Archive for September, 2011

• September 30, 2011 Film review: Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (MFF 2011) posted in Film reviews tagged (Vie héroïque), a heroic life, adaptation, affair, Anna Mouglalis, awards, bambou, best actor, best debut, best sound, brigitte bardot, César awards, Césars, cesar, david ashley, didier lupfer, doug jones, eric elmosnino, film, focus features, focus features international, france, france 2 cinema, french, gainsbourg, gainsbourg a heroic life, graphic novel, guilliaume schiffman, jamaica, jane birkin, joann sfar, juliette greco, laetitia casta, lilou films, lover, lucy gordon, marc du pontavice, maryline monthieux, mff, mff 2011, movie, music, music box films, musician, olivier daviaud, one world films, optimum releasing, reggae, review, reviewed, Sacramento French Film Festival, Sara Forestier, screened, screening, serge, serge gainsborug, sex, studio 37, universal pictures, xilam films
• September 26, 2011 Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin (MFF 2011) posted in Film reviews tagged 2009, 2010, 2011, adaptation, adapted, archery, artificial eye, artina films, ashley gerasimovich, atlantic swiss productions, award, best, bob salerno, book, british, cannes, cannes 2011, cannes film festival, damien, david ashley, demon seed, disturbed, disturbing, evil, ezra miller, film, hellspawn, jasper newell, jennifer fox, joe bini, john c. reilly, jonny greenwood, lionel shriver, luc roeg, lynne ramsay, massacre, mff, mff 2011, Milwaukee film festival, morvern callar, mother, motherhood, movie, murder, Oscilloscope, psychopath, review, reviewed, rocky duer, rory stewart kinnear, school, school shooting, screened, screening, seamus mcgarvey, shooting, sociopath, son, steven soderbergh, students, terror, tilda swinton, unbalanced, united kingdom, written by, year
• September 25, 2011 Film review: The Dish and the Spoon (MFF 2011) posted in Film reviews tagged 2009, 2010, 2011, adam rothenberg, alison bagnall, amy seimetz, andrew lewis, ashley, atlantic, blog, breakdown, british, buffalo '66, cheating, cinema, coast, crisis, critic, cute, darrin navarro, david, david ashley, debut, drama, driving, eleonore hendricks, Emerging Visions, english, film, film festival, greta gerwig, humble pictures, husband, independent, indie, indy, infidelity, Lake Effect Media Group, mark schwartzbard, mff, mff 2011, Milwaukee film festival, misfit, movi, movie, mumblecore, olly alexander, peter gilbert, piggie, quirky, review, rose, screenwriter, south by southwest, stephanie vinopal, submarine, SXSW, taylor williams, the dish & the spoon, the dish and the spoon, uk, united kingdom, vincent gallo, writer, written by
• September 25, 2011 Film review: The White Meadows (MFF 2011) posted in Film reviews tagged 2009, 2010, 2011, allegorical, allegory, Darvishi, Ebrahim Ghafori, film, Hassan Pourshirazi, house arrest, Iran, iranian, jafar panahi, Keshtzar Haye Sepid, lake urmia, mff, mff 2011, milwaukee, milwaukee film festival 2011, Mohammad Rabbani, Mohammad Rasoulof, Mohammad Reza, Mohammad Shirvani, movie, Omid Zare, rahmat, review, sadness, salt, screened, sorrow, surreal, tears, the white meadows, white meadows, Younes Ghazali
• September 25, 2011 Film review: Somewhere Between (MFF 2011) posted in Film reviews tagged 14, 15, 2009, 2010, 2011, adopt, adopted, adoption, Ann Boccuti, baby, Bobby Chang, china, chinese, Christine Burrill, david ashley, docu, documentary, fang lee, festival, film, Haley Butler, Jenna Cook, jenni, Jon Fitzgerald, Katie Flint, Lili Haydn, Linda Goldstein Knowlton, mff, mff 2011, milwaukee, milwaukee film festival 2011, movie, Nelson Hume, One Child Policy, Patricia Verducci, review, reviewed, screened, screening, teenager
