Dir: Yuri Norshteyn By David Pountain At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival, a large international jury of critics and animators voted Yuriy Norshteyn’s 1979 short, Tale of Tales, the greatest animated film of […]
Month: June 2014
Based on a true story and set against the backdrop of pulse-pounding post-punk, Killing Bono is the laugh-out-loud story of two brothers who never quite found what they were looking for. In 1976, brothers Neil (Ben […]
Dir: Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais Whitewash is a cold thriller with dark comedy edge set in the snow filled forests of Northern Quebec. Thomas Haden Church does a great job in his portrayal of Bruce, a broken […]
Dir. Matias Penachino With an observational documentary style, Summun Bonum opens with a family watching old video footage of when the parents adopted children from a foreign country. Straight away the mother’s natural son asks […]
Catalan director Sergio Caballero’s surrealist crime caper The Distance (La Distancia) is unapologetically left of field. In fact the film, an atmospheric heist movie with a healthy hint of Tarkovsky’s Stalker (and follow-up to 2010’s […]
Original title: “La Historia Oficial” Set in the final years of the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983), The Official Story is unafraid of exploring the pain that this period brought to the country. It […]