"Jimmy's Hall" ReviewBy Robin Menken07/02/20156 Mins Read Ken Loach’s latest film “Jimmy’s Hall”, was adapted By Paul Laverty from the paly by actor/ writer Donal O’Kelly (who…
Dark Star- HR Giger's WorldBy Robin Menken05/30/20153 Mins Read Belinda Sallin’s “Dark Star- HR Giger’s World” is an elegiac, intimate documentary about the gentle giant futurist with the macabre…
Hector and the Search for HappinessBy Robin Menken12/06/20144 Mins Read Peter Chelsom’s dramedy “Hector and the Search for Happiness” joins the short list of life- changes films: ‘Eat, Pray, Love”,…
Warsaw Uprising A MUST SEEBy Robin Menken10/30/20146 Mins Read Jan Komasa, and his team, have taken six hours of original newsreel footage from the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, shot…
The Brothers SizeBy Robin Menken09/09/20146 Mins Read McCraney’s startling trilogy “The Brother/Sister Plays’, a poetic gumbo of African American tropes, susurrate idioms and Yoruba storytelling, makes a…
The Last Of Robin HoodBy Robin Menken09/01/20146 Mins Read Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (“Quinceanera”) make the most of a small budget in their fascinating “The Last Of Robin…
THE CONGRESS, a film by Ari FolmanBy Robin Menken08/19/20145 Mins Read There are enough ideas in Ari Folman’s brilliant “The Congress” to fuel two films.The film is based in part on…
A Coffee in BerlinBy Robin Menken07/02/20145 Mins Read Jan Ole Gerster’s debut feature, “A Coffee in Berlin” (originally titled “Oh Boy”) is another unbe-coming of age flic. Gerster’s…
Roger Ebert: "Life Itself"By Robin Menken06/30/20147 Mins Read Documentarian Steve James (“Hoop Dreams,” “The Interrupters”) was championed by Roger Ebert. He collaborated with Ebert and wife Chaz to…
George Kuchar’s Weather Diary 1By Robin Menken05/26/20145 Mins Read Los Angeles Filmforum is thrilled to present the feature-length first entry in George Kuchar’s monumental Weather Diary series, which eventually…