• September 25, 2011 Film review: The Interrupters (MFF 2011) posted in Film reviews tagged 2009, 2010, 2011, Aaron Wickenden, academy award, african-american, Alex Kotlowitz, Ameena Matthews, best documentary, black, ceasefire, chicago, chicago project for violence prevention, Cinema Guild, communities, community, crime, criminal, docu, documentary, dogwoof, Eddie Bocanegra, festival, film, film festival, gang, gang leader, Gary Slutkin, hoop dreams, islam, jeff fort, Joshua Abrams, kartemquin films, malcolm x, mff, mff 2011, Milwaukee film festival, movie, new york times magazine, PBSd, review, reviewed, Ricardo "Cobe" Williams, rise films, screened, screening, steve james, sundance, the interrupters, Tio Hardiman, violence, violence interrupters, violent, white
• September 24, 2011 Film review: Tuesday, After Christmas (MFF 2011) posted in Film reviews tagged 20's, 2009, 2010, 2010 cannes film festival, 2011, 26, 4 months 3 weeks 2 days, affair, After Christmas, Alexandru Baciu, Alexandru Radu, Alma Cazacu, ashley, blog, cannes, cheat, cheater, cheating, critic, david ashley, davida, Dragoş Bucur, Dragoş Vilcu, DUPĂ CRĂCIUN, film, golden owl, hanganu, husband, Lorber Films, love, Maria Popistasu, marriage, MARŢI, mff, Milwaukee film festival, milwaukee film festival 2011, Mimi Brănescu, Mirela Oprisor, mistress, movie, Multi Media Est, Radu Muntean, review, reviewed, revieweds, romania, romanian new wave, Răzvan Rădulescu, screened, Tudor Lucaciu, Tuesday, un certain regard, Victor Rebengiuc, wife, written by
• September 24, 2011 Film review: Into Eternity (MFF 2011) posted in Film reviews tagged 000 years, 100, 100 000 years, 100000 years, 2009, 2010, 2011, Atmo Media Network, Berit Lundqvist, burial, buried, Carl Reinhold Bråkenhjelm, dangerous, Daniel Dencik, denmark, docu, documentary, festival, film, Film i Väst, Films Transit International, finland, for the future, future, Global HDTV, Heikki Färm, hiding place, into eternity, Jesper Bergmann, legend, Lise Lense-Møller, long-term, Magic Hour Films ApS, michael madsen, Mikael Jensen, Milwaukee film festival, Mouka Filmi Oy, movie, myth, non fiction, nuclear, nuclear waste, one hundred thousand years, onkalo, repository, review, reviewed, scandinavian, screened, Stefan Sundlöf, storage, Sveriges Television (SVT), sweden, Timo Äikäs, tomb, toxic, underground, vault, warning, waste, Wendla Paile, Yleisradio (YLE)
• September 23, 2011 Film review: Outrage (MFF 2011) posted in Film reviews tagged 2009, 2010, 2011, AUTOREIJI, bandai visual, beat takeshi, cinemascope, crime, film, fun, gun, ibaraki, japan, japanese, Katsumi Yanagijima, Keiichi Suzuki, kill, killer, killers, kobe, Masayuki Mori, mff, mff 2011, Milwaukee film festival, movie, murder, office kitano, omnibus japan, review, reviewed, Sannokai, screening, syndicate, takeshi kitano, Takio Yoshia, thriller, tv tokyo, warner bros, yakuza, Yoshinori Ota, Yoshinori Takeda
• September 23, 2011 Film review: Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times (MFF 2011) posted in Film reviews tagged 2009, 2010, 2011, adam schlesinger, alan oxman, andrew rossi, bankrupt, bill keller, brian stelter, bruce headlam, chad beck, christopher branca, david ashley, david carr, david hand, digital, docu, documentary, film, history films, internet, ipad, john braun, kate novack, magnolia pictures, mff, mff 2011, Milwaukee film festival, movie, new york times, newspaper, nytimes, page one, page one: a year inside the new york times, page one: inside the new york times, participant media, paul brill, print, publishing, review, reviewed, richard perez-pena, sarah devorkin, screened, screening, sundance film festival, tim arango, web, wikileaks