The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears could be a trainwreck of a film and still maintain pride of place in the giallo canon solely for that stupendous title. Right on par with, perhaps even above, the likes of The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, this is a name that grabs the att... Read More »
“You’ll bury them in Morocco?” It’s a question asked twice, each time with visible strain—both physical and emotional—by the hospital bed-bound Murielle, whose pained face is our introduction to Our Children. It’s strange, the reverence we reserve for the corpse, despite its stan... Read More »
I’m a big Robert De Niro fan and I will watch anything he’s in, even the bad stuff. Give me De Niro with a gun and honestly, I get a little excited about the possibilities. Killing Season finds De Niro playing Benjamin, a retired American colonel who lives a secluded life in the ... Read More »
Documentary films often fall in a combination of the following categories: education/awareness, observational, narrative and persuasive. There are others in between but those are the most popular forms. “Mussels in Love” serves to celebrate mussels while offering an element of ed... Read More »
Ex-CIA operatives. Wiley and resourceful teenagers. Foreign locales and exotic women. An international conspiracy with high reaching implications. How on Earth did this Aaron Eckhart action thriller go so totally and completely off the rails? Read More »
It’s a funny little film, Killing Season. I think it’s fair to say I never expected to see John Travolta hanging Robert De Niro from the ceiling by his calf muscle –and I’m not sure if I wanted to. Being built up from a script originating on the famous (and occasionally infamous)... Read More »
Like a love letter to a dead soulmate, The World of Jacques Demy reminds us of the thoughtful joyous anguish of Jacques Demy’s intriguing oeuvre and the unique voice that left an indelible mark on cinema as Agnes Varda (Demy’s wife of nearly thirty years) uses their shared artfor... Read More »
I wanted to like A Farewell to Fools. Starring Gérard Depardieu and Harvey Keitel, this remake—a first in the history of Romanian cinema, if I'm correct—falls flat. Decidedly not a place you want to be when you take on such a rich, well-liked story like The Death of Ipu. My long-... Read More »
An Official Selection of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, Stop the Pounding Heart is Italian director Roberto Minervini’s third feature made in Texas. A social study of Christian America, Minervini’s film contrasts a family of home-schooling goat farmers with a roughneck family of ... Read More »
As though we could have forgotten, Ken Loach’s abrasive statement this week in the wake of Margaret Thatcher’s death serves to remind us just how fastidiously the director has remained aligned to the plight of the working class throughout his career. One of the most famed of Brit... Read More »
Ex-CIA operatives. Wiley and resourceful teenagers. Foreign locales and exotic women. An international conspiracy with high reaching implications. How on Earth did this Aaron Eckhart action thriller go so totally and completely off the rails? Read More »
The overwhelming majority of reviews have postulated Beyond the Hills as Cristian Mungiu’s “belated follow-up to 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”, the difficult 2007 Communist-era abortion drama which won him a Palme d’Or and, combined with the success of Cristi Puiu’s The Death of ... Read More »
