TIFF 2011: THIS IS NOT A FILM
This Is Not A Film (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, 2011). The amount of humor in Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's hybrid effort is surprising, especially in light of the serious and well-publicized censure of Panahi's filmmaking by Iranian authorities. But perhaps there... More »
  

DFF: LIFE IN A DAY Review
"The only real important filmmakers at the moment are the thousand and thousand YouTube providers."--Heddy Honigmann, in a Facebook entry dated Wednesday, March 12, 2011. The Disposable Film Festival (DFF) and YouTube co-presented a special free screening of Oscar®-winning film... More »
  

OUTFEST 2011- JOE+BELLE Review
Joe (Veronica Kedar) is a young and very cynical drug dealer. She lives in Israel but dreams of a far away land. Belle (Sivan Levy) is a suicidal beauty with a romantic soul who just got out of a mental... More »
  

MIFF 2011 - The Festival Guide insight
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF 2011) is just around the corner; it is celebrating 60 years and is one of the oldest festivals in the world. I have chosen 60 (edit 60+) films and would like to share some... More »
  

MIFF Channels World Cinema With New Promos!
The Melbourne International Film Festival is gearing up for its 60th anniversary -- already announcing a teaser program which includes 25 Cannes features including Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive as its closer. No doubt the 60 years milestone will see MIFF bring... More »
  

Cannes 2011: THE TREE OF LIFE Wins Palme d'Or
Well here we are, already at the end of Cannes, and Terrence Malick's The Tree Of Life has been bestowed with the festival's top honor. And one wouldn't have thought it possible at a fest like Cannes, but Nicolas Winding... More »
  

Cannes 2011: Trailer For Ceylan's ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA
Turkey's preeminent arthouse director, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, returns to Cannes this year with the dark drama Once Upon A Time In Anatolia. Any picture with 'Once Upon A Time' in the title now carries a certain amount of heft to... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Tribeca 2011: Team Twitch Wraps Up
This evening sees the 10th edition of the Tribeca Film Festival come to a close. My gallant colleague, Peter Gutierrez and I would like to thank the staff and volunteers, publicists and assistants for making TFF 2011 quite a cool... More »
  

Israeli PA Flick 'ANOTHER WORLD'. Another Poster. Images. Site Revamp. And Blood!
With all of the news lately about other genre projects in Israel we did a bit of catching up with Eitan Reuven and his project Another World. So he gave us a never seen before poster, some images from the film... More »
  

Dan Sachar Returns To The End Of The World With OVERTURE
There's something brewing in Israel right now, a new generation of filmmakers bringing a more commercial sensibility and love for genre film than that country has seen in the past. Audiences at Tribeca are getting a taste of that right... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

THE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER Review
Corporate arrogance mixed with media meddling lead to a 1000+-kilometer trip of interpersonal discovery in the Israeli film "The Human Resource Manager". If dehumanization is the central moral examination of the film, then offbeat quirk is the modus operandi. From... More »
By Jim Tudor   
  

SFIFF54: A Dozen
[Our thanks to Frako Loden for offering this egg carton's worth of reviews to Twitch.] For this year's San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF54), I have yet to go on a screener binge--that starts later today--so I'll be attending festival... More »
  

Tribeca 2011 Review: RABIES

The Tribeca programming notes, which contend that Rabies (Kalevet) is "worthy of its mantle as Israel's first-ever horror film," aren't exactly as encouraging as they seem to feel they are. After all, do you really want the film you're seeing... More »
  

ND/NF 2011 Review: Microphone
Watching Microphone now, which is basically a love letter to Alexandria, is all the more poignant considering what's been happening in Egypt for the last few months. Director Ahmad Abdalla succeeds in capturing the essence of the youth culture in... More »
  

SFIFF54: Press Releases

[Our thanks to Michael Hawley for reviewing SFIFF54's press releases.] While the full line-up for the 54th San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF54) won't be made public until next Tuesday, the press releases announcing this year's awards, special events and... More »
  

YBCA: IRAN BEYOND CENSORSHIP: OFFSIDE (2006)

Like myself, both Doug Cummings and David D'Arcy caught Jafar Panahi's Offside when it screened at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). At Film Journey, Doug Cummings characterized Offside as Panahi's "most vibrantly energetic and entertaining film to date,... More »
  

YBCA: IRAN BEYOND CENSORSHIP

Not only does Michael Sicinski's Cinema Scope feature "When the Salt Attacks the Sea: The Films of Mohammad Rasoulof" outline the current status of imprisoned filmmakers Jahar Panafi and Mohammad Rasoulof, but it questions how international attention has been primarily... More »
  

SFIAAFF 2011: Review Capsules
[Our thanks to Michael Hawley for providing his capsule reviews for SFIAAFF 2011.] The 29th edition of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF) begins this evening Thursday, March 10 and runs through March 20 at various Bay... More »
  

Clearly Israel Has A Zombie Problem. David Lubetzky Enters The Fray With POISONED.
Something's going on in Israel. And it involves the undead.At the end of January we pointed the way to upcoming Israeli zombie picture Another World and now here comes director David Lubetzky with Poisoned. A fifty minute rom-zom-com produced in... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

SFIAAFF 2011: LINE-UP REVIEWS
[Our thanks to Frako Loden for her capsule reviews from SFIAAFF 2011.] Over the course of attending press screenings and viewing over a dozen screener DVDs, I kept changing my mind about the overall quality of the offerings in the... More »
  
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