French and French-language Films
Autour de La Fin du Monde: silent film about a sound film hampered by lack of … sound
Abel Gance and Eugène Deslaw, “Autour de La Fin du Monde” (1930) I had heard
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Out of the Trees: uneven pilot comedy episode rehashing tired Monty Python sketches
Ian MacNaughton, “Out of the Trees” (1975) Huge surprise when I was surfing Youtube.com one
Zero Dark Thirty: a journey into a heart of darkness … in its “heroine”
Kathryn Bigelow, “Zero Dark Thirty” (2012) This film purports to document the hunt for World
The Impossible: a real human story is the ultimate victim in this pedestrian disaster movie
Juan Antonio Bayona, “The Impossible / Lo Impossible” (2012) Someone should have told Ewan McGregor
The Bank of North Dakota: how a state-owned bank overcame ideological and political opposition on the road to success
Prairie Public Television, “The Bank of North Dakota” (2005) In an age in which large
Italian and Italian-language Films
At the Mountains of Madness: ambitious adaptation of the famous H P Lovecraft story of the Cthulhu mythos
Michele Botticelli, “At the Mountains of Madness” (2011) With the release of Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus”
Unearthed: a good-looking pastiche of different Hollywood movie story-lines and plot elements
Lindsay Harris and Stuart Leach, “Unearthed” (2011) On the edge of the known universe, a
German and German-language Films | North American Films
1945A / The Gift / R-Ha: three science fiction shorts that show creative and visionary promise
Ryan Nagata, “1945A” (2010) Carl Erik Rinsch, “The Gift” (2010) Kaleb Lechowski, “R-Ha” (2012) These
Australian and New Zealand Films
In the Footsteps of the Ancestors – Muslims Down Under: a mostly positive view of Australian Muslims and their history and cultures
Nada Roude, “In the Footsteps of the Ancestors – Muslims Down Under” (2009) A little
Australian and New Zealand Films
Dirty Business: How Mining made Australia (Episode 3): mining as political power player highlighted by indigenous Australia’s fight for justice
Jacob Hickey, “Dirty Business: How Mining made Australia (Episode 3)” (2012) Final and best episode