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Collections of animated shorts can be a tricky proposition. So many animators around the world working on so many things means that you're likely to come across both mini masterpieces and inscrutable head-scratchers - even within the same program. But that's part of the fun of it, right?

Nine Nation Animation is one such set. Compiled by Brooklyn, New York-based organization The World According to Shorts, the DVD culls nine different animated shorts that have played in various recent film fests such as Cannes and the Berlin International Film Festival. Many have garnered awards and critical acclaim, which at least gives this set the patina of respectability lacking in your garden variety "check out these wacky shorts" collection.

Although the back of Nine Nation Animation's box trumpets "nine animated shorts from around the world," nearly all hail from Europe, with...Read the entire review

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Klezmer music is the "soul music" of the Jews, mournful, sentimental, but also surprisingly life-affirming and buoyant. Like a lot of people with Jewish ancestry who grew up with "assimilate first" parents, I wasn't really exposed to this wonderful tradition, but I still remember when I got my first taste of klezmer, albeit in an unusual and modern setting. My mother had a swing era compilation, and I was listening to the Benny Goodman version of "And the Angels Sing," and suddenly there was the most incredible trumpet solo I had ever heard (by Ziggy Elman, I later learned), something that reached right through the speakers and grabbed me by the gut. I knew I'd never be the same. That solo, obviously modeled on klezmer, with its swooping bent notes (more traditionally played on a clarinet), in a section of the song appropriately called "freilach" (Yiddish for cheerful), is an a...Read the entire review

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A city is a living entity with a pulse, and to capture its true character requires multiple points of view, encompassing different neighborhoods and lifestyles. This was certainly part of what made last year's Paris, Je T'aime so invigorating, how it allowed a large collective of artists to give their individual impressions of Paris. So, too, in 1965 did producer Barbet Schroeder recruit a sextet of the best and brightest of French cinema to make Six in Paris, an anthology film with entries from Jean Douchet, Jean Rouch, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, and Claude Chabrol.

Each filmmaker picks a neighborhood and each takes approximately fifteen minutes to share a story out of that neighborhood. A pair of them, Douchet an...Read the entire review

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It was quite by accident that I first "discovered" filmmaker Peter Watkins several years ago, when his 1971 film Punishment Park was released on DVD. Punishment Park was an amazing film, the likes of which I had never quite seen, and served as a wonderful introduction to the work of Watkins. As a lover of film, Watkins' work inspired me. As a critic of film, however, Watkins' work intimidated me. He is one of those rare directors whose work is so finely crafted, deftly layered and intellectually profound that it is difficult to do the films justice. It would be easy to proclaim, "the cinema of Peter Watkins is pure genius," but without elaboration such a statement seems hollow and hyperbolic.

The key to understanding the genius of Watkins as a filmmaker is understanding the nature of his films and then placing them within the context of the time in which they were m...Read the entire review

Sri Lankan filmmaker Viumukthi Jayasundara's The Forsaken Land (Sulanga Enu Pinisa) was honored with the Caméra d'Or for best first feature film at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005. The Forsaken Land's principal characters are Anura (Mahendra Perera), his wife Lata (Nilupili Jayawardena), and his spinster sister Soma (Kaushalya Fernando). The trio live together, largely in silence, in an isolated house on a windswept plain. A long conflict between the national government and local rebels has abated into a Kafkaesque ceasefire where violence has been tempered, but still occurs under cover of darkness, with little rhyme or reason.

Though the symptoms vary, everyone seems to be suffering from post traumatic stress. Depression, disquiet, desperation, and alienation are the prevailing moods. Anura is a provincial militiaman bullied by the regular army patrols, who appears to wan...Read the entire review

Italian filmmaker Davide Ferrario's overly ambitious Primo Levi's Journey ill-advisedly mixes historical biography with contemporary sociopolitical travelogue. This road doc follows the route taken by author Primo Levi (1919-1987) home to Turin, Italy following his liberation from the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in 1945. Though Google Maps indicates a tourist can make the drive in less than 15 hours, it took Levi nearly ten months.

