By Steven Harrison Gibbs. As far back as I can remember of my childhood, I have always been a Spider-Man fan. Whether it was watching his animated antics on Fox every Saturday morning, chipping the paint off of action figures via epic battles, bagging and boarding a comic collection that […]
Upcoming: Film International 57
July 23, 2012
Margin Call: an Interview with J.C. Chandor ‘I call them “submarine movies” – put them in a submarine, and then you can shoot it really cheap. So Margin Call is a ticking time bomb submarine movie. They’re totally isolated from the outside. It sounds kind of ridiculous, because it is […]
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
By Bryan Nixon. Wes Anderson has been working toward Moonrise Kingdom throughout his career. Having perfected his craft with The Royal Tenenbaums, Anderson dove head first into that quirky and colorful cinematic world he had established by exploring the seven seas in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and India […]
Silverdocs Film Festival, 18 – 24 June, 2012
July 18, 2012
By Gary M. Kramer and Michael Miller. Silverdocs, the all-documentary film festival held at the AFI Theatre in Silver Spring, MD, celebrated its 10th anniversary this year. There were many memorable films on a wide variety of subjects from competitors vying for the coveted spot as the human specimen at […]
On the Beach and Humanist Cinema
By Christopher Sharrett. Any attempt at a reevaluation of Stanley Kramer must confront some critical resistances about this director. The common wisdom has it that he was a heavy-handed maker of “message” films (immediately summoning Samuel Goldwyn’s rather repugnant quote about messages and Western Union), guilty of misjudgments, and representative […]
Interview with Terry Linehan, Director of Don’t Know Yet
By Leo Collis. Terry Linehan, filmmaker and lecturer at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, is currently filming his first feature-length project, Don’t Know Yet. I interviewed Terry about the film, what makes the project so unique and crashing R.V.s. Leo Collis: Tell me what Don’t Know Yet is about. […]
Interview with Tim Palmer, Author of Brutal Intimacy
By Leo Collis. Brutal Intimacy is the first full-length publication from Dr. Tim Palmer. The book focuses on modern French cinema, its recent exports and the French film ecosystem. It also researches the impact of young filmmakers, women filmmakers, French film education and the variety of French film genres in […]
Brave (2012)
By Jacob Mertens. Several years ago now, I watched the trailer for Satoshi Kon’s brilliant Paprika (2006) with rabid anticipation. I still remember the featured quote that set me over the edge, written by Manohla Dargis at The New York Times, stating that the film was “evidence that Japanese animators […]
A lost mother, a lost city and a man in search of company and affection
By Malu Halasa. Ok, Enough, Goodbye (directed by Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia) is a movie told through archetypes. We don’t know the name of the main character but we recognise this single, 40-year-old man, still living at home with his feisty elderly mother, through his actions. He doesn’t go […]
Bullhead (2011)
DVD Review by Marlon Wallace. “Sometimes in a man’s life, stuff happens that makes everyone go quiet,” so says the opening narration of this Oscar-nominated film, “so quiet that no one even dares to talk about it… Not in their head and not out loud.” When that stuff does happen, […]