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Search Results for: boys state

24 Weeks

Elena Lazic / February 20, 2016

Anne Zohra Berrached on 24 Weeks at Berlinale

…experience. I wanted my actors to really get inside that situation and state of mind. Julia [Jentsch] was brave enough to do it, even though she’s a mother with a…

Lovers and the Despot

Noemi Berkowitz / February 16, 2016

The Lovers and the Despot lacks substance

…the family; the film’s treatment of the main characters feels distant. Furthermore, the film never paints a clear picture of the oppressiveness of the state at the time and how…

Notes on Blindness

Eloise Ross / February 14, 2016

Notes on Blindness explores the soundscape

…are a discomforting, physically painful experience, which help the viewer associate more, even temporarily, with the state of blindness. Hull finds something poetic about blindness: as though consciousness is evacuated…

Unlocking the Cage

Alex Heeney / January 22, 2016

Sloan Prize contenders: Science at Sundance 2016

…to manipulate an entire state. Although only sixty minutes, James Redford’s Resilience may be the most obviously science-related candidate, as it tracks brain science research on childhood trauma. But the…

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…see your piece to its end. However, as stated above, if your pitch is accepted for a book, you’ll be published on the site in the meantime. What kind of…

Kurzel Macbeth

Alex Heeney / December 25, 2015

Kurzel’s Macbeth emphasizes tone over text

…like the unsuspecting Duncan (David Thewlis), with the breaks in verse that signal something is rotten in the state of Scotland For instance, the Weird Sisters of the text speak…

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