Archive for the ‘Foreign’ Category

Published on April 11th, 2013

Pablo Berger’s third film, Blancanieves, finds the classic tale renvisioned as a silent film and a sorrowful epic. There is »

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Published on March 27th, 2013

Matteo Garrone is no stranger to the grim. His breakout film–meaning the one that got U.S. attention–was 2008′s Gomorrah, a »

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Published on April 7th, 2012

Audrey Tautou’s three year break from her mainstream outing as Coco Chanel in Coco Avant Chanel has been almost torturous, »

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Published on April 2nd, 2012

Regardless of being ousted by the Iranian film, A Separation, in the category for Best Foreign Picture at the Academy »

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Published on March 26th, 2012

Taika Waititi, known for his work with fellow New Zealanders Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie on Flight of the Conchords, »

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Published on January 31st, 2012

Miss Bala is not your typical beauty pageant movie. Granted, there are often drugs and clandestine violence involved in U.S. »

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Published on October 31st, 2011

Somewhat disappointingly, Pedro Almodóvar’s latest cinema gem is not a demented concoction straight from his mind, but one based on a »

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Published on June 16th, 2011

So few movies detail the (apparently) angst-ridden lives of Welsh youth. Submarine, directed by Richard Ayoade (who you may know »

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Published on April 5th, 2011

One does not usually associate Catherine Deneuve with satire. The illustrious siren of French cinema is more often than not »

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Published on September 16th, 2010

With the last installment in the incredible tale of Jacques Mesrine, Mesrine: Public Enemy #1, it is easy and somewhat »

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