Along with The Over the Hill Band and Altiplano, the third Belgian feature I caught at PSIFF10 was Felix Van Groeningen's The Misfortunates (2009), Belgium's official submission to the Academy Awards® foreign language category. Though it did not make... More >>

The 2010 SXSW Film Festival and Conference has announced its initial slate of titles. The list is rife with hot world premieres (Kick-Ass), films fresh from Sundance (The Runaways, Cyrus), hot titles from the 2009 editions of TIFF and Cannes...

(Note: this is not a film that screened at Rotterdam this year, but given the festival helped release it seven years ago and publish what is currently the only DVD available with English subtitles, IFFR 2010 seemed a good...

Giorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth certainly doesn't lack for ambition. A father, pathologically opposed to the moral decadence of modern society, deceives his three children into living as voluntary prisoners in their isolated country home through an ongoing programme of lies...

"The fact that about forty technicians have to wait patiently while a dog condescends to relieve himself on a lamp-post gives me great financial responsibilities."--Jacques Tati. In his Cineaste review of David Bellos' biography on Jacques Tati (available at... More >>

Cinephiles who have not yet allowed themselves the luxury of meandering through Jonathan Rosenbaum's online archive are missing out on Rosenbaum's generous mentality; one might even say mentorship (in its classic sense). While the fathers of civilization flounder afar... More >>

"The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice."--Martin Luther King, Jr. As Claudia Llosa indicated in her Q&A session at the PSIFF10 screening of La Teta Asustada (The Milk of Sorrow, 2009), a book entitled Entre... More >>

Holidays: a time for family. As true as this may be in Western culture with Thanksgiving and Christmas drawing families together more than any other events in North America, it is far more true in China. Chinese New Year...

[Apropos of its North America premiere tonight at the Sundance Film Festival and that the director is writing a column for this site, here is a re-post of my take from last October.]The elegantly named Splice is Canadian science-fiction filmmaker...

When a triad boss is executed by Mainland authorities for attempting to smuggle counterfeiting copperplates into Hong Kong, his triad society is thrown into disarray. His vast fortune is left to his two adult children, Audrey (Bernice Liu) and Jason... More >>