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All posts by Danny Bowes
‘Byzantium’
This review has been republished from our coverage of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival.
Saoirse Ronan, as an actor, has a rare ability to project a depth of melancholy, even in almost total stillness. Her alarmingly blue eyes lend themselves to her playing c...
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Tribeca Review: Michael H. Profession: Director
B+
It's not until Michael H. Profession: Director is almost over that it becomes apparent exactly how well its approach is suited to its subject. Yves Montmayeur's documentary on the career and creative process of the celebrated Austrian filmmaker Michael Han...
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Tribeca Review: Taboor
B-
Vahid Vakilifar's Taboor is a film defined more by what's absent on screen than the images and sounds themselves. There's very little spoken text, and only one scene that might be dialogue rather than voiceover. It takes place in what appears to be a pos...
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Tribeca Review: Farah Goes Bang
There are a number of intriguing ideas in Meera Menon's first feature, Farah Goes Bang, although most of them struggle against this being very much A First Feature; there is an uneasy balance between the movie's heart being in the right place and pervasive tec...
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NYC Top 5 (Week of 4/8/13-4/15/13)
New York City may get all the new releases first, but there’s a lot more to the film culture here than just what’s in the mainstream theaters! Every week we bring you the top 5 cinematic events to check out.
1.) 20th New York African Film Festival (Film Soc...
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What’s Playing in NYC This Weekend? (3/19-3/26)
New York City may get all the new releases first, but there’s a lot more to the film culture here than just what’s in the mainstream theaters! Every week we bring you the top 5 cinematic events to check out.
New Directors/New Films (Film Society at Lincoln ...
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Truth, Beauty, and The Unspeakable Act
The idea of perfection in the arts is often dismissed, either due to its perceived impossibility or that perfection would, once achieved, obviate the drive to evolve and keep improving. Speaking to the first of those points it is hard—personally—to imagine a f...
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What’s Playing In NYC This Weekend? (3/12 -3/19)
New York City may get all the new releases first, but there’s a lot more to the film culture here than just what’s in the mainstream theaters! Every week we bring you the top 5 cinematic events to check out.
1.) Foxy: The Complete Pam Grier (Film Society at...
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The Needle Drop: “You’ll Have To Learn, Just Like Me”: Faces’ “Ooh La La” and Rushmore
Any discussion about movie soundtracks must eventually come around to Wes Anderson. His soundtracks are one of many completely unique authorial touches, as there is no more mistaking a Wes Anderson soundtrack than there is a Wes Anderson visual tableau or Wes ...
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Kai Po Che!: Love, Friendship, and Cricket
A-
Director Abhishek Kapoor's third feature, Kai Po Che!, tells the story—mostly in flashback—of three friends in the Indian city of Ahmedabad who, at the beginning of an economic boom in the early 2000s, set out to open a sports academy. The cricket-mad Is...
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