A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Benh Zeitlin, “Beasts of the Southern Wild” (2012) Can’t be very many films where the main characters are played by a very young girl and a…
Alison Severs / Vice, “Krokodil: Siberia’s Tears” (2011) I stumbled across short video clips made by a documentary channel Vice News which specialises in a form…
Rob Balsamo, “9/11 Intercepted” (2011) Over a decade has passed since the World Trade Center attacks occurred and we are still no closer to knowing what…
Robert Breer,”Fuji” (1974) An interesting short of a train trip taken through the Japanese countryside with Mount Fuji dominating the rice-fields and towns along the way,…
Robert Breer, “A Man and a Dog Out For Air” (1957) Why have I never heard of this wonderful animator before? This very short animation piece…
Middle Eastern Films, North American Films
Marcio E Gonçalves, “Rendering Lisa” (2010) Mehmet Can Koçak, “Perspective” (2011) Jesus Orellana, “Rosa” (2011) A homage to cyberpunk sci-fi writers William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and…
Multi-media Presentations, North American Films
David Blair, “Wax or the Discovery of Television among the Bees” (1991) One of my favourite science fiction films since I first saw it in the…
Jeremy Hopper, “Nine Meals Away from Anarchy” (2012) Uploaded to Youtube early in 2012, this is an interesting if simply made documentary about the fragility of…
David Gelb, “Jiro dreams of Sushi” (2011) Surely this documentary should have a great deal of significance for me as my parents ran a restaurant for…
Declan Whitebloom, “Prophets of Science Fiction (Episode 1: H G Wells)” (2011) For some reason, SBS TV chose to screen this episode last even though it’s…