Posts Tagged ‘IFC Films’
SIFF Film Review – City of Ghosts
Raqqa, a city in Syria, has been overtaken by ISIS and a select few are doing what they can to find out the truth about what is happening in their home town. This is to be applauded, yet City of Ghosts is strong on information…
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SIFF Interview – Matthew Heineman – City of Ghosts
Spencer Fornaciari interviews director Matthew Heineman from the documentary City of Ghosts at SIFF 2017.
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SIFF Interview – Zoe Lister-Jones – Band Aid
Spencer Fornaciari interviews writer/director/star Zoe Lister-Jones from the dramedy Band Aid at SIFF 2017.
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Film Review – Band Aid
Marriage can be tough. What starts out as roses and champagne slowly turns into routine, familiarity, and boredom. That’s the true test: how does a couple maintain that feeling of surprise and spontaneity when each person knows everything about the other? If you’re not careful,…
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Film Review – Personal Shopper
Communication is a key factor in Olivier Assayas’ new movie Personal Shopper. Concepts of not just the means of communication but the reason for, and the things communicated during, are both subtly and prominently woven throughout the structure. Spiritualism is a religion that was formed…
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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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Film Review – Certain Women
Certain Women is a feature film from director Kelly Reichardt (Meek’s Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy) and her third collaboration with Michelle Williams. Based on short stories by Maile Meloy and a script by Reichardt, Certain Women follows three women, all living in Montana. Their lives…
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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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