Levi's repatriation was complicated because the Soviets combined the few Italian Jewish concentration camp survivors in with the much more numerous Italian prisoners of war who had been captured alongside the Germans fighting in the East. Consequently, once Levi was mixed in with the POWs he was at the mercy of Soviet authorities who were considering sending the POWs to rebuild war-ravaged Soviet Ukraine. While the wheels of the bureaucracy slowly tur...Read the entire review

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Winner of the Best Director and Best Cinematography Awards at the San Sebastian International Film Festival Zhang Yang's Sunflower (2006) arrives to US shores courtesy of New Yorker Video. Beautifully lensed, charged with subtle political overtones, and exceptionally well-played pic should capture the hearts of those interested in intelligent cinema.

Nine-year-old Xiangyang (Zhang Fan) has never seen his father. His mother (Joan Chen) would rarely talk about him telling her son only what he needs to know. And now after many years spent in a reform camp Xianngyan's father is finally back. But calling a stranger father and learning how to live with him under the same roof isn't easy. Not for Xiangyang. He is often frustrated, enraged, and confused by his father's words. And so is Xiandyang's father - he dreams of the day when his son will finally call him fa...Read the entire review

France, 2006, 69 minutes
Writer-director: Manoel de Oliveira
With: Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier, Ricardo Trepa, Leonor Baldaque, Julia Buisel

Director-intellectual Manoel de Oliveira made his first film in 1931 and only another 10 over the next 40 years, but since the mid-1970s he has been on, roughly, a film-a-year pace comparable to that of Woody Allen. He is currently in production on a feature in his native Portugal to be released in 2009 -- when he will be 100 years old.

"Belle Toujours," made in 2006 and released in the U.S. last year, is Oliveira's self-described homage to Luis Bunuel's 1967 hit, "Belle de Jour," in which Catherine Deneuve played a young, frigid, bourgeois housewife who unleashed her masochistic self by working in a brothel. The sex job had been playfully suggested to Severine by her husband's snobbish friend Husson (Michel Piccoli), who at the film's ...Read the entire review

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I won't lie, when I heard someone had made a sequel to Luis Bunuel's 1967 provocative masterpiece Belle de Jour, I was more than a little skeptical. The springboard for this new story, apparently, was the original's final scenes where the character Henri Husson (played by Michel Piccoli in both of these films) goes to his best friend, presumably to tell him everything about his wife's double life as a prostitute. Whether this is what Husson does indeed tell him is left to our imagination, as Bunuel does not makes us privy to what Husson whispers in his friend's ear. The idea that someone would want to create an answer to that mystery is anathema to me. It makes me think of those imbeciles who electronically enhanced the image at the end of Sofia...Read the entire review

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You might think, what with all the political posturing about axes of evil and all, that a film from Iran would feature a wide-eyed religious zealot spewing paragraphs of hate. Instead, in this extremely thoughtful and at times agonizing film, we get a dead-eyed (literally, he's blind) professor, deeply religious yet questioning the vagaries of fate that repeatedly set him spinning on unexpected courses, leading him to ultimately erupt against the cruel master he "sees" planning all of his misfortunes: the Almighty.

Director Majid Majidi, the only Iranian director to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film (for Children of Heaven, which lost to Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful) has previously mined the world of the blind in The Colour of Paradise. Here, however, it's largely and surprisingly viscerally told from the first-person point of ...Read the entire review

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After recently seeing Li Yu's 2005 film Dam Street, I was eager to see her third and most recent effort, Lost in Beijing. Now that I have, I have mixed feelings about it. A case of my expectations being too high, or of the film falling short?

Set in contemporary China, Lost in Beijing follows two couples whose lives become hopelessly intertwined following a drunken come-on, a forceful acceptance, and a tragically coincidental discovery. Small-town girl Ping-guo (Fan Bingbing) works in a massage parlor. Her boss, Dong (Tony Leung Ka Fai), likes to flash his cash and push the girls around, but more often than not thinks with his little head rather than his big one. He do...Read the entire review

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More than likely only a few years ago The World According to Shorts, a collection of six short films by independent filmmakers practically unknown in the US, would have had a next to zero chance of being released on DVD. In fact, to this day plenty of the shorts that enter competition at such prestigious festivals as Cannes and the Berlinale, are impossible to see once their short lived trips to stardom end. Unless, of course, you are keen on exploring the not so legal "sharing" networks. Fortunately enough, New Yorker Video have picked six shorts whose originality gives me plenty of hope that film directors are indeed looking to create rather than imitate. Something each summer I have a difficult time believing.

