By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
If “a coming-of-age musical featuring Ohio teen girls singing a Judas Priest song a Capella” isn’t enough to draw you to this bizarre experience created by american filmmaker Jennifer Reeder, then few things can.
by José Sarmiento Hinojosa
“Trippy”, “beautiful” “gorgeously photographed”, shouldn’t be the standards with which we judge a film. And there seems to be a stream of independent american films lately that are setting all their efforts in creating a pseudo spirituality, kind of a “low brow metaphysics” inside their films (…)
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Jim Finn seems to get pleasure in the aesthetics of video, and the possibilities of recreation of alternative realities this format can provide him. With his mockumentary, La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo (2007), he recalled the terrorist movement Sendero Luminoso and its movements inside the Peruvian prison system, and how the prisons served as headquarters for the prisoners, organizing parades and spreading the maoist ideology of the movement.
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.
Director: Mónica Delgado Ch.
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