Reviews
Enemies Of the People
"Enemies Of the People", which won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury prize at Sundance 2010, and a dozen other international Festival awards, still awaits permission for a national theatrical release from the Ministry Of Culture and Arts of Cambodia.Cambodian reporter Thet Sambath and British documentarian Rob Lemkin collaborated on ... Full story
A Laptop Against Poverty, a documentary by Chiara Sambuchi
Imagine a versatile green laptop for $100 US, that can go online, takes pictures and video, works with solar energy and can even survive being dropped on the floor! Look no further – it exists – the XO 2, conceived, ... Full story
Granik/Lawrence Amaze in the Ozarks: Winter's Bone Review
Way down in Missouri where I heard this melody,When I was a little child upon my Mommy's knee;The old folks were hummin'; their banjos were strummin';So sweet and low.These lines, taken from the song Missouri Waltz, waft over the opening ... Full story
Patrik. Age 1.5, a film by Ella Lemhagen
Ella Lemhagen's award-winning Swedish comedy "Patrik, Age 1.5” is a crowd pleaser about a gay couple's dream of adopting a child. Adapted from a play by Michael Druker, the story manages to mainstream this emerging issue (re-defining families in the ... Full story
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
Directors Serge Bromberg (a famed film restorer) and Ruxandra Medrea have resurrected Henri-Georges Clouzot's ill-fated, legendary "Inferno".After a chance meeting in a stalled elevator, Clouzot's widow, Inès Clouzot, gave access to all the surviving footage (15 hours). Out of this ... Full story
Jacques Rivette's "Around A Small Mountain"
Circus films seem to be in vogue these days. First the documentaries "Pindorama; The True Story of the Seven Dwarves", "Circo" and "One Lucky Elephant", then the remarkable hybrid narrative "La Pivellina" (circus veterans are cast, playing themselves in Tizza ... Full story
Farewell
Christian Carion’s Cold War espionage thriller "L'Affaire Farewell" brings to life the cynical hall-of-mirrors atmosphere first introduced to audiences in "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold." Sterling production design and a tight script recall the paranoid posturing ... Full story
Mademoiselle Chambon
Stéphane Brizé's subtle "Mademoiselle Chambon" details the hesitant romance of an "old maid" teacher and a strapping construction builder. Brizé worked with Eric Holder adapting Holder's 1997 eponymous novel. Set in a a town in the French provinces, the realistic ... Full story
Wah Do Dem
We first meet Max (Sean Bones), the twentysomething, almost hip, Generation Y guy, playing street soccer in his Brooklyn neighborhood— the significance of which is later revealed as integral to gripping a foothold in a distant land. The next ... Full story
Videocracy
Prime Minister Berlusconi's control of Italian media and politics has been the subject of many films. Television satirists who dared to take him on were driven from the airwaves. Marginalized by Berlusconi, Daniele Luttazzi, responded by a stage show “Bin ... Full story
