Poetry. We’re stymied by it. The stack of “great” books we don’t read on vacation will be missing even the slimmest tome of verse. On the page or as “spoken word” performance,
Read MoreThe Hedgehog is a near perfect little French movie. It’s the story of an 11-year-old girl who is smart and cynical, and decides to end her life on her 12th birthday. Why? She sees hypocrisy and emptiness in the lives of the adults around her. Paloma, inhabited beautifully by Garance Le Guillermic, is precocious, creative, [...]
Read MoreElegant, worldly and perhaps the consummate summation of the French male ideal, singer/songwriter/post-modern rake Serge Gainsbourg’s music was as much a last gasp of the cabaret era as it was a life giving breath to the idea of “pop” music as grandiose, surreal storytelling. Admittedly his elegance was more Keith Richards, gutter cosmopolitan than court [...]
Read MoreWe have lots of foreign film recommendations for you this month, from France and Germany, Romania, Japan and more! Read the synopses below to find out more, recommendations are marked with the red star.
Read MoreMozart’s father, Leopold, is now twice damned by the movies: first in Amadeus, portrayed as imperious puppetmaster to his son, and now in Mozart’s Sister, again as puppetmaster to both his son and daughter. I’m sure he was imperious and tyrannical, and probably responsible for the suppression of his daughter’s musical gifts, but in the [...]
Read MoreSince our last Foreign Film Feature, 23 new and notable films have made their way to our rental shelves – and here are details on each one (be sure to check out our staff reviews of Toast and The Mill and the Cross, if you haven’t already!)
Read MoreBefore we dive headlong into 2012, let’s take a last look at some of 2011′s offerings: these thirteen foreign films which arrived during the month of December!
Read MoreForeign Film fans, you’ll be happy to hear that we’ve received a flood of new films from overseas this month! Over thirty new foreign films have landed on our shelves in the last thirty days, check out the list below…
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