Tag Archives: black and white

“Tabu”, and Paradise Lost in Colonial Africa [2012 Portugal]

Rest assured, a lot of us will get to hear about one Miguel Gomes in coming years – an impressive and insightful young director from Portugal. I say so, despite having seen only the latest of his three features to … Continue reading

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Scenes from Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Andrei Rublev” [1966 USSR]

I venture into Russian cinema in the blog with a mixture of awe and trepidation, for as fascinating it was watching whatever little I have so far on good ol’ Channel 4, and more recently on DVD, I have to … Continue reading

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Emanuela Trovato and others in “K – Smette di Fumare” [2012 Italy]

Okay – now for something completely different! Sebastiano Montresor’s latest film “K Smette di Fumare” [Eng. Title: ‘K’ Quits Smoking] is a tongue-in-cheek thriller complete with outlandish plot and wacky characters. It is also part of a duology whose next … Continue reading

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Angie Cepeda & Rodrigo Santoro in “Heleno” [2011 Brazil]

Brazilian director José Henrique Fonseca’s biographical drama, “Heleno” is about one of his country’s greatest footballers never to have made it to a World Cup (and hence, unknown to the larger world), Heleno de Freitas. Not surprisingly, this film was … Continue reading

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The delightful comedy “Cresceranno i Carciofi a Mimongo” [1996 Italy]

Fulvio Ottaviano won a David for his early film “Cresceranno i Carciofi a Mimongo” [Eng. Title: Growing Artichokes in Mimongo], a breezy comedy about young graduates trying to establish themselves. Storyline: Sergio is a botany graduate struggling to land a … Continue reading

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