Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Hiner Saleem Stars: Korkmaz Arslan, Golshifteh Farahani, Tarik Akreyi, Suat Usta, Mir Murad Bedirxan, Feyyaz Duman. Remember those old westerns in which a taciturn loner with a high moral sense of justice and right (something like the characters that Clint Eastwood, Jimmy Stewart or John Wayne would often play) would ride into town and begin to rid it of corruption and villainous …
CHILD’S POSE
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Calin Peter Netzer Stars: Luminata Gheorgiou, Bogdan Dumitrache, Natasa Raab, Adrien Titieni. We don't get an opportunity to see much cinema from Romania outside of film festivals here, and those few we do see (like 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days, etc) are often fairly grim and highly critical of society. Child's Pose is one of those rare films from the new wave of Romanian cinema …
AIM HIGH IN CREATION!
Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Anna Broinowski. Local filmmaker Anna Broinowski is well known for her insightful and provocative documentaries. Her debut film was Hell Bento!, which explored the little known world of underground Japanese counter culture, while her best known film is Forbidden Lies, which uncovered the literary deception of Norma Khouri's fabricated biographical tale of a Muslim …
ALL IS LOST
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: J C CHandor Stars: Robert Redford. Another old man and the sea? Like Castaway and Gravity before it, this suspenseful drama is another sparse survival story about a lone protagonist. Also like the Australian drama Tracks which also hit local cinemas this week, All Is Lost is the story of one person's odyssey to survive in a harsh environment. But unlike Tracks, which is visually …
BLACKFISH
Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite. Like thousands of tourists before me, I have visited the Sea World theme parks in San Diego and Florida, and marveled at the antics of the trained whales as they leap out of the water and cavort with their trainers. But this fascinating documentary is an eye opener and shows these theme parks and their questionable practices in a new light. In …
