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foreign film

reviews 4 stars, assa sylla, bande de filles, céline sciamma, foreign film, french, girlhood, idrissa diabaté, karidja touré, lindsay karamoh, mariétou touré, women in film

GIRLHOOD

March 8, 2015

Turns out theres a lot going on in between those selfies and snickers.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3.5 stars, a girl walks home alone at night, ana lily amirpour, arash marandi, foreign film, horror, iranian, marshall manesh, mozhan marnò, sheila vand, vampires, women in film

A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT

February 1, 2015

We portray a certain side of ourselves to the world at large…and sometimes that person just invites bad things.

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Ryan McNeil
blind spot series 1993, 1994, 2014 blindspot, benoît régent, florence pernel, foreign film, french, irène jacob, janusz gajos, jean-louis trintignant, jean-pierre lorit, julie delpy, juliette binoche, krzysztof kieślowski, trois coulers blanc, trois coulers bleu, trois coulers rouge, trois coulers trilogy, zbigniew zamachowski

Blindsided by TROIS COULEURS

December 29, 2014

Blindspotting for 2014 ends not with a whimper, but with a great, big, three-course bang.

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Ryan McNeil
blind spot series 1990, 2014 blindspot, abbas kiarostami, blindspot, close-up, documentary, foreign film, hossain sabzian, iranian, mohsen makhmalbaf

Blindsided by CLOSE-UP

September 30, 2014

What is fact, what is truth, and when does it even matter?

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF bong joon-ho, foreign film, haemoo, HAN Ye-ri, Park Yoochun, TIFF 2014, Yoon-seok KIM, Yu-chun PARK

HAEMOO plays TIFF 2014

September 15, 2014

We don’t all have it in us to be morally compromised.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF a pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence, foreign film, roy andersson, swedish, TIFF 2014

A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE plays TIFF 2014

September 14, 2014

So.
Very.
Swedish.

Now let me explain…

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF Ebizo Ichikawa, foreign film, Hideaki Ito, Hiroshi Katsuno, Ikko Furuya, japanese, Ko Shibasaki, Maiko, Miho Nakanishi, over your dead body, Takashi Miike, TIFF 2014, Toshie Negishi

OVER YOUR DEAD BODY plays TIFF 2014

September 13, 2014

A new Mikke film wants to cut into the very nature of betrayal, but this time it feels like his knife is a little blunt.

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Ryan McNeil
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