect; perhaps it’s the cultural transplantation of Eastwood’s bravura treatise on the mythology of violence that makes less distre... Read More »

Subversive Saturday: The Games of Angels (1965)

By Matthew Blevins

The ominous rumbling of trains provides the foreboding soundtrack in anticipation of the horrors of our unknown destination. Terrified breaths in the dark echo that of the audience, both audience and passenger unsure of what darkness hides and ill-comforted by the tepid revelati... Read More »

Review: Back to 1942 (2012)

By Matthew Blevins

Back to 1942 is a film that explores the ravages of famine and the responsibilities of a government to the governed It is a large scale humanist epic that attempts to tell a story too big for a single vantage. It follows several groups during the Henan famine (1942-1944) and at... Read More »

Review: Holy Motors (2012)

Review: Holy Motors (2012)

By Mel Valentin

Anyone who doubts the truism that film functions as both art and commerce need only look at the decade-long (actually thirteen years) absence of the one-time ‘enfant terrible’ of French cinema, Leos Carax, from filmmaking. Carax’s last film, Pola... Read More »

Review: Cafe de Flore (2011)

Review: Cafe de Flore (2011)

By Ronan Doyle

My local art house cinema—a small, single screen establishment that can manage to show but two films a week—was responsible for my viewing the Café de Flore trailer at least half a dozen times in the weeks running up to its release. Where normally such over-exposure sours the min... Read More »

Review: Cafe de Flore (2011)

Review: Cafe de Flore (2011)

By Julian Wright

Cast: Vanessa Paradis, Kevin Parent, Hélène Florent Director: Jean-Marc Vallée Country: Canada | France Genre: Drama | Romance Official Trailer: Here Editor’s Note: Café de Flore opens Friday I do not know if anyone has ever done a count, but I’m confident that there ... Read More »

Review: War of the Buttons (2011)

Review: War of the Buttons (2011)

By Ronan Doyle

Perhaps most well-known for its highly successful 1994 adaptation by Irish director John Roberts, Louis Pergaud’s anti-war novel War of the Buttons first came to the screen in its native French four decades earlier. Evidently remaining relevant, the book is this year the subject ... Read More »

Review: Special Forces (2011)

Review: Special Forces (2011)

By Ronan Doyle

It’s hard not to wonder just how John Rambo went from the sensitive, misunderstood Vietnam veteran of First Blood to the trigger-happy one-man army of 2008’s Rambo, the differences between the two rendering them characters divided by much more than merely a sizeable time gap. The... Read More »

Review: The Round Up (2010)

Review: The Round Up (2010)

By Ronan Doyle

It often takes the worst examples of humankind’s hideousness to highlight the heights of its kindness. As many portrayals of the Holocaust in fiction focus on the extraordinary stories of survival and unlikely camaraderie as do on the awful tales of death and destruction. Rose Bo... Read More »

Review: A Royal Affair (2011)

Review: A Royal Affair (2011)

By Ronan Doyle

The success of The King’s Speech perhaps yet lingering on the selective committee’s mind, Denmark’s submission to the 85th Academy Awards offers another behind-the-scenes look at the life of a European monarch, focusing on the infamous love triangle that largely defined the reign... Read More »

Review: Headshot (2011)

Review: Headshot (2011)

By Ronan Doyle

A bullet to the head would give anyone a new perspective on life. It’s the literal case for Tul, the hero of Headshot and recipient of the eponymous wound, whose thusly damaged brain fails to perceive the world the right way up as for the rest of us. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s film—thi... Read More »

Review: The Ambassador (2011)

Review: The Ambassador (2011)

By Ronan Doyle

How does one become a diplomat? It’s a position of considerable influence, presumably requiring years of service to one’s country and tireless work in the field of international relations. Not so for Mads Brügger, whose appointment as the Liberian consulate to the Central African... Read More »

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