‘The Young Karl Marx’ Review: A Dialogue Between Realism & Idealism
byRaoul Peck’s Der Junge Karl Marx (The Young Karl Marx) was a surprising film. In one sense, the film is quite mainstream. Core conventions…
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‘Strolling’ Screening at Berlin Feminist Film Week
byIf you are a reflective, empathetic, observant human being, then the art you create will thrive with the themes emerging from your identity as it…
‘Toni Erdmann’ Review: An Exercise In Holding Onto A Fleeting Moment
byThrough what portal do we enter a film? Unlike Orson Welles’ famously complex crane shot at the beginning of Touch of Evil or Wim…
Berlinale 2017 Review: ‘Ana, Mon Amour’ by Cãlin Peter Netzer
byAna, Mon Amour, the fourth film of Romanian director Cãlin Peter Netzer reveals everything in its first scene. Two young people, Toma and Ana,…
Berlinale 2017 Review: ‘Discreet’ by Travis Mathews
byBacon in a pan. A wall with colorful wallpaper and a close-up of a Japanese woman, covering her hands with her ears. A man…
Berlinale 2017 Review: ‘Insyriated’ by Philippe Van Leeuw
byConsidering the fact that the Berlinale claims to be a political festival, it seems illogical that Insyriated didn’t make it into this years competition…
Berlinale 2017 Review: ‘El bar’ by Álex de la Iglesia
byHomo homini lupus - man is a wolf unto man. In times of terror and constant fear in this incresingly postmodern world, basic instincts…
Berlinale 2017 Review: ‘Tiere’ by Greg Zglinski
byIt’s a striking personal resumé: four of the movies I’ve watched at this year’s 67th Berlinale feature shots of highway tracks while someone escapes…
Berlinale 2017 Review: ‘Mr. Long’ by Sabu
bySome people might be slightly irritated if, before breakfast, they were to watch a movie in which more than twenty people are massacred in the first…