A “Reformed Colonel” is found dead in Paris, a couple of decades after Algeria’s struggle for independence was won from France. Read More »
Tag Archives: 2000s
Diminished Capacity (2008) Terry Kinney, Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen, Alan Alda
Cooper is a Chicago journalist with post-concussion memory loss. Read More »
Sogobi (2002) James Benning
Many films by this master of landscape cinema are cinematic studies of specific landscapes Read More »
(Be)longing AKA Volta à Terra (2014) Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, João Pedro Plácido
Volta à Terra tells the story of an endangered community: farmers who practice subsistence farming in a mountainous Read More »
Wide Awake (2006) Alan Berliner, William C. Dement
Wide Awake is acclaimed documentary filmmaker Alan Berliner’s uniquely personal tour through a lifelong obsession with insomnia. Read More »
Colombian Love AKA Ahava Colombianit (2004) Shay Kanot, Yael Appleboum, Mili Avital, Yael Badash
Tali and Ori are a young Israeli couple. After attending their best friends’ wedding, which ended in disaster Read More »
School AKA Okul (2004) Durul Taylan, Yagmur Taylan, Deniz Akkaya, Hamdi Alkan, Burak Altay
Adapted from Do?u Yücel’s supreme novel, Ghost Book, School takes place in a high school environment. Read More »
The Warrior and the Wolf AKA Lang zai ji (2009) Zhuangzhuang Tian, Joe Odagiri, Maggie Q, Tsung-Hua To
The disillusioned general of an ancient Chinese army regiment finds himself stranded in a village populated by a strange clan with mystical connections to wolves. Read More »
Lust, Caution AKA Se, jie (2007) Ang Lee, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Wei Tang, Joan Chen
Frustrated in his attempts to assassinate Yee, who is an important official in Japanese-ruled Shanghai Read More »
My Stills, 1952-2002 (2003) David Perlov
My Stills, 1952-2002, David Perlov’s last film, is based on his still photographs. Read More »