Dance Iranian Style
The director of DANCE IRANIAN STYLE claims he wanted to avoid a sob story, but was there no way to anchor a fiction film in realism while avoiding sentimentalism?
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Weathering Love
Janis Klimanovs’ short documentary is an exploration of the nature and endurance of love.
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
Matthew Akers’ and Jeff Dupre’s documentary offers an elegant guide to the history performance art, and a rare insight into the emotionally intense world of Marina Abramovic.
Tommy Wiseau talks to Take One
Mihai Kolcsar caught up with actor/director Tommy Wiseau, the legend behind the THE ROOM.
The Way Forward – Dragoş Bucur Interview
Mihai Kolcsar spoke to Shooting Stars Award winner Dragoş Bucur, some of whose films featured at CFF2011, about Romanian cinema and his personal experience with stereotyping.
Cigarette Burns Presents: Christmas Evil
Mihai Kolcsar attended Cigarette Burns’ screening of the Christmas slasher YOU BETTER WATCH OUT, at the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square.
Carnage
After an argument, one ten year old boy hits another in the face with a stick. The next day, the parents meet to sort out things in a polite and civilized fashion. Let the politically correct mayhem commence! Mihai Kolcsar reviews Polanski’s latest.
Patience (After Sebald)
This poetic and meditative documentary introduces the viewer to the writings of the German/English writer W. G. Sebald and mainly his novel “The Rings of Saturn” which focuses on the narrators trips around Suffolk. Mihai Kolcsar reviews.
Coriolanus
“The sound of AK-47s and lines such as ‘Hear’st thou Mars?’ do not mix well.” Mihai Kolcsar reviews Ralph Fiennes’ modernisation of CORIOLANUS.
The Turin Horse
In 1889 Friedrich Nietzsche left his house in Turin and witnessed a man violently whipping his horse, which would not move. This image caused a mental breakdown in the philosopher, who threw himself at the neck of the creature to protect it, and afterwards fell ill until his death in 1900. What happened to the horse remains unknown, the narrator informs us at the beginning of what is allegedly Hungarian director Béla Tarr’s last film.