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In October 2011, the Polish film Róza (Rosa), directed by Wojciech Smarzowski who has two other award-willing feature films to…

While I enjoyed “Persepolis” with reservations (I preferred the flat black & white graphic style of the book to the…

Debut feature by director Matthew Mishory is a highly stylized period piece centered on and around James Dean, pre-fame. Executed…

Chen Kaige, arguably the most noted of the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, lived through the Cultural Revolution. Shame at…

Filmmaker Vikram Gandhi grew up in New Jersey, where his upper middle class Indian-American family exposed him to traditional Hindu…

Award winning writer/director Anne Émond exposes the dark side of modern life by pulling it inside out. Nuit #1 is…

Actor Daniel Auteuil makes his directing debut with this warmly satisfying remake of Marcel Pagnol’s “The Well-Digger’s Daughter”.As in Pagnol’s…

Malik Bendjelloul’s documentary “Searching for Suger Man” is the best documentary I’ve seen so far this year. It’s a riveting…

Benoît Jacquot’s “Farewell My Queen” takes us backstage at Versailles during the fateful three days before the General Assembly takes…

When asked about his feature-length debut BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW, Canadian filmmaker Panos Cosmatos summed it up perfectly, “It’s a…