Christopher Bourne
New York City, New York

Chris is a film critic, editor, blogger, incurable cinephile, and all-around culture maven. He blogs on film at The Bourne Cinema Conspiracy.

NYAFF 2012 Review: 10+10
One fine selection of the New York Asian Film Festival's focus on Taiwanese cinema, "Warriors and Romantics: The New Cinema From Taiwan," is the anthology 10+10, a collection of short films from some of the top talent in Taiwan, ten... More »
  

London Indian Film Festival 2012 Review: DEKH INDIAN CIRCUS
In response to Dekh Indian Circus playing at the London Indian Film Festival, we are reprinting Christopher Bourne's review from the NYIFF. EnjoyMangesh Hadawale's utterly charming and gorgeously photographed Dekh Indian Circus, which recently screened at the 12th New York... More »
  

BAMcinemaFest 2012 Preview
BAMcinemaFest, the BAMcinématek at Brooklyn Academy of Music's annual survey of new American independent cinema, returns for its fourth year from June 20 through July 1, this time with a distinctly New York and Brooklyn-centric slant. The festival's typically eclectic... More »
  

Review: MARINA ABRAMOVIC THE ARTIST IS PRESENT
Far from being a mere document, Marina Abramović The Artist Is Present, Matthew Akers's film about "the grandmother of performance art" Marina Abramović's massively popular (750,000 visitors) 2010 Museum of Modern Art retrospective, is itself a moving work of art,... More »
  

Crossing Borders: A Conversation with Actress and Producer Kiki Sugino, of MAGIC AND LOSS
One of the best offerings of the 6th annual Korean American Film Festival New York (KAFFNY) is Lim Kah Wai's Magic and Loss, a vacation island mystery that is a global-village production - by a Malaysian director, set in Hong... More »
  

Korean American Film Festival New York 2012 Preview
The 6th Annual Korean American Film Festival (KAFFNY) screens June 5-10 at Anthology Film Archives. This year's edition is probably the festival's most eclectic one yet, encompassing many modes and styles of filmmaking, film production, and even exhibition, ranging from... More »
  

NYIFF 2012: GATTU and SAVING FACE Win Top Honors
The 12th annual New York Indian Film Festival, presented by the Indo-American Arts Council, wrapped up last night at New York University's Skirball Center for the Arts. The evening began with the screening of the festival's closing night film, Anurag... More »
  

NYIFF 2012 Review: DEKH INDIAN CIRCUS
Mangesh Hadawale's utterly charming and gorgeously photographed Dekh Indian Circus, which recently screened at the 12th New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF), is rather innocuous on its surface: a seemingly simple story of a poor mother taking her kids to... More »
  

Review: Andrey Zvyagintsev's ELENA
Acclaimed Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return, The Banishment) taps into the rich tradition of film noir, as well as the influence and cultural echoes of such diverse Russian forebears as Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Tarkovsky, in his latest work Elena,... More »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: PLANET OF SNAIL
My personal favorite of all the films I've viewed at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, Seung-Jun Yi's mesmerizing and lovely documentary Planet of Snail slowly and patiently reveals to us the dimensions of the love story at its center. The... More »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: RUBBERNECK
Actor and director Alex Karpovsky has been a fixture in the past few years in low-budget American indies, many of which have fallen under the rubric (though I hate the term) of "mumblecore." In many of these films, both directed... More »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: WAR WITCH
I am of two minds when it comes to cinematic depictions of the African continent, in both fiction and documentary films. On the one hand, the sad reality is that civil war, corruption, political instability, and famine are inescapable features... More »
  

Tribeca 2012 Review: YOUR SISTER'S SISTER
There are many pleasures to be had in watching Your Sister's Sister, the fourth feature by writer/director Lynn Shelton (We Go Way Back, My Effortless Brilliance, Humpday), one of the great highlights of Tribeca 2012.  For example, there is the... More »
  

DVD Review: CAST ME IF YOU CAN, Romantic Comedy From Atsushi Ogata
The Japanese title of Atsushi Ogata's romantic comedy Cast Me If You Can is "Wakiyaku Monogatari," which translates as "Tale of the Supporting Actor." The supporting actor in this particular tale, and the main character in this story, is Hiroshi... More »
  
 
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