Film Review: The Immigrant (2014)
byWritten by Dan Santos Originally published 9 September 2014 The Statue of Liberty has long been a beacon of hope for those coming to…
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MIFF 2014: Concrete Night (2013)
byWritten by Dan Santos Originally published 8 September 2014 Set in Helsinki’s murky urban suburbia is Concrete Night, directed by Pirjo Honkasalo. Based on a…
Film Review: The Grandmaster (2013)
byWritten by Chris Smith Originally published 3 September 2014 The new film from perhaps the most celebrated auteur from all of Asia, maybe even…
Film Review: Self Made (2014)
byWritten by Chloe Sesta Jacobs Originally published 25 August 2014 Michal (Sarah Adler) is a famous Israeli artist who is having a particularly trying…
MIFF 2014: Life of Riley (2014)
byWritten by Chris Smith Originally published 9 August 2014 Something of a spiritual companion piece to his penultimate masterpiece You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet,…
MIFF 2014: Baal (1970)
byWritten by Chris Smith Originally published 9 August 2014 Screening as part of the Masters & Restorations program at this year’s MIFF is Baal,…
MIFF 2014: (Impressions of…) Goodbye To Language 3D (2014)
byWritten by Chris Smith Originally published 9 August 2014 After abandoning (relatively) conventional narrative decades ago, French maverick Jean-Luc Godard’s latest feature is a…
Film Review: The French Minister (2013)
byWritten by Chris Smith Originally published 15 July 2014 The new film from main-stay of the French cinema, Bertrand Tavernier (In The Electric Mist,…
Film Review: Beatriz’s War (2013)
byWritten by Kevin Hawkins Originally published 10 July 2014 July 14, 2014: This review has been updated from what was originally published on July 10. Timor Leste…
Film Review: Hara-Kiri (AKA Seppuku 1962)
byWritten by Nick Alexander Originally published 4 July 2014 Hara-kiri is a samurai film primarily concerned with the lengths a man will go to…