Three Monkeys – A Film from Turkey
Three Monkeys — the famous three monkeys of not seeing, speaking or hearing– is a sorrowful, long-take, film of domestic …
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Distant – a Film from Turkey
I’m going on a trip to Turkey in a couple of months with some dear companions, so we’re doing a …
Children of Paradise – A Film from Iran
If there is a film director better at making movies about children than Majid Majidi of Iran, I don’t know …
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy– A Short Take
I was not alone in the crowds the other night exiting Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy wondering what it the heck we had missed. …
“Shame” – A Real Shame
I’m going to save you $10 and two hours of your life right here. The movie Shame, with deep pretense …
The Girl in the Cafe — A Short Take
The Girl in the Cafe is one of those wonderful, little-heard of films that you nearly click away from, the …
The Arch of Triumph: Love in Paris, 1938 — A Short Take
Ingrid Bergman looks her fabled, youthful best and Charles Boyer dark and dashing as her handsome, older lover in The Arch of …
Hula Girls: Coal Miners’ Daughters in Japan — a Movie
Around our house there are two streams of movie selections: dark, meaningful films, preferably by “auteurs,” about people overcoming terrible …
Alhaam: A Film from Iraq — 2005
Alhaam, a movie shot in Iraq in 2004 — during the full catastrophe of the US invasion and related Iraqi …
Inch’ Allah Dimanche: Algerian Immigrants to France
Immigration is big in the news these days – mostly the opposition to it– around the world. It is absolutely …
Cave of Forgotten Dreams – Werner Herzog
For a wonderful excursion away from the shattering sights and sounds of the here-and-now take a friend and an understanding …
The Owl and the Sparrow — A Film from Vietnam
There may be no films we watch with more trepidation than those of little girls in dire circumstances. Little boys, …