“I am not an ideologue,” José Luis Guerín says matter-of-factly. “I need characters.” Judging by the lukewarm response that has greeted his latest film, Guest, it’s a dicey stance for a director of
Patricio Guzmán was born in 1941 in Santiago de Chile. He studied at the Official Film School in Madrid where he specialized in documentary cinema. His work is regularly selected for and awarded prizes
Vincent Gallo’s Promises Written in Water and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Uruguayan filmmaker Federico Veiroj was born in Montevideo in 1976. In 2000 he obtained a Degree in Social Communication at the Catholic University in Montevideo, coursing one semester at VCU (Virginia
And with this roundup, we finally wrap the coverage of the coverage of this year's Toronto International Film Festival. "Artists have it tough everywhere, but maybe nowhere worse, suggests writer-director
“Fundamentally nuts, Jim Mickle’s Stake Land is essentially a movie about people running away from vampires,” blogs Grady Hendrix. "And that
Robert Redford's The Conspirator "is set in 1865 Washington as the fragile new post-Civil War union, just days old, threatens to unravel in the wake of President Abraham Lincoln's murder at the hands
We'll be moving along a lot more swiftly in this second round than in the first. Ready, set, go. "In A Better World is another strong entry in the cannon of intense human dramas from director Susanne
A whole lot of people have had a whole lot to say about the Special Presentations in Toronto, meaning that, even after stringent filtering, coverage of the coverage will have to be broken up into two
"Hitting the film festival circuit for a year with In the City of Sylvia, José Luis Guerín wanders the streets to catch glances of human bustle in a variety of locations," writes Fernando F Croce
Photo by Fabrizio Maltese/EF Press/fabriziomaltese.com. Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives was awarded the Palme d'Or this year at Cannes—where I wrote about the
Let's start this one with Bob Turnbull: "Fearless. Absolutely fearless filmmaking. Sion Sono takes no quarter, doesn't deal with compromises and doesn't hold anything back. He goes by