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New Japanese Cinema at ‘Nippon Connection’
Founded in 1999 by students at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, the Nippon Connection film festival has become the biggest platform for current Japanese cinema outside of Japan. The festival...
May 16, 2013 / Alison FrankTwo Treatments of Italy’s Fascist Past
Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist and Vittorio De Sica’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis were both released in 1970, both based on novels (by Alberto Moravia and Giorgio Bassani, respectively)...
Mar 6, 2012 / Alison FrankPan’s Labyrinth: A Gateway Film
Pan’s Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno, Guillermo del Toro 2006) is a film that seems to come up frequently on lists of top ten favourite films: finally having the opportunity to see it, I was...
Apr 5, 2011 / Alison FrankMeryl Streep to Play Margaret Thatcher
Although Meryl Streep has never known real obscurity in her lengthy and prestigious career, she is having something of resurgence. THR reports that the 61-year-old actress is currently in talks to...
Jul 1, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongLocation, Location, Location: ‘Casimir Effect’s’ Creative Approach to Low-Budget Filmmaking
Against a post-dawn March sky, Cardiff’s historic Coal Exchange silently welcomed cast and crew to the set of “Casimir Effect,” a science fiction romance/thriller. In the late 1800s this site bustled...
May 7, 2010 / Lynnette PorterChallenging Mise-en-scène: A Study of ‘4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days’
After viewing Cristian Mungiu’s utterly mesmerizing and criminally underappreciated “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” I may finally understand the meaning, or at least one aspect, of the much debated...
Jan 19, 2010 / Vanessa Graniello‘MacGruber’ Adds Ryan Phillippe, Val Kilmer to Cast
“MacGruber,” the popular “Saturday Night Live” parody of the 1980s Richard Dean Anderson TV action series “MacGyver,” has just added Ryan Phillippe and Val Kilmer to the cast, says Reuters . The two...
Jul 8, 2009 / Eric M. ArmstrongDoubt (2008)
On the surface, John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt”–adapted from his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play–seems to explore, with a reluctance to definitively reveal, whether or not a Catholic priest molests a...
Jan 21, 2009 / Scott ArmstrongRecent 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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