2012
62 articles
Teaser Trailer: P.T. Anderson’s ‘The Master’
After five long years and a dozen false starts, cinephiles were finally treated Monday to the first footage of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master,” his first since his 2007 oil epic, “There Will Be...
May 21, 2012 / Eric M. ArmstrongTrailer: Latest Bond film, ‘Skyfall’
“Skyfall” Director: Sam Mendes Writer: Neal Purvis Studio: Columbia Pictures Cast: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Dame Judi Dench Release: November 9, 2012 Bond’s loyalty to M is tested as her past...
May 21, 2012 / Eric M. ArmstrongWin a ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ prize pack!
In celebration of the upcoming release of “Moonrise Kingdom,” Wes Anderson’s long-awaited followup to 2009’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” The Moving Arts has once again teamed up with Focus Features to offer...
May 21, 2012 / Eric M. ArmstrongDIFF 2012 Reviews: ‘Extraterrestrial,’ ‘Bindlestiffs,’ ‘Quick,’ ‘Robocop’
“Extraterrestrial” Director: Nacho Vigalondo Writer: Nacho Vigalondo Starring: Michelle Jenner, Carlos Areces, Julián Villagrán “Extraterrestrial” is a movie I’ve been excited about for a while, in...
May 18, 2012 / Henry J. BaughTurin’s Temple to Cinema
Log Out When you think of cinema, Turin may not be the first city that comes to mind. While Paris, a city famed for its cinephilia, has its cinemathèque at Bercy, somewhat off the beaten path for...
May 13, 2012 / Alison FrankDIFF 2012 Reviews: ‘Cinema Six,’ ‘Compliance,’ ‘Faith, Love and Whiskey’
“Cinema Six” Directors: Mark Potts, Cole Selix Writers: Mark Potts, Cole Selix Starring: John Merriman, Mark Potts and Brand Rackley “Cinema Six” is the definition of average, which is strange...
May 11, 2012 / Henry J. BaughThe International Film Festival Summit, Paris
As a freelance film critic looking to get involved with film festivals, I feared that talks at the International Film Festival Summit might be too specialised for me. True, I was one of only two film...
May 8, 2012 / Alison FrankThings I Don’t Understand (2011)
Hugo Dillon and Molly Ryman in "Things I Don't Understand" Someday, everyone you know won’t exist. Tomorrow doesn’t matter until it’s today. No one makes it through life unscathed, in one way or...
May 2, 2012 / Eric M. ArmstrongJiří Trnka: Animation Retrospective
From April to May, the UK is being treated to a retrospective Jiří Trnka’s animation, through a collaboration by the Czech Centre London, the Czech National Film Archive and specialist cinemas in...
Apr 30, 2012 / Alison Frank25 years later, ‘Adventures in Babysitting’ stands apart in the teen comedy genre
Given the recent surge of 1980s popular culture nostalgia, discussions of that decade’s iconic films unfailingly revert to the unique 1980s teen comedy genre, always dominated by the catalog of John...
Apr 26, 2012 / Charles H. WadeLowlights of Cinélatino
After the last two weeks’ blogs on highlights of Toulouse’s Cinélatino film festival, this week will conclude with a selection of films which, in my opinion, should be avoided at all costs. First of...
Apr 23, 2012 / Alison FrankBrevity Pays Off
Like A Secret World (reviewed last week), Southwest ( Sudoeste , 2012, dir. Eduardo Nunes) was a flawed film. But audiences are more likely to be forgiving of A Secret World ’s flaws because the...
Apr 16, 2012 / Alison FrankStanley Kubrick: Master of Contradictions
Who are the great American film directors? More to the point, who do we think are the great American film directors? Well, there’s Ford, of course, the Zeus of the American pantheon, by turns comic,...
Apr 9, 2012 / Graham Daseler‘A Secret World’ at Cinélatino
A Secret World ( Un mundo secreto , 2012) was among 14 films in the fiction feature competition at Cinélatino, Toulouse’s Latin American Film Festival. The film received a special mention from the...
Apr 7, 2012 / Alison Frank‘Future Lasts Forever’ at Sofia
Slow, meditative films that were thin on plot dominated the awards at the16th Sofia International Film Festival. Grand Prix winner Stories Which Only Exist When Remembered (dir. Julia Murat) centred...
Mar 25, 2012 / Alison FrankRecent Articles
- Review: ‘A War’ explores war’s quiet, forgotten horrors
- TMA FilmCast #33 — Vera Chytilova and the Czech New Wave
- The fantasist: The comic art of Woody Allen
- Tribeca picks up North American rights to ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ at Sundance
- TMA FilmCast #32 — Alison Frank interviews Ana Geislerova
- ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ tops Online Film Critics Awards
- TMA FilmCast #31 — Alison Frank reports from 67th Locarno Film Fest
- 5 ½ hour film dominates awards at Locarno
- Shorts at #Locarno67: meditation vs testing the audience’s patience
- ‘The Fool’: A modern propaganda film
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