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LONG WAY NORTH

December 30, 2016 By Leave a Comment

LONG WAY NORTH

LONG WAY NORTH uses deceptively simple animation to tell an epic adventure.  At its center is Sasha (Christa Théret), a spirited and determined 15-year-old set on restoring her family’s honor, and the legacy her of her beloved grandfather, Oloukine (Féodor Atkine) an arctic explorer gone missing on his last expedition. It would be a monumental undertaking… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, arctic exploration, Féodor Atkine, heroine, Imperial Russia, navigation, potato peeling

LOUDER THAN BOMBS

April 24, 2016 By 1 Comment

LOUDER THAN BOMBS

LOUDER THAN BOMBS begins with a perfect picture of family love. Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) is marveling at his newborn as his wife Amy, (Megan Ketch) looks on beaming. Jonah is beaming, too, and he is aghast that he has forgotten to bring his wife the food she had requested when she discovered that the hospital tray… Read More »

Tagged With: brothers, car accident, depression, father-son relationship, infidelity, maternal death, photojournalist

RAMS (Hrútar)

February 13, 2016 By Leave a Comment

RAMS (Hrútar)

In northern Iceland where distractions are few, there is time enough to refine feuds to a fine art. And so it is with brothers Gummi (Sigurður Sigurjónsson) and Kiddi (Theodór Júlíusson), the metaphorical rams of RAMS, whose 40-year feud has been fueled by living side by side for all that time on the sheep ranch… Read More »

Tagged With: belligerent stupor, brothers, fraternal feud, Iceland, rams, scrapie, sheep

SONG OF THE SEA is Beautiful Harmony

February 4, 2015 By 2 Comments

SONG OF THE SEA is Beautiful Harmony

SONG OF THE SEA reminds us of the power of simplicity in storytelling and in animation.  Hand-drawn and steeped in Irish folklore, it is a profoundly moving experience rife with charm, wisdom, and beauty.  Told from a child’s perspective, the magical and the mundane coalesce in perfect harmony, revealing the one in the other in… Read More »

Tagged With: Celtic, cinema, drama, film, folklore, Ireland, Irish, Macha, mythology, narrative, ocean, Owl Witch, seal, selkie

BURMA VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

BURMA VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country

BURMA VJ is a riveting cinema verite-style documentary that uses its rough-and-tumble covert camera work to its advantage. Covering the popular uprisings in Burma in 2007 that began as a protest against the doubling of fuel prices and grew so quickly and so virulently that the oppressive military regime saw itself as being threatened by… Read More »

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