The Box
Léalo en español The box in the title that young Mexican teen Hatzin (newcomer Hatzin Navarrete) picks up containing his father’s remains may look like a simple mini-casket, but the emotional baggage that goes with it is far...
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Posted by Jay Weissberg | Dec 4, 2022 | International Oscars 2024 |
Léalo en español The box in the title that young Mexican teen Hatzin (newcomer Hatzin Navarrete) picks up containing his father’s remains may look like a simple mini-casket, but the emotional baggage that goes with it is far...
Read MorePosted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 11, 2021 | Toronto |
There are two movies in Miracle, Bogdan George Apetri’s uneven, beautifully shot drama divided...
Read MorePosted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 10, 2021 | Festivals |
The first shot of Leave No Traces may make you think you’re at a retrospective of one of the great Polish filmmakers from forty or more years ago, so perfect is the recreation. It takes place in a shadowy Warsaw bedroom in 1983,...
Read MorePosted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 8, 2021 | Festivals |
There’s a reaction shot in Mel Brooks’ The Producers when the open-mouthed audience watches the “Springtime for Hitler” number in shocked disbelief, amazed that something so crass and campy could have made it on Broadway. The...
Read MorePosted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 4, 2021 | Festivals |
The symbiotic relationship between people of the land and their environment is the basis of all Michelangelo Frammartino’s work, most strikingly seen in his 2010 second feature Le Quattro Volte, a surprise international arthouse...
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