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Scorsese 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 ReitzAttack the Block (2011)
John Boyega leads a street gang of alien-killers in "Attack the Block" It’s Guy Fawkes Night , and the South London sky is pulsing with brilliant explosions. In the midst of the celebration, Sam...
Sep 14, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongArsenals Day 2: Honouring Herz Frank
This year the Riga International Film Festival ‘Arsenals’ has chosen to honour Latvian documentarist Herz Frank on the occasion of his 85 th birthday. Sporting his signature knitted beret and Leica...
Sep 13, 2011 / Alison FrankArsenals Day 1: ‘Eternity’
‘Arsenals’, the 21 st Riga International Film Festival has begun, running from the 10 th –18 th of September 2011. Invited as a member of the FIPRESCI critics’ jury, I’ll be focusing mainly on the...
Sep 12, 2011 / Alison FrankDaily Diary: The Abyss (1989), All the President’s Men (1976)
The Abyss (1989) The beginning of James Cameron’s love affair with the sea (excluding “Piranha II: The Spawning” of course), “The Abyss” follows a team of offshore oil-rig workers tapped by the...
Sep 4, 2011 / Eric M. ArmstrongThe Pleasures of ‘Potiche’
In Potiche , Catherine Deneuve plays Suzanne Pujol, the titular ‘trophy wife’ who thinks that jogging, housekeeping and writing light verse are enough to keep her happy. But deep down, she feels...
Sep 2, 2011 / Alison Frank‘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 GranielloRaoul Ruiz, legendary Chilean filmmaker, dead at 70
Raoul Ruiz, the celebrated, prolific, Chilean-born filmmaker has died. He was 70. Ruiz, not known for a specific standout film, was rather known for his vast catalog of more than 100 innovative,...
Aug 20, 2011 / Eric M. Armstrong‘Cold Fish’: The Aquarium Serial Killer
Cold Fish (Japan, 2010) is the story of serial killer, Murata, who owns a tropical fish shop, and the way in which he forces Shamoto, a mild-mannered family man, to become his accomplice. To read a...
Aug 15, 2011 / Alison Frank‘The Light Thief’ Shines and Short-Circuits
Director Aktan Arym Kubat casts himself in the title role of The Light Thief (2010), an electrician nicknamed Svet-Ake (‘Mr Light’). Svet-Ake feels it his duty to ensure that all of his neighbours in...
Aug 9, 2011 / Alison FrankRushes Soho Shorts Festival 2011
The 13 th edition of the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival took place in London at the end of last month (20 th -29 th July, 2011). The festival gives awards to short films in 8 competitive categories:...
Aug 1, 2011 / Alison FrankNot Just Another Berlusconi: Gianni Di Gregorio and ‘Salt of Life’
Gianni Di Gregorio’s newest film, Salt of Life ( Gianni e le donne , 2011) was screened at a special preview at London’s Curzon Mayfair cinema last Thursday (21 July). Following the screening, the...
Jul 26, 2011 / Alison FrankCinema 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 Frank‘My Wedding and Other Secrets’ at Barbican’s New Zealand Film Festival
Blink and you’d have missed it: the Barbican’s New Zealand Film Festival 2011 took place over just 3 days in London last weekend. Although it is a nice idea for every country, however small, to have...
Jul 9, 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 GranielloRecent Articles
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- 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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