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Review of Tulpan
Sergei Dvortsevoy's "Tulpan"Even in its most quiet moments, Sergei Dvortsevoy’s "Tulpan" feels loud and clear. The images in this film, the Kazakh filmmaker’s fifth movie and first feature, include swaths of sky and land, trotted on by cattle and barely cultivated. Swirls of sand form cyclones, hordes of livestock thump and run, ... read morePosted on 11/11/2008 by Ricky D'Ambrose Review of W.
Oliver Stone's "W."Talking about "W." is really a way of talking about Oliver Stone. True, the forty-third president is always in this biopic, always a presence on the screen, but the film's unabashed portrayal of George W. Bush's rise to the White House belongs undeniably to its director. "W." is the American ... read morePosted on 11/11/2008 by Ricky D'Ambrose 
Review of Godard's 60s
Godard at Film ForumThe recent Godard retrospective at Film Forum arrives at a time when a sweep of sentiments and feelings for that period known as the Sixties has sparked on the radar of New York’s cinema culture. “Godard’s 60s,” as this series of nineteen feature films and three shorts by the French ... read morePosted on 05/20/2008 by Ricky D'Ambrose Review of "Sunday at Six"
Lucian Pintilie's "Sunday at Six"One distinctive feature of Lucian Pintilie’s Duminica la ora/Sunday at Six (1965) is its use of interruptions. In the film, an oncoming train quickly silences an exchange between protagonists Radu (Dan Nutu) and Anca (Irina Petrescu), both young, militant communists engaged in a love affair threatened by Party administrators. The ... read more Posted on 04/30/2008 by Ricky D'Ambrose 
Review of 12:08 East of Bucharest
The Event That Never Was: Corneliu Porumboiu's "12:08 East of Bucharest"The Romanian title of Porumboiu’s 2006 film is A fost sau n-a fost, or Was There or Wasn’t There? “There” refers to Romania’s December 1989 revolution – or “revolution,” depending on who’s being asked – a topic discussed in the space of a local television broadcast featuring two pitiable middle-aged ... read more Posted on 04/30/2008 by Ricky D'Ambrose |
