New York will play host to the Arab & South Asian Film Festival, taking place February 23 - March 4. Highlights of this year's event include the first Saudi Arabian film showin in the U.S., "Shadow of Silence" by Abdullah Al Muheisen (who will be in attendance) as well as the first Bahraini feature ...
Read More »The cosmopolitan independent/specialty-film audience used the four-day Presidents Day weekend - a most American of holidays - to flock to foreign-language films from France, Germany, Africa, Spain, India, Bosnia, Turkey and Italy, among other countries of origin. All of the Top Ten films in this wee...
Read More »The decision by the Paul Schrader-led jury to award this year's Berlinale Golden Bear to "Tuya's Marriage" came as no surprise. Chinese director Wang Quan'an's third feature, a socially conscious, colorfully ethnographic paean to peasant defiance, is in many ways tailor-made for festivals. But Wang'...
Read More »Though bolstered considerably by the fully engaged star performance of James McAvoy (whose magnetism was trammeled by the hideous racial politicking of "The Last King of Scotland"), Tom Vaughan's Brit college comedy "Starter for 10" is weighed down by something of an identity crisis. An Eighties thr...
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