This year brought 18 features and seven shorts, all presented with live musical accompaniment.
The Pornographer is exemplary of the Boca do Lixo’s comic style, much of which revolves around fantasy.
Rogério Sganzerla’s electric movie is one that Brazilian cinephiles know practically by heart.
It’s certainly ambitious in its attempt to reveal the dark underbelly of much of today’s comedy.
The films we consider historically vital are usually films we can easily see.
The story of Boca do Lixo filmmaking began a few years before any of its movies.
The film is as modest and self-explanatory as its lower-case title suggests.
It strives for a handheld immediacy and raw emotional power that it only intermittently achieves.
In the 1960s, a branch of Brazilian cinema emerged so daring, thrilling, and varied that in hindsight people disagreed even over what to call it.
Beasts of the Southern Wild is a beautiful fairy tale about survivor’s guilt.
Shut Up and Play the Hits dances around the fact that LCD Soundsytem was essentially a solo act.
With Ascher’s fantastic hoot of a movie, this year’s omnipresent Sundance tagline (“Look Again”) has finally lived up to its promise.
It’s refreshing to see The Sessions unostentatiously treat intercourse as a normal need that most people counterintuitively associate with taboos.
When it comes to Julie Delpy, the key question remains the old Barbra Streisand one.
Keep the Lights On explores the ways in which one lover’s drug abuse steadily undermines a couple’s mutual trust.
Côté’s images ostensibly detached, they somehow manage to be beautiful without ever becoming particularly pleasant to look at.
It takes a little time to get used to the sprawling scope and the blocky dialogue of Red Hook Summer.
Jarecki’s new documentary is a rousingly aching piece of social analysis and commentary.
Filly Brown plays out like a caricature of every stereotypical Sundance drama about plucky young heroines who overcome great adversity.
Simon Killer feels both carefully studied and willfully unfocused.
Illogical and proudly crude plot developments are par for the course in Billion Dollar Movie.