Abbas Kiarostami has gone to Japan, and why not? Like Someone In Love is less obviously tricksy than his last, and his first outside of Iran, Certified Copy [2010]; and it reveals a little more of what was obvious all along – that Kiarostami’s interests lie in people, identity, and communication (between characters, and with […]
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‘Wreck-It Ralph’ Confidently Addresses Self Confidence, Acceptance
Themes of self-discovery and acceptance are heavy subject material for an animated film, but Wreck-It Ralph handles them with confidence and never becomes too preachy or saccharine.
AFI FEST 2012 ‘Breakthrough’ Must See Selection: Nairobi Half Life (Dir. Tosh Gitonga 2012 Germany Kenya)
If you go to the AFI FEST website, and select Film Guide from the navigation menu, you will find all of the festival’s sections laid out before you, with an image from one film highlighting each. It should come as no surprise that Nairobi Half Life has been selected to represent the ‘Breakthrough’ section of […]
AFI FEST 2012 ‘Young Americans’ Must See Movies: The International Sign For Choking, Somebody Up There Likes Me, and Starlet
The ‘Young Americans’ section of the AFI FEST program is a place where emerging U.S. filmmakers showcase their recent works to the festival audience in the hopes that they will win the coveted audience award prize. There are eleven films in the section for the 2012 festival, three of which have made an incredible impression […]
Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Jack The Ripper’ (Dirs. Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman 1959)
Jack the Ripper is the perfect combination of murder mystery and a horror film with just the right amount of lovely ladies.