The complete line-up of films for this year’s Berlinale has just been announced. This time next week, I’ll be reporting for The Moving Arts Journal direct from Berlin. In the meantime, here’s a sneak preview of some of the films I’m most excited about: the latest work of excellent directors. Three by Tom Tykwer Among [...]
Writer/Director Tony Gilroy’s followup to 2007′s law thriller, “Michael Clayton,” has all the style and flash of that picture, but none of its potency or efficacy. Maybe that’s the idea, but the film loses itself in its own labyrinth of uncertainty. Clive Owen (“Children of Men”) and Julia Roberts (“Erin Brockovich”) star opposite each other [...]
Loco: London’s 1st Comedy Film Festival
Orlando: Does Sex Matter?
A soothing demise: Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’ considered
The Power of Limits in The Five Obstructions
Surviving ‘Surviving Life’
‘The Other’ at The 2nd London Iranian Film Festival
‘Leaving’: Made in Prague
A Step Forward: New African Film in Paris
Adapting to The Skin I Live In: The Antidote to Horror
Chicken with Plums: Better on Paper
