Archive for the ‘screened’ Tag

• April 16, 2012 Film review: Damsels in Distress posted in Film reviews tagged 13 years, 2011, 4th film, Adam Brody, adorable, american, Analeigh Tipton, Andrew Hafitz, ashley, barcelona, blog, boys, Carrie MacLemore, chris eigemann, coeds, college, collegiate, colors, critic, crush, cute, cuteness, daily complainer, damsels, damsels in distress, dance, dance craze, dancing, dating, david, david ashley, Doug Emmett, dynamic, eigemann, film, flower, flower girls, flowers, fourth, frat, frat boys, girls, greek, greta gerwig, heather, hipster, Hugo Becker, ides of march, intelligent, international dance craze, lily, literary, Liz Glotzer, love, Mark Suozzo, Martin Shafer, Megalyn Echikunwoke, men, metropolitan, movie, music, named, personal, pop, quirky, rainbow, relationship, review, reviewed, roman, rose, Ryan Metcalf, sambola, screened, Sony Pictures Classics, stillman, suicide, suicide prevention, suicide prevention center, tap, tap dancing, the last days of disco, the sambola, university, violet, Violet Wister, Westerly Films, whit, Whit Stillman, women, written by
• January 27, 2012 Film review: Albert Nobbs posted in Film reviews tagged 1800s, 1890s, 2011, 2012, Aaron Johnson, acting, actress, actress in a leading role, adaptation, adapted, Alan Moloney, albert, albert nobbs, as, as a man, as man, ashley, award, awards, baby, based on, based on George Moore's novella, best actress, blog, Bonnie Curtis, Brendan Gleeson Maria Doyle Kennedy, Brian Byrne, butler, butlers, child, close, critic, david, david ashley, dress, dressed, dublin, dyke, faking, fooling, Gabriella Prekop, gay, gays, george moore, glenn, glenn close, hotel, ireland, irish, Istvan Szabo (story), Janet McTeer, John Banville, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Julie Lynn, leading role, lesbian, lesbians, love, lovers, lynn johnston, maid, makeup, martial corneville, matthew w. mungle, mia, Mia Wasikowska, Michael McDonough, Mockingbird Pictures, nobbs, nom, nominated, nomination, nominee, novella, oscar, oscars, Parallel Films Productions, pregnant, pretending, review, reviewed, reviewer, Roadside Attractions, rodrigo garcia, screened, screening, servant, servants, short story, Steven Weisberg, supporting, supporting actress, Trillium, valet, valets, woman dressed as man
• January 27, 2012 Film review: A Separation posted in Film reviews tagged 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, a separation, academy awards, AFI FEST, Alzheimer's, Asghar Farhadi, ashley, berlinale, best, best foreign feature, best original screenplay, blog, care, class, classes, conditions, couple, critic, david, david ashley, desperate, desperation, disease, elderly, father, film, film review, foreign, foreign film, foreign language, golden globe, golden globes, green, green revolution, Hayedeh Safiyari, health, home care, Iran, iranian, jafar panahi, JODAEIYE NADER AZ SIMIN, LAFCA, Leila Hatami, lower, lower class, Mahmood Kalari, marriage, married, melbourne, Memento Films, middle class, movie, nader, nader and simin, nomination, nominee, oscar, oscar nom, oscars, Peyman Moaadi, review, reviewed, Sareh Bayat, Sarina Farhadi, Sattar Oraki, screened, screening, screenplay, screens, script, separated, Shahab Hosseini, simin, subtitled, subtitles, termeh, worker, writer, written by
• January 20, 2012 Film review: The Flowers of War posted in Film reviews tagged 13 Flowers of Nanjng, 1937, ashley, Atsuro Watabe, Bai Xue, based on the novel 13 Flowers of Nanjng by Geling Yan, Beijing New Picture Film Co., Bill Kong, blog, brothel, Cao Kefan, Chan Quigang, Chaoying Deng, china, chinese, christian bale, convent, critic, david, david ashley, David Linde, EDKO Film, film, foreign, foreigner, Geling Yan, girls, Han Xiting, historical, hookers, Huang Tianyuan, Jin líng shí san chai, Li Yuemin, Liu Heng, massacre, Meng Peicong, movie, nanjin, nanjing, nanjing massacre, nanking, New Picture Company, New Pictures Film Corp., Ni Ni, paul schneider, priest, prostitutes, rape, rape of nanjing, rape of nanking, review, reviewed, Row 1 Productions, screened, screening, Shigeo Kobayashi, subtitled, subtitles, Sun Jai, Takashi Yamanaka, the flowers of war, Tong Dawai, westerner, Wrekin Hill Entertainment, Yangyang Chunzi, Zhang Doudou, Zhang Weiping, Zhang Xinyi, Zhang Yimou, Zhao Xiaoding
• January 13, 2012 Film review: Carnage posted in Film reviews tagged adaptation, adapted, africa, Alexandre Desplat, argument, ashley, battle, blog, broadway, bully, carnage, child, children, Christoph Waltz, Constantin Film Produktion, couples, cowan, critic, david, david ashley, debate, disfigured, families, family, father, fight, film, france, french, gang, god of carnage, Hervé de Luze, husband, jodie foster, john c. reilly, Kate Winslet, longstreet, man, Martin Moszkowicz, massacre, mother, movie, nancy, Oliver Berben, parent, parents, Paweł Edelman, penelope, play, review, revieweds, roman polanski, rwanda, Saïd Ben Saïd, SBS Productions, school, screen, screened, screening, SPI Poland, stage, violence, violent, wife, woma, writer, written by, Yasmina Reza
• 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
• 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
• 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 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