‘Tabloid’ offers brilliant story about storytelling
With Tabloid documentary filmmaker extraordinaire Errol Morris focuses his lens on a 1970s-era beauty queen whose delusions of love made for salacious fodder in...
‘My Joy’: A journey into the the heart of Russia’s darkness
My Joy (Schastye moe) is a rare film with concentrated potency in story development as well as social commentary that does not succumb to...
Must-see Friday night opening movies: ‘Project Nim’ and ‘World on a...
So Cowboys and Aliens isn't your thing this opening weekend at the movies? Well, a couple of days ago, I reviewed a real alternative...
Fassbinder’s prophetic 1973 sci-fi work ‘World on a Wire’ finally sees...
A three-hour-plus sci-fi experience, World on a Wire (Welt am Draht), seemed to have existed as mere legend in the filmography of Rainer Werner...
My preview of upcoming Malick Director’s series @ MBC posted on...
I recently spread out my blogging to Beached Miami. I had been in awe of their brave, expansive coverage of the city I have...
Cult filmmaker Monte Hellman talks about ‘Two-Lane Blacktop’ and ‘Road to...
Ahead of his “appearance” in my neighborhood (well near Miami: Miami Beach), film director Monte Hellman agreed to a short chat over the phone...
‘Blank City’ celebrates the art of “No Wave”
With Blank City, first-time director Celine Danhier offers a celebration of the influential art scene of New York City during the late seventies and...
Godard’s ‘Film Socialisme’ and the entrancing “music” of visuals
Jean-Luc Godard is one of those rare filmmakers who can exist as a genre unto himself. His oeuvre has helped partially define the French...
Finding life within death: ‘The Strange Case of Angelica,’ a movie...
With his latest film, the ever prolific 102-year-old director Manoel de Oliveira proves there is always room for talent to grow. Shot for shot,...
‘Armadillo’ offers chilling document of the fog of war
Armadillo, a war documentary by Danish filmmaker Janus Metz Pedersen, works on many levels. He spent six months with a platoon of Danish troops: ...