Category Archives: Film

LOCARNO FILM REVIEW: Daniele Gaglianone’s ‘Pietro’

Posted on August 9, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett LOCARNO, Switzerland – Daniele Gaglianone’s “Pietro” tells of a slightly brain damaged man whose heroin addict brother involves him with bullies and criminals until one day he snaps and things get very nasty. Pietro Casella (pictured) gives … Continue reading →

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LOCARNO FILM REVIEW: Eva Green, Matt Smith in ‘Womb’

Posted on August 8, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett LOCARNO, Switzerland – There is an old joke about a woman who had a glass bellybutton. She had a womb with a view, which is more than can be said for Benedek Fliegauf’s “Womb”, a sappy drama … Continue reading →

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LOCARNO FILM REVIEW: “Beyond the Steppes”

Posted on August 8, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett LOCARNO, Switzerland: Belgian filmmaker Vanja d’Alcantara’s “Beyond the Steppes” is a gripping and sometimes harrowing story of a mother’s determination to keep herself and her infant child alive despite brutal hardship. The film is set in Poland … Continue reading →

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LOCARNO FILM REVIEW: Oleg Novkovic’s ‘White White World’

Posted on August 7, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett LOCARNO, Switzerland – There are several mournful songs in Serbian director Oleg Novkovic’s “White White World” (Beli Beli Svet) and they seem to emerge from the melancholy Balkan soul of its array of defeated characters struggling to … Continue reading →

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LOCARNO FILM REVIEW: Valdis Oskarsdottir’s ‘King’s Road’

Posted on August 6, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett LOCARNO, Switzerland – Danish filmmaker Valdis Oskarsdottir, who won the 2004 best editing prize at the BAFTA film awards for “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” has created a winning concoction for her second feature, “King’s Road”, … Continue reading →

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LOCARNO FILM REVIEW: ‘Deep in the Woods’

Posted on August 5, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett LOCARNO, Switzerland – French filmmaker Benoit Jacquot’s “Deep in the Woods” (Au fond des bois”), takes a surprisingly benign view of kidnapping and rape in the tale of a bucolic erotic neurotic and her many tumbles in … Continue reading →

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For 3D at home, it’s bring your own glasses

Posted on July 15, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett Technology firm XpanD is marching its active-shutter 3D systems around the world and partnered with several top manufacturers it’s heading into the home with universal glasses. When you invite your friends over to watch a big game … Continue reading →

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KVIFF FILM REVIEW: Frederic Sojcher’s ‘Hitler in Hollywood’

Posted on July 8, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic – The premise of Frederic Sojcher’s mockumentary “Hitler in Hollywood” is more amusing than the film turns out to be. It is that the United States government conspired with Hollywood to destroy the … Continue reading →

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KVIFF FILM REVIEW: Daniel Burman’s ‘Brother and Sister’

Posted on July 8, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic – Daniel Burman’s “Brother and Sister” is a tale of an ageing single man dominated by two overbearing women that could easily have become misogynistic but is instead an absorbing and forgiving character … Continue reading →

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KVIFF FILM REVIEW: ‘There Are Things You Don’t Know’

Posted on July 7, 2010 by admin

By Ray Bennett KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic – Iranian filmmaker Fardin Saheb Zamani has titled his film about a taxi-driver’s ordinary encounters in the 10 days before a predicted earthquake in Tehran “There Are Things You Don’t Know.” By the … Continue reading →

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