In La Perra up-and-coming Chilean director Hugo Maza reveals the strange fetish games of a wealthy, sexually frustrated, couple obsessed with thei...Read the entire review

Bamako is the most original courtroom drama since Abbas Kiarostami's Close-up (1990). The attorneys are real barristers who've written their own arguments to the court and questions for the witnesses. The witnesses for the prosecution are non-actors who believe that they've actually been harmed by the defendants, and they too have written their own statements. The defendants, being tried in absentia, are also real. Even the judges are real magistrates who've written their own rulings. In fact, the only complete fiction here is the jurisdiction of the court over the defendants.

The defendants are the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The alleged crime is the gr...Read the entire review

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Novelist turned filmmaker Paul Auster has indulged in a grand act of authorial wish fulfillment for his second solo feature, The Inner Life of Martin Frost. In the movie, Auster's title character, Martin Frost (David Thewlis), is a writer who goes to bed one night only to wake up in the morning next to Irene Jacob, the beautiful star of Kieslowski's Red. If I were suddenly given leave to make a movie about how I wanted my life to be, I think I'd pair myself with Irene Jacob, as well. Though, I'd go the whole nine yards and cast myself in the movie and dispense with any other actors.

Auster is a creative mind that is drawn to formalistic explorations. His early sashays into cinema, Smoke and Blue in the Face, were playful co...Read the entire review

Set in Senegal, but filmed in Burkina Faso utilizing a cast from a half-dozen African nations, Moolaadé is a pan-African film in composition and subject matter. Moolaadé is a clarion call for the abolishment of female genital mutilation (FGM) which is still widely practiced throughout a broad swath of Africa. Worldwide 138 million women have undergone FGM, with another two million girls mutilated each year.

The film takes its name from the Wolof word for "protection" but which equates most closely in the film with the Medieval European concept of "sanctuary." Set in a rural Senegalese village, the film begins with six young girls fleeing a "purification" ceremony. Two of the girls fatally throw themselves into a well, but the other four run to Collé (Fatoumata Coulibaly), the second wife of a village elder for help. Collé, who previously saved her own daughter Amasatou (Salima...Read the entire review

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Few films have as tortured a road to the screen as Mikhail Kalatozov's I Am Cuba. Completed in 1964 as a joint effort between Russia and Cuba, it was shelved for various Orwellian reasons and not really seen until 1995. A chronicle of the revolution in Cuba, it is also a revolution in filmmaking, full of mind-bending, ambitiously staged shots and giving the French New Wave a run for its deconstructionist money in the way that Kalatozov tears apart conventional plot and emerges with something completely new. Part travelogue, part time capsule, and striking a tenuous balance between respectable agitprop and no-holds-barred propaganda, I Am Cuba is cinema as poetry, alive with a cadence all its own.

Though Image Entertainment released ...Read the entire review

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"It's too damned long." "The film hops about too much - it is confusing." "I found the first part very boring - I wanted to escape." These quotes come from Swedish high school and college students who viewed Peter Watkins' Freethinker as part of their curriculum. These statements were included in a letter from Watkins to educators across Sweden offering to arrange additional showings for their students. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Watkins received only one reply.

Watkins makes challenging films that eschew convention, and skewer conservative government policy and corporate media programming. He achieved critical acclaim and commercial notoriety for his '60s work commissioned for the British Broadcasting Corporation, especially the 1965 nuclear-war docudrama The War Game which was shelved unaired by the BBC for twenty years, despite winning...Read the entire review

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Edvard Munch is probably best known to contemporary audiences as the author of one of the iconic images of our era: "The Scream," that haunting painting of a soul in torment, and not just because it keeps getting stolen. As one might expect from a piece of art so visceral, Munch's life was no bed of roses, and this exemplary film by Peter Watkins provides expert examination of both the outer, chronological life of the man, as well as a fascinating, psychologically astute look at the inner workings of what was one of the most complex minds of his time.

