Bergman Island, 2021Written and Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve. Starring Tim Roth, Vicky Krieps, Mia Wasikowska, Anders Danielsen Lie, Wouter Hendrickx, Joel Spira, Clara Strauch, Hampus Nordenson, Anki Larsson, Kerstin Brunnberg, Melinda Kinnaman, and Stig Björkman.SYNOPSIS:A couple retreat to the island that inspired Ingmar Bergman to write screenplays for their upcoming films when the lines between […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – 7 Days
7 Days, 2021.Co-written and directed by Roshan Sethi. Starring Karan Soni, Geraldine Viswanathan, and Mark Duplass.SYNOPSIS:As if their pre-arranged date, organized by their traditional Indian parents, wasn’t uncomfortable enough, Ravi and Rita are forced to shelter in place together as COVID-19’s reach intensifies.18+ months into the pandemic, audiences can’t really be blamed for being thoroughly […]
57th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, 2021.Written and Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. Starring Kotone Furukawa, Ayumu Nakajima, Hyunri, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Katsuki Mori, Shouma Kai, Fusako Urabe, and Aoba Kawai.SYNOPSIS:An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the […]
October Horrors 2021 – The Witch (2015)
The Witch, 2015.Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger and Lucas Dawson.SYNOPSIS:In 1630s New England, a family of puritan settlers confront evil forces besieging their new isolated home.Every culture is steeped in folklore and folk tale. The best of these old stories tinged with darkness and horror, […]
57th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – Antlers
Antlers, 2021.Directed by Scott Cooper. Starring Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons, Jeremy T. Thomas, Graham Greene, Scott Haze, Rory Cochrane, Amy Madigan, Cody Davis, Sawyer Jones, Arlo Hajdu, Glynis Davies, Dorian Kingi, Andy Thompson, Jesse Downs, Dendrie Taylor, and Emily Delahunty.SYNOPSIS:In an isolated Oregon town, a middle-school teacher and her sheriff brother become embroiled with her […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Babi Yar. Context
Babi Yar. Context, 2021.Directed by Sergei Loznitsa.SYNOPSIS:Nazi troops massacre more than 30,000 Jews over a two-day period in September 1941.Given that the world is typically used to seeing aggressively narrative-driven depictions of the Holocaust – whether cinematic feature or documentary – Sergei Loznitsa’s (Donbass) new doc Babi Yar. Context may seem rather languorous by comparison, even […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege)
Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege), 2021.Directed by Abdallah Al-Khatib.SYNOPSIS:After the Syrian Revolution, Al-Assad’s regime besieges the district of Yarmouk, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world. Yarmouk is cut off. The director records the daily deprivations while celebrating the people’s courage.Abdallah Al-Khatib’s deeply upsetting, righteously angry in-the-trenches documentary captures human endurance – and […]
Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – Paris, 13th District
Paris, 13th District, 2021.Directed by Jacques Audiard. Starring Noémie Merlant, Makita Samba, Lucie Zhang, Jehnny Beth, Geneviève Doang, Pol White, Line Phé, Annabelle Milot, Lumina Wang, Camille Léon-Fucien, Stephen Manas, Rong-Ying Yang, Raphaelle Doyle, Oceane Cairaty, and Anaïde Rozam.SYNOPSIS:Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a […]
October Horrors 2021 – The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
The Poughkeepsie Tapes, 2007.Directed John Erick Dowdle. Starring Stacy Chbosky, Ben Messmer, Ivar Brogger, Lou George, Michael Lawson, Samantha Robson and Ron Harper.SYNOPSIS:Authorities stumble upon a cache of hundreds of VHS tapes recorded by and depicting the crimes of a meticulous and sadistic serial killer.It seems not a week goes by where a streaming service […]
2021 BFI London Film Festival Review – Nitram
Nitram, 2021.Directed by Justin Kurzel. Starring Caleb Landry Jones, Essie Davis, Anthony LaPaglia and Judy Davis.SYNOPSIS:A fictionalised take on the story of the Port Arthur shooting – the most notorious mass shooting in Australian history.The 1996 Port Arthur shooting is one of the most horrifying events in recent Australian history, and also among the deadliest […]
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