All posts tagged "Foreign Contenders"
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: Director Mouly Surya on Indonesian Western Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
January 10, 2019Reminiscent of Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns, Kurosawa’s samurai epics, and by extension of Tarantino’s revenge tales,...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: Shoplifters Director Hirokazu Kore-eda on Father Figures and His Methods of Working with Children
November 30, 2018For the last 15 years, Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda has elicited unfeigned portrayals from children and...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: Director Ofir Raul Graizer Filmed Pastries Like People With The Cakemaker
November 29, 2018MovieMaker’s series “Foreign Contenders” features interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind their respective countries’ entries for the...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: Ziad Doueiri on Adapting American Courtroom Drama Tropes Into Lebanon’s The Insult
January 22, 2018Divisiveness is universal. That ironic truth is the key that allows people to understand and relate...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: John Trengove on Surviving the Controversy Surrounding South Africa’s The Wound
January 11, 2018Conceived to forge men via traditional practices, the rite of passage in South Africa’s Xhosa community...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: Ildikó Enyedi Aligns Framing and Sound for the Dreamy Romance in Hungary’s On Body and Soul
January 9, 2018Involuntarily stoic and permanently immaculate, but with a diligent willingness to forge bonds with others around her,...
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Movie News
Foreign Contenders: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson Confronts Neighborly Conflicts with Under the Tree
December 11, 2017Not unlike an alchemist, Icelandic Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson has mastered the improbable formula to produce amalgamations...
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Directing
Failed Fatherland: Martin Zandvliet Disarms a Dark Passage in Denmark’s History in Oscar-Nominated Land of Mine
February 13, 2017Describing a war film as “visually economical” goes against the expectation of grandeur associated with those...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: Cristi Puiu’s Sieranevada Dissects Romanian Society Through a Confined Epic
December 15, 2016MovieMaker’s series “Foreign Contenders” will feature interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind their respective countries’ entries for the...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: Veteran Actor Rade Šerbedžija Turns Director for Macedonian Drama The Liberation of Skopje
December 13, 2016MovieMaker’s series “Foreign Contenders” will feature interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind their respective countries’ entries for the...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: Cloak-And-Dagger Thriller The Age of Shadows Has Kim Jee-woon Channeling His Inner Patriot
December 12, 2016MovieMaker‘s weekly series “Foreign Contenders” features interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind their respective countries’ entries for...
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Documentary
Foreign Contenders: Ukrainian Sheriffs is a Buddy Cop Doc Set Against the Annexation of Crimea
December 8, 2016MovieMaker‘s weekly series “Foreign Contenders” features interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind their respective countries’ entries for...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: A Veteran Actor and a Newcomer are Partners in Crime in Venezuela’s Riveting From Afar
December 7, 2016MovieMaker‘s weekly series “Foreign Contenders” will feature interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind their respective countries’ entries for...
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Interviews
Foreign Contenders: Sparrows Explores Modern Icelandic Masculinity on Beautiful 16mm
December 6, 2016MovieMaker’s weekly series “Foreign Contenders” features interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind their respective countries’ entries for...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: Brillante Mendoza’s Ma’Rosa Tells a Real-Life Story, Driven By the Energy of the Philippines
December 1, 2016MovieMaker‘s weekly series “Foreign Contenders” will feature interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind their respective countries’ entries for...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: Finland’s The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki Revives 16mm Reversal Film
November 23, 2016MovieMaker‘s weekly series “Foreign Contenders” will feature interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind their respective countries’ entries for...
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Directing
Foreign Contenders: Georgia’s House of Others Invokes Tarkovsky to Explore Post-War Abkhazia
November 15, 2016Over the next two months, MovieMaker’s weekly series “Foreign Contenders” will feature interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind...
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