"The Scream" has often been compared to the hallucinatory works of Van Gogh, and there are more parallels to be drawn between these tormented souls. While Munch may not have had the deeper mental instability issues of Vincent, he nonetheless showed signs of psychological trauma from an early age, perhaps related to his mother's d...Read the entire review

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For thirty years Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep has enjoyed legendary status. Completed in 1977 as Burnett's UCLA master's thesis, Killer of Sheep was seldom seen outside of film festivals or academic settings, but never the less had managed to develop a mythological reputation as one of the greatest achievements of independent American cinema. Among the first fifty films to be inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, and named one of 100 Essential Films of all time by the National Society of Film Critics, the reputation Burnett's work has earned is richly deserved. Killer of Sheep is a brilliant film, stunning in its perceived simplicity, heartbreaking in its honesty, and unparalleled in its humanity. Set in the Watts, Killer of Sheep is a brilliant examination of the poor, African-American experience in the inner city,...Read the entire review

The U.S. Library of Congress started its National Film Registry in 1989. Among the first fifty films chosen was a 1977 independent production that had yet to be given an official release. Killer of Sheep has always 'made lists' but saw relatively few showings. Its writer and director Charles Burnett appears in countless scholarly footnotes, yet few critics knew that he made other films as well. Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection is a labor of love from Milestone, an independent distributor that supports its releases; for the past year or so they've been re-premiering Burnett's films on museum and repertory screens across the country.

Killer of Sheep plays out in Los Angeles' Watts ghetto and is loosely centered on Stan (Henry Gayle Sanders), a family man with a job slaughtering livestock in a meat packi...Read the entire review

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There is no darker stain on the sad, sordid history of man's inhumanity to man than the slave trade which flourished for centuries. Those of us raised in the Roots generation assume, as is our egocentric wont, that all (or at least most) slavery took place in the Americas. What this fascinating and heartbreaking African feature points out, sometimes in shocking detail, is that the American slave-trade was a very small part of the total (according to the informative extra, between 2-5%) and that, perhaps even more shockingly, the bulk of enslaved Africans were not captured by the stereotypical evil White Trader, but by other Africans.

Andanggaman follows the tribulations of Ossei, a young man living in late 17th century Africa who, at the beginning of the feature, is shown to be having that most universal of problems, a generational gap conflict with his father, wh...Read the entire review

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For anyone who has ever suffered through a big budget pre-fab "romantic comedy," The Treatment will be a welcome antidote. Sweet, unpredictable, and, most of all, deeply real, it's a 90 minute excursion into awkward characters trying to find their footing in a world they can't quite comprehend.

Chris Eigeman winningly portrays Jake Singer, a put upon high school English teacher and assistant Basketball coach at a tony upper eastside NYC school. Dumped by his girlfriend, whom he appears to be stalking at the beginning of the movie, he seems helpless, bitter and angry. "Are you seeing anyone?" his ex asks after she notices him following her. He stumbles an answer about dating. She looks incredulous. "That's not what I meant--are you seeing a therapist?" Ouch. But it's this kind of thoughtful, character-driven humor that propels much of The Treatment, wh...Read the entire review

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This brisk, frequently hilarious and piquant documentary may not, like Newport Menthols, leave you "alive with pleasure," but it is sure to satisfy those with more than a passing interest in how popular culture first deified and then excoriated smoking.

Mixing segments from such sources as films (both classic and, shall we say, not so classic) and archival documentaries (among them, an opening culled from Frederic March's turn as Christopher Columbus pointing out the obvious savageness of natives who inhale the fumes of burning leaves, which dissolves to a nice montage of legendary actors and actresses smoking, and a later snippet from an interview with the advertising genius who created the Marlboro Man), the film is otherwise comprised mostly of neo-camp advertising and informational films (think public school) from the 50s interspersed with neo-neo-camp archival footage...Read the entire review

Private Property, a Belgian film from director Joachim LaFosse, isn't a simple film to process. Grinding family conflict, brusque sexual dialogue between parents and children, and exceedingly wrathful motives plague this story. Divorce can be quite degenerative in itself to everyone around it, especially under apt circumstances. LaFosse has crafted an unsettling portrait of a family under such measures, and has done so with muted rage and surprising tension.


