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This Swedish/Danish/German co-production is Lukas Moodysson most recent movie, and I was looking forward to it. I already knew his work from...

Mammoth (Mammut)

Terrible “sounding” word that I just learn a few days ago thanks to a great blog reader and I know that some of you know what it is and some...

Pornochanchada

This Danish movie from director Anders Morgenthaler begins with a father taking his son on a weeks’ vacation to a lovely cottage in a remote...

Ekko (Echo)

A very minimalist movie that allows you to see and hear just enough for you to get an idea of what soldiers coming back from war live, what ...

Lille Soldat (Little Soldier)

Not often I have the opportunity to watch a mainstream movie from Portugal and I admit that I was curious. So for pure entertainment purpose...

Second Life

Ryota (Abe Hiroshi) returns to his parents' home with his new wife Yukari, as the family is holding a memorial for the eldest son who pa...

Aruitemo aruitemo (Still Walking)

The second movie by Lucia Puenzo, after her great XXY, is totally unexpected as the story is quite different to what I imagined according to...

El Niño Pez (The Fish Child)

I know that the movie name suggests either a downer drama or a funny comedy, but since I needed an escape moment I decided to give it a try....

Dim Sum Funeral

I’ve never read a Harry Potter book; I fell asleep watching a part of the first movie. Granted, it was late in the evening, but I never felt...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

A while ago the jury president of these Norwegian awards announced the nominees. The Amanda Awards ceremony opens the 37th Norwegian Interna...

25th Amanda Awards Nominations

I had already become interested in Elio Germano's work in the movie "Mio fratello è figlio unico", so it wasn't much of a ...

Il passato è una terra straniera (The Past Is a Foreign Land)

This year the 66th Venice Film Festival (Biennale) will run from September 2 to 12 and we hope to learn the fest lineup around July 30; but ...

24 Settimana Internazionale della Critica Lineup

From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary we have that Chaos means: 2 a often capitalized : a state of things in which chance is supreme; e...

Chaos

Sometimes you are really lucky to catch in cable a movie that you haven’t seen with an actress that you simply adore. But what was a huge su...

Betrayed

This film almost skipped my radar, as the title really does not call my attention. But I saw a clip from the film and decided to give it a t...

Mentiras y Gordas (Sex, Parties and Lies)

This post is about really GOOD news … for me. Finally after months planning and selling as much as possible I’m ready to share the news with...

Good News

Two things attracted me to this movie, the cast and the story. The cast includes John Malkovich, Daniel Bruhl, and Vera Farmiga. The story s...

In Tranzit (In Transit)

In the latest installment of what Jean-Claude Brisseau calls as his “exploration of desire and sexual pleasure” he really went further than ...

À l'aventure

Recently the fest had the awards ceremony and here are the winners. New Talent Competition Grand Prize : Disgrace , Steve Jacobs, Australia ...

11th Taipei Film Festival Award Winners

Probably this movie is going to be the only summer –alike- movie that I’ll watch this year. Decided to watch because I really like Ali Larte...

Obsessed

As expected the fest announced today the line-up and noteworthy is that has 24 world premieres. Just in the International Competion there ar...

62nd Locarno Film Festival Line-up

The fest this year will run from August 5 to 15 and tomorrow, July 16, the official line-up will be annouced. While we wait for tomorrow’s a...

62nd Locarno Film Festival News

Probably some of you were lucky enough to catch in TCM this movie that was recently broadcasted as part of TCM’s tribute to Sidney Lumet; if...

The Group

Today the fest announced the award winners and here they are. Jury Award : Gagma Napiri (The Other Bank), George Ovashvili, Georgia and Kaz...

7th Paris Cinema International Film Festival Award Winners

A very complex story in an intriguing film that since the very black screen first take tells you to prepare to travel into the magic of indi...

La Teta Asustada (The Milk of Sorrow)

The fest will run from July 24 to August in Melbourne, Autralia. Called by many “the most significant film event in Australia” this year has...

16th Melbourne International Film Festival

Yesterday the fest had the awards ceremony and here are the winners. Official Competition Grand Prix – Crystal Globe : Un ange à la mer (An...

44th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Award Winners

I know who Federico García Lorca, Salvador Dalì and Luis Buñuel are and I know very little about their lives -saw only one of them in the fl...

Little Ashes

Finally the award winners are posted at the official site in English and here are some of the winners. Arri-Zeiss Prize : Una Semana Solos ...

2009 Filmfest München Award Winners

Here is another very worth-to-watch documentary that not only looks and feels like narrative but also will grab your attention immediately a...

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