Category: Foreign
Posted on February 22, 2015
by Jordan Dodd
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Directed by Paolo Virzì, Written by Stephen Amidon (novel), Paolo Virzì, Francesco Bruni and Francesco Piccolo (screenplay) Starring: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Matilde Gioli, Valeria Bruni Tedesch, Fabrizio Gifuni, Valeria Golino, Luigi Lo Cascio, Guglielmo Pinelli This stylish Italian film begins with a scene that the movie will orbit… Continue Reading “HUMAN CAPITAL (Il capitale umano) [2014]”
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Category: Film, ForeignTags: fabrizio bentivoglio, Fabrizio Gifuni, Human Capital, Il capitale umano, Italian, italian film, Luigi Lo Cascio, mystery, Paolo Virzi, Stephen Amidon, Valeria Bruni Tedesch, Valeria Golino, whodunnit
Posted on December 1, 2014
by Jordan Dodd
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Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Written by Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Anton Chekhov (short stories) Starring: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag, Serhat Mustafa Kiliç, Nejat Isler At over three hours, I was very surprised at the speed which this passed by.… Continue Reading “WINTER SLEEP [2014]”
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Category: Film, ForeignTags: Anatolia, Cannes Film Festival, Cappadoccia, Demet Akbag, dostoyevsky, Drama, Ebru Ceylan, Existentialism, foreign, foreign film, Gökhan Tiryaki, Haluk Bilginer, Nejat Isler, non-english, non-english film, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Palme d'Or, Palme d'Or cannes film festival, philosophy, Russian 18th centru authors, Serhat Mustafa Kiliç, three hour film, turkey, turkish film, winter, winter sleep
Posted on November 24, 2014
by Jordan Dodd
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Director: Tommy Wirkola Starring Vegar Hoel, Ørjan Gamst, Martin Starr, Jocelyn DeBoer, Stig Frode Henriksen, Hallvard Holmen This is truly one of the most absurd, bizarre and hilarious ‘horror’ movies I have ever seen. In fact it doesn’t seem like a horror movie at… Continue Reading “DEAD SNOW 2: RED VS DEAD [2014]”
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Category: Film, ForeignTags: black comedy, cartoonish violence, comedy, dead snow, dead snow 2, dead snow 2: red versus dead, dead snow 2: red vs dead, excessive violence, hallvard holmen, horror, horror comedy, Martin Starr, Nazi zombies, Norway, Norweigian Film, orjan gamst, pollitically incorrect, scandinavian film, slasher film, Stig Frode Henriksen, tommy wirkola, vegar hoel, zombies
Posted on November 12, 2014
by Jordan Dodd
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Directed by Kristian Levring, Written by Anders Thomas Jensen and Kristian Levring Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eric Cantona, Mikael Persbrandt, Jonathan Pryce “A Danish western you say? Mads Mikkelsen you say? Well now… How could I say no?!” This is… Continue Reading “THE SALVATION [2014]”
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Category: Film, ForeignTags: Action, Anders Thomas Jensen, bloody, danish, danmish western, denmark, Eric Cantona, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jonathan Pryce, Kristian Levring, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikael Persbrandt, western
Posted on November 5, 2014
by Jordan Dodd
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Directed by Ruben Östlund Wriiten by Ruben Östlund Starring: Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli Never before has a movie left me so profoundly confused as the end credits rolled. Perhaps it is the culture (the director is Swedish and they are on a vacation… Continue Reading “FORCE MAJEURE (Turist) [2014]”
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Category: Film, ForeignTags: Bermann, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival jury prize winner, Cinematograher Fredrik Wenzel, Dark Comedy, Fredrik Wensel, grand budapest hotel, Ingmar Bermann, Johannes Kuhnke, jury prize, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Ruben Östlund, scandinavian film, Sweden, Swedish film, the alps, the french alps
Posted on October 29, 2014
by Jordan Dodd
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Directed and Written by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne Starring: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione Depression is a bitch. I should know, I was wallowing in that pool of sticky tar for many, many years. Getting a job can also be a real bitch, not… Continue Reading “TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (Deux jours, une nuit) [2014]”
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Category: Film, ForeignTags: Cannes Film Festival, cannes film festival offical selection, Dardenne brothers, depression, Drama, employment, Fabrizio Rongione, France, French, French films, greed, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Marion Cotillard, Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival Official Selection, new york film festival, new york film festival offical selection, new zealand film festival, new zealand film festival official selection, Suspense, sydney film festival, toronto film festival, toronto film festival official selection, winner of sydney film festival
Posted on October 8, 2014
by Jordan Dodd
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Directed By Lukas Moodysson Written by Lukas Moodysson, Coco Moodysson (comic) Australia is certainly not the place for impatient cinephiles. Released around the rest of the world months ago, this fun romp of a film has just finished screening in the one cinema in… Continue Reading “WE ARE THE BEST! (Vi är bäst!) [2013]”
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Category: 2013, Film, ForeignTags: 20000 Days on Earth, classic punk, Coco Moodysson, Get On Up, Liv LeMoyne, Lukas Moodysson, Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, punk, punk rock, Sweden, Swedish film, Vi är bäst!, We Are The Best!, Whiplash
Posted on July 21, 2014
by Jordan Dodd
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Directed By Roman Polanski The short plot synopsis for this film is so misleading. But you know it is Polanski, so naturally something, probably strange, will begin to transpire. And strange it is. The actress arrives covered in rain, hours late, and is not… Continue Reading “Venus In Fur [2013]”
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Category: 2013, Film, ForeignTags: 2013, Alexandre Desplat, David Ives, Emmanuelle Seigner, film, French film, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Mathieu Amalric, Pawel Edelman, Roman Polanski, venus in fur
imperfection is perfection 