Ida (Review)

Visionary writer/director Pawel Pawlikowski (My Summer of Love 2004) has created another piece of cinema magic with Ida. Aesthetically, this film is daunting. Lingering long shots, rear views of objects always move away, glimpses of vulnerability in difficult moments; every single shot is a still portrait worthy of a frame. Cinematographer Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski capture1960’s Poland, […]

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A Coffee in Berlin (Review)

Jan Ole Gerster’s debut feature succeeds greatly — he creates a film almost totally devoid of plot. The film’s very enactment is its purpose. ‘Devoid of plot’ might sounds scary, but don’t worry, it’s not an overly experimental film. It really does end up telling a good story. There just isn’t any end goal in […]

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Tanta Agua (Review)

Montevideo, Uruguay- A divorced father gathers his two kids into the car in the early hours of the morning. Apparent are the varying levels of enthusiasm amongst the family member’s as they depart Uruguay’s capital city, heading out on a family vacation. They set out while it is still dark,
 
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Classic Films- The Top 5 Films of Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder accrued 78 writing credits and 23 directing credits in a career spanning more than seven decades. His career began in Germany where in 1929 he wrote his first screenplay, Hell of a Reporter. A mere five years later he directed his first film, Mauvaise Graine. He then moved to Hollywood and spent the first part of his career there writing screenplays (including co-writing the 1939 classic Ninotchka), before finally [...]

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Deltron 3030- Live in Brooklyn- July 19th, 2014

I saw an awesome show on July 19th, and I had to write about it. So this is a rare concert review.

Everyone “Celebrates Brooklyn,” but Deltron 3030 fans had to spread out their celebrating on July 19th, or risk celebration overload. The main celebrant, besides BK of course, was the fact that last year Deltron 3030 came out with a new record, Event II, and now they’re touring to promote it. Fourteen years ago Deltron 3030 released their amazing self-titled record, blew away all other hip-hop groups [...]


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Five Reasons to see Double Indemnity

With just a handful of actors and a few pages of dialogue, the simplicity of Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944) makes it just as much of a joy to watch today as it must have been when it was released seventy years ago. These are 5 reasons why you need to see it [...]

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The Jewish Cardinal (Review)

The subject of Ilan Duran Cohen’s The Jewish Cardinal is Jean-Marie Lustiger, a hard-working Priest in France who attracts the attention of the Pope Jean Paul II. Lustiger’s hard work pays off as he rises through the ranks to become a cardinal and eventually Archbishop of the Paris dioceses. The film enters Lustiger’s life around the time of his rise, and focuses strongly on how his Jewish origins [...]
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Snowpiercer (Review)

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Just as Twilight before it, making it through a film called The Host proved impossible. The wretched, infantile inner voice of lead actress Saoirse Ronan was almost as bad as her performance. For at least one movie viewer (me), the idea that this film The Host was critically renowned was baffling. How could this be the work of director Joon- ho Bong, […]

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The Disobedient (Review)

In The Disobedient, Serbian Director Mina Djukic takes on the love story; probably the most popular, and most overdone subject in all of fiction, but she creates a variation that is vibrantly original. Scripted and shot based on ideas that came from Djukic’s dreams and ponderings, the relationship between the film’s protagonists Leni (Hana Selimovic) and Lazar (Mladen Sovilj) begins at the edge of whimsical, and continues from there.

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Balancing in the Dark- Why do we watch? (Essay)

Why do we like to watch pain and suffering in film, TV, and theatre? Not many people in there right mind would want to watch someone get violently murdered, horribly beaten, or savagely raped right in front of them, but if we take these events out of their context in reality, and put them on […]

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