Awards

Review: ‘La Traviata, My Brothers & I’ Is a Warm Coming-of-Age About Brotherhood and the Power of Art

Director: Yohan Manca Writers: Yohan Manca Stars: Maël Rouin Berrandou, Judith Chemla, Dali Benssalah, Sofian Khammes, Moncef Farfar. Synopsis: Nour, a 14-year-old boy, is enjoying the beginning of the summer holidays in the South of France....

Chasing the Gold: Period Costumes Aren’t the Only Costumes Worth Awarding

The period piece is the most difficult film to get right. Time marches on and if an audience member catches a Starbucks cup left on a 1930s tenement stoop, the illusion is...

Review: ‘Tom Medina’ Is the Enigmatic Portray Of a Wild Drifter

Director: Tony Gatlif Writers: Tony Gatlif Stars: David Murgia, Slimane Dazi, Suzanne Aubert, Karoline Rose Synopsis: In the mystical French region of Camargue, Tom Medina turns up, on probation, on the doorstep of big-hearted Ulysses....

Movie Review (Cannes Film Festival): ‘Babi Yar. Context’ does not want us to forget

Director: Sergei Loznits Writer: Sergei Loznits Synopsis: Nazi troops massacred 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941. The film reconstructs the historical context of this tragedy through archive footage. It is difficult to...

Chasing the Gold: Why Isn’t Makeup Scary for the Academy Anymore?

Change comes to the Oscars not with a nod in a back room, but often with an outcry or at least a strong shift in opinions. After The Elephant Man, David Lynch’s...

Chasing The Gold: How Was That Not Nominated For Best Picture? (2011)

The Oscars of 2012 had, in my opinion, some pretty bland nominees. The Artist took home the main prize, but, while charming, it’s a pretty forgettable film. The Help is entertaining, based...

Movie Review (Tribeca Festival): ‘Do Not Hesitate’ Exposes the Intimate Repercussions of War and Violence

Director: Shariff Korver Writers: Jolein Laarman Stars: Joes Brauers, Tobias Kersloot, Spencer Bogaert, Omar Alwan Synopsis: A truck carrying a Dutch military convoy on a peacekeeping mission breaks down somewhere in the desert. As a...

Movie Review (Tribeca Festival): ‘No Future’ is a ludicrous downer about addiction and grief

Director: Andrew Irvine, Mark Smoot Writers: Mark Smoot Stars: Catherine Keener, Charlie Heaton, Rosa Salazar, Jackie Earle Haley, Austin Amelio, Jefferson White Synopsis: After the overdose of his estranged friend, Will, a recovering addict, returns...

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