In his review of AMOR for the PFA monograph The Films of Robert Beavers, Richard Suchenski writes (2009:12): "More than most works of their kind, the films of Robert Beavers are hard to describe in words without eliminating everything... More >>

[The latest from Japan's Toshiaki Toyoda has just had its world premiere as part of Montreal's Festival de Nouveau Cinema.]After a lengthy hiatus Blue Spring and Nine Souls director Toshiaki Toyoda returns to the big screen with The Blood...

[Our thanks to Teresa Nieman for the following review.]Okay, let's get it out of the way: Manoel de Oliviera, director of Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl, is old. Extremely old. About to turn 101, in fact. And yes,...

[Our thanks to Teresa Nieman for the following review.]Koji Yakusho is arguably one of the best actors of his generation, and now, with Toad's Oil, he's decided he wants to direct. The man has acted in some of Japan's...

[Our thanks to Teresa Nieman for the following review.]The first thing you should know going into Kamui is that it is immensely silly. If the trailers, stills, or reviews have led you to believe otherwise and you don't think...

The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia chronicles a year in the life of a family of self-proclaimed hillbillies. One member of the White family, Jesco, has already achieved cult status, after being featured in a 1991 PBS... More >>

[Our thanks to Teresa Nieman for the following review.]Part of what I love so much about attending the Vancouver International Film Festival is the opportunity to see so many obscure Asian films (in the fest's renowned Dragons & Tigers...

[Our thanks to Andrew David Long for the following review.]I've fallen in love with an animated pig.  It is a chaste and simple love.  It is also a long distance romance, because Hong Kong's favourite piece of animated pork...

Set in an unspecified French speaking African nation mired by civil war, Claire Denis' White Material skirts around much of the social and political commentary that comes with many films shot on the African continent by semi-outsiders. It is in...

[Our thanks to Teresa Nieman for another take on Joko Anwar's The Forbidden Door.]The good news about Joko Anwar's follow up to the brilliant Dead Time (a.k.a. Kala, or The Secret) is that it's bigger, more ambitious, and seems...