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Enter the Void (2010)
“Enter the Void” will be loathed by a lot of people. Dismissed as a pretentious stoner flick trying desperately to dazzle. And I won’t completely disagree. But French director Gaspar Noé’s third...
Feb 17, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongBerlinale Day 3: Zuzana Liová’s ‘House’
Dom ( House , Zuzana Liová, 2011) tells the story of a family in a small Czech town. Imrich wanted to give his daughters a good start in life by building them each a house on the same land as the...
Feb 13, 2011 / Alison FrankAlbanian ‘Amnesty’ at the Berlinale: A Quiet Drama
Life is not easy for Elsa: her husband is in prison for gambling debts, she has just lost her job at the factory, she has two young sons to look after, and a elderly little father-in-law who lives...
Feb 11, 2011 / Alison FrankBerlin 2011: New offerings from familiar names
Tom Tykwer's "Three" The complete line-up of films for this year’s Berlinale has just been announced. This time next week, I’ll be reporting for The Moving Arts Journal direct from Berlin. In the...
Feb 4, 2011 / Alison FrankThe conservatism of ‘The King’s Speech’
What an intense cinema moment we seem to be living through. The general public is getting as excited as the critics about movies. Here in the UK, at least, everyone seems to be making the effort to...
Jan 24, 2011 / Alison FrankMonsters (2010)
The most common mistake made by first-time directors is to cram every film school trick and cutting edge idea into that debut film. A bloated, pretentious, insufferable and flashy effort is often the...
Jan 21, 2011 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Hævnen/In a Better World’ is Oscar worthy
There are a couple of reasons why everyone should watch “Hævnen”. The first is that is a beautiful film, a beauteous film, with all the slightly otherworldly aloofness that the word suggests. The...
Jan 17, 2011 / Kamayani SharmaToo great expectations: ‘Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives’
In last week’s blog I talked about the experience of seeing a film with low expectations, and the potential this has to skew one’s judgement, making a surprisingly good film seem even better than it...
Jan 17, 2011 / Alison FrankNew Spider-Man Revealed
Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man Sony has released the first official photo from their new Spider-Man film. Andrew Garfield, who starred in “Never Let Me Go” and “The Social Network,” will don the...
Jan 14, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongFeelin’ IFFI and the Films That Now Matter
The Goa Film Festival that was from the 22nd of November to the 2nd of December and I managed to attend the first five days. Unfortunately, I got sick just after the festival and couldn’t compile the...
Jan 12, 2011 / Kamayani SharmaLoose Cannons: Small Expectations
Loose Cannons (Mine Vaganti, Ferzan Ozpetek) is an Italian comedy about Tommaso (Riccardo Scamarcio), a young man who returns home planning to announce to his family that he is gay. However, his...
Jan 8, 2011 / Alison FrankThe pharma rep and the conventional comedy: A contextual reading of Little Fockers and Love and Other Drugs
Maybe it’s a sign that healthcare issues have become a prominent part of the general American consciousness: I went to see two quite different Hollywood comedies and each featured a character who was...
Jan 1, 2011 / Alison FrankOnline Film Critics Society Picks Nominees for 2010 OFCS Awards
December 27, 2010 – The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS), the international professional association of Internet-based film reviewers, has announced the nominations for its 2010 OFCS Awards. The...
Dec 27, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongRabbit Hole (2010)
Adapted from David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Rabbit Hole” ferries us down into the blackest void of parental despair and bravely leaves us without a sturdy rope to climb back...
Dec 27, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongCasino Jack (2010)
“Washington is like Hollywood, only without the pretty faces.” This, according to Kevin Spacey’s idealistic, wise-cracking super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff on the two-faced, backstabbing nature of...
Dec 22, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongRecent Articles
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- 5 ½ hour film dominates awards at Locarno
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