Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 13
This week's picks are heavy on big name directors: Louis Malle, Akira Kurasawa, Volker Schlöndorff, Ingmar Bergman, Billie August, Hal Ashby, and John Huston. Many of these are their first…
This week's picks are heavy on big name directors: Louis Malle, Akira Kurasawa, Volker Schlöndorff, Ingmar Bergman, Billie August, Hal Ashby, and John Huston. Many of these are their first…
The Academy Awards show will take place this year on Sunday, April 25th, much later in the year than usual after it was pushed back 2 months because of…
Competitive sports are hell on the body and the mind. Even more so when you're a teenager with no support system. In Slalom, Lyz (Noée Abita) is an ambitious and…
One of last year's most strangely entertaining films was Quentin Dupieux's Deerskin about a man's bloody obsession with a deerskin jacket. Dupieux is back this year with another black comedy, this…
This week's picks won boatloads of Oscars and had nominations galore. They hail from France, and Italy, and Germany, and Spain, and one has no dialogue. When I put together…
This week's picks include two French films that couldn't be more dissimilar, one a psychological thriller, and the other a magical story set in Paris. There's an Italian ode to…
This week’s picks include a healthy dose of Roman decadence, an obsessive and tragic snoop, a ghostly romance, a grieving mother on the warpath, violent union busting, food to die…
This French comedy is definitely for those who like their films on the quirky side. In it a young woman named Juliette (Maud Wyler, Blue Is the Warmest Colour) is…
When we meet Juste (Thimotée Robart) he's wandering on the train tracks somewhere in Paris, confused. He stops at a small house and the man there recognizes what is happening…
Director Hirokazu Koreeda's follow-up to his award winning Shoplifters could not be more different. No longer set in his home country Japan, The Truth is a mother-daughter drama set in…