Film Review: HOLY MOTORS

Written and Directed by Leos Carax Starring Denis Kavant, Edity Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue I mistakenly assumed last spring when I watched COSMOPOLIS, based on the Don Delilo book and directed by David Cronenberg, that it would be a very long time before another...

Film Review: BARBARA

Directed and written by Christian Petzhold Starring Nina Hoss and Ronald Zehrfeld Barbara (Hoss), a doctor in Berlin in 1980, applies for a Visa to join her lover in the West. This single action is reason enough for the East German government to send her to the...

Film Review: ONCE I WAS A CHAMPION

Ok, I have to admit, I didn’t know who Evan Tanner was until he died in 2008. It wasn’t until around that time that I really started paying attention to MMA. It was over a year ago that I heard about this documentary for the first time. Saw the trailer,...

Film Review: 56 UP

Directed by Michael Apted Beginning in 1964, Apted, then the assistant to the director, began filming the lives of a group of seven year olds in the U.K. They came from various stratum of society. 7 UP was the first and we have now arrived at the ripe old age of 56...

Film Review: AMOUR

Directed by Michael Haneke Written by Michael Haneke Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert Georges (Trintignant) and Anne (Riva) are a long-married couple, now in their eighties. Retired music teachers, they live a pleasant if quiet...