The Day I Became a Woman – A Film from Iran
What an unexpected, unusual and brain shaping movie. The Day I Became a Woman is Marzieh Makhmalbaf‘s first film in …
Category Archives: Movies
Princesas a Film From Madrid
It’s rare to find ordinary working folks as the subjects of serious, well-done movies and even rarer when those workers …
Gigante: A Movie from Uruguay
It is so rare to see a movie, or read a story, about a big, shy gentle man that Gigante, …
Of Love and Other Demons: A Film
Contemplating the marriage of movies to the imagery of Gabriel Garcia Marquez occurs to every reader of any one of …
Baran: A Movie of Afghan Immigrants to Iran
Baran, another very fine movie from Iranian master Majid Majidi [see reviews of his Color of Paradise and The Song …
Fair Game: The White House Power to Ruin Lives. Here, There, Everywhere
Fair Game, the new movie about the right wing outing of Valerie Plame as a covert CIA agent, based on …
Weekend Movie Recommendation
Only Human is a hilarious, touching and politically aware movie from Spain. Not in the theaters but at Netflix, so …
The Maid — A Film from Chile
The Maid, a 2009 film from Chile, directed by Sebastian Silva, offers itself with a poster of a slightly maniacal …
The Color of Paradise — A Film from Iran
It’s hard to convey the feeling of seeing Majid Majidi‘s wondrous 1999 The Color of Paradise from Iran. We watched it on …
Social Network — Network Sucia
[Updated Below] Another title for Social Network, the new [2010] movie about the founding of Facebook, might as well have …
Global Warming: Reeeelax! Says Movie
Bjorn Lomberg has long been on the edges of the climate change debate telling all who need an “authoritative” source …
The Devil’s Miner: A Bolivian Documentary
Working in a mine work may not be the most dangerous job in the world (believe it or not, …