Tag Archive for 'Drama'
Our movie marathon continued Saturday, May 8 with four screenings at the Charles. In the last few years it became our tradition to start off the festival Saturday with a screening in 3D. This year it would have been Inferno in 3D, but we decided to break our tradition and watch one of several foreign (more)
When we put together our five screenings for the first full festival day I already thought it would become quite an exhausting Friday. And this really turned out to become one rock star day of watching movies without a pause and living on popcorn, energy-bars, water and sangria. But it was absolutely worth it.
Our day (more)
Yesterday I watched such a film: Vozvrashcheniye or The Return, by Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev. What a brilliant and unforgettable movie!
One house: one revolutionary; two open straight marriages; three gay people (maybe four); three children; two carnivores and eight vegetarians; there’s only one way they’re going to make it… together.
Last Thursday we saw Lukas Moodysson’s “Together”, a funny and beautiful story of a Swedish commune in the 1970s. To keep it short, I just loved (more)
Back in May I wrote about our time at the Maryland Film Festival. We had to leave the Narrative Shorts program early and missed the ending of Paul Harrill’s Quick Feet, Soft Hands. In my blog I mentioned that I was very interested in the rest of the story, and shortly after posting it I (more)
Directed by Tarsem Singh
Written by Dan Gilroy, Nico Soultanakis, Tarsem Singh, and Valeri Petrov (1981 screenplay)
With Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell, Lee Pace, Kim Uylenbroek, Aiden Lithgow, Sean Gilder, Ronald France, Andrew Roussouw, Michael Huff, Grant Swanby, Emil Hostina, Robin Smith, Jeetu Verma, Leo Bill, Marcus Wesley…
Released in 2008
When I received the last issue of the (more)
Warning: The following may be more like writing in a personal diary than about a movie. When I first read the movie description it was very clear to me that I just would have to watch this film. Wow. What I read sounded so much like my own story. And what I saw on the (more)
The annual screening in 3-D has been our tradition since we first joined the film festival. The old 3-D movies are usually pretty bad in comparison to today’s film making or highbrow art-cinema, but they still have a very enjoyable quality with all these 3-D gimmicks. Just like screenings in drive-in theaters, the annual 3-D (more)
