(Ed. Note: This was originally published at Image Facts.) It is hard for Russian directors to escape comparison to Tarkovsky and his spiritual hybrids of form and substance. Newcomer Andrei Zvyagintsev is no exception to this rule for the most part. But there may be enough of a nuance to his latest film, The Return, that finally […]

(Ed. Note: This was originally published at Image Facts.) For some reason I never got around to a full-length review of Dogville. The film generated so many rabbit trails and hit so remarkably close to home on a number of points I thought I would spare any readers the agony of wading through my muddled thoughts […]

(Ed. Note: This was originally published at Image Facts.) It is a scientific fact, at least according to a recent issue of Reader’s Digest, that the part of your brain that makes decisions is much faster than the part of your brain that creates emotions. A human being can encounter a problem and make a decision […]

Friday Night had such a limited theatrical release that a recent DVD release merits discussing it. Well, that and the fact that it simply is a film worth talking about that didn’t get talked about very much. Adapted from a novel of the same name by Emmanuele Bernheim (who also has written the recent scriptsSwimming Pool and Under […]