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Kevin Rafferty is one of the filmmakers behind the 1982 hit The Atomic Cafe, a documentary in a then new 'advocacy essay' style. Rafferty filmed no new material and used no narration or inter-titles. Instead, he edited stacks of government films and newsreels about the Cold War era into a devastatingly entertaining exposé of the Doctor Strangelove years. While government spokesmen talk tough, 'educational' films spread official lies and misinformation to make us think that nuclear war is no big problem. For his soundtrack, Rafferty used little-known pop songs of the era with 'atomic' themes. The overall effect of the film is of a country living in an insane state of denial while preparing for doom.

The Last Cigarette attempts to do the same thing for Amer...Read the entire review

Brazil's suppressed urban slums have gradually wiggled into the hindsight of modern media. With potent films such as the masterful City of God, attention grows keenly focused upon this area. Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, however, has been crusading for this area since shortly after the Candelaria Massacre in 1993. Warrior of Light, an expansive documentary comprised by Monika Treut circa 2000, directs the spotlight onto Yvonne, her cause, and the children that she's saving.


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Yvonne Bezerra de Mello has seen and heard things practically unimaginable to many. The wicked life of a child on Brazilian streets implores attention from anyone and everyone to aid in their struggle. She, however, is picking up the slack where many might leave off. Her organization, Project Uere, owns several houses in these dangerous districts, serving as refuge for these unfortun...Read the entire review

Waiting for Happiness will not bowl you over with a barrage of dramatic stringency. From the graceful, leisurely opening, that's obviously not the intent. Instead, this African film from director Abderrahmane Sissako is a subtle and sweeping snapshot of cultural and technological assimilation. It's a non-directional drama, a beautifully undefined portrait analogous to the sands captured within its frames.


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Venturing into the world of Waiting for Happiness is strongly akin to waltzing into the memories and wispy remnants of many residents' thoughts from time's past. In this little corner of the world named Nouhadhibou, activity is minimal; but, alas, that's the way of this steadfast, unfalteringly cultural environment. A collegiate student named Abdallah returns to his home for a fleeting time before travel, adorned in the untraditional clothing of ...Read the entire review

Playing like a JV version of a Woody Allen fever dream after an ecstasy binge, "The Treatment," in a small bite of irony, is a picture that has difficulty explaining itself. Sold as a romantic comedy, the picture isn't quite that. It's more a mid-tempo exploration of a broken hearts, bolstered by some satisfying acting.

Jake (Chris Eigeman, "Metropolitan") is a New York schoolteacher without many prospects on the playing field of love, pinned to a couch by his Argentinean, Freudian analyst (Ian Holm) who knows few boundaries. At a party, he meets Allegra (Famke Janssen), a widow with adoption troubles who takes a shine to Jake and his sensitive ways. The two take a careful road to a relationship, with Jake having to battle the analyst, his own complicated previous relationships, and growing doubts to give himself fully to the woman he loves.

There really isn't too much to process in "The Treatm...Read the entire review

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A small troupe of street artists wanders through the Brazilian countryside attempting to make ends meet. Led by Lord Cigano (Jose Wilker) the Circus stops in a small town where Cico (Fabio Junior), a local accordionist, will fall in love with the troupe's Queen of the Rumba (Betty Farria). Cico and his pregnant wife join the artists and embark on a fascinating journey through the heart of a country with an uncertain future.

Carlos Diegues' Bye Bye Brasil (1979) is a film whose breathtaking beauty can not be denied. Filmed over 9000 miles the pic feels as a documentary whose only goal is to reveal to the viewer a side of Brazil which no camera has ever captured. Meticulous, full of color, and charged with political innuendo this is also the work of a man with a vision.

