Tag: Tales of the Night
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‘The Other’ at The 2nd London Iranian Film Festival
The London Iranian Film Festival is only in its second year, but already it boasts an enchanting and highly professional-looking trailer, as well as a varied line-up of films that blast open the old...
Dec 6, 2011 / Alison Frank‘Rio’ and ‘Hop': Worlds Away
The animated features Hop and Rio have a few things in common, aside from their one-word titles. An animal plays the lead role in each (‘E.B’ the rabbit in Hop and ‘Blu’ the parrot in Rio), and both...
May 5, 2011 / Alison FrankBerlinale Day 5: Ancient meets Modern in ‘Tales of the Night’
In Cave of Forgotten Dreams Herzog couldn’t resist commenting on the cinematic dimensions he perceived in the 32,000 year old Chauvet cave paintings. He noted that some of the animals portrayed had 8...
Feb 14, 2011 / Alison FrankBerlinale 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...
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