The Sufferings of Job — Plus a Blowtorch
Big Bad Wolves Dirs. Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, Israel, 2013, 110 minutes — at the Tribeca Film Festival
Tribeca – Madoff and Unpunished Company
April 20, 2013, 4:47 pm
The Real Madoff Scandals – 10% Was for the Little People
In God We Trust – dir. Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson, USA, 2013, 82 minutes (at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival)
Tribeca – The Blair Blitz Project – “Frankenstein’s Army”
April 19, 2013, 7:54 pm
Dressed to Rise from the Dead
Pity the poor Soviet soldiers, pushing the straggling Wehrmacht back across the Eastern European mud, only to find that the Nazis were stitching together the dead and sending the reconstituted troops back to the battlefield. We’re not talking about the wounded, whom the Nazis were also repackaging as cannon fodder, but the real dead – Frankenstein’s Army (dir. Richard Raaphorst, Netherlands, 84 minutes, 2013).
Films Reappear in “Disappearing Act V”
April 10, 2013, 4:50 pm
Trance – Goya Is More Haunting Than Boyle’s Thriller
April 9, 2013, 9:58 am
Does Danny Boyle Need to Be Guy Ritchie?
Trance dir. Danny Boyle, UK, 2013. 105 minutes
Uncle Nixon, in 8 Millimeter
April 1, 2013, 10:34 am
Nixon Says the Darndest Things
Our Nixon dir. Penny Lane, producers Penny Lane, Brian L. Frye, US, 2013, 84 minutes (at the New Directors/New Films Festival, Walter Reade Theater, Film Society of Lincoln Center)
FIFA 2013 – Images, and What to Do With Them
March 30, 2013, 1:29 pm
Too Many Pictures, and Not Enough Attention — FIFA 2013 — Montreal
The top prize at this year’s International Festival of Films on Art went to a film that warns of image overload, given the over-production of images as digital cameras and mobile phones record them. The effect, we don’t need to be told, is that anyone linked to these technologies risks being mired in a swamp of images. And most of us, it suggests, will never be competent swimmers.
FIFA: Fashion – Winners and Losers
March 26, 2013, 9:09 am
‘The Croods’ – Cave Men Are Smarter than the Tea Party
March 23, 2013, 10:51 am
There are people in the US Congress who believe that the universe was created in a week and that Adam and Eve walked among dinosaurs, and lots of Americans voted for these Neanderthals. Why have health care for the uninsured? We’re just helping them to get to heaven faster.
FIFA – Montreal: Crucified by Christian Critics
March 21, 2013, 3:23 pm
FIFA – Dirty Crucifix — Not Profane, but the Son of Man
Montreal
The Crucifixion: The Sacred Scandal by Olivier Besse (at the International Festival of Films on Art, FIFA, March 14-24)
