NYCFF Review: So Young
I’m still young. Young enough that I can understand and generally relate to the characters in So Young, but also old enough to ...
Tag: Foreign
Thor: The Dark World poster in Shanghai gets it right
One of the smaller things I noted in my review of Thor: The Dark World is the terribly wooden Natalie Portman. I guess ...
Watch out for the 2013 New York Chinese Film Festival
[Just a reminder that this is going on! I was hoping to have my review of So Young up by now to act as ...
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Review: The Square
It’s easy to ignore what’s going on half a world away. By the time the Egyptian people were fighting to take down Mohammed ...
A clip from Romain Gavras’s Our Day Will Come
Our Day Will Come (Notre jour viendra) is the debut feature film of Romain Gavras, best known as the music video director behind ...
First art from The Raid 2: Berandal is already fantastic
The Raid: Redemption is one of the best things to happen to action cinema in a long time. The fact that we’re getting ...
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CIFF Review: Burn it Up Djassa
Burn It Up Djassa tells the story of an Abidjan ghetto and one young man whose embrace of the ghetto ultimately led to his ...
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Review: CZ12 (Chinese Zodiac)
When the first promo/trailer hit for CZ12 (aka Chinese Zodiac), I bought into the hype and the possibility of the film. When news ...
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NYFF Review: Gloria
Of all the things to latch onto first in Sebastián Lelio’s Gloria, it was the dancing. Not because it was great, mind you, ...
Interview: Jia Zhangke & Zhao Tao (A Touch of Sin)
Jia Zhangke has been called one of the most important filmmakers in the world by Richard Brody of The New Yorker and John ...
Flixist Discusses Review: The Wind Rises
After the credits rolled at the screening of The Wind Rises at this year’s New York Film Festival, Hubert and I spent the ...
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Review: Argento’s Dracula 3D
There was a time when “directed by Dario Argento” meant something wonderful. There’d be wild visual play, inventive deaths, remarkable set pieces, and ...