Police, Adjective

Toronto capsules — day 10 (FOR NOW, rather than post nothing until I can get the last few capsules finished, and...

"Slow Moving Romanian Drama"Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

Production Quality:...

Toronto grades — Days 9/10 Day 9

VINCERE (Marco Bellocchio, Italy, 7)

THE TIME THAT REMAINS (Elia Suleiman,...

The latest Romanian mast….zzzzzzz High drama in the latest Romanian film -- two people eat dinner.

I don’t...

Skandie runners-up — male leads Well, it’s now Skandie time, and Mike is unveiling the Top 20 at his site...

Skandies runners-up — directors THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE was actually the weaker of Steven Soderbergh's two 2009...

Filmfest DC — day 4 capsules

NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS (Bahman Ghobadi, Iran) — 4

This material...

TIFF 10 capsules — Day 10

OUTBOUND (Bogdan George Apetri, Romania, 9)

OK … I’m tired of being...

Speaking in abstract generalities, I ascribe to the theory that artists aren’t the definitive interpreters of their work. I don’t go postmodern whole hog and thus say the text has no inherent...