October 16, 2019
BELLAMY
DescriptionDescription Inspired by novelist Georges Simenon's beloved Jules Maigret character, master French New Wave director Claude Chabrol has his first collaboration with Gerard Depardieu. Police investigator Bellamy (Depardieu, in one of his finest roles) is on holiday with his loving wife Francoise (Marie Bunel), who may or may not have stumbled onto a murder mystery...
October 16, 2019
BEST WORST MOVIE
DescriptionDescription "Bad books are bad, bad food is bad, but bad movies aren't always bad " So says one of the fans of TROLL 2 a film adored by devotees as the worst film ever mode . '1n BEST WORST MOVIE, director Michael Poul Stephenson investigotes the improbable rise of a critically panned horror flick...
October 16, 2019
BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS
DescriptionDescription After RESCUE DAWN, Werner Herzog returns to American genre cinema, this time taking on the mythic, audience friendly framework of the gritty urban cop film. Working from William Finkelstein's tightly compelling script, Herzog sets the plot in New Orleans, which allows for a few surreal Herzogian touches-decaying buildings, men communing with alligators. But this...
October 16, 2019
BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO
DescriptionDescription For more fascinating filmmaking than any entomology lesson, American filmmaker Jessica Oreck's debut captures the essence of a centuries-old Japanese subculture that has on acute enthusiasm for insects. Her unconventional approach to science education is never dull, unearthing a surprising national love affair with bugs Oreck sets her documentary to the rhythm of traditional...
October 16, 2019
THE ART OF THE STEAL
DescriptionDescription What is art's relationship to the public at large, and who decides who gets to see it? Rarely has the beauty of brotherly love seemed so rancorous as in Don Argott s fascinating, thoroughly researched documentary on the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania. The Foundation, established by Dr. Albert Barnes in 1922, boosts one...
October 16, 2019
THE ANCHORAGE
DescriptionDescription Immersing the viewer in magnificent Swedish landscapes, this sober and meditative film reveals the beauty of nature and the beings that co-exist in harmony there: a Rousseau-esque vision of a relationship between a human being and her environment Ullo, the central character, relates in voiceover how ii will be when it snows, but her...
October 16, 2019
AFTER.LIFE
DescriptionDescription When are the dead in fact dead? In its pleasure at simultaneously embracing and sending up horror genre conventions, AFTER.LIFE suggests that the line between the living and the dead is thin indeed. Christina Ricci and Justin Long (fast earning a reputation as the busiest man in American movies) play a sophisticated couple on...
October 16, 2019
AJAMI
DescriptionDescription It is difficult to find metaphors that capture the complex essence of the greater Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or of Israel's internal Jewish-Arab clash. The impasse seems existential in nature. This is why, of the many films about the decades-long turmoil, Scandor Copti's and Yaron Shani's AJAMI is so remarkable This muscular, intensely realistic depiction of...
October 16, 2019
1983: THE RED RIDING TRILOGY PART 3
DescriptionDescription This harrowing serpentine, five-hour tale of crime, revenge and ultimate redemption was adapted by Tony Grisoni (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS) from British writer David Peace's acclaimed series of crime novels about the true-life sexual murders committed by the Yorkshire Ripper in the 1970s and 80s. In the first film, directed by Julian...
October 16, 2019
ABOUT ELLY (DARBAREYE ELLY)
DescriptionDescription This tout, involving drama, centered around the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, confirms director Asghar Farhadi as a major talent, with on unrivaled ability to chronicle the malaise of middle-class Iranian society Working in a highly controlled film industry that hos progressively shut down the most innovative directors over the post three years,...
