Black Swan is en-pointe
Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan is a Class-A attack on the senses. Take the opening: a dazzling camera that bobs and weaves, throws a flurry of punches to the body before darting out and sticking...
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Off the Map: Shonda Rhimes’ new show struggles to find its way
Auteur television producer Shonda Rhimes is probably most famous for her work on Grey's Anatomy, a primetime medical drama that debuted in the 2005 midseason, followed by spinoff Private Practice. As...
London Film Festival dispatch:Route Irish
Route Irish In “Route Irish” Ken Loach turns his critical eye to the privatisation of the war in Iraq and the devastating legacy these multi million companies leave behind in that country and...
A Non-Political Israeli Film?-Interview With The Paz Brothers
Since its first screening in Tel Aviv, “Phobidilia” was screened in Berlin, Cannes, Toronto, Istanbul, Singapore and Los Angeles.In Israel, Ofer Schecter, who played the role of an agoraphobic...
“The American” at the 2010 London Film Festival
Rudely awakened from his Swedish love nest, cold-blooded American Jack executes three people. The striking landscape he inhabits is too exposed, too clear from the clutter of civilisation to...
London Film Festival 2010: “Never Let Me Go” shines
Welcome to Hailsham boarding school. Beautifully secluded in the English countryside, Hailsham embodies all that is best in traditional British values: fair play, justice and a stiff upper lip....
London Film Festival 2010: “Fire in Babylon” is gorgeous
Viv Richards, the peerless genius of West Indian batsmen, fixes the camera with his steely glare. The very same one he used when joining combat with the best bowlers in the world before hammering...
“Wall Street 2″ – not quite an awakening
Gordon Gekko has been lying low. Biding his time in sing-sing away from the dollars and the greed and the sub-prime madness; he’s been plotting his come back with a Machiavellian precision as...
Love on TV (or – enough with the unresolved sexual tension already)
The Russian writer Count Leo Tolstoy famously began his novel/brick Anna Karenina with the observation that “happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This...
“Certified Copy” at the 48th New York Film Festival
Every once in awhile a movie comes along that rekindles the passion we cine-maniacs had when we first fell in love with art films. This year, The 48th New York Film Festival (running from September...