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Guy Debord’s answer to the criticism regarding his previous film, “The Society of the Spectacle”–a film adaptation of his Situationist manifesto, and a sharp commentary on contemporary society and the power of the image untethered from its original context.Read More »
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The Glacier Fox is an exciting documentary filmed in the frozen regions of Northern Japan. Director Korey Kurahara, who apparently was weaned on Disney’s True Life Adventures, strikes just the right balance between reality and artifice. His “cast” consists of a family of wild foxes, each with his or her own distinct personality. The film explores the foxes’ efforts to survive the elements and their ever-threatening environment. The Glacier Fox runs 90 minutes, and “runs” is just the right word to describe the breathless pace of this movie. — Hal EricksonRead More »
The “stone in the mouth” is the scar taht the mafia makes on affiliaded man’s corpse who betrayed.
The modern mafia has the historical and sociological roots into the birth of the american capitalism at the time of Roosvelt. The american “Cosa Nostra” applies the similar methods as the sicilian mafia: same apparatus, same “omertà”, same power and same terror.
Giuseppe Ferrara, journalist e writer, uses fragments footage,film clips,(Salvatore Giuliano
by Franco Rosi, Paisà by Roberto Rossellini) and really current news to make this image ok mafia.Read More »
Multicultural British teens from Leeds’ inner city pursue spoken poetry. They compete at Brave New Voices, a prestigious slam competition in Washington D.C., confronting youth stereotypes through their words.Read More »
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Portrait of a French mercenary working in Lebanon, hired by the Phalange to train the militias. War leaves its traces; and for some, who see death as part of the job, it’s a vocation.Read More »
Victor Fleming’s film The Wizard of Oz (1939) is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions. This documentary goes over the rainbow to explore this Technicolor through-line in Lynch’s work.Read More »
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MENTAL is a feature-length documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, interwoven with patients, doctors, staff, volunteers, and home-helpers, in cinema-verite style. The film breaks a major taboo against discussing mental illness prevalent in Japanese society, and captures the candid lives of people coping with suicidal tendencies, poverty, a sense of shame, apprehension, and fear of society.Read More »
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A few months after the incident of April 13, 1975, during which Palestinian civilians were machine-gunned by Phalangist militiamen, the toll is most tragic: six thousand dead, twenty thousand wounded, incessant kidnappings, a semi-destroyed capital. This film traces the origins of the Lebanese conflict, the perception of a society that goes to war while singing. A unique document on the Lebanese civil war. Beyond the religious war, the painting of a social and political reality that has not changed much, more than four decades later.Read More »
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Jean-Michel Basquiat shot to fame in the early ‘80s as a painter with bright strong flashes of color, streaks of black, jagged, oddly angled heads and crossed-out words, then died of a heroin overdose at age 27. His story has been told many times before—in Glenn O’Brien’s loosely crafted 1981 fiction film Downtown 81 (aka New York Beat) about a Village artist struggling to pay the bills; in Julian Schnabel’s 1996 film Basquiat, with Jeffrey Wright’s alternately shambling and alert performance in the lead; and in at least seven books, including Phoebe Hoban’s journalistic 1998 biography Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art. Now he is the subject of friend Tamra Davis’s documentary Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, which announces its intentions to uphold its subject’s legacy from the title onward.Read More »