Film Festival reViews

It’s hard to imagine. The fear, the atrocities, the humiliation that Stalin’s soldiers of the Red Army inflicted on women, raping them one after another, time and time again. It was the last days of war, they were enemies and critically acclaimed film A WOMAN IN BERLIN is not easy to watch. Written and directed […]

First, I advise all to stay for the end credits because they roll over a scene of the entire ceremonial procedure in one take, culminating what the main character has learned into an art form. The logline reads “Winner of Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, DEPARTURES is a delightful journey into the heartland […]

Everything appears copacetic. And in Jim Jarmusch’s new film THE LIMITS OF CONTROL, he applies Rule #5 of the Jim Jarmusch’s Golden Rules in filmmaking where he steals from anywhere that resonates with inspiration and fuels his imagination and then breaks the rules creating a film experience with deliberate contemplative shifting through elements of visual […]