Reviews

The theme of paternity and nature versus nurture has captured the imagination of directors and filmgoers of late: Place Beyond the Pines, It's All So Quiet and While I Lay Dying are some...

Dir.: Bruno Barreto Cast: Miranda Otto, Gloria Peres, Tracy Middendorf Brazil 2013, 118 min. In 1951, the poet Elisabeth Bishop (1911-1979), suffering from writer’s block, travels from New York to Rio de Janiero,...

Director: Lukas Moodysson Writer: Lukas and Coco Moodysson Cast: Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, Liv LeMoyne, Johan Liljemark, Matthias Wiberg 102min  Sweden   Drama Lukas Moodysson moves away from his more serious fare with this...

Dir.: Mohammad-Ali Talebi    Writer: Abbas Kiarostami Cast: Hadi Alipour, Amir Janfada, Majid Alipour Iran/Japan 1999, 81 min. WILLOW AND WIND headlines a touring film season exploring and celebrating rare film classics about...

Director: Nicholas Ray Writer: Stewart Stern Cast: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran  111min REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE gets a sparkling makeover as a tribute to the actor James...

Matthew Turner spoke to Ignacio Ferreras, director of Tokyo Onlypic (2008), How to Cope with Death (2002) about WRINKLES (Arrugas) his latest film: MJT: I saw the film in San Sebastian in 2011 and...

Dir.: Vikram Zutshi Documentary with Max Kennedy; USA 2011, 59 min. Max Kennedy is a 'Minuteman', part of a small group of white, middle-aged vigilantes, who've patrolled the USA/Mexican border since 2005,...

Director/Writer: Maciej Pieprzyca Dawid Ogrodnik, Doroto Kolak, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Helena Sujecka, Mikolaj Roznerski 107min  Poland  Disability Drama Based on a true story, LIFE IS GOOD is a touchingly unsentimental portrait of life with...

Director/Writer: Jean-Claude Brisseau Cast: Bruno Cremer, Emmanuelle Debever, Albert Pigot, Liza Heredia 89min    Drama/thriller    France Jean-Claude Brisseau's brooding psychological drama works both as a Chabrol-style thriller and a strangely-sensitive coming of...