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‘Camp X-Ray’ boasts solid performances and calibrated dramatics
Camp X-Ray Written and directed by Peter Sattler USA, 2014 Director Peter Sattler leads us down the path of purported empathy and compassion in his debut film, Camp X-Ray, only to come up short in depicting the relationship between a female soldier assigned to Guantanamo Bay and a man she befriends who has been imprisoned there […] More
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24th Annual Festival of Films from Iran: Peyman Moaadi’s ‘Snow on Pines’
“You can’t understand until it happens to you.” Roya, played by Mahnaz Afshar, listens to this line left on her answering machine repeatedly. It is a part of her husband, Ali’s, confession to his infidelity with one of Roya’s piano students, with whom he’s run off. Ali sees himself as a victim of his passion, […] More
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‘The Past’, from Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, releases a US Trailer
2011’s A Separation was a quiet force in the film world, as the fifth feature from then little-known filmmaker Asghar Farhadi gathered momentum from word of mouth praise from the critical community, eventually winning an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. With many interested in seeing what direction Farhadi would go in next, his new […] More
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Watch 3 Clips From Asghar Farhadi’s Cannes Competition Entry ‘The Past’
Paris-based Memento Films International recently debuted an English subtitled trailer for the highly anticipated film The Past, which is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival later this month. And just recently, the company has also relesaed three clips, which you watch below. The Past (originally Le passé in French), is written and […] More
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2012: The Best Movies of February
Every thirty days, I like to post a list of my favorite films I’ve recently watched. Here are the best films I’ve seen throughout the month of September. This list is based on movies theatrically released here in Canada, and I do not include what I have seen at film festivals. **** 1: The Turin […] More
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2012 Oscars Foreign Language Nominees, ‘A Separation’ and ‘Monsieur Lazhar’
The Academy Awards are just two weekends away, and we’ve been itching to talk about a pair of films that wound up getting nods in the Foreign Film category, so we’ve brought in a pair of guests to help us out. Zero Pretention co-host and real-life teacher is on hand to talk with us about […] More
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‘A Separation’ a rarity that succeeds on many levels
A Separation Written and directed by Asghar Farhadi Iran, 2011 A Separation is one of those multi-purpose titles that suggests many different conditions under examination in this richly textured film. The most obvious separation is the dissolution of the marriage between two main characters, Simin (Leila Hatami) and Nader (Peyman Moadi). Simin has a visa […] More
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NYFF 2011: ‘A Separation’ a rarity that succeeds on many levels
A Separation Written and directed by Asghar Farhadi Iran, 2011 A Separation is one of those multi-purpose titles that suggests many different conditions under examination in this richly textured film. The most obvious separation is the dissolution of the marriage between two main characters, Simin (Leila Hatami) and Nader (Peyman Moadi). Simin has a visa […] More