Sin Nombre is at least the third small film I’ve seen recently about people trying to cross the Mexican-American border, with varying degrees of success (including Biblical-style tale of rivalry and deceit, Sangre de mi sangre, and the more maudlin but still tearjerky La misma luna). It’s a zeitgeisty issue for obvious reasons, and though […]
If you’re in New York for the Tribeca festival, IndieWire points out ten to watch at Tribeca.
“For years, we were living in a dream.”
We Filmwell writers are aficionados of the kind of films most people never hear about: foreign movies, realism, character-driven stories – the little, the obscure, the transcendent. Sure, we like our blockbusters, but sometimes it’s the little films that really sit in your soul. But that’s not what I’m thinking about today. My husband works […]
On individual stories and the films of Ramin Bahrani.