Foreign
Film Review – Elle
Paul Verhoeven’s new film Elle, starts with a rape. It is both graphic and horrifying, so if you are unable to watch that sort of thing, this might not be the movie for you. There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the role of…
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Film Review – Things to Come
Isabelle Huppert brilliantly holds together Things to Come a confounding yet still fascinating film. Director Mia Hansen-Løve has a style that is hard to pin down. She likes to create as much real life as she can in her films that sometimes leads to me…
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Blu-Ray Review – Pan’s Labyrinth
This year marks the tenth anniversary of Guillermo del Toro’s Academy Award winning Pan’s Labyrinth (2006). To commemorate the occasion, the good folks over at the Criterion Collection have graciously bestowed upon us a beautiful blu ray edition of the film (Spine #838). This director-approved…
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Film Review – The Outsider
There’s no better representation of a capitalistic society than stock market trading. It’s quick and fast, can earn countless wealth in no time, and can turn nobodies into rock stars overnight. Once you get a taste of success, the temptation to go further only increases.…
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Film Review – After Love
After Love shows how the world has to keep going even when the love of a long time relationship has ended and there are the realities of the aftermath. Maria (Bérénice Bejo) and Boris (Cédric Kahn) are a couple with two school age girls who…
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Film Review – Disorder
Matthias Schoenaerts enters the realm of legitimate international star in Alice Winocour’s Disorder (2015). Schoenaerts has been a working actor for years now, but it’s with this performance – as a French soldier suffering from a severe case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – that…
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Film Review – Neither Heaven Nor Earth
The title of Clément Cogitore’s Neither Heaven Nor Earth (2015) points toward the supernatural. If the setting of the writer/director’s story doesn’t take place in a heaven that we understand or an earth that we’re familiar with, then where does it take place? Purgatory perhaps?…
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Film Review – Land and Shade
Land and Shade brings a quiet dignity to life of a Columbian family dealing with extraordinary and ordinary life. Alfonso (Haimer Leal), an old man walking with a quiet dignity and purpose down a dirty road surrounded by sugar cane, is going to stay and help…
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