These last two days have been the experience I have been waiting for. The day before today, we toured all around Buenos Aires -- to el Centro to visit the government houses, including La Casa Rosada, the...
I got all my bags, no problems there. Only one of my liquids exploded: my mom packed some honey packets and one got squished, so there is honey all over my tote. Got stared at by all the Argentine folk,...
I am leaving the country in two weeks. Two weeks. The thing is, I haven't realized it yet. I know that when I realize that an event is imminent, I'll start to worry immensely; I'm not.
I feel like...
This year's Oscar winner for Best Documentary Feature, Louie Psihoyos's The Cove, will screen this Sunday, April 18 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Kimball Theatre. I reviewed this film, after it received an Oscar...
François Truffaut's Jules et Jim (1962), one of the seminal films of the French New Wave, will be screened this Thursday, April 8 at the Kimball Theatre at 7 p.m. The screening is part of a night...
Paul Saltzman's first documentary feature, Prom Night in Mississippi, which was screened in competition at last year's Sundance Film Festival, tackles the issue of racism, one that should seem foreign...
For some, the premier of the final season of Lost was yet another iteration of an annual event that primarily takes place in hopes that its finale will resolve all (or most) of the gripping mysteries used...
A recent post by New Yorker film blogger Richard Brody sparked a worthwhile debate (in which I participated) that addresses a chasm in film schools that dates back to the 1940s, when a group of Italian...
A excellent film that somehow made it as near as Pasco this fall (don't ask me how) has redefined activist documentary filmmaking. Louie Psihoyos's The Cove has, once and for all, put the subject of dolphin...
Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon) - Dir. Michael Haneke (2009)
The Hurt Locker - Dir. Kathryn Bigelow (2009)
WALL-E - Dir. Andrew Stanton (2008)
Entre les murs (The Class) - Dir. Laurent Cantet...
Das Weisse Band (The White Ribbon) - Dir. Michael Haneke
Goodbye Solo - Dir. Ramin Bahrani
Where the Wild Things Are - Dir. Spike Jonze
La mujer sin cabeza (The Headless Woman) - Dir. Lucrecia...
This year, for reasons unbeknownst to me, has given rise to undoubtedly the best fictional films about the Iraq War. The first, Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, about a bomb disarming squad, should effortlessly...
