NYFF – Tehran Tempest, Dead Men Walk Free, and a Wandering Memory
NY Film Festival – Films Not To Miss A Separation – Asghar Farhadi (Iran) Critics are calling this family drama set in contemporary Iran the best film in NYFF 2011. It’s early for such a judgment, but...
View ArticleYoram Kaniuk – Rest in Conflict
Yoram Kaniuk 1930-2013 The Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk died last week. He was 83. Born in Tel Aviv, son of the first director of the Tel Aviv Museum, Kaniuk experienced Palestine during and after the...
View Article‘The Lady in the Van’— Permanent Transience
A Parking Space for Life The Lady in the Van Dir. Nicholas Hytner, UK, 2015, 144 minutes Sony Pictures Classics In some of the early reviews of The Lady in the Van, a homeless woman is referred to as...
View ArticleTIFF – James Baldwin Speaks
Fallen Leaders Remembered I’m Not Your Negro Dir. Raoul Peck, USA/France/Belgium/Switzerland, 2016, 93 minutes At the Toronto International Film Festival TIFF (soon at the New York Film Festival...
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