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Tag: foreign film

reactions, TIFF

COMING HOME (Gui lai) plays TIFF 2014

The poetry of true love and heartbreak, as only Zhang Yimou can recite.

Posted on September 6, 2014September 9, 2014
trailers

This Woman’s Work: TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT Trailer

As TIFF creeps ever closer, my eye begins to wander around the world for some worthy foreign selections.

Posted on August 21, 2014September 4, 2014
blind spot series

Blindsided by BELLE DE JOUR

You can have it all and still not be happy. Perhaps that comes with getting what you want.

Posted on July 29, 2014June 30, 2015
blind spot series

Blindsided by LE SAMOURAI

Thoughts on a patient classic in an impatient age.

Posted on May 27, 2014June 30, 2015
dvd doubleback

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR

Opening the door to a film that’s been travelling for almost one year, and sorting through all the baggage it has picked up.

Posted on March 9, 2014March 14, 2014
blind spot series

Blindsided by TOKYO STORY

Where Blind Spots are concerned, it feels like I’m ending 2013 where I started.

Posted on December 29, 2013June 30, 2015
blind spot series

Blindsided by GRAND ILLUSION

You have to smile when you see the lineage of some of your favorite films.

Posted on November 26, 2013June 30, 2015
blind spot series

Blindsided by BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN

Sergei Eisenstein serves up the best bowl of spinach I have ever taste

Posted on September 24, 2013June 30, 2015
festivals, reactions, TIFF

ATTILA MARCEL plays TIFF 2013

Some people say it best when they say nothing at all.

Posted on September 18, 2013September 21, 2013
festivals, reactions, TIFF

THE AMAZING CATFISH plays TIFF 2013

We don’t get to choose our family, but sometimes a family is kind enough to reach out and choose us.

Posted on September 16, 2013September 21, 2013
festivals, reactions, TIFF

MOEBIUS plays TIFF 2013

Easily the craziest film I watched all week – one very messed up look at the sexual politics of the family dynamic.

Posted on September 16, 2013September 21, 2013
blind spot series

Blindsided by LES DIABOLIQUES

My romp through film history finally takes me to France. It;s there that I learn that French people are gloriously screwed up, and that my readers have amazing taste!

Posted on June 25, 2013June 30, 2015

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