A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
British Films, Italian and Italian-language Films
Nicolas Roeg, “Don’t Look Now” (1973) Adapted from the short story with the same title by Daphne du Maurier, this famous British cult horror film is…
Warren Flanagan, “Metta Via” (2017) Visually stunning and ambitious in its concept, this Canadian short work is possessed of unusual power. Superficially it lacks an obvious…
Chinese and Chinese-language Films, Southeast Asian Films
Tan Ce Ding, “The Masseuse” (2018) An intriguing film set in a not-too distant dystopian future in Kuala Lumpur, “The Masseuse” poses questions about the nature…
James A Sims, “What if Wendy” (2017) Here is a sparse and minimalist character study of a woman in denial about her grief at the death…
Vasily Prozorov, “MH-17: In Search of Truth” (UKR Leaks, December 2019) Currently gaining a lot of attention on alternative news websites is this minimally made and…
Jesse Lupini, “Iteration 1” (2016) Made for a Canadian film festival in which the objective was to shoot a film and complete its post-production in the…
David Karlak, “The Candidate” (2010) Entirely driven by character and dialogue, this interesting character study of a corporate middle manager, ambitious and not a little sociopathic…
French and French-language Films, Japanese Films
Hirokazu Kore-eda, “The Truth” (2019) Ironically truth is the one thing going missing in this gentle French comedy about a family whose members use lies and…
French and French-language Films
Thierry Lorenzi, “On / Off” (2013) This short space-exploration thriller film had been doing the film festival circuit for a number of years before DUST channel…
Anthony Ferraro, “Aeranger” (2019) A twelve-minute film about an alien crash-landing somewhere in North America thousands of years ago when mammoths were still roaming the continent…