Independent Spirit Awards hijacked by Weinstein
Silver Linings Playbook should have won nothing at the Independent Spirit Awards last night. Beyond the fact that this movie just is not that good...
Film Review: ‘Bless Me, Ultima’ piles on the sentiment in overly...
The trick to sincerity in movie-making is to play it subtle and not forget human short-comings. The days of black and white heroes are...
Film review: ‘Beware of Mr. Baker’ presents portrait of a man...
Ginger Baker is probably rock ‘n’ roll’s most infamous survivor. Call him the original, archetypal rock drummer … and you might just piss him...
Film review: ‘Barbara’ – transcending suspicion with grace
Cold War Germany has inspired many a depressing movie about humanity’s struggle in the face of oppression. The much-acclaimed Barbara offers something refreshingly different...
Alejandro Jodorowsky replies to my questions via email – Spanish version
The legendary filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky finally responded to my questions via email. He prefers to communicate in Spanish, so I had to ask these questions...
Cult film director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s first son Brontis interviewed in “Miami...
Yesterday, I supplied the “Miami New Times” art and culture blog “Cultist” with a short story on Brontis Jodorowsky, the son of cult filmmaker...
Film Review: ‘Amour’ captures poetry of confronting death in love
More than any other foreign language film before it, Amour seems a sure-thing for winning the Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Picture of 2012....
Film review: ‘A Royal Affair’ brings alive tension of Age of...
Too often, period films are often dismissed as “costume drama.” This reductive perspective does a disservice to a genre of cinema that, in the...
Film review: ‘Tabu’ celebrates story while subverting cinema, dreams and memory
Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes heralds the new year of cinema with a bold film approaching masterpiece greatness. Shot entirely in black and white and featuring...