Completed at a time when Brazil was struggling to overcome a military dictatorsh...Read the entire review

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Three women - an American, an Israeli, and a Palestinian - embark on a journey amidst the dusty roads of Jordan.

Rebecca (Nathalie Portman) has decided to part ways with her fiancée and leave Jerusalem as soon as possible. She packs her personal belongings and heads towards the closest taxi station.

Hanna (Hanna Laszlo) is a taxi driver who often commutes between Israel and Jordan. She is on her way to the Free Zone to collect a sizeable amount of money when Rebecca gets into her cab.

In the Free Zone Hanna meets Leila (Hiam Abbass) a Palestinian who will offer to guide her taxi to "The Oasis"- a place where Hanna must collect her money. Upon arrival something unusual happens.

Immediately after its premiere at the Cannes Film Fest...Read the entire review

How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman is a witty tale about a tribe of naked Brazilian savages and their violent contact with the encroaching Europeans. Veteran Brazilian director Nelson Periera dos Santos (Vidas Secas) fashions a fascinating vision of life among the cannibals that makes us think about the eradication of America's indigenous peoples.

Using native allies, French and Portuguese Europeans fight over territory in rural Brazil at the end of the 16th century. A French soldier (Arduíno Colassanti) is captured twice, first by the Portuguese and then by the Tupinambá tribe, which has an alliance with the French. Despite his protests, the Frenchman is misidentified as ...Read the entire review

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Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Jerry Aronson's The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg disc set is one organized documentary augmented by an extensive collection of film material, photos, interviews and other 'historical evidence' relating to the famed Beat Generation poet. The feature-length documentary bearing the disc's title was first released ten years ago and provides a fine introduction to the interior life of this entertaining and unique artist. Hailed as a poetic genius, Allen Ginsberg spent a productive life as both an inspiration and a guiding moral compass for the counterculture.

The documentary tells the story of Ginsberg's life through prime-source testimony from his associates and loved ones. Director Aronson had the cooperation of Ginsberg's brother Eugene and stepmother, both of whom are in awe of Allen's accomplishments. We see family photos and ...Read the entire review

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I've seen three films by Hong Sangsoo, A Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, A Tale of Cinema, and Woman is the Future of Man. Each of these works by the film professor turned director shows the assured hand of an artist concerned with themes of modern alienation and the struggle between the sexes. In terms of deliberate style, he is very much Korea's answer to Taiwan's Huo Hsiao-hsien. Woman is the Future of Man (2004) further displays his fondness for repetition and subtle symbolism in an unsympathetic tale of relationships and the futility of trying to recapture the past.

The film begins with two old friends meeting one another for an afternoon. The casual afternoon chat will lead to a drunken weekend. Munho (Jitae Yoo) is a married art professor. Hunjoon (Teawoo Kim) is a recent film school graduate who has just returned from his studies in the US. Hong's films are about ...Read the entire review

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2002's Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner for Best Documentary, My Father the Genius tells the compelling, sometimes humorous, but mostly terrifying story of director Lucia Small's efforts to film a documentary about her father: "visionary" architect Glen Howard Small. Small, a California architect who early on in his career delivered more buzz and media hype than actual buildings, may have been an early prophet of green, ecological building with his celebrated "Biomorphic Biosphere" planned community, but he evidently was a disaster as a husband and father. Lucia Small, contacted out of the blue by her emotionally distant father to write his biography, decided to turn the project into a documentary exploring not only his aborted career, but also his fractured family ties.

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Despite our best efforts to sweep prisoners "out of sight, out of mind", they're the product of a system that doesn't always work perfectly. When a fast food employee makes a mistake, you're stuck with unwanted mayo on your burger; when a judge makes a mistake, innocent people can end up in prison. The possibility of error always exists, for the simple reason that humans sometimes screw up. Whether it's due to false confessions, unreliable eyewitnesses or simply having a bad lawyer, the reality of innocent people stuck behind bars is bigger than you'd think.

Luckily, The Innocence Project has aided in the exoneration of wrongly imprisoned citizens since its launch in 1992. Created by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, this organization has committed itself to fighting for justice through DNA identificatio...Read the entire review

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