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    REVIEW | Trouble in Paradiso: Giuseppe Tornatore's "The Unknown Woman"

    by Kristi Mitsuda on June 1, 2008

    A deliberately titillating scene opens Giuseppe Tornatore's "The Unknown Woman": three women wearing masks, asses to audience, stand naked in a strangely gilded room to be examined through peepholes. After they're dismissed, a second round comes out, and a blonde is asked to step forward and strip...

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    REVIEW | Muscle-Bound: Chris Bell's "Bigger Stronger Faster*"

    by Michael Koresky on May 29, 2008

    Though it comes across as hale and hearty, Chris Bell's "Bigger Stronger Faster*," a litany of American body worship touchstones since the early Eighties, is nothing if not ambivalent towards its subject. Falling somewhere between a specific personal essay and a more vaguely targeted social commenta...

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    REVIEW | Beyond the Pale: Tom Kalin's "Savage Grace"

    by Michael Koresky on May 28, 2008

    Tom Kalin's 1992 film "Swoon" was a noteworthy entry in the New Queer Cinema canon not because of its subject matter but how Kalin navigated such precarious terrain. A recouping of the Leopold and Loeb murder as an emotionally ambivalent expression of homosexual historicity via a not necessarily uns...

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    REVIEW | Irreconcilable Differences: Parvez Sharma's "A Jihad for Love"

    by Michael Koresky on May 21, 2008

    Homosexuality isn't a choice, but often, many forget, neither is religion. And this is certainly the case for the world's dense population of devout Muslims, now comprising the second largest religion in the world. Since the dictates of various orthodoxies seem almost by design to painfully rub up a...

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    REVIEW | Scattered People: Fatih Akin's "The Edge of Heaven"

    by Indiewire on May 18, 2008

    A German filmmaker of Turkish descent, Fatih Akin has made hybrid cultures and hyphenated identities his great subject. "Head-On," his acclaimed breakthrough film from 2004, told a love story between two German Turks that wended its way back to the homeland. In "The Edge of Heaven," his latest, the ...

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    REVIEW | Book Smart: Joachim Trier's "Reprise"

    by Michael Koresky on May 12, 2008

    Norwegian Joachim Trier directs his debut feature, "Reprise," with such assured kineticism that it's only a matter of time before Hollywood gets his hands on him and turns him into an anonymous hack. That's not merely cynicism or a judgment call on Trier's foregrounded visual flair, which, unlike mo...

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    REVIEW | Father Figurines: Christopher Zalla's "Sangre de mi sangre"

    by Michael Koresky on May 11, 2008

    If writer-director Christopher Zalla's intent in "Sangre de mi sangre" was to sympathetically and realistically depict the plight of impoverished Mexican illegal immigrants trying desperately to eke out anonymous existences in urban U.S. areas, why does he litter his workmanlike debut film with char...

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    REVIEW | Embedded: Nick Broomfield's "Battle for Haditha"

    by Leo Goldsmith on May 7, 2008

    "What do you wanna know?" A young Marine casually utters this question at the outset of "Battle for Haditha," and it's a fitting epigraph to Nick Broomfield's blistering, ambitious film. The query prefaces the PFC's offhand account of his service and the conditions of his barracks in Haditha, Iraq, ...

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    REVIEW | Imagine That: Tarsem Singh's "The Fall"

    by Michael Rowin on May 6, 2008

    Playwright John Guare must have had Indian director Tarsem Singh (or as he's often simply known, Tarsem) in mind when he wrote about the increasing exteriorization of the term "imaginative": "Why has 'imagination' become a synonym for style?" Singh makes films that inspire a bevy of similarly misuse...

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    REVIEW | Changes: Lucia Puenzo's "XXY"

    by Michael Koresky on April 30, 2008

    Though it's as sullen and damp-grey as its morose 15-year-old protagonist, Argentinean filmmaker Lucia Puenzo's directorial debut "XXY" doesn't really get inside the mind of young Alex as much as watch her with an awkward combination of fascination and empathy. It's both a success and a failing on t...

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