Tag: sophienélisse
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks THOR: THE DARK WORLD, THE BOOK THIEF and DALLAS BUYERS CLUB
This weekend saw the release of Thor: The Dark World, and, well, I kinda liked it! (Certainly more than this flick...)On the other hand, The Book Thief proved to be far more slight than I would have enjoyed, and while...
Review: THE BOOK THIEF, More A Pamphlet Than A Novel
With its rich photography, lush score, and feel-good script with a bite, it's easy to dismiss The Book Thief as an old-fashioned throwback film. So easy, in fact, that that's what I'm about to do.Based on a much-loved, much book-clubbed...
Review: MONSIEUR LAZHAR Teaches Gently and Bluntly
An unlikely thematic companion piece to Wes Anderson's idiosyncratically wonderful MOONRISE KINGDOM, Canada's French language MONSIEUR LAZHAR explores the cause and effects of the adult world's over-institutionalizing of children's lives. LAZHAR may be far more grounded and sobering than...
Review: MONSIEUR LAZHAR
I'm not sure it can be overstated just how badly MONSIEUR LAZHAR, directed by Philippe Falardeau, could have failed in the wrong hands. The story of a North African immigrant (Mohamed Fellag) who comes to a Montreal school to...
