THE NUN, La Religieuse, France 2013 French drama directed by Guillaume Nicloux, starring Pauline Etienne, Isabelle Huppert, Louise Bourgoin and Martina Gedeck. Premiered at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, received two nominations at the 4th Magritte Award, winning Best…
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BIRD PEOPLE, France 2014 available for streaming on amazon instant video Paris setting, two strangers, an American businessman, and a mysterious French maid, find their lives magically linked in what turns out to be a fairy-tale romance. Mostly takes place…
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I wrote a post about the best of the best for 2014. I mistakenly omitted the 2014 film I believe should be most honored, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL. Ralph Fiennes and Wes Anderson hopefully win the awards in their categories at…
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TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT Starring Marion Cotillard Directed by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne This is a movie about Sandra, a working-class wife and mother, suffering from depression, who, about to return to her job, in a factory, learns that her…
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Today I am going to recommend two more films that I viewed at the FILMCOLUMBIA festival. Tomorrow there will be two more reviews. I feel that these four plus the 2 (Timbuktu and Wild Tales), I already recommended, were the…
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TIMBUKTU Timbuktu is a 2014 French-Mauritanian drama directed by Abderrahmane Sissako. The screenplay is by Sissako and Kessen Tall, Producers Sissako, Sylvie Pialat, and Remi Burah. It competed in the Palme d’Or at 2014 Cannes film festival. Usually Timbuktu is…
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WILD TALES (RELATOS SALVAJES) Wild Tales is a 2014 Argentine black comedy-drama written and directed by Damian Szifron and starring an ensemble cast of Ricardo Darin, Oscar Martinez, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Erica Rivas, music by Gustavo Santaolalla, screenplay by Damian Szifron…
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BIRDMAN Written by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armanda Bo. Directed by Alejandro Gonzalex Inarritu Starring Michael, Keaton, Zach Galifianakis and Edward Norton, with Naomi Watts, Emma Stone, Amy Ryan, Andrea Riseborough running time: 119 minutes I…
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WINTER SLEEP (Kis Uykusu) Turkey, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan Winner of the 2014 PALME d’OR FESTIVAL DE CANNES and has been chosen as the Turkish entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards. This was the…
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MY BEST ENEMY In the picturesque Vienna of the 1930s, Victor Kaufmann, the son of wealthy Jewish art gallery owners, Rudi (a gentile) and Lena have been friends since childhood. The three vow to stick together, forever. However, after the…
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