Archive for the ‘2011’ Tag

• January 26, 2012 Seeking Producer for feature film posted in Films tagged 2011, a private investigation, absurd, absurdity, ashley, boston, cinema, college, critic, dave ashley, david, david ashley, detective, director, elusive woman, emerson, emerson college, feature, film, film producer, film production, fun, funny, independent, indie, indy, low budget, midwest, milwaukee, movie, noir, producer, production, quest, screenwriter, screenwriting, script, search, seeking, ultra low budget, wisconsin, writer
• December 21, 2011 Film review: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol posted in Film reviews tagged 2011, 4, 4th, Andre Nemec, Anil Kapoor, apple, ashley, assassin, Bad Robot, based on the television series created by Bruce Geller, biggest, blog, Brad Bird, Bryan Burk, building, Burj Khalifa, cold war, critic, david ashley, davida, dubai, espionage, film, FilmWorks, fourth, ghost protocol, impossible, in the world, india, indian, ipad, iphone, j.j. abrams, jeremy renner, Josh Appelbaum, Josh Holloway, kremlin, launch codes, Lea Seydoux, mac, Michael Giacchino, Michel Nyqvist, mission, mission impossible, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, moscow, movie, mumbai, nuclear, nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons, nuke, Paramount Pictures, paul hirsch, Paula Patton, product placement, review, reviewed, Robert Elswit, russia, russian, scaling, screened, screening, secret, side of building, Simon Pegg, Skydance Pictures, spy, Stillking Films, tallest, TC Productions, threat, Tom Cruise, tom wilkinson, Vladimir Mashkov
• November 10, 2011 Daily notes 2011-12/11 posted in Daily notes tagged 11, 11-11-11, 1980's, 2002, 2011, 80's, ashley, beat, blog, cannes, casey affleck, chicago, chinatown, commentary, critic, currently, currently watching, daily notes, david, david ashley, desert, downtown 81, fellowship of the ring, film, friends, gerry2, gus van sant, heavenly creatures, jean-michel basquiat, king kong, lord of the rings, lost, martha marcy may marlene, matt damon, movie, new york, new york city, new zealand, no wave, paramount, peter jackson, re-watching, return of the king, review, sean durkin, sean penn, terrence malick, the tree of life, this is spinal tap
• October 4, 2011 MFF 2011 Fictions posted in Criticism, Film reviews tagged 1950s, 2009, 2010, 2011, 50's, asia, asian, beat takeshi, cannes, cannes 2010, china, chinese, comedian, comedy, crime, director, don't go breaking my heart, fest, festival, film, gang, gangster, gun, guns, hong kong, japan, japanese, kill, killed, killer, marriage, married, mff 2011, milwaukee, Milwaukee film festival, milwaukee film festival 2011, movie, murder, murdered, murderer, note, notes, office, one up, outrage, outrage 2, post it, postit, revenge, romantic, romantic comedy, romcom, takeshi kitano, vengeance, window, writer, yakuza
• October 4, 2011 MFF 2011 Documentaries posted in Film reviews tagged 2009, 2010, 2011, Act Rural, alan greenspan, america, american dream, blahyi, cartel, cartoon, corporate, corporations, disillusion, docu, documentaries, documentary, dostoevsky, dr. vandana shiva, drug, druglords, eco-feminist, El Velador, feminist, festival, film, film festival, financial crisis, general butt naked, greed, greenspan, joshua milton blahyi, liberia, liberian, masoleum, masoleums, mexican, mexico, mff, mff 2011, milwaukee, Milwaukee film festival, movie, non fiction, old, old woman, review, reviewed, russia, russian, screen, screeneds, screening, seed, shiva, silent, soil, The Flaw, the last mountian, the night watchman, The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, the woman with five, Think Global, translation, translator, united states of america, US, USA, vandana, violence, woman
• October 3, 2011 Film review: On Tour (MFF 2011) posted in Film reviews tagged 2009, 2010, 2011, Alexander Craven, american, Angela de Lorenzo, best director, burlesque, cannes 2010, cannes film festival, cannes film festival 2010, Christophe Beaucarne, colette, david ashley, Dirty Martini, drama, Evie Lovelle, film, FIPRESCI, FIPRESCI award, france, french, Julie Atlas Muz, Kitten on the Keys, Laetitia Gonzalez, Le Pacte, Les Films du Poisson, Marcelo Novais Teles, mathieu amalric, mff, mff 2011, Milwaukee film festival, Mimi Le Meaux, Miranda Colclasure, movie, neo-burlesque, Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion, on tour, Philippe Di Folco, Prix de la mise en scène, review, reviewed, Roky Roulette, screened, screening, Suzanne Ramsey, The Other Side of Music-Hall, Tournée, Yaël Fogiel
• October 1, 2011 Film review: Mysteries of Lisbon (MFF 2011) posted in Film reviews tagged 2009, 2010, 2011, 272 minutes, Adriano Luz, Albano Jeronimo, american, André Szankowski, ashley, awards, blog, brazil, Carlos Madaleno, Carlos Saboga, Carloto Cotta, clap filmes, Clotilde Hesme, critic, david, david ashley, dead, death, director, drama, festival, Filipe Vargas, film, film festival, final, foreign, france, golden globes, italy, Joao Baptista, Jorge Arriagada, Jose Afonso Pimentel, last film, late, Lea Seydoux, life, lisbon, long, Luís Freitas Branco, Maria João Bastos, Melvil Poupaud, mff, mff 2011, Miguel Monteiro, Milwaukee film festival, milwaukee film festival 2011, Mistérios de Lisboa, movie, music box films, mysteries of lisbon, mystery, Os Mistérios de Lisboa by Camilo Castelo Branco, over four hours, passed away, Paulo Branco, portugal, portuguese, proust, Raúl Ruiz, recently, review, reviewed, Ricardo Pereira, screening, time regained, Valeria Sarmiento, writer, written by
• 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