A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
French and French-language Films
Gaspar Noe, “Climax” (2018) In the hands of Argentine-French director Gaspar Noe, a story about a group of young dancers hired to be part of a…
Bahram Beyzai, “Death of Yazdgerd / Mard Yazdgerd” (1982) Running close to 2 hours with a small cast, a heavy emphasis on dialogue to push its…
Diljana Gaytandzhieva, “Diplomatic Viruses” (Al Mayadeen, 2018) Bulgarian journalist Diljana Gaytandzhieva gained fame early in 2018 for uncovering and reporting on shipments of weapons from EU…
Egmont R Koch and Michael Wech, “Biological Weapons & Experimentation on Humans (Frank Olson)” (2002) Recent news of the death of Chinese physicist Zhang Shoucheng, supposedly…
James Corbett, “The Corbett Report (Episode 349: The WWI Conspiracy – Part Three: A New World Order)” (November 2018) This third and last episode examines how…
James Corbett, “The Corbett Report (Episode 348: The WWI Conspiracy – Part Two: The American Front)” (November 2018) Having established in Part 1 that a Deep…
French and French-language Films
Philippe le Guay, “Normandy Nude / Normandy Nue” (2018) One of a distinctly French genre of comedy films – Cedric Klapisch’s “Back to Burgundy” is another…
James Corbett, “The Corbett Report (Episode 347: The WWI Conspiracy – Part One: To Start A War)” (November 2018) At this time of writing, a century…
Nora Barrows-Friedman, “Why ‘Wonder Woman’ is Banned in Lebanon” (Electronic Intifada, 8 June 2017) With every passing year, the commercial movie industry in the United States,…
Hirokazu Kore-eda, “Shoplifters / Manbiki Kazoku” (2018) In this slow realist drama about an impoverished family in Tokyo, surviving by its wits through a combination of…