All posts tagged "Film festival"
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SLIFF 2009 Review: THE HEADLESS WOMAN
Review originally posted on June 15th, 2009 during the CineVegas Film Festival. I suppose every human being has...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: SNOW (Snijeg)
Wow! Out of the films that I have viewed for the St. Louis International Film Festival, this was...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: STOLEN LIVES
Don’t let the overly qualified cast list fool you. STOLEN LIVES is about eight commercial breaks short of...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: DROOL
Nancy Kissam succeeded in making an interesting, heart-warming yet dark film with the twisted ‘Drool’. Laura Harring plays...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: THE ECLIPSE
Ghosts stories are becoming a popular focal point for filmmakers again, experiencing what may turn out to be...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: TOUCHING HOME
Whether you’re a baseball fan or not, TOUCHING HOME is a wonderful story and a great little film...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: MADE IN CHINA
Judith Krant makes her directorial debut with MADE IN CHINA, a satirical mockumentary mumblecore mutt of a movie...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: HOW I GOT LOST
How I Got Lost… Well, maybe you should start to answer that with the drunken cab ride out...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: CLOUD 9
Let me paint you a picture. You come home from work one day, tired, but happy to be...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: CAT CITY
Nick (Julian Sands) is a dirty, dirty businessman. He is a very wealthy man who has been cheating...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: ST. NICK
It’s time to put the giant-sized Muppets in the closet. Whereas WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, or,...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: ALBINO FARM
Whereas audiences may usually expect a film festival to be comprised solely of artsy dramas and foreign films,...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: BEESWAX
One of the first things that must be noticed about BEESWAX is that the film is filled with...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: GAME OF THE YEAR
GAME OF THE YEAR is a mockumentary written and directed by local filmmaker Chris Grega (AMPHETAMINE, RHINELAND). The...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: THE DRUMMER (Zhan gu)
The sound of drums can penetrate the soul and resonate deeper than any musical instrument if performed by...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: BLACKSPOT
If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s never to underestimate the films being made in New Zealand. No,...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: LAILA’S BIRTHDAY
Rashid Masharawi’s latest film, LAILA’S BIRTHDAY, is a film both daring and sweet, a story about a world...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: THE NORTH FACE
It’s not much of a qualifier, but writer/director Philipp Stolzl’s THE NORTH FACE, NORDWAND in its native German,...
