By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Imagine if you will, a group of people studying, in an almost forensic kind of way, every single nuance and detail of James Joyce’ last masterpiece “Finnegan’s Wake”.
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
The latest Travis Wilkerson film (who some may know for the impeccable Distinguished Flying Cross) goes beyond its path as a common documentary to become a militant, living organism that quietly meditates throughout some of Los Angeles most significant landscapes (…)
By Tristan Teshigahara Pollack
The Korean American Film Festival of New York (KAFFNY) is the kind of film festival made up of cinephilic dreams. Thriving on an all-volunteer-staff, the festival has consistently aimed to represent the diaspora of Korean filmmakers and artists.
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
While the Berlinale Palast closes its doors in expectation of a new year, and the whole movement of people that drifted mercilessly along the streets of the Potsdamer Platz is now on their way home, it feels like the right time to reflect calmly on what this last Berlin Film Festival brought to the table (or didn’t).
The members of the 2014 International Jury, James Schamus (President), Barbara Broccoli, Trine Dyrholm, Mitra Farahani, Greta Gerwig, Michel Gondry and Christoph Waltz, award the following prizes:
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Final days of the Berlinale are coming, and yet no surprises arrived from the main competition at the Palast. As every year (and even in a particular quality decline over the years) the Forum section offered the best of what Berlin Film Festival had to present
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Okay, let’s get it straight. If the author of The Temptation of St. Tony were about to do an absurdist, Dadaistic take on life over Estonia, we’d all be there to watch.
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
If today had one single protagonist it was John Zorn. The avant-garde composer was the main instigator of two precious, unforgettable and unrepeatable events: the restoration of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Robert Wiene, fully scored (in an improvisational matter) by Mr. Zorn himself
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Great expectations coming from the Berlinale, as the Palast (and more than 20 venues), opens the red carpet to the most expected films, premiering in more than ten different categories of the festival
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Well aware that penetrating the human soul for the dark overtones that have permeated almost all of her filmography is what she does best, Claire Denis comes again with a controversial, anguish-ridden film in Les Salauds, a film that reminds us of one of the best and darkest periods of her filmography, departing somewhat from her concerns over migration and plunging deep what we call the innate call of evil.
Director: Mónica Delgado Ch.
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