The sounds are heard around a burgeoning middle-class street in Brazil’s Recife, half of which used to be owned by silver-bearded patriarch Francisco, but which is now mostly tower blocks. First-time feature director Kleber Mendonça Filho reworks some of his shorts material to lay out a mosaic of life on this particular, present-day street, both […]
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Film Rave: Neil Young Journeys (Dir. Jonathan Demme USA 2011)
You may want to bring some ear plugs for this, because Neil Young Journeys is a concert film shot in a style so loud and yet intimate that you may be taken with the fear of getting hit by some of the legendary rocker’s sweat and spittle. Filmed in May 2011 at Toronto’s iconic Massey […]
Film Rave: Beasts of the Southern Wild (Dir. Benh Zeitlin 2012)
The advent of cinema created a world where artists could create moving portraits, an artistic medium not bound my any form of limitations. Rarely a film is created that holds a transgressive quality, the ability to move you completely out of your comfort zone and violate the standard laws of filmmaking. Beasts of the Southern […]
Thoughts, Theory, and Lore with Ridley Scott’s Prometheus
**SPOILER ALERT** –The following piece contains spoilers, lots of spoilers, about “Prometheus” (2012, Ridley Scott). If you have not seen the film I highly suggest you avoid reading any further. What you will find below are my own personal thoughts, conjectures, and to be completely honest, fan-girl ramblings that may, or may not, make any […]
Film Rave: Henning Mankell’s Wallander: The Revenge (Dir. Charlotte Brandstrom 2009)
It has taken over two years for Charlotte Brandstrom’s Wallander: The Revenge to gain theatrical distribution in the U.S., and it has been worth the wait. The Swedish film is a continuation of the highly successful novels written by Henning Mankell that feature the main character Kurt Wallander, a Swedish police detective. Instead of merely […]