{mosimage}Alfonso Cuarón belongs to the new generation of Mexican directors that keep conquering the Hollywood cinema industry, at the same level than those other two greatest representatives of this new […]
Fur
{mosimage}Diane Arbus, (born Diane Nemerov), was a photographer married with Allan Arbus (and later divorced), that became famous for her personal style of portraying “freaks”, those people living apart from […]
Exploitation in the grindhouse
{mosimage} Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino present a double feature of sex, violence, sleazy characters, zombies, freaks and bizarre plots. Death Proof and Planet Terror now on dvd. Once again […]
Cinema bathed by the midnight sunlight
Sodankylä is the lucky place where the Midnight Sun Film Festival is held. The 22nd festival once again presents a great selection of films and filmmakers and is perhaps the […]
The spider is back
Maybe many of you did not know that before this original appearance, Stan Lee dismissed the design for Spider-man that Jack Kirby initially drew. In this first design, that was […]
Commander Zero
Around the streets of Manugua, Edén Pastora carries a gun while driving a car brought from Mexico and speaks to the camera. It is the first sequence of the documentary […]
A film (finally) exposed
Louhimies is the most acclaimed director inside Finnish borders in recent times and, with only five films, he has achieved a great reputation and, more importantly, captured a personal style […]
Goya’s Ghosts
Milos Forman’s new film, Goya´s Ghosts, offers a biography (and it seems that the polemic Czech director never gets tired of the genre) of one of the most important painters […]
He-Men go to war
Take 300: a mixture of one car commercial/remake director, one sexy ‘graphic novel’ (from the creator of Sin City), spiced up with a few speeches about freedom, and served lukewarm […]
…And justice for all
Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, Robert Altman and Cecil B. DeMille are some of the film directors who never won the Best Director Academy Award, and it seemed Martin […]
The camera keeps on rolling
Born in Lithuania, but exiled to America in 1949 after spending some time in a displaced persons camp, the life of Jonas Mekas is all about films. He is considered […]
Casino Royale
Casino Royale is based on the novel of the same name by the father of Bond, Ian Fleming, and presents the first adventure of Bond just after getting the status […]
Summer of ’84
{mosimage}Kid is a confused girl trying to find her place in this world, between being Swedish and Finnish, and being a child and an adult. Not knowing where she belongs, […]
Finnish gigolo
Juha’s friend agrees to help him to sell his body. Soon their business is booming and Juha is making more money in an hour than in two days at his […]
The King of the Minimoys
{mosimage}There is nothing astonishing new in Besson’s movie, but it outstands due to its innocence, simplicity and the friendly fairy-like characters, the Minimoys, who borrow the voices of Madonna, Snoop […]