A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Northern European Films, Russian and Soviet Films
Yana Yerlashova, “MH17 – Call for Justice” (Bonanza Media, July 2019) Five years after the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 passenger jet was shot down in eastern…
Penny Lane, “Hail Satan?” (2019) Funny and serious at the same time, tight and well made with plenty of information on the history of religious freedom…
James Corbett, “The Corbett Report (Episode 359: The Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Big Tech Doesn’t Want You to Know)” (July 2019) Dense with information, presented…
Bong Joonho, “Parasite / Gisaengchung” (2019) A stinging attack on capitalism in South Korean society and its effects on people’s thinking and actions, “Parasite” pits two…
French and French-language Films
Julie Bertuccelli, “Claire Darling / La derniere folie de Claire Darling” (2018) On the first day of summer in a small village somewhere in France, an…
Trevor Nunn, “Red Joan” (2019) Adapted from the novel of the same name which as the film acknowledges is based on the real-life case of Melita…
Lee Camp “Leaked Court Docs Upending Brazil!” (Redacted Tonight, June 2019) Along with his weekly “Redacted Tonight” news / current affairs program, comedian / journalist Lee Camp…
Indian Subcontinent Films, Northern European Films
Jos van Dongen, “Victim of the World Wildlife Fund” (Zembla, 2019) Now this is the kind of hard-hitting investigative journalism I like to see! In this…
German and German-language Films
Niels Bolbringer and Thomas Tielsch, “Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus” (2018) Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the artistic / aesthetic movement by…
Latin American Films (Spanish language)
Marcelo Martinessi, “The Heiresses / Las Herederas” (2018) A slow-burning, low-key character study that, among other things, examines loss and self-transformation and interrogates social hierarchy and…