Reviews
Behind The Burly Q
Director Leslie Zemeckis (wife of Robert Zemeckis) puts us up front and center in an homage to the vanished institution of stage Burlesque. Burlesque which burgeoned in the mid-1800s, along with it's big sister Vaudeville, shared some of the stars of Vaudeville, flourished during the depression, and ultimately died due ... Full story
Breath Made Visible
Swiss actor-filmmaker Ruedi Gerber's inspiring tribute to modern dance pioneer Anna Halprin portrays the visionary dancer who's still making an impact into her 90's. Gerber brackets his fascinating archival footage with Halprin's autobiographical solo performance at the Joyce Theatre. Watching ... Full story
EDGAR, a short film by Fabian Busch
Internationally, German actor Fabian Busch is best known for his roles in films such as Hans-Christian Schmid's 23 (1998), playing opposite August Diehl; Oliver Hirschspiegel's Academy Award-nominated film THE DOWNFALL (DER UNTERGANG, 2004); and, most-recently, Busch played alongside Kate Winslet ... Full story
The Good The Bad And The Weird
Ji-woon Kim's "The Good The Bad And The Weird", the most expensive film ever filmed in South Korea, is a relentless, brilliantly entertaining pastiche of great Westerns.Kim's visual language is inventive and enticing. From the opening credit sequence (raptors chasing ... Full story
Sita Sings The Blues
Nina Paley’s beautifully-animated "Sita Sings The Blues" mixes a feminist retelling of parts of the "The Ramayana", with the true life tale of her intercontinental break up to fascinating effect.Her postmodern flash animation psychedelic images, based in part on the ... Full story
The City Of Your Final Destination
"The City of Your Final Destination" James Ivory's first solo film after the death of his lifelong producing partner Ismail Merchant may be slight of plot, but it is charming and wise.Its often witty dialogue parses like a John Guare ... Full story
Police, Adjective
Police Adjective is the new film from Romanian Director Corneliu Porumboiu. After the critical success of his previous film 12:08 East of Bucharest, Porumboiu tells the story of a disillusioned young police officer who is suffering from the banality and ... Full story
How To Train Your Dragon
Dean Deblois and Chris Sanders' awesome "How To Train Your Dragon”, is an animated tale of two misfits, a warm and fuzzy teen Viking (fighting’s not his thing) and an aerially challenged dragon.Welcome to a seaside Viking village in the ... Full story
Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland or The Return of Alice
Not sure how Lewis Carroll would feel about this one.Well in "Alice in Wonderland" costumes are splendid; acting: exquisite and cast: very well suited. Helena Bonham Carter plays a perfectly dry Queen of Hearts, impatient and brainless as a card; ... Full story
Two Oscar Foreign Submissions That Should Have Made The Short List and Nominees
"Letters To Father Jacob": Finnish Oscar entry Klaus Haro's radiant "Letters To Father Jacob" an elegantly simple three person drama, is a jewel of a film. I had an opportunity to interview Haro at The Scandinavian Film Festival LA.Director-writer Klaus ... Full story
