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BFI London Film Festival 2011: Preview
The 55 th edition of the London Film Festival (LFF) starts tomorrow, October 12 th , and runs until the 22 nd . This year the festival will screen 204 features and 110 shorts from 55 different...
Oct 11, 2011 / Alison FrankScorsese hopes to adapt Dostoevsky’s ‘The Gambler’
Martin Scorsese has many things: the respect of his filmmaking peers, a secure place in the pantheon of Hollywood’s great directors, and an Academy Award, to boot. He also has a lot of hobbies,...
Sep 19, 2011 / Torsten Reitz‘The Future’ targets apathy one inert hipster at a time
Miranda July and Hamish Linklater in "The Future" “The Future” took my breath away. And when I say it took my breath away, I don’t mean to say I was enraptured by its profound insight into the...
Aug 25, 2011 / Vanessa GranielloCinema City’s Serbian Wallflowers
'If the Seed Doesn't Die' When writing a film festival report, the tendency is to focus on the films that have won awards: this was true of my own reports on the Cinema City IFF for the Little White...
Jul 14, 2011 / Alison FrankWhy did ‘The Tree of Life’ need dinosaurs?
About twenty minutes into Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life,” there is a sequence that chronicles the creation of the universe. There is darkness, then supernovas of stellar light, volcanic...
Jul 9, 2011 / Vanessa GranielloThe rise and fall, and rise of the American gangster movie
James Cagney, the quintessential movie gangster Seemingly always en vogue, gangsters have been especially so in recent years. The grand seigneur of American cinema, Martin Scorsese, finally won his...
Jun 1, 2011 / Torsten ReitzRage against the male machine; Cinema’s subtle female avengers
Jennifer Lawrence as the headstrong Ree in "Winter's Bone" I had recently watched Ingmar Bergman’s all-time-downer classic, “Cries and Whispers,” for the second time when an article critiquing the...
May 31, 2011 / Vanessa GranielloOn Campus at the Berlinale
The Berlin Film Festival is not just about watching films that have already been made: it also invests in the future of cinema by nurturing new talent. The Berlinale Talent Campus, now in its 9 th...
Feb 15, 2011 / Alison FrankMarching through a blizzard at the bottom of the world: George Miller’s microcosmic penguin mythmaking
I don’t think there is a singular film-maker I’ve found myself having written more about than Australia’s own Dr. George Miller. And now, writing this, I’m still not quite certain of the best way to...
Jan 13, 2011 / Henry J. Baugh‘I Am Love’ opens more than doorways
The month of January is named after Janus, the Roman god of exits and entrances. Janus is most commonly depicted in ancient art as having two faces, one looking backwards while the other looks...
Dec 16, 2010 / Vanessa GranielloBritish Film Institute 2011: A Programme for a Conservative Era?
To mark the approaching end of the festival, the BFI kindly invited me to a lunch where they presented their programme for 2011. I have to say that there was little there to make me sit up and take...
Oct 29, 2010 / Alison FrankArtful dodger: A brief analysis of Anton Corbijn’s ‘The American’
Well well well, finally a George Clooney film without “George Clooney.” Indeed, “The American” is a film without much claim to plot, action or dialogue and is yet a compelling watch. I was seduced by...
Oct 17, 2010 / Kamayani SharmaThe Town (2010)
A director who casts himself in the lead role of his own film may be subject to sharp criticism and charges of egomania (See Mel Gibson in “Braveheart” or Kevin Costner in “Dances With Wolves”)....
Oct 9, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongSherlock Holmes, Then and Now: A Comparative Analysis
Arthur Conan Doyle’s great detective, Sherlock Holmes, is one of English literature’s most recognizable and enduring characters. As such, he has made more than 200 movies appearances since the...
Oct 1, 2010 / Torsten ReitzForget Genital Mutilation; ‘Antichrist’ is Disturbing Enough Without it
As Lars Von Trier’s “Antichrist” arrives on DVD, I felt compelled give the film a second viewing. What I found was this: despite the overwhelming controversy surrounding the film’s gratuitous sexual...
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