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9 June 2014
Q and A Léo Soesanto - film critic and programmer for Semaine de la Critique
by Mydylarama teamLéo Soesanto is a film critic for culture magazine Les Inrocks, artistic director of the Bordeaux International Film Festival and a member of the selection committee for the feature film competition at La Semaine de la Critique in Cannes.
How did you get involved in Semaine de la Critique?
Well, I’m a critic and and a member of the film critics union — two conditions which are required (...) Continue Reading »
5 June 2014
Blue Caprice- preview (East End Film Festival)
by Coco GreenWhile not all films starring black people are ’black films’, Alexandre Moor’s "Blue Caprice" has been billed as an exploration of the African American ’experience’ .It’s also been described as analogous to ’Precious’ and ’Boys in the Hood’. How does a film about a young person trafficked from Antigua and brainwashed by a sociopath to murder innocent people capture the African American (...) Continue Reading »
4 June 2014
East End Film Festival
by Mydylarama teamMydylarama is excited to be covering the East End Film Festival! Reviews and previews coming soon. Continue Reading »
18 May 2014
The Invisible War
by Coco Green’The Invisible War’ is less about a secret war that rape victims are fighting in the military than a series of public and private battles to fix a broken system. Well, broken for the victims of rape, not so much for the rapists who remain (...) Continue Reading »
16 May 2014
Starred Up
by Viewing PleasureDavid Mackenzie’s new film is a much-welcome addition to the British prison drama genre, that weaves sophisticated narrative into a bold critique of the penal system and a mockery of rehabilitation inside.
Set in the microcosm of an English prison, Starred Up is the story of serial offender, 19-year-old Eric Love (Jack O’Connell), who has left the relative comfort of foster homes and (...) Continue Reading »
1 May 2014
Tim’s Vermeer
by Judy HarrisFor the most part Tim’s Vermeer is a film about vision, about how we literally see the world- the limitations of sight and its augmentation through technological means. It’s also a film about how we see the world in the figurative sense; Tim Jenison, a 21st century computer software inventor (whom I would comfortably place in the top 1% or thereabouts) sees it, affectionately, as his (...) Continue Reading »
21 April 2014
Noah
by Coco Green’Noah’ is certainly appropriately titled. This isn’t a big screen portrayal of one of the great biblical stories of Noah and the Ark. It’s a story about a group of white Europeans/Americans/New Zealanders with accents that have no connection to the Middle East where the Biblical story takes place (beyond the names they didn’t even try!!). Given that the Ark wasn’t mentioned in the title, and (...) Continue Reading »
20 April 2014
Alone
by Coco GreenAlone is a documentary depicting the lives of three young girls, Fen (4), Zhen (6) and Ying (10) in rural, south west China. These young children have been doubly left- first by their mother (for reasons which remain largely unknown) and subsequently by their father, whose flight from the family home is undertaken in order to find work in the city and send money home. Visually, the film’s (...) Continue Reading »
17 April 2014
Stranger by the Lake (L’inconnu du Lac)
by Matt BrayAlain Guiraudie’s erotic gay thriller is located in rural France and takes place over ten summer days. Set on the shores of a vast inviting lake, a small group of men spend the day building up all-over tans in between swimming and cruising around the adjoining forest. We quickly fall into the world of the film and Guiraudie presents with ease the rituals that these gay men enjoy as they (...) Continue Reading »
6 avril 2014
Rencontre avec Takami Productions (Fr)
par Eric GNotre équipe a eu le plaisir de rencontrer Karine BLANC et Michel TAVARES de Takami productions lors du dernier festival de Clermont Ferrand.
Voici un petit entretien que nous mettons en ligne...
Plus d’infos sur Takami : http://takami-productions.com/
TAKAMI PRODUCTIONS est née en 2002 du désir de deux jeunes auteurs réalisateurs , Karine BLANC et Michel TAVARES, de créer une (...) Lire la suite »