Category Archives: Film Festivals

Preserving our film heritage: MoMA’s To Save and Project

Posted on January 20, 2025 by admin

An indispensable part of the film year, MoMA’s To Save and Project showcases significant recent efforts to preserve important works of cinema. Now in its twenty-first year, TSAP offers intriguing glimpses into world cinema as well as the opportunity to … Continue reading →

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Tribeca documentary Made in Ethiopia: exposing capitalism

Posted on June 10, 2024 by admin

Shot over a four-year span, Made in Ethiopia uses a Chinese-backed industrial park in Ethiopia as a way to examine how economic policy operates at ground level. The film opens with a wedding ceremony between a Chinese worker and his … Continue reading →

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Life under a microscope: A Brief History of a Family

Posted on March 27, 2024 by admin

Classmates, one rich, one poor, are thrown together by accident. The poor one worms his way into the wealthy family, winning over the parents through deceit and subterfuge. An event changes the lives of all involved. No, it’s not Saltburn, … Continue reading →

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Berlinale Panorama review: Betânia

Posted on March 21, 2024 by admin

Shot largely in Brazil’s Lençóis Maranhenses park, Betânia follows a widow as she returns after many years to her ancestral home. The debut feature for writer and director Marcelo Botta, it screened in this year’s Panorama section of the Berlin … Continue reading →

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MoMA’s To Save and Project returns for 20th Edition

Posted on January 11, 2024 by admin

One of the highlights of the cinematic year is To Save and Project: The MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, this year in its 20th edition. A collection of preservations and restorations from around the world, the series is a … Continue reading →

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You Hurt My Feelings: frustration for laughs

Posted on May 25, 2023 by admin

The title is as generic as the humor in You Hurt My Feelings, the latest feature from writer and director Nicole Holofcener. Once again a set of privileged folks teetering between middle and upper class deal with minor slights and … Continue reading →

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Kill Boksoon: Jeon Do-yeon showcase treads familiar territory

Posted on April 13, 2023 by admin

Style trumps substance in Kill Boksoon, a thriller set in a John Wick universe of corporate killers. Jeon Do-yeon stars as Boksoon, at home a single mom struggling to connect with her teen daughter Gae-yon. On the job she’s a … Continue reading →

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Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything: sexual politics behind a falling Iron Curtain

Posted on April 13, 2023 by admin

The fall of the Iron Curtain is the backdrop for romance in Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything / Irgendwann werden wir uns alles Erzaehlen. Set in a rural village near the border between East and West Germany, the movie … Continue reading →

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OKO Film Festival at the 2022 Camerimage

Posted on April 13, 2023 by admin

Tetiana Stanieva and Elena Rubashevska at the 2022 EnergaCAMERIMAGE opening night. Photo: Witek Szydłowski. Opening night ceremonies in the Jordanki Hall at EnergaCAMERIMAGE in Toruń, Poland, are generally upbeat, but those in November, 2022, took a somber turn due to … Continue reading →

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The Eight Mountains: how friendships change

Posted on January 24, 2023 by admin

Based on a 2016 novel by Paolo Cognetti, The Eight Mountains is memorable more for what it shows than what it means. The novel, vivid descriptions of living and climbing in the mountains near the Aosta Valley alternating with observations … Continue reading →

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