Reviews
Jannicke Systad Jacobsen's Turn Me On Dammit!
There’s a phone on the floor, and lying next to it is a teenage girl with her hand down her pants, masturbating to the voice of a male phone-sex operator. And thus, Norwegian filmmaker Jannicke Systad Jacobsen introduces moviegoers to the unfamiliar territory of female adolescent sexuality in her raw ... Full story
Monsieur Lazhar
Poised between a documentary and a fable, Philippe Falardeau's impeccable "Monsieur Lazhar" serves up the most satisfying drama of the season. As the oscar foreign campaign moved on, it seemed a toss up whether Canada's "Mr. Lazahr" or Iran's "A ... Full story
The Kid With A Bike (Le Gamin au Velo)
The Kid With A Bike (Le Gamin au Velo) is a Belgian coming of age film written and directed by the Belgian brothers; Jean-PIerre and Luc Dardebbe, originally played at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival winning the Grand Jury Prize ... Full story
The Secret World of Arriety
The Secret World of Arrietty (Kari- gurashi no Arietti) is the seventeenth Japanese animated film produced by Studio Ghibli, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and written by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa. Other proclaimed films produced by Studio Ghilbi include Howl's ... Full story
Gianni Di Gregorio's The Salt of Life
“The Salt of Life,” Gianni Di Gregorio’s follow-up to the sleeper hit “Mid-August Lunch,” is about a man caught between the sensual and the inevitable. Again, Di Gregorio plays an alternate version of himself, this time an aging retiree stuck ... Full story
Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
In "Once Upon A Time In Anatolia," Nuri Bilge Ceylan ("Distant", "Climates") follows a team of policemen, lawyers and doctor as they try to retrieve the body of a murder victim. Three vans full, they carry the murderers around, following ... Full story
Your Sister's Sister
Writer-director Lynn Shelton's miniature chamber piece "Your Sister's Sister" takes on sexual boundaries again in a more polished outing than her raunchier "Humpday".Mumblecore filmmaker Mark Duplass is the hub of an awkward triangle opposite Emily Blunt and Rosemarie Dewitt.The semi ... Full story
Ismail Ferroukhi's FREE MEN
Ismail Ferroukhi's "Free Men" (Les Hommes Libres) tells the true story of a cell of Algerian resistance fighters (secretly based in the Grand Mosque of Paris) who helped Jews escape the roundups of the Vichy government and the Gestapo.The main ... Full story
Delicacy, a film with playfulness and humor by David and Stephane Foenkinos
“Delicacy” is David Foenkinos’ adaptation of his award-winning novel “La Délicatesse,” which he co-directs with his brother, Stephane. It begins as a story of loss and grief, but soon becomes a story about a kiss—a crazy first kiss—and how two ... Full story
The Artist, weirdly likeable, a nostalgia trip but nothing that is truly groundbreaking.
The Artist is set during the declining years of silent cinema, in which huge star George Valentin develops a fondness for rising beauty Peppy. However when the talkies takeover, so does Peppy’s fame, eclipsing poor George who finds himself, his ... Full story
