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The author's name is Andrew Horbal. He blogs about film criticism at No More Marriages! and writes about film for Lucid Screening and PopMatters. He thanks you for your time and consideration.
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Here is a film simultaneously fascinating and tedious, that starts your mind working even as it bores you to tears.
The only substantive idea I can find in the movie is that Washington is totally, irredeemably corrupt. That's not very substantive.
If we really hope for a new world, perhaps it's time we abandoned these old models of storytelling.
Beibin describes The Lost Film Festival as a "more inclusive" form of film exhibition, and to some extent he's right.
An impressive and inventive short film that lends itself to a staggering variety of discussions.
Tsotsi is the second film this year to remind me of Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc.
There's a special kind of high that comes only from a well-executed genre film, especially if it's in a genre you grew up with.
This Hungarian film represents the Holocaust in a way that I've never seen before, a way that I found devastatingly effective.
This animation is not subtle, but it is surprisingly cogent for such a short film.
I can see how one half or the other might appeal to someone, but not both.
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