All posts tagged "Foreign Contenders"
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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