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Review: In Katell Quillévéré's HEAL THE LIVING, Heart Wins Over Brain

Quillévéré understands those connections and implies in Heal the Living in a cinematic way. Every movement in the film has to do with being alive. Every stillness implies death. She understands that death is part of life. We lose somebody close and feel like time is standing still- the camera movement becomes static. But we go on living again- and the camera moves again.

Lisbon & Estoril 2013 Review: Polanski's VENUS IN FUR Does Brilliantly With Very Little

One could easily make the case that Roman Polanski is one of the very few living filmmakers with enough credentials to make a film based on a play based on a 19th century novel that would be the basis for...

NYFF 2012 Review: ROMAN POLANSKI: ODD MAN OUT

In 2008, director Marina Zenovich re-opened old wounds with the release of her film Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, a documentary about the titular filmmaker's infamous 1977 rape trial. It shined a light on a number of alleged inappropriate and...

Vincent Gallo As Taliban Fugitive In ESSENTIAL KILLING

[Trailer removed at producer's request.]No stranger to controversy, The Brown Bunny's Vincent Gallo is about to stir up a whole lot more. Gallo plays the lead in Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing, in which Gallo plays Mohammed - an Afghani Taliban...