"Tsui Hark, who directed about half of the best films of Hong Kong's golden age (Peking Opera Blues, Once Upon a Time in China, Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain) and produced most of the other
Photo by Fabrizio Maltese/EF Press/fabriziomaltese.com. Venice 2010. Roundup for Road to Nowhere.
Photo by Fabrizio Maltese/EF Press/fabriziomaltese.com. Venice 2010. 13 Assassins (roundup) screens in Toronto today, Thursday and Sunday. Series: A Decade with Takashi Miike.
"Monte Hellman's first feature film in 21 years is one of his finest and deepest, a twin peak to his 1971 masterpiece, Two Lane Blacktop. Road to Nowhere displays this director's trademark virtues
Let's begin this one with Josef Braun's first review in his first dispatch from Toronto: "Like last year's Dogtooth, which [Athina Rachel] Tsangari co-produced, Attenberg is marked by its somewhat
Blogging from Telluride for TCM, morlockjeff found that among the "most powerful" of the films he caught was Incendies, "directed by Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve and set during the Lebanese
"My sense is that Promises Written in Water wasn't as bad as some were hoping, and was better than some were expecting," writes Stephanie Zacharek for Movieline. "Me, I'm on the fence: I'm a fan of
Jay Weissberg in Variety on the film for which Álex de la Iglesia has won the Silver Lion and an Osella for Best Screenplay in Venice, Balada triste de trompeta, known among English-speakers as either
Sofia Coppola's Somewhere (roundup) has won the Golden Lion at this year's Venice Film Festival. Bloomberg reports that jury president Quentin Tarantino assures us that this was a unanimous decision
Notes on some of the most interesting competition titles that screened at the Venice Film Festival this year, which wraps with its award ceremony today. A very strong Competition lineup that proves
"The dizzying comic energy and intellectual vigor of Mordecai Richler's 1997 satire have largely been drained from director Richard J Lewis's agreeable but inevitably lesser version of Barney's Version
"Toni Morrison once said that regardless of how many beautiful, sappy or tired lines we've heard about the moon, the moment a master writer finds a new way of describing it, we are